OCEANSIDE
In what’s being called the first of its kind for coastal North County, a proposed Oceanside apartment complex could provide permanent homes and services for dozens of homeless people with mental health issues, youths transitioning out of foster care and veterans facing homelessness.
National Community Renaissance and San Diego Community Housing Foundation are proposing to build the 60-unit Greenbrier Village Apartments on a .71-acre vacant lot on the west side of Greenbrier Drive between Apple Street and Oceanside Boulevard just east of Interstate 5.
The Oceanside Housing Commission supported the project June 1 and unanimously agreed to recommend it to the City Council, where it is headed June 16.
“They have this sheet that you sign that says that you have to agree to some things before you can go to a hotel.”
A sprawling tent camp near Oceanside Boulevard and I-5 that was home to about 50 homeless people was upended Tuesday morning when a phalanx of some 40 police officers descended on the campsite built on a city right-of-way.
The well-organized plan to uproot the encampment nicknamed “Skidrowceanside” started shortly after the break of dawn when the squatting homesteaders were contacted in their tents by the police. The tent folks were invited to come to the Oceanside Police Department’s temporary headquarters to get placed in services a more stable environment with shelter, food and counseling.