“We’re treated like scum,” said Tani Kelley, a 44-year-old mother of two. A new link on the Redding Police Department site for people to report campsites from their cellphones has made their job easier.

Members have advocated spraying sleeping people with urine-or acid-tossing them in dumpsters or chasing them out of town.īy daybreak, a police unit dedicated to rousting or citing people for breaking the city’s “no camping” law would make its rounds. Patrol-the Redding Area Transient Patrol- a group of organized “concerned citizens” “fed up” with “violent criminal transient bums,” as its Facebook page says. Still others had used up their 30-day maximum stay at the mission, and had to wait a month before being allowed another stint.īeyond the elements, they would have to worry about the R.A.T. They had violated rules-had been caught with a beer, or found loitering near the shelter or with pot in their room. Some in the group were banned from Good News and would have to seek reconsideration during the shelter’s weekly appeals meeting. A few would head to the Good News Rescue Mission, the only general shelter in this city of over 91,000, and all of Shasta County, a green mountain landscape more than three hours north of San Francisco-where an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people are unsheltered. The group, most of whose members were in their 50s and 60s, and were lifetime or longtime residents of Redding or the surrounding area, dispersed as a spotty drizzle turned to cold, hard rain. The basic need to sleep in peace at night is a challenge for California’s unsheltered, as those who had gathered in front of Redding’s library know all too well.

His proposals do not preclude cities from continuing to enact and enforce policies designed to sweep people off the streets. But Newsom stresses that individual communities would determine their own priorities. His latest budget, which the legislature will vote on by July, calls for $1.4 billion in fixes, including $750 million that would go directly to service providers for monthly rent payments, additional housing units, and board-and-care facilities. Gavin Newsom calls homelessness an emergency akin to a major earthquake.

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