DATE:
December 9, 2025
32
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
RECEIVE AN UPDATE ON ADVANCING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN OUR HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE (DISTRICT: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
On November 2, 2021 (4), the San Diego County Board of Supervisors (Board) adopted the San Diego County Framework for Ending Homelessness (Framework). A data-driven approach, which is one of the Framework's five key drivers, seeks to ensure that consistent, reliable, and comprehensive information is used to guide decision-making, measure impact, promote person-centered program design, and demonstrate accountability across all five of the Framework's strategic domains.
On September 9, 2025 (21), the Board directed the Chief Administrative Officer to explore the feasibility of providing a monthly memorandum to the Board detailing progress on efforts to house every homeless individual in the unincorporated areas of the county. As part of this action, the Board directed staff to return within 90 days with a draft memorandum and the data elements to track progress towards ending homelessness within the unincorporated areas of the county.
Following an analysis of the data points outlined in Board's action on September 9, 2025 (21), the County of San Diego (County) Health and Human Services Agency, Housing and Community Development Services, Office of Homeless Solutions (OHS) has determined that providing monthly updates on this matter is feasible and that the following actions can be taken to meet the Board's objectives: a) Enhance data transparency by publishing a monthly data dashboard to OHS public webpage; b) Create and maintain a By-Name-List specific to the unincorporated communities to aid in data analysis; and c) Provide a quarterly staff report to the Board to capture analysis of the data including successes and barriers to housing for people experiencing homelessness in the unincorporated areas of the county.
Today's action requests the Board receive an upd...
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