INSTEAD OF BEING PAVED WITH GOLD, CALIFORNIA’S STREETS ARE BEING TOPPED WITH SHIT

California's homeless crisis engulfs its capital as Sacramento's business owners tell how they confront naked junkies and streets covered in feces, urine and syringes - with no solution in sight

Daily Mail
August 28, 2019

Sacramento residents and business owners have spoken to DailyMail.com about the city's growing homeless rate - which has increased by 19 per cent in the last two years - with 5,570 people living on the streets.

Hair salon owner Liz Novak brought attention to the issue last week when she uploaded a video claiming she has been forced to relocate due to an epidemic.

The main homeless camp in the city is located on North B Street.

Antique shop owner Steve Sylvester, whose business is located across Novak's, said the problem has worsened in the past 18 months due to the city's drug scene.

DailyMail.com came across discarded syringes on the sidewalk.

A waitress at Pancake Circus diner, identified only as 70-year-old Terri, said she starts every working day at 4.15am 'cleaning up needles and poop and washing down urine,' and shooing the homeless from the property.