A civil rights group has set up about two dozen tents along an east side Detroit street to provide shelter for the homeless and highlight poverty in the city.
The tents are part of the Detroit Southern Christian Leadership Conference Poor People's Campaign.
The organization's president, the Rev. Aaron McCarthy, says the tents will remain as long as possible and could be moved to other parts of the city.
McCarthy says the one-person tents have been up about four days and that the homeless in the area arrive at night to bed down out of the elements.
Donated socks were dropped off Monday.
The U.S. Census announced last week that Detroit's 2016 poverty rate had dropped to 35.7 percent, down from nearly 40 percent the year before.
