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The San Diego Housing Commission voted unanimously Friday to end talks to buy 10 motels that would have permanently housed homeless people now sheltered at the convention center in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Read More »
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San Diego’s infrastructure backlog could surge as COVID-19 shakes city finances
As Mayor Kevin Faulconer enters the last eight months of his term, COVID-19 has thrown city finances off track and slowed his ability to tackle a long to-do list. Read More »
Campaign finance, election results dominate inewsource’s best data projects for 2018
Here are the databases that we think had the most impact in the community in 2018. Read More »
San Diego voters overwhelmingly favored Measure J. Here’s what it took to get there.
More than 85 percent of the San Diegans who voted Tuesday on Measure J approved it. That means billions of dollars in city contracts, purchases, sales and leases with private companies will become more transparent. Again. Read More »
inewsource launches San Diego campaign finance database
This election season, you can follow the money behind the highly debated San Diego ballot measures and closely watched City Council races using inewsource’s newest tool. Read More »
How to use inewsource’s city and county campaign finance databases
inewsource has created two databases to follow the money in San Diego politics, which we hope will make it easier for the public to understand who is funding political campaigns. Read More »
San Diego kept doing business with company that overbilled it, skirted living wage law
San Diego city officials kept doing business with a janitorial company even after a 2016 audit found the contractor overbilled the city almost $33,000 and violated the city’s living wage law and California’s labor code. Read More »
Public reacts to ex-San Ysidro school superintendent’s pay — and it’s not positive
“It’s almost disturbing to see this level of incompetence from the school board,” said San Diego Councilman David Alvarez, whose district includes San Ysidro. Read More »
$6 million in San Diego council office savings goes back to city departments, nonprofits
San Diego City Council members used savings from their district office budgets for $6 million in grants for neighborhood projects since 2012. Read More »
Hundreds of homeless get free tickets
out of San Diego
Over the past five years, a downtown-based nonprofit has bused more than 1,000 homeless people out of San Diego in hopes of reuniting them with friends and family. The Family Reunification Program — established in 2012 by the Downtown San Diego Partnership — gives homeless in downtown a free Greyhound bus ticket to anywhere in the nation if they can ... Read More »