Blog, News & Media
Hidden Homelessness: Living In Plain Sight
This post discusses the often overlooked struggles that come with vehicle homelessness, from the quiet cost burdens to the mix of challenges including physical discomfort, legal restrictions, and financial burdens tied to vehicle maintenance. It also highlights how the City of San Diego and the Compass Station are working to address the issue and find solutions for this hidden population.
Where To Go When You Can’t Go Anywhere: Exploring the Sanitation Crisis Nationally and Locally
In this article we dive into the paradox of the sanitation crisis, with society criticizing unhoused communities for hygiene while simultaneously shutting down their only source of it. We explore the issues from a national perspective and look closer into the issue locally.
Help Us Share The Warmth This Winter
An invite for the Central Beach community to come together to bring light to the Guest at the Compass Station. Addressing how and what is best to donate to make sure the unhoused community members are well equipped for the cold months to come.
How the Community Benefits from Shorelines’ Services
This piece explores how Shoreline’s services not only support unhoused neighbors with vital resources and community connection, but also create meaningful, positive impact throughout the Central Beach area through programs like the Community Care Crew.
The Battles after Service: Exploring the Veteran Homelessness Crisis
After serving our country, too many veterans return home only to face a new kind of battle — finding stable housing and support. In “The Battles after Service: Exploring the Veteran Homelessness Crisis,” we take a closer look at the systemic challenges veterans face and the community-based solutions that can help them rebuild their lives with dignity and hope.
PRESS RELEASE: NO NEIGHBOR HUNGRY
With millions of Americans expected to lose access to food assistance due to the ongoing government shutdown, Shoreline Community Services is stepping in to fill the gap for San Diego’s most vulnerable residents.
“Why don’t they just get a job?”: Addressing the misconceptions and realities of navigating the job market for the unhoused population.
Employment is harder than you may think it is. Here at Shoreline Community Services we strive to bridge the gap between homelessness and unemployment through various methods and connections. Dive into the barriers faced while finding and sustaining a job as an unhoused individual through physical, emotional, and systematic barriers.
BEACH & BAY PRESS: Shoreline Community Services to provide cabins for unhoused workers
SCS is launching a Workforce Sleeping Cabin Project to provide transitional housing for members of its Community Care Crew employment program. Unhoused individuals employed to clean and care for Pacific Beach. These cabins offer a stable place to rest while participants continue receiving case management and job support. The project models a compassionate, community-driven approach to homelessness.
Unsheltered Numbers Increasing
In this Times of San Diego article, our executive director Caryn Blanton sheds light on the limitations of the annual Point-in-Time Count and the growing needs of San Diego’s aging unhoused population.
Voice of San Diego: Sick and Unhoused, the System Failed Him at Every Turn. Then, He Was Shot by Police.
He cycled through hospitals, jails, shelters — and was discharged every time.
Denied care again and again, his crisis ended in gunfire.
We can’t keep calling this public safety.
More Than Clean: Why Hygiene Is Essential for Dignity, Health, and Hope
Hygiene is more than a daily task—it’s a step toward dignity, health, and hope. At Shoreline, we provide showers and wellness services to help our unhoused neighbors feel seen, supported, and empowered on their path to stability.
Shoreline’s 2024 Annual Report Is Here!
We’re proud to share Shoreline Community Services’ 2024 Annual Report, highlighting the progress, impact, and community partnerships that shaped our work over the past year.