In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk," Mayor Todd Gloria outlines his draft budget to close a deficit while protecting public safety, fixing roads, reducing homelessness, and building more homes. The newsletter also highlights new affordable housing openings in City Heights and Serra Mesa, progress on state legislation, and San Diego’s bid to host the 2029 Invictus Games, an international multi-sport event for wounded, injured, and sick military personnel and veterans. 

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.