Tent Cities Full Of Homeless People Are Booming In Cities All Over America As Poverty Spikeshttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-12/tent-cities-full-homeless-people-are-booming-cities-all-over-america-poverty-spikesTyler Durden
Sep 13, 2016
Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than half a million people are homeless in America right now, but that figure is increasing by the day. And it isn’t just adults that we are talking about. It has been reported that that the number of homeless children in this country has risen by 60 percent since the last recession, and Poverty USA says that a total of 1.6 million children slept either in a homeless shelter or in some other form of emergency housing at some point last year. Yes, the stock market may have been experiencing a temporary boom for the last couple of years, but for those on the low end of the economic scale things have just continued to deteriorate.
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But of course it isn’t just Portland that is experiencing this. The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_United_States◦Camp Hope, Las Cruces, New Mexico [1]
◦Camp Quixote, Olympia, Washington State[2]
◦Camp Take Notice, Ann Arbor, Michigan[3]
◦Dignity Village, Portland, Oregon
◦Opportunity Village, Eugene, Oregon
◦Maricopa County Sheriff’s Tent City, Phoenix, Arizona
◦New Jack City and Little Tijuana, Fresno, California[2]
◦Nickelsville, located in Seattle[2][4]
◦Right 2 Dream Too, Portland, Oregon[5]
◦River Haven,[6] Ventura County, California[7][8]
◦Safe Ground, Sacramento, California[2]
◦The Jungle, San Jose, California[2]
◦Temporary Homeless Service Area (THSA), Ontario, California[2]
◦Tent City (100+ residents) of Lakewood, New Jersey[9][10]
◦Tent City, Avenue A and 13th Street, Lubbock, Texas[11]
◦Tent City, New Jersey forest[12]
◦Tent City, Bernalillo County, New Mexico[13]
◦Tent City, banks of the American River, Sacramento, California[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
◦Tent City 3, Seattle
◦Tent City, Chicago, Illinois [1]
◦Tent City 4, eastern King County outside of Seattle
◦The Point, where the Gunnison River and Colorado River meet[23]
◦The Village of Hope and Community of Hope, Fresno, California[2]
◦Transition Park, Camden, New Jersey
◦Tent City, Fayette County, Tennessee, [2]
◦Camp Unity Eastside, Woodinville, WA [3]
◦China Hat Road, Bend, Oregon
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As this new economic downturn continues to accelerate, our homelessness boom is going to spiral out of control. Pretty soon, there will be tent cities in virtually every community in America.
In fact, there are people that are living comfortable middle class lifestyles right at this moment that will end up in tents. We saw this during the last economic crisis, and it will be even worse as this next one unfolds.
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