Scott Branesford

In Scott Bransford article “Camping for Their Live”, Bransford writes about a newlywed couple Marie and Francisco Caro and many other homeless people in California’s Central Valley. The Caros didn’t have enough money to put a down payment on a home therefore they became homeless. Bransford uses a concerned tone when writing about the homeless in California. Bransford has some strengths and some weaknesses in his article. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of tent cities and the people who live in them. Bransford is biased towards helping homeless people. Bransford has a concerned and sympathic tone in his article about the homeless people in California’s Central Valley. One of the tones that Bransford appears to have
Tent cities have been around for a very long time they were just called Hoovervilles. Bransford says that “Even tent city residents themselves feel trapped in circular trajectories of history, doomed to lives shaped by the threat of lawlessness and the ever-looming peril of relocation” (Bransford, 2014, p. 394). Residents in the tent cities feel like they are a part of history because of the Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. The Hooverilles were homeless camps that were a major deal during the depression in the 1930s; many people blamed President Herbert Hoover (Bransford, 2014, p. 394). That is how the Hooervilles got their name because of President Herbert Hoover. Bransford also talks about how people had to make squatter camps as a do or die alternative to the places that had rejected the homeless (Bransford, 2014, p. 394). In the end the homeless did get a safer place to live where it was affordable this place is known as Dignity Village. In the Dignity Village the residents were only required to do ten hours of community service a week (Bransford, 2014, p.397). There are some strengths and some weaknesses in Bransford’s