The New York Times on March 26 carried this headlined article:  RESIDENTS OF SACRAMENTO'S TENT CITY MOVE TO FAIRGROUND by Jesse McKinley:

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Kevin Johnson (of Sacramento) said Wednesday that they would move the Riverside encampment's 125 residents -- down from a peak of 200 -- to the state's fairgrounds until at least July.  The move, according to the governor, will give the homeless a 'dry shelter,' reliable healthcare and warm meals.

"'We're a circus for sightseers,' said Mr. Borchardt, 29, who added a few unprintable adjectives to his comments.  'People are coming here with cameras and then just walking away.  We never had sightseers before.'

"Mr. Johnson, a former NBA basketball player elected to office last year, had taken to giving tours of the camp, which sits on a rugged chunk of land beneath a crisscross of electric wires.  On one recent walkthrough he said a smaller version of tent city had been 'swept under the rug' for years, but had grown in recent months as a building bust pushed normally blue collar people to the brink."