Local governments taken to task for razing encampment

After living in the homeless encampment near the Las Vegas Wash for about eight months, Kady Johnson for the first time in a while doesn’t know where to go.

Standing outside the Las Vegas City Hall Saturday, she described to a crowd of about 100, including many other residents of the encampment, about the aftermath of the area being demolished after the City of Las Vegas, the City of North Las Vegas and the Nevada Department of Transportation cleared out the encampment Nov. 30.

“On Monday they took our home away,” she said. “We had one place we felt safe.”

The land, which was located near Interstate 15 and Owens and portioned among all three jurisdictions, was home to more than 50 people.

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