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 through the years and my identification of gaps in current capacity and expertise,” Doherty said in a statement at the release of his report. “I am confident that by addressing these findings and implementing these recommendations, the city can, right now, seize its leadership responsibilities in more purposeful and proactive ways and deliver greater progress for the community and, most important
Homelessness expert releases recommended actions for San Diego
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Mayor Todd Gloria Thursday released a comprehensive report by the former executive director for the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness that includes key findings and recommendations to strengthen the city s capacity to prevent and end homelessness. After taking office as mayor, I wasted no time in bringing on Mr. (Matthew) Doherty to give me a warts-and-all assessment of the city s current homelessness efforts, Gloria said. His analysis is already guiding our administration s new approach on homelessness and helps ensure we are set up for success to achieve our ultimate goal: ending chronic homelessness in San Diego.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Mayor Todd Gloria Thursday released a comprehensive report by the former executive director for the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness that includes key findings and recommendations to strengthen the city’s capacity to prevent and end homelessness.
“After taking office as mayor, I wasted no time in bringing on Mr. (Matthew) Doherty to give me a warts-and-all assessment of the city’s current homelessness efforts,” Gloria said. “His analysis is already guiding our administration’s new approach on homelessness and helps ensure we are set up for success to achieve our ultimate goal: ending chronic homelessness in San Diego.”
Roberts is the chief executive officer of PATH and PATH Ventures, and a board member of the San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless and 211 San Diego. He lives in Downtown San Diego.
Although homelessness sometimes seems like an unsolvable problem, right now there is strong political alignment across the region to do everything we can to get people off the streets and into homes. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria recently announced new approaches to addressing encampments and the county of San Diego just created a new Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities.
Housing First has long been the model that elected officials and service providers have embraced because it prioritizes placing someone into a permanent home and then focuses on stabilization by providing much needed services.
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.