Unhoused residents ordered to leave Wake homeless encampment

More than 40 people living in a tent encampment on a state-owned, unused lot at the intersection of Highways 401 and U.S. 70 near the Raleigh-Garner border were told to leave by 10 a.m. Tuesday or face arrest for trespassing. Advocates for the people in the encampment called a 9 a.m. press conference Tuesday to bring attention to what they are calling an “act of unmitigated cruelty,” coming as it does during the National Week of Action to Oppose the Criminalization of Homelessness. “The whole thing in my opinion is...