This weekend Sacramento saw the annual Homeward Stakedown event put on by the Sacramento Housing Organizing Committee (SHOC). This is the second year that SHOC has put on an event, this year the focus is to try and help SafeGround Sacramento.
Present on Friday were a number of the organizers for Safeground Sacramento, members of Loaves and Fishes, as well as various homeless advocates from the area. The site hosted several campsites and the largest estimated crowd expected was roughly 40 people according to Paula, a SHOC organizer.
Although the turn out wasn't staggering the event's organizers stated that they acheived what they wanted to achieve with the event. Their main goal was to raise awareness and activate as many people as they could on the issue of homelessness and the "anti-homeless" camping ordinances that Sacramento has in place.
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