SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – It’s something you don’t typically hear when it comes to the homelessness crisis in San Diego.
“So we’ve seen this improvement gradually,” Tamera Kohler, CEO of the Regional Task Force on Homelessness San Diego, said.
But, the most recent data in November from the Regional Task Force on Homelessness are showing some promise.
“Where we measure every month the inflow and outflow, we housed more people than we saw experience homelessness. As long as we’ve measured it for the last 33 months, we haven’t seen that trend,” Kohler said.
The November numbers show 894 people fell into homelessness while 950 people were housed.
San Diego’s latest trend comes as the U.S. Housing and Urban Development reports homelessness is up 18 percent nationally from last year .
“I think those trends historically federally are a little bit behind where California; when California has the largest homeless population. Truly it is a combination housing stock that’s affordable and just the overall financial demands on folks,” Kohler said.