Brenda from Sonoma County

SONOMA county, the county I live in is considered wine country, but it’s become slum country.

The city of Santa Rosa is one of the top 5 cities with the largest homeless population in the US!

Our neighborhoods and businesses are being terrorized by addicts, criminals and mentally ill transients, a majority of which are from outside the county and from other states. Our outreach workers off shelter and services, which the homeless repeatedly refuse. SOS to the White House. Please intervene and send the military to take the transients off the streets and put them into court ordered correctional facilities, treatment facilities and institutions.

Sonoma County alone, has spent over $150 million since 2015 and the homeless has gotten worse, even before COVID19.

Our city Council and board of supervisors will not entertain high barrier facilities because HUD funds are only allocated for low barrier shelters. Low barrier sanctioned encampments enable addiction and mental illness, and lead to their further demise and some, to death.