page_title: Tent city
section_title: California
hierarchical_section_title: Tent city / People Experiencing Homelessness / United States / California
caption_attribution_description: English: A homeless camp In Oakland, CA, near Laney College campus.
context_page_description: A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures.
  State governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house evacuees, refugees, or soldiers. UNICEF's Supply Division supplies expandable tents for millions of displaced people.
  Informal tent cities may be set up without authorization by homeless people or protesters.
  Tent cities set up by homeless people may be similar to shanty towns, which are informal settlements in which the buildings are made from scrap building materials.
context_section_description: The BBC did a news story, which talked about how the causes of the crisis in the U.S. economy has forced many people, who used to own their own homes, to now live in tents.
  AlterNet published a story in 2009 about the mainstream media finally "discovering" the homeless situation in Sacramento.
caption: A homeless camp in Oakland, California, near Laney College campus.
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