Squatters, homeless in Pensacola, Florida, leave neighborhood covered in trash and residents angry: ‘It’s dangerous. It’s not healthy’

Squatters and homeless people in Pensacola, Florida, have left a neighborhood in ruins, leaving residents fed up with navigating trash piles and open-air bathrooms near their homes.

‘It’s dangerous. It’s not healthy. And it’s really starting to take a toll on our neighbors and how they feel about letting their kids play in the yard,” Jessica Allen shared. WEAR.

She is one of the residents of the Northpointe community who has reached breaking point by living around piles of trash and tents for a year. Allen said her neighbors can’t avoid the homeless squatters as they encounter them every week.

Another resident told local media that squatters were using a tree as a toilet and that workers hired to clean a property were getting sick from their work.

As squatters have invaded residents’ yards and broken through fences, the community has lost its sense of security and normality.

Jessica Allen, a resident of the community in Northpointe, Florida, said she and her neighbors can’t avoid the homeless squatters who have taken over their street and labeled them “dangerous” and “not healthy.”

WEAR News reported that the squatting on Le Jeune Drive started when homeowners on the street let people live in their homes. One of the homeowners who allowed this has died and another has moved to a residential care center. Property managers and lawyers for these houses have now been informed of what happened and are investigating legal action to evict the unwanted squatters.

“Some of our neighbors suddenly have a homeless person in their backyard, leaning against the shed and smoking a cigarette,” Allen said.

There are currently two open squatting cases with Pensacola code enforcement on Le Jeune Drive, where Allen and her neighbors live.

WEAR News reported that the squatting started when Florida street homeowners let people live in their homes, but since then one of the homeowners has died and another has moved into an assisted living facility.

Property managers and lawyers for these houses have now been informed of what happened and are investigating legal action to evict the unwanted squatters.

Councilmember Jennifer Brahier has said she has seen the issue firsthand when speaking to residents and property managers about their concerns.

Brahier has said both the city and neighbors are actively looking for ways to address the problem.

According to the Pensacola Code Enforcement Web Pagethe division consists of both civilian employees and sworn law enforcement officers.

Le Jeune Drive is full of rubbish as squatters have entered residents’ gardens and broken through gates. The community has lost its sense of safety and normality and is demanding change. The local sheriff’s office has been called to Le Jeune Drive about 70 times, but each time they inform the owners that the only way to address the issue is code enforcement.

There are three responsibilities that the city’s code enforcement officers are responsible for: ‘Enforcing all state statutes and municipal ordinances dealing with code-related violations, supervising all franchised carriers operating in the City of Pensacola, and mowing and cleaning non- conforming vegetation. vacant properties in the city of Pensacola.”

The local sheriff’s office has been called to Le Jeune Drive about 70 times, but each time they inform the owners that the only way to address the issue is code enforcement.

This isn’t the only part of the Sunshine State that has seen an influx of squatters lately, as residents of Escambia County have had enough too.

Gwen Gibson told it Fox news: “I’ve been on the phone with code enforcement and the sheriff’s department. There’s at least 15 to 20 people walking through my driveway all the time going to their (camp) to buy drugs, prostitution, whatever they’re doing there.”

Gibson also said she has constantly had to deal with piles of trash and fires set by the squatters at the fence of her home.

She has also discovered homeless people passing out on her property after doing drugs or getting into fights.

In addition to Florida, other states in the US have also faced similar squatting problems when a SWAT team raided a house in suburban Atlanta that had been taken over by four squatters who ran an “illegal strip club” on weekends and owned a horse had on site.

Neighbors had reported the squatters to the police several times before they were arrested, as they occasionally harassed them with gunfire and the stench of marijuana.

Squatters also recently took over Wyoming City, leaving millions of dollars in damage to motels and 500 pounds of human feces downtown.

It happened in Casper, the second-largest city in the state of Wyoming, home to 60,000 residents and home to about 200 homeless people.