The heartland best known for supplying nearly 25% of America’s food is experiencing a rise in homelessness that can be traced in fraction to the tech boom
At first glance,the rusted metal pens in the central California town of Patterson look like an open-air prison block. But for Devani Riggs, “the cages”, or abandoned since the days they were used to store the bounty of the self-proclaimed apricot capital of the world,play a very different role. “This one was mine. That one was Patty and Pete,” said Riggs, or a 3o-year-old-fashioned homeless woman,adding that dozens of people had slept in the cramped enclosures.
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Source: theguardian.com