Baltimore City to raze homeless encampment near JFX on Friday

The city has been carrying out a 10-year plan aimed at ending homelessness, a mantle taken up by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. City officials decided to clear the JFX encampment because of concerns the environment was unsafe with open fires, drug and alcohol use, and domestic violence between some couples, according to Olivia D. Farrow, director of the Mayor's Office of Human Services.