Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. Archives

Sacramento Mayor Calls City’s 11K Homeless ‘Guests’ as if They Were Invited

February 2, 2022 11:03 amFebruary 3, 2022 6:39 am

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced Wednesday the City of Sacramento is opening a temporary safe camping site “for people experiencing homelessness” in a small section of the “Peninsula” parking lot at Miller Park. “People experiencing homelessness.” “Miller Park will be...

Sacramento Mayor Steinberg Spending $23 Million on Another Homeless Hotel

January 20, 2022 1:14 pmJanuary 20, 2022 1:14 pm

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced this week the city has been awarded a $23.9 million state Homekey grant to convert a downtown hotel into housing for homelessness vagrants. $23 million is quadruple the annual budget of many effective local programs...

Who Has Profited From The Homeless Crisis Financially and Politically?

December 28, 2019 8:36 amJanuary 21, 2020 8:33 am

What do disgraced congresswoman Katie Hill, Los Angeles Councilman Mike Bonin, the non-profit PATH developer Thomas Safran, and Executive Director Peter Lynn of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority have in common? They are all profiting or have profited from...

Homeless Spending in CA: Where is the Money Going?

May 16, 2019 9:18 amMay 16, 2019 7:46 pm

California has roughly 134,000 homeless people, amounting to one-quarter of the nation’s total homeless population. In Will $1 Billion Spending on California’s Homeless Fix the Problem?, California Globe covered a myriad of issues surrounding California’s homeless explosion including how tiny...