Deadline Looms for Homeless Living in Akron's Tent City

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Deadline Looms for Homeless Living in Akron's Tent City

Ideastream Public Media | By Emma Keating,

Tyler Thompson

Published November 14, 2018 at 3:30 PM EST

Tents line the backyard of a building owned by Sage Lewis.

Twenty-five people living in an Akron resident鈥檚 backyard will have to find new homes by Thanksgiving.

Two months ago, the voted to evict the people living in a tent city at , owned by Sage Lewis.

础办谤辞苍鈥檚 has found homes for 14 individuals, and seven tenants moved out on their own, but Lewis worries that some will have to go back to living on the streets.

鈥淐ould someone sweep in and just take all of our homeless people and give them a house in four days? For Sure, that could happen. But reality is different than that, I think, and there are going to be people here, in our tent community that are not housed by the deadline and I don鈥檛 know what they鈥檙e going to do.鈥�

The council says the outdoor tent city conflicted with zoning laws. Lewis and the Homeless Charity partnered with the in a lawsuit against the city, trying to delay the Thanksgiving deadline. The suit is pending.

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Emma Keating

Emma Keating is a junior journalism major with a minor in political science. Between working for the Kent Stater, TV2 and Cleveland Magazine, she has experience in newspaper, magazine, multimedia and broadcast journalism, though writing will always be her one true love. Keating hopes to use her journalism to give a voice to the voiceless in her future career, eventually moving to Washington, D.C.

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Tyler Thompson

Tyler Thompson was a reporter and on-air host for 89.7 NPR News. Thompson, originally from northeast Ohio, has spent the last three years working as a Morning Edition host and reporter at NPR member station KDLG Public Radio and reporter at the Bristol Bay Times Newspaper in Dillingham, Alaska.

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