SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The number of people exiting homelessness in San Diego County exceeded the number of people who became homeless last month, according to new data from the Regional Task Force on Homelessness released on Friday.
Throughout November, 950 people left the homelessness system and were placed in housing, while 894 people fell into the system for the first time, the agency reports.
This monthly data reverses a trend in the region that has held for nearly three years, since March 2022, where the number of people becoming homeless for the first time outpaced those who were successfully placed in housing.
Future of proposed high-rise in Pacific Beach to be decided at City Hall
It mirrors another report from the agency released last week indicating there was about 30% more people who entered housing than became homeless this year compared to 2023, promoting cautious optimism in local leaders that efforts to tackle the crisis are beginning to pay off.
“The demand is still there, that hasn’t changed,” Regional Task Force on Homelessness CEO Tamara Kohler said in a statement. “But we are housing more people and that’s encouraging for a lot of reasons but mostly because we know housing solves homelessness.”