In 2021, city leaders in Oceanside and Carlsbad received an $11.4 million state grant to move all of the homeless people living along a four-mile stretch of State Route 78 into housing. The project got off to a slow start, but four years later, it’s showing promise.

Outreach workers from four homeless service providers canvassing the stretch of land one zone at a time. In the first zone the organizations tackled, they interfaced with 65 people. So far, 11 households have moved into supportive housing units, with 16 more set to move in the coming weeks. Some of those newly housed residents have been living at the encampment for nearly 10 years.

Each client will receive two years of supportive housing funded by the state grant. During that period, the newly housed residents will work with

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