In 2019, Las Vegas criminalized resting, sleeping, or “lodging” in the downtown district and other areas if shelter beds are available.
Image Via Instagram user @_nicolex3_
Claim:
As of April 2024, hundreds of people live in tunnels beneath Las Vegas.
On April 20, 2024, a 2-year-old video resurfaced on the internet of a person emerging from a manhole in the middle of an intersection in Las Vegas. In one Facebook post, it was captioned: “This is in Las Vegas according to person recording. Are people living underground in Vegas? My friend who used to live in Vegas told me it’s a well known thing to residents living there. They call them the tunnel people and there is an entire subculture living in the sewer tunnels of Las Vegas….”
The video was also posted by multiple X (formerly Twitter) accounts. The original was captured by Instagram user @_nicolex3_ and posted on April 10, 2022 (archived here…