Under an overpass in Roseburg, Oregon, six-foot privacy fencing surrounds a cluster of tents. In some ways, it looks like an average homeless camp: wooden picnic tables, bikes, port-a-potties.

But this camp is different. It's cleaner than most. It has a shower, trash bins and a game table. There's even a library, which consists of a copy of Alcoholics Anonymous's The Big Book and The Hunger Games .

"We try to make it feel more like a family thing, like everybody's family," said a man who calls himself Bear. He's lived here for two years. "We live really close together. There are times where we do get on each other's nerves, but by the end of the day, we got each other's backs."

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This isn't the usual homeless camp, organized by a nonprofit or city, or pi

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