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Nearly one year ago, the Downtown San Diego Partnership called for the creation of a “safe village”— a secure place where homeless people legally can sleep in individual tents. It hasn’t ...
A few homeless people waited in the shade Thursday morning outside San Diego’s Central Operations Yard for a chance to move into one of the first tents at the city’s new “safe sleeping site.” ...
The first of two "safe sleeping" areas for the homeless in San Diego opened on Thursday as part of an effort to move people off the streets in the California city.
According to the findings, there were 9116 homeless individuals in San Diego County as of January, up five percent from 2016. 3495 people were spending the night in a shelter at the time of the ...
Joseph Lemaster, 49, sits on his assigned bed in a homeless tent shelter near downtown San Diego, Feb. 21, 2018. People without income, and who are on the list for permanent housing, may have an ...
Citations and arrests doubled in San Diego, which also doubled the size of its police teams that respond to homelessness.
The first of three industrial-sized tents to house San Diego’s homeless opened Friday as part of the city's efforts to contain a hepatitis A outbreak. About 20 people made their way to bunk beds ...
The San Diego River Park Foundation — whose mission is to preserve the river that feeds into the Pacific — spent $115,000 removing 250,000 pounds of trash left by the homeless camps this year.
San Diego City Council members have agreed to keep funding three homeless tent shelters for another nine months. But some are growing concerned that the funding of the tents is not sustainable.
Reporting from San Diego — About two dozen women settled into a new temporary home Friday, grateful to be off the street but hopeful their stay would not be long. “I never planned on being ...
The City of San Diego opened the first of its “safe sleeping sites" on Thursday, offering 136 tents and services to shelter homeless people off the streets.