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CORRESPONDENCE
Description of Attached: Correspondence received after publishing the Agenda.
For the Meeting of: Tuesday, April 19, 2022, at 5:00 p.m.
Agenda Item: Consent Item 17
17. November 8, 2022 Municipal Election – Call and Give Notice for Placement of A Measure on the Ballot: Emergency Shelter and Enforcement Act of 2022 File ID: 2022-00905
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution calling and giving notice of the placement of a measure on the November 8, 2022: Municipal Election Ballot: Emergency Shelter and Enforcement Act of 2022.
Contact: Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk, [email protected], (916) 808-5442 and Wendy Klock-Johnson, [email protected], Chief Assistant City Clerk, (916) 808-7509, Office of the City Clerk
From: clerk
To: Public Comment
Subject: FW: comments on 4/19 agenda item #17
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 9:52:08 AM
Attachments: comments to council april 19 item #17.pdf
Housing First Saves Your Tax Money.pdf
From: Muriel Strand <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:10 AM
To: clerk <[email protected]>
Subject: comments on 4/19 agenda item #17
dear clerk,
please forward these comments (2 documents) to council members at your earliest convenience, and confirm they have been sent.
thanks, muriel
Muriel Strand, P.E.
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April 19, 2022 To: Sacramento City Council From: Muriel Strand, P.E. Re: Proposed Ballot Measure “Emergency Shelter and Enforcement Act of 2022” The Sacramento City Council should respond to this blackmail ploy from the business ‘community’ by composing and placing on the ballot an additional measure that would actually provide solutions to homelessness rather than just the same old failed policy of sweeping the problem under the rug. Pretending to address the problem by repeatedly sweeping encampments from one location to another location to then yet another location and then back to the first one is a total waste of taxpayers’ money, staff time, and community trust. Homelessness is a market failure, and the solutions to homelessness won’t be found in business as usual. While larger forces play a key role in creating the problem of homelessness, Sacramento will never be able to effectively transition people into stability if their meager belongings are regularly stolen by officials, and their attempts to find living-wage jobs are continually thwarted by having to start again and again and again and again and again to assemble the resources to do so. Sweeping the symptoms of this perpetual market failure under the rug again and again and again and again makes the council look really stupid. I challenge you all to step up to the plate and work with all community participants in good faith to develop a real solution, because the chamber of commerce proposal is just a recipe for more market failure. And that means that homelessness will just keep getting worse, not better. I challenge you all to treat homeless people with respect, and to insist that the community as a whole follow that example. Sheltered people are individuals who are generally respected, and the unsheltered are far more likely to achieve stability if their rights are actually respected. Communities are composed of relationships among individuals, and the solutions to homelessness lie in creating and supporting individual relationships between the sheltered and the unsheltered. Can Sacramento be the kind of community that fosters and supports respectful relationships and treats the unsheltered the way we would all like to be treated? Because otherwise, this flagrant market failure will continue and only be worsened by the abuse that will ensue if this punitive ordinance is passed. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Housing First Saves Your Tax Money The Housing First approach to reducing homelessness was designed to house those who were chronically homeless. It turned out this policy could save over $10,000 per homeless person per year by eliminating much of the costs of hospital emergency room visits, ambulance services, police costs for citations and sweeps, as well as costs for jail and court proceedings. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there are basically two types of homelessness and two different strategies that offer the most cost-effective approach: 1. Rapid re-housing provides short-term assistance for those who face a temporary crisis but can resume working for a livelihood once the hole in their boat is patched up. This may include finding housing, rental assistance, moving help, and case management. The time frame is typically on the order of several months. A variety of studies have shown that between 75 percent and 91 percent of such households remain housed a year after being rapidly re-housed. 2. The chronically homeless require a different approach. Permanent supportive housing is appropriate for those with chronic illnesses, disabilities, PTSD, etc. Those who have been homeless for a long time take longer to adjust. Experience has shown that the stability of permanent housing, ideally with wraparound services, allows the formerly homeless to redirect a substantial amount of their energy from merely trying to survive towards improving their lives by reducing stress and addiction while improving their diet and health. How much does Sacramento city and county spend on sweeping the homeless hither and yon, stealing their tents and other meager possessions including IDs and birth certificates, impounding and crushing their camper-vehicles, serving warrants and putting them in jail, and treating them in hospital emergency rooms? All this enforcement means lots of expensive staff time, including benefits and pensions, just to take from those who have the very least, or to offer Homeless advocates estimate that thousands of Sacramento SRO (single-room occupancy) rooms have been destroyed in the past few decades. And shortly before the 2008 mortgage meltdown, the city council stopped requiring developers to build affordable housing along with the profitable McMansions they prefer. Now we are reaping what they sowed, and they just keep trying to sweep the problem under the rug where the Metro Chamber wants to hide it. But the rug is getting really lumpy. It is a mystery why the business community wants Sacramento city and county to keep wasting money on policies that everyone knows don’t work. Muriel Strand https://sacshoc.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/hw26-1web2.pdf