On September 11, 2002, the city of New Haven, facing absurd budgets from Washington and Hartford, closed its Homeless Overflow Shelter on the grounds that the weather didn't get too cold until December. To protest the city government's priorities, raise the visibility the homelessness crisis, and provide a safe and central community for newly displaced homeless, a coalition of homeless, students, and community members built a tent city on the New Haven Green, situated with Yale University towering on the on side and City Hall on the other. Looks like a similar tent city is coming to Denver.