The Jones Report

We’re all familiar with the Dow Jones Report. What about a Jones Report? A report on the average American. Is she working? Does he have health care? Does the average American have basic access to the essentials of life? [...]

Homeless groups moving squatters into foreclosed homes

If you lived next to a foreclosed home, would you prefer it be empty and maybe trashed by vandals and those looking for stuff to steal or occupied by squatters put there and monitored by a homeless advocacy group? Even police often look the other way and neighbors can be supportive.

Mr. Rameau said his [...]

Documenting Bushvilles

St. Petersburg as the ‘meanest city in the nation.’ Police slash tents of homeless with box cutters after evicting them.

Drinking Liberally in New Milford details with videos, the multitude of Bushvilles that are unfortunately appearing now in far too many cities. These are encampments of homeless, many of whom until recently had homes.

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Tent City in the Promised Land

On this Christmas Day, there are many with not much to be merry about.

The photo is from an excellent Reuters article on a tent city in the Inland Empire, which is ground zero in southern California (maybe the nation) for the subprime debacle.

Democracy Now quotes a homeless activist there saying that recently [...]