SAN DIEGO
Hundreds more shelter beds, housing for about 100 families and more outreach workers are part of a $10 million funding plan Mayor Todd Gloria said he will bring before the City Council in a new effort to help San Diego’s homeless population.
“These investments we are making are setting the city of San Diego on a path to achieve our ultimate goal, which is ending chronic homelessness,” Gloria said Monday morning at a press conference in North Park Community Park. Chronic homelessness generally is defined as someone who is homeless for more than a year.
The mayor also called for the creation of a Homeless Strategies and Solutions Department to provide better cooperation among all city departments as well as the county, which earlier this month created its own Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities.