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The Sonoma County town that embraced its tent city


The Sonoma County town that embraced its tent city
Angela Hart, Kaiser Health News
April 11, 2021
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From May to November, Santa Rosa spent $680,000 to supply and manage a tent city at a popular neighborhood community center. The six-month experiment charted a new course for the Northern California city s approach to homeless services. (Angela Hart/KHN/TNSAngela Hart/TNS
SANTA ROSA, Calif. They knew the neighborhood would revolt.
It was early May, and officials in this Northern California city known for its farm-to-table dining culture and pumped-up housing prices were frantically debating how to keep COVID-19 from infiltrating the homeless camps proliferating in the region’s celebrated parks and trails. For years, the number of people living homeless in Santa Rosa and the verdant hills and valleys of broader Sonoma County had crept downward and then surged, exacerbated by three punishing wildfire seasons that destroyed thousands of ....

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