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Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by kdog1982
Covington is three towns west of me and is similar in situation. The police in these parts tend to herd the poor together - at the fringes of suburban areas and in the poorer parts of town. In the case of Covington the homeless are moved towards Conyers - and their tent city is off of I-20... or at least it was the last time I was out in that direction.
~Heff
ETA: Covington "cleaned up" three years back when the TV show "The Walking Dead" began filming there.edit on 11/17/12 by Hefficide because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hefficide
Suburbs of Atlanta here and the same story. The city I live in has a wooded area, off of a freeway off ramp that has, for at least ten years, been "home" to a few homeless people. They pan handle the cars waiting for the light at the end of the exit ramp.
Even a few years ago, it was easy to count the woods "residents" by becoming familiar with how many faces you'd see on that off ramp over the course of a working week.
For the past 3 years, however, those woods, and a large area around them, have become a tent city. Several businesses which bordered the property went under and the tent city has swelled into the parking lots of those defunct businesses.
If I had to guess I would say that 500 to 600 people currently reside there now. To provide context here, this is roughly 15 miles outside of the borders of Atlanta - a city infamous for its homeless population. The closer one gets to the city, the more homeless one encounters.
The contrasting reality that becomes woefully apparent to locals? Off hand I would say that 30 to 40% of the houses in my town sit empty, with for sale signs on them. One of our common "big" local news stories is rashes of people trying to squat in these empty homes - or of people gutting them simply to steal the copper from within the homes.
It's tragic.
~Heffedit on 11/17/12 by Hefficide because: (no reason given)
Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns. At his news conference on Tuesday night, President Obama was asked directly about the tent cities and responded by saying that it was “not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours.”
Originally posted by kdog1982
reply to post by Hefficide
Have you seen the houses that are boarded up with " NO COPPER" on them yet?
It's increasing in numbers around here.
BTW: My sister is in Coventon,so I go through there every once in awhile.I thought they had cleaned up the place,because it use to be really bad.