Sacramento County Homelessness Articles

The Sacramento County Departments of Homeless Services and Housing, and Health Services, presented their biannual report to the Board of Supervisors this week, detailing outreach and engagement efforts to the unhoused population in unincorporated Sacramento County and along the American …

This past week, I had the opportunity to walk alongside Folsom’s Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and witness firsthand the tireless and often thankless work they do to address the city’s homeless encampments. What I saw was not just law enforcement—it …

The curtain rose on the much anticipated feature film No Address Thursday night with a special invitational red carpet premiere in nearby Placer County. The event welcomed community leaders, dignitaries and members of the local media from Sacramento and Placer …

City’s ongoing efforts to tackle homelessness and clean-up ecampments is becoming a community wide success

On January 26th, Sacramento County celebrated the groundbreaking of the Watt Avenue Safe Stay Community Campus, an innovative project designed to address homelessness by tackling its root causes—not just the symptoms. This comprehensive approach represents a meaningful step toward long-term …

Sacramento County and its partners have officially broken ground on a large-scale campus that can serve the unhoused population with diverse offerings to help people in various stages of homelessness.

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Local residents can spread holiday cheer to Sacramento women and children who have experienced homelessness by contributing to Women’s Empowerment’s annual Holiday Drive.

Women’s Empowerment has received a $60,000 contribution from U.S. Bank to provide Sacramento women experiencing homelessness with job-readiness programs, paid job training and transitional workforce housing so they can secure employment with upward mobility as they work toward affording permanent …

The Board of Supervisors took a new step toward addressing safety with the adoption of an ordinance amendment curbing unlawful camping on public property during their regular meeting on Tuesday.

Sacramento County has long envisioned a large-scale project that can serve the unhoused population with diverse offerings to help people in various stages of homelessness.

Women’s Empowerment has received a grant of $50,000 from the Yocha Dehe Community Fund to provide transitional workforce housing for Sacramento women experiencing homelessness with their families.

At its Oct. 22 meeting, the Board approved up to $1,137,788 in funding to complete construction on Joshua’s House, a facility that provides end-of-life comfort care for homeless individuals with terminal illnesses, after being discharged from an acute care hospital. …

The Sacramento County Board of Sipervisors approved, at its Oct. 22nd meeting, up to $1,137,788 in funding to complete construction on Joshua House, a facility that provides end-of-life comfort care for homeless individuals with terminal illnesses, after being discharged from …

By Russell Nichols As California continues to face an epic homelessness crisis, Sacramento County has a sliver of good news: The number of people experiencing...

By Jacob Peterson Of the many issues voters are concerned about going into the November runoff election for Sacramento mayor, the topic of how to...

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors approved, at its Sept. 10 meeting, the staff recommendation to spend $19.4 million on two new, innovative projects designed to shelter and house people exiting homelessness directly off the American River Parkway. Original article …

The Rancho Cordova City Council unanimously approved a new camping ordinance on Sept. 16, aimed at updating the city’s approach to managing illegal camping in public spaces. Original article published at Rancho Cordova Independent

​​​​​​The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors approved, at its Sept. 10 meeting, the staff recommendation to spend $19.4 million on two new, innovative projects designed to shelter and house people exiting homelessness directly off the American River Parkway.

On Saturday Assemblyman Josh Hoover of Folsom announced the passage of Assembly Bill 2903 out of the Legislature, which would require state-run homelessness programs to annually report cost and outcome data to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH). It …