Housing Stability: Why a Safe Home Matters for Mental Health
It’s easy to make assumptions about people experiencing homelessness when we don’t see the daily challenges they face. Explore how the constant stress and uncertainty of housing instability can affect mental health and shape a person’s ability to navigate everyday life.
Technology: Bridging the Gap for Our Unhoused Neighbors
What happens when not having a phone equals missing out on a job opportunity, housing information, or even a doctor’s visit? Technology becomes our lifeline, and The Compass Station has been helping to connect our unhoused community members to their opportunities.
Zoning Laws: The Hidden Barrier Fueling Homelessness
What if everything we thought we knew about homelessness was wrong? My work with San Diego’s unhoused community has shown me that homelessness doesn’t stem from lack of effort or motivation, but structural barriers that make stability nearly impossible.
Experiencing Homelessness: Where Shame Becomes Everything
This article explores how shame and stigma affect people experiencing homelessness. Through conversations with guests at The Compass Station, it highlights how judgment and hardship can lead to isolation and self doubt, and how a space built on dignity and respect, like The Compass Station, can help restore a sense of belonging.
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.
“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.