Program To Help Chronically Homeless Making Progress

SAN DIEGO -- A program designed to help those chronically homeless and reduce the taxpayer burden at the same time is making progress.

Project 25 is a public-private partnership that has targeted 25 of the chronically homeless that use the most public resources for the past four months.

"It's a true blessing… it's a blessing," said Aaron McBride as he took a walk downtown on 17th Street near Imperial Avenue.

He said it brought back recent memories of the place he slept a month ago.

"Wow, I was once there," said McBride as he looked at the street. "Didn't know what I was going to do or where I was going to be."

When McBride wasn't on the street, he spent time at the Scripps Mercy Hospital emergency room........read more