Posted on 12/22/2007 3:29:08 AM PST by OneLoyalAmerican
ONTARIO, California (Reuters) - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers 200 people, including several children, growing as this region east of Los Angeles has been hit by the U.S. housing crisis.
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While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it’s just a matter of time before foreclosed families end up at tent city, local housing experts say.
But this story is pure fiction, grossly misrepresented as factual.
The Bush Depression is now entering its eighth year. Can the nation survive?
” Steve, 50, who declined to give his last name, moved to tent city four months ago. He gets social security payments, but cannot work and said rents are too high. “
I’d suggest moving to where you CAN afford to rent like a normal thinking person (or animal for survival) would do
I (wouldn’t) don’t afford to live in a gated community, should I go throw up a tent in one to complain?
Huh? This flies right past apples and oranges to apples and horse hockey.
Steve is an urban outdoorsmen, not a homeless person.
As more families throw in the towel and head to foreclosure here and across the nation, the social costs of collapse are adding up in the form of higher rates of homelessness, crime and even disease.
While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it's just a matter of time before foreclosed families end up at tent city, local housing experts say.
The facts don't fit our Socialist story, but we'll write it anyway.
97% of mortgage holders are paying.
Would that be Huntington, Robert C. Byrdsylvania?
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/specialreports/x1233873548
They see a clearing away of the trees and brush to provide a better view of the Robert C. Byrd Bridge at 6th Street.
And closing the entrance and Tent City down has cut down on complaints, Holbrook said.
Some of the homeless “were laying around drunk on the benches and aggressively panhandling and occasionally getting in fights with each other,” he said. “It was an intimidating environment.
Greetings Morgana:
We just love West, by God, Virginia. Too bad the politicians treat her like a third world country.
Cheers,
OLA
The Bush Depression is now entering its eighth year. Can the nation survive?LOL!
Exactly—this is propaganda masquerading as journalism. The facts (what few there are) in the article contradict the title. Its a sad commentary on modern “journalism” that this ever made it into.
The malpractice comes from Congress in which the dims took a vibrant housing market and sent people on the streets with unheard of foreclosures!
The MSM has been hiding the dim Congress under the rug by concentrating on the tsunami of Presidential candidates, but the stench of the dims is too foul and Americans are going to demand dims heads.
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