The City of Sacramento has completed the expansion of its Roseville Road shelter-and-service campus, adding an additional 135 tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness.
One hundred of these homes have been placed on the campus’ northern lot, which previously was empty. The other 35 tiny homes have replaced the travel trailers that were being used as shelter on the campus’ southern lot and were not connected to electricity.
The Roseville Road campus now includes 196 total units—100 on the north campus and 96 on the south campus—all connected to electricity and equipped with heating and air conditioning.
“Our top priority is to provide people experiencing unsheltered homelessness with a safe place to go,” said Mayor Kevin McCarty. “These 100 new tiny homes at the just completed Roseville Road Campus North Expansion are a significant step in the right direction. We listened to the community and are investing in solutions with dignity; each resident will have on-site support services, heat and air conditioning, internet, hot meals, water and sanitation, and, most importantly, a space of their own.”
Service provider The Gathering Inn is operating the north side of the campus. First Step Communities continues to operate the southern portion.
Step Up on Second, which provides case-carrying outreach to unsheltered residents in Sacramento, will also have office space on campus, as will County of Sacramento behavioral health specialists, making the facility a hub for homeless services.
“We have long envisioned Roseville Road as a place where we can bring together multiple providers to offer comprehensive support to people experiencing homeless,” said Brian Pedro, director of the City’s Department of Community Response. “With the expansion of the campus, and with the addition of partner organizations working on site, we are closer than ever to fully realizing that goal.”
Construction of the expanded campus took the City nine months to complete. It was funded by the State of California and designed to serve people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the area around the Sacramento Northern Parkway. Through coordinated outreach and engagement efforts, 22 guests accepted offers of shelter in the new tiny homes at Roseville Road.
The City’s Department of Community Response applied for and received a $12.4 million Encampment Resolution Funds (ERF) grant from the California Department of Housing and Community Development to purchase and construct additional tiny homes, improve overall infrastructure at the campus, expand outreach services in the community and enhance shelter and housing support.
The ERF grant also funds operations at the campus for two years.
“Getting residents off the streets requires action and investment, and the expansion of the Roseville Road Shelter proves we are following through,” said Councilmember Roger Dickinson, who represents the area. “This successful partnership with the State and our providers ensures that we are significantly increasing our shelter capacity with units that provide safety, health and a real chance to rebuild. This work is far from over, but this is tangible progress.”
Initially opened in 2024, the Roseville Road campus—located at a former U.S. Air National Guard facility—provides safe shelter with comprehensive on-site services to support clients as they work to stabilize their lives and transition to more permanent housing.
The Roseville Road shelter-and-service campus is part of the City’s broader strategy to reduce unsheltered homelessness, safely address encampments and expand access to interim housing paired with services and pathways to permanent housing.
In the past year, DCR has launched several new initiatives to significantly expand the City’s shelter capacity in a cost-effective manner, including safe camping and safe parking sites as well as micro-communities for seniors.
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