{"id":16012,"date":"2025-06-26T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16012\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:16:12","slug":"morning-report-poway-will-revisit-affordable-housing-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16012\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report: Poway Will Revisit Affordable Housing Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poway\u2019s historically low in-lieu fee \u2014 what developers pay to avoid including affordable housing in their projects \u2014 may be getting a second look.<\/p>\n

City leaders recently agreed to study the fee, which is currently just $500 per unit for both single-family and multi-family homes. That\u2019s the lowest in San Diego County (except for a few cities that don\u2019t charge one at all).<\/p>\n

Some Poway residents have begun to question whether the low fee is discouraging affordable housing production. And according to the data, most developers have chosen to pay the fee rather than build affordable units, according to records obtained by our Tigist Layne.<\/p>\n

The City Council plans to bring in a consultant to review the fee and recommend whether it should go up, stay the same or be lowered. The Council will then decide whether to adopt the recommendation.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the Council has discussed raising the fee \u2014 past efforts stalled over concerns about limiting development.<\/p>\n

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

San Diego Could Get Injection of After-School Money<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Children play soccer after school at Chollas Mead Elementary School in the Diamond District neighborhood on Feb 19, 2025. \/ Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n

The state budget is looking good for San Diego Unified School District.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It appears the district will get roughly $36 million in new money to fund before- and after-school programs. That could erase the district\u2019s waiting list, which includes thousands of families.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After-school programs like PrimeTime can have a huge impact for working families, as our Jakob McWhinney reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McWhinney tells the story of a man who was unable to afford child care \u2014 but also unable to work regular hours because he needed to pick up his child from school. The dad was working piecemeal as a food delivery driver. When his child finally got into an after-school program, the dad was able to start a career with the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n

Roughly 4,200 people were on the district\u2019s waiting list last year. District leaders say the money will go directly to after-school care providers and has the potential to end the waiting list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the Learning Curve here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Voice\u2019s Reporting on the 2017 Hep A Outbreak<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Workers power-wash a sidewalk near the Midway area amid a hepatitis A outbreak. \/ Photo by Adriana Heldiz<\/p>\n

Back in 2017, when County officials declared a hepatitis A outbreak, Voice of San Diego\u2019s Lisa Halverstadt noticed a lack of action from local officials. What she revealed led to a ramped-up response that most likely saved lives.<\/p>\n

Two months after a plan of action was proposed, public health officials had only set up two hand-washing stations. Each of them miles away from downtown streets that were epicenters for the outbreak.<\/p>\n

By that time the disease had already claimed 15 lives. This motivated Halverstadt to investigate why the response lacked urgency, which government officials blamed on bureaucratic red tape and vendor issues.<\/p>\n

Halverstadt\u2019s story on the sluggish response published on a Wednesday and by the end of the weekend county contractors had placed 40 hand-washing stations across the city.<\/p>\n

In honor of our 20th anniversary, we\u2019re looking back at the stories that changed San Diego. This story dramatically reshaped the public health response, which ultimately slowed the outbreak. It\u2019s a Voice classic and the kind of reporting we will always aspire to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

Min Wage Proposal Advances\u2026 For Real This Time!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may have noticed a mistake in yesterday\u2019s Morning Report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We wrote on Tuesday evening that the San Diego City Council\u2019s Select Committee on Cost of Living voted on Wednesday to advance a minimum wage proposal for hotels, event venues, zoos and amusement parks.<\/p>\n

The post should have said that they were going to consider the item on Wednesday. We fixed it, and you can read the updated post with the correction here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Still \u2026 we were right? <\/strong>Wednesday, they did vote to advance the proposal. Our editor Scott Lewis explained how the wage proposal has changed since leaders first floated it around and how businesses are already gearing up to fight it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As someone smart once said: \u201cI thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Other News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n