Thanks so much for letting us know about this issue--I had never heard of the tent communities before now.  It angers me too when people who are clearly so interested in complaining are clearly so uninterested in coming up with a better way.  

I sympathize with some of the residents' complaints--if things were being stolen from my property, or I was being kept up every night by loud, illegal activities, I'd be pissed, too.  I'd like to think, though, that I'd try to figure out who was really at fault before I'd sling mud.  Sounds to me like these people hate the lawless and disruptive activities that homelessness CAN breed just as much as everyone else does.  

I'd be interested to know how Jesse came to his decision to be willfully homeless...the gazette glosses over that.  I think those stories can be the most inspiring and uniting ones.

Thanks again.