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Old 10-25-2008, 04:11 PM
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Took the family down to Mexicantown the other week-end and drove past the old Train Depot off of Michigan and noticed a few tents [around 20] in the grassy expanse near the depot.

The question is, has that been going on for awhile now? I've known it to be a hangout for the homeless but never seen tents situated there. Since the economy is getting bad, are the beaucrats letting "squatting" slide?

Anybody know anything about this?
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That's "Hoover's Army". They've been there since the late 20's. We're waiting for Black Jack Pershing to kick them out.
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Took the family down to Mexicantown the other week-end and drove past the old Train Depot off of Michigan and noticed a few tents [around 20] in the grassy expanse near the depot.

The question is, has that been going on for awhile now? I've known it to be a hangout for the homeless but never seen tents situated there. Since the economy is getting bad, are the beaucrats letting "squatting" slide?

Anybody know anything about this?
It has gone on for a while but with the worsening economy and foreclosures the number of homeless throughtout the city has gone up.
Roosevelt park is filled with homeless. I started seeing tents there a while ago.
I don`t know if they are letting squatting slide but they don`t seem to be doing much about it.
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It has gone on for a while but with the worsening economy and foreclosures the number of homeless throughtout the city has gone up.
Roosevelt park is filled with homeless. I started seeing tents there a while ago.
I don`t know if they are letting squatting slide but they don`t seem to be doing much about it.
I am going to be traveling to Detroit over the summer for research and I am interested in photographing any "tent cities" there. Can you recommend some locations for me to visit? Is the one that you mentioned in your post in May 2008 still around?
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I would just move into a abandon house that is not yet ready to collapse instead of living in a tent. Heck most of them have running water.
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