Welcome to the Jungle, the largest homeless camp in the Silicon Valley and continental United States

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The Jungle is the largest of many Silicon Valley homeless encampments, and the 65 acres bordering Coyote Creek in San Jose can be home to up to 175 people at a time.

It is the largest homeless encampment in the continental United States.

From kids to convicts to moms and dads and the mentally ill, The Jungle is a desperate mix of people out of whatever options they might have once had.

When Business Insider visited The Jungle over the course of a week in mid-July the city was getting ready to clear the homeless out again after they had just settled back in from a previous eviction.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1

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1. This is a really good article. The pictures are heartbreaking.

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2. I don't think it's right to evict homeless people

These are refugees in our own country, and we aren't even willing to give them a space to exist!

They should be offered opportunities to homestead abandoned property.