More California Cities Experiment with Sanctioned Homeless Camps

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Last year, in response to concerns about the spread of COVID-19 among unhoused people, officials in Santa Rosa created a sanctioned encampment in the parking lot of a local community center. Those living at the site reported feeling safer and having better access to services, and neighborhood residents who initially opposed the idea came to view the program positively. Elsewhere in the state, San Francisco set up “Safe Sleeping Sites” last May, and Sacramento recently created two “Safe Ground” sites, with one being for people living in cars and RVs. The idea is being floated in Los Angeles, as well, after police and protestors clashed over the clearing of an encampment at Echo Park last month. We’ll talk about Santa Rosa’s experiment in addressing homelessness and how other cities in California are implementing or thinking about sanctioned encampments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.8	Last year, facing the COVID-19 pandemic and a burgeoning homelessness crisis, officials in Santa Rosa took an unusual step.
1:26.9	They created a sanctioned encampment in the parking
1:29.9	lot of a local community center despite massive public opposition. The gamble appears to have paid off.
1:36.9	People living at the site reported feeling safer and having better access to services,
1:42.0	and the neighborhood came to embrace the encampment.
1:45.2	Coming up this hour, we talk about what went right in Santa Rosa and how other California
1:50.5	cities and counties are handling, or not handling, homelessness in their areas.
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