High rent is forcing Las Vegas families to take to the sewers

Beneath the glitz and glamour of what is arguably the most expensive real estate in the world, beneath the playground of the high-rolling mega-rich gamblers who fly in for the weekend in their private jets, beneath the neon lights and polished marble of the casinos, beneath the city that never sleeps, is a world that is known to only the handful of America’s forgotten—its homeless.  
Despite being located in the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, because of its physical geography and being surrounded by mountains, is prone to occasional very heavy rainfall and flash flooding. To counter the effects of this flooding, there is a labyrinth of over three hundred miles of storm sewers beneath the streets of Sin City. And this underground maze has become home to hundreds of Nevada’s less fortunate—the dispossessed, the marginalized, the mentally-ill and those who have simply fallen on hard times. They are young and old, male and female, able-bodied and disabled. There are single people, there are couples, and there are entire families.
When the evening sun goes down, many of Las Vegas’ mole people will venture to the surface and mingle with those who have come to pay homage to the neon gods. They beg at street corners, panhandle, dumpster dive and scour the back alleys. And when the rest of Nevada’s denizens and Las Vegas’ day-trippers have called it a night, they return to their dank subterranean sanctuary.
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