The El Cajon City Council voted unanimously March 28 to move forward with developing regulations for the city’s motels and hotels being used by the county to house homeless people.
The vote came following recent incidents of violent crimes and several arrests of homeless individuals utilizing the county’s voucher program at the city’s hotels.
“This is not a brand new problem,” Mayor Bill Wells said at a March 21 council meeting in regard to having difficulty cooperating with the county. “El Cajon is carrying about 50 percent of the burden for this program and yet El Cajon represents about 3 percent of the population. Where’s the equity in that?”…