Concord-based Shelter, Inc. has been awarded a 12-month, $1.8 million contract by the City of Sacramento to operate the North 5th Street Navigation Center beginning January 1, 2020.
The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to award the contract to Shelter, Inc., which just celebrated its 33rd anniversary of providing homeless services in the Bay Area.
“We are honored to partner with the City of Sacramento to tackle and address homelessness throughout the region,” said Shelter, Inc. CEO John Eckstrom. “With our service-based best practice model, we will help individuals struggling with homelessness get off the streets and into housing.”
The shelter will house up to 122 men and women—18 of whom are part of a healthcare respite provided by WellSpace Health.
One of the largest homeless service providers in the Bay Area, Shelter, Inc. also operates Solano County’s emergency homeless shelter and a family shelter in Martinez.
“Our programs offer those faced with homelessness; housing, services, support and resources that ultimately will lead to self-sufficiency,” Eckstrom said.
There are currently just under 6,000 homeless people in Sacramento County.
The cost of taking care of one hundred and twenty two men and women is $1.8 million. That’s about 15 thousand a year each. There are 6000 homeless in the Sacramento county. You can see that even if the cost of a cruise ship is high there is a lot of money being spent on the homeless with little getting done.
The cruise ship idea will increase those costs considerably. The cost if maintaining a ship is much higher than maintaining a house or building. Plus you have the additional hazard of having chronic drug and alcohol abusers stumbling over the side into the water. We have many abandoned military facilities in the state that are now owned by the state and local governments that are being allowed to fall into disrepair.
Right here in Concord there is ex Military Housing that has been empty for years. Like Frank says they are falling into disrepair. Fix them up and put homeless in them. Bet it would be cheaper than a ship.
Fracioner,you are not paying attention,you cant put thses people into a structure to live,thay will destroy it,and even ‘accidently burn it down.Their problem isn’t lack of housing.Putting a roof over their heads will hide them until the building is unlivable.They have no desire to live a normal life.
Don’t let more people in the country , we can’t afford the housing needs of people not from here . We have too many homeless people.
The powers to be do not understand a thing you said. They want open borders and to allow anyone who wants to come here be free to do so. Keep voting democrat until your kids have to move to West Virginia if they would even be able to afford that.
The powers that be, DO understand. It serves their purpose. Votes. Between the border runners and drug addled. It’s easier to skim money if the problem is never solved.
First – we need to stop Welfare States that can’t pull their own weight from grabbing money from the hard-working taxpayers of successful states.
No state should receive more from the Federal Government than they pay in. Yes, this will hit many Southern States very hard but it will give them the incentive to do what is necessary to generate more wealth and stop relying on handouts.
Then states like California and New York will have more of their own money to spend as they see fit.
Here are the top 10 states that spend the most on welfare per capita,
New York. Welfare spending per capita: $3,305. …
Alaska. Welfare spending per capita: $3,020. …
Massachusetts. Welfare spending per capita: $2,911. …
Vermont. Welfare spending per capita: $2,842. …
Minnesota. …
New Mexico. …
Delaware. …
Maine.
You are repeating the myth that California received less in Federal dollars than it pays. 25% of California’s state budget comes from Federal dollars, 51% of UC’s research budget comes from Federal dollars, 34% of all welfare recipients in the USA live in California, billions of Federal dollars go to Silicon Valley for research, there are 136000+ Federal employees in California…I could go on. The myth that other states get more Federal dollars than they pay in is a lesson on how to lie with statistics. It’s based primarily in the fact that many retirees move to lower cost states and they count those Social Security payments as going to those states….
You are repeating the myth that California received less in Federal dollars than it pays. 25% of California’s state budget comes from Federal dollars, 51% of UC’s research budget comes from Federal dollars, 34% of all welfare recipients in the USA live in California, billions of Federal dollars go to Silicon Valley for research, there are 136000+ Federal employees in California…I could go on. The myth that other states get more Federal dollars than they pay in is a lesson on how to lie with statistics. It’s based primarily in the fact that many retirees move to lower cost states and they count those Social Security payments as going to those states….
My heart could explode with happiness-I went to the adoptable animals page and searched small dogs and most were labeled as adopted! So this program works.
Well I don’t care what they do as long as something is done. Right now it seems money is being wasted. Cruise ships are already built and as far as drunks falling into the water if there is no alcohol or drugs on the ship at least if they fall overboard they won’t be drunk.
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