From drug addicts to families, people are living at their lowest point – on the streets
I have been without a home before but that was because my wife kicked me out of the house for a night. (We were young) But on a serious note, I cannot imagine being homeless and without an address.
I moved up from Las Vegas to Reno in the fall of 1996. My wife and I were professional dancers in the City of Sin and decided to relocate to the cooler climate of Northern Nevada.
In all this time, the Reno/Sparks area I knew was always clean (as clean as any city can be) and homeless people were there but isolated in out-of-the-way places and not so much in our faces.
Those days are gone!
Homeless people with makeshift tents and their trash lining the Truckee River in Reno, NVPhoto byTrevor Bexon
Makeshift tents are popping up everywhere, making our byways and highways – parks and recreational areas – streets and parking lots filthy, unsafe, and an eyesore to look at.
My first thought when seeing this onslaught of tents in all the wrong places was these encampments, big or small, all appear dirty.