As California continues to face an epic homelessness crisis, Sacramento County has a sliver of good news: The number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness has decreased by 41% since 2022, according to the recent Point-in-Time count.
But the overall numbers are still higher than 2019 levels, due in part to rising rents, stagnant wages, lasting impacts of the pandemic and a lack of affordable housing. For many advocates, the mission is as solid as a Lego block: get people off the streets and into stable environments ASAP. While it can take five or more years to build permanent homes, interim housing has popped up around the state as a critical stopgap solution.
With nearly 4,000 people still without shelter in Sacramento, these scalable options have become not only valuable but vital, according to Elizabeth Funk, founder and CEO of DignityMoves, a nonprofit focused on interim housing solutions to address unsheltered homelessness…