Profile: Rin Kelly

for a very long time and aren't "springing up"--it's irresponsible to suggest so. I haven't yet listened to the audio presentations, but the text here is not "telling stories that are true." I've been in Fresno's homeless encampments twice in the last month talking to people and working on a photojournalism project of my own -- a response to the misleading "new Hoovervile" meme that Oprah kicked off with Sacramento's "tent city" -- and talked to people who've been living there for years and years. There are more people showing up there than there were previously, but, as with Sacramento's American River Parkway encampment, the large majority of residents are chronically homeless.