There was a call to action Saturday on the steps of the State Capitol. With one painted fence plank at time, local groups rally to put an end to homelessness.
Tara CampbellThere was a call to action on the steps of the State Capitol. One painted fence plank at time, local groups rally to put an end to homelessness.Voters were asked in this primary to approve billions of dollars in bonds to provide housing for the homeless and the mentally ill.The unhoused issue was also in the spotlight on Saturday at the State Capitol, thanks to some Bay Area activists."Tiny Village Spirit. We build tiny house villages for homeless people.
"A lot of like supportive programs where we put art all over everything. We try to make it very beautiful like a place that they would want to live," said Gonzalez. Proposition 1 on the ballot this March would use over $6 billion in bonds to provide housing for 11,000 people with mental health needs across the state. But not everyone agrees this is the best approach.
"I think this is tying together what people in the community know on the ground as people who work with the unhoused. And the legislators who are up in their offices who may not see what's happening they get the view, they get the vision, and they put it in practice as far as policy," she said.ABC7 News followed volunteers as they combed through the streets of San Francisco to find and count the number of people who are unhoused."I'm from the unhoused community.
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