BBC One tonight: Poor America

Graham_Devon

Looks interesting. Just a heads up really.

Focuses on the tent cities cropping up around America.

Just off the side of a motorway on the fringes of the picturesque town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a mismatched collection of 30 tents tucked in the woods has become home - home to those who are either unemployed, or whose wages are so low that they can no longer afford to pay rent.

Conditions are unhygienic. There are no toilets and electricity is only available in the one communal tent where the campers huddle around a wood stove for warmth in the heart of winter.
Ice weighs down the roofs of tents, and rain regularly drips onto the sleeping campers' faces.

Tent cities have sprung up in and around at least 55 American cities - they represent the bleak reality of America's poverty crisis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9694000/9694094.stm

purch

Ann Arbor Michigan is the location of the biggest house in America !!!

114,804 managed to fit into "the Big House" back in September :eek:

http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/michigan-stadium.html

mcfisco

Focuses on the tent cities cropping up around America.

Welcome to the civilised [or should that be civilized?] world

mcfisco

Ann Arbor Michigan is the location of the biggest house in America !!!

pffffff..... Indianapolis Speedway is good for 1/4 Million

Road_Hog

Well, Ann Arbor is close to Dearborn and Detroit, two of the biggest !!!!!! holes in America, so it's to be expected.

ILW

USA was built on self sufficiency and survival of the fittest. Many there see it as a good thing.

A._Badger

Great: neo-Marxist broadcasting organisation delivers (yet another) sanctimonious verdict on its most favoured hate object.

I can hardly wait.

tescobabe69

If only they could afford a ticket to UK

ruggedtoast

Britain had a terrible homeless problem until not that long ago. Many of the organisations that tackled it have had their budgets wiped out by the tories, it'll happen again in the UK too.

ILW

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Britain had a terrible homeless problem until not that long ago. Many of the organisations that tackled it have had their budgets wiped out by the tories, it'll happen again in the UK too.

Now we are happy to pay £2000 per week rent for non working families to live in high end properties. Just as daft if you ask me.

mcfisco

Great: neo-Marxist broadcasting organisation delivers (yet another) sanctimonious verdict on its most favoured hate object.

Your contributions for it's upkeep are much appreciated, thanks