What's El Cajon Doing About Homelessness?

Actually, a lot. View the City's webpage showing statistics of people helped, including into permanent housing, pounds of debris cleared, its cost, and more.

The El Cajon Police have a dedicated unit to visit homeless people on the street daily, offer assistance, and if rejected, tell them to break down their encampment and move along. Until the state forces an individual into treatment for substance abuse, unfortunately all we can legally do is move them along.

An update is presented every 6 months (usually in January and July) on the progress with metrics. Here's a 2-minute read on the latest update, presented at the July 22, 2025 City Council meeting.