Are you ashamed this could happen in America? Kinda makes you want to say thank-you Conservatives for both unbridled Capitalism and your vision of what America could be if only the wealthy/business interests ran the USA.!
Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis
By Dana Ford Fri Dec 21, 8:18 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071221/lf_nm/usa_housing_social_dc
Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
As more families throw in the towel and head to foreclosure here and across the nation, the social costs of collapse are adding up in the form of higher rates of homelessness, crime and even disease.
While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it's just a matter of time before foreclosed famil
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