According to yesterday's Projo there are 34 tents with 60 residents living in 'Tent City', located underneath a closed section of 195 that is set to be knocked down.
This is state owned land, an active construction site. It's the jurisdiction of neither the City of Providence nor the police, but the DOT.
These people are performing all the routine daily rituals involved in being a living organism (as my grandfather would say, "eating, drinking, pissing, and shitting", not to mention bathing and washing clothing) right there along our river, likely in the river itself.
Can you imagine the long term public health risks posed by this situation? It's the stuff that plagues are made of.
So what is the State of Rhode Island (and Providence Plantations, for now) doing about it?
Um...nothing. Sounds about right.
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