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Before the Occupy movement, there were tent cities. (Metafilter)

_"Imagine if you had never been homeless before and you'd just lost your job
and you lost your home. What would you do? Would you immediately go begging or
knocking on a door? No, you would downsize, move into cheaper accommodations,
if that did not work you'd move in with friends or relatives and then you'd
move into a cheap motel and then ... where would you want to go before winding
up at a shelter door? You would much prefer to live at a park with your family
and your dog." ... "In just about every major city, there are tent cities.
Unfortunately, we're in a growth industry and the numbers are going to
continue."_ -- Michael Stoop, a community organizer for the National Coalition
for the Homeless, explaining that the surge in American tent city shantytowns,
first highlighted on MeFi in 2008/09: 1, 2, 3, has not slowed. The Great
Recession: Life in Tent City, Lakewood NJ / Photo Gallery / Video.

**Additional Links**

The Lakewood tent city has a website. They were founded in 2006 by Reverend
Steven Brigham of Lakewood Outreach Ministries.

NYT (2007): A Ministry in the Cold, With a ...

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