County of Sonoma’s Homeless Tent Site Shutting Down After a Year in Service

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Sonoma County’s sanctioned homeless tent site is being shut down. The Press Democrat reports that the site in front of Permit Sonoma along Administration Drive in Santa Rosa will be shut down due to increasing heat and because the tents have badly deteriorated. The site is set to close during the week of June 17th. The 18 people still living at the site are being offered temporary housing at Eliza’s Village, two former juvenile hall dormitories being renovated into temporary housing at the site of the Los Guilicos tiny home village for homeless people. The shelter cost the county $3-million dollars during its first year of operations and had been mainly run by DEMA Management and Consulting until last month. The Board of Supervisors voted to replace DEMA in April and then DEMA left suddenly in early May.