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KERA News Tents are set up steps away from City Hall, at Pioneer Plaza, in downtown Dallas, as a way to protest the city’s treatment of the homeless community. Dallas city officials began shutting down the homeless encampment known as "Camp Rhonda" last month, but organizers reopened the temporary site downtown in hopes of getting city leaders to find solutions to the housing problems. Now, it's closed again. Earlier this week, a group of people experiencing homelessness ventured to downtown Dallas and began to set up an encampment one block away from City Hall. They called it Camp Rhonda...

Outside a tent at the embattled Dallas homeless encampment known as Camp Rhonda, the wind blew ash and smoke from a small firepit into Michael Lavelle Amphy's face. The air was thick with the smell of dying flames. It was Amphy's last day at the camp near Interstate 45 and Ferris Street, as it was for the rest of the homeless residents. They packed their belongings, stuffing whatever they wanted to take with them into black trash bags and moving boxes. Some were leaving with Ryan Ahmadian, co-founder of the Dallas Houseless Committee and a member of Dallas Stops Evictions. They'd head to a...