After 10 days of leading a remarkable homeless person’s protest – a 30-tent encampment in front of Baltimore’s City Hall – organizer Kenneth Gwee was asked yesterday what the protesters were getting in return for leaving.
“There’s a renewed sense of energy from the city to make sure all of the residents of Tent City get housing,” said Gwee, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, as 55 people headed off in vans for the shelter.
After discussions with Mayor Catherine Pugh, the encampment dwellers had agreed to go to a former city school building in West Baltimore to be housed for two weeks and “assessed” for possible subsequent housing and services.
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