The problem of homelessness in San Diego is in the news almost every day.
The San Diego Union Tribune reported this week that the city has been struggling to fill places where homeless people may sleep in their vehicles, and that the city plans to at least temporarily close one site in the Kearny Mesa area and get people to use the H barracks safe parking lot next to the airport.
And the Voice of San Diego is reporting this week that a legal battle is shaping up over the city’s safe parking lots and people who live in their RVs or campers or cars.
An attorney for some of these people is asking a federal court to order the city to make safe parking spaces more accessible.
And at the same time, San Diego police keep giving thousands of dollars’ worth of citations to people who have made Mission Bay Drive and other city streets places to park and live in their vehicles.
There is clearly no easy answer. With the cost of rent and the price of homes in San Diego being beyond the reach of a lot of people, the homelessness problem is not going away.
But some say new and better ways to deal with it have to be found.
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