Homeless in San Diego

HISD's Housing Resources Listings in San Diego County

For more information and referrals to shelters, housing and other resources call 211 or 858.300.1211. Visit http://www.211sandiego.org or email resourcecenter@211sandiego.org.

Alpha Project
Supportive Housing Project | 434 13th Street, San Diego, CA 92101 | Phone: 619.696.6500

Crisis House

1034 N. Magnolia Avenue, El Cajón, CA 92020 | Phone: 619.444.1194 | http://wwwcrisishouse.org | Transitional housing for homeless families and domestic violence victims (East County residents) | motel vouchers for emergencies | housing for the disabled and for substance abuse recovery | domestic violence shelters - DVLINKS | Phone: 1.888.385.4657 (listings throughout San Diego County)

Interfaith Shelter Network

Phone: 619.702.5399 | Only by referrals from 211 or social services agencies.

PATH San Diego

Interim Housing is a 30-90 day program with the goal of moving individuals who are homeless, chronically homeless and deemed vulnerable or at risk on the streets into permanent housing. | Outreach: 619.786.2809

Rachel's Women's Center | Catholic Charities

759 8th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 | Phone: 619.696.0873. Emergency shelter for single women. Stay varies from 6 months to a year.

San Diego Rescue Mission

120 Elm Street | Phone: 619.687.3720 | http://www.sdrescue.org | Christian-based residential programs for single men and women with children. Emergency overnight shelter for women with children under twelve years old. | Phone: 619.819.1844 (7:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M.)

San Diego Youth Services

A shelter for homeless or runaway teenagers ages 12-17 | Phone: 619.325.3527 | For ages 16-24 Take Wing Transitional Living Program | Phone: 619.221.8600 ext. 254

Urban Angels Inc.

1404 5th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 | https://ilasd.org/listings/urban-street-angels-churchward/ | Offers an emergency overnight shelter for 20-25 homeless youth ages 18-25 years old. The shelter currently operates weekly on Tuesday nights at Mission Gathering Church in North Park and also operates on two or more Fridays a month at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Dinner and breakfast are served as well as access to showers, basic medical attention, and community referrals. Phone: 619.780.1308

The San Diego LGBT Community Center

Sunburst Youth Housing Project | http://www.thecentersd.org/programs/youth-services/youth-housing-project.html | The Center’s Youth Housing Project provides safe and supportive housing for San Diego’s homeless youth, including LBGT and HIV-positive youth. The 23-unit facility is located in downtown San Diego at 1640 Broadway, close to City College, public transportation, community health facilities and other essential resources. The facility is wheelchair accessible and contains two units that have been retrofitted to accommodate persons in wheelchairs. A major goal of YHP is to ensure that youth have easy access to needed services that will support them in maintaining stable housing | Questions about eligibility and services may be directed to Victor Esquivel at vesquivel@thecentersd.org or 619.692.2077 x207.

South Bay Community Services

430 F Street | Chula Vista, CA 92101 | Phone: 619.420.3620 | 24-hour hotline: 800.640.2933 | http://southbaycommunityservices.org | Transitional, Affordable housing and support services for youth and victims of domestic violence.

Father Joe's Villages

1501 Imperial Avenue San Diego 92101 | Phone: 619.233.8500 | Emergency shelters; long-term transitional housing for single men, single women, and families

YMCA Turning Point Transitional Living Program

4145 Swift Avenue, San Diego 92104 | Phone: 619.640.9744 | Ages 16-21 | Single men and women, pregnant youth, young parents with their children

YWCA Domestic Violence Shelter

24-hour hotline: 619.234.3164 | Single women, women with children for 30 days

Homeless San Diego resident offers a unique solution to homelessness in the city

In an effort to help those in need, humanitarian Orlando Barahona has proposed an emergency housing plan he calls Las Casitas Tiny Homes Village. The housing plan calls for the creation of a small colony of houses that can be used as transitional homes for homeless men and women including their children. The Village will also serve as a place where medical help, casework, and possibly specialized job training can be obtained on-site for the homeless community.

