Pretty soon Barrie’s homeless are going to be find themselves … homeless .

Or at least city-less.

Accustomed to being tolerated, coddled and serviced, a sudden declaration of a state of emergency by Barrie’s mayor means hundreds of squatters will soon be run out of town. In fact, city workers started handing out eviction notices Tuesday that gives long-term homeless people living in tents around Barrie 48 hours to get out of Dodge.

If they don’t, they will be moved out of “Zombieland.”

Mayor Alex Nuttall is relying on emergency powers to try to close 20 homeless encampments which are currently used by about 600 people.

Home for not much longer.

“Barrie residents have had enough,” Nuttall said Tuesday.

With support from the Barrie Police and the Ford government, the mayor said,

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