Tent City in Camden

Matt Katz, who recently referred to a minimal-services emergency homeless shelter in Camden, N.J., as a "slumber party," has filed a more respectful report about Camden's Tent City, located behind an interstate highway exit ramp:

In each tent, amid piles of donated blankets and cans of ethanol used for heat, there is a tale of heartbreak.

There's John Palumbo, 53, a Mount Laurel native with bipolar disorder who was asked, "How do you stay warm in winter?"

"You don't," he replied simply.

Before he got to Tent City, he spent his nights at the Walter Rand Transportation Center, standing up.