Sacramento County Local News: Homelessness


All Local Homelessness News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

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12/07/2023
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Adding to Sacramento’s tiny home community, one home at a time, is the latest flagship program of Oak Park’s Community Shop Class.

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12/06/2023
Aptly named the PAWS Clinic (Pet Aid and Wellness Services), the first-of-its-kind mobile veterinary clinic focuses on caring for pets owned by homeless residents.

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12/06/2023
Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho is adding environmental violations to his lawsuit against the city of Sacramento over what he calls its failure to act regarding the homelessness crisis.

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12/05/2023
Shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to deliver 350 tiny homes to Sacramento, local officials said the Cal Expo fairgrounds should house some of the cabin-sized shelters.

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12/03/2023
San Diego-area nonprofits and faith organizations struggle to provide for tens of thousands of migrants border agents have released on San Diego streets.

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11/29/2023
Officials say they’ll consider applying for some of the $300 million in homeless encampment funds made available this week by Governor Gavin Newsom. But the program by itself won’t pay cities and counties to remove the vast tent communities that line streets and sidewalks across California.

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11/09/2023
Berkeley public works staff and police officers began closing the longstanding encampment along Seventh and Eighth streets in an “imminent health hazard and emergency abatement,” which was ordered to tackle safety concerns.

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11/08/2023
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a safe parking program in North Highlands. Once it opens, county staff said up to 30 people at a time will be able to park at the site on Watt Avenue, with access to showers, restrooms and at least two meals a day.

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11/05/2023
Sacramento’s X Street homeless shelter opened two years ago this fall, serving the W-X corridor south of downtown, home to one of the city’s largest concentrations of illegal encampments. But while the shelter is making progress, it’s fallen short of its housing targets.

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11/05/2023
California’s population of homeless veterans has plateaued despite billions of dollars in state spending to create housing for former service members. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to shift resources to focus on veterans with serious mental health conditions.

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10/22/2023
The city of Sacramento has filed a motion asking the Sacramento County Superior Court to rule that a lawsuit filed by the district attorney is invalid and cannot proceed, according to a statement by the city.

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10/18/2023
Tiny homes are increasingly California cities’ shelter option of choice — but how far they go in solving homelessness is a contentious question.

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10/05/2023
Ten months after the city and county of Sacramento approved a homeless services partnership agreement, officials said they fulfilled one of its commitments: opening a new behavioral health center in the central city.

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09/25/2023
Homeless members of the community, among whom Black Sacramentans are disproportionately represented, face daunting barriers to escaping life on the streets.

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09/25/2023
A piano sits in the middle of a room lined with posters welcoming visitors of the Creation District in Midtown.

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09/06/2023
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Erin Johansen, whose nonprofit group has served Sacramento’s unhoused for over 40 years, discusses the most promising solutions to the housing crisis.

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09/06/2023
The planned relocation of the Elk Grove Library to another Old Town-Historic Downtown Elk Grove location has been halted. Instead, the City Council will select an independent nonprofit to operate the facility as a winter homeless shelter.

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08/25/2023
After suing to get permission to enter Miller Park Safeground, the Sacramento Homeless Union says it found “health and safety concerns” at the site for the unhoused people placed there by the city.

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08/24/2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to overhaul how California counties pay for behavioral health care is one step closer to going before voters in March—over heavy opposition from patient advocates, service providers and local government officials.