Concord Encampment People Have Nowhere to Go

Straps tied to trees supported the blue and gray tarps hanging like a canopy over the green tent.

Plywood, scaffolding, pallets, even a swing line the wooded encampment.

This is the jury-rigged home that a woman named Melissa and her husband built over the last four months along the train tracks that cut through Robin Bach’s property.

Bach has asked the city of Concord for help clearing the encampment on numerous occasions.

She’s called Concord police 37 times since she bought the house for $400,000 in 2018.

Her plight to restore her backyard made international news.

Anywhere the homeless set up camp in Concord is trespassing, however the city provides no other solution, Melissa said.