Sacramento’s DA dangerously politicizes homelessness at the worst possible time

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has dangerously politicized the region’s worsening homeless problem by launching an investigation into unnamed Sacramento city officials for potentially violating civil or criminal laws. Ho’s crusade stands no chance of actually improving our homelessness crisis and, instead, threatens to make it worse. It needlessly complicates a tenuous partnership between the city and county to make tangible progress in the coming months by expanding both shelter and treatment services. At a press conference Tuesday, Ho was given the opportunity to publicly say t...