Landlords and residents in California’s Bay Area are being asked to take in vagrants as homelessness continues to spiral out of control.
Several nonprofits and a mayor in the area are prodding residents and landlords to take in one of the nearly 30,000 homeless individuals in the five-county area, the Mercury News reports. Existing affordable housing developments do not have adequate room to accommodate the homeless population.
The nonprofit Safe Time in East Bay works to place homeless college students and families into residents’ spare bedrooms for up to a six-month period.
“This is something that someone can do when they just feel that despair of ‘oh my gosh, I just can’t stand seeing these poor people on the streets near my home,’” the nonprofit’s director, Christi Carpenter, told the Mercury News. Since 2017, the organization has placed upwards of 60…
