After months of planning, a North County effort to move hundreds of unsheltered homeless people from encampments into housing is underway, and it is showing progress.

It’s been about a year since Oceanside and Carlsbad received a state grant to move unsheltered homeless people camped along state Route 78 and the Buena Vista Creek into long-term housing.

The goal is to move every person living in encampments around the nearly 4-mile shared border between the two cities into housing. The state gave them three years and $11.4 million to do it.

The money is part of a series of grants through a program called the Encampment Resolution Fund, first announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. Cities are required to provide reports to the state to track spending and outcomes, as Voice of San Diego p

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