Roberts is the chief executive officer of PATH and PATH Ventures, and a board member of the San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless and 211 San Diego. He lives in Downtown San Diego.
Although homelessness sometimes seems like an unsolvable problem, right now there is strong political alignment across the region to do everything we can to get people off the streets and into homes. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria recently announced new approaches to addressing encampments and the county of San Diego just created a new Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities.
Housing First has long been the model that elected officials and service providers have embraced because it prioritizes placing someone into a permanent home and then focuses on stabilization by providing much needed services.
SAN DIEGO
Hundreds more shelter beds, housing for about 100 families and more outreach workers are part of a $10 million funding plan Mayor Todd Gloria said he will bring before the City Council in a new effort to help San Diego’s homeless population.
“These investments we are making are setting the city of San Diego on a path to achieve our ultimate goal, which is ending chronic homelessness,” Gloria said Monday morning at a press conference in North Park Community Park. Chronic homelessness generally is defined as someone who is homeless for more than a year.
The mayor also called for the creation of a Homeless Strategies and Solutions Department to provide better cooperation among all city departments as well as the county, which earlier this month created its own Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities.
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San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria details $10 million in budget plan to help city s homeless
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Ahead of presenting his proposed $4.6 billion spending plan to the San Diego City Council Tuesday, Mayor Todd Gloria Monday detailed parts of the budget designed to help address the city s homelessness issue with a compassionate, person-centered approach.
Gloria is proposing around $10 million in investments toward programs to put unsheltered San Diegans on a path to permanent housing, as well as funding to support a new Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department. Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis, and ending it is my top priority, he said. My budget invests in programs that lead directly to moving our vulnerable neighbors off the streets and into care, shelter and, ultimately, stable homes. It s time we begin to match the severity of the emergency with the strategies necessary to meaningfully confront it.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Ahead of presenting his proposed $4.6 billion spending plan to the San Diego City Council Tuesday, Mayor Todd Gloria Monday detailed parts of the budget designed to help address the city’s homelessness issue with “a compassionate, person-centered approach.”
Gloria is proposing around $10 million in investments toward programs to put unsheltered San Diegans on a path to permanent housing, as well as funding to support a new Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department.
“Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis, and ending it is my top priority,” he said. “My budget invests in programs that lead directly to moving our vulnerable neighbors off the streets and into care, shelter and, ultimately, stable homes. It’s time we begin to match the severity of the emergency with the strategies necessary to meaningfully confront it.”