The first city-owned travel trailer arrived Monday at the Camp Resolution homeless encampment in North Sacramento.
The self-governing camp recently signed a lease agreement with the city of Sacramento that allows the tight-knit community to stay on the property at Arden Way and Colfax Street until every resident can be placed in permanent, stable housing.
The trailers, which can sleep three people, were given to the city by the California Office of Emergency Services in 2020 to quarantine COVID-positive homeless men and women at Cal Expo. They had been sitting vacant since 2021 before the city decided to deploy 15 of them to a homeless safe ground site in Miller Park earlier this year.
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The first city trailer at Camp Resolution will be used for administration at the camp. Dozens more trailers are expected to arrive at the encampment under the lease agreement, which also allows for the continued use of the residents’ cars, RVs and tents at the site.
“This is going to help us be able to keep people’s needs and confidentiality when we are trying to service folks,” said Crystal Sanchez, president of the Sacramento Homeless Union.
Anthony Prince, the attorney for the California Homeless Union who represented the residents of Camp Resolution in negotiations with the city, reflected on the moment.
“This has been a tremendous accomplishment by the women who have been fighting for almost 200 days to hold this territory and to wrest this concession from the city,” Prince said. “We are going to prove that organized homeless are not helpless, that they are capable of actually organizing a safe, peaceful, secure community.”
Workers deliver a city-owned travel trailer to Camp Resolution, a self-governing homeless encampment in North Sacramento, on Monday. Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com
Sharon Jones, left, one of the founders of Camp Resolution, tours a new trailer with Anthony Prince, right, the attorney for the California Homeless Union who represented the residents of Camp Resolution in negotiations with the city, in Sacramento on Monday. “This has been a tremendous accomplishment by the women who have been fighting for almost 200 days to hold this territory’ Prince said. “I think we are going to prove that organized homeless are not helpless, that they are capable of actually organizing a safe peaceful secure community.” Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com
Sharon Jones, seated, one of Camp Resolution’s founders, and Crystal Sanchez, president of the Sacramento Homeless Union, check out a new trailer delivered by the city of Sacramento to the self governing homeless encampment on Monday in North Sacramento. Sanchez said the trailer, the first of dozens expected to be delivered, will be used for administrative purposes. Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com
A view through the window of a city-owned travel trailer that was delivered Monday to the Camp Resolution homeless encampment in North Sacramento. The trailers are part of the recently signed agreement between the city, the camp and Sacramento Safe Ground that allows campers at the site to stay until permanent, stable housing is found for all its residents. Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com
Sharon Jones, left, one of the founders of Camp Resolution, strategizes inside a newly delivered travel trailer with Anthony Prince, right, the attorney for the California Homeless Union who represented the residents of Camp Resolution in negotiations with the city, in North Sacramento on Monday. The trailer, the first of dozens expected, will be used for administrative purposes for the residents of the homeless encampment. Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com
Chasity May walks her dogs Loca, left, Graceanna, center, and King past a newly delivered city-owned trailer at Camp Resolution, a self governing homeless encampment of mostly women, in North Sacramento on Monday. Many of the residents inside the camp have emotional support dogs. “They are what keep me going every day,” said May. Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com
This story was originally published April 11, 2023 12:09 PM.