Archive - Nov 22, 2007

Dignity Village, in Portland, Oregon , is the only government-sanctioned tent city in the United States. Tent cities have also cropped up in St. Petersburg, Florida, Seattle and Olympia, Washington as well many other American cities. Encampments on public property usually get shut down pretty quickly. Others, like the one in King County, Washington, have lasted for years by getting permission to stay on church-owned land.

Dignity Village, in Portland, Oregon, is the only government-sanctioned tent city in the United States. Tent cities have also cropped up in St. Petersburg, Florida, Seattle and Olympia, Washington as well many other American cities. Encampments on public property usually get shut down pretty quickly. Others, like the one in King County, Washington, have lasted for years by getting permission to stay on church-owned land.