Federal officials' actions to clear a homeless encampment in the Oregon forest resulted in residents relocating to a nearby area, as they lacked other options. Experts estimate around 100 to 200 people lived in this camp, driven by rising housing costs in Bend, exacerbated by an influx of wealthy newcomers. Although Bend has attempted to increase shelter capacity, demand surpasses supply. The widening gap between affluence and poverty is severe, exemplified tragically by a former mayor's death due to homelessness.
Most of the people who had used the woods as a last refuge had left, but they didn't go far; many headed to another nearby forest.
The chasm between rich and poor has widened so much that it even swallowed up a former mayor: He died homeless after being discovered with frostbite in a tent.
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