Sacramento County Homelessness Digest

Despite a decrease of 15% compared to the last count in 2022, the number of homeless veterans in Sacramento County remains high.

In their November 5 meeting, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to and ordinance, allowing sheriff's deputies and park rangers to clear homeless camps without first offering a shelter bed.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is considering policy changes to allow sheriff deputies and park rangers to clear homeless encampments without first securing shelter beds.

Multiple state agencies spent nearly $24 billion on housing and homeless programs in the first five years of Gavin Newsom’s governorship, but the number of people without homes continued to grow, rising by 20% to more than 180,000 in the most recent federal count in 2023.

On October 4, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced
the awarding of $18.2 million in funds to help the city address homelessness.

A look at how the two candidates for Sacramento mayor would address homelessness.

Homeless service providers are scaling back and taking out loans as they wait for late payments from the government.

In their September 25 meeting, the Citrus Heights City Council heard public comment against bans on sleeping in cars before voting to proceed with revisions to ban camping in public spaces and cars.

Solving Sacramento looks at the use of interim housing as a scalable means addressing the needs of the unhoused.

Over the last five years, the state government has spent some $24 billion to ameliorate homelessness, which, according to polls, is California’s most troublesome issue.

Failed legislative bills have attempted to create safe parking programs for students to sleep in their cars on California campuses while awaiting housing. Meanwhile, Long Beach City College allows homeless students to park overnight.

A Solving Sacramento report on the September 7 Solidarity Summit on Homelessness.

The City of Elk Grove held a public meeting on September 12 about plans to open a year-round homeless shelter.

For five years, California officials responding to the homelessness crisis had to work around one big restriction imposed by the federal courts: Because they didn’t have enough shelter beds, cities generally couldn’t make homeless camps illegal.

Elk Grove News takes a look at the facilities provided by the year-round homeless shelter opening in November.

The City of Elk Grove released a video explaining the year-round homeless shelter opening in November,

More than two-dozen California cities passed, strengthened or are considering ordinances that penalize people for sleeping outside, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed cities to crack down.

An exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest California homeless count reveals some good news and bad news: Though the growth rate of homelessness appears to be slowing, the overall number of unhoused Californians increased from two years ago.

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

In their August 28 meeting, the Elk Grove City Council voted unanimously to prohibit camping on public property.

The Sacramento Bee follows up with some of the former residents of Camp Resolution following their August 26 eviction, and in some cases, loss of possessions.

In their August 28 meeting, the Elk Grove City Council voted to update the camping ordinance to reduce the notice required before seizure of property.

On August 26, about 50 residents of were evicted and removed from the Camp Resolution site at 2225 Calfax Street in Sacramento.

The Sacramento Bee explains the history and current status of the self-managed homeless Camp Resolution.

A resident of the Roseville Road homeless shelter in Sacramento talks about their experience there.

A look at the community garden in west Del Paso Heights purchased by the Sacramento Community Land Trust in June 2024.

A $17 million state Homekey program grant has been awarded to the Sacramento County Housing Authority to purchase a motel property on Madison Avenue for renovation into 118 units of homeless transitioning housing.

On August 9, a Sacramento Superior Court judge denied an injunction sought by the Sacramento Homeless Union against the forced closure of Camp Resolution.

On August 7, California Governor Newsom declared that counties needed to do more to clear homeless encampments or risk loss of state funding.

Residents of Camp Resolution in Sacramento announced their intention of remaining on the city-owned lot despite the lease expiring, and are seeking an injunction preventing eviction.

A critical new federal audit calls out California for doing too little to prevent fraudulent spending of homelessness funds. Nearly $320 million was at risk.