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Last month, SacramentoMayor Kevin McCarty stood at the Roseville Road Campus — a shelter tucked along the edge of Del Paso Park — and declared the future of the city’s homeless strategy.
The shelter, which opened in January 2024, will soon expand by 135 new tiny homes. For years, Sacramento had sparsely used the structures to house homeless people and relied mostly on congregate shelters and its motel shelter program. Only about 13% of the city’s current shelter beds come from tiny homes…