by Pat Hartman | Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
We started a then-and-now comparison of homelessness in three American cities, the ones written about by Scott Bransford in “Tarp Nation: Squatter Villages and Tent Cities in the Economic Crisis.” One of the towns was Fresno, California, with its illicit...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Andrea Ball, who writes for The Austin American-Statesman, the public is very well informed about homeless issues in the Texas capital. Case in point: her meticulous description of the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) at a...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two years ago, the print publication High Country News published a long and detailed story by Scott Bransford, concentrating on tent cities in three American cities. Fresno, California, was rated by the Brookings Institution (a public policy institute, or...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Back in June 2009, Lise Fisher, staff writer for The Gainesville Sun in Florida, told readers about the arrest of a man for stabbing two other men (both admitted to the hospital in critical condition) in the section of town known as Tent City. For the...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
In May, Cynthia Hubert reported for The Sacramento Bee on a very unusual class-action lawsuit in which people experiencing homelessness sued Sacramento, California, for violating their constitutional rights by seizing and disposing of their...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
St. Petersburg, Florida, is said to be making progress. Here is Associated Press writer Mitch Stacy’s account of the city’s recent history: Four years ago, St. Petersburg’s struggles with some of the most rampant homelessness in the country reached a crescendo… The...
