San Diego is sweeping its homeless crisis under the rug.

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Dregs of the City: San Diego is a short documentary that explores homelessness in San Diego, a California city that receives way less press than Los Angeles and San Francisco for its homeless crisis, but has a nearly identical per capita homeless population to San Francisco, and has the potential of being severely undercounted.

San Diego is taking a different approach to most other cities with its homeless crisis. They've created governmentrun homeless encampments that house around 1,000 of the city's homeless population. They created these encampments as a response to their downtown tent ban ordinance that recently passed. On paper, this might look like a good thing, but it's a lot more layered once you scratch beneath the surface. For example, once San Diego began opening these encampments, they closed down shelters that equate to around 900 beds, effectively lessening the city's bed capacity.

There are different groups of homeless people in San Diego. There are the ones that stayed downtown after the tent ban, and decided to take down their tents every night and put them up again every morning. There are the ones that reside along the San Diego riverside. There's the ones in the San Diego government encampments, and then there are your stragglers. San Diego, like most cities, faces a plethora of reasons as to why the homeless crisis has exponentially worsened in recent years.

A special thanks to @JazzJune7 for hosting us while we were in San Diego.

Also huge thanks to all of the wonderful people that were willing to speak with us. You sharing your story will hopefully help effect change in some way, and we very much appreciate you.

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CoDirectors: 6 7 Kevin Kalb & Charles Leith
Editor: Charles Leith
Director of Photography: 6 7 Kevin Kalb
Camera Operators: 6 7 Kevin Kalb & Charles Leith

Thumbnail Design by: 6 7 Kevin Kalb

News Sources:
NBC 7 San Diego YouTube
KPBS Public Media YouTube
FOX 5 San Diego YouTube
City of San Diego YouTube
CBS 8 San Diego YouTube
ABC 10 News YouTube
KCAL News YouTube
FOX31 Denver YouTube
StreetTV YouTube
NBC News YouTube

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00:00 Intro
01:12 Jessica's Cop Story
02:32 Lady Brazy
05:55 Street Realities
07:52 Homeless Encampment Ban
08:45 Safe Sleeping Sights
12:40 Special Treatment
14:24 Mental
16:17 Too Expensive
17:32 Where's the Money?
19:20 Broken Glass
20:50 Losing Friends
21:37 Cheryl
23:50 Closing Thoughts
25:24 Outro

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