Jackie Isidore Isidore: “After being homeless on the street and in shelters and groups, homeless people don't want roommates; they want their own space.”

SAN DIEGO—It's important to find a wraparound approach that includes social services that tackle what got the homeless into the homeless situation in the first place, otherwise we have a revolving problem, CREW San Diego president and VP of marketing and business development for Johnson & Jennings General Contracting Jackie Isidore tell GlobeSt.com. CREW-SD recently hosted an educational event titled “Homelessness and the Impact on Commercial Real Estate” to explore the issue and what San Diego is doing about it. We spoke exclusively with Isidore after the event about the takeaways.

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Carrie Rossenfeld

Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.