By Kevin JohnsonMayor of SacramentoIt’s become a tradition each Tuesday night at Sacramento City Council.The moment arrives for public comments on any and all topics. Representatives from Safe Ground step to the microphone and ask the city to change its anti-camping ordinance and allow homeless
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We have much to be thankful for today, Thanksgiving Day 2009.I’m thankful to be Mayor of a city whose residents have answered the call of service and given hundreds of thousands of hours to volunteerism. Our Service Initiative goal this year was 500,000 community hours. We are pushing past
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With pride and humility, I have reached agreement with Safe Ground, the group whose collective voice brought international attention to Sacramento’s homeless problem. In a City Hall meeting with 19 members and representatives of Safe Ground, I received assurances that the group’s homeless
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The City That Works for Everyone gets a real test when winter comes. If Sacramento can't provide emergency cold-weather shelter for our neediest citizens, we fail our community and ourselves. This winter, we will not fail. I am proud to announce a new program to open 269 temporary beds and motel
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Huge, positive steps were taken last night at the homeless encampment at 12th and C Streets in downtown Sacramento. I was there last night, meeting with about 15 homeless campers. I listened as they told me of their strong desire to have a legal place to camp in Sacramento. They listened as I
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When I was running for Mayor, my campaign slogan was “a city that works for everyone.” When I said “everyone”, I was including the least among us – the people we have a moral obligation to serve. 

A week ago I spent a portion of the night with members of the homeless population at “Safe Ground”
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On Thursday morning, the Today Show will revisit Sacramento's "Tent City," with another version of that broadcast scheduled to be on NBC Nightly News that evening. This is a continuation of the almost non-stop international media coverage that Sacramento's homelessness problem has received during
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You won't read about this in the Bee or see it on TV, but today I made a campaign stop that every citizen of Sacramento SHOULD have seen.It was a Voters Forum put on by the Volunteers of America/Sacramento, a shining star among the nonprofits of our community.  More than 100 newly registered
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Yesterday I had the chance to see the “Two Sacramentos.”In the morning, I walked through a homeless camp behind the Blue Diamond factory. Joined by firefighters, police, and homeless advocates, we saw firsthand a problem the city’s leaders are closing a blind eye to.In the afternoon, I sat down with
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