Schwarzenegger Opens California Fairgrounds to Homeless Camp

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said a make-shift tent city for the homeless that sprang up in the capital city of Sacramento will be shut down and its residents allowed to stay at the state fairgrounds.

Schwarzenegger said he ordered the state facility known as Cal-Expo to be used for three months to serve the 125 tent city residents, some of them displaced by the economic recession. The encampment may be shut down within a month, said Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. The move comes after the Sacramento City Council last night agreed to spend $880,000 to expand homeless programs.

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3 comments on “Schwarzenegger Opens California Fairgrounds to Homeless Camp

  1. Cennydd says:

    Good move, Arnie!

  2. Jeffersonian says:

    How much better off these people would be if the California legislature was shut down instead.

  3. Cennydd says:

    You’ve got a point, there…….and a lot of us in this state would agree with you!