It’s a sweltering summer afternoon, and the children are hot and miserable in the tent that’s been their home since they lost their house last month.
“You feel about as small as you can as a man, trying to take care of your family and watching your children have to go through something like this,” said Troy Renault, 39, a homebuilder and father of five boys who lost his job, then his home, when the recession hit the construction industry.
Home these days is a cluster of tents covered by a blue tarp in a back corner of the Timberline Campground in Lebanon. Surrounding them are the tents, campers and recreational vehicles of other families in similar straits, living full time in campgrounds because they can no longer afford to live anywhere else.
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