Tent City

Janell Ross

In One U.S. City, Budget Cuts Leave Homeless Without Bathrooms, Water Overnight

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: California, Human Rights, Homelessness, Budget Cuts, U.N., United Nations, Homeless, Sacramento, Budget Deficit, Homeless Services, Cutbacks, Tent City, Business News

Faced with a $200 million deficit accumulated over the past five years, Sacramento, Calif., like many other struggling municipalities, is severely cut...

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Arrested for Not Having a Home Yet Wall Street Bankers Get Away With Taking Homes

Mark Horvath | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Poverty, Mark Horvath, Homelessness, Tent Cities, invisiblepeople.tv, Homeless, Tent City, Sacramento, Safe Ground, Invisible People, Video, Impact News
Mark Horvath

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Homeless Former Minister Shares Story Of Arrest In Tent City

Mark Horvath | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Mark Horvath, Sacramento-Tent-City-Shut-Down, invisiblepeople.tv, Homeless, Sacramento, Sacramento Tent City, Hiomelessness, Invisible People, Tent City, Homelessness, Video, Impact News
Mark Horvath

It's really hard to explain the feeling of powerlessness I felt today. But I guarantee my feelings don't even compare to the feelings of desperation our friends had while police were evicting them from their tents today.

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Occupy Denver: Protesters Evicted, Set Structures On Fire (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Bank Protests, Occupy Denver Evicted December, Denver News, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Denver Evicted, Top 1 Percent, Colorado, Tent City, #Occupytogether, Video, Economic Protests, Occupy Together, Occupy Denver, #Occupydenver, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Colorado, #Occupywallstreet, #Ows, Denver News

Denver Police in riot gear clashed with Occupy Denver again last night around midnight, forcibly clearing out approximately 40 protesters from Civic C...

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Return Of America's Middle-Class Underclass

BBC News | Paul Mason | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Underclass, John Steinbeck, Albuquerque, Unemployment Rate, Mogollon Rim, Great Recession, Subway, McDonald's, Jobless, Oklahoma, American Middle Class, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression, Tent City, Migrant Worker, Business News

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the harrowing journey of the Joad family - migrant workers forced to leave their home during the Grea...

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Amanda Terkel

Wisconsin Protesters Erect 'Walkerville' Tent City At State Capitol

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Scott Walker Unions, Video, Walkerville, Scott Walker, Afl-Cio, Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin Tent City, Scott Walker Budget Cuts, Wisconsin Protests, Tent City, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In February and March, thousands of protesters flooded the Wisconsin Capitol, sleeping in the building overnight and filling the dome wi...

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A Tent City Like You've Never Seen: Dignity Village (VIDEO)

Mark Horvath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bradford Powell, Mark Horvath, Homelessness, Tent Cities, invisiblepeople.tv, Homeless, Tent City, Dignity Village, Invisible People, Recession, Impact News
Mark Horvath

In my years of traveling helping to change the story of homelessness I must say Dignity Village is probably the coolest community I have experienced.

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Tent City Interview at Camp Take Notice

Mark Horvath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ann Arbor, Caleb Poirier, Poverty, Mark Horvath, Homelessness, Tent Cities, invisiblepeople.tv, Tent City, Homeless, Camp Take Notice, Recession, Invisible People, Impact News
Mark Horvath

These people should not have to live homeless like this. Point blank: the only reason tent cities exist in the first place is because the shelter system is broken.

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Arthur Delaney

Tent Cities: An American Tradition

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Economic Turndown, Meltdown, Economic Meltdown, Tent City, Tents, Video, Politics News

A couple weeks ago a reader shared word with the Huffington Post of a tent city in Virginia, about an hour outside of D.C., where tons of middle class...

