Posted on 12/17/2015 6:13:58 AM PST by simpson96
SEATTLE (Reuters) - For years, Jammie Nichols struggled with a drug habit that left the Florida mother reeling from blackouts, seizures, depression and poverty - and a decision to give one of her children up for adoption.
When a friend told her about Tent City 3, a peer-run homeless encampment in the Seattle area with ties to social welfare programs. The police patrolled sporadically but left occupants largely alone, and volunteers often dropped off hot meals.
In June, Nichols bought a bus ticket and arrived in Seattle broke, and four months later, she had a steady boyfriend, had kicked her drug habit and had been elected to the camp's executive committee, she said.
I've really come out of my shell," she said over a bowl of rice inside a tarp-covered communal dining area. "Today I filled out my first application for housing."
Despite the benefits tent cities often provide occupants, and although American cities are grappling with a chronic shortage of affordable housing for the poor and budget constraints on social programs, many municipalities across the United States are clamping down on homeless encampments.(snip)
"Doing nothing, simply moving these people, they are just going to pop up down the street," said Andrew Heben, who wrote "Tent City Urbanism." "Not letting people legally exist costs more than giving people places to stay."
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And illegal Hispanic invaders get facilities with indoor pools.
Funny how all these Syrian refugees get a place to live...
Her poverty hasn’t exactly affected her waistline.
Wait, after 7 years of Obamaism there are NO
homeless and the economy is STRONG! /s
I’ve really come out of my shell,” she said over a bowl of rice inside a tarp-covered communal dining area. “Today I filled out my first application for housing.”
...how about a first application for a job? Unless I missed something, there isn’t a word about work except to clean up and security at the camp.
7 Years of economic recovery results in tent cities and chronic homelessness.
Who knew?
That house in the background’s value must be soaring due to the spectacular view.
Most of those people suffer from “Low Ambition”.
Hey Eric and Shannon: the above is not a sentence.
Looks like that Mom in reply #1 has been on a starvation diet.
Why is this article talking about the homeless? doesn’t the author know that the homeless appear only with a Republican president?
0bama solved the problem.
‘Merica... the only country on the planet where the poor people are fat...
There are TONS of Obamavilles all across America, filled with people whose futures have been wrecked by 35 years of Democrat Party Economic Policies.
But if you dare to show or say that in any major media (but FOX), you’ll be UNEMPLOYED within the week.
Well there the liberals will say that they are in a good desert, and get high fat food such as surplus cheese. But nothing here can be the faukt of Obama or Democrat policies.
In the picture, mom has a can next to her chair. Ashtray? How much do cigarettes cost these days?
Thank you! Who doesn’t get this?
I meant to say food desert not good desert.
When Reagan was President they had pictures everyday
With Obama none
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