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Tent City for Homeless Proposed in New Orleans

By AAN Staff
july 25, 2002  04:18 pm
Tent City for Homeless Proposed in New Orleans
A New Orleans police captain tells Gambit Weekly's Katy Reckdahl that tent shelters would be a temporary solution to the problems of New Orleans' homeless. The city's homeless need something, say advocates, but not this, and street people are wary of the latest clean-up in the French Quarter. "Lately, seems like police have increased hatefulness toward us," a homeless man tells Reckdahl. "Sometimes I wonder if they're being told, 'It's us against the homeless.'"
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