Caravan of Trailers for Homeless Arrive in Santa Rosa

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A caravan of state trailers that will form part of Sonoma County’s efforts to address homelessness arrived in Santa Rosa on Thursday.

The ten travel trailers, each one towed by a Cal Trans truck, arrived just after noon and were parked in a county lot at the county administrative center just off Mendocino Avenue.

Several weeks ago the county asked for a share of the 100 trailers that Governor Gavin Newsom made available in January as part of a package designed to address the homeless crisis across the state.

Here in Sonoma County, county supervisors have signaled that the trailers will be used at one of two indoor-outdoor shelters that are scheduled to be set up by May. At a Board of Supervisors meeting on March 10th, ten or more proposed locations for those shelters will be unveiled, and narrowed to a list of 3-4 possible sites.

Then, at another Board meeting on March 24th, the Supervisors are expected to finalize the location of the indoor-outdoor facilities, which are each expected to accommodate approximately 40 residents.

All of this is part of a $12 million suite of measures that the supervisors approved in December to address the homeless crisis along the Joe Rodota Trail and elsewhere in Sonoma County.

The county has said that the 60 pallet shelters currently being used at the Los Guilicos emergency shelter will be moved to one of the new shelter locations when the Los Guilicos facility closes at the end of April.

Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Susan Gorin told News of the North Bay that the state trailers that arrived Thursday are just a small piece of a much larger effort to get Sonoma County’s homeless off the street and into permanent stable housing.