Tents and personal items in an alley in Mount Vernon. Photo credit: Kaitlin Newman / The Baltimore Banner.
Tents and personal items in an alley in Mount Vernon. Photo credit: Kaitlin Newman / The Baltimore Banner.

With single-digit low temperatures being forecast for the rest of the week, Baltimore City is getting unhoused people off the streets.

Mayor Brandon Scott said it’s a life-and-death issue and that the police department has been ordered to take people off the street even if they are refusing services.

Scott said, โ€œThat direction order came from me because we cannot allow folks to be out in this kind of weather.โ€

Read more at WYPR.

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