Inside York's growing half-mile homeless encampment along the Codorus

Inside York's growing half-mile homeless encampment along the Codorus - The Keystone Newsroom

They call him The Mayor.  His name is Tink – just Tink – a large, burly guy, 50 years old, with a lengthy beard, speckled with gray, and his thick biceps and forearms covered in ink. He laughs when he says that they – and by they he meant the other denizens of the homeless encampment along the Codorus Creek near York City’s Bantz Park – call him The Mayor. He didn’t seek the office; it sought him.  “I definitely didn’t want the position at all,”…

Inside York's growing half-mile homeless encampment along the Codorus

A homeless encampment in the woods near York's Bantz Park has grown to a half-mile in length along the Codorus Creek. Meet some of its residents.