Four dozen people showed up to City Hall on Thursday night to protest a city policy of issuing 72-hour eviction notices upon discovering outdoor encampments — leaving a symbolic tent outside the mayor’s office after a standoff with police.
The protesters, who included several people with personal experience of being homeless along with about 30 Yale students, marched around the first floor of City Hall for an hour and a half, chanting “Housing is a human right!” and “Stop the sweeps!”
They had been convened by Unhoused Activist Community Team (U‑ACT) to call attention to a city policy of providing 72-hour notices of eviction to people sleeping outside in tents and sleeping bags — “a recent shift in policy to accelerate evictions,” U‑ACT described in a press release…