Activists set up tents outside Baltimore City Hall, demand solutions to homelessness crisis

When Baltimore city officials arrived at work on Wednesday morning, they found 17 red tents neatly arranged on the grassy plaza across from City Hall. Advocates erected the encampment early Wednesday to draw attention to the city’s homelessness crisis and to the encampments they say are popping up across Baltimore. “They got all this funding but they’re not doing the proper thing with it,” said Alonzo Coley, a leader with the organization Voices of the Homeless, referring to more than $90 million in federal funds that Mayor Brandon Scott announced the city would receive for homeless services.