Last month, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced that the city would remove trash and homeless encampments along the river twice a week through the end of March. At a press event last month, Mayor Faulconer stated, It hasn’t been done to this extent that I can ever remember. We’re changing that. We’re protecting [these] […]

In October, San Diego launched the city’s first sanctioned homeless camp. Dozens of people arrived with a mixture of trepidation, anxiety and hope when it opened. The campsite is being run by a nonprofit called Alpha Project and people that stay at the site will be placed in tents and have access to portable showers […]

In 2014, the City of San Diego welcomed a sophisticated new addition to San Diego’s waterfront for tourists and others arriving by bay. This new addition was an 816-square-foot stand-alone restroom that cost $2 million and was designed with a seagull theme that referred to a popular 1970 novella about a seagull. Fast forward three […]

It turns out that David “Water Man” Ross was thinking about port-a-potties almost a decade before San Diego was struck by a deadly, human waste-fueled hepatitis A outbreak. Ross is known by several homeless residents for his regular deliveries of free snacks and bottled water and by 2011, Ross had installed portable toilets that were […]