transients Archives

Hollywood Ignores the Homeless Crisis in Their Own Backyard

January 9, 2020 8:52 amJanuary 9, 2020 9:07 am

This past Sunday, the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards took place at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, located in Los Angeles County, where three people a day die on the streets from homelessness. As host Ricky Gervais comically pointed out in...

Vagrants, Thieves and Unsanitary Conditions Force Another Family Business To Close

December 29, 2019 6:05 amDecember 29, 2019 8:01 am

“The trash they left behind, the needles, urination, and feces, kicking in my windows, all added to the difficulty of owning a business.” Another California business is closing its doors due to out of control regulations, homeless thieves, and...

Homeless-related Violence Continues as More Money is Thrown at Housing

December 11, 2019 2:34 pmDecember 12, 2019 12:12 pm

The past few weeks has seen violence from the transient community that can only be compared to something out of a horror film. What could be considered the most devastating of incidents occurred two weeks in Seattle when a family...

A photo of homeless vagrants in Sacramento

First Hand Testimony: How the Homeless Crisis is Changing the Safest Communities in California

October 4, 2019 6:58 amOctober 4, 2019 7:05 am

‘We need our neighborhood back. We need public safety reforms and more police presence in our community, and higher numbers of law enforcement overall.’ In our last article we featured the issues affecting the historic Sacramento neighborhood of Land...

How the Homeless Epidemic is Destroying Communities

September 17, 2019 8:26 amSeptember 17, 2019 8:37 am

‘When homeowners believe that our politicians either don’t know what to do, ignore our complaints, or show us statistics about how good things are, their last resort is to leave.’ When you ask residents of Land Park in Sacramento...

A Drug Epidemic Disguised as a Housing Crisis

September 3, 2019 7:09 amSeptember 4, 2019 8:26 am

Stephanie Duncan, former president of the Land Park Neighborhood Association and community advocate, has noticed a severe increase in transients camps over the last four years along Broadway, the W/X corridor and her neighborhood in the city of Sacramento. She...

California’s Homeless Epidemic: The Silent Majority Cannot Stay Quiet

August 23, 2019 8:57 amSeptember 4, 2019 9:46 am

The more people who stayed quiet, referring to themselves as the ‘silent majority,’ the worse it was for the ones who didn’t. As a California native, what I have seen happen to this state and my neighborhood, which used...