STOCKTON – A homeless shelter under construction in Stockton is forcing the homeless people near the area to pack up and leave.
People who live in tents near the shelter were given a vacate notice by code enforcement and given 72 hours to pack up and leave.
The notices on West Church Street were given on Tuesday morning, as construction on St. Mary’s Pathways Modular Unit homeless housing shelter reaches its seventh month.
The $17 million shelter is projected to welcome around 300 unhoused people in Stockton when it’s complete.
“When we get those notices we already have anxiety like oh my god, oh my god we have to go,” Cutie, who lives in a tent right across the street from St. Mary’s, said.
She along with dozens of others who have set up tents and shelters of their own, watching the construction, hoping to get a chance to live in the shelter, they’re now being forced to move for.
“Where we were living, they did a restoration and then they doubled the rent,” Misty Chamorro said. “So with me and my husband on one income, it’s just me and my disability.”