\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA transition in Sacramento\u2019s Step Up on Second shelter and transitional housing program has left about 20 to 25 families displaced in the last 24 hours, forcing some to sleep on the street, in parking lots, or inside their cars. Among those displaced is 11-year-old Keith Smith, who is now living in a car with his sister, their disabled mother, and all of their belongings. Keith described the conditions they faced overnight and the toll the situation has taken on his mother.\u201cI mean you don’t have to worry about heating, close that door, close the door, it heats up like an oven,\u201d Keith said. He also said his mother has a leg injury and uses a walker.Isaac Wright, whose family of four has lived at a Motel 6 for the last two years, said the sudden displacement has been devastating.\u201cIt\u2019s like y\u2019all kicked us out and it\u2019s now just like I don\u2019t like, you know, we keep dropping like we\u2019re going below rock bottom,\u201d Wright said.He said families believed they would be guaranteed vouchers and replacement rooms, but that did not happen.\u201cWell, at first we didn\u2019t know we were supposed to, you know, leave because they guarantee everybody vouchers, and everybody rooms, so they just kicked us out like\u2026 We were waiting in the parking lot for four hours just to say leave,\u201d Wright said.The city of Sacramento said about 150 families were part of the housing program that is being replaced by a new voucher-based system. According to the city, most families made the transition successfully, but around 25 families were displaced.The Sacramento Homeless Union said it has been working to support those affected and warned that the disruption has hit some of the community\u2019s most vulnerable residents.The city said families unable to secure a room at participating motels would be offered space at the city\u2019s Outreach and Engagement Center. Officials also noted that some motel owners refused to honor vouchers for a small number of families because of previous issues.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A transition in Sacramento\u2019s Step Up on Second shelter and transitional housing program has left about 20 to 25 families displaced in the last 24 hours, forcing some to sleep on the street, in parking lots, or inside their cars. <\/p>\n
Among those displaced is 11-year-old Keith Smith, who is now living in a car with his sister, their disabled mother, and all of their belongings. Keith described the conditions they faced overnight and the toll the situation has taken on his mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean you don’t have to worry about heating, close that door, close the door, it heats up like an oven,\u201d Keith said. He also said his mother has a leg injury and uses a walker.<\/p>\n
Isaac Wright, whose family of four has lived at a Motel 6 for the last two years, said the sudden displacement has been devastating.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like y\u2019all kicked us out and it\u2019s now just like I don\u2019t like, you know, we keep dropping like we\u2019re going below rock bottom,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n
He said families believed they would be guaranteed vouchers and replacement rooms, but that did not happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, at first we didn\u2019t know we were supposed to, you know, leave because they guarantee everybody vouchers, and everybody rooms, so they just kicked us out like\u2026 We were waiting in the parking lot for four hours just to say leave,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n
The city of Sacramento said about 150 families were part of the housing program that is being replaced by a new voucher-based system. <\/p>\n
According to the city, most families made the transition successfully, but around 25 families were displaced.<\/p>\n
The Sacramento Homeless Union said it has been working to support those affected and warned that the disruption has hit some of the community\u2019s most vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n
The city said families unable to secure a room at participating motels would be offered space at the city\u2019s Outreach and Engagement Center. <\/p>\n
Officials also noted that some motel owners refused to honor vouchers for a small number of families because of previous issues.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A transition in Sacramento\u2019s Step Up on Second shelter and transitional housing program has left about 20 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6996,1011,121,123,122,141396,141395],"class_list":["post-343912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-cars","tag-housing","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sleeping","tag-step-up-on-second"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}