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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The Regional Task Force on the Homeless has changed its name to the Regional Task Force on Homelessness, intended to signify the difference between who a person is versus the circumstance in which a person may find themselves, it was announced Tuesday. “`The homeless’ sounds like an identity. Homelessness is a circumstance,” said Tamera Kohler, CEO of the task force, the regional authority charged with establishing a community vision and goals to prevent and end homelessness. “This is a small, almost unnoticeable change in our name, but the meaning is very deep, v...

Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary Eduardo Año as “thick-skinned’’ for proposing an additional P40 billion in the 2022 budget for the BDP where 2,000 barangays that have been cleared of New People’s Army (NPA) influence will be allocated with funds for the establishment of various development projects like farm-to-market roads, schools, houses, health centers, electrification, water, and livelihood projects among others. DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya turned the tables at the Makabayan Bloc, calling it “sh...

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 throu...

Print Oceanside is considering a series of zoning amendments intended to streamline the creation of emergency shelters and low-income housing in the city. Shelters on city-owned properties in commercial, industrial, and public or semi-public zones would not need to obtain a conditional use permit or other discretionary approvals under the amendments. “The city is creating more flexibility and opportunities for these facilities ... and streamlining review and contracting,” said Shannon Vitale, a city associate planner, at Monday’s Oceanside Planning Commission meeting. The Planning Commi...

IACAT The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) has mobilized its regional task forces to effectively prevent mass trafficking of indigenous peoples (IPs). “As a preventive and proactive approach, the IACAT will further strengthen its Regional Task Forces and review existing tr