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Just a few minutes ago I wrote about the increase in the homeless population and the resulting increase in Tent Cities across the country. Then I read this:

In hard times, tent cities rise across the country

By EVELYN NIEVES – Sep 18, 2008

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There are so many homeless people in the United States that in every city, small, medium and large, the homeless are able to organize themselves enough to create tent cities. That should be a signal to the powers that be. And I think it is, because all the cities in the U.S. are responding in exactly the same way. Being that city mayors meet on a regular basis to discuss it's no stretch of

"Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a pa

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You'd better believe it can happen close to home, maybe even to you.  At a time when we need them more than ever, why on earth would our own city be actively working to close them down instead of regulating and working to improve them?To that end, we've made significant progress at Nashville's o

The camp ballooned at the start of the year, after state and city officials closed down a similar camp at nearby Duncan Plaza ju

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New Orleans decides to do something positive for their folks in Tent Cities....

Let's hope it doesn't take this level of chaos for our own city officials to "do something" to help put the most needy of our Homeless into housing, but seeing Homeless people walking with bandages, catheters and bags of prescription

Tent Cities of Former Homeowners

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Just outside of Los Angeles tent cities of those who lost their homes in the current mortgage crisis are springing up:

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