City cleaning up after homeless living on Third Street have a list of demands for Cincinnati

Sam Rosenstiel | Cincinnati Enquirer

Show Caption Hide Caption Video: 'Tired of being shuffled around' At a press conference Wednesday, the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition and homeless people living on Third Street made it clear they are tired of being shuffled around.

The homeless living Downtown on Third Street are asking Cincinnati to leave their growing encampment alone.

An eight-part "list of actions" was posted on Facebook Monday by "The Colony," a group of homeless people living on Third Street, and the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition.

They ask the city not to "engage in the actions of warning, citing, noticing or otherwise telling, forcing or intimidating persons to vacate public land."

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The group also asked for at least three public restrooms with showers near Third Street and access to restrooms of any city-owned facility during business hours.

"Living outside is already very difficult without the hammer of being forced from even a public sidewalk hanging over our heads," the post reads. "We already have to deal with the weather, lack of privacy, constant noise from traffic, lack of bathroom access, inability to store healthy food and never being able to really relax and have moment to ourselves."

Last week, Cincinnati cleared out a camp of about 40 people that formed under an overpass near Third and Plum Streets. While most of the people living there went to shelters, others moved onto Third Street or to another overpass camp by Pete Rose Way.

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Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney told City Council Monday there's no way to adequately plan for health and safety concerns in an encampment, Enquirer media partner FOX 19 reported.

"So it's just not a good thing for the city to have people living on the streets," Duhaney said.

Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman said that the city must enforce its own laws prohibiting homeless camps.

"We have to send a message (about) putting up tents because now somebody might say 'I want to put up a tent and go to Clifton. I now want to go to Bond Hill,'" Smitherman said Monday.

The coalition's executive director Josh Spring announced that people living in tents on Third Street have "no intention to leave" at a July 25 press conference.

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