Members of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a large homeless camp behind the old west side K-Mart building Thursday morning to evict unhoused residents squatting on the land. Deputies easily outnumbered the residents still there, who scrambled to move their possessions from the camp before a noon deadline.

Workers from Centerstone, and Beacon assisted, along with volunteers from the Bloomington Homeless Coalition. Thursday’s eviction was the largest since a camp was removed from along the B-Line last August.

A camp resident, whose first name is Nancy, said she has secured housing at Crawford, but will need to wait at least a week before she can move in. In the meantime, volunteers were trying to find a place for her to stay until then.

Nancy told the Bloomingtonian, that her father, who has cancer, had stopped at the camp to help in the past couple of days. Nancy shared a tent with a man named Caleb, who also goes by the nickname “Nomad.” Caleb said he has a brain tumor, and not much longer to live, and he’ll be lucky if he lives to see his daughter’s 18th birthday.

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Unhoused evicted from large westside camp Thursday in Bloomington, Indiana