Mayor Dickens called for city council “to conduct a complete review of encampment closures, rehousing, and how we care for the unsheltered,” and he also called for a moratorium on all homeless encampment sweeps while the city figures out a plan.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is backing a moratorium on clearing homeless encampments and a review of city policy following the death of a man during a recent sweep.

Mayor Andre Dickens is responding to community organizers calling for the city to stop sweeps of homeless encampments after a man died last week.

Atlanta plans to stop the clearing of homeless encampments after a man sleeping in his tent was killed by a city Public Works truck trying to sweep the area earlier this month.

Dickens says he wrote a letter to the federal government last month hoping to find a solution to what he calls frequent TSA callouts.

This terrible accident expresses the need to reevaluate and reassess our city’s policies concerning homeless encampments,’ mayor says