In “A Homeless Voice,” a short film by Brooks Venters, Barahona talks about how his life as a freelance web designer and graphic artist changed when he became homeless after losing his biggest clients. He then suffered from substance abuse and was admitted into programs off and on. Considering himself to be a secular humanist, Barahona also found it difficult to find help in a religious-based program, saying in the film “Am I supposed to just, you know, pray my anxiety away? That’s not going to work for me, I need to talk to a professional.” After learning he was HIV positive, he sought medical treatment which proved difficult to get, thus leaving him unconvinced that the programs in place were meeting his needs. The 24-minute film also takes a look into the housing plan and how he got the idea. “A Homeless Voice” is the first film by Venters, a digital marketing associate from Oceanside.

In a business plan outline sent to The Mesa Press by Barahona, estimates for the village are set at $1,520 per home. The cost is based on a previously made small house village in Canada for which this plan draws inspiration from. An official prototype has not been designed yet, but the idea would be small inexpensive and portable “pods” that tenants can take with them once they have accumulated enough public service hours or paid for themselves after finding employment. Owning a portable house could be considered an incentive for people to volunteer and participate in the program.
Submitting his idea to a design contest for nonprofit developers and organizations was also suggested as a way to design the first prototype and get public funding, as made possible through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. The act, signed into law by President Ronald Reagan, provides federal funding to programs that support the homeless.

A representation of what Las Casitas would be like. Courtesy of Orlando Barahona.

After contacting a nonprofit developer, Barahona was told by the potential partner that the proper research would be conducted in order to have a proposal and application submitted by the deadline for the competition. The deadline passed in September with no help from the other party, leaving Barahona without a developer or contractor to help with the project.
The first priority of the housing plan would be to provide transportation to health programs or work sites for tenants. An area in Oceanside is being considered due to its close proximity to law enforcement and a local hospital. As an alternative, large trucks could be converted into mobile units that could then provide those services as well as casework or job training for residents. These mobile units could also be reused and sent to other locations that need them.

The village would have a park or rest area, security post, and a central tower where showers, a dining hall, and other basic living accommodations can be fulfilled for those living there.
Barahona is currently in a transitional housing program. More information on him and his cause can be found on his blog hisd.life, and “A Homeless Voice” is now available to stream for free on YouTube.

This Article was first published at The Mesa Press in San Diego.
Image one: Courtesy of Brooks Venters
Image Two: Courtesy of Orlando Barahona

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The Landscape of Activism for Tiny Homes

Lisa Kogan, a local school teacher inadvertently started the saga of lobbying for approval of the tiny homes and tiny shelters in San Diego. Her epic struggle to change the lives of the homeless in this city with her tiny shelters idea yielded mixed results; she partnered with the non-profit Amikas and a team of supporters, volunteers, craftsmen and attorneys sympathetic to the cause, but the government officials I have met let me know it is preferable to build solid structures which can become high-end rent income mines after 50 or so years of a contractual obligation to be low-income buildings.

For good measure, I have submitted my updated education and business plan to all the agencies in which I am a member, but priorities veer toward those with emergencies, rendering the ideas dreams and programs with funding in place better for all social workers collecting a salary. Rumors from social workers of my acquaintance have it that funds for housing will most likely be allocated in the near future to more families instead of single people, as so many single folks fail to remain stable due to the tricky book of regulations to receive funds from the organizations running programs and a lack of supportive mental healthcare adherence peers unfailingly fall into as is their wont.

Recent developments in funding bring hope! The December 11, 2018 Independent Budget Analyst Report IBA-18_37 Review of FY-2019 First Quarter Budget Monitoring Report shows the City’s Economic Development Department (EDD) is trying to liquidate $38.2 million in the Successor Agency (SA) Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund (RPTTF) as Residual Distributions to create an additional unbudgeted $6.5 million to the General Fund for Pension Increases, by failure to spend the Successor Agency money and lack of plan for spending cash. Sabotage.

