The count is taken each month by the Downtown San Diego Partnership. The number of people living on the street has set new records since August.
The number of homeless people in downtown San Diego reached a record high for the fourth straight month in November, according to a count conducted by theNovember’s count found 1,706 people sleeping on sidewalks and in cars along downtown streets, up from 1,660 from October and increasing the monthly average for the year to 1,485.
“While the city is successfully getting people off the street and into permanent housing every day, the fact remains that more people are falling into homelessness than the region’s homelessness response system can serve,” he said. “As the Regional Task Force on Homelessness recently reported, for every 10 people that we house in our county, 13 fall into homelessness due largely to sky-high housing costs.
“This is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” he said. “We’re doing far more shelters than we’ve done in the past, but the need is just overwhelming.” McElroy said he shares the frustration of many residents and business owners in and around downtown who are tired of seeing encampments lining city streets. About two weeks ago, a man who has been using YouTube to chronicle his road trip across California posted a 30-minute video called. The video posted by Nick Johnson had 209,000 views and showed many sidewalk encampments in downtown San Diego.
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