County, City Adopt Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plan

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Sacramento County supervisors voted last month to adopt the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan and accept $12.8 million in state funding. The funds will be allocated for the expansion of scattered site sheltering, outreach teams and youth serving programs, the county said. The plan, adopted March 12 and otherwise known as All In Sacramento, strives to address the challenges of people experiencing homelessness in the region by providing the overall strategic framework for a unified approach to addressing homelessness across the county. The plan primarily aims to reduce the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness by 20% between the 2024 Point-in-Time count and the 2026 count, and increase the percentage of people exiting to permanent housing this year to at least 42%. The city on the same day also passed the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan. All In Sacramento builds off a local homelessness action plan approved by the county and city in 2022. That plan established a community-wide strategic framework to address homelessness. Supervisors Patrick Kennedy, Phil Serna and Rich Desmond voted for the plan March 12, while Sue Frost and Pat Hume voted against it. “We’re not throwing a dart...