The city of Bakersfield cut down trees on 21st and Eye Streets to continue their beautification of downtown, but it’s caused some concerns for homeless who found shade there during the heatwave.
- Video shows trees cut down on 21st and Eye Streets
- Alexander Davidson has been experiencing homelessness for more than a year and used the trees on 21st and Eye Streets to escape the heat, but now they’ve been cut down, he has to look for another place for shade.
For those with nowhere to go under Bakersfield sun, trees like this have become a place of refuge from the heat, but these stumps are what’s left behind after the city of Bakersfield cut down two trees for a beautification project, concerning homeless advocates.
This was home for some of the unsheltered people in Bakersfield.
“Everybody always says, ‘go home, go home, go home.’ It’s like… if I had a home, I’d be there,” Alexander Davidson, who’s been experiencing homelessness for more than a year, said.
But, Davidson says he watched as the city of Bakersfield cut down his place of refuge.