City officials in San Diego will debate a proposal to ban homeless encampments from public property, joining other U.S. cities considering action to contain the mounting homelessness crisis.
The plan has received support from San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, who emphasized the need for safe and"hygienic" sidewalks, parks and canyons in a string of press conferences ahead of the vote this week.
The hearing on Tuesday comes shortly after the San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness found a 32% increase in the number ofin the city of San Diego, with about 3,300 people living outdoors, a report by the LA Times noted. A separate tally by the Downtown San Diego Partnership reported 2,100 people living on sidewalks and in vehicles in downtown neighborhoods alone, an all-time high for that part of the city.
Gloria said the shelter strategy would include a Safe Sleeping Program that would provide more than 500 tents at two sites near Balboa Park and other locations across the city, according to CBS8. Gloria reportedly said that the proposal banning encampments would not cause encampments to vanish immediately, and would have different applications in different neighborhoods. In many areas, homeless people still would be allowed on sidewalks between 9 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. as part of a settlement filed several years ago, the LA Times emphasized.
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