📌 This conversation is happening whether we engage or not. The question is who shapes it.
Follow along. Share what resonates. And if you want to engage directly with the City: 🔗 sandiego.gov/city-plannin... 📧 NeighborhoodHomes@sandiego.gov
📌 The program includes stakeholder interviews, focus groups, workshops, feasibility studies, and a technical working group. Is that genuine community input or a delay strategy dressed up as democracy?
📌 "Infrastructure first" as a gatekeeping strategy: San Diego's highest-resource neighborhoods already have the best schools, jobs, and opportunity in the city.... everything but the infrastructure to welcome new neighbors?
📌 San Diego tried this before. SB10 stalled at the Planning Commission under community pressure. Is this time actually different or are we headed for the same wall?
📌 What is Neighborhood Homes for All of Us, what does it actually propose, and who stands to benefit most if it works?
📌 The numbers don't lie: rent, home prices, overcrowding, and the slow family exodus from San Diego. What does the data actually tell us?
📌 Who gets to live near the coast and who gets pushed inland to areas that hit 110° in the summer and sit next to freeways? Environmental justice isn't abstract in San Diego.
📌 Our highest-resource neighborhoods have the best schools, jobs, and climate. So why are they the hardest places to build a home in?
📌 Who's actually controlling San Diego's housing narrative right now? Have local anti-housing groups taken the upper hand in influence over our elected officials and candidates?
Over the coming weeks, I'll be covering the City of San Diego's Neighborhood Homes for All of Us initiative and the bigger forces shaping whether city officials will have the courage to see it through.
sandiego.gov/planning/nei...
Here's what's coming 👇
80% of San Diego's residential land is reserved for single-family homes. Young families and working San Diegans are being locked out of our highest resource and coastal neighborhoods.
The City has a plan to change that. I'm going to cover all of it.🧵 Follow along.
The wealthiest, most exclusive communities continue to benefit from the historic preservation system, while everyone else is left competing for fewer homes at higher costs.
Read my new op-ed on how this shapes who gets to live in San Diego:
Imagine if this is what the surrounding neighborhoods around downtown San Diego looked like. Housing and density can be beautiful. It is also not seen but has a robust transit system supporting the development.
#infrastructure #housing #development
*This is Sydney, taken during a recent trip.