But it's slow going, as our climate is temperate, which makes us attractive to homeless and transient types (Traveller and other sub-cultures). Most people would be able to survive the winter environments here if they have good camping gear, set up away from a flood zone, and are able to procure some sort of minimal income.
We also have organizations such as Veteran's Village and Father Joe's, and our police have homeless outreach workers.
It's a catch-22; we set up a variety of organizations drive down local homelessness by half, and then homeless from other areas are either sent here or hear about what San Diego is doing and head there on their own, driving up homeless numbers well past that of the previous years and putting a burden on our local homeless support systems.
Subsidized housing and care facilities are difficult to set up for people living on the margins. In San Diego, we are lucky that a few mid-sized hotel chains have been willing to lease their excess properties to the City for qualified small homeless families, the elderly and disabled homeless, and working homeless, instead of leaving them vacant hoping to find a buyer for the properties during the pandemic. What will happen during tourist season after everything opens up again may be another issue.
Haele
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