Across the country, tent cities are a controversial approach to helping the homeless. Preferred by some bureaucrats as a way of cleaning up the streets, and by some homeless people because they offer a sense of community as well as a sliver of permanence in an otherwise mobile lifestyle, they are often criticized for creating neighborhood eyesores, increasing fire danger and crime, and undermining other programs that aim to help the homeless find housing and jobs. Photographer Eirik Johnson saw something significant happening in tent cities of the Pacific Northwest, something he set out to explore by spending time with the residents, inside their ephemeral homes. Here are some of the stories he gathered from Seattle’s Tent City 3.
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