Sacramento gets its own shantytown
Filed under: Recession
The foreclosure epidemic in California has led to real live shantytowns in Sacramento.The Today Show reports that 1,200 people are living in these tent cities and fifty newly homeless people are joining everyday, dependent on food pantries like Loaves & Fishes. These newly homeless used to be on top of the world: new cars and new homes, paid for with cheap and easy credit. When the credit crunch crushed their jobs, the house of cards fell apart and tragically, they ended up on the streets.
Check out the video below -- because we really do need to see more parallels between the current mess and the Great Depression. To learn about Hoovervilles, check out this Wikipedia entry.
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3-10-2009 @ 11:46PM
Cyclophile said...
That entire story is a farce. The tent city has been there for over 40 years and the bums have been a blight along the river, every so often robbing (or worse) people that are out at Discovery park or using the bike trail. The current "crisis" did not cause it to come into being.. it has been there, occupied by people that are there primarily by choice, not circumstance.
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3-14-2009 @ 1:40AM
steve in sac said...
It's all bull shit... The tent city has been there for 40 plus years. It's in a place where you can't see it unless you know where it's hidden. it's a short walk to the soup kitchen (L&F). The bumbs or as my daughter calls them the hobo's live there because they choose that life over getting a JOB.
NBC and the Today Show you make me sick.
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