A Northern California city says it will let a homeless encampment stay on some public land. Officials in Sacramento, California, on Friday have said they leased the land for free to a nonprofit gro…
SACRAMENTO — A Northern California city said it will let a homeless encampment stay on some public land, agreeing to provide trailers and other services for up to four months.
On Friday, city officials announced they had leased the land for free to Safe Ground Sacramento, a nonprofit group, for up to four months. People can park their cars or RVs on the property, and the city will provide up to 33 trailers for people to live in. “I am incredibly proud that through months of hard work and open communication we found an innovative solution for this site that benefits our entire community,” Councilmember Sean Loloee, whose district includes the land, said in a city blog post.
Cities have tried lots of different approaches to address the issue. In San Jose, a city of nearly 1 million people at the south end of the San Francisco Bay, officials installed about 500 small homes for homeless people to live in. The program reduced the rate of the city’s homeless people who were unsheltered for the first time in years, Mayor Matt Mahan said.
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