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Shelter Operations Have Helped the Vulnerable – and the Convention Center Itself

Shelter Operations Have Helped the Vulnerable – and the Convention Center Itself The Convention Center’s decision to host shelter operations has proven to be a smart business move during a pandemic that left many event centers vacant. Now, with new guidance from the state, Convention Center managers are preparing to transition back into an events center. When the pandemic halted travel last year, the Convention Center’s financial outlook looked bleak. The decision to transform the center long considered a leading economic engine of the region’s tourism economy into a shelter – first for homeless San Diegans and now for young migrants – won praise as a humanitarian effort. But it also helped the Convention Center avoid the most dire financial outcomes, and saved some jobs.

California s migrant mess

SAN DIEGO • Courtney Porter, 23, sat on a wall in front of the San Diego Convention Center last week with a backpack and carry-on suitcase. He looked dejected while flipping through a sheaf of papers that listed several local homeless shelters. A call to each one resulted in the same answer: “I’m sorry, we’re full.” Porter arrived a few weeks ago from St. Louis, but his unemployment check and hawking an iPad haven’t been enough to pay for rent. Desperate, Porter showed up at one facility and waited on an adjacent patio. “They said, ‘I can get you some food, but you can’t sit here. You can go to the park or the beach,’” he said. He chose the seaside convention center, unaware that it had housed more than 600 homeless until the final person left March 24. Three days later, the homeless were replaced by 500 migrant girls flown in from Texas. Hundreds more arrive every few days.

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