Denver sweeps of unhoused people often push campers to nearby blocks while continuing a cycle of trauma

“I never wanted to come to a school,” Patrick Wilcox said as he synched up his flatbed wagon Tuesday. It contained nearly everything he owned, and he was preparing to push it somewhere north. He wasn’t sure where he’d end up sleeping.

Everyone camping around Morey Middle School knew their relative stability was coming to an end. As the school year crept closer, so did a day when police officers would show up and order them to leave. Wilcox was among those who moved before the cops and garbage trucks arrived.

A school may not have been his first choice for a campground, but it’s where many others had gathered. He wasn’t about to camp somewhere by himself.

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