People Begin Occupying New Sacramento Homeless Campsite At Miller Park
As the sun set along Sacramento's waterfront Monday, people began settling in for the first night at the new city-sponsored homeless safe ground camping site.
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As the sun set along Sacramento's waterfront Monday, people began settling in for the first night at the new city-sponsored homeless safe ground camping site.
Beginning today, Sacramento officials say Miller Park will serve as a transitional site for unhoused people, but the unveil follows growing tension between city and county leaders.
Sacramento city leaders are unveiling a new site for homeless campers, and it's going in one of the city's most popular parks.
A packed community meeting was held Tuesday to discuss a plan to put a homeless shelter next to a non-profit that houses at-risk youth in Sacramento.
Sacramento has been awarded millions in state funding to convert a downtown hotel into a permanent homeless shelter.
Sacramento County's first homeless count in nearly three years has been postponed because of a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Homeless people along the American River worry the rising water levels could leave them displaced.
A police homicide investigation is underway after a woman was found dead in Sacramento.
A new report has found that the number of homeless tents in Sacramento County has doubled since 2019.
Businesses in midtown Sacramento tell CBS13 they're concerned for their employees and customers as a homeless encampment continues to grow along 15th street between H and I streets.
A downtown Sacramento motel is one step closer to being converted into permanent housing for the homeless.
A hotel in north Natomas will soon become a shelter for the homeless. On Tuesday afternoon, Sacramento city council members agreed to submit an application for $35 million in funding for the new Vista Nueva project.
The removal of homeless camps in Sacramento by Caltrans has drawn criticism from a local leader who says the agency's actions aren't solving any problems.
More homeless campsite sweeps are planned for Monday in Sacramento.
One local little league is trading in their balls and bats for posters and loudspeakers. They're protesting a proposed homeless site near their home field.
If you are standing at the Airport Little League Baseball field, you can see abandoned RV's, piles of trash, and remnants of encampments in the area.
It's a first-of-its-kind cleanup in a Sacramento creek overrun with homeless debris. This week, draft horses were working to haul the garbage out of Steelhead Creek.
After receiving $316 million under the federal CARES Act to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on unhoused people, the California Department of Housing and Community Development "did not take critical steps to ensure those funds promptly benefited that population," the state auditor's office said in a report.
A former Sacramento Raley's store will not turn into a homeless shelter.
Buoyed by a large budget surplus and swimming in federal pandemic recovery money, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion to get more people experiencing homelessness off the streets and into homes of their own.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in California into housing and to "functionally end family homelessness" within five years.
Neighbors say drugs, fights and flames are plaguing their Sacramento neighborhood.
Good Samaritans jumped in to help save a beloved homeless woman in the community from a man who was beating her.
The City of Sacramento revealed plans to help solve the homeless crisis, identifying various locations around town that could house over 1,300 people.
