Homelessness Action Plan

Said roughly 40 people have died at the Tent City safe sleeping site, accused the city of covering up deaths and failing mitigation in a federal lawsuit.

Praised the prevention focus and asked the city to add qualitative metrics for more equitable, community-centered decisions.

Shared that legal aid prevented her eviction and urged use of AI think tanks and people with lived experience in shaping the system.

Said the mayor's leadership team and his RTFH committee seats were eliminated without disability accommodations, and flagged growing senior homelessness.

Highlighted the stark racial disparity — Black San Diegans are 5% of the county but 15-43% of those served — and intergenerational injustice in homelessness.

Asked for an update on the Bradley v. City of San Diego lawsuit over safe sleeping conditions and urged moving people out of flood-prone downtown areas.

Pointed to YIGBY affordable housing at $260,000 per unit as a cheaper model, questioned the Liberty Station safe sleeping site hours, and proposed restoring 10,000 destroyed affordable units via the successor agency debt schedule.

Argued system performance metrics obscure residents' loss of safe parks and public spaces, and said services must be balanced with deterrence.

A formerly homeless senior who was housed in 2017, she warned about the growing population of homeless seniors and their disability and safe sleeping needs.

Asked how the coordinated shelter intake program and client feedback system actually work — hours, staffing, response times — stressing that first contact matters.