Homeless people deserve a safe place to
be.
We believe everyone deserves SAFE GROUND!
There are over 1200 people sleeping outside every night in Sacramento and the numbers are growing! Shelters are full, so for many the options are few: sleep in a car, if you have one, or break the law and sleep illegally on the streets.
By Luis Saavedra Student at Cristo Rey High School
This is unfair and unjust!
Everyone should have a safe place where they can go at night and sleep without fear. That's why we need a safe ground. Sacramento needs a safe "legalized" campground where homeless folks can have clean water, bathrooms, and trash services until our City, County and State are willing and able to provide adequate shelters and affordable housing for the growing numbers of homeless folks.
Loaves & Fishes along with Safe Ground Sacramento, Francis House, Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Volunteers of America, and other homeless advocacy groups are supporting a new Safe Ground site called "Eden" or "a Stepping Stone to Home". This new site is located behind the Union Gospel Mission and Bannon Street shelters. The plans for it consist of 60 Tuff Sheds equipped for sleeping at night, communal food preparation area, and restrooms. The site will be staffed with support personnel to assist the residents in challenging their individual barriers to achieving more permanent housing. For more information on this new site visit our Safe Ground – Stepping Stone page.
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What People Are Saying
- Sacramento Bee - Loaves & Fishes clients pack food for others in need.
- Sacramento Bee - Sacramento homeless women to receive new footwear
- Sacramento Bee - A homeless man and a tiny dog help each other on Sacramento's streets
- Hosting Safe Ground - Kirstin Paisley writes about her experience hosting the homeless at Trinity Cathedral
- Intel - Volunteers from Intel donate computer lab for the homeless.
- Advocates Get Tuff on Homeless - Village Of Tuff Sheds Proposed To House Sacramento's Homeless – KCRA 3 Video
- Dean Brian Baker's Blog - "Homeless Building Habitat Houses"
- Sacramento Bee Opinion - "Ginger Rutland – Homeless 'safe ground' not quite Eden, but a step"