Residents of the Sacramento County Safe Stay shelter on Stockton Boulevard on Jan. 15, 2025, talk about what it's like to live in the community, which features sleeping cabins to house the homeless.

Homeless has "progressively picked up and gotten worse over the years," according to Pastor David Powers, who runs a shelter in Columbia.

"Do you think they understand what's going on?" "They're just frustrated and angry and upset because we are used ot being on ...