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Title: 'Tent cities' of homeless on the rise across the US
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Published: Sep 20, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-09-20 19:39:01 by freepatriot32
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Homeless encampments dubbed "tent cities" are springing up across the US, partly in response to soaring numbers of home repossessions, the credit crunch and rising unemployment, according to a report. Nearly 61 per cent of local and state homeless organisations say they have witnessed an increase in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007, the Washington DC-based National Coalition for the Homeless study says. And the problem has intensified since the report was produced in April, along with rising repossessions, soaring energy and food prices and job losses, the group says. "It's clear that poverty and homelessness have increased," Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the coalition, said. "The economy is in chaos, we're in an unofficial recession and Americans are worried, from the homeless to the middle class, about their future." Homeless groups and government agencies from Seattle, in Washington state, to Athens in Georgia, report the most visible increase in homeless encampments in a generation. "What you're seeing is encampments that I haven't seen since the '80s," said Paul Boden, executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, an umbrella group of homeless groups in west coast cities. In Reno, Nevada, the state with the nation's highest repossessions rate, a tent city recently sprung up on the city's outskirts and quickly filled up with about 150 people. Many, such as Sylvia Flynn, 51, who came from northern California, ended up homeless after losing their jobs and home. Officials say they do not know how many homeless the city has. "But we do know that the soup kitchens are serving hundreds more meals a day and that we have more people who are homeless than we can remember," Jodi Royal-Goodwin, the city's redevelopment agency director, said. In California, the upmarket city of Santa Barbara is housing homeless people who live in their cars in city car parks while Fresno, has several tent cities. Others have sprung up in Portland in Oregon, and Seattle, where homeless activists have set up mock tent cities at city hall to draw attention to the problem. Meanwhile, new encampments have appeared, or existing ones grown, in San Diego, Chattanooga in Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio. A recent report by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development noted a 12 per cent drop in homelessness across the nation, but the latest figures – from 2007 – predates the current housing and economic crisis.
In Reno, Nevada, the state with the nation's highest repossessions rate, a tent city recently sprung up on the city's outskirts and quickly filled up with about 150 people
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#23. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
I dubb thee "Bushvilles", a 21st century version of "Hoovervilles". The GOP is now two for two at taking down the greatest economy on earth.
#24. To: Arator (#23)
it isn't the fault of the GOP alone, Arator, nor of this particular administration. you're being partisan. this is the culmination of a long time plan. ****************************************************** I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world . . . no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson (He was the President that signed the creation of the Federal Reserve into law in 1913.) “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.” Henry Ford “Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” Joseph Kennedy, 1936 “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 “We shall have world government whether or not you like it . . . by conquest or consent.” James Warburg (Rothschild banking agent, financial adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt), 1950 “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, [and] exercise power from behind the scenes.” Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1952 “The case for government by elites is irrefutable.” William Fulbright, U.S. Senator, 1963 “The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States... They will rule the future.” Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator, 1964
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