Experiments in Housing: In south Harrisburg, several groups are trying innovative ways of addressing homelessness

by Maddie Gittens - The Burg

Marsha Curry-Nixon had sat in on countless meetings about how to help Harrisburg’s largest homeless encampment, dubbed “tent city.”

City resource providers have long known that the camp, which has housed over 100 people in south Harrisburg near the PennDOT building at various times, would be closed. As part of a project to expand I-83, PennDOT shared that the encampment site would be impacted, and occupants would be required to move. Since then, city, county and state officials have met to come up with some sort of answer to the question: “Where would all these people go?”

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