El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells says the distribution of homeless into his city is NOT EQUITABLE. 45% of San Diego homeless with hotel vouchers have been dropped in El Cajon. Full story:
EL CAJON – Officials in the City of El Cajon are calling out San Diego County for making El Cajon’s homeless issue “even worse.”
Bill Wells, Mayor of the City of El Cajon, joined KUSI’s Jenny Milkowski to talk about recent findings that 45% of homeless hotel vouchers are being used in El Cajon while the city only represents 5% of the county.Last weekend, the City of El Cajon conducted a study of the motels and found that of the 703 occupied rooms last Saturday night, 26 percent of them were occupied with someone using a homeless motel voucher.
The homeless people being sheltered at these hotels are continuing to break the laws. City Manager Graham Mitchell explained that he saw one of the tenants of Travelodge Motel rolling up a dollar bill to snort drugs, and another coming off fentanyl.In a press release, Supervisor Fletcher said, “The Board of Supervisors is taking action in a bi-partisan way to do the difficult work of getting people off the streets and into permanent housing.
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