| San Diego Housing Commission says 4 out of 5 people seeking shelter beds turned away

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San Diego Housing Commission leadership says city is holding nearly 200 beds to enforce Unsafe Camping Ban, turning away those seeking beds.

SAN DIEGO — In San Diego during the month of September, a total of 1,930 people experiencing homelessness requested a shelter bed for the night, and all but 393 were turned away.

In recent months, CBS 8 chronicled the obstacles so many newly homeless individuals experience trying to find a safe place to sleep at night. , whom CBS 8 met as they waited in line for a shelter bed at the San Diego Homelessness Response Center, they were among the dozens of people who were turned away because there were not any shelter beds available.

"Of those people that don't get shelter, 85 percent of them don't get shelter because there was no bed available to meet their needs," Jones told Housing Commissioners. "It is my understanding that the site at 20th and B is being used predominantly for placement in regard to enforcement and has continued to be full," said Jones.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

 

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