El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells responds to California AGRobBonta's 'one-sided' argument. Bonta wants El Cajon's hotels to house homeless, despite the clear increase of criminal activity and arrests at these shelters.
SAN DIEGO – El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells has been calling out San Diego County for their “inequitable” distribution of motel vouchers, as El Cajon is clearly taking in the large majority of the county’s homeless.
Wells said the people being sheltered in his city are felons, and the police department has been receiving an increased number of calls from people reporting criminal activity at the motels where the vouchers are being used. Supervisor Nathan Fletcher immediately touted Bonta’s demand and threat of a lawsuit, but Wells said the County is guilty of the very same “violation” that Bonta says the City of El Cajon is guilty of.
Mayor Bill Wells stated, “I find it interesting that the Attorney General came to conclusions without even talking to the City. Based on his tweet from September 24th that stated our ‘actions threatened to turn the most vulnerable residents out onto the street based solely on their source of income, no more,’ is egregiously false.
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