While homelessness has gone up in the county over the last four years, most of the increase in homelessness has occurred in incorporated municipalities in the county, not the unincorporated areas, where the Board of Supervisors would have direct policy control.

Terra Lawson Remer does not have a seat on the “Regional Task Force on Homelessness” board.  Therefore, she has not been in attendance of these meetings.  Terra Lawson-Remer is vice chair of the associated  Continuum of Care board.  Representatives for Lawson-Remer rather than the supervisor herself has attended 10 of the 13 meetings the continuum has held since 2022, when she joined the board.  https://voiceofsandiego.org/2024/09/27/fact-check-did-lawson-remer-ghost-regional-homelessness-group/

This mailer claims that the number of unhoused people declined while Kevin Faulconer was mayor. That’s true — after the homeless population had increased.

Faulconer was elected in 2014 and served through 2020. Homelessness grew in the city during his first years in office. The hepatitis A outbreak in 2016-17, largely attributed to unsanitary conditions in homeless encampments, resulted in 20 people dying and hundreds of others becoming ill.

A few years later, in 2020, the annual homeless census showed a 12 percent year-over-year drop in street homelessness in the city and a smaller 4 percent decrease in the overall population.

The annual homeless census tallied overall increases in homelessness for three of the seven years he was mayor.

How to Make Sense of What Kevin Faulconer Did on Homelessness