A city in Northern California said it will allow a homeless encampment to remain on public land by agreeing to provide trailers and other services for up to four months.

A group of homeless people, mostly women, have been living on a lot owned by the city of Sacramento, California for over a year. The Sacramento Bee reported.

City officials announced Friday that they have leased the land to the nonprofit group Safe Ground Sacramento for up to four months for free. People can park their cars or RVs on the property, and the city will provide up to 33 trailers for people to live in.

City officials said the precinct will be self-governed by what it calls a “residents council” as well as a work plan that must be approved by the City Council in the next 30 days.

“I’m incredibly proud that after months of hard work and open communication, we’ve come up with an innovative solution for this site that will benefit our entire community,” said post on the city blog.

For decades, major cities across California have struggled with homelessness, a problem that has only gotten worse in recent years as a housing shortage has driven up rents and made it harder to find affordable housing. California is now home to nearly a third of the nation’s homeless population, according to federal data.

Cities have tried many different approaches to solve this problem. In San Jose, a city of almost a million people on the southern part of the San Francisco Bay, the authorities have built about 500 small houses to house the homeless. The program reduced the number of first-time homeless people in the city. time in years, Mayor Matt Mahan said.

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state would build 1200 of these tiny houses across the state—houses as small as 120 square feet (11 square meters) that have electricity but no running water. Sacramento plans to get 350 of those homes, most of which will likely be on state fairgrounds, according to Mayor Darrell Steinberg.

Across California, local governments plan to reduce homelessness by 15% by 2025. Initially, these plans provided 2% reduction in homelessness, a goal that angered Newsom because he thought it was too low. Local authorities revised those plans after Newsom threatened to cut off state funding.

Sacramento’s homeless encampment, known as “Camp Resolution,” isn’t meant to be permanent. The city said the initial lease will last four months. But the lease can be extended until “all residents get permanent housing.”

“We really want to help the residents of Camp Resolution demonstrate that homeless people can be self-directed and help each other find permanent housing,” said Mark Merrin, executive director of Safe Ground Sacramento.