Tagged With "homeless"

By Debora Villalon, May 19, 2020, KTVU. The goal is to give people on the street someplace to stay that's sanitary and provides social distance. Already, the city has moved some people from its main homeless shelter into motels. The camp targets those on the streets. "I feel safe wherever I go, I honestly believe if the Lord wants me, he'll take me, " said James, 68, one of the first to arrive at the Finley Community Center. Please click here to read the full story.

By Jonathan Greenberg, December 11, 2021, Sonoma Independent. Hypocritical campaign targeting affordable trailers & tiny homes creates more homeless people than county government creates housing for A three month long investigation initiated by Sonoma Independent, the award-winning public interest solutions and advocacy website, reveals that Permit Sonoma ordered property owners to vacate 189 inhabited dwellings between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021. These citations, enforced by...

My friend is one of the people impacted by this, though she is fighting eviction. On top of all the other awfulness about this, is evictions taking place because of composting toilets in tiny homes. When in truth, composting toilets are a sustainable way to return our excrement to the living soil instead of wasting water dumping it into sewage. See their petition: https://www.change.org/p/sonom...ec-a8ec-dfe67e010ac7