Tag: transients
First Hand Testimony: How the Homeless Crisis is Changing the Safest Communities in California
‘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
‘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
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
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...
Riverside County Officials Warn Public About Deadly Bacteria in Santa Ana River
Fear of the deadly Shigella bacteria has prompted health officials in Riverside County to close off Downey Park and all access to the Santa Ana River Trails and Recreation areas. The order was made under the direction of the Riverside...
‘Homeless’ Crisis: Rising Crime and Violence in Sacramento Ignored by Mayor, City Council
The downtown Sacramento neighborhood of Land Park is under siege by drug addled homeless who live on the streets and in the park. They break into homes, cars, garages, sheds, defecate, urinate and vomit on the streets, shoot up in...