More Pressure to Solve a Big Problem in San Diego

The problem of homelessness will likely never disappear, nor apparently will the debate and arguments over what to do about it and how to make the problem at least less of a problem.

The news that in San Diego last month, a short-lived string of two months when more people who were homeless found housing than became homeless, ended in January.

Fewer shelters when the need for a lot more shelters is one problem.

And the laws and action passed at the state and local level to remove homeless encampments may have cleared some areas, but the encampments just pop up somewhere else.

State Senator Catherine Blakespear told the San Diego Union Tribune “the state needs to do better in preventing and removing encampments.”

She has introduced a bill in the state legislature that she says would make it easier, but when it comes to homelessness, it seems easier said than done.

With San Diego’s mayor taking more control of the city hall bureaucracy having eliminated his Chief Operating Officer, the pressure will increase to get things done about reducing homelessness in the city.

San Diegans can only hope that a lot more be done about the city’s biggest problem.

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