Photos: City razes Chattanooga homeless encampment

April 13, 2018 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated April 13, 2018 at 6:37 a.m.

by Doug Strickland

A bulldozer makes piles of trash and tents on the former site of a homeless encampment on city-owned property behind the municipal wellness center on East 11th Street on Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn. The camp's residents were removed from the site because the property is a toxic brownfield. Out of 130 residents counted in the camp, 80 have applied for housing through Chattanooga Housing Authority and 8 have been approved, according to Twitter posts by Mayor Andy Berke's deputy chief of staff Kerry Hayes.
A bulldozer makes piles of trash and tents on the former site of a homeless encampment on city-owned property behind the municipal wellness center on East 11th Street on Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn. The camp's residents were removed from the site because the property is a toxic brownfield. Out of 130 residents counted in the camp, 80 have applied for housing through Chattanooga Housing Authority and 8 have been approved, according to Twitter posts by Mayor Andy Berke's deputy chief of staff Kerry Hayes.

A homeless encampment on city-owned property behind the municipal wellness center on East 11th Street was demolished on Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The camp's residents were removed from the site because the property is a toxic brownfield.

Out of 130 residents counted in the camp, 80 have applied for housing through Chattanooga Housing Authority and 8 have been approved, according to Twitter posts by Mayor Andy Berke's deputy chief of staff Kerry Hayes.

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