Bellingham shuts down athletic field homeless camp; another immediately appears

The City of Bellingham cleaned up a homeless encampment located at Frank Geri Field near the Civic Athletic Complex Tuesday morning. But even as people were swept out of the camp, they were setting up another less than two miles away.

After crews broke down the camp, dozens of people experiencing homelessness pitched tents at Laurel Park — a neighborhood playfield bordering Western Washington University.