Hundreds of volunteers went tent-to-tent and sidewalk-to-sidewalk throughout San Diego County on Thursday morning for the annual one-day, point-in-time homeless count. “I need a sleeping bag.”She grew up in San Diego, she said, but she has a drug problem and she’s been homeless about six years. About 50 of its staff members participated in the count, working in teams of five or six in various San Diego neighborhoods. “That makes my heart warm,” Stephanie Castaneda, an outreach worker for the county of San Diego, said. That’s the big one on my mind.”The January 2025 count showed a total 9,905 homeless people in San Diego County.