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Article: Las Vegas neon streets: more people call them home: Many indigent come here looking for work. But the city wants shelters moved out of the downtown area.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 2, 2001
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Byline: Cathy Scott Special to The Christian Science Monitor
LAS VEGAS -- They arrived pushing their shopping carts full of meager belongings. A spattering of homeless people, wearing tattered clothes, recently showed up here at City Hall to protest the demolition of a makeshift tent city.
The encampment on the edge of downtown was the closest thing many of them had to a home - and the only shield from the Tabasco temperatures of the desert.
Their crusade - though unsuccessful - points up a little-known distinction about the nation's fastest-growing city: It also has one of the nation's fastest-growing populations of homeless.
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