SACRAMENTO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT WINS A LEASE — AND HOPES TO BE A MODEL FOR CALIFORNIA

Residents at an encampment who successfully negotiated a formal lease with the city of Sacramento called on homeless people across the nation to follow their example at a Saturday news conference. The new lease binds city officials to an agreement: The people in Camp Resolution cannot be moved from the parking lot until every resident has been placed into permanent, stable housing.

Camp Resolution leaders Sharon Jones, left, and Joyce Williams, right, embrace after a press conference announcing a formal lease agreement between the city and the encampment on Colfax street in North Sacramento on Saturday, April 1, 2023. Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com

Ariane Lange https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/homeless/article273844115.html