Tent Cities

For those of you unfamiliar with shanty towns, they are now known as tent cities. If you have seen the movie "My Man Godfrey", then you know what I'm talking about.

Today Sister Jessica Martin talked about how these are springing up all over the place.

Here's a BBC report on the topic:





And here is another report, done for the Oprah Winfrey Show, the report done by Lisa Ling:

http://www.oprah.com/media/20090218_tows_tent-city

Here's a link for what we as a nation can do now:

http://www.endhomelessness.org/section/action/actnow