In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk," Mayor Todd Gloria highlights continued progress in building more homes, with faster permitting delivering thousands of affordable units and helping drive down rents across San Diego. The newsletter also outlines a successful partnership with Caltrans that is reducing dangerous freeway fires through coordinated outreach and cleanup, and highlights support for state legislation to move forward the Midway Rising redevelopment, which will bring thousands of new homes and transform a key area of the city.

 

In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk" newsletter, Mayor Todd Gloria highlights input from more than 10,000 San Diegans helping shape the City’s budget priorities, with strong focus on street repairs, public safety, homelessness, and housing. The City has reduced its projected shortfall significantly through a pause on most hiring and other cost-saving measures. The Mayor also joined the California Big City Mayors coalition to advocate for sustained state funding to prevent homelessness and announced the continuation of a state-funded youth employment program that is creating pathways into public service.

 

In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk" newsletter, Mayor Todd Gloria highlights the opening of nearly 1,000 new homes in Clairemont and Kearny Mesa, continued investments in downtown infrastructure ahead of Padres Opening Day, and progress on long-awaited community projects like the Boston Avenue Linear Park. The update also urges residents to weigh in on the City’s budget survey as San Diego prepares to make difficult decisions while staying focused on public safety, housing, homelessness, and infrastructure.