Housing Now is hosting a workshop on November 14th 2019 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

If you missed this workshop last month, please join Patti Uplinger, Executive Director of Housing Now and Virginia Perez from Renter’s Helpline.
This workshop is for Direct Service Providers, Trainers, and Case Managers and contains valuable information and resources needed to assist and support our clients with their housing needs.
If you or any of your staff members would like to attend contact Anna directly at the phone number or email listed.
If you have already registered, thank you and we look forward to seeing you on the 14th!

Anna B. Nelson
On My Own Independent Living Services
Cell: (916) 792-0800
Office: (916) 726-0792 ext. 128

Applications can be submitted online at www.sacwaitlist.com using any device with Internet access, including iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices.

SACRAMENTO HOUSING AUTHORITY TO OPEN WAIT LIST FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PUBLIC HOUSING

Full report here: https://sacramentostepsforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-Final-PIT-Report-1.pdf

The CA Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) wants your input on housing needs in our communities. Please complete the survey (also available in Spanish) and share with individuals you serve, as they are looking for input from a broad array of sources. See the email below for more information!

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is calling for an enforceable statewide “right to shelter” mandate that would require communities to have enough shelter space or other housing to accommodate their homeless populations, a strategy modeled after a decades-long program in New York City.

The “right to shelter” mandate will pool millions of dollars for housing and establish a legal requirement requiring that a homeless individual or family accept housing when available.

Read the full article here: https://www.sacbee.com/article232781027.html

https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/out-alone/content?oid=28401669

Out and alone: Three-day eviction notice puts disabled man into homelessness as city’s rental crisis intensifies

“Last week, Housing Now’s Patti Uplinger told SN&R the situation for disabled renters is, generally, as challenging as ever.

‘I just read the report that Sacramento came in as one of the highest cities in the nation for year-to-year rent hikes, for the third year in a row,” Uplinger said. “I can just look back to last October when I was working with Sacramento Self-Help Housing to get people into the county’s shelter system. Most of the people we took off the streets, and off the river, were seniors with disabilities.'”