


These encampments can be found on properties owned by private individuals or companies or owned by local, state, and federal governmental agencies. Homeless encampments are locations where one or more homeless people live in an unsheltered area.Unsheltered homeless persons include people who live in places not meant for human habitation, such as the streets, campgrounds, undeveloped properties, abandoned buildings, vehicles, or parks.Sheltered homeless persons are people who are staying in emergency shelters, transitional housing programs, or safe havens.Introduction to Homeless Encampment Issues Homeless People– People who Live without a Permanent Dwelling Introduction to Homeless Encampment Issues.The reference does not address the medical, social and political issues that are associated with homeless encampments, nor does it discuss how all of the issues can be incorporated into the overall management of homeless encampments.

The guidelines are intended to provide an overview of the options available to governmental agencies and private individuals to manage solid waste in existing encampments, to abate solid waste in encampments in the process of closure, and to prevent the reoccurrence of solid waste accumulation in the closed and abated encampments. The following Homeless Encampment Reference Guide focuses on solid waste management, but also recognizes that other forms of wastes, including hazardous, medical, and liquid, are routinely found in the encampments. CalRecycle staff presented the draft reference guide at the NovemIDTAC meeting, and the members agreed to continue developing the reference guide, with a goal of presenting the completed document for IDTAC review at their March 2014 meeting. Although all aspects of waste at homeless encampments were discussed during the meeting, it was subsequently determined that the guidelines should concentrate on solid waste management. At the Jmeeting of the Illegal Dumping Technical Advisory Committee (IDTAC), the members decided to develop an outline for a homeless encampment guide that could be added to the Illegal Dumping Toolbox found on the CalRecycle website.
