The claim: “Thanks to (Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer’s) incompetence, San Diego County is being punished. The state took away $10 million in funding because we’re not making progress on homelessness,” Faulconer wrote on X on Aug. 11. He made a similar claim at the Sept. 16 debate.
The verdict: In June, Lawson-Remer was the sole supervisor to vote against nixing a planned Spring Valley tiny home project for homeless residents, which led the state to reallocate $10 million in funding for the project.
“Scrapping plans to build tiny cabins was the wrong decision,” Lawson-Remer wrote in a statement that day. “There is no alternative plan and no guarantee the state will give us the $10 million. This feels like a big loss in the fight against homelessness.”
Indeed, the state sent the county a termination notice 20 days later saying the county had blown through deadlines tied to the state grant and appeared unlikely to meet deadlines to spend the money. Politico reported that San Jose would get the cash instead. The county has since committed to a smaller project in Lemon Grove without the state money.
When asked about the former mayor’s claims, spokesperson Gustavo Portela argued Lawson-Remer should have rallied fellow board members to stick with the Spring Valley project.
“The fact that Terra Lawson-Remer wasn’t able to get her colleagues, even from her own party, on board to maintain funds here to help tackle homelessness speaks to her inability to work in a bipartisan fashion to address our homeless crisis — she simply can’t get the job done,” Portela wrote in a text message. “Don’t take it from me, take it from Gov. Gavin Newsom who said that San Diego County needs to get their act together.”
She has too much on her plate, and needs to let some of them go, if she’s truly interested in keeping her position. I’m not a fan of Faulconer, after it was on his watch, and his decision to start removing parking in front of businesses in North Park, and putting them OUT of business, to appease the few, and make traffic more congested, by narrowing/eliminating traffic lanes and installing historically, and obviously rarely used, bike lanes. Between he and Monica Montgomery Stepp, I fear what they can do to make it much worse for residents in the County. They don’t think about their choices and how negatively it will impact the County, as it did the City of SD.
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