Advocates unhappy as Gov. Landry orders New Orleans homeless sweep ahead of Swift shows [Video]

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday (Oct. 22) gave nearly 75 homeless people living on streets near Caesars Superdome a few days to leave ahead of this weekend’s Taylor Swift concerts.

City officials and homeless advocates were displeased and called on the governor to stop his planned Louisiana State Police Troop NOLA sweep. They said at an outdoor news conference that the continued decommissioning of homeless camps near the Super Bowl LIX site needed to be a safe, fair and honest process, insisting this was not.

“I understand that Taylor Swift is a big icon,” said Nate Fields, the city’s director of Homeless Services & Strategy. “Welcome her to the city. But I don’t think we should hide our homeless population for another concert or game.

“We need partnership from our state partners. We don’t need to force these individuals to move along.”

The announced sweep would …