A dispute continues in El Cajon with the city looking to limit a San Diego County program that allows the homeless to temporarily live in local hotel rooms through vouchers.
Exterior view of rooms at the Relax Inn & Suites in El Cajon, one of the hotels in the county's voucher program.in El Cajon with the city looking to limit a San Diego County program that allows the homeless to temporarily live in local hotel rooms through vouchers.
"To be honest, anecdotally, we’re hearing there’s a lot of people from outside of the East County area so I’d be curious to get some hard numbers," Wells said. "They didn’t have a problem with it over the last year," said Anderson, whose district covers El Cajon."This program is over a year old, but only now do they have a problem."
Wells, however, denied the city is kicking anyone out. But the city has ordered hotels to reduce capacity and issued notices with potential fines for illegally operating as emergency shelters.
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