A California County approved $1.3 million to help a homeless encampment that isn’t there

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted in November to spend $1.3 million on a North Highlands parking lot for 30 homeless people. An official said the lot would help those who were “currently living in vehicles” on Roseville Road. But they aren’t there. Many of the residents meant to benefit from the parking lot at 4837 Watt Avenue were evicted from their encampments over the summer, months before the board’s vote. The missing encampments — which lined the road that crosses from the city of Sacramento into North Highlands’ county jurisdiction — show one of the pitfalls of these evict...