Portland’s Old Chinatown district, dotted with bars and nightclubs and full of alcohol-fueled revelry and accompanying police sirens on any given night, is an unlikely place to find a good night’s sleep. But just steps from the large, ornamental Chinese arch distinguishing the district, a small community of activists has established a place for people to bed down for the night.
Right 2 Dream Too is a tent city, plain and simple. Set up in 2011 on a small parking lot bracketed by office buildings, pretty much every structure on the site is made out of plastic tarps, held up by a haphazard assortment of wood and metal poles. At the back of the lot there are tents—about 20 of them, a patchwork of nylon in different colors and sizes, many draped in multiple layers of tarp to keep out the relentless Portland rain.
[For more of this story, written by Georgia Perry, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...-2-dream-too/383246/]
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