In this week’s "From the Mayor's Desk" update, Mayor Todd Gloria outlines his preliminary draft budget, centered on public safety, infrastructure repairs, homelessness reduction, and building more homes despite a significant deficit. The newsletter also highlights his national call for housing solutions, support for a state bill to convert vacant offices into housing, a new regional water agreement to stabilize rates, San Diego’s role in the Artemis II mission, and the legacy of Deputy Fire Chief Alwin “Benny” Holman.

 

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.