“I have fought successfully to keep the Railroad shelter open since last June,” Mayor Steinberg said. There were 37 people staying at the shelter at the time in 2019, which housed 200 at its peak.Īt the time, Steinberg said city resources were needed to go into opening new shelters. The City had been relocating some homeless to a North Sacramento shelter, the only city-run homeless shelter at the time, which the city then strangely closed. Instead, Mayor Darrell Steinberg chose to buy individual cabins from Seattle area-based Pallet, or from local builders, the Bee reported… for 100 homeless. It was evident that Councilman Warren attempted to actually solve some of the problem with his idea for some sort of shelter for 700 homeless people.
Warren had identified a vacant lot, the former site of the now closed Harmon Johnson Elementary School. In 2019, then-City Councilman Allen Warren, whose district the cabins would be located in, had proposed that the city build a development for 700 homeless and low-income people – a mixture of cabins, tiny homes, tents and traditional permanent housing. It appears that the City of Sacramento is investing in growing the homeless population, rather than eradicating it. Over the course of a year, it is estimated that over 5,000 people will be homeless for one or more nights in Sacramento.” “According to the 2015 Point-in-Time Homeless Count for Sacramento County, on any given night, approximately 2,650 people throughout Sacramento County experience homelessness. In 2015, the City published a report admitting to spending more than $13.6 million annually to address homelessness. (Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe) Homeless tents under Sacramento freeway offramp. Today that number is more than 11,000 vagrants, and drug addicts living on the streets. “Sacramento is home to more than 6,000 homeless, vagrants, and drug addicts living on the street,” the Globe reported in 2019. There are about two dozen tiny homes sheltering homeless young people in North Sacramento, but the promise has largely not come to fruition,” the Sacramento Bee reported. “In summer 2020, he renewed the call for 500 tiny homes. In 2019, Sacramento officials announced a plan to open cabin-style shelters with services for 100 homeless people somewhere in North Sacramento. In January 2018, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced he wanted to order 1,000 tiny homes to shelter the homeless.
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