Over the past five years, a downtown-based nonprofit has bused more than 1,000 homeless people out of San Diego in hopes of reuniting them with friends and family.
The Family Reunification Program — established in 2012 by the Downtown San Diego Partnership — gives homeless in downtown a free Greyhound bus ticket to anywhere in the nation if they can prove someone on the receiving end is willing to support them.
Angela Wells, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit, said the group’s staff knows the program isn’t an “end all be all solution to homelessness,” but said it has been successful thus far reuniting hundreds of people with their families.
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