Crisis: Homelessness Population Grows, Tent Cities Thrive

[jody]

Crisis: Homelessness Population Grows, Tent Cities Thrive

As the Congress tries to throw more "good money after bad money" in a series of bogus corporate bail-outs, America is filling up with more families with children who have lost their jobs and homes.

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Those statistics on the most vulnerable of our citizens are chilling, dismal numbers. As a report released last week by the National Center on Family Homelessness, found that 1 in 50 children are homeless in America today and many of the states, who are showing reservations in accepting stimulus money, have chosen political ideology over the dire needs of their citizens and their young. Let’s name a few of the states: Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

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National media have discovered Sacramento’s "Tent City," as well as those going up in the Midwest, South and Northwest. Estimates of the total number of homeless living in these modern "Hoovervilles" put it at 15,000 to 20,000.

Last year, 3.2 million foreclosures were filed across the nation, forcing a majority of homeowners to live in their cars or bunking with relatives before giving up and living in shelters, sleeping under bridges and in makeshift camps in the woods.

Washington diddles while Nation starves.

[skooooo]

1. I haven't seen MSM cover this at all...

2% of American children are homeless. That is completely unacceptable.

[jody]

4. Why isn't the Interagency Council on Homelessness aggressively demanding money from congress to

treat this problem?

IMO congress should take the reclaimed AIG bonus money and use it to fund government sponsored "Tent Cities".

Interagency Council on Homelessness

[K Gardner]

8. Of course they don't cover it, and won't unless forced to. n/t

[Supersedeas]

10. someone else have to prepare the DVD to educate the Corp Elites in the Media

[ixion]

2. modern "Hoovervilles" == Bushvilles

I'm hoping that meme sticks.

[jody]

5. Bushvilles whatever as long as congress spends money to treat the problem. n/t

[arcadian]

3. They are called "Bushvilles"

Call them what they are.

[jody]

6. OK but congress needs to fund aid immediately. We have a National Disaster Housing Strategy and IMO

Tent Cities are evidence of a disaster just as much as a hurricane, flood, or earthquake.

Why doesn't congress and the White House do something?

National Disaster Housing Strategy

[Skidmore]

7. The problem is that the nation only KNOWS about the one in Sacramento.

I wish Rachel or Keith or Schuster would do a story about this and push it out to the forefront.

[bdamomma]

9. I think the bush regime wanted all this to happen to the American

people, they just do not care. This is a class war, can't get any clearer than that, fleecing the American taxpayers and throwing them in the streets.

[NashVegas]

11. Tent City Here In My Town

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