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25 Degrees Outside: People Live In Outdoor Tents In Greensboro
Greensboro, NC - About 100 people live on the streets in Greensboro. A group of 10 stay together in a "tent city" not far from downtown ...
The shelters have a time limit of 67 days. Most of the shelters only allow overnight access.
"You can only stay so many days and then you get kicked back to the street," added Tommy ...
"I think that most people would like to live inside if that was something that they could do. A lot of people have multiple obstacles to living inside so they kind of lose hope," explained Michele Forrest, the Co-Founder of Street Watch ...
http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/265427/57/Homeless-People-Create-Tent-Cities
