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TENDERLOIN NATIONAL FOREST: “It’s late afternoon in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood –- one of America’s densest urban areas—and a homeless man is sitting in the shade of a redwood tree. Out on the sidewalk, just one hundred feet away, people yell, smoke and shoot up in broad daylight, but in this narrow alley where the redwood grows, the scene is calm and green. This is the Tenderloin National Forest. Tucked in the heart of a neighborhood long viewed as a hopeless refuge of the homeless, drug addled and destitute, its transformation over the past two decades has become a groundbreaking experiment in community-based reclamation of public space.” http://americancity.org/buzz/entry/3123/

TENDERLOIN NATIONAL FOREST:

“It’s late afternoon in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood –- one of America’s densest urban areas—and a homeless man is sitting in the shade of a redwood tree. Out on the sidewalk, just one hundred feet away, people yell, smoke and shoot up in broad daylight, but in this narrow alley where the redwood grows, the scene is calm and green.


This is the Tenderloin National Forest. Tucked in the heart of a neighborhood long viewed as a hopeless refuge of the homeless, drug addled and destitute, its transformation over the past two decades has become a groundbreaking experiment in community-based reclamation of public space.”

http://americancity.org/buzz/entry/3123/

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Source: americancity.org
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