IPFS News Link • Homeless
Inside Santa Rosa's mile-long tent city-
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk By LAUREN FRUENAround 185 people are 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 will propose fairgrounds for the shelters, after being inspired by how they were used to house people during wildfires and flooding
The proposal is part of a plan to deal with California's homeless emergency where 130,000 people are living on the streets
The crisis has left fed-up residents taking extreme measures to keep the homeless out of their neighborhoods
In San Francisco, residents set up two dozen large boulders along a half-block stretch of sidewalk on Clinton Park to prevent camps from being set up
In Oakland, business owners placed 10-foot long logs along a commercial street to stop homeless encampments being set up outside their stores