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San Diego Homeless

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

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City Council considers purchasing toilets

Martha Carter, a homeless woman who lives on the streets of East Village, puts a blanket up between two shopping carts for privacy and then a bucket beneath her. This is how she relieves herself at night. Ref. Source 7

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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

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Homeless survey results chilling

Data from a September survey of 738 homeless San Diegans shows statistically something that most people already know: Life on city streets is far from a breeze. Ref. Source 2

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New school for homeless to open

Andrea Chacon no longer dreads the question about where she lives. Ref. Source 2