Sacramento Could Be First To Establish ‘Legal Right To Housing’ — Here’s How It Would Work

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A first-of-its-kind lodging connection is connected the array astatine the Sacramento City Council Meeting. The metropolis could go the archetypal to found a “legal close to housing” for the homeless.

The determination would forestall the stateless from camping connected streets and successful parks if metropolis lodging is available.

Mayor Darryl Steinberg says helium wants to “move to needle” connected the stateless situation present successful Sacramento by 2023. Two civilian rights groups accidental the instrumentality is atrocious argumentation and could interruption law rights.

Under the plan, erstwhile the metropolis offers a stateless idiosyncratic astatine slightest 2 forms of structure oregon lodging that idiosyncratic has to judge it oregon beryllium moved from their site.

Two stateless assemblage members, Rhonda Clayborne and Chris Lance, accidental if the metropolis offered them an enactment wrong wherever they could enactment on with their dog, they’d beryllium happy.

“As agelong arsenic we tin beryllium together, I person nary problem,” Chris said.

So what bash these lodging options look like? The 2 options could beryllium structures similar rental homes, apartments, edifice rooms, shelters, trailers, and tiny location villages, oregon harmless crushed camping sites.

Homeless advocates question the legality of the connection and accidental the trauma of being uprooted whitethorn origin bigger problems.

“When radical garbage those 2 options for immoderate reason? What’s going to hap to them?” Faye Kennedy with the Poor People’s Campaign said,

Mayor Steinberg says those who refuse, wouldn’t look transgression oregon civilian charges, but the metropolis could enforce a no-camping argumentation wherever they stay.

He says it’s imaginable for the radical who decline, determination is simply a accidental they could conscionable determination their tract down the street.

“This is not perfect, yes, but if we enactment the instrumentality down us, we volition assistance much people,” said Mayor Steinberg.

The ordinance would lone screen radical who person been housed successful Sacramento for astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth earlier becoming homeless.

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Steinberg says that’s needed to forestall the metropolis from becoming a “magnet” for stateless people.