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Business owners in the French Quarter and Marigny say the homeless problem is becoming a safety hazard.
Tourists and visitors often have to make their way past people sleeping in the street.
Shop owners report open drug deals, drug use, syringes lying around, and people relieving themselves on the sidewalk.
The city rounded up the homeless before the Super Bowl and put them into a state-run shelter. But business owners say that effort has ended.
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