Sacramento salon owner claims Californian homeless crisis is forcing her to relocate after 15 years because she has grown sick of multiple break-ins and cleaning up syringes, urine and feces from outside her premises every day
Elizabeth Novak told how she will be forced to close her hair salon in Sacramento
She said problem of homelessness has got so bad downtown area is suffering
Novak described how she has cleaned needles, feces and urine from doorstep
In online video she attacked Governor Gavin Newsom’s law changes on vagrancy
By CHRIS DYER
DAILYMAIL.COM
20 August 2019
A business owner in California says she has been forced to relocate after 15 years because of the growing homelessness crisis in the state.
Elizabeth Novak, who owns a hair salon in downtown Sacramento, posted a video on Twitter on Friday describing how she often finds people camping in tents across her front door.
She told how the vagrancy epidemic gripping the state is affecting long-standing business owners and that her shop has been broken into and she has even been attacked.
Novak, who has run her salon for 15 years, said in her social media message that she often has to clean-up urine, feces and used needles left by rough sleepers on her doorstep.
Addressing her concerns directly to Governor Gavin Newsom, she said in a heart-felt pleas for action: ‘I want to know what are you going to do for us Californians? I’ve had a business in downtown Sacramento for 15 years – a successful business. I now have to leave my place of business, I have to close my shop.
‘I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work. I have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep. I have to clean-up the syringes.
‘I have to politely ask the people who I care for, I care for these people that are homeless, to move their tents of of the way of the door to my business.
‘I have to fight off people who push their way into my shop who are homeless and on drugs because you won’t arrest them for drug offenses. I have to apologize to my clients as to why they can’t get into my door because there’s someone asleep there and they are not getting the help they need.’
At the beginning of the impassioned clip Novak says has been repeatedly sending videos, emails and tweets as well as numerous calls to Newsom in a bid to get a response.
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