Thousands of affordable and supportive housing units are needed to reduce the homeless population in San Diego County, according to a report released Wednesday by the Regional Task Force on Homelessness.
Along with the more than 9,000 units needed, also required are hundreds of new shelter beds, the Regional Community Action Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Diego report found.
"We know what the solutions are," RTFH CEO Tamera Kohler said."We also know the distance we have to overcome but if we take the steps outlined in this plan homelessness will become a brief occurrence for individuals and families and not a permanent state of existence." The plan sets broad goals over the next five years, such as ending veteran, youth, family and senior homelessness and reducing the total unsheltered population by half.
"Ending homelessness does not mean there will never be another person who will face a housing crisis in San Diego again," the authors write."Rather, it means San Diego will have a robust coordinated system in place to prevent housing loss when possible, and when not prevented, to respond with urgency, eagerness, and compassion, to engage people in a meaningful way, connect them to permanent housing as quickly as possible, and provide stabilizing community supports.
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