In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk," Mayor Todd Gloria highlights a second consecutive year of declines in unsheltered homelessness, driven by expanded shelter options, outreach, and efforts to build more homes. The update also explains the difficult choices in the City’s draft budget, including changes to some youth programs while maintaining many others, and reinforces the focus on protecting core services. Additional highlights include an audit showing improved encampment response and investments from parking meter revenue delivering faster repairs to streets, sidewalks, and streetlights in neighborhoods across San Diego.

In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk," Mayor Todd Gloria answers community questions about the City’s draft budget, explaining the difficult tradeoffs required to close a deficit while prioritizing core services like public safety, road repair, homelessness programs, and building more homes. The update also highlights early signs that increased housing supply is helping stabilize housing costs, outlines actions to rename City assets in partnership with the Barrio Logan community, and announces a new sister city relationship with Marseille, France to expand economic opportunity and global connections. 

 

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.