Downtown shelter gets new contract, with plans for a new shelter in Midway district

A downtown-space San Diego homeless shelter is receiving a new running contract, and by this summer a comparable shelter will be open up in the Halfway spot.

The shelter found at 17th and Imperial Avenue will keep on to be operate by the nonprofit Alpha Job and remain open up by way of at least June 2023. On Friday the San Diego Housing Commission Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a a single-year offer with up to 3 extensions. Every single 12 months would price the city about $3 million.

“Related anticipations on the operator as much as preserving and mitigating COVID-19 methods, focusing on encouraging individuals finds strategies to exit homelessness,” said Lisa Jones, government vice president for strategic initiatives at the San Diego Housing Fee.

Jones explained there was continue to a want for the 139-mattress shelter, and it is in line with San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s dedication to deal with homelessness. The Imperial Avenue facility is one particular of a few bridge shelters that the Housing Fee money. The agency and the town are now working with the county to open a new shelter, but this just one would be outside the house of the downtown place.

“By July we’ll have this new 150-bed shelter open in the Halfway region,” San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher reported in the course of this week’s Condition of the County handle.

Identical to downtown shelters, the Halfway 1 will be a tent framework in the parking good deal of San Diego County’s Wellbeing Providers Advanced on Rosecrans Road.

“This genuinely is going to glimpse at obtaining county sources on web page,” Jones claimed. “So there will be behavioral well being assessments on internet site.”

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Jones explained ideas could modify concerning now and when the shelter is anticipated to open up in the summer. Homelessness has been raising in the Midway space, and officers have been doing the job with the community to make the shelter a fact.

“Which is truly essential and generating sure that they are obtaining a emotion of consolation,” she explained. “That we’re bringing something which is likely to assist support their wants and not have a unfavorable affect on the whole group.”

The tent structure is currently being furnished by the Lucky Duck Foundation, which helped the city of San Diego soar-commence its shelter plan a number of a long time back. Jones claimed it would be 150 beds at most and will be designed to acquire in homeless inhabitants 24 hours a day.