#shelter-capacity

#shelter-capacity

Behind closed doors, Lee is planning a new course: The mayor and a top official want to remove fewer camps and improve sanitation around them, they said in an interview with this news organization - a recognition that people will continue to live beneath overpasses and on sidewalks in a city with diminishing resources to provide shelter. That's because two years of intense sweeps haven't moved homeless residents indoors, Hauswald said.

Authorities seized 28 dogs from the home of a Windsor woman in early December and led her away in handcuffs, highlighting a case of alleged animal cruelty by a self-described rescuer, as well as broader issues officials say are straining shelters in the aftermath of the pandemic. The dogs taken from the Hastings Place home of Christina Urrutia Urena were just the latest animals formerly in her care to wind up in Sonoma County shelters, according to officials. RELATED: 40 dogs rescued from squalid California apartment. 'One of the worst hoarding situations.' The Dec. 9 action, including Urrutia's arrest, was more drastic because of the conditions discovered in the garage and the number of affected dogs, authorities said.