State Senator Josh Becker's legislation, Senate Bill 1395, would further build on California's Shelter Crisis Act and is currently awaiting a vote in the California Assembly.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — At one point, Alaniah Wiley was homeless and living off a bicycle trail in Sacramento.
Now employed and housed, Wiley credited her success to interim housing during a news conference at the California State Capitol on Thursday.
“I was in one of those,” Wiley told Courthouse News, gesturing to a model interim home that sat near the west steps of the Capitol. “Now, I’m out of there, and everything is going great."
Facing a crisis in unhoused people, California lawmakers in 2017 passed a law, the Shelter Crisis Act, aimed at giving local governments more tools to create emergency shelters.
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