We challenge you to find a more qualified Management Team (anywhere in America) to launch the Sunbreak pilot program to lead America out of our current homelessness quagmire.
Look at the leadership qualifications and experience with this team — the decades of service-to-nation and service-to-community — the extensive commitment and effort to helping the homeless — as well as the significant law enforcement and judicial experience. This team will succeed.
The news of Sunbreak San Diego will spread rapidly — and it is a model that can be quickly replicated in every city with need. The successful implementation of Sunbreak San Diego will ultimately save hundreds of thousands of lives across America, alleviate widespread suffering, unlock unfathomable human potential, and clean up America’s cities for all of us.
Sunbreak Ranch is a central navigation center, designed to house people, identify their needs, and move them with care and proper treatment to more permanent housing or treatment centers. It is an emergency regional “triage center” where everyone in need will have a clean, healthy, safe, and secure place and bed.
Sunbreak is a voluntary facility.
Individuals can reside in a series of designated and protected areas for families, single mothers, seniors, veterans, those with dogs, and so on.
There will be clean toilets, showers, dining halls, medical tents, storage facilities, onsite homeless service providers, mental health counselors, substance abuse specialists and vocational trainers.
Sunbreak will have private security and a permanent 24/7 police station onsite to maintain a safe and secure environment for residents. Away from the criminals, drug dealers, gang members and sex traffickers who relentlessly prey on the homeless on the streets, homeless individuals will finally have a secure and safe place to get back on their feet.
According to Martin v. City of Boise (2018), the U.S. Constitution does not allow for prosecuting people for sleeping outdoors if there is no shelter available. With Sunbreak Ranch operational, and shelter available for every person in need, the court’s conditions will be met, thus enabling the return to rule of law regarding public loitering, camping, littering, defecating, urinating, drug use and criminal activity.
A civilized society must have rule of law, period.
Once proven, Sunbreak can be rapidly replicated across America. The opportunity to save hundreds of thousands of lives, end widespread suffering, and clean up America’s cities, is within our reach.
Public Health Warning Letter Regarding San Diego – J. George Araujo, Civil Engineer – April 10, 2017 (This prescient letter was written and submitted to the City of San Diego months before the Hepatitis A outbreak which killed 20 and sickened 592 of our homeless brothers and sisters. No one in City Hall listened to the dire warnings.)
Sunbreak Ranch KUSI interview with Sasha Foo – KUSI News – February 14, 2017
KUSI SPECIAL REPORT on Sunbreak Ranch – KUSI News – February 23, 2017
600 KOGO AM News-Radio featuring Sunbreak Ranch – 600 KOGO News Radio – February 27, 2017 – (segment from minute 6:40 to minute 24:30)
Phoenix Shows Homeless Campus Can Work – The Colorado Springs Business Journal – Ralph Routon – May 8, 2015 (Learn about this operating SUNBREAK RANCH model in Phoenix. In San Diego, it could be so much more.)
Another prime location opportunity for Sunbreak Ranch is on the vast land parcels owned by the City of San Diego and County of San Diego in the Otay Mesa / Brown Field area. It is a spectacular open space setting with breathtaking views and fresh air, just 13 miles southeast of downtown San Diego. The area is easily and quickly accessible via highways 905 and 125, with MTS bus and trolley connections already in service.
Take Back San Diego is a non-partisan, non-political grassroots coalition of native (and long-time) San Diegans who, in unison, are saying NO MORE to the homeless status quo of suffering.
Bill Walton, R.I.P. “Center” for Sunbreak Ranch 1952 – 2024
Click on the video above to watch the #1 rated cable news show ‘The Five’ co-hosts discuss Sunbreak Ranch as the solution to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s failed homeless policies.
Click on the video above to watch a short clip from Dr. Ben Carson’s “Sunbreak Ranch: A Common Sense Solution to Homelessness in America” – 1:47
Click on the image to view Dr. Ben Carson’s “Sunbreak Ranch: A Common Sense Solution to Homelessness in America” on YouTube – 33:07
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2017–2021
Neurosurgeon who performed first successful separation of conjoined twins
Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient 2008 (highest USA civilian award)
Decades of band-aide solutions got us into this crisis…and repeating the same certainly won’t get us out of it now. Bottom line, without a “definable plan” and a “dedicated funding stream” we can forget about ending San Diego’s homeless humanitarian crisis. Therefore, a Citizen’s Initiative may be our only way out of this this predicament.
Sunbreak is designed to be a large-scale temporary ranch in the layout of the Old California Ranchos – befitting California’s rich history and topography. It will be a creative, one-of-a-kind location featuring 35 plus amenities and benefits that strive to make the Ranch the best possible temporary home for our homeless brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors.
The following individuals and organizations have endorsed the concept of immediately implementing the Sunbreak Plan as the Comprehensive Homeless Solution for San Diego and the United States of America. We invite everyone to join us in endorsing Sunbreak – to do so please email us using the website contact form.
