.MayorBillWells says San Diego County is “secretly” using City of El Cajon motel rooms as homeless shelters. Supervisor JoelAndersonCA, who represents the area, pushed back, calling Mayor Wells 'misinformed.' Reports of drug use and crime increased.
EL CAJON – Officials in the City of El Cajon are calling out San Diego County for making El Cajon’s homeless issue “even worse.”
“Not only did we notice an increase in crime and need for medical responses around some of these motels, our police officers started noticing new homeless individuals, along with drug dealers who prey on them, and open drug use,” noted City Manager Graham Mitchell. El Cajon’s study also found that two of the motels—the Travelodge Motel at 425 W. Main Street and the Relax Inn & Suites at 1220 W. Main Street—were 100 percent occupied with those using a voucher. Five other motels had high levels of motel voucher occupancy, mostly issued by Equus. Even without these make shift shelters, El Cajon makes available more homeless shelter beds per capita than any other city in the County.
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