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Old 07-15-2010, 04:01 PM
 
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are there alot in sac? downtown?
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Old 07-15-2010, 04:03 PM
 
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Yes, there are.
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Old 07-18-2010, 11:48 PM
 
Location: Shingle Springs, CA
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Mainly due to the Loaves & Fishes mission that feeds them...you just need to keep your eyes open and avoid trouble, although someone in my agency was assaulted last week on K St...
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Old 07-19-2010, 12:01 AM
 
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Downtown Sacramento is basically the regional dumping ground for homelessness--people who look for help in Placer or El Dorado County or other outer suburbs get pointed in the direction of Sacramento. We, like most cities, got rid of much of our inexpensive downtown housing, the result is that thousands can't afford even the cheapest places to live. And because the weather in Sacramento is generally pretty comfortable most of the year, they generally don't die of exposure like they do in places with more severe climates.

Most west coast cities have comparable issues--the suburbs shunt their homeless to the nearest urban center, where they kind of squeak by and make use of whatever services are available. They walk to the business district during the day to spare-change, dumpster dive, recycle, scrounge or otherwise do what they can to survive.
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Old 07-19-2010, 01:39 AM
 
Location: Sacramento, Placerville
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Downtown Sacramento is basically the regional dumping ground for homelessness--people who look for help in Placer or El Dorado County or other outer suburbs get pointed in the direction of Sacramento. We, like most cities, got rid of much of our inexpensive downtown housing, the result is that thousands can't afford even the cheapest places to live. And because the weather in Sacramento is generally pretty comfortable most of the year, they generally don't die of exposure like they do in places with more severe climates.

Most west coast cities have comparable issues--the suburbs shunt their homeless to the nearest urban center, where they kind of squeak by and make use of whatever services are available. They walk to the business district during the day to spare-change, dumpster dive, recycle, scrounge or otherwise do what they can to survive.

That hasn't been going on for some time. Several municipalities and counties were sued over this years ago (Placer Co was one of them), and as a result, they are no longer permitted to ship, or even suggest they must go to the nearest downtown for assistance. I think Placer Co was sued by Sacramento Co. for failing to follow the rules something like 15 years after the fact, but I could be wrong. Anyway, Placer Co isn't the same place it was when I was growing up and they would physically send them to Downtown Sacramento because they didn't like transient people, and they were much smaller then and really didn't have the facilities to deal with the problem.

The difference that exists today is many urbanized areas in adjacent counties around a metro's CBD do not have the volunteer services, such as Fishes & Loaves or the Poverello House to assist the homeless, so the word gets out on a Greyhound bus that Downtown Sacramento or Downtown Fresno is a better place to get of and get a meal that Roseville or Kingsburg.

El Dorado County is quite different. There are quite a few transient and homeless who hang out in Placerville and other towns in the Motherlode, with and without vehicles, and many with some of the same mental issues a lot of them have. I've come across quite a few during my getaway trips up and down Hwy 49, had a lot interesting conversations with some of them (outdoorsy people tend to talk to strangers more often than in the city), and had a couple of problems with a few who had some real problems as well.

These counties have the basic social/health services, but I don't think any of the counties along Hwy 49 have private/volunteer services like the larger counties do.
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