Tessa Balc

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Jakob McWhinney |Tessa Balc

For the first time in half a decade, the county’s annual homeless census showed a decrease in the number of people staying in local shelters and living on the streets. Countywide, there was about a 7 percent decrease in homelessness. That elicited relief from leaders who’ve long grappled with a steady beat of bad news on the front.  Local education officials, on the other hand, were not treated to such good news.