America's homeless: The rise of Tent City, USA  May 16, 2014:
5:35 PM ET Watch a tent city get bulldozed  Homeless encampments
known as "tent cities" are popping up across the country.
Formed as an alternative to shelters and street-living, these
makeshift communities are often set up off of highways, under
bridges and in the woods. Some have "mayors" who determine the
rules of the camp and who can and can't join, others are a free-
for-all. Some are overflowing with trash, old food, human waste
and drug paraphernalia, others are relatively clean and drug-
free.  The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
documented media accounts of tent cities between 2008 and 2013,
and estimated that there are more than 100 tent communities in
the United States -- and it says the encampments are on the
rise.  "[T]here have been increasing reports of homeless
encampments emerging in communities across the country,
primarily in urban and suburban areas and spanning states as
diverse as Hawaii, Alaska, California, and C