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A push for a long-term RV community in Richmond

By Sasha Hupka | November 2, 2020 | 1
Amanda Jenkins watches her dogs play in an RV encampment on North Castro Street in Richmond, Calif.

While advocates in Richmond are working to establish a city-sanctioned parking location with electricity, water and sewage access, issues at existing encampments are growing as more and more people move in.

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Richmond’s unhoused are uniting to fight illegal dumping

By Sasha Hupka | October 5, 2020
Sean Thomas carries an abandoned bucket to trash cans set up outside the encampment where he lives in Richmond. Thomas is one of several employees working on SOS! Richmond’s Streets Team, and said police officers told him they have “noticed improvement” since the group started operating in the area. Credit: Sasha Hupka/Richmond Confidential

Richmond is notorious for illegal dumping and litter, a decades-long problem driven by private and commercial interests looking for places to offload their trash for free. A group of unhoused people are working to tackle the problem while creating better living spaces at local encampments.

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Annual outreach effort accounts for Contra Costa’s unsheltered homeless population

By Alex Nieves | February 1, 2018 | 2

Recent data on homelessness in Richmond shows a dramatic decrease in the number of unsheltered people over the last few years. However, county and city officials are worried about the increase in homeless seniors and youth, and signs the homeless population is moving east.

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