One provider has already said they may not be able to continue in East County's largest city
the measure “legally questionable” and said more restrictions could reduce available support amid a homelessness crisis.Organizations will have to conduct background checks on participants and submit regular reports to the city summarizing who’s in the program, although names would be omitted.
Police must be notified two days before a room is given to a sex offender with a high risk of reoffending, a change partially driven by theGroups would pay a one-time fee of $335 and at least $40 every year after. All of those steps could be too much for the one person coordinating the voucher program at Townspeople, a San Diego-based nonprofit, according to its director of supportive services.
“We would love to continue working in El Cajon,” but “I don’t know how this would play out,” Stacey Drew said in a phone interview. Townspeople focuses on people with HIV. While compromised immune systems can be threatened in crowded shelters, hotels offer isolation.The group started working with a few facilities in El Cajon last year. While the nonprofit has partnerships with other motels around the county, someone who’s long lived in El Cajon may not be comfortable accepting a voucher in a new city, Drew added.
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