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What's it going to take to help hundreds of homeless campers on Escambia County land? A plan everyone believes in and commits to, expert says.

Hear from Allison Patton, a candidate for the Pensacola City Council District 6 in this Q&A.

Although the encampment under Interstate 110 is now gone work has not stopped to find the people who were camped under the interstate a better living situation.

Since then, the City Council has routinely extended the moratorium as council members have argued it's against Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations to relocate the camp as the pandemic continues, and there’s a momentum building as nonprofits in the area unite to attempt to address homelessness. “I knew how complicated this was going to be and, if anything, the fact we’ve extended the resolution, this will be the third or fourth time, it illustrates how complicated this is,” Councilwoman Sherri Myers said Thursday. Nonprofit agencies have been regularly visiting t...

"We need to put a stake in the ground and say, we need to put a fairly sizable amount (of money up) and begin to put our money where our mouth is," Mayor Grover Robinson