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Encinitas commissioners hear call to restore safe-parking program as staff, residents debate whether people were displaced
Summary
At a Public Safety Commission review of the homeless action plan, a resident urged restoring a five-year safe-parking program; staff and commissioners debated whether ending the program displaced participants and discussed hotel-voucher and by-name-list options.
Public speakers and commissioners spent more than an hour on the draft homeless action plan and the status of a safe-parking program that ended in December, with sharply different accounts of how many people were affected and whether the city had effectively displaced residents.
Bob Kim, an Encinitas resident who said he supports restoring the program, told the commission the safe-parking site at the community center had operated nearly six years and mainly served seniors and people newly experiencing housing insecurity. “This program is truly the last rung with homelessness prevention,” Kim said, urging the commission to recommend that the city council restore the program and…
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