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CA Senate Republicans Call For Mental Health Investment of $10B in State’s Homeless

April 19, 2022 7:05 am

California Senate Republicans announced Monday they are calling for investing $10 billion in California’s mental health crisis in the state’s burgeoning homeless population. The Republicans sent a letter to Senate Budget Chairwoman Nancy Skinner and Assembly Budget Chairman Phil Ting,...

Sacramento Currently Spending $44 Million on Growing Homeless

April 18, 2022 8:15 amApril 18, 2022 12:54 pm

The City of Sacramento is spending more than $44 million to provide eight homeless shelters and camping options, most not yet built or ready, and three Project Homekey motel conversions. According to city officials, “most of that comes from state...

Sacramento Claims There Won’t be Money to Continue Funding Existing Homeless Shelters

March 4, 2022 2:34 amApril 18, 2022 7:54 am

Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan “raised an alarm this week about funding for the city’s existing homeless shelters even as the City Council pushes to open more large sites to address the community’s growing homelessness crisis,” the Sacramento Bee reported...

Navigating City Services for Homeless: It’s ‘Impossible’ and a ‘Nightmare’

February 28, 2022 3:49 pmApril 3, 2022 4:23 pm

Most city residents acknowledge that the more than 11,000 homeless living on Sacramento streets need some serious form of help. Most are in need of mental health services and drug addiction treatment. But there are some who live on the...

Sacramento Union Gospel Mission is Saving Lives of the Homeless and Lost

January 13, 2022 12:07 pmJanuary 13, 2022 7:21 pm

Union Gospel Mission Sacramento takes in dozens of drug addicted homeless men every year, helps them get sober, educated, acquire skills, learn jobs, and graduates them back into society. They could teach cities and counties how to do this. Faith....

Homeless sleeping in shop doorways in Sacramento.

Sacramento Homeless Vagrant Viciously Attacks Horse, Kills Family’s Pet Chickens

January 13, 2022 2:44 amSeptember 21, 2022 6:00 pm

A friend who is a large animal veterinarian contacted the Globe with very disturbing news: “I just sutured the face of a horse attacked by a homeless guy with a hammer. He killed 12 of 15 pet birds in the...

Leaving California Interview With Mark Snyder: ‘Is Sacramento and California in a Post-Hope Period?’

July 26, 2021 2:22 amJuly 27, 2021 10:09 pm

What could possibly cause a native Sacramento resident with a thriving business, beautiful home, and many local friends and family, to close the business, sell his home and move to Texas? Mark Snyder is the owner of William Glen, “Sacramento’s...