“Tent Cities Rise Across the Nation” by Evelyn Nieves. The Associated Press shot this article off to nearly every media source in the nation today, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to CNN. It describes the phenomenal number of tent cities rapidly appearing in many major U.S. cities as sub-prime foreclosure’d middle class suddenly find themselves members of the homeless class.

Our own Tim Harris, RCOP founder and Executive Director at Real Change News, was interviewed and quoted with several other major advocacy leaders:

“What’s happening in Seattle is what’s happening everywhere else — on steroids,” said Tim Harris, executive director of Real Change, an advocacy organization that publishes a weekly newspaper sold by homeless people.

“Homeless people and their advocates have organized three tent cities at City Hall in recent months to call attention to the homeless and protest the sweeps — acts of militancy, said Harris, “that we really haven’t seen around homeless activism since the early ’90s’.”

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