SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) — In Sonoma County, a parking lot where many homeless individuals park overnight is closing.
ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena went to the site where the issue is looming over a community that is hoping for a county intervention soon.
For the last eight years, Randy Walker has called his car home.
“It’s a little more secure here,” Walker said. “My main thing that I have is my solar battery and that gives me power. I can charge my phone.”
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Walker became homeless after his landlord passed away. Three years ago, the parking lot at the Quaker meeting house of Santa Rosa became the refuge he and others yearned for.
“This is like home. Our bedroom is that parking lot. There are six to seven of us there, and we are all in our senior years. Sixty and above,” Walker …