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Written by uberplanner
530 days ago

All Comments - Readers' Recommendations http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?s=3 />
This is America in 2009. Shanty towns. 800,000 children homeless. Meanwhile, people making over $250,000 a year screaming bloody murder over miniscule tax increases. At least $100 billion a year (no one really knows) squirreled away to offshore bank accounts by millionaires who could easily afford to do the right thing.

— B. Mull, Irvine, CA

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Written by uberplanner
530 days ago

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/25/us/20090326-TENTS_index.html />
Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno and Sacramento are dealing with the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles. The illegal encampments of homeless people are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shanty towns. A group of tents along the American River near downtown Sacramento.

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Written by uberplanner
530 days ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26sacramento.html />
Residents of Sacramento’s Tent City to Move to Fairground:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Kevin Johnson said Wednesday that they would move the riverside encampment’s 125 residents — down from a peak of 200 — to the state‘s fairground until at least July. The move, according to the governor, will give the homeless a “dry shelter, reliable health care and warm meals.”

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