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Eight months ago, the US Supreme Court gave cities with more powers to Clear camps for homeless And they arrest insane people for sleeping in public spaces. Since then, several cities in California have been A blow to the effort to clean the bearingsor pass more to Camping RulesS
But for those who do not say a little in court cases and the meetings of the City Council, what it is like to have your home and belongings eradicated and cleared?
In the first installment of a multimedia series of many parts, Calmatters’ Marisa Kendall and kpbs’ AnastasHe spent four months in an interview with experts in a request of data and a visit to camps to document efforts to apply and follow people displaced afterwards.
In San Francisco, at the end of the city’s city finale, the meteto at a camp is regularly found twice a week. Linda Vasquez, a 52-year-old native to California, tries to avoid quotation or arrest by moving around the corner, waiting until the police leave and then return.
Vasquez does not prefer shelters or transitional housing programs because they usually do not allow dogs. She has three and says she can’t leave them: “I had them because they were the size of my hand.”
In Freshno, 39-year-old Leron Bell said the officers of the California highway patrol made him move every few days. So far, he has lost his tent, his identification document, his birth certificate and a bicycle during these vacations.
- Bell: “I hate to start over. But, as if, I do my best, as I can be a homeless man. “
In some cases, cities are trying to offer shelter beds when imposing a camping bans. But in general, there are not enough beds to go around, even when in San Francisco, for example, only between 20% and 30% of people take a bed when offered, according to the city.
A Investigation of CalMatters Posted Tuesday found that when people who did not accept, they accept a shelter, these facilities can be dangerous and ineffective in finding people’s housing.
