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.

 

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.

 

Mayor Todd Gloria’s latest "From the Mayor's Desk" newsletter highlights a continued decline in crime across San Diego, reinforcing the city’s standing as one of the safest big cities in America. The update also outlines progress on neighborhood infrastructure funded by parking meter revenue, recognition of local women leaders, and major momentum on housing—including a key court victory and federal legislation to help build more homes.

 

In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk" newsletter, Mayor Todd Gloria highlights strong public participation in the City’s Resident Budget Survey as San Diego prepares for a projected budget shortfall, with early feedback emphasizing priorities like fixing roads and keeping communities safe. The update also outlines a City and County partnership to keep a 164-bed domestic violence shelter operating, nearly 500 new homes advancing through projects supported by City programs like Bridge to Home and Complete Communities, a bipartisan call from the United States Conference of Mayors for immigration enforcement reforms, and San Diego’s selection as a FIFA World Cup 2026 Team Base Camp for Switzerland and New Zealand.

 

In this week’s "From the Mayor’s Desk" newsletter, Mayor Todd Gloria shares the launch of the City’s Resident Budget Survey as San Diego begins developing the next fiscal year’s budget amid a projected $120 million shortfall driven by rising costs, aging infrastructure, and softening revenues such as visitor taxes. The update also highlights expanded free parking for City residents at Balboa Park, a visitor-funded modernization plan for the San Diego Convention Center, and reforms to historic preservation rules that protect historic resources while making it easier to build more homes that everyday San Diegans can afford. 

 

In this week’s “From the Mayor’s Desk,” Mayor Todd Gloria highlights a $5 million state investment to expand the Peacemaker Project, which has already served more than 1,000 young people and families and focuses on preventing gun and gang violence in Districts 4, 8 and 9. The newsletter also spotlights long-overdue upgrades to Police Plaza funded through philanthropic and state support (not City funds), activation of the City’s Inclement Weather Shelter Program during recent storms to ensure no one seeking a bed was turned away in the rain, and up to $50,000 in assistance to help middle-income families achieve homeownership and put down roots in San Diego.

 

In this week’s “From the Mayor’s Desk,” Mayor Todd Gloria outlines the start of the City’s annual budget process amid a projected $120 million shortfall driven by slowing revenue growth, rising labor and operating costs, and ongoing service demands, emphasizing a disciplined approach and inviting public input. The newsletter also highlights progress on neighborhood infrastructure, including more than 3,500 repairs completed in three months using reallocated parking meter revenue, $6.9 million in regional SANDAG funding for mobility, planning, and climate projects, and continued slurry seal work to extend the life of city streets across multiple neighborhoods.