County Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher encouraged motels in El Cajon to 'hold the line' in the face of possible fines for renting out too many rooms to homeless people under the county's voucher program.
"The majority of these folks are from El Cajon, and 95% of them are from East County and a third of the people that have been on the voucher program have gotten wrap-around services and treatment and been connected to permanent housing," Fletcher said.
Joseph Villanueva has worked for the Santee-based homeless outreach group Crisis House for the past three years. "A lot of people that experience homelessness here, from what we see, are from East County," Villanueva said."I've seen quite a few successes with the voucher program. We take it for granted that we are able to go home at the end of the day and have a roof over our head. A lot of people in East County that experience homelessness, they don’t have that luxury. So being able to put them in a shelter or hotel moves them that much closer to some semblance of stability.
While there has been a slight increase recently in the number of voucher program participants, the homeless population in El Cajon has increased by 70% in the last two years, according to Fletcher."We are better together than we are butting heads," he said."The best thing about community is when people come together toward one goal and we are able to accomplish pretty much … miracles.
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