Sacramento County workers swept a longtime homeless encampment in Rio Linda on Monday, driving out people from structures in the Dry Creek Parkway that some said they had inhabited for as long as 10 years.
One of the homeless campers was Carol Dutcher, 60, who said she had lived at the location for four years.
“They don’t care that they destroyed my home and I have no where to go or place to sleep tonight,” she said in tears. “Could you move your whole house in two days, four days? I don’t think anybody could.”
Workers used heavy equipment to level one of Dutcher’s structures, after checking to make sure her cats and kittens weren’t inside.
Carol Dutcher, 60, disconnects a light fixture as she scurries to take what she can before her structure is bulldozed in Rio Linda on Monday. “I guess I can’t take my bed,” said Dutcher, who said she had lived at the site for four years. She was able to move a few things and was hoping a friend could come with a pick-up truck before the county loaded it into a dump truck.
Displaced camper Chaming Vang, 38, said the campers had only been given two days’ notice of the sweep.
“They don’t have a place for us to go, so where am I supposed to go?” she said. “They gave us 48 hours to move. I work, and the thing is — I can’t do all this in 48 hours. They have to give us at least 30 days.”
Vang said she had lived in the parkway for 10 years. Her encampment consisted of several intricate structures with multiple rooms, gardens and a healthy number of chickens and cats.
Sacramento County Park Rangers hold police tape as Chaming Vang, 38, uses a bicycle cart to move some of her belongings during a sweep of a homeless encampment in Rio Linda on Monday. “We are being shoved out again, they don’t have a place for us to go, so where am I supposed to go? They gave us 48 hours to move. I work and the thing is I can’t do all this in 48 hours,” said Vang. “I’ve been here for ten years now.”
Dutcher said she’s been on a waiting list for housing since February.
“I think it’s pretty crummy that if they are going to do this while we are still waiting on the housing. Why make it harder for us?” she said.
Dutcher said she was thankful animal rescue was taking her cats, but she was worried about her chickens and their chicks. The county did not offer her a voucher for a hotel and she had no place to go.
Carol Dutcher, 60, holds a lighting fixture as she tries to decide what belongings to save during a sweep after one of her structures was bulldozed in a homeless encampment in Rio Linda on Monday. Dutcher said she has lived at the site for four years. “They don’t care that they destroyed my home and I have no where to go or place to sleep tonight,” she said in tears. “Could you move your whole house in two days, four days…I don’t think anybody could.”
Carol Dutcher, 60, rests between police tape after moving some of her belongings during a sweep at a homeless encampment where she had lived for the past four years in Rio Linda on Monday.. “They don’t care that they destroyed my home and I have no where to go or place to sleep tonight,” she said in tears.
Chaming Vang, 38, is given directions about where to move her belongings as Sacramento County Park Rangers tape off access back to her homeless encampment structure during a sweep in Rio Linda on Monday, June 17, 2024.
Chickens scatter not as Sacramento County workers dismantle a homeless encampment in Rio Linda with heavy equipment on Monday.
Chaming Vang, 38, ducks under police tape as she uses a bicycle cart to move some of her belongings during a sweep of a homeless encampment in Rio Linda on Monday, June 17, 2024. “We are being shoved out again. They don’t have a place for us to go, so where am I supposed to go? They gave us 48 hours to move. I work, and the thing is I can’t do all this in 48 hours. They have to give us at least 30 days. I’ve been here for ten years now,” said Vang.
Carol Dutcher, 60, moves a few things away so they are not bulldozed during a sweep in a homeless encampment in Rio Linda on Monday, June 17, 2024. “They don’t care that they destroyed my home and I have no where to go or place to sleep tonight,” she said in tears. “Could you move your whole house in two days, four days? I don’t think anybody could,” she said.
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