City s new head of homeless department optimistic about task ahead
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SAN DIEGO
The city of San Diego should hire more experts on homelessness, create more affordable housing and have less emphasis on shelters, according to a report released Thursday by a consultant.
The report was created over the past six months by former U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Executive Director Matthew Doherty, who was asked to study the city’s response to homelessness in January by Mayor Todd Gloria, who took office just a month earlier.
“Mayor Gloria and his team have been extremely open to my assessment of how the city of San Diego has approached its work through the years and my identification of gaps in current capacity and expertise,” Doherty said in a statement at the release of his report. “I am confident that by addressing these findings and implementing these recommendations, the city can, right now, seize its leadership responsibilities in more purposeful and proactive ways and deliver greater progress for the community and, most important