Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis

A U.S. flag flies at 'tent city', a terminus for the homeless in Ontario, a suburb outside Los Angeles, California December 19, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

"Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California."

America, Land of 371 Billionaires and 3.5 Million Homeless

"In the United States of America, the greatest country in the world, as many as three and a half million people experience homelessness in a given year (1% of the entire US population or 10% of its poor) and of that, 1.37 million (or 39%) are children under the age of 18."