Inside Santa Rosa's mile-long tent city amid plans to shelter its residents in FAIRGROUNDS as Califo

[mountaineer]

Inside Santa Rosa's mile-long tent city amid plans to shelter its residents in FAIRGROUNDS as California struggles under the weight of 130,000 people living on the streets
    *Around 185 people living in 100 tents on a mile-long stretch along Joe Rodota Trial - the biggest homeless encampment the city has ever seen
    *A plan to allow them and an estimated 3,000 people living on the streets in Sonoma County to move into the makeshift shelters will be unveiled Tuesday
    *City leaders were inspired by how fairgrounds were used to house people during wildfires and flooding as they struggle to cope with the homeless camp
    *It is part of California's homeless emergency with 130,000 people on the streets
    *There have already been calls for ban on feeding the homeless in public places in Lancaster and boulders along a sidewalk in San Francisco to stop camps
    In Oakland business owners placed large logs along a commercial street

By Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:51 EST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 15:36 EST, 16 December 2019

...     Emergency measures in Santa Rosa will also propose safe camping spots, reaching out to families of those living on the streets and using multiple bedroom homes to keep communities formed on the streets together. 

They will go before the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. 

Homeless advocate Scott Wagner told The Press Democrat: 'The rains beginning every year is the most significant time for homeless people. New homeless people are lost and they’re going to screw up badly.

'Old homeless people are gonna get sick. They’re all shoved into these weird places like this.'   ...

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[mountaineer]

Meanwhile on the poop frontlines:

‘It’s horrifying’: Feces issue continues to grow in San Francisco
Bay Area

by: Michelle Kingston
Posted: Dec 12, 2019 / 08:38 PM PST   / Updated: Dec 13, 2019 / 10:51 AM PST   

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — “It’s horrifying for people to step outside and see poop smeared all over the sidewalk, we know it’s getting worse.”

The City of San Francisco now has three public toilets available after 8 p.m. — located in Castro, Soma and the Tenderloin, but Supervisor Matt Haney said the city needs even more.

“We’ve seen a reduction in the number of reports of feces in the areas immediately around the pit stop bathrooms including the ones that are 24 hours,” Haney said. “We obviously need more. We need to expand the number of these bathrooms and the hours.”  ...

Throughout the city, 311 has received more than 25,000 poop complaints this year alone. ...

KRON

[dfwgator]

You get what you vote for.

[skeeter]

You get what you vote for.

I didn’t. Locally speaking, I never have.

[PeteS in CA]

The OP article is a UK paper/website, so I guess they do not realize that Santa Rosa, Oakland, SF, and Lancaster are in four different, non-neighboring, counties. IOW, other than normal people getting frustrated by the mess, actions by the four cities are unrelated.

That said ... sigh ... most of the Joe Rodota Trail (not "Trial" as in the OP article) parallels state hwy 12 between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol (roughly east-west). In Santa Rosa it turn north for 100-150 yards till it ends at the Santa Rosa Creek Trail, which parallels that creek. There are two big problems with having homeless encampments along this trail:

* SR12 is a freeway, and if you think homeless people are too smart to cross sometimes busy freeways, you would be incorrect;

* The trail also connects residential areas, light business areas, and parks; IOW, lots of ways normal people's lives can be messed with and opportunities for property crimes and assaults.

And the USSC just foolishly left in place a 9th Circuit court decision that basically means that if a homeless person lays down on a sidewalk, a trail, or in a park, the city cannot get rid of them unless there is space for them in some sort of shelter.

[GtHawk]

Wait, they expect all these people to give up their Posh San Francisco addresses for Santa Rosa, OH HELL NO!

[PeteS in CA]

Santa Rosa is closer to the Napa Valley ...