Sacramento Homeless blog

Frontpage of the Nov 18 issue of the Sac­ra­men­to News & Review . The latest issue of the Sacramento News & Review has a few items of interest to homeless folk — and if not to us, then to me. First off, an eight-page advertising supplement is in the middle for Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services , wherein the Food Bank, itself, is promoted and the Run to Feed the Hungry — a 10K or 5K run on Thanksgiving Day — with proceeds going to SFB&FS has a fullpage ad. Good stuff, but it bugs me a bit when charities spend what seems to be a lot of money asking for money — even as I fully understand why that's necessary. The start of the Run to Feed the Hungry in 2009. Of interest to me is that there is a blurb on the sidebar on the frontpage of SN&R (which you can vaguely make out in the tiny pic) which says " Fighting Hunger in Sac see SN&R special advertising supplement, inside ." It bugs me a bit when journalistic ...

The Sacramento City Planning Commission has approved plans for the construction of a temporary Greyhound bus station on Richards Blvd, in close proximity to Union Gospel Mission and a VOA family shelter on Bannon Street, an article in the Sacramento Press informs us . Work to build the facility is expected to begin in four months. The bus station is currently downtown at 715 L St., at a site city officials hope to upgrade with a more-upscale business. The temporary station on Richards will be in existence for from eight to fifteen years, until construction of the new regional transit facility at the Railyard Development is well underway, which will include a new and permanent Sacramento bus terminal. A huge concern, addressed at length in the Sacramento Press article, is the matter of "transients" [i.e., homeless people] being drawn to the bus station to panhandle or hang around or otherwise cause the bus station to seem seedy and unsavory. Quoting the article, titled...