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The property at 2439 Meadowlark Circle in West Sacramento used to operate housing programs for mental health clients. (Shelley Ho)<\/p>\nThe Abridged version: <\/p>\n
Yolo County is preparing to sell a property in West Sacramento that once served as transitional housing for mental health clients.<\/p>\n
The move comes years after neighbors pushed back against the facility and successfully halted operations there.<\/p>\n
The money generated by the sale will be used to bolster the county\u2019s behavioral health programs.<\/p>\n
Halfway down a quiet residential street in West Sacramento, a single-family home owned by Yolo County sits empty.<\/p>\n
Purchased by the Yolo County Housing Authority nearly two decades ago, the property was meant to provide temporary housing with supportive services for mental health clients. It did so for years, serving as one of West Sacramento\u2019s transitional programs funded by the Mental Health Services Act.<\/p>\n
But in 2019, a guest of one of the tenants at the property caused enough damage to the home that residents had to move out for repairs.<\/p>\n
After that, neighbors, some of whom didn\u2019t know how the property was being used, began expressing opposition to its placement.<\/p>\n
Efforts at outreach and engagement failed, and the county eventually conceded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey shut it down,\u201d said Paris Clay, who lives across the street.<\/p>\n
Now, officials are taking steps to sell the house and use the proceeds to support other behavioral health programs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe West Sac facility has not really worked out,\u201d Supervisor Oscar Villegas said during a late June board meeting.<\/p>\n
The property at 2439 Meadowlark Circle in West Sacramento used to operate housing programs for mental health clients. (Shelley Ho)<\/p>\n
Neighborhood opposition<\/p>\n
Clay said the Southport neighborhood, known locally as Pheasant Hollow, is pretty well settled. Many on the block have lived there for years, raising kids who walk to school past tidy gardens on clean sidewalks.<\/p>\n
The house across the street from his mostly flew under the radar with his neighbors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wasn\u2019t aware of what that was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But some started having negative interactions with residents.<\/p>\n
Clay said that one of his kids was followed home by a resident, unsettling both.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt rattled me a little bit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After the residents moved out for repairs, the county held a meeting with neighbors to discuss the property and its ongoing use as a transitional housing facility. Clay and others spoke out against it.<\/p>\n
Now that they knew what the property was being used for, neighbors were \u201cnot going for it this time around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After that, the house mostly sat empty, with someone coming by periodically to mow the lawn and trim the hedges.<\/p>\n
It stayed like that for years, Clay said.<\/p>\n
Selling the property<\/p>\n
Supervisors voted last month to authorize the county\u2019s purchase of the property in West Sacramento from the Yolo County Housing Authority for just over $38,000. Now that the home is officially back in county hands, it can be sold for more.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intent is to sell the property and try to find a location that is more suitable for the mental health needs that were described this morning,\u201d said Villegas, referring to a public commenter who spoke of the need for behavioral health resources in Yolo County.<\/p>\n
Officials said the county will use the money from the sale for other behavioral health programs in West Sacramento. But not at the property in Pheasant Hollow.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, the County does not plan to operate another program at the property,\u201d said Will Arnold, spokesperson for Yolo County.<\/p>\n
Daniel Hennessy is a reporter covering Yolo County for Abridged by PBS KVIE. He joined Abridged through the California Local News Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Yolo County is preparing to sell a property in West Sacramento that once served as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-399023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399023","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=399023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}