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Special report: The homeless struggle
St. Petersburg tent city empties
By TImes staff writer
Published January 14, 2007
ST. PETERSBURG -By Saturday afternoon, most of the homeless people who had lived in a tent city along the 1200 block of Fourth Avenue N had left. Police watched over the site and allowed in only those who had come back to collect possessions. Several empty tents remained on the site, and advocates for the homeless said those tents would be stored until they were needed again. Meanwhile, small pockets of tents appeared in two places close to the emptied tent city across the street from the St. Vincent de Paul Society's soup kitchen on 15th Street and at Fifth Avenue N and Ninth Street. There were no reports of conflicts involving the police.
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