Sacramento Homeless Growing Without Enforcement of the Laws

Despite billion$ spent on providing tiny homes, RVs, renovated apartments and renovated motels for the “unhoused” in California, the homeless drug addicts aren’t housed at all. We have only seen more homeless drug addicts living on Sacramento Streets, and that is because of the failed and corrupt “Housing First” policy created by the Obama administration. Only triage and treatment will lead to recovery. But if the homeless are treated and successfully transitioned back into society, or incarcerated, the government gravy train of taxpayer funds ends.

In August, the Globe reported that the City of Sacramento Department of Community Response received a additional $12.35 million “Encampment Resolution Funds grant” from the California Department of Housing and Community Development in October 2024 – 10+ months ago – “to purchase and construct additional tiny homes for homeless vagrants.

It took them 10 months to get to it. That’s $12,035,000 million dollars to spend on housing a small number of Sacramento’s mentally-ill homeless drug addicts.

In July, we reported that Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty announced he was kicking the homeless to the curb, and implemented a new policy to prohibit homeless people from sleeping outside City Hall overnight.

Former Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg allowed homeless vagrants to sleep on City Hall grounds overnight. That turned into homeless vagrants hanging around City Hall all hours of the day and night, loitering on downtown city streets and in Cesar Chavez Park across the street, which used to be aptly nicknamed “Wino Park.”

Mayor McCarty complained that cleaning up after the homeless drug addicts cost (taxpayers) around $355,000 per year.

The problem is that the new ordinance has no solution for dealing with the homeless drug addicts – it merely pushed them out to other city streets, businesses, parks and nearby neighborhoods.

This was only a solution for the Mayor and City employees, and screwed everyone else in the city who now have to deal with more homeless drug addicts.

William Land Park, the region’s largest park at 207-acres, is also home to family attractions: Fairytale Town, Funderland, the Sacramento Zoo, and the Land Park 9-hole golf course. But it’s also home to a growing community of drug-addicted, psychotic homeless people who scream at and flail at and chase runners, walkers, cyclists, golfers, at moms pushing strollers, and dog walkers. They congregate and sleep in the park’s amphitheaters and open-air stages; they take over picnic areas and sleep on picnic tables; they sleep in the public restrooms. They lay passed out on the golf course, and pop tents against trees.

The city just re-built a public restroom, which took nearly a year. They tore down the old one, which had become a fetid home for homeless vagrants, and built a new Men’s and Women’s restrooms structure (above). The problem is the bathrooms aren’t open to the public anymore – signage says they only open for permitted events.

So rather than patrolling the park and chasing out the homeless drug addicts, the city locks the doors of the expensive new restrooms so no one can use them.

These are the ridiculous decisions made by clownish elected officials of a city in demise.

“Nationwide, a shift is underway on homelessness. President Trump issued an executive order in late July on ‘Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,’” Stephen Eide just wrote at City Journal. “L.A., the capital of street homelessness in America, has notched declines two years in a row. Fatal overdoses are down in L.A. and across the nation. The migrant crisis, which pushed homelessness to a historic peak last year, has eased. Fewer tents line San Francisco’s streets.”

But not in Sacramento – there are more homeless drug addicts living on the streets, in parks, along the city’s rivers, in front of businesses, and squatting near residential homes. At night, you can hear the Zombie Apocalypse pushing their stolen grocery carts through the park, and through the neighborhoods, stealing anything not nailed down.

The homeless drug addicts openly deal and use drugs in the parks. People drive through the park, pull over, and make drug deals in front of golfers, children, moms, cyclists and runners. Others sit in their cars smoking pot, as discrete as Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke, allowing everyone in the park to enjoy their fragrant cannabis.

There are sexual hook-ups in the park, evidence of which are discarded in the gutters, along with used drug paraphernalia.

This is the demise of California’s Capitol City.

In July we reported that the City of Sacramento decided that rather than pay for drug and mental health treatment for homeless drug addicts, they are using taxpayer funds to vaccinate and spay/neuter the pets of the City’s homeless.

That’s some real “quality of life” prioritizing going on by city bureaucrats. In reality, they don’t want the homeless off the streets as homeless drug addicts are a massive revenue source. But these “homeless” and “unhoused” people are unpredictable drug addicts. They are dangerous to themselves and to others. Many are psychotic… like this meth addict staring down his pants. A few minutes later he started masturbating in front of God and everyone in the park:

There are homeless drug addicts living in RVs and SUVs in the park; a woman lives in an old school bus, another lives in an old transport bus; people live in cars, in tents, or they just pass-out on the grass. I see them grouped together daily buying/selling/doing drugs.

Here’s a thought: why not take the city taxpayer funding allocated for homeless vagrants’s pets, and spend it on treatment of the homeless drug addicts? We wouldn’t need to vaccinate their pets that way.