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Growing 'tent cities' blamed on foreclosure crisis
by SOLARLIFE | September 19, 2008 at 01:52 pm | 1039 views | 25 comments | 72 recommendations
Nevada, Reno "Tent city" no work, nowhere to go
People who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring.
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 parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a "tent city" -- an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go.
From Seattle to Athens, Georgia, homeless advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation.
Nearly 61 percent of local and state homeless coalitions say they've experienced a rise in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007
September 19, 2008 at 01:52 pm by SOLARLIFE, 1039 views, 25 comments
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (25)
at 14:03 on September 19th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I have a friend who lives in Reno - she says it's really bad.
at 15:05 on September 19th, 2008
Thanks amyjudd for Flag "Reno, tent city", really bad situation, remembers me 1986 Detroit. No work, no home. In winter time you find this tent cities in Paris for the homeless.
at 14:53 on September 19th, 2008
If you open your can of beans cutting about 3/4 the way around the lid, you can bend the metal around a stick and heat the can over the hobo fire.
at 15:10 on September 19th, 2008
Thanks Fairbanks for Flag "Reno tent city" you tell us how to heat the bean can...
at 15:32 on September 19th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 16:02 on September 19th, 2008
Thanks Karen for Flag "Reno tent city", more tent cities show up in image sidebar Canada, Paris.
at 16:04 on September 19th, 2008
No government bailouts for them. Just corporate fodder, that's all people are!
at 16:24 on September 19th, 2008
moonwolf, thanks for flag "tent cities" Reno, Canada, Paris, LA, your comment "No government bailouts for them. Just corporate fodder, that's all people are!"
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freebeetsat 17:12 on September 19th, 2008
just so you know, this photo was taken in Yokohama Japan
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at 00:19 on September 20th, 2008
Thanks freebeets for contributing to image report sidebar "Reno tent cities" here Yokohama Japan; thans to all others for tent city images. We see it is a worldwide disaster
at 17:42 on September 19th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff. Favelas are spreading around the world. I have seen a lot of them in Paris, Amsterda, Rome, and London aslo. Back in Brazil on my teen years I never imagined to see that in the first world. Now even US has been "favelizado".
at 01:13 on September 20th, 2008
Luiz Castro, thanks for Flag "Favelas, tent cities" spreading around the world London? Rome, Reno, Canada, Japan. The result of the global economy is: some have the money hided offshore Cyaman islands-Dubai. The stupid rest of middle class goes Favelas, topped by the drug users in the Canada case. Viewpoint solarlife Brazil. In Brazil I saw not so many people forced to live on the street like in France. At least in Brazil they can make a living somewhere making a little house without permission. The poor situation, many women 50y, now living on the street in France. The "Bail system" for homes, you need a working contract salary 3 times the rent; elder people don't have it.
at 20:03 on September 19th, 2008
New Orleans just managed this summer to clear out the tent cities under the freeways. Now Galveston and the coast cities wiped out by Hurricane Ike will soon produce more homeless. Foreclosed by Ike. Wonder what will happen with all their mortgages on homes that no longer exist. Foreclosed by banks? No assets there.
at 00:32 on September 20th, 2008
Rene, thanks for Flag "Tent cities", your comment "New Orleans just clears the tent citis under the freeways, what will happen to foreclosed by Ike?
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sandodatat 13:37 on September 20th, 2008
Just added my picture. From Japan as well, Tokyo this time.
at 14:33 on September 20th, 2008
sandodat thanks for Sidebar Image report, Japan
at 13:58 on September 20th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 14:34 on September 20th, 2008
Rhonda thanks for Flag "Reno Tent cities"
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Neopanat 10:58 on September 21st, 2008
Tent belonging to "Ace" and his wife (both homeless). More images Here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neopan/page2/
Gladys avenue Skid Row Los Angeles.
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at 13:48 on September 21st, 2008
Neopan thanks for sidebar image report "Tent cities; Gladys ave Skid Row L.A"
at 11:19 on September 21st, 2008
Things are getting tough all over.
I happened to catch the movie "Cinderella Man" last night which in some strange way I found inspiring in these tough times.
at 13:50 on September 21st, 2008
World_Grove, thanks, "Tent cities" , you say: "Things are getting tough all over."
at 13:14 on September 22nd, 2008
That is really intereasting. The homeless problem is getting a lot worse everywhere, even in the small island(Kauai) that I live on. I recently read an article about that on my employment news blog
at 13:51 on September 22nd, 2008
Thanks, aelusive Hawaii difficult to get work Kauai too, "Tent cities"
at 03:46 on November 7th, 2008
reno_fog thanks for flag tent cities, now it's getting cold even in Paris the tent cities are growing again