San Diego County is finally pulling back the curtain on what homelessness looks like outside city limits, putting numbers to a crisis that has long been harder to see.
This week, the County’s Office of Homeless Solutions rolled out an interactive dashboard that, for the first time, breaks out homelessness statistics specifically for unincorporated communities. The tool compiles monthly program results, from safe parking and outreach to emergency housing and encampment work, so residents can track who is being reached and where.
County leaders say the goal is to offer a more detailed, month-to-month view than the single-night, once-a-year point-in-time count, and to show how efforts are landing in those often overlooked unincorporated neighborhoods.
What the dashboard shows
The Monthly Unincorporated Regional Homeless Services dashboard reports that nearly 590 people accepted some form of assistance in December, while outreach teams made contact with 213 people living outdoors or in vehicles, according to the County’s Office of Homeless Solutions data…