SAN DIEGO — More than 2,000 homeless people were counted on the streets of downtown San Diego one night in May, marking a new high in the number of individuals living without shelter in the area.

SAN DIEGO — The homeless population in downtown San Diego reached another record high for the sixth straight month, with about 1,900 people counted on Jan. 31. The monthly count conducted by the ...

SAN DIEGO — The number of homeless people in downtown San Diego reached a record high for the fourth straight month in November, according to a count conducted by the Downtown San Diego Partnership.

San Diego police say they work to minimize disparities but argue that those tied to Proposition 36 may be spurred in part by a concentration of enforcement downtown, which has a large homeless ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego city leaders want the state to lift a nearly 50-year-old ban on pay toilets, which they say could solve a shortage of clean and safe downtown restrooms that repels tourists ...

SAN DIEGO — The former Central Library in downtown San Diego will soon become a short-term shelter for people experiencing homelessness. The historic building's been vacant for nearly 10 years.

Ex-San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said the city’s ban on homeless campers across a large part of the city is “doomed to fail” without tougher enforcement.

SAN DIEGO — A new downtown San Diego homeless count shows a dip in the number of unhoused people for February. However, several factors come into play for the decrease such as weather.

Around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up at a homeless shelter in downtown San Diego. At least one ICE agent stopped at the gate outside, according to Alpha ...

San Diego police were investigating a drive-by shooting at a downtown homeless shelter where a security guard was shot and killed three years ago, authorities said. Nobody was hurt in the shooting ...

In downtown San Diego alone, 1,706 unsheltered are estimated to be living on the street, in tents and in cars. In November 2021, there were 1,124 estimated homeless living in downtown San Diego.