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Tents and tiny houses for the homeless by Jeff vonKaenel
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all of them have done so except District Sacramento City Councilman Allen 6 Councilman Eric Guerra. However, Warren has put forward a plan to provide Warren in District 2 has been the overshelter for as many as 700 people in achiever in this endeavor. a vacant lot in the Noralto section of I am not an expert, and I don’t know North Sacramento. The property is at the if Warren’s plan is a good or not. But corner of Edgewater Road and Lampasas I’m excited that it might provide needed Avenue, a little less than a mile from housing for 700 previously unhoused SN&R’s offices. people. And I have a message for those As opposed to building a shelter, who do not like Warren’s plan. They need Warren’s Renewal Village could be set to provide an alternate plan to provide up quickly. There would be space for 200 housing for 700 people. If they do tents, plus services for the homenot actually have an alternaless. Another 500 people tive, but instead are wiling would be able to stay in to let people sleep on cabins, tiny homes and the sidewalks in the single-family homes. I have a message for rain and the cold, The site would also those who do not like that’s not a practical include a health Warren’s plan. They need or humanitarian clinic staffed by alternative. WellSpace, a clubto provide an alternate Earlier I house, dining hall, plan to provide housing mentioned thanking dog park, community for 700 people. God for a housing garden and a playshelter solution. As a ground for children, as Christian, I believe we well as a job training site should only support those and an area where people politicians who will rescind the could safely sleep in cars, Warren tax breaks for the wealthy and use that told The Sacramento Bee. revenue to help those in need. While This plan is affordable. Kerrin West conservative evangelist churches should of First Step Communities, the organizabe praised for raising millions of dollars tion that is putting together the proposal, for the poor, these charitable donations told The Bee that the tent project could do not compensate in any way for the be done for less than $3 million. Other billions of dollars in government poverty estimates for the tent project come in at programs that the candidates they support $5.4 million. are eliminating. It makes no sense for us I have two words to say about to pass the plate for millions and then Warren’s proposal: Thank God. Thank give the rich billions of tax dollars that God for a real proposal that can actually could and should help the poor among us. make a dent in our homeless crisis. I That we gave a tax break to the appreciate Warren stepping up to the wealthy in our community while others plate, just as I have admired Sacramento are living on the streets is a moral stain Mayor Darrell Steinberg taking the lead on our community. in trying to provide shelter for so many It is up to us to change it. Ω here in our city. Steinberg called on each of the eight City Council members to come up with Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority a plan to house at least 100 homeless owner of the News & Review. people in their district. And remarkably,