COVID-19, the economic crisis and worldwide calls for social justice and racial equality – events impacting nearly every one of us are also transforming the County’s new budget.
Credit: Vista las Flores Twenty-eight affordable homes officially re-opened today in Carlsbad, thanks to the County Health and Human Services Agency.
The housing crisis in San Diego is especially hard on our vulnerable populations; working families, the elderly, people with disabilities and veterans who have been homeless. The County offers rental assistance through our Section 8 Housing Program and partnerships with local landlords.
The County will fund more than 2,600 affordable housing units in the region by 2025. Those units will house over 5,000 San Diegans.
The County of San Diego saw a changing of the guard this last fiscal year. Two new supervisors joined the ranks of longtime veterans on the County Board of Supervisors, and they raised the stakes on overcoming the region’s challenges. The newly released 2018-2019 Annual Report offers highlights of how the County is making strides on new priorities while still maintaining the services San Diegans have come to expect.
County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, joined by affordable housing advocates and builders, launched an incentive program aimed at spurring the development of granny flats and other accessory homes. The County will start offering free, pre-approved accessory home plans to property owners and others in the region’s unincorporated area. The plans will be available at the County’s […]
The County and its many government and social service partners are building more than 3,000 new housing units to help San Diegans find a stable place to live.
