El Cajon, Calif. Mayor Bill Wells says San Diego County has been dropping homeless people at local hotels, overwhelming the suburb and spiking a rise in crime.
El Cajon, Calif. Mayor Bill Wells criticizes San Diego for program that only ‘perpetuates’ homelessness and asks for the city to be more ‘equitable’ in sharing the responsibility of caring for homeless.Fox & FriendsEl Cajon, California Mayor Bill Wells described a huge influx of homeless people, with some hotels becoming full due to the program.
"We've seen a huge influx of homeless people over the past couple of months. We really didn't understand what was going on. And when we did an investigation, we found out that our hotels were even being filled with homeless through a homeless voucher program," he explained. Rows of tents line the sidewalk in San Francisco.SAN FRANCISCO, USA - AUGUST 29: Homeless tents are seen near the City Hall of San Francisco in California, United States on August 29, 2022. has been sending homeless people who are a part of a homeless voucher program to hotels in El Cajon. A city investigation found some smaller hotels were at 25% or more capacity of homeless people.
"We had not talked about this with the county whatsoever and found out that some of our hotels were 50% filled with homeless and some were up to 100% filled with homeless," Wells said.
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