Survey finds half homeless in downtown are women
Half of the homeless people in downtown San Diego are women and most are on the street because they lost their job or their housing, according to a recent survey from a group behind a $31 million plan to turn the city-owned, former World Trade Center into a homeless facility. Ref. Source 2
Backgrounds vary for homeless people
Not every homeless person pushes a shopping cart full of clothes, blankets and second-hand possessions. Not all are haggard, drunk and smelly. Not everyone is an adult, and some choose to stay on the streets. Ref. Source 6