Solution: Lobby City Council on December 11, 2018, to get the full $38.2 million in additional CDBG Program Income for FY-2018 so that it can be used for good instead of liquidated for no reason. This brightens my day. Let’s hope those funds are not used to fund some CEO’s salary.

Both Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo have finally passed legislation to approve tiny homes as dwellings. Way to go, folks! Let’s hope San Diego follows in their epiphany.

For our Acquaintance, this:

I’m much happier these days since entering Alpha Square, a Permanent Supportive Housing program run by Alpha Project. About three years ago I came to San Diego upon the insistence of my middle sister to come and re-invent myself in California after a toxic love relationship ended. Had I known she was fully Bipolar and not on medications I would have passed. Three years of hardship ensued.

Alpha Square is a Permanent Supportive Housing facility. Their building is managed by Royal Property Management Group. In every way possible to establish a dream residence, the team of social workers assigned to the in-house program (alas, there is a program) brings forth a tremendous amount of support in the form of donations of clothing, utensils, assorted goods, men’s groups, bible study groups, presentations from various nonprofits and even access to food from their pantry and a “grocery time” during which a few stores donate vegetables and other necessities with which people collecting SSI and SSDI can bridge the gap in necessities when they have no more funds to buy food.

There are rules in every government-funded facility and Alpha Square is no different. There are annoying rules, such as 1. No visitors past ten P.M. unless a request for an overnight stay has been filed twenty-four hours in advance. 2. All tenants must escort visitors to and from the lobby after said visitors surrender their driver’s license or identification card, being subject to security guards with a thuggy past to speak to your visitors and you as prisoners. However, there is the opportunity to right these wrongs by filing a written complaint. NO ONE from the front desk speaks to me anymore and that is how it should be. People with mental disabilities require empathy, not stereotypical law enforcement tactics.

Since I became a tenant at Alpha Square I completed two courses: SDSU’s Roadmap to Recovery course and a Family and Peer Support course from NAMI San Diego. There is the matter of becoming a commercially-successful writer of short stories, but I shall save that until I can truly dedicate myself to the career. Check out Rogue Diary on BlogSpot.

Not all is Bleak

Your tax dollars are used in various programs to fund a transition into working and contributing to society: MHS and countless other agencies dedicate their efforts to prepare folks with a criminal past and peers with mental disabilities to achieve self-sufficiency.

There is one fatal flaw I found in my transition into Mental Healthcare: as a Family and Peer Support Specialist my available jobs require driving and even bathing clients in their homes, for which I had to obtain clearance from the Caregiver Background Check Bureau. It took nine months to receive that clearance from them and when I finally reported to work I was awarded twelve hours of work at 12.50/hour. Not what I expected as a College graduate! I do not receive funds for disability and I care not to consider my desire to exercise my abilities to help others as a hobby.

Are the organizations I applied to asking of me to be liable for a severely mentally-challenged individual to jump out of my automobile and be rolled-over by a truck? Knowledgeable CEOs of select companies have made arrangements with Lyft and Uber to transport them. I changed careers to be “Boy Friday?”

A change in career should be focused on the realistic expectations government-funded agencies require. So many people have at least one record of arrest and incarceration for events such as DUIs and violence that an entire sub-class of people has sprung from the survival of the immaculate designation to weed out the ever-poor ones. How about the Culinary Arts?

Praise goes to the truly aware and helpful social workers who send out emails to me about job leads and special resources to be obtained on a limited basis. I love you, guys. Not everyone is callous in Social Work.

How do I bridge the gap between Reality and Optimism?

These days I continue to network with sincere people who care about change in the flawed system of care and give my extra t-shirts to those in need. The Ten Commandments come to mind since almost all charitable organizations are Christian-based. I’m a Buddhist, but the pageantry of Christian churches holds sway in my affection for musical and community needs.

What do I contribute to Society? My empathy and activism as well as being part of the group that shows up at City Hall. I allow some of the friends I made during my homeless years to take a nap at my place since there is a snoring crisis in shelters and sharing a film with popcorn with them is just a way to create a safe haven for them. Is there someone who would donate a surgery to cure snoring? There is one, you know.

