What do Nashville, Olympia, Seattle, St. Petersburg, Fresno, and Sacramento have in common with Mexico City, Nairobi, Kabul, Soweto or Bombay? Shanty towns are the new boom towns. Tent cities are cropping up across the nation as the country's recession deepens and people who used to make more than minimum wage become unable to house themselves. Drug use, violence, and prostitution are turning these hobo Hoovervilles into ever more tenuous survival encampments. America, the slumdog millionaires have come home to roost. Where the fuck is John Gault?[Via NYTs]
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