Homeless tent city

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Along I-805 Southbound, rows of tents of trash bags can easily been seen on the embankments.

In 2013, as many as 100 tent cities existed across America, even in Alaska and Hawaii. Freedom is the one main reason people choose a tent city over a shelter. A homeless shelter can have strict rules such as limited visitors, curfew, no alcohol, and employment requirements. A tent city doesn’t have such stipulations. Some people who are homeless say a shelter is “one step away from jail.” Instead, tent cities crop up so people can have some sense of freedom, even if it means living in…

Dozens of people live in tents on a patch of concrete in downtown Everett. The county does what it can to help.

A large group of tents and refugees in a dystopian tent city.. stock image, #city, #ADVERTISEMENT, #stock, #image, #ad

Cities across America increasingly grapple with people living on their streets, and court rulings have made it hard to enforce laws against public camping. A series of decisions by the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, for instance, determined that clearing homeless encampments is an unconstitutional form of punishment. Now Boise, Idaho, as part of […]

As the number of people experiencing homelessness increases across the country, more cities have passed laws making it illegal to sleep in public.

Photographer Matthew Abbott visits the camp to meet both the homeless people and the helpers who have gathered there to support them