Cities small and large outshine L.A. at finding emergency housing for homeless people
LA TimesAn officer with the San Diego Police Department’s homeless outreach team writes a voucher in April to help a homeless person get a California ID. This time, the San Diego Housing Commission, which serves the city, got back to her “right away,” she said. San Diego’s housing commission hired five full-time employees to help people get housed, did extensive community outreach and provided financial incentives to landlords, Valladolid said. “It’s definitely reached the people that it’s intended to.” Felix’s calls to the San Diego Housing Commission bounced for days from one bureaucrat to another. Janna Nichols, executive director of the local homeless services nonprofit 5Cities Homeless Coalition, said the unhoused people it serves in San Luis Obispo County get help at every step of the voucher process.
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