Sacramento County Local News: Homelessness

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

Homelessness Community Service & Support

Gallery: Oak Park’s Community Shop Class Program Teaches Interns to Build Tiny Homes

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Health Homelessness Animals

Sacramento County Launches Mobile Clinic for Pets of Unhoused Residents

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Environment Homelessness Crime & Justice

Sacramento DA Adds to Lawsuit Against City Over Homelessness Response

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Homelessness Housing

Tiny Homes for Unhoused Residents Likely Won’t be Placed at Cal Expo

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.

From CalMatters...

Families & Children Homelessness Community Service & Support Government

Border Patrol Dumped 42,000 migrants on San Diego Streets. The County Needs Help to Help Them

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Homelessness

Sacramento Region Eyes New Round of Homeless Encampment Funds

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.

From The Mercury News...

Homelessness Government

Crews Begin Clearing Berkeley Encampment That Advocates Tried to Save

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Homelessness Crisis & Personal Support

Sacramento County Approves Homeless Safe Parking Program in North Highlands

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Homelessness

Finding Housing for X Street Shelter Denizens Is a Big Challenge

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.

From CalMatters...

Business, Economy & Jobs Health Homelessness Elections & Politics Crisis & Personal Support Government

Newsom Taking New Approach to California’s 10,000 Homeless Veterans

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.

From The Sacramento Observer...

Homelessness County of Sacramento

Sac Claps Back at District Attorney

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.

From CalMatters...

Homelessness Housing Community Service & Support Government

Tiny Homes for the Homeless—Do They Help Solve the Problem?

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.

From CapPublicRadio...

Homelessness County of San Joaquin

Sacramento County Opens Mental Health Center Required by City Homeless Agreement

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.

From The Sacramento Observer...

Homelessness

Unsheltered in Place

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

From CapPublicRadio...

Art & Culture Homelessness

Sacramento’s Creation District Uplifts Black, Brown and Queer Unhoused Youth

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

From Sacramento News and Review...

Homelessness City of Sacramento

A Story Untold: How Officials, an Outside Group and Dozens of Workers Losing Their Jobs Staved Off ‘A Human Catastrophe’ in Sacramento

09/21/2023
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Sacramento Self-Help Housing imploded, but a cadre of individuals was determined that no one would become homeless over it.

From Sacramento News and Review...

Homelessness Community Service & Support Hope Cooperative

Hope Cooperative CEO Erin Johansen on Partnerships to Address Homelessness, From City and County Agreements to Nonprofit Collaborations

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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Homelessness City of Elk Grove

Elk Grove Homeless Shelter Operator to be Selected by City Council

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.

From Davis Vanguard...

Homelessness

Sacramento Homeless Union Surveys Miller Park

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.

From The Sacramento Bee...

Health Homelessness Crisis & Personal Support

Newsom Pushes Mental Health Care Changes Over Advocate Concerns

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.