Like a backwards Third World hellhole, Los Angeles tried to obfuscate its medieval conditions before the Super Bowl. But the glamorous event could not hide the shell game the city was playing with its homeless population.

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FNC: Yolanda Gonzalez noticed a tent pop up in front of the neighborhood library across the street from her house just a few blocks from the Venice Beach boardwalk. Then another. And another.

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‘It started with one tent, and then, eventually, in less than three weeks, all of a sudden, all these tents went up,’ said Yolanda Gonzalez, who lives across the street from the library. The encampment particularly seemed to grow not long after a tent city in a park near the Los Angeles airport was cleared. All told, about 40 tents litter the area in front of the library.

‘How many tourists come through here, and right now with the game’s coming, people walk up our streets,’ Gonzalez continued. ‘What have we got to show for? This is embarrassing.’ ” HAAVEN Shared Housing founder Heidi Roberts calls “waterbed syndrome.”

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“Like, you press here and it bumps up over here, press here, it bumps up over here,” Roberts said. “So, it seems like they’re spending millions and millions of dollars just to shift people around to different neighborhoods when if they were smart about this, I mean, they could actually solve the problem.”

“The city has always done this,” said a six-year Venice Beach resident. “They moved homeless encampments last April for the Oscars, and so that’s really their approach. They just want to hide it. They don’t want tourists to see this coming in.”

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LA City Councilman Mike Bonin told press, “I am fighting every day for more housing, shelter and services to get people off the streets, here and elsewhere — and my efforts are consistently opposed by obstructionists who say they oppose encampments but try to block every alternative.

“In just the past few months, we have housed hundreds of people who were unhoused in Venice, and are on track to do much more —even as hundreds of more people are forced into homelessness in LA every day,” Bonin continued. “It is ironic that many of the people claiming encampments are moving from one neighborhood to another are the ones advocating for failed policies that do just that.”