Opinion: I have slept on sidewalks so I know what might help end homelessness. A home. [Opinion]
While much credit goes to Voices of Our City Choir and others who believed in me when I could not, my real recovery began with housing. My homelessness ended when I entered a San Diego Housing Commission’s rapid rehousing program and found an affordable apartment four years ago. But today we don’t have many affordable apartments like that one in San Diego, nor have we built enough housing that people can afford.
We do not have housing that our first responders, teachers, nurses, small business owners and police officers — the people we rely on most to keep our community going — can afford and maintain. And we’ve built next to nothing for the single mom who cleans houses, the home health aide who takes care of our aging parents, the student buried in college debt or the person — like me — who needed some extra help.
In Downtown San Diego, the number of people experiencing homelessness has increased by 38 percent over the last 12 months to a record high of
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