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EL CAJON —  El Cajon has the second-highest number of homeless people in San Diego County, so it’s not surprising that it is among the top concerns of residents and businesses. Last week, El Cajon City Manager Graham Mitchell provided an update to the City Council about the steps the city has taken to help those living on the streets — 784, according to the Point-in-Time Count coordinated by the Regional Task Force on the Homeless in January 2020 — as well as keep the city safe and cl...

SAN DIEGO —  The number of people who became homeless for the first time more than doubled last year, a possible result of the pandemic and a concerning trend that could worsen when eviction moratoriums and rental assistance programs end. In its Homeless Crisis Response System report from 2020, the Regional Task Force on the Homeless found the number of first-time homeless people in the county increased from 2,326 in 2019 to 4,152 in 2020, a 79 percent jump. The previous year saw a 6 percen...

The new 14-story Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa being built at the corner of 14th and Commercial streets will provide housing for more than 500 people. Rendering courtesy of Joseph Wong Design Associates. Construction has reached the halfway point for a $145 million downtown East Village apartment tower with a twist. Unlike many of its neighbors, the target market for Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa are some of the same people who may now sleep in the shadows of the steel shell o...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The Regional Task Force on the Homeless (RTFH) has created a Data and Performance Analysis of the region’s Homelessness Crisis Response System for 2020. The report is intended to help service providers, elected officials, policy makers and members of the community to better understand how the region’s systems are performing toward helping San Diego’s homeless residents. All data comes from the region’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), which tracks peo...

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...

North West: Tubah Mayor Encourages Massive Testing The commitment of the Mayor of Tubah Council to keep the municipality safe, in the face of the killer Covid-19 pandemic is evident in sensitization efforts being taken to virtually every public space. The Mayor Tanjong Martin and his deputies were on the streets and Bambili market on April 7, 2021 to reinforce barrier measures against the killer with some 93 infected persons enrolled for treatment in the Subdivision between March 7-13, 202...

SAN DIEGO —  More than 700 people at a temporary homeless shelter in the San Diego Convention Center will begin moving into smaller shelters the week of March 22, but the waterfront venue isn’t expected to host any events in the foreseeable future. Instead, the Convention Center soon could become a vaccination site, San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chairman Nathan Fletcher said Friday during a press conference outside the venue. While the plan is just in the idea stage now, Fletcher ...

The 11-month venture protected homeless people during pandemic and connected more than 1,000 with housing opportunities

Advertisement The individuals and families experiencing homelessness in the city are diverse in their life experiences and their needs to return to stable, long-term housing. This requires a variety of housing options. This reality has guided the San Diego Housing Commission’s (SDHC) homelessness action plan, Housing First San Diego, since its launch on Nov. 12, 2014. This plan — developed in consultation with then-City Council President and current Mayor Todd Gloria — has evolved and exp...

Updated: 1:28 PM PST March 5, 2021 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Mayor Todd Gloria announced Friday that residents of a homeless shelter at the San Diego Convention Center will be relocated to the citys reconfigured shelters, where they will continue receiving social services. After a series of extensions due to the pandemic, Operation Shelter to Home is scheduled to conclude this month. All people sheltering in the convention center who have not already moved to permanent housin...