San Diego launches website on homelessness

A newly launched web site offers guests updates on the town of San Diego’s response to homelessness whereas additionally connecting individuals experiencing homelessness with assets.

The web site was launched Friday by San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s workplace and the town’s Homelessness Methods and Options Division.

“This web site offers the general public perception into how the town collaborates with our companions to create amenities, packages and providers to assist individuals finish their homelessness,” mentioned HSSD Director Hafsa Kaka. “Whereas this disaster is daunting, it’s necessary for San Diegans to know there are efficient approaches to getting of us off the road and into housing, and our group is pursuing them.”

The “Get Help” part of the location comprises hyperlinks to the town’s 2-1-1 website for data on shelters and phone data for the Cellular Disaster Response Staff. The positioning additionally explains the right way to report encampments via the town’s Get It Executed app.

In a “By the numbers” part, the location offers updates on the town’s homeless inhabitants and variety of individuals being served.

The positioning experiences as of Friday, 2,955 individuals had accepted outreach providers within the metropolis since Jan. 31, and 1,510 had been in city-funded shelter beds as of June 6. Between July 1, 2021 and Could 31, 2022, 1,267 individuals have been positioned in housing.

The positioning additionally exhibits the annual rely of homeless individuals this 12 months discovered 2,307 individuals in shelters and a pair of,494 individuals residing with out shelter within the metropolis.

A piece on information and experiences comprises hyperlinks to the Regional Job Drive on Homelessness, Downtown San Diego Partnership’s month-to-month rely of homeless individuals and the San Diego Housing Fee’s record of housing packages, shelters and outreach efforts.

“Homelessness is the highest precedence of my administration and I imagine it’s crucial that the town present to the general public data on all that we’re doing to deal with it,” Gloria mentioned. “The town has by no means earlier than had a single repository for data on the varied packages and providers which might be funded by taxpayer {dollars}. This new web site places that data at their fingertips.”

The Metropolis’s Communications Division and Division of Data Expertise Net Staff collaborated with HSSD to develop the brand new website.

The web site’s handle is https://www.sandiego.gov/homelessness-strategies-and-solutions.