The 150-bed shelter in the Midway District, which opened Monday, will slowly admit people
The beds are made, the showers and restrooms are in place, and mental health and addiction specialists are ready to work with clients at the new homeless shelter in San Diego’s Midway District.
“We know quite a few,” Thomas said about the names on a clipboard in the front seat. “A lot of these people on the street I’ve been speaking with over the years, not just the past couple of months.”The new 150-bed shelter is in a large tented structure behind the San Diego County Health and Human Services Complex and the Psychiatric Hospital of San Diego County on Rosecrans Street.
Peer support specialists also will screen and refer people to community-based behavioral health services. At California Street Monday, the Alpha Project team stopped to talked to someone they knew at an encampment on the corner of Walnut Avenue. Nearby, the blackened remains of what once were tents sat on a vacant lot that recently caught fire, just one of the dangers facing people living without shelter.
Alpha Project outreach workers Ionia Honeycutt and Jack Phillips chat with Sandi Peterson, who has been homeless for nine months near California and Vine streets. Standing next to a charred pickup, she said she would not go into a shelter because her dog was too aggressive. Their next stop was Sports Arena Boulevard, where they met Roberto Evangelista, 44, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who said he was approaching his second year of homelessness.
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