Tent city in Portland?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I saw this thread on the tent city in Ontario, California, and I was reminded of the tent city that existed in Portland for a while. I think it was still around when I left in 2003.

Does anyone know what happened to it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3016399

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Still exists

but it moved from downtown to the Sunderland neighborhood of north Portland, where it currently resides in a vacant lot the city once used for recycling leaves and yard debris.

I almost wish that it was still in downtown, within the view of thousands of conspicuously consuming Portlanders, a harbinger of the hard times that face us all unless we can get this country back on track.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Really, I thought I recalled it being out on Sandy Blvd. somewhere

:shrug:

[Uncle Sinister]

3. The name is Dignity Village, it's alive and well...

thought they've changed quite a bit the last few years. Dignity Village is now a semi-permanent, semi-official encampment. They lease their land and utilities from the city, on unused landfill, between the airport and the golf courses in NE Portland.

Dignity Village website:
http://www.dignityvillage.org

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_Village

Pictures:
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/dignity_village/

I think it's entirely possible that their semi-nomadic, resource-effecient lifestyle is the wave of the future.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Glad to hear it!

:-)