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Denver mayor vows tent cities cleanup, cites health threat

by Associated Press/Report for America
| June 24, 2020 2:03 PM

DENVER (AP) — Homeless encampments that have sprung up across the city during the coronavirus pandemic will be cleaned up, Mayor Michael Hancock said Wednesday, calling them a public health threat. He didn’t specify whether the city intended to remove the camps or intensify efforts to sanitize some of them.

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