Opinion: San Diego's growing homeless population a growing dilemma for Mayor Todd Gloria [Opinion]
“What ending homelessness is about is getting people off the street if they want.” Todd Gloria said that, long before he became mayor of San Diego and the city’s homeless population ballooned on his watch. The problem within the problem was evident to him even then: Getting people off the street if they want. He said that in December 2012 as City Council president when the Downtown San Diego Partnership had tallied 593 homeless people in its monthly unsheltered homeless count.
That’s close to the number of homeless people counted in Downtown San Diego in December 2020 — 622 — when Gloria was sworn in as mayor. Since then that number has soared during the pandemic, to a peak of 1,474 in April. It stood atNow, Gloria is being criticized by many San Diegans, for both the explosion of homelessness throughout the city and his administration’s recent tougher approach,for encroachment and to keep throwing away some of their belongings — “waste,” his aides called it Friday.
. But there are right ways and wrong ways to try to get people help. Arresting them and punishing them with fines is a fool’s errand. People are on the streets because they don’t have enough money.
being shard on social media of trash trucks eating tents, walkers, wheelchairs and bikes the city says were relinquished by owners are troubling. What’s clear is city officials must do a better job of getting buy-in from both homeless residents and the public if they want to be seen as helping people.
On the plus side, Gloria has proposed setting aside $200,000 to cover about a quarter of the costs for a “safe camping” pilot program that may be more enticing to homeless people than a large shelter with rules and less freedom. It could be set up somewhere Downtown with spaces for 40 tents for homeless people over 60. It’s a start. If they want it.
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