Jonathan Gomez arranges his mattress and lights a brazier to fend off the cold on a street in the Argentine capital, where homelessness has doubled in a year while more than half of the country's population is poor. Two cans and a lighter are his makeshift kitchen; a cart is all he owns. "The issue now with the homeless law they've put in place, is that they (the police, ed.) come and take your things. Sometimes they take your mattresses, your blankets; you end up in a really bad spot," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES