This group is helping people better organize their homeless camps.
The meeting was part of an experiment started by the tiny grassroots group Safe Organized Spaces Richmond, which tries to organize homeless communities and help them establish leadership structures, rules and codes of conduct. Unhoused members get paid small stipends in exchange for taking on tasks such as security, trash pickup and cleaning the encampment. The goal is to make the camps more habitable for residents and less of a burden on the surrounding community.