March 2023 - Blog & Press Highlights
State to install 350 tiny homes in Sacramento as part of statewide homeless housing push
Mayor Darrell Steinberg speaks to the press flanked by Gov. Gavin Newson at the tiny homes announcement.
Sacramento, CA (March 16, 2023) - The state will purchase and install 350 tiny homes in Sacramento as part of a statewide push to assist California communities in addressing the crisis of unsheltered homelessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
At a press conference at Cal Expo, the governor said his administration would supply 1,200 tiny homes statewide, including 500 for Los Angeles, 200 for San Jose and 150 for San Diego County.
In Sacramento, the state is focusing on Cal Expo as a site for placement of at least some of the tiny homes, an option that has long been pushed by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. The state will shoulder the entire cost of designing and installing the tiny home communities, but the local jurisdictions will be responsible for operating them. Sacramento city and county will be working together in the coming weeks to finalize the operations plan.
Gov. Newsom’s Cal Expo stop was the first on his multi-day “Tour of the State of California,” during which he is laying out key state initiatives for the coming year.
Print & Online
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TV & Radio
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Downtown Sacramento homelessness on the decline, city says new program is successful - ABC 10 - Mar. 28, 2023
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