The City of Salem Told Them They Deserved a Roof Instead of a Tent. Some Ended Up With Neither. - UNICORN RIOT

The City of Salem Told Them They Deserved a Roof Instead of a Tent. Some Ended Up With Neither. - UNICORN RIOT

Salem, MA — Two winters ago, Maria Nolasco moved into a sprawling homeless encampment in Salem, Massachusetts for seven months. Though there wasn’t much order or respect — and many didn’t like the small, 45-year-old Dominican woman — she liked her little tent.  “We called it houses because that was home,” Maria said. When she first arrived, there had been just a couple houses. She had watched Tent City, as locals coined it, grow into a community…