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Crimmigration: How Misdemeanor Offenses Are Becoming Modern-Day Jim Crow Laws

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enoch C. Wines, Immigration Detention, Rehabilitation, War on Drugs, Crimmigration, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, East Hidalgo Detention Center, Immigrants-in-Detention, Laredo Contract Detention Facility, La Villa, Marijuana Possession, Misdemeanor Conviction, Misdemeanor Offenses, Penal System, Penitentiary, Penology, Port Isabel Detention Center, Recidivism, Rehabiliative Penology, South Texas Detention Center, Tent City, T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, Willacy County Detention Center, Harry G. Levine, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

In his recently released book "Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire", author Robert Perkinson analyzes the life and times of America's harshest, l...

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Arthur Delaney

Tent Cities: National Coalition For The Homeless Begins New Study Of Encampments

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Unemployment, Homelessness, Tent Cities, Tent City, National Coalition for the Homeless, Business News

The National Coalition for the Homeless is undertaking a new project to document the tent city phenomenon across America. "Tent cities are American's...

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Urgent Need For Tent Cities For Haitian Refugees

AP | BEN FOX and VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Tent Cities, Homeless Haiti, Haiti, Tent City, Port-Au-Prince, Port-Au-Prince-Haiti, Tents, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In what's left of one family's home, in what remains of one destroyed neighborhood, Jean-Rene Lochard has retrieved the ...

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Family Of Veterans Evicted On Veterans Day

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment Rate, Tent Cities, Veterans Day, Dave Randlett, Bearing Witness, Pit Bull, Veterans, Michael Talton, Tent City, Thane Campground, Unemployment, Patrick Bettendorf, Chicago Urban League, Travers Marshall, Camping, Bearing Witness 2.0, Foreclosure, Don Cook Jr, Business News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A family of six in Avon P...

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Homeless, Pregnant And Living In A Tent

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Addiction, Tent City, Homeless, Pregnancy, Tents, Homeless Community, Washington D.C., Impact News

Gala Crum is 21 and pregnant, and living just outside of Washington D.C. in a small tent community, The Washington Post reports. With her tangled br...

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Homeless Evicted From California Tent City

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Randy Layton, Foreclosure Crisis, Bernadette Szczepanski, Tiffany Segura, Homelessness, Gina Barillas, Red Rock Area Community Action Program, Bill Caudle, Bearing Witness 2.0, Michael Hutton, Michelle Caudle, Marilyn Hutton, Bearing Witness, Tent City, Business News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. In Visalia, Calif., hundr...

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Mother Barters For Children's Christmas Gifts

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gina LaValle, Kurt Pillard, Tent Cities, Freda Brooks, Bearing Witness, Bartering, Tent City, Free Clinic, Homelessness, Free Food Wednesdays, Craigslist, Barbara Hartnett, Napa Valley College, Friendship House of Christian Service, Bearing Witness 2.0, United Neighborhood Health Services, Impact News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up compelling local stories about the victims of the recession. Gina LaVa...

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Jackson Funeral Won't Convince Followers He Is Dead

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Al Sharpton, Graceland, Papparazzi, Pied Piper, Toxicology Results, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Michael Jackson Sightings, Larry King" "Thriller, Neverland, Celebrity Icon, Tmz, Prescription Dugs, Celebrity Obsession, The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissicm Is Seducing America, The Man in the Mirror, The Glove, Harvey Levin, Childhood, Escapism, Elvis Presley, Tent City, Feneral of the Century, Celebrity Worship, Fairy Tales, Peter Pan, The Media, Santa Barbara, Youtube, Autopsies, Molestation, God-Like, Healthy Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

Since Elvis, the social pathos and obsession with celebrities has grown more than a hundred-fold, and this King of Pop will never be laid to rest or allowed to rest in peace.

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Arthur Delaney

Sacramento Tent City To Be Shut Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sacramento Tent City Shut Down, Oprah Tent City, Tent Cities, Tent City, Sacramento Tent City, Business News

Sacramento city officials announced yesterday that the famous tent city in Sacramento would be cleared out by the end of April. The evacuation is nece...

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Charles Barkley Begins Jail Sentence At Tent City

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charles Barkley Dui, Sports, Charles Barkley, Tent City, Entertainment News

PHOENIX — Former NBA star Charles Barkley has begun serving a three-day sentence on a drunken driving charge. Maricopa County sheriff's Deputy Li...

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