Ad says Placer County Supervisor candidate lied about homeless facility. Is it true?
A mailer has hit mailboxes claiming Placer County Board of Supervisors candidate Holly Andreatta hid what she knew about a controversial proposed homeless facility.
The mailer, funded by the campaign of Supervisor Shanti Landon, who Andreatta is challenging for the seat, features a photo of Andreatta’s face over text that reads, “SHE LIED. YOU’RE PAYING FOR IT.”
Underneath the photo is text that reads, “In 2023, The Gathering Inn pursued state funding to build a medical respite center for the homeless in Lincoln. Councilwoman Holly Andreatta claimed she ‘had zero knowledge of the project.’ Andreatta’s own sworn testimony reveals the truth. Now, Andreatta is trying to cover up her involvement as Lincoln Taxpayers are on the hook for massive litigation costs.”
The mailer refers to a homeless medical respite facility The Gathering Inn, a Roseville-based nonprofit, plans to build in the city of Lincoln. The 60-bed center for homeless adults who have been discharged from hospitals and have nowhere else to go. The nonprofit bought a building at 1660 Third St., in Lincoln and secured a state grant.
The race between Andreatta and Landon, both Republicans, has been heated for months, with much of the attention focused on the project.
The facility is controversial because although it’s for medically vulnerable adults, including many seniors referred by hospitals, they would be homeless. The building’s previous use was also for seniors, as an assisted living facility, but the residents of that building were not homeless.
The location is about half a mile from an elementary school and middle school, and also near residential neighborhoods, and residents have expressed concerns the guests could bring crime to the area and decrease property values.
The city in 2024 sued to block the facility — a case that it still ongoing and could kill the project. As part of the ongoing civil court case, Andreatta, a Lincoln council member, was deposed.
During the deposition, in February 2025, the nonprofit’s lawyers asked Andreatta about her 2023 breakfast meeting with the nonprofit’s president and CEO Keith Diederich.
According to the deposition, a lawyer for the nonprofit asked Andreatta: “He told you — he asked you whether you would be supportive of TGI opening a facility in Lincoln, is that right?”
Andreatta answered, “Yes.”
The mailer’s inclusion of the deposition ends there.
But right after that, according to the transcript, which both Landon and Andreatta posted to Facebook, Andreatta went on to add, “It was kind of almost in passing, “would you be supportive of us having a facility in Lincoln?’ And I said ‘I’m happy to have that conversation with you.’ And that was it. There was no details. There was no plans. There was no address. There was no negotiations. That was it. That was the entirety of that conversation.”
The court case is ongoing, and the city is paying an outside law firm. Douglas White, one of the outside lawyers, declined to provide the amount the city has so far paid in fees, citing attorney client privilege.
The city asked Placer Superior Court Judge Trisha J. Hirashima to block depositions from Lincoln Councilmember Ben Brown and former Lincoln Councilmember Paul Joiner. It’s also trying to block Andreatta from being required from sharing content from a private Facebook group she belongs to called “Lincoln against TGI.”
The primary election is June 2. The next court date is June 16. If either candidate receives at least 50.01% of the vote, that person will win outright in June, avoiding the general election.
In October 2025, about eight months after the deposition, Andreatta went to give a public comment to the Placer County Board of Supervisors about the project. During her comment, she said, “I had zero knowledge of TGI’s plans.”
According to what she said in the transcript, Andreatta knew the nonprofit was potentially interested in opening something in Lincoln. But she did not know about the specific project, the location and the details, Andreatta told The Sacramento Bee Tuesday.
“Let me be clear — the claims in my opponent’s mailer are false and are an attempt to run a political campaign on untruths rather than on her own failed record in this matter,” Andreatta said in a statement. “I adamantly believe that Lincoln residents should have a voice and a say in projects like The Gathering Inn, not because of the use itself, but because it is their community.”
Andreatta declined to comment on whether she supports the project currently, because she does not want to “conflict herself out of a vote in the future.”
Landon did not respond to a request for comment on the mailer or the project other than to confirm that her campaign paid for it.
