The local situation is unsustainable, according to the San Diego Rapid Response Network. The group operates the shelter and has had to move it five times.
“We’ve been patching this thing together minute by minute,” Kevin Malone, executive director of the San Diego Organizing Project, a lead member of the network, told the Union-Tribune’s Kate Morrissey last week. “Everyone is really stretched.”
Now both the city and county are looking at their own facilities to possibly provide shelter space, while continuing to urge the state to allow use of one of the region’s National Guard armories. A couple of years ago, the armory in National City was used temporarily as a shelter for Haitian immigrants who came from Brazil. But recent requests to do that once again were denied by the state, though county supervisors on Tuesday told staff to keep trying.
