Rhode Island Tent City Closed down

[beatonthestreet]

A group of homeless people in Rhode Island are in search for a new place to live, after getting the boot from a "tent city" built on a vacant lot in the state capital.

The lot's owner gave them permission to camp on his land, but the tents have upset some neighbors.
The "tent city", located on Westminster Street, has been home to between 10 and 20 homeless people since Labor Day. People like Travis Garcia, an 18-year-old who lost his apartment after he got arrested last spring.
"We do our own thing, we stay to ourselves, we're trying to find jobs," Garcia said. "I'd rather be in a nice apartment, but it takes a while to get a nice apartment."
Garcia and the other residents of what they calls "Camp Provitents" used to live under a highway near downtown, but were kicked out by the state. That was when they were invited to live on the vacant lot owned by Mark Falugo, a former Marine with a compassionate streak.
"How can you drive by and see all these people with no place to go and nobody doing anything?" Falugo asked. "This land has been in my family and empty forever, so I thought I'd put it too good use."

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