Rebuilding Sacramento’s Livelihood Issue Background: Masses of homeless people occupying deserted lots and behind/in front of operating businesses creates an eyesore for the general public and obstacles for the business owners. These areas of living are filthy and have non-livable circumstances, often time pets and children are subjected to these conditions. The large groups of homeless people leads to the improper disposal of syringes and other drug paraphernalia. Our Solution to this Problem: Our cause is focused on requiring the homeless to complete community service projects instead of ticketing them and arresting those with small offenses, such as drug offenses, loitering, and soliciting. Instead of arresting and ticketing the homeless the city will require them to enroll in projects that will better them, such as: · Skill building workshops · GED completion or higher education programs · Drug prevention/Rehabilitation. Specific Objectives: · Holding a two-week training period to educate all Sacramento law enforcement on how to address the homeless community by limiting arrests for small offenses such as loitering, soliciting, and/or littering. This will reduce the homeless populations in jails by 15%. · If law enforcement happens to pick up an intoxicated homeless person, they are required to complete a four-week rehabilitation program. Doing so can lessen homeless drug use and dealing by 18%, which can lead to cleaner and drug free areas. · Sacramento will provide free, taxpayer funded programs promoting the obtainment of GEDs or skill certificates for low entry level jobs. This will be a step in the right direction for the homeless community wishing to obtain jobs and better themselves. This program will provide at least 250 jobs for homeless people in the next year. More Resources: (click the images below for more information)

Sacramento Law Enforcement pledges to refrain from putting homless in jail for minor offenses and instead to help enroll them into rehabilitations programs. We promise to better the lives and neighborhoods of Sacramento. Homelessness in Sacramento County has reached a high population of 5,570. An increase of 19% sinec 2017. Those included are veterans, teens, and even families. Some of these affected struggle with mental illness or addiction. Salon Owner Elizabeth Novak forced to move her business out of Sacramento due to mounting issues of homeless invading her property – “When I come into work, I’m never sure what I am going to walk into. I’ve been broken into, I’ve had my glass broken, I clean up human excrement off my doorstep every week, cups of urine, things like that.” Keri Amaral of Alchemy Salon & Spa on how homelessness has affected her business – “I don’t think its just a homeless issue. I thnk it’s a homeless, drug, criminal issue.” “We call the cops every single day.”

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