The stories that Ms. Dillon is writing are a great step forward. Your posts are in the same camp.  They are making a difference.

Your interpretation of my idea re: HS students hits the nail well.  The current tent city's place-in-the-universe might be to house some homeless in Champaign (good and laudable), but its master-purpose might just be to create a bit of a ground swell of compassion/enlightenment in a local HS class . . . which might in a bit of time, help bring the sides to better understand each other.

At a minimum, the tent city will have served a purpose.  And that sounds like a victory that Ms. Dillon, you, and the current tent dwellers might be able to be proud of -- even if the current battle is not won.