RE: LOL! It happened through Occupy Wall Street and the protests around the Capitol building and the bizarre tent city squalor allowed for what seemed like “forever.”
OK, now you’ve tantalized me with your tale. What happened after that? Don’t tell me that these Occupiers are still there...
“Occupy Madison has been working alongside people experiencing homelessness since they formed in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011. The group had a large encampment in Madison, which like many other Occupy camps across the country attracted people with nowhere else to go — including the homeless.”
“We had our general assembly meetings and over time more and more of the people there on site were not political activists, but homeless people,” Clemente said.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/16/madison-homelessoccupy.html
They merged with the homeless, for those who were left after that first full winter. Now, the few left have “tiny houses.”