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kpete

(71,965 posts) Thu Jan 15, 2015, 12:57 PM Jan 2015

Rat City: Inside the Nation's Largest Homeless Encampment

I missed this gem:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/robert-aguirre-jungle-homeless-silicon-valley

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Rat City: Inside the Nation's Largest Homeless Encampment (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP

The county's "innovative" approach to enlightenment Jan 2015 #1

The Hoovervilles are back . . . another_liberal Jan 2015 #2

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)

1. The county's "innovative" approach to

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 01:08 PM

Jan 2015

assist these folks was to turf them out and bulldoze everything they couldn't carry with them - then put up fences.

I'm surprised they gave some temporary rental vouchers instead of one-way bus tickets to another city. I guess other cities' mayors over-used that option of "solving" the homeless crisis.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/09/home-d09.html

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)

2. The Hoovervilles are back . . .

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 02:13 PM

Jan 2015

Thank you Republican majority in Congress!

(sarcasm intended)

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