City workers clearing and cleaning up a massive homeless encampment beneath the 5 highway overpass in the San Diego River on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo ...

City workers clearing and cleaning up a massive homeless encampment beneath the 5 highway overpass in the San Diego River on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo ...

City officials in San Diego will debate a proposal to ban homeless encampments from public property, joining other U.S. cities considering action to contain the mounting homelessness crisis.

Citations and arrests doubled in San Diego, which also doubled the size of its police teams that respond to homelessness.

A new bill would make it illegal for homeless residents to camp in certain places, such as near schools, throughout California. Its authors say such a ban has had great success in San Diego. But a … ...

City begins clearing out San Diego Riverbed homeless encampments After months of outreach to those living along the San Diego River, a multi-agency effort began Tuesday to clean out their encampments.

Punitive fines, arrests, and sweeps don’t address the root of the problem: the lack of permanent, affordable, and adequate housing.

City of San Diego addressing large homeless encampment under I-5 with state grant The goal is the have the area cleared in the fall of this year, according to the city ...

When the cities of Escondido and San Marcos recently enforced encampment bans, they both referenced public safety in their decisions. There is no homeless shelter in San Marcos, Instead, the city ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom asked cities Monday across the state to ban homeless encampments, releasing a template policy he hopes they'd adopt but stopping short of conditioning funding on their doing so.

S AN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — After a series of fast-moving fires linked to homeless encampments, the city of San Diego has launched a new fire prevention program aimed at reducing fire hazards in ...

Politicians pushing to make homeless encampments illegal across wide swaths of California point to one city as proof it will work. “San Diego gets it,” Senate Republican Leader Brian Jones ...