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City Council also considering asking voters to impose term limits

Father Joe's Villages calls for more housing, services and diverse shelters

San Diego might be running afoul of court orders that dictate how city officials are supposed to clean homeless encampments, discard property and enforce a law about blocking a sidewalk.

The city abandoned plans to open a shelter earlier this year

Data in San Diego and other cities consistently show homeless people remain in the communities where they became homeless

With the cost of everything going up, a tough financial situation can turn worse quickly. Enter a local nonprofit program at preventing homelessness.

The group provides basic assistance as well as financial counseling

Mayor Gloria has allocated funding for new city attorney unit in next year's budget

The city has taken an aggressive approach not just with the homeless in Grape Day Park, but throughout the city — and is being praised by homeless advocates in the process.

Campbell and von Wilpert said new unit will use conservatorships to help most vulnerable people living on the streets