Like other major cities all along the West Coast, San Diego is struggling with a homeless crisis. San Diego has struggled to do that. ———"The people of San Diego need to decide what they want the city to look like," said Gordon Walker, the head of San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless. Last year, the number of people living outdoors in San Diego jumped 18 percent over the previous year, according to an annual count taken in January. Meanwhile, the number of encampments along the banks of the San Diego River doubled.

Source: ABC News December 07, 2017 05:03 UTC