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The following is a photojournal including photos and observations from the removal of Tent City on April 16 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. :

Around 100 inmates on 5 busses were transported from Sacramento County Sheriff's Work Project to help clean up Tent City.

Some helpers piled remaining large objects that were left behind from Tent City dwellers who had already left. Smaller items were put into trash bags.

Foreground: large bulldozers with pinching claws attached transported the aforementioned piles onto dump trucks. Background: a cargo train passes by.

Foreground: a police officer in a city truck picked up some items of value which were supposedly taken into storage. Background: items remaining to be transported cover the ground.

Once a larger community, these residents are all that are left. Smaller tented communities were prevalent in other nearby areas. (*Note the circular item on the antenna is a sunspot, due to shooting the photo in the sun's direction)

Foreground: one of many similar, personal, makeshift rickshaws used by Tent City dwellers to transport valuable belongings to nearby campsites or elsewhere. Background: bulldozer.

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Kathleen Haley

April 16, 2009 | 11:16 PM

Good work!

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Brian McDonald

April 17, 2009 | 10:57 AM

Excellent photos & article. What's really sad is there's NOWHERE for homeless people to go. Either victims of a failed economy, lazy, on drugs, mentally ill or combination of all four. I've seen some Sacramento Homeless living exposed to the weather, elements, extreme cold in winter, rain, being mugged or harassed, even abused by everyday middle class.

I'm not saying it's pleasant having a smelly bum on your street, but they are human beings and what i think the least the city could do is open up a huge warehouse somewhere maybe on North C st by Goldies or Friendship park and let people have a place to sleep with a roof on their heads and showers.

So much money is wasted on parks, golf courses, city projects for the elite and countless homeless are swept under the rug or told to pick up and move on with nowhere to go.

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Patrick J.

April 17, 2009 | 11:00 AM

Just saw three different guys pushing shopping carts around my place at 27th and T within a 10 min period. The homeless will be all over the central city again. I thought Johnson had a plan for these people to go somewhere, guess not.

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BrantleyPayne

April 17, 2009 | 12:14 PM

Thank goodness Tent City can return to its proper name "Dirt and Weed City."

Seems kind of silly that we're in such a hurry to get this land back to the ugly/empty/useless space it was before.

Nice.

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Dale Kooyman

April 18, 2009 | 1:13 PM

Brantlley, So you feel the the mounds and dumpsters of unhealthy trash, litter, garbage and human waste are preferable to nature's open spaces? Such spaces in the wild usually have patches of open soil (you consider that dirt?) and plants (you consider those weeds?). I doubt many naturalists who used to go into the area would agree with you.

I know several people who used to wander through the area, enjoying seeing the wilds and a photographer who took some beautiful photos of blooming spring flowers pre-camping days. In a city this size there are few areas truly in their wild state as this area is or was..

But then "beauty is in the eye of the beholder "and one person's garbage is another person's treasure.

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William Burg

April 17, 2009 | 12:41 PM

Johnson's plan includes permanent housing for 40 people, an extra 50 shelter beds at the winter shelter, and the winter shelter will be open until mid-summer. Which means that an extra 90 of the roughly 1200 people sleeping outside will be housed, at least until the end of June, when the winter shelter closes.

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Brian McDonald

April 17, 2009 | 3:25 PM

At least the homeless lady who permanently sleeps and sits on the lawn of someone's home on 25th st south of K st downtown won't be affected. Everytime i go by there, she's there.

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China Meier

April 18, 2009 | 1:13 PM

I agree that we could do more for our homeless and cannot understand if we don't provide them with shelter that we at least let them live on land that no one uses or cares about.

I disagree with the gentleman, however, who wrote that we waste our money on parks and "other city projects"... I am not sure what he means by the latter but our parks are a very important part of the quality of life in Sacramento. As a mother of two grown boys, I spent countless hours at many of our parks here in Sac. and had the privilege of getting to know all kind of people and their children from all kinds of socio-ecconomic backgrounds. And then there were the latch-key kids who would come to the park hungry and unwashed. We always brought extra snacks to share with them and I attempted to get to know the ones we saw regularly. One brother and sister were being abused by their father and I helped them get help.

There are so many ways to help those who are worse off than ourselves.

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Dale Kooyman

edited on April 18, 2009 | 9:46 PM

China, what makes you think no one cares about that land? I know folks who live on C&D Streets and their guests and children who used to walk through all of that area. enjoying the wild growth of vegetation and spring flowers, seeing birds fly out from hiding places and the rabbits and squirrels scurry. Raccoons and opossums also live nearby and used to wander through for food.

I've seen the photos of beautiful blooming spring flowers with droplets of dew on the blossoms taken by a nature photographer in pre-camping days. He and his wife are very caring gentle peaceful people. But they said that they said they had to stop going there because of threats by the homeless. He also said much of that vegetation that he used to photograph has now been destroyed.

In a city this size there are few areas truly in their wild state as this area is or was. This too is very important to the city and is a place where kids can learn about nature in the wild.

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bubby

April 30, 2009 | 8:17 AM

are you people for real? we're facing an epic catastrophe. the great depression was bad, yes. but what was the world population at the time? it wasn't such a stressful situation for the planet back then. But now there are roughly 6 billion people here. over crowded conditions lead to decreased immunity. obviously the message isn't getting out fast enough or we wouldn't have things like swine and bird flu. these outbreaks are a direct result of our cheap meat eating habits. intensive animal farming leads to diseased animals, then the virus has the opportunity to mutate.
we humans in our cities are also being intensively 'farmed'. we are stressed from the economic crisis and from watching nothing but doom and gloom news.

lets all take responsibility. make every effort to save every drop of water, fuel and food. share with your neighbors, with strangers. open your homes and hearts. stop using plastics and non-essential petro-products. save the planet, save your conscious.

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