New Ordinance Punishes Unhoused Residents with Fines and Jail, As the Bay Area Faces a Shortage of 700,000 Affordable Homes
In mid-summer 2025, at a time when many are heading to beaches and soaking up the California sun, Bay Area homeless encampment resident Janeen Milliken is fighting back tears and loading the last of her belongings into a rundown vehicle.
Janeen is among the many unhoused individuals who were living in makeshift shelters in Ohlone Park. Now, thanks to move-along ordinances drafted to criminalize homelessness, she must find a new place to store her same old circumstances.
“I’m not exactly sure,” she said when reporters from ABC7 inquired about where she would go next…