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Appraisal Meant to Determine if Housing Commission Overpaid for Pandemic-Era Hotel Can’t Answer That Question
The San Diego Housing Commission released to the City Council Thursday the new appraisal of a Mission Valley hotel it bought to turn into housing for formerly homeless people.
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Morning Report: The $67 Million Unanswered Question
Did the city of San Diego pay too much money for a hotel that was purchased under the cloud of a conflict of interest-scandal? Well, we don’t have an answer, yet.
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SDPD Staffing Crisis Expected to Continue for Years
San Diego has been trying to address police understaffing for years, but city budget analysts now say it will need to use overtime to plug staffing shortages for four to…
Cup of Chisme: In My Neighborhood, Kids Are Missing a Lot of School
Nearly all the schools in one San Diego ZIP code are struggling with chronic absenteeism. Plus: What’s up with police staffing levels and a new law to prohibit encampments.
Mayor, Downtown Councilman Pushing Homeless Camp Crackdown
Mayor Todd Gloria and Councilman Stephen Whitburn, who represents downtown, are urging new tactics including an ordinance banning camping on public property and a sanctioned-camping site to address surging unsheltered…
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The Learning Curve: Understanding a Chronic Absenteeism Crisis
Every school that feeds into Logan Memorial’s high school has chronic absenteeism rates well above the district’s average. The school’s head counselor thinks there’s no “silver bullet” to solve the…
Council Grapples With Report on Policing Impacts Unhoused Black San Diegans
We pulled this post from the March 15 Morning Report. San Diego City Councilmembers on Tuesday grappled with takeaways from a San Diego State study that found that negative police…
DA Stephan Pushing New Homeless Shelter App
We pulled this post from the March 15 Morning Report. County supervisors on Tuesday signed off on District Attorney Summer Stephan’s push to create a phone app to link homeless…
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Education
Of the 15 San Diego Unified Schools with the Most Chronic Absenteeism, 14 Are South of I-8
Chronic absenteeism has reached sky-high levels nationally and locally, but the bad news isn’t evenly distributed.
The Learning Curve: What the Latest School Data Doesn’t Tell Us About Teachers
A change to the way the state reports teacher experience offers less insight into just how experienced teachers at each school are.
Cómo usar la Guía de Escuelas para Padres
Voice of San Diego se unió al UC San Diego Extension Center for Applied Research and Evaluation para recopilar los datos.
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ENVIRONMENT
San Diego Should Now Definitively Know How to Reduce GHGs. It’s Done the Math, Over and Over.
If San Diego made a list of all the climate decisions it could make, in order of which cut the most greenhouse gases from the local economy, it’d probably look…
San Diego Business Groups Balk at City’s New Climate Policy Guide
At the city’s Environment Committee meeting Thursday, industry representatives during public comment argued the city was too focused on cutting emissions, and not enough on other considerations.
How San Diego Climate Action Works and What it Might Cost
San Diego would have to find $30 million in new money to reduce its carbon footprint. The city has just a dozen years to remove the equivalent of 2.2 million…
NORTH COUNTY
North County Report: Lack of Funding Shut Down Aid to Families on the Brink
A homelessness prevention program for families in Escondido came to a standstill after losing its federal funding source. Now program leaders are hoping the city will help them find new…
She Was Proof Oceanside’s Self-Sufficiency Program Works. When the City Suspended it, She Spoke Up
A program for low-income families helped a single mom in Oceanside achieve financial independence. She hopes her story will bring awareness to the program that often goes underutilized nationwide.
North County Report: The Majority of Homeless Dollars from Escondido’s General Fund Went to Cops
A new city staff report detailing how Escondido spent dollars earmarked to address homelessness is garnering backlash from residents. They say too much of it went to the police department…
opinion and commentary
Commentary: ‘I Was Living a Nightmare’
Christopher Edmonds moved from Knoxville, Tenn., and settled in San Diego. No longer homeless, he is an advocate of the homeless and an active member of Voices of Our City…
Commentary: A Homelessness Journey Is Anything but Linear
I’ve been in and out of homelessness since the 1990s. The journey has been long and difficult. This is my story.
Putting a Face to a Statistic: How I Became Homeless
In the span of three years, I lost my job, home and family, checking off five of the six primary causes of homelessness. This is my story.
POLITICS
10 Years after Managed Competition, City Turning to Contractors for Key Services
San Diego’s mayor is bringing in contract workers to fix the city’s broken streetlights.
Advocates ‘Livid’ After Local Assemblymember Pulls Bill to Help Black Students
Last February, Assemblymember Akilah Weber introduced AB 2774. The bill was something of a redux of efforts made by Weber’s mother, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, to improve the…
Behind the Late Lobbying Disclosure That Earned Midway Rising a Fine for Breaking City Ethics Laws
The city of San Diego’s Ethics Commission is fining Midway Rising $5,000 for neglecting to file a lobbying disclosure months after it was due.
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