Wells said the San Diego area has been inundated with 42,000 migrants over the past two-and-a-half months, leading to "street releases" in his community. "This is exacerbating our already unimaginable homeless crisis, which California has created," Wells said. ...
Describing California’s homelessness crisis as “inhumane” and “unhealthy,” Senate GOP leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Democratic Sen. Catherine Blakespear of Encinitas announced a bipartisan bill to ban homeless encampments near “sensitive community areas” statewide. Modeled after San Diego...
Carson said nearly 500,000 California households already receive some kind of federal housing assistance and said "federal taxpayers are clearly doing their part to help solve the crisis." Carson also said ending homelessness has been a "top priority" of the administration. On Wednesday, Carson t...
Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino leads forum on aidingthe homeless at Warner Grand...Littlejohn, Donna
San Diego’s HHSA does more than many traditional public health services and addresses complex community health issues including housing, homelessness, hunger, and child, family, and adult well-being. Simultaneously, SDSU’s College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) students and faculty conduct ...
Todd Gloria, Mayor of San Diego Gloria has served as the City of San Diego’s mayor since 2020 and has spent years on both the San Diego City County and in California Assembly. As mayor, Gloria has focused on issues including solving homelessness, the housing crisis, housing affordability,...
this measure on the ballot in November,” said San Diego Housing Federation Executive Director Stephen Russell. “San Diego is experiencing an unprecedented homelessness crisis and this measure invests in long-term solutions to get folks off the street and prevent homelessness for those at-risk.”...
San Diego on forefront of launching first-in-the-nation care court program By Richard Allyn San Diego is on the forefront of what Governor Newsom is calling a “bold new strategy” to battle the homelessness crisis. Last month, San Diego brought together state, county and local leaders to ...
By Tigist Layne | Voice of San Diego Escondido spent about $2 million of city money last year on homelessness. But 70 percent of that was spent on the Escondido Police Department. “We keep seeing the police budget continue to increase, but we also see homelessness continue to increase,”...
“They almost had a deal and (the Legislature) should go back to that,” said Garcetti. “There shouldn’t be (rent) increases that are outrageous in the midst of a homelessness crisis.” CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policiesand politics. ...