CHARLOTTE — Dozens of homeless men and women sit outside the Hall Marshall Center in uptown Charlotte center every day and on Tuesday, there were no portable bathrooms there.
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During the pandemic, the CDC said cities should provide “nearby restroom facilities to homeless encampments and ensure they have functional water taps, hand-hygiene materials and remain open to people experiencing homelessness 24 hours per day."
"This is a basic human right,” said Deborah Wollard, founder of Block Love CLT. “I don't understand why it's not here. They need these."
She feeds the homeless daily and noticed the bathrooms were missing from the area days ago.
Mecklenburg County leaders said, “They pulled out the ones that were out there they needed to be replaced.”
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Channel 9’s Tina Terry asked if the portable bathrooms will return.
"New Port-a-Johns and hand-washing stations are being delivered today and tomorrow," officials told Terry.
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Workers will put the new portable bathrooms with hand-washing stations at homeless encampments across the county. Leaders said they’ll be cleaned twice a day.
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