The last time we did this…
Tent city highlights US homes crisis
Forty miles east of Los Angeles, on a patch of waste ground, is the place they call Tent City.
Sandwiched between the local airport and the railway line, this really is the wrong side of the tracks.
We are on the outskirts of Ontario, a functionally pleasant commuter-city in southern California.
Last summer, local officials established this camp as a temporary base for the city’s homeless population, then around two dozen.
But word spread and now some 300 people live here. It has an air of scruffy permanence, and indeed, city officials say there are no current plans to close it down. </em>
I imagine not, since the housing situation isn’t getting any better in the foreseeable future.
But ya know, the last time we let a feckless president run our economy into the ground, the poor built shacks:
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So now we got tents? Tents? Come on people, I mean, I know you bought ‘em at REI and all, but geez, have some standards!
