THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on March 08, 2009, 07:44:45 PM
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(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01361/sacramento_1361136c.jpg)
Sacramento has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the United States.
As many as 50 people a week arrive at the tent city and the authorities estimate it is now home to more than 1,200 people.
Now its homeless population hope an Oprah TV show about recession, foreclosures and homelessness will help them out of poverty.
They hope the segment on the national talk show will prompt more donations and government help. Producers visited Sacramento in February to visit the homeless shelters.
"We're very glad that Oprah and her team have chosen to give this crisis a voice, because it is a crisis," Michele Steeb, executive director of St. John's Shelter, said. "Our turnaway numbers have risen from 20 women and children being turned away per day in 2007 to 80 in 2008 to our current number of 230 women and children being turned away a day. It is a crisis and it's only getting worse. We're so glad that she's giving the crisis a voice. We're honoured to be part of the discussion because it's an important discussion to have," she said.
The city and county of Sacramento have already received $34 million to help fight the effects of the foreclosure crisis but, in the meantime, hundreds of people have moved into the shelters.
"I can't say tent cities are the answer to the homeless population in Sacramento," Kevin Johnson, Sacramento's mayor said, "but I think it's one of the many things that should be considered and looked at.'
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this really makes me curious what the IWW is doing
quelle surprise, nothing
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Not one word of that story is surprising.
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They paved over so many fields and natural areas to build suburban homes.
Now all the people live in tents in the fields.
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I honestly would not mind living in a tent. Only thing holding me back is the lack of dry storage for some of my stuff.
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I hope they have toilets.
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I honestly would not mind living in a tent. Only thing holding me back is the lack of dry storage for some of my stuff.
DUH!
Use a second tent!
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:gloomy Kings :gloomy
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Wow, 2 great 2 depressing indeed. Looks like we got Hoovervilles (or I guess they would be Obamavilles now).
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The American Dream lives in a tent
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Damn. And Cali housing prices still remain insanely high.
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welcome to shruburbia.
what an national embarassment. I can't wait for a good ol fashioned cholera epidemic to help us get ahead in our race to the bottom with China.
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Damn. And Cali housing prices still remain insanely high.
Maybe in relativity, but they do seem to be dropping now, at least in my area. A 3br/2b house down the street from me (in one of the "nicer" suburban areas of Sacramento) just went for $150k after being on the market for two months. Two years prior, that same house was sold for $280k :yuck
I just drove by that tent city maybe two weeks ago when I went to drop off an application, and I remember wondering how many people were there. It didn't look like there were nearly enough tents to be holding 1200 people, though.
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Can this be called an Obamaville or a Bushville?
After all, people called them Hoovervilles instead of Coolidgevilles...
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I just drove by that tent city maybe two weeks ago when I went to drop off an application, and I remember wondering how many people were there. It didn't look like there were nearly enough tents to be holding 1200 people, though.
They're adding about a hundred people per week now. And also, who is to say how many people are in a tent? I bet a bunch!
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Woodstock 2010 confirmed
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I just actually talked with a kind of weird real estate agent. She was scouting the neighborhood and gave a little schpiel and chart about how she gets really close to the asking price. I said that I'm not the owner and then she actually had a list of the names of everybody in the household and then pointed out that I had apparently talked with her a year and a half before but that I might not recognize her because she's asian and that there are a lot of asians in this area and that was the weirdest conversation I've ever had with a middle-aged asian woman since two weeks ago when a friend's mom was asking if I was considered white.
Living in a tent is not all that bad.
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I just actually talked with a kind of weird real estate agent. She was scouting the neighborhood and gave a little schpiel and chart about how she gets really close to the asking price. I said that I'm not the owner and then she actually had a list of the names of everybody in the household and then pointed out that I had apparently talked with her a year and a half before but that I might not recognize her because she's asian and that there are a lot of asians in this area and that was the weirdest conversation I've ever had with a middle-aged asian woman since two weeks ago when a friend's mom was asking if I was considered white.
Living in a tent is not all that bad.
:wtf
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Can this be called an Obamaville or a Bushville?
After all, people called them Hoovervilles instead of Coolidgevilles...
I think Tent City has become the recognized name.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/05/article-1159677-03C00321000005DC-173_634x312.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/05/article-1159677-03C00365000005DC-555_634x418.jpg)
Maybe if the mayor brings them some hotdogs, we can name it Johnsonville.
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I just actually talked with a kind of weird real estate agent. She was scouting the neighborhood and gave a little schpiel and chart about how she gets really close to the asking price. I said that I'm not the owner and then she actually had a list of the names of everybody in the household and then pointed out that I had apparently talked with her a year and a half before but that I might not recognize her because she's asian and that there are a lot of asians in this area and that was the weirdest conversation I've ever had with a middle-aged asian woman since two weeks ago when a friend's mom was asking if I was considered white.
Living in a tent is not all that bad.
:wtf
yeah roger that :wtf
I stand by what I said. Except for the typo with shpiel.
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:wtf
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I just actually talked with a kind of weird real estate agent. She was scouting the neighborhood and gave a little schpiel and chart about how she gets really close to the asking price. I said that I'm not the owner and then she actually had a list of the names of everybody in the household and then pointed out that I had apparently talked with her a year and a half before but that I might not recognize her because she's asian and that there are a lot of asians in this area and that was the weirdest conversation I've ever had with a middle-aged asian woman since two weeks ago when a friend's mom was asking if I was considered white.
Living in a tent is not all that bad.
:rapetime, english semantic structure
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Do you think they have their own form of currency?
Bottlecaps, natch.