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NEWS ABOUT: tent city

tent city stories: 4 news summaries

 Cities Prop Up 
 Homeless Camps 

Squeezed shelters, recession prompt local government tolerance

Aug 11, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - With room tight in homeless shelters, municipalities across the US are allowing tent cities to stand—after years spent breaking up homeless clusters, the Wall Street Journal reports. In some areas, the encampments are even supplied with basic services like portable toilets and medical care. “There is no place... More »

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(Newser) - Miami’s sex offenders have been corralled into a squalid tent city under a highway overpass thanks to a law that critics call inhumane, the BBC reports. Sex offenders are barred from living within 2,500 feet of any place in the city where children congregate, including libraries and parks—... More »

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 Tent Cities Sprout Across US 

'Hoovervilles' return as recession forces thousands from homes

Mar 26, 09 5:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cities across the country are struggling to deal with mushrooming shantytowns, reports the New York Times. In a chilling echo of the Great Depression, tent cities are springing up on vacant lots in smaller cities, while homeless encampments in larger cities are burgeoning as more and more people lose their... More »

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Fearful of New Quakes, Chinese Pitch Tents

Even those still with homes leave for the safety of the street

May 22, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Across Chengdu, the capital of China's earthquake-struck Sichuan province, citizens are camping out in tents in public parks, riverbanks, and even on the sides of the roads. But many of the tent-dwellers haven't lost their homes, reports the Wall Street Journal. Rather, they're reluctant to return to their high-rise apartments,... More »

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China • aftershock • Sichuan province • China earthquake • Chengdu • tent city

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