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Rev. Mahsea Evans opened Sacramento’s third annual Solidarity Summit on Homelessness with a welcoming speech and a secular prayer on Sept. 7 at the First United Methodist Church in Midtown. The summit highlighted the ties between affordable health care and rental housing, harm reduction versus punishment and the needs of the Black unhoused community.
Niki Jones, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, led the land acknowledgments honoring the Miwok peoples who are indigenous to the capital region. Sacramento mayoral candidate Dr. Flojaune Cofer followed and shared in part her mom’s words of wisdom. “Solutions are everybody’s problems because we need each other,” she said.
Cofer’s message of solidarity as a solution to improve the lives of Sacramento’s unhoused population was a main theme of the daylong summit, which featured four plenary workshops, food, music and many opportunities for advocacy and outreach.