In 2004, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Department of Public Health created Project Homeless Connect as a way to bring necessary services to people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.
Peter Taneyhill in 2016 racked up more than $150,000 in costs for county jail and behavioral health services but with the help of the Hon. Lawrence Brown and his re-entry court program the 53-year-old has cleaned up and is paying his debts.
Susan Delph was homeless for seven years, and camped for the last two of them on the American River. For now, she lives in a residential home in South Natomas under a new Sacramento County programs that provides temporary shelter for the homeless.
Soraya Rigor, emerging from a long period of homelessness, is close to getting a business degree from Sacramento State. She attended a job fair hosted by groups that serve the homeless at a Salvation Army center in Oak Park on Friday, June 1.
Get a behind the scenes look at Sacramento County workers cleaning up one man’s vast homeless camp in the American River Parkway on Thursday, May 31. The crews removed 575 tons of trash since January.
It is natural to want to help people in need, but experts say giving cash to panhandlers may not be the best method. A better way to help is by donating to local charities designed to work with the homeless.
Republican candidate for California governor, Assemblyman Travis Allen, says the homeless population should be in state-run institutions where they can receive services.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other mayors from a group representing California's 11 largest cities came to the Capitol on Feb. 21, 2018 to urge Gov. Jerry Brown to commit $1.5 billion in state funds to combat homelessness.
Arlan Lewis, 77 and recently homeless, said Woodland Memorial Hospital directed a taxi to take him to Union Gospel Mission in Sacramento. But the mission had no bed for him, so he wound up outside. Shelters and nonprofit groups said the practice,
