Dallas housing staff closes the Meyers Jeffries homeless encampment

The Meyers Jeffries homeless encampment located in South Dallas had long been home to residents experiencing homelessness who had set up tents, placed thrown-out couches beneath trees for shade and turned abandoned shipping containers into homes. Now, there are no traces of belongings and fences surround the area.

Originally published by KERA.

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