STOCKTON, Calif. — Just hours after an all-day cleanup effort, homeless people had returned Saturday to a longtime encampment in Stockton’s Mormon Slough area, frustrating nearby churchgoers and advocates who say temporary sweeps are not solving the problem.
Debris was burning again Saturday behind Restoration for Life Ministries church, where trash remained scattered across the ground.
“I expected it,” Vernon Jones Jr., who attends the church, said…