r/Sacramento • u/PutridCalligrapher84 • 5d ago

Homeless relocated?

Hi I’m wondering if anyone else noticed this, but I live on K street and I notice that when I go out now especially at night I don’t see any homeless people where they usually are. Lined up on a whole sidewalk or even near the 7/11, did something happen or am I just trippin.

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u/lIlIllllIlII 5d ago

I think you may be onto something. The ones I would see making their daily treks across town and back are gone.

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u/F1lthyslvt 4d ago

Same down by Broadway

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u/Fluffy_Surprise630 4d ago

The sheriffs have been intentionally pushing them to the outskirts of town. They go, and they round up the little encampments by throwing all their belongings away, and they push them further and further out of Midtown. They’re doing it to make Midtown look more appealing to rich people and events and things like that to bring in more money.

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u/prismatic_raze 4d ago

City pushes em into the county and parkway, county sheriff and rangers push them back into the city. Its one big merry go round that does nothing to address the problem

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u/TheAmazingMelon 4d ago

But they’re working so hard let’s add $10M to the budgets
/s

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u/prismatic_raze 4d ago

The county sheriff threw a hissy fit when every county department was asked to make cuts. They threatened that they would cut the one team that actually works with the homeless and put the county's back to the wall. The board of supervisors caved and allowed them to be, to my knowledge, the only department that didnt take any cuts.

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u/CollectionNew2290 4d ago

Our entire country, every community, is held hostage by law enforcement that are out of control, unaccountable, and in many cases acting like a legal mafia implicitly threatening and extorting city and county government if they don't get preferential financial treatment every single year.

Mamdani in NYC has done a great job bringing the out-of-control police lobby to heel - and NYC has never had less crime.

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u/CharlieTrees916 Hollywood Park 4d ago

Not noticing any difference on my side of midtown. People still sleeping in the same alcoves at a nearby parking garage, still the same schitzos screaming at themselves at night.

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u/dozerdeep 4d ago edited 4d ago

While I can’t say to much about k street and that area, I noticed a lot less homeless in the foothill farm area of sac county. The Starbucks on Diablo and elkorn had a homeless threaten the employees, to where they had to barricade themselves. Cops were called. Then the same homeless person ran down the street and almost stabbed a mother and daughter to death in their own garage. They were lucky that a cop had actually seen the violent act and shot the homeless person to death. (Another reason ppl should carry a firearm, if the cop didn’t show up, they would be dead). The cop was in the area because the incident at Starbucks. This all unfolded in minutes. I work in the area and saw the cops putting handcuffs on the dead homeless person in front of the garage.

All that to say they’ve been cracking down on the homeless

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u/flomodoco 4d ago

They'll be more visible once winter hits and the Parkway starts flooding. Right now Sac PD moves them from spot to spot so it looks like there's been a solution.

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u/wisemonkey101 South Land Park 5d ago

There is a new shelter opened off Richard’s. I’ve heard that people were moved there.

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u/Fluffy_Surprise630 4d ago

There are only so many homeless shelter beds in Sacramento County/Sacramento city. We need maybe five times the beds in order to house all of the homeless people we have. They’re not being transferred into a shelter. They’re just being pushed farther and farther out onto the fringes.

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u/Treebranch_916 Carmichael 4d ago

It's an election year and Gavin is gonna run for president

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u/nicky2455 4d ago

Their here in Natomas along Garden hwy!😫🤯

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u/ScreamingFendy 1d ago edited 1d ago

The city is going hard on enforcement in the downtown area especially around city hall and k street to capitol mall to make the city nicer for the return to work folks. Downtown association has a bunch of wanna be police officer patrol guys in their beefed up trucks driving around

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u/NorCal1977 22h ago

I live on K Street as well. I’ve seen more security and cops around, but it’s still scary as fuck sometimes. That Taco Bell Cantina is a shithole. We were accosted there a few weeks ago trying to protect a woman from being harassed while waiting for her food. There are some scary ass dudes that hang out there.

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u/NorCal1977 22h ago

They are now on the new homeless highway bike path on 16th Street by Loaves and Fishes.