Sedona Lineback is a student at La Jolla Country Day School.

The homelessness crisis in San Diego is an urgent and visible issue that affects everyone.

Though county and city leaders have put several programs into place, homelessness remains a pressing issue.

Voice of San Diego hosted a session on what to do about street homelessness at Politifest 2025: Solutions Showdown on Oct. 4, 2025. Three speakers presented specific solutions. Here’s what they had to say.

More Housing and Understanding

Dr. Margot Kushel, a UC San Francisco professor of medicine who led a groundbreaking survey of homelessness in California, said that the solution to homelessness is housing.

Kushel focused her solution pitch on people experiencing homelessness in encampments and prioritizing those who are vulnera

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