In the two weeks since police cleared out homeless encampments on the Quequechan River Rail Trail and made 38 arrests, many of those living there have scattered elsewhere around the city.

Nichole Fontaine, director of the city’s homeless outreach programs, knows where they are, and said she and outreach workers continue multiple times a week to offer them services to get off the streets.

Several of them have taken up that offer. Others haven’t yet. That's how it works.

Speaking by phone while visiting a homeless encampment, Fontaine said that day she had spoken with 30 people, nearly all of whom were from the rail trail, and all of whom had been offered but declined services repeatedly.

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