San Diego homeless vets sleep on street as city allocates $5 million for legal defense of criminal aliens
In 2019, the city of San Diego, California was home to over 2,600 unsheltered homeless people, along with 2,473 sheltered homeless people, according to ABC-10 San Diego.
Of the total number of homeless in the city, a good number are veterans, with low estimates according to Homeless Veterans of San Diego being around 400 or so.
CREDIT: Horydczak, Theodor, photographer. “Bonus veterans from Jeannette, Pennsylvania.” 1932. Theodor Horydczak Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
In San Diego County? That number was estimated to be 1,068 in 2019, about 13% of the entire homeless population.