The day after Christmas, Rytina Heyne received a phone call.
Staff at a Sacramento County homeless shelter had found her younger sister dead in C11 —one of the 125 sleeping cabins on site. Staff called paramedics, who arrived and performed CPR, without success. She had been unresponsive for too long. A Coroner’s Office official declared her deceased at the scene.
After decades of struggling with addiction and domestic violence, Candyce Dysinger, 51, had recently found herself homeless, sleeping in her truck in a Walmart parking lot. She enrolled in the Florin Road Safe Stay Shelter for help finding a new apartment. But she was still struggling with addiction…