Sacramento Homeless Archives - California Globe

It’s Time to Look to Sacramento County for Responsibility of Region’s Growing Homeless Crisis

October 28, 2022 10:38 amOctober 30, 2022 2:57 pm

Sacramento County’s 2022 homeless count reported a 67 percent rise in the unsheltered population since 2020. The numbers, not experienced by our neighbors in Yolo (13.9 percent) or Placer counties (under 1 percent), reflect policy failures. Even Los Angeles (4.1...

Sacramento Citizens’ Group Calls for Investigation into Council Member Katie Valenzuela’s ‘Slush Fund’

August 2, 2022 7:46 am

“For a Better Sacramento,” a citywide citizens’ group, called on Sacramento city officials Monday to investigate Councilwoman Katie Valenzuela’s possible misuse of taxpayer dollars in her city office account. According to information obtained in a California Public Records Act request...

California Assemblywoman Shocked at Homeless Living on City Streets

March 2, 2022 12:43 pmMarch 2, 2022 12:43 pm

Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (D – Fullerton) posted a photo on Twitter Tuesday of a couple of homeless tents on a city sidewalk, and asks why. “Can we explain this? Who is responsible? Solutions please,” she Tweeted. https://twitter.com/quirk_silva/status/1498846675854512129 The responses were...

Sacramento Mayor Steinberg Spending $23 Million on Another Homeless Hotel

January 20, 2022 1:14 pmJanuary 20, 2022 1:14 pm

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced this week the city has been awarded a $23.9 million state Homekey grant to convert a downtown hotel into housing for homelessness vagrants. $23 million is quadruple the annual budget of many effective local programs...

Sacramento City Council Races to Clean up After Homeless

November 28, 2018 10:59 am

Following a late Tuesday vote, the Sacramento Department of Public Works is set to receive a $400,000 funding increase in an effort of step up its homeless waste disposal project. Mayor Darrell Steinberg called the mitigation package “very significant” as the city council...