Department of Community Response

Sacramento Homeless Growing Without Enforcement of the Laws

September 25, 2025 11:19 amSeptember 25, 2025 11:19 am

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...

Step Over the Delirious Drug Addict to See Sacramento’s Urban Dreams Art

August 12, 2025 7:38 pmAugust 12, 2025 7:51 pm

Sacramento’s new Urban Dreams Art Experience is really interesting, and will surely make people smile when they see any of the 12 new pieces of free-standing art, including the giant squid on top of Mulvaney’s, a fabulous local restaurant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLquMnqZAkg...

Sacramento Spending Another $12 Million on Tiny Homes for Homeless – on Top of Billions More

August 8, 2025 2:45 amAugust 8, 2025 6:23 am

The City of Sacramento Department of Community Response received a $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...

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg Issues Feeble Statement on SCOTUS Ruling on Homeless Camp Bans

July 8, 2024 1:00 pmJuly 9, 2024 8:37 am

In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, which found that local laws limiting encampments on public land does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment, allowing for local civil and criminal...

Sacramento DA Threatens Criminal Charges Against City Over Contaminated Homeless ‘Camp Resolution’ Site

November 16, 2023 7:58 amNovember 16, 2023 6:52 pm

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho is threatening criminal charges against the City of Sacramento and Sacramento Attorney Mark Merin over the city sanctioned homeless camp “Camp Resolution”as a “safe parking shelter” in north Sacramento, alleging the city-leased site is...

City of Sacramento asks Judge to Dismiss DA’s ‘Deeply Flawed’ Lawsuit

October 19, 2023 12:05 pmOctober 19, 2023 12:10 pm

In September, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho filed a lawsuit against the City of Sacramento for failing to abate the homeless crisis in the Capitol city by refusing to enforce existing laws. DA Ho said Sacramento’s homeless crisis has...

Sacramento Homeless Crisis has Caused ‘Erosion of Every Day Life;’ City is ‘Collapsing into Chaos’

October 3, 2023 8:35 amOctober 4, 2023 6:58 am

Sacramento’s homeless drug-addicted, mentally-ill, criminal vagrant population have clearly shown they can’t govern or take care of themselves. They have been allowed to camp, squat and roam unrestrained in the Sacramento region. They are disrupting daily business life in Sacramento’s...