People can park their cars or RVs on the property, and the city will provide up to 33 trailers for people to live in.
Sacramento said it will let a homeless encampment stay on some public land, agreeing to provide trailers and other services for up to four months.
The city said the site will be self-governed by what it calls a “resident council," along with an operations plan that must be approved by the City Council in the next 30 days. Ex // Top Stories Housing, pop-ups, and more in new plan for downtown SF Downtown San Francisco will never be the same. City leaders proposed legislation Monday that would help it change faster.
Cities have tried lots of different approaches to address the issue. In San Jose, officials installed about 500 small homes for homeless people to live in. The program reduced the rate of the city's homeless people who were unsheltered for the first time in years, Mayor Matt Mahan said.
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