Making progress in efforts to reduce homelessness is turning out to be harder than most city and county leaders probably thought it would be. And statewide, too
They certainly have known it wouldn’t be easy but it has been and remains a huge problem still to solve.
The latest example is the San Diego County Board of Supervisors’ struggle to create a tiny home project for people who are homeless in a couple of unincorporated areas and a safe parking lot.
And San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria has run into some pushback on his plan to convert a large unoccupied building near the airport into a homeless shelter for some one thousand people.
But local leaders have had to confront opposition from residents who live near these areas and who worry about the impact and even fear what these areas where homeless are sheltered could mean.
And with some shelters in the city set to close and the ban on homeless encampments now in San Diego and elsewhere and the number of people who are homeless continuing to grow month after month, the challenges that local leaders are facing to find effective solutions for solving the homeless problem are as overwhelming as the problem itself.
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