One successful example of these villages is a 14-year-old tent city turned into a semi-permanent housing community on the outskirts of Portland that goes by the name of Dignity Village. Mitch Grubic is one of roughly forty-three of the citizens that lives in Dignity Village. Before Grubic was homeless, his dad died and Grubic was left with the remainders of his father’s house. Grubic decided that he would remodel it and sell it, which he then used that money to buy himself his own home. After he bought himself his own home, a recession hit and Grubic lost his job. He had to let go of everything he worked for and was left out on the street with no place to call his own. He then sold what he could from his belongings and found himself driving
