24 December 2021
As a winter cold front approached Santa Rosa last week, authorities cleared a 20-person homeless camp at Bicentennial Park in the northwest part of the city.
The camp, disbanded on Dec. 16, was one of many Santa Rosa officials have been monitoring throughout the city.
“This one has been on our list for months,” Kelli Kuykendall, the city’s homeless services manager said Tuesday. “There are a lot of other encampments out there.”
Even so, Bicentennial Park is the only camp that’s been cleared in recent months because of a lack of available shelter beds in the city, Kuykendall said.
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