SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- Hundreds of homeless people, including children, lived in San Jose's Columbus Park this summer. The sprawling and unregulated encampment was an unsafe place for anyone to live, city leaders said.

City crews cleared the park over the past two weeks, marking San Jose's largest encampment clean-up operation in over a decade.

"When work began, about 370 people occupied the park, including 11 children and over 50 seniors living in unsafe, unmanaged conditions. There were also 120 lived-in vehicles, the majority of which were inoperable," the mayor's office wrote.

Crews removed 200,000 pounds of trash and 78 vehicles from Columbus Park.

While some homeless people refused any housing services offered by outreach teams, 128 did accept and were moved into shelters, ac

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