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A city has reportedly been overrun by homeless people who destroyed a deserted motel and left hundreds of kilos of faeces in the street, its disgruntled mayor has claimed.
Casper in Wyoming, US, has seen about 200 unhoused people move in and create a "mess" in its streets and parks, Mayor Bruce Knell claims.
"They destroyed everything," he told Cowboy State Daily. "It’s horrible."
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Employees of the city told the news outlet they'd had to scoop up about 230kg of human faeces from around the city's downtown area.
"In desperate times people do desperate things, and unfortunately we’re the ones left having to deal with it," Knell continued.
He even said a group of squatters had moved into the vacant Econo Lodge motel and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage – even more destruction than a flood that initially forced the place to close down earlier this year.
The property was condemned by the city and boarded up after shock images revealed the destruction caused by damaged water lines.
Knell said the building was "[un]inhabitable and unsafe" following the destruction and previously explained the building had stopped operating as a motel in November of last year.
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The mayor added other people had started squatting in a number of abandoned properties throughout the town, some of which don't have water or electricity.
Some have reportedly also started camping in local parks or on bike paths or sleeping in their cars.
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Knell reckons the sudden influx can in part be pinned to the presence of a homeless shelter in the city, and he added when people are rejected from the centre, some never leave.
"There’s a certain part of the homeless population, whether substance abuse or mental illness, that is getting them to where they don’t want to conform to society’s rules," Knell added.
"When they do that they’re not allowed to go in the shelter, which means they’re just out and about in our community raising hell."
- Homelessness
- United States
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