Sacramento's homeless population soars by 67% in three years and is now HIGHER than San Francisco while robbery rockets 42% and rapes nearly double amid drug taking epidemic
- Sacramento has a little over 5,000 homeless in the city limits living in vehicles and tents.
- Sacramento's homeless population has spiraled out of control, soaring by 67 percent in just three years - pushing the numbers even higher than nearby San Francisco as photos show tent cities and communities of the unhoused living under bridges.
Sacramento, which is separated by about 87 miles from San Francisco across the nearby bay, now has a staggering 952 homeless people per 100,000 citizens.
California's capital of Sacramento has developed a homeless problem larger than nearby, crime-ridden San Francisco, with scenes of people living in tents under bridges on display for DailyMail.com cameras
Sacramento has a little over 5,000 homeless people in the city, many living in vehicles and tents.
Only 525,000 people live in Sacramento versus San Francisco's 874,000
Sacramento, which is separated by about 87 miles from the city by the bay, now has a staggering 952 homeless people per 100,000 citizens
Traveling around Sacramento, the crisis is clear to see.
DailyMail.com cameras captured people living in tents, RVs, pushing around shopping carts with their entire lives in them and more in the city under Interstate 80.
As a percentage of population, Sacramento (0.96 percent) nearly doubles San Francisco (0.50 percent).
This comes as crime also continues to rise in tandem with the number of unhoused people living in the jurisdiction.
In Sacramento, crime has risen up to 17 percent from the same point last year, according to the city's data. Robberies are up 42 percent and rapes are up a shocking 92 percent.
Our cameras saw people living in tents, RVs, pushing around shopping carts with their entire lives in them and more in the city under Interstate 80
As a percentage of population, Sacramento (0.96 percent) nearly doubles San Francisco (0.50 percent) in homeless
This comes as crime, like in many Democrat cities across America, is on the rise in California's capital, up 17 percent from this point last year
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