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"It's not an American dream, it's an American nightmare."

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Posted on October 1, 2008 - 7:56am at Stone Soup Station
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Similar to Tent Cities, "Car-parks" are beginning to spring up across the nation.  And we are still a looonnnggg way from beginning a recovery.....

What I Just Said

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Posted on September 27, 2008 - 12:58am at The Homeless Guy
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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

All Over This Land

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Posted on September 27, 2008 - 12:56am at The Homeless Guy
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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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Posted on September 18, 2008 - 6:53pm at Stone Soup Station
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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

"During the Great Depression, the homeless and down-and-out ended up living in shantytowns or tent cities. They were called Hoov

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Posted on July 21, 2008 - 8:50am at Stone Soup Station
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Not "may be;" definitely....

The new faces of the homeless look pretty familiar -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

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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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Posted on July 18, 2008 - 5:13am at Stone Soup Station
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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

"Homeless advocates have sued the city of Lacey over its law that bans tent cities and requires churches to shelter the homeless

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 9:26pm at Stone Soup Station
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Homeless folks fighting back....

Last updated June 3, 2008 9:22 a.m. PT

Homeless advocates sue Lacey over tent city ban

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Deficit spending, promised benefits for federal entitlement programs have put every man, woman, and child in the United States o

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Posted on March 23, 2008 - 5:49am at Stone Soup Station
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I sure hope you're not in the process of becoming homeless yourself on this Easter Sunday, 2008, because there ain't sh*t most of us can do for ya.....

But by the way:
HAPPY EASTER!

Tent Cities of Former Homeowners

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Posted on March 16, 2008 - 11:38pm at Enclave
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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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