Riiiight. And no one is sleeping on the street or beneath overpasses or in tents in the middle of cities.
(Excerpt) Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a "tent city" — an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go. (End)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26776283/ns/us_news-life/t/hard-times-tent-cities-rise-across-country/
(Excerpt) SACRAMENTO, CA (KGO) -- It is the sad reality of a California city hit hard by foreclosures and huge job losses. In the shadow of downtown Sacramento, tent cities have sprung up, housing as many as 1,200 people. (End)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=6702913
(Excerpt) Tammy Day, who has recently become homeless, sits outside of her tent at a homeless tent city on March 5, 2009 in Sacramento, California. Sacramento's tent city is seeing an increase in population as the economy worsens with more people becoming unemployed and having their homes slip into foreclosure. (End)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/03/06/Tent_City.DTL#ixzz1Thuj9x7j
I wonder what Tammy had for dinner the day that photo was taken.