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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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Keywords: homeless, america, turd world usa
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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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#1. To: All, *Music Club*, *libertarians*, *LEAP*, *Jack-Booted Thugs*, *Humor-Weird News*, *Ron Paul for President 2008*, *Agriculture-Environment* (#0)
nothing to do with most of the lists i just pinged just thought you would like to know that you are all living in a turd world country iwont be as of november 9th i got my plane ticket reserved and i am goingot the philippines fort he rest of my life i wont ever be back to this shit hol e country if you all decide to stay iwould suggest assault weapons andi dont mean the media definition of them i mean the actual weapons that can go from semi to full auto with a click of the switch and youll need a lot of ammo and bullet proof vests and a few grenades wouldnt hurt eithe laug h at me now but stockpile the weapons youll thank me january 22cd 2009
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Good luck, and G-d bless...for me; I'll be stuck going down the ship. Just hope it will be quick...
This won't make it on to the morning shows with bimbo teleprompter readers.
if you all decide to stay iwould suggest assault weapons andi dont mean the media definition of them i mean the actual weapons that can go from semi to full auto with a click of the switch and youll need a lot of ammo and bullet proof vests and a few grenades wouldnt hurt either are you stockpiling? It doesnt have to be quick or deadly if you follow my advice hell you dont even have to go down with the ship or stockpile weapons if you dont wantto .you can hitch to canada or mexico in two or three days from where ever you are in the cuntry
http://s5.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=77290
Can I get a judge to force renegotiation of mortgage on tent if I declare it as summer home?
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
no it wont hence my leaving before the collapse where everyone stands around with thier thumbs up there butts saying what happend boss what do we do now
http://s5.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=77290
Too old to hitch anymore...on the bright side; sudden death puts an end to all that stress.
Hmm.. actually that brings to mind an interesting gambit: Purchase a shack somewhere and declare THAT to be your primary residence, and then have your nice house be the "summer home".
#2. To: freepatriot32 (#1)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#4. To: who knows what evil (#2)
for me; I'll be stuck going down the ship. Just hope it will be quick..
#5. To: Burkeman1 (#3)
#6. To: Burkeman1 (#3)
This won't make it on to the morning shows with bimbo teleprompter readers.
#7. To: freepatriot32 (#4)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#8. To: Dakmar (#5)
Can I get a judge to force renegotiation of mortgage on tent if I declare it as summer home?
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#9. To: Elliott Jackalope (#8)
Damned if I can find it, but I learned today on 4UM that judges actually have the power to force mortgagers to re-negotiate loan/mortgage, as long as it is on second mortgage (or higher), but not on primary residence. Whew, my villa in the Hamptons is safe, now I need to irritate the local Fire Department by pinning a little picture of a pup-tent on my chain-link fence.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
#10. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
Hooverville thy name is now Bushville.
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#11. To: Ferret Mike (#10)
Hootersville?
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
#12. To: Dakmar (#9)
I live in an area with lots of homeless. being homeless changes people. They start drinking or drugging too much -- many of them -- and being in the public eye and spending so much time trying to do simple survival things is physically and psychically exhausting. newly homeless people look very different after just a year on the streets. I look at those shiny new tens in that picture and know the personal entropy, trials and tribulation of being homeless is going to put scars on our collective consciousness as deep as they were on those who lived in the 1930s. I am old enough to remember those people. That experience had made them different and stand out. Just something to think about.
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#12)
Kabong!
I live in an area with lots of homeless. being homeless changes people. They start drinking or drugging too much -- many of them -- and being in the public eye and spending so much time trying to do simple survival things is physically and psychically exhausting.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
#14. To: Dakmar (#13)
You lost me. What does Quick Draw McGraw playing his occasional role of El Kabong have to do with anything?
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#15. To: Dakmar (#9)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#16. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
The bail out should have been for the home owners it appears. Bush screwed up again. McCain is wisely distancing himself from this bailout while Obama is all for it. :)
God is always good!
#17. To: Ferret Mike (#15)
We don't have a democracy. or a republic for that matter.
#18. To: who knows what evil (#2)
Me too and I'll be taking a helluva lot of people with me.
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#19. To: Ferret Mike (#15)
you are now bozod. I have had all I can take of your shilling for the commie war monger and hypocrite.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#20. To: IndieTX (#19)
No, you've bozoed yourself. Bozoing is the ostrich placing his head in the sand so he can't see the sight and sound of that coming to destroy or hurt him. You know some truth, but you hide from elements you can't take of it in trappings of that which still oppresses you. Racism is a lie, hatred of people because of class or sexual nature are lies and they ask you breath sand instead of clean air. And because they have infected you and many others with some of that which infects them you take comfort in hate, divisiveness and tribalism. You need to feed hatred and intolerance in you because you fear the loss of control, you need accessible scapegoats and a way to lash back. I am not surprised and your arrogant pronouncement is on you, not me. You make it because part of you knows the truth without the shackles you choose to wear. You try to convince yourself that what you believe and do is right, and knows the shutting off of perspective and belief of others who feel quite the same way is always a buy into the system. You hate it but oppression offers you haven and comfort, and you really don't know how to give it all up. I am human too Indie. I have seen the same trappings in me and have long worked to saw through the manacles of them to get them off me. I know what I say is true because I've felt and experianced much the same thing as you. I don't talk down my nose to anyone here. I always wish you luck and good fortune Indie, and hope you find the path that gets your head out of the sand.
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#21. To: IndieTX (#19)
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#22. To: Burkeman1, freepatriot32 (#3)
Lots of people lost their homes through no fault of their own - many of these people were renters who those that took on these expensively priced homes took on as a way to pay the mortgage every month. The "home owner" loses the house and the renter gets evicted.
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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.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
#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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