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Schaeffer said violence erupted at the first location. One man ended up in the Emergency Room, she said.
“I did have some heat in a place that had some electricity, which is rare, twice,” she said.
Schaeffer says she moved to a second spot in the wee hours of the morning to a “bando,” slang for an abandoned house or building.
“There are some owners of their ‘bandos’ that will give permission for you to, you know, do your thing there,” Schaeffer said.
Women, transgender homeless in Springfield more likely to experience harm