Sacramento's 'Tent City' Is Coming Down
The modern-day Hooverville of about 200 people will be shut down by city officials within a month. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has committed to helping the residents find alternative shelter space. Today’s LA Times offers a glimpse into the life of tent city residents:
Jim Gibson heads to a neighboring tent, where two of his friends — an unemployed car salesman married to a onetime truck driver — are brewing coffee on a propane stove.
Gibson looks like anybody’s sunburned suburban dad, all jeans, polar fleece and sleepy eyes, his neatly trimmed hair covered by a ball cap.
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