People have been living in tents near the downtown riverfront for some time now. However, the community known as Hopeville is relatively new.  The site was established in May 2010 when a group of homeless men and women were evicted from a railroad tunnel near the St. Louis Post Dispatch building on Tucker to make way for a new construction project.

This website is sponsored by INSIDE DHARMA, a Buddhist outreach program.  Photographs by Robert Boettcher.