I have also become involved in a team of concerned citizens who inspect Independent Living facilities, as the ownership of a home and collecting money from the disabled invites abuse easily. Seven hundred dollars+ a month for fifteen tenants’ money orders amounts to a lot of money. The pride of being able to prevent this abuse by inspecting the facilities in which my peers live is something I find necessary in my own recovery and peace of mind. Volunteering rocks! They have just taken on reviewing Sober Living facilities as a branch that has been necessary for a few years in this town. Getting thrown out because of relapse and keeping your deposit is barbaric.

My most substantial contribution is being a volunteer for Public Relations and entrepreneurial ideas for Tree San Diego and its project Trējuvenation, which saves end-of-life trees from going into the wood chipper. Feel like making a table out of a polished treetop? The wood is free and it can become beautiful in the hands of the right artist.

So, what’s next?

Research and promptly-available action in legislation, regardless of how mangy most homeless people look. Why not take the time to connect and change other humans’ lives? That would be fantastic. My peers need support in any way you can give it. I’m not vain, but a lot of them need hope and a makeover.

There are Meetup.com events and even private ones from prominent figures working in public office. The revolution must come from within, not on GoFundMe or social media. Even rock stars go on tour! Happy Holidays to all!

Text: Orlando Barahona/hisd.life

Image (top): Nathan Rupert/Flickr – Creative Commons

Image (bottom): Bill Dickinson/Flickr – Creative Commons

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A former homeless person's follow-up to a tiny home plan for San Diego's homeless

Politics are the Ultimate Porn

The Art of Political Science is about a distilled and formulaic perversion of The People’s ideals: Politicians and bureaucrats do not provide what we want; they teach us how to desire it. Public officials’ speeches and a charismatic delivery do not guide my direction in assembling a business and housing plan for San Diego because they do not offer clarity in describing the steps to achieve its presentation and success.

A very important North County housing summit is about to be hosted in Escondido, California on July 19th, 2018 by the San Diego North Economic Development Council in conjunction with the Housing You Matters Coalition. When I reached the Coalition’s Facebook page I was told all the speakers were booked and thus my revised business and housing plan could not fit in for this event.

That is understandable, but not ideal for me, after I have updated and refined my first plan, published here in 2016. Find out more on the event’s page here. I wasn’t offered the possibility to present the plan at any other time.

Who am I, figuratively and in Reality? Orlando Barahona. My name does not ring a bell in almost all aspects of Real Estate Development and much less in Politics. By the way, Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation has a paper copy of my plan. They should look it up.

However insignificant I am as a former homeless figure, I have met and befriended fellow activists and thinkers in the movement to propose a plausible solution to the urgent need for low-income and homeless Housing First needs. This makes me feel more connected to my peers and no longer a lone wolf in my activism with its entrepreneurial qualities.

Capitalism has one imperative: Capital must circulate and thus no one will invest in a black hole, which is how developers see the various projects presented to alleviate mounting pressure to offer a bigger stock of homes. Is it mandatory to build these homes? Yes, but my angle is all about a business plan attached to a rehabilitation program.

Non-profit organizations (if I am correct) cannot also own a for-profit business. For-profit businesses require an acumen that is alien to social workers, but open to entrepreneurs. Screw grants, I want to meet some Russian oligarchs to fund my plan ha ha ha ha!

To Business We Come

The Concept To lease or purchase a commercial property in San Diego in order to build a model colony of tiny homes, which will serve as the first housing, business, and rehabilitation program of its kind
The Demographics Served Chronically homeless men and women with a mental challenge diagnosis who enter the system of emergency rooms, crisis houses and short-term residential programs on a regular basis using Prop 63 and Prop 64 funding; AB109 clients or TAY (transitional-age youth) as alternative demographics.
The Program THE EMANCIPATION PROJECT: Business Education, Wellness and Vocational Training leading to Self-Sufficiency and Ownership of Tiny Homes for the Social Reintegration of its Participants.

