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San Diego district attorney pitches ShelterReady app to speed placements, track unmet shelter needs
Summary
District Attorney Summer Stephan told the San Marcos City Council about ShelterReady, a technology designed to match people experiencing homelessness to appropriate shelter beds quickly and to collect data on unmet needs.
District Attorney Summer Stephan presented ShelterReady to the San Marcos City Council as a tool to speed shelter placements and provide cities with data about who remains unsheltered and why.
Stephan said the Office of the District Attorney and partner agencies designed the system to improve the efficiency of shelter referrals and to capture information about “who we could not shelter and why,” so cities can target investments. “Think of it as a hotels.com or Expedia,” she said, describing a field-facing app that shows available beds and facility restrictions and that holds a reservation for 24 hours to allow outreach workers to deliver a person to shelter.
The presentation linked homeless services to…
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