tent cities

The tent cities in Sacramento, Calif., which we described recently, and the increasing number of shanty towns detailed in The New York Times today, are only part of the crisis in America’s cities. As we’ve written, vacant and abandoned foreclosed homes in some communities have become a bigger problem than new foreclosures themselves. The vacant [...]

Mark Thoma at Economist’s View shows us the tent cities now sprouting up in Sacramento, Calif., not far from the small town where he grew up. Those tents are homes now for people who lost their previous dwellings to foreclosures. Below the picture, you can click on an image of the tent cities that grew [...]