The Sacramento tent city was broken up in May 2010, but that doesn't mean the homeless are gone, of course. Here's a group that's working on permanent housing. The big freeze is further east, though.

One tent city that's in the news (via Google) with the current chilly weather is the one housing "surplus" inmates in the Maricopa County jail, in Phoenix, Arizona (my current home state -- sigh.). They gave them extra blankets, apparently.

In some cases, tent cities have been set up to provide better-than-nothing housing for homeless people by advocate groups or churches. It's not popular with the neighbors, of course.

People would always prefer poverty to be invisible.

~ Becky in Long Beach