ABC10 followed up with a Sacramento restaurant owner after he said an encampment has returned in recent months.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Solutions to the homelessness crisis are complicated, costly and slow-going.
Advocates say they are doing the work, and they know more needs to be done. Others are fed up with the issues they see on the streets.
“I’ve got to say something to somebody to try to save my business,” Mike Sacca told ABC10 in late April.
He owns Golden Corral on West Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento. At the time, he said people in a nearby encampment were leaving trash, causing vandalism and intimidating customers.
“They spray paint the building, they’ve broken windows,” Sacca said. “This is an ongoing daily thing for us.”
After ABC10’s story aired, he said the camp was cleared.
However, people and issues have returned.
“This pipe here used to connect down to this pipe, inch and a half of copper piping, …