{"id":144719,"date":"2025-08-14T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144719\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:30:14","slug":"morning-report-cities-furthest-from-housing-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144719\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report: Cities Furthest from Housing Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cities furthest away from hitting their housing goals aren\u2019t, as you might guess, those that fight the hardest against new housing.<\/p>\n

Instead, the cities furthest away from hitting their housing goals tend to have blue-collar roots, our Will Huntsberry found in a new analysis of housing data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imperial Beach \u2014 where newly-elected Supervisor Paloma Aguirre was mayor until very recently \u2014 is the furthest off the mark.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only five cities countywide are on track to hit their marks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Three of the five cities most off track are relatively small, densely-populated and have median incomes below other places in the county. But two stuck out for other reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Escondido\u2019s Mayor Dane White said that a voter approved initiative called Proposition S is holding his city back from building more housing. Proposition S makes it so that any amendment to the city\u2019s land-use plan must be approved by citywide ballot. Developers don\u2019t want to risk trying that, White said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Solana Beach\u2019s Mayor Lesa Heebner said her city is behind for another reason: County officials did a really bad job of distributing how many homes each city should produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How Much California Energy Companies<\/strong> Will Spend to Avoid a Death<\/p>\n

\"\"A Cal Fire helicopter flies over Otay Lake during the Border 2 fire on Jan. 24, 2024. \/ Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a strange and morbid calculation you might not have heard of called the \u201cvalue of a statistical life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is the amount of money that companies spend creating safety measures in order to avoid a single person\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In California, that number has been quite high. Until recently, San Diego Gas & Electric had placed the value of preventing a single death at $100 million. That was out of line with other agencies that have placed the figure as low as $7.4 million<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why it matters: This computation can affect your energy bill \u2014 and it can also affect how much money utility companies make.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If You Want Cops to Back Up County Crisis Teams, Pay Up, Official Says<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"An El Cajon Police Department officer driving on July 21, 2025, in downtown El Cajon. \/ Vito di Stefano for Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n

A few months after El Cajon\u2019s police chief directed officers to stop automatically responding to certain crisis calls, the City Council got a briefing on the policy shift.<\/p>\n

Questions quickly turned to the county, which has raised concerns about what that has meant for county-contracted civilian teams that respond to crisis calls.<\/p>\n

Among councilmembers\u2019 questions: Why can\u2019t the county pay for security or police officers who must respond to mental health crisis calls with county contractors?<\/p>\n

Our Lisa Halverstadt provided a rundown of Tuesday night\u2019s discussion, including comments from Heartland Fire & Rescue Chief Bent Koch on how his department is responding to the police department policy that also has ramifications for firefighters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

ICYMI: Halverstadt reported earlier this week on two incidents where fire crews felt forced to take steps that fall outside their usual duties, including one instance where a firefighter was injured.<\/p>\n

Read more here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

North County Report: No More Sharing Homeless Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"LivingLiving quarters at the Oceanside Navigation Center on July 21, 2023. \/ Photo by Ariana Drehsler <\/p>\n

Our Tigist Layne has been tracking a growing trend among North County cities: They no longer want to share homelessness resources like shelters. They want their own, for their residents only.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oceanside recently switched the operator of its homeless shelter for that very reason, Layne reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The San Diego Rescue Mission had been pushing Oceanside to make its facility more of a regional facility, but Oceanside didn\u2019t like the idea of that arrangement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the North County Report here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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