This page consolidates duplicative reference material: encampment size categories, enforcement response types, and plain-language terms used across the Allen Index.
Encampment Classification
Enforcement
The Allen Index score helps determine which response type is appropriate. Each type carries a different level of urgency, notice period, and resource deployment.
Reserved for encampments that pose an immediate threat to human life or public safety.
Applied when significant safety or health concerns require timely action but allow for a short notice window.
A comprehensive response with engagement, planning, Project Outreach Connect, closure, clearance, and follow-up.
Plain-Language Terms
A common term for removing people, structures, or belongings from an encampment. It often implies a response focused primarily on removal.
A planned process for winding down an encampment site through assessment, engagement, service connection, cleanup, and follow-up.
Removal of structures, debris, garbage, and items identified as waste after outreach and planning steps occur.
The point when a site is no longer allowed to continue as an encampment and people are required to leave the location.