Four mothers with young children are afraid they will be sleeping outdoors starting Wednesday, due to an issue that occurred when the city of Sacramento made a change to its longstanding homeless motel shelter program.
The City Motel Program, which has sheltered over 2,000 children since 2020, is being run differently as of Monday, through what is now called the Emergency Shelter Voucher program. The new program, like the last, has 200 rooms, but some of the guests will now need to pay to stay there, said Julie Hall, a city spokesperson.
According to Hall, the plan had been for all current participants to keep a room, even if they had to move motels. But as of Tuesday at 5 p.m., the city was still figuring out where at least 20 families could stay…