Jack Lahey News Today

From rising rents at mobile home parks to overnight camping restrictions, people living in vehicles in San Luis Obispo County say they are struggling to find safe places to live.

Friday, March 1: Irish flag raising across from City Hall, 200 Common St. @ 11 a.m.

San Luis Obispo County homeless service providers said a lack of warming center space and high seasonal demand for shelter are straining their systems.

Wednesday evening, more than 100 neighbors gathered at the San Luis Obispo Church of the Nazarene to discuss ongoing plans to use the site as a temporary parking site for the homeless.

San Luis Obispo and its partners are looking for missing pieces to the safe parking puzzle before they officially open a site for the homeless....

More than 200 people gathered at SLO Naz Church to discuss the city’s proposed rotational safe parking program.

One neighbor said the proposed location for San Luis Obispo’s safe parking program “does not make sense.”

40 Prado Homeless Services Center has been looking for a more effective way to “help people move forward,” one official said.

The Kansas Ave. Safe Parking Site off Highway 1 in San Luis Obispo was a pilot program intended to temporarily house homeless families living in their vehicles.

The county said the program did not accomplish its goals to move residents into more stable housing.