Nearly two years after closing a high-profile sanctioned homeless encampment, the city of Sacramento is now opening its own version.
The new “safe camping” site, located in the River District just north of downtown, has space for 96 tents on raised wood platforms under shade canopies. It’s missing some of the amenities offered at most of the other Sacramento shelters, such as air conditioning, heat or meals. However, the site does offer security, shade, showers, porta-potties and case managers.
“It’s not perfect,” Mayor Kevin McCarty said Tuesday during a news conference. “But I’d like to go down the street and ask if it is better than being outside. We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”…