One-of-a-kind plan for homeless is at a crossroads
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
PORTLAND, Ore. -- On a one-acre patch of asphalt near the airport, about 80 homeless people are living in shelters slapped together out of scavenged planks, plastic, sheetrock and cardboard. But this is no ordinary shantytown.
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