California’s Capital City Won’t Boot Homeless People From Self-Governed, City-Sanctioned Camp, Mayor Says

Leaders of Sacramento said they'd help residents find alternatives to Camp Resolution, which the district attorney has criticized as hazardous.
California’s Capital City Won’t Boot Homeless People From Self-Governed, City-Sanctioned Camp, Mayor Says
A homeless man packs belongings at a tent city on April 13, 2009, in Sacramento. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Rudy Blalock
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Sacramento city officials won’t evict homeless people at Camp Resolution, a self-governed and city-sanctioned encampment, but instead will help occupants of 2225 Colfax Street—formerly a dumpsite—move into permanent housing, they said in a recent letter.

The city leased the land to nonprofit and homeless services provider Safe Ground Sacramento in March 2023 under an agreement that automatically renews every 120 days but recently warned the nonprofit that the lease will end by June and asked that occupants be gone by May 16.