The discomfort of sleeping in a car, the worry about danger on the street, and the lack of access to basic amenities. These are the struggles many families with school-aged children across San Diego are facing.

On Tuesday, the San Diego Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to approve a license agreement with the San Diego Housing Commission to operate a safe parking space at the site of the former Central Elementary School in City Heights.

“Now, imagine you’re 6, 7 years old and you don’t know where you’re going to sleep, or you barely got any sleep, or were kind of sleeping with one eye open because you were afraid,” said Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera.

It’s a situation with which he is all too familiar.

“So childhood, we had housing instability. Sometimes it was hotel rooms

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