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Skip to main content Currently Reading East Bay city wants to open a homeless RV site at a mostly vacant mall. Neighbors arent happy FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Jim Hauso, 71, and dog Bud visit with a friend at an RV encampment along Rydin Road in Richmond.Photos by Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of11 Cmichael Viewins, 40, organizes items at the Rydin Road camp. He says the city’s proposal would be an “opportunity to have somewhere to live.”Jessica Christian / The Chr...

By Mike Kinney A local community organization is breathing a sigh of relief, and a homeless elderly couple will now have shelter, after a stolen trailer was recovered Thursday. Daniel Barth, executive director of Safe Organized Spaces-SOS! Richmond, an organization that aims to establish safe and secure living situations for unsheltered individuals in the city, said the trailer had been donated and was destined to provide housing for Amilee Smith and Marquise, a married couple with physical dis...