Don't you got any better to. Do then pick on homeless people

The better question is, why not try to help the homeless?

In 2022 VPD received a $900,000 grant to provide services to persons experiencing homelessness.

IHART should now be equipped to provide referrals and connections to additional relevant providers and additional stakeholders that include mental health care providers, inpatient referrals, outpatient services, homelessness service providers, linkages to shelters and housing navigation for clients experiencing homelessness, substance abuse disorder providers, and linkages to other basic needs and community supports.

This funding should help with this request!

The reported encampment is on City property, and recent federal court cases have restricted removal of homeless encampments on public property. In Martin v. City of Boise, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous decision, finding that the City of Boise’s prohibition against sleeping in public violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment when no alternative shelter is available. Thus, cities cannot enforce camping/lodging prohibitions if their local homeless population faces inadequate shelter space. However, the City will continue to monitor the location and assist with clean-ups when appropriate.

Citizens can reasonably expect that the camping restriction ordinance (030 VMC) is rationally related to legitimate local interests and should not preempted by state law. Residents of the city of Vallejo may reject any argument that the local ordinance has been preempted by California state or Federal law which reserves to the state the right to regulate the property rights of persons experiencing homelessness, the purpose of the ordinance is to regulate camping; it does not purport to regulate the rights of property ownership.

This caught on fire this morning, hopefully no one was injured and VFD arrived swiftly to put it out. This could have been much, much worse with all of the dry grass and plastic tarps/trash in this growing homeless “village” Maybe NOW the city will put an end to this as a campsite? We can see the campfires at night almost every night by the various tents. Someone could get hurt or cause a massive grassfire, right near the bridge entrance. Please DO SOMETHING!

From May into November...this problem has been allowed to fester and become worse. Vehicles, off-leash animals, human and other waste, trash piling up, trees and grass vandalized and set on fire. When you acknowledge a problem and do nothing, you are responsible. Please do something to address this issue! Time for Code Enforcement to do more than monitor this situation. Clean-up is needed desperately!