Mayor Andre Dickens is responding to community organizers calling for the city to stop sweeps of homeless encampments after a ...

Mayor Andre Dickens is responding to community organizers calling for the city to stop sweeps of homeless encampments after a ...

Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari has introduced legislation to put a moratorium on encampment sweeps. It comes after calls for ...

The announcement comes amid calls for changes to the city’s homeless strategy after a sweep by city workers left a man dead.

HUD defines homelessness as lacking a “fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.” Its count includes people sleeping ...

Cornelius Taylor, 44, was fatally struck by a front loader clearing his tent on Jan. 16 in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.

Protesters in Atlanta are demanding an end to homeless sweeps after a bulldozer ran over Cornelius Taylor's tent, killing him. Advocates are calling for policy changes to prevent further tragedies. fr ...

Protesters are demanding the city of Atlanta end sweeps of homeless camps after a city bulldozer ran over a tent and killed ...

Those organizing today’s rally claim he was crushed by a city truck while sleeping in a tent near the King Center.

On Thursday, January 16, 49-year-old Cornelius Taylor was killed in Atlanta, Georgia, when the tent he was sleeping in was razed by a front loader ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.

Outrage over the death of a man killed as city workers swept a homeless encampment for Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend spilled into City Hall Thursday.

Activists and civil rights leaders are calling on the city of Atlanta to stop clearing homeless encampments following the ...