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# Letter: Registering the homeless and capping their numbers on the Third Street Promenade
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/091104-story-20040911-6/
- Published: 2004-09-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:02:20.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Promenade, #archive-import, Homeless

✆ “The question is, are the homeless, or as I call them, the vagrants, in Santa Monica, particularly the Third Street Promenade, are they registered or do they have Social Security numbers? Because when I look at what will happen in the next 10 years, you’re going to have a lot more than 8,000 or 10,000 by that time. I think they should be registered and put a cap on whoever is here right now.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 11, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)