More than 150,000 people are currently living unhoused in California.

And every year, thousands of those Californians who live on the street also die on the street.

It's a disgrace that the richest state and the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors,

is falling so far behind to properly house, heal,

and humanely treat so many of its own people.

A proposed homeless hospice center in Sacramento

wants to offer terminally ill and sheltered people,

a place to die with dignity,

but nearby residents aren't happy about it.

I'm not anti-unhoused in any way, shape, or form.

I think it's a great project.

But before I vote to put this near our school, I need some answers.

I'm Gustav Ariano.

You're listening to The Times, Essential News, from the L.A. Times.

It's Monday, November 21st, 2022.

Today, why everyone wants to solve California's homelessness crisis, but no one wants those solutions to be anywhere near them. My colleague

Mackenzie Mays cover state government and politics. Mackenzie, welcome the Times.

Thanks for having me. There's just so many approaches to trying to help homeless people from offering housing to

finding folks jobs to even offering showers to their pets.

But until I read your story, I had never heard of efforts to make homeless folks die easier.

How do you find out about this?

Yeah, so I'm based in Sacramento, and there was this big argument in a community not far from me,

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