September 6, 2017 -- Merchants in Santa Monica’s downtown will meet with police and others this month as the community tries to respond to the largest increase in homeless people in a decade, much of the population concentrated downtown and along the beach.

The session between Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. and local police and the City’s Human Services Division on September 19 will detail the ways in which Santa Monica is coping with the 26 percent increase in homeless people this year living on the streets, the beach, in parks and encampments.

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