Wander around the downtown streets near the state capital buildings, and you marvel at how pristine they are. No homelessness problem here, you think.
But venture a little further afield, closer to the borders of the downtown core, in the parks and overpasses that ring California’s sixth-largest metropolitan area (population: 525,041) and that image changes. You begin to see in jarring detail just how pervasive homelessness is in Sacramento, Calif., ranking it among the worst in the state.
