CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) \u2013 Two South Bay communities have reached an agreement to help resolve the homelessness crisis in the region.<\/p>\n
62 beds at the tiny homes for the homeless in Chula Vista are able to temporarily house folks from Imperial Beach. Mayor Mitch McKay of Imperial Beach told ABC 10News there\u2019s excess capacity at the Chula Vista resource.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we reached out to them and said,\u00a0hey,\u00a0in kind of a collaborative sort of exercise,\u201d McKay said. \u201cWould you consider allowing us\u00a0to – paying the cost,\u00a0whatever your costs are,\u00a0we would pay them,\u00a0– but allow us to,\u00a0when we have individuals in our community that are willing to go\u00a0into a treatment-type facility and are ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKay told ABC 10News both city councils approved a deal this week to allow Imperial Beach\u2019s homeless population to be able to use the tiny home bridge shelter.<\/p>\n
It boils down to whether an Imperial Beach homeless individual is willing to go to the tiny homes for help; they\u2019ve vetted and approved them, and if there\u2019s space, they can go to the tiny homes for help.<\/p>\n
The City of Chula Vista told ABC 10News its residents would still be prioritized.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis agreement does not reserve beds.\u00a0So, it’s not that we’re going to be\u00a0holding beds specifically for Imperial Beach clients,\u201d Stacey Kurz, Director of Housing & Homeless Services for the City of Chula Vista, said. \u201cThis is on an as-needed, as-available basis, and so they would be charged a nightly rate for every night that an individual from Imperial Beach stays in our shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, there were some from Chula Vista who spoke out against the idea, including Councilmember Michael Inzunza.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of doubts on how this is going to happen. The City of Imperial Beach,\u00a0if they send us,\u00a0say, on day one two to 10 residents,\u00a0unsheltered folks,\u00a0once they’re in our shelters,\u00a0they can leave at any time,\u201d Inzunza said.<\/p>\n
Inzunza mentioned a concern if those added people leave the shelter, they might go to the Chula Vista riverbeds, behind buildings and in alleyways in the city.<\/p>\n
That would add to the City\u2019s unsheltered population, which the latest Point In Time Count numbers show was 355 people; about a 25 percent drop from 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m very worried:\u00a0if we take on the responsibility of all the homeless residents from Imperial Beach,\u00a0what’s next?\u00a0Is it going to be National City?\u00a0Is it going to be South San Diego?\u201d Inzunza said. \u201cIt shouldn’t be the responsibility of Chula Vista\u00a0to take on homeless residents from neighboring cities.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKay said his City doesn\u2019t have that many homeless people to begin with -the Point in Time showed 25 people in 2026 – and anticipates maybe three to four people a year going into the tiny homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Chula Vista did have a small surge in unsheltered, they could,\u00a0they could put up the stop sign and say,\u00a0hey,\u00a0we’re full,\u201d McKay said.<\/p>\n
The City of Chula Vista told ABC 10News it anticipates the deal being signed sometime next week, and then it would become effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) \u2013 Two South Bay communities have reached an agreement to help resolve the homelessness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-440339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}