hkhuntingblog:

These photos from @HKhuntingblog are from the Great Depression, where homeless people were living in shacks in Central Park.

A roof over their heads and public visibility at the centre of the city? It strikes me that this may have offered somewhat more dignity than homeless people are today able to find in America, where Occupy Wall Street may be helping but only under constant threat of being moved on exactly for daring to engage with these modern-day untouchables…