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Father Joe's Villages - Press Updates

Audit: People living on streets decreased under San Diego’s camping ban – San Diego Union-Tribune
A report released Thursday is the first by the city auditor to evaluate the city's nearly 3-year-old ordinance regulating encampment responses

In the past year, San Diego’s unsheltered homeless people drop by double digits – NBC 7 San Diego
The unhoused staying in shelters has gone up by 12%, however.

County homelessness drops by 1%, unsheltered numbers drop by double-digits
The 2026 Point-in-Time count, released Friday, shows a drop in homelessness across the region by 1%.

San Diego budget cut threatens Neil Good Day Center
The proposed San Diego budget for the next fiscal year would eliminate funding for the the Neil Good Day Center. Deacon Jim Vargas, President and CEO of Father Joe's Village, joins "Good Morning San Diego" Friday to explain why this specific cut would be so devastating.

San Diego budget proposal would eliminate funding for homeless day center | KPBS Public Media
The Neil Good Day Center offers bathrooms, laundry, storage and mail services to homeless San Diegans during the day.
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