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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html

The New York Times:

Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns.

What a miserable world we live in (link goes to the article).