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Friday, March 20, 2009

A sign of the times: tent-dwellers in Sacramento to be 'relocated'

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Homeless Campers to Be Moved out of Sacramento's Tent City
by Cynthia Hubert

Published on Friday, March 20, 2009 by the Sacramento Bee

Homeless campers who live inside Sacramento's tent city will be asked to move to shelters and other indoor structures, officials said Thursday.

Responding to growing concern and criticism about the burgeoning homeless encampment north of downtown, Mayor Kevin Johnson announced a plan to move as many as 150 campers to "safer, more sanitary" grounds.

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