What’s next for the Government of Guam's Homeless Relocation Initiative? Guam Attorney General Douglas Moylan says his office is standing by and ready to tackle other homeless encampments around the island.

"Right now, we’re standing by. The lieutenant governor will probably call the next operational project that we’re going to be addressing. And the mayors will identify which village they feel should be addressed first," said the AG. "I do know that the homeless encampments are a bad situation and if you let them get bigger, you’re going to have more crime coming out of them, both among themselves in the homeless encampments with violent and nonviolent crime occurring and to the community around them."

Following the aftermath of the Micronesia Mall encampment removal in early march that included SWAT officers from the Guam Police Department, Moylan says more social workers are needed to assist the people who are relocated and to help them find gainful employment.

"Some of the feedback that we contributed from the AG’s Office is that we need a case worker assigned to each of these individuals reaching out for help and we need to find them a job," he said.

As we first reported, the homeless relocation initiative is getting quite the backlash from concerned community members like the Guam Homeless Coalition, who aired their concerns earlier this month.

Others in the community are grateful seeing that the effort has quickly shown results.