A new state program aimed at providing housing for homeless individuals with serious mental illness is slowly coming together.
The "No Place Like Home" program was approved by Gov. Jerry Brown last year. He recently appointed Alfredo Aguirre, director of San Diego County's Behavioral Health Services, to the program’s advisory committee.
Of the 118,000 thousand homeless people the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates are living in California, more than 60 percent live on the streets.
In 2016, the San Diego County Regional Task Force on the Homeless found 8,692 people living on the streets or in shelters in San Diego. Of those, 14 percent reported having a severe mental illness.
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