Father Joe’s Village’s bold announcement that it plans to add 2,000 housing units over the next five years is also a bold declaration: San Diego’s homelessness problem is a housing problem.
To address that, Father Joe’s wants to invest $531 million in public and private dollars in permanent housing for people who are now homeless. They plan to renovate more than a dozen motels at locations to be determined, build hundreds of new units and transform some of those they’ve already got into apartments.
County Supervisor Ron Roberts, who recently became chair of the regional group that coordinates San Diego’s efforts to combat homelessness, shared a similar message at the Thursday press conference.
He described how efforts across the county to house veterans and folks with mental illnesses have struggled with San Diego’s lack of housing.
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