Program duration: 2 years.

Orientation Period: Mental Health Evaluation and Education via individual and group therapy sessions.Connection to Social Services

Phase Two: Daily routine involving physical wellness
Addressing substance use issues

Phase Three: Business and Vocational Training

How to Budget Your Income
Basic Woodworking
Basic Sustainable Farming
Basic Building Material-Making (i.e. from recycled plastics)

Phase Four: Self-Sufficiency Through Products and Services
The Emancipation Project’s primary aim is to educate a labor force that can build new tiny homes for people looking to purchase one. The completion of the program offers the ownership of a tiny home to its participants, which refreshes the American Dream of owning a house.

Funding

Milords and Miladies, I give you the free-standing Solar-Powered Electric Charging Station, which can satisfy your need for recharging cellular phones, tablets, and laptops. An estimated 4k units laced strategically in San Diego County can bring in break-even revenue within a year and can be an excellent source of self-funding for the colony and its program without having to propose more taxes.

A clever campaign can effectively introduce the stations to the public at the cost of a few dollars or quarter-dollars per use as a solution to the constant woes of budget cuts for this project. Brilliant!

The Evolution of Zoning and Insurance for Tiny Homes

One of my closest new friends and an active member of the Tiny Home Movement who built his own tiny home on wheels met with a very recent and current issue related to zoning and insurance for tiny homes when he and his girlfriend received a potential eviction notice from the lot where the tiny home is parked. Luckily, there is a solution, which is in progress and that eases my mind about the well-being of my friend and his girlfriend.

There is much work to be done in order to continue with this very personal passion. To make a big stride, I am now partnering with members of the movement whose skills in various fields related to Urban Planning and Real Estate Law give me hope. I will continue to update you when possible. Stay strong and keep in touch!

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Tiny house image: Lenara Verle/Flickr/CC Lic.

Las Casitas logo by V-69 Digital Marketing
Originally published at San Diego UrbDezine

As a homeless man in San Diego for the past two years, I’ve had time to research important bits of data scattered across the local news and public resources. What are the costs of paying for emergency room visits, for the crimes brought on by destitution and vagrancy versus this idea? Let’s begin.

My aim in this presentation is to propose a radical change in the approach to solving the systemic problem of homelessness in San Diego and to address the gaps in education and employment for veterans, the disabled and outcast workers with a criminal background who are not allowed to be productive in society.

Opportunity: To alleviate the crisis of homelessness in San Diego and supply American businesses with an educated workforce and create jobs to integrate veterans, the infirm, former inmates and other people considered outcasts back into society for a re-definition of the American dream: owning a home.

The Objective: To develop a prototype for a profitable colony of low-income housing solutions, enlisting the aid of a workforce made of homeless men and women, educated by volunteers, supported by health and human services agencies, guided by the talent of architects and city planners.

The Starting Point:

A central building styled like a rest stop, built to feature clean facilities for showering, washing laundry and communal cooking & socializing areas. Surrounding this first building, a radial plan of tiny homes will be built by volunteers and tenants.
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This plan came together after I read about an effort in British Columbia, Canada in which students of the Emily Carr University (ECU) and Wood Manufacturing students from the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) program built tiny homes to improve the lives of homeless men, women and families.

To honor the rich Hispanic heritage of San Diego I named my proposed project Las Casitas, Spanish for The Little Houses.

I began my research earnestly by emailing the Planning Department of the City of San Diego and it continues today with the more receptive Caltrans. My first email was to inquire about the possibility of using funds from the Inclusionary Affordable Housing Impact Fee, which is money pooled by the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) as a requirement for builders of new developments.

Truth is: I cannot get a clear answer from the SDHC on where the Housing Impact Fees are and what they’re being spent on. If I present a housing plan without doing the work of officials to provide numbers, the business plan outlined in the presentation won’t be taken seriously. Agencies will continue to shift their responsibilities to other agencies and the only reason I am submitting these Op-Eds is because frankly, theories do not convey the emergency state of the homeless when people return to their offices the next day with complete indolence, year after year.

