State auditor puts San Diego homeless service providers under the microscope
The California State Auditor this week released a deep dive report on the city of San Diego's homelessness spending. It calls for the city to centralize, in one annual report, all the spending it does on homelessness relief programs so it can better track their effectiveness.
Hanan Scrapper is the regional director for People Assisting the Homeless, a nonprofit that operates the city's street outreach program. She said the audit is scrutinizing the wrong things.
"We as a system end up treating the symptom versus the cause. And we should really be looking at housing ends homelessness, so how do we increase the housing pipeline that we have in our community?" she said.
City officials agreed with the auditor's recommendation to put all its homelessness spending in one annual report. It also agrees that more affordable housing is the best way to end homelessness.
Hanan Scrapper is the regional director for People Assisting the Homeless, a nonprofit that operates the city's street outreach program. She said the audit is scrutinizing the wrong things.
"We as a system end up treating the symptom versus the cause. And we should really be looking at housing ends homelessness, so how do we increase the housing pipeline that we have in our community?" she said.
City officials agreed with the auditor's recommendation to put all its homelessness spending in one annual report. It also agrees that more affordable housing is the best way to end homelessness.
