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San Pasqual – an Eden for San Diego's homeless
14,000 acres owned by the city
The plan suggests that people might help run the campus and work in agriculture.
As San Diego weighs new options to replace scrapped plans for a 1,000-bed homeless shelter in Middletown, there's another idea not being considered by the city that offers to "end homelessness in 100 days."
The idea is to use vacant city-owned land in the San Pasqual Valley, 40 miles north of downtown. Most of the approximately 14,000-acre planning area is owned by the San Diego Water Utilities Department. The land was annexed to the city in the 1960s, and is zoned mainly for agriculture and open space.
"If this plan won't work, please explain why not," reads a letter of support sent last week to the Land Use and Housing Committee.
Phase one would set up rows of military grade FEMA tents and trailers.
A county representative says in an email that they have never heard of the idea. "San Diego County Health And Human Services Agency, Office Of Homeless Solutions, the County of San Diego, does not have plans nor know about a homeless shelter in San Pasqual."
Phase one of the envisioned "San Pasqual Village" would set up rows of military grade FEMA tents and trailers, which the plan's anonymous authors compare to an extension of San Diego's safe sleeping program. (The city funds 1,630 traditional shelter beds and up to 770 tent spaces in the safe sleeping program, which has sites at 20th and B St. and Park Blvd near Balboa Park.).
Each night, the traditional shelters "hover near capacity," a city report says, and last year the safe sleeping sites averaged around 83 percent occupancy from January through June.
Although the proposed "village" in San Pasqual would use tents for a quick-build, long-term shelter, residents would still be considered homeless by the city (a requirement for federal funding that applies to San Diego's safe sleeping sites).
The city funds 1,630 shelter beds and up to 770 tent spaces at 20th and B St. and Park Blvd near Balboa Park.
In the next phase, contracts with homeless service providers would tap medical care, addiction and mental health treatment, and other services "to condense the myriad unproductive and hard-to track initiatives the city now uses to ease homelessness into a single silo."
The plan suggests that people might help run the campus and work in agriculture, even though an estimated 17-40 percent of people who are homeless in California are employed. Dropping them off far from downtown wouldn't work for everyone. Those who turn down relocation would face possible arrest.
But finding suitable shelter sites, even for tents, is a challenge everywhere. Already, tent camping on public property in San Diego is prohibited if shelter beds are available, and near schools, parks, transit centers and homeless shelters.
Last week, Lemon Grove residents railed against a county-approved plan to build 60 to 70 sleeping cabins; a smaller version of a tiny home project that was fought off in Spring Valley. Today, March 11, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to draft a stricter "unsafe camping" ban that cracks down on camping fires.
At the same time, the city has warned about the growing deaths of the unsheltered population on the streets. According to the San Diego County Medical Examiner, approximately 600 people who were homeless died in 2023 alone.
Here's something you might be interested in.
San Pasqual – an Eden for San Diego's homeless
14,000 acres owned by the city
San Pasqual – an Eden for San Diego's homeless
14,000 acres owned by the city
The plan suggests that people might help run the campus and work in agriculture.
As San Diego weighs new options to replace scrapped plans for a 1,000-bed homeless shelter in Middletown, there's another idea not being considered by the city that offers to "end homelessness in 100 days."
The idea is to use vacant city-owned land in the San Pasqual Valley, 40 miles north of downtown. Most of the approximately 14,000-acre planning area is owned by the San Diego Water Utilities Department. The land was annexed to the city in the 1960s, and is zoned mainly for agriculture and open space.
"If this plan won't work, please explain why not," reads a letter of support sent last week to the Land Use and Housing Committee.
Phase one would set up rows of military grade FEMA tents and trailers.
A county representative says in an email that they have never heard of the idea. "San Diego County Health And Human Services Agency, Office Of Homeless Solutions, the County of San Diego, does not have plans nor know about a homeless shelter in San Pasqual."
Phase one of the envisioned "San Pasqual Village" would set up rows of military grade FEMA tents and trailers, which the plan's anonymous authors compare to an extension of San Diego's safe sleeping program. (The city funds 1,630 traditional shelter beds and up to 770 tent spaces in the safe sleeping program, which has sites at 20th and B St. and Park Blvd near Balboa Park.).
Each night, the traditional shelters "hover near capacity," a city report says, and last year the safe sleeping sites averaged around 83 percent occupancy from January through June.
Although the proposed "village" in San Pasqual would use tents for a quick-build, long-term shelter, residents would still be considered homeless by the city (a requirement for federal funding that applies to San Diego's safe sleeping sites).
The city funds 1,630 shelter beds and up to 770 tent spaces at 20th and B St. and Park Blvd near Balboa Park.
In the next phase, contracts with homeless service providers would tap medical care, addiction and mental health treatment, and other services "to condense the myriad unproductive and hard-to track initiatives the city now uses to ease homelessness into a single silo."
The plan suggests that people might help run the campus and work in agriculture, even though an estimated 17-40 percent of people who are homeless in California are employed. Dropping them off far from downtown wouldn't work for everyone. Those who turn down relocation would face possible arrest.
But finding suitable shelter sites, even for tents, is a challenge everywhere. Already, tent camping on public property in San Diego is prohibited if shelter beds are available, and near schools, parks, transit centers and homeless shelters.
Last week, Lemon Grove residents railed against a county-approved plan to build 60 to 70 sleeping cabins; a smaller version of a tiny home project that was fought off in Spring Valley. Today, March 11, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to draft a stricter "unsafe camping" ban that cracks down on camping fires.
At the same time, the city has warned about the growing deaths of the unsheltered population on the streets. According to the San Diego County Medical Examiner, approximately 600 people who were homeless died in 2023 alone.
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