Regarding the links for the City of San Diego Municipal Code and the possible funds for In-fill developments:

The Inclusionary Affordable Housing Impact Fee for builders is a “black hole” or a WHY there are so many homeless folks in San Diego…because the City of San Diego does not REQUIRE that affordable housing is developed at a faster rate. This has been happening for well over 30 years. Consequently, San Diego is down thousands of rental units and why “tiny housing” is one solution to the historic negligence of the Mayor and council members over the decades!! (Not to let the County of SD Supervisors off the hook).

Unfortunately, these historic funds are generated by the inclusionary housing requirement for new developments, which theoretically should be 10% or more (for density bonuses) of the new housing development for low & moderate income households (30% Area Median Income (AMI), very, very low; 50% AMI very low, 80% AMI, low; 100% AMI, moderate).

The American Planning Association/social engineering theory is that by mixing the market rate housing with a small percent of low to moderate income renters, that economic integration and social & racial integration ought to happen over time.

Again, unfortunately the market rate developers have “cut a deal” with the City of San Diego to create a pool of money (housing impact fees) instead of any integration, for maximum profits of pure market rate rents, to be placed elsewhere for future affordable housing developments.(NIMDism or not in my development!)

HOW the future value or appraisal difference between the market rate value of 100% market versus 90% market is not calculated very well. Where that discounted “stream of income” is put for future use is a controversy in itself. It is hard to follow the convoluted and very complicated City of SD accounting of that money.

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On to Caltrans, after I had a brilliant idea (yes, I can blow my own horn here) to use existing rest stops:

Info on Encroachment Permits
The cost to start the permit process is $492.

Rest Stops in San Diego County are the Aliso Creek Rest Area located north of Oceanside and the Buckman Springs Rest Area located 20 miles east of Alpine.

As for myself, do I need to set myself on fire in front of the Mayor’s office to call attention to this plan? Perhaps not. All I need is an authorization to build these tiny homes, with the possibility of having its tenants eventually move to designated areas in the city after a professional assessment of their needs, taking their tiny homes with them – or not. I’m quite sure that people on a fixed income such as retirees would love to use their backyard as a money-generating parcel of land through rental permits.

Part 2 of this plan requires a collaboration between government agencies, volunteers and tenants; something called “moving parts” in bureaucrat speak.

Las Casitas schematics for the layout of the village

The first priority is transportation to and from the colony to hospitals for healthcare needs, as well as factories and classrooms to train the tenants in jobs not fulfilled in the City. One option is converting trucks into mobile stores to deliver supplies and donations and freight trucks into mobile education units as reusable assets for other locations.

Father Joe’s Villages offers a program to train security guards. The need for safety would create a synergy with this program. Trash collection will be necessary, not to mention basic modern needs such as a computer lab in collaboration with the Department of Rehabilitation and other agencies.

The assistance of a successful existing 21st-century farming business such as Ecopia Farms (I’d love to approach them with this idea) will establish a location to employ the new residents and create a self-sustaining community, or at least start a business and thus relieve the tension of being unemployed and idle.

It is important to highlight that an entire group of people does not meet the strict requirements that federally-funded housing usually demands to receive assistance. Explore the LIHTC Program and a few guidelines for companies such as Community Housing Works. The inclusion of people considered outcasts from the system can prove to be a social experiment in Rehabilitation.

A clear advantage in establishing a residential and commercial area to work in is the convenience of merging educational, healthcare and social resources for all tenants. Every person in this program will benefit from the renewed hope in the American dream of owning a home at the end of the program and the possibility of becoming self-sufficient is attainable.

After the success of this first effort, this model can be replicated in any city or small town looking for a humane solution to an ongoing issue in society for far too long. Do we have a deal?

I will continue to share my experiences and events related to homelessness in San Diego. Thank you for reading this article. Stay tuned!

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Originally published at San Diego UrbDezine

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Homeless San Diego resident offers a unique solution to homelessness in the city

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