Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg

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...

Sacramento City Council Votes Homeless Out of City Hall… and Back to the Streets

July 31, 2025 3:30 amAugust 2, 2025 7:48 am

Earlier this month, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty announced a new policy to prohibit homeless people from sleeping outside City Hall overnight. His policy would overturn former Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s original ordinance allowing homeless vagrants to sleep on City Hall grounds...

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Career: A Fractured Fairytale

December 11, 2024 11:45 amDecember 11, 2024 11:51 am

From the “You can’t make this %$@! up file,” outgoing Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has posted a shameless list of his “accomplishments,” which ludicrously includes “housing and homelessness.” Before we go any further, let’s take a short trip down memory...

Sacramento County Coroner Releases Devastating Listing of Homeless Deaths

December 9, 2024 1:35 pmDecember 10, 2024 4:52 pm

The Sacramento County Coroner announced last week that they are now publishing data on the deaths of the homeless in the county. This should be done in every county in California. In 5 years spanning 1/1/2019 to 12/31/2024, 1,243 homeless...

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...

Actual Headline: ‘What Happens When Climate Change and the Mental-Health Crisis Collide?’

April 15, 2024 2:53 amApril 15, 2024 6:30 pm

“What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?” That actual headline in Nature.com triggered my BS meter. What does climate change have to do with mental health? “The warming planet is worsening mental illness and distress. Researchers need...

Sacramento City Officials Blow Through $57 Million on Homeless in 2023

February 23, 2024 10:03 amJune 6, 2024 3:04 pm

The City of Sacramento blew through $57 Million on homeless spending in 2023. But the city has even more homeless drug addicts living on city streets than just a few years ago. “The significant growth of the Sacramento homeless population...