SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The signs they carried said “Sacramento-United Against Hate-United For Peace,” as close to 800 people from many ethnic and religious backgrounds gathered at the steps of the California State Capitol building here Dec. 19 to both condemn the recent terror attacks in San Bernardino (and Paris), and to also unite against all kinds of intolerance, especially targeting the Muslim community.

The list of sponsors of the rally included the Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento, Area Congregations Together, MLK365, the NAACP, the Coalition of Tolerance, the Florin Japanese American Citizens League, the Sikh community, Jewish Voice for Peace, OCA, APAPA, HIP, COSVIO, CAIR-Sacramento Valley, American Muslim Voice, Pakistani American Association and PASCO.

The news that a car filled with teenagers on its way to a high school football game was riddled with bullets last week, leaving one dead, both gutted and galvanized a Sacramento community already weary of violence.

Grant High School senior Jaulon Clavo, 17, was behind the wheel of a compact sedan last Friday afternoon, driving his teammates to a division playoff game they would not play. Gunfire flooded the console, critically wounding him and front passenger Malik Johnson. Both youths were transported to local hospitals, but only Johnson survived.

Community activists in Sacramento's Del Paso Heights neighborhood are urging city leaders to put more funding into violence-intervention programs in the wake of Friday's shooting death of a Grant High School student.

"In Del Paso Heights there are more shootings. And not necessarily gangs, it's just gun violence - husbands killing wives and vice a versa. We've got to do something," says Sistah Pat Roundtree Rivers, co-pastor of For His Glory Church.

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Community leaders in Del Paso Heights are calling for a march for healing and peace in the wake of the murder of a high-school football player and the wounding of his teammate.

After Friday’s deadly shooting, leaders in Del Paso Heights say it’s still a huge emotional toll on the students and community.

A coalition of community and church groups called the 'I Am Prop. 47 Coalition' celebrated the passage of Prop 47, the measure that reduces certain property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.

The group plans to begin a campaign to have ex-felons get their past records reduced if they fall within the Prop 47 guidelines of crimes of less than $950. It also hopes to bring job services and counseling to them, as well as education opportunities.

Martell Koster is typical of many of the people at the ceremony who have benefited from the law.

The Sacramento City Council has unanimously approved a fee for developers that could raise $110 million for low-income housing over the next 20 years.

The fee of $2.58 per square-foot will be assessed on any new residential development unless it's designed with low-income housing.  

Greg Sandlund is with the City of Sacramento Community Development Department.

He says the city can not legally require low-income housing as part of a development, but it can offer incentives.

This piece is part of a 2-part series. The second part, “Minimum Wage: In Support of Struggling Businesses,” can be found here.

At Sacramento Area Congregations Together, we seek an economy wherein everyone who is working full time is able to afford food, shelter and life’s basic necessities. We seek an economy that serves working people, who deserve to earn livable wages and have the opportunity to grow their wealth. When the economy serves people by allowing them to earn money, they can invest money back into the economy, thereby increasing economic health for everyone. We want an economy where full-time workers are self-sufficient and not dependent on government aid to supplement their wages. We want an economy that works for us. But here is a glimpse of our reality:

“I work for a temp agency that charges their clients as much as $29 per hour;I get $10 of that,” says Pyerse Dandridge, a dishwasher making minimum wage and formerly incarcerated leader of Sacramento ACT. “When I work 40 hours, I make about $1,200 after taxes. If I don’t get enough hours, I can use unemployment to help cover some of the missing income. Of course, if I make too much money — $800 per month — I won’t qualify for unemployment.”

As Gov. Jerry Brown struck a budget deal Tuesday that would offer healthcare to children in the country illegally, Sacramento County supervisors — sitting less than a mile away — also agreed to provide medical care for county residents who lack papers.

Speaking of a statewide campaign for universal health coverage, Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group Health Access California, said, "It was a big day for Health for All, in Sacramento and in Sacramento," referring to Capitol Hill and the county.