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and research to further define and examine the
safety challenges within these environments.
" In the United States, there's no national building
code, and there's no federal agency responsible for
regulation, " said Danielle Antonellis, founder of Kindling,
a nonprofit dedicated to addressing fire safety
inequality around the world. " Municipalities may
not have sufficient capacity, resources, or even the
power necessarily to do everything that they want
to do. They're in a very difficult situation. "
NO EASY WAY
For many Americans, the prospect of homelessness is
as close as the next paycheck-or the absence of one.
By some estimates, more than 19 million households
in the country, or nearly a third of all renters, spend
more than half of their monthly income on housing.
That disproportionate slice is an important factor in
what is referred to as " housing insecurity, " where a
person or family's living situation is tentative. When
housing insecurity meets additional complicating
factors-including chronic unemployment, insecure
immigration status, disabilities, mental illness, and
addiction-the slide into homelessness can accelerate
from gradual to sudden. Homelessness can be a brief
stretch of couch-surfing with friends and relatives, or
it can be a prolonged series of squats in abandoned
buildings. It can mean seeking refuge in shelters and
other facilities designed to address the needs of the
homeless, or it can mean foregoing those resources
and taking up residence in a loosely organized tent
city, one that offers a promise of community alongside
crime, violence, and a host of other hazards.
It is these impromptu encampments that
generate many of the problems, including fire,
that put people at risk and, in many cities, claim
an increasing share of responder resources. What
to do about these communities depends on whom
you ask. In October, for example, city officials in
Tacoma, Washington, voted to enact a ban on any
homeless encampment located within a 10-block
radius of a homeless shelter. The ban, proponents
said, would help to stem homeless-related fires and
A woman stands amid
the remains of her
and her boyfriend's
possessions that
were thought to have
been intentionally
burned at a homeless
encampment in
downtown Los
Angeles in August.
The use of fire as
a weapon in such
environments is just
one factor in the
growing problem
of fire involving
homeless populations
around the world.
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