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In Fight to Help the Homeless, French Take to Tents
URL: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0111/p01s04-woeu.html

Description:
This January 2007 articles describes how the advocacy group "Children of Don Quixote" enlisted "well-fed, well-off Parisians to leave their salons and sleep in 300 bright red tents on the cobblestones with the homeless, in a show of solidarity," and how such actions will cause lawmakers to "debate a law that makes housing a legal right." Includes links to stories about tent cities in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. From The Christian Science Monitor.

Author:
Marquand, Robert

Publisher:
The Christian Science Monitor

Extra Keywords
Quixotes SDF sans domicile fixes

LII Database Information:
Record 23216 created by Maria Brandt on 01/22/2007
Last modification on 01/24/2007
Published: 01/24/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23216