Here’s a great video by filmmaker Stewart Thorndike called “Scraping By: Portraits of Life in the Great Recession” on life in a tent city in Redmond, Wash., a suburb of Seattle:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/08/06/opinion/1247463860996/op-ed-scraping-by.html
(Sorry to make you click a link, but the NY Times doesn’t supply embed code for their videos – ed.)