Tent cities: another Bush legacy

Tent cities for the homeless aren't new, but lately they've skyrocketed all over America as more and more people have become homeless.

Although a recent HUD study reported a drop in homelessness, that report was quickly debunked when it was found that the Bush regime had changed the definition of what homeless meant.

The data in the study also predates the foreclosure scandal, which Bush helped precipitate - and which Bush won't do anything about.

Besides the foreclosure crisis, the rise in homelessness has also been fueled by cities' classist efforts to replace working-class neighborhoods with those that are exclusively for affluent professionals - creating no-go zones that banish the working class. (Bush's "ownership society" he's always babbling about means "ownership for me, not for thee.")

The Hoovervilles of the 1930s have become Bush Heights today.

We need to have a moratorium on foreclosures until folks can get their finances straightened out. And we need a permanent halt to the practice of replacing affordable housing with exclusive neighborhoods.

(Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/19/national/main4460034.shtml)