The city of San Diego, California, is opening up “safe places to sleep” for the homeless, essentially small tent cities in parking lots. This can be a bit warm in July.
To their credit the city is doing this as they recently banned camping in public areas. The ban will take effect in about a month.
Still, for the average viewer, this has written up problems all around.
Fox news reports:
San Diego opens first “safe place to sleep” tents for homeless people
The first of two “safe sleep” spaces for the homeless in San Diego opened Thursday as part of an effort to get people off the streets in the California city.
The plan was originally announced in June that the city’s Department of Homeless Strategies and Solutions would expand its services to combat the ongoing homeless crisis by offering a variety of housing arrangements.
“We are coming forward with a comprehensive shelter strategy with detailed proposals for the short, medium and long term, including more shelter, safer parking and safe sleeping options,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said at the time.
Nearly a month later, a new tent camp opened behind a barbed wire fence at San Diego’s Central Operations Yard at 20th and B Streets. City officials plan to erect as many as 136 tents with a capacity of about 150 people in an effort to move them out of downtown.
The mayor proudly tweeted about it:
We announced our intention to open our first Safe Sleeping site on July 20th and B on July 1st.
But we won’t wait that long. We will open the site tomorrow.
This will provide another safe place for people living in tents while also connecting them to services. #For all of us pic.twitter.com/2aLwwv8wpU
— Mayor Todd Gloria of San Diego (@MayorToddGloria) June 28, 2023
Not everyone is impressed.
This is what “progressive” policies have done to California.https://t.co/FX2FYWaSiH
— The Dark Lord (@TheDarklord76) July 1, 2023
You can watch a local video report below:
The homeless problem in certain parts of the country has had a chance to explode in recent years.
Putting up more tents is only a temporary solution.