【《We Chinese in America》Media Editor Tang Zhao, October 4, 2022】Per County of San Diego Communications Office, during a historic housing summit, the County and City of San Diego approved a resolution to expand the affordable housing supply by 10,000 homes using government land by 2030.(Photo credit: County of San Diego Communications Office)
The formal County/City Council meeting was the first in more than 22 years between the two entities and was held Monday at San Diego State University.
County Board Chair Nathan Fletcher and Council President Sean Elo-Rivera led the summit. Both cited the importance of working together to act on the region’s critical housing shortage.
“We know that housing is foundational to life, it is the most basic thing that you need in order to be able to live a fulfilled and thriving life,” said County Chair Nathan Fletcher. “We also know that in San Diego County, we have some of the least affordable housing anywhere in the country.”
“Stable housing is the foundation of opportunity, and instability w/respect to housing has profound impacts…,” said Council President Sean Elo-Rivera. “We have a responsibility to make housing stable and fulfilling that responsibility will require collaboration.”
The resolution calls for supporting four major actions:
- Streamlining permitting to accelerate housing production
- Building 10,000 affordable homes on government-owned land near transit lines, that also support climate action goals and offer construction workers good paying jobs
- Leveraging public, private and other funds to speed up the availability of affordable housing
- Increasing density on properties owned by the San Diego Housing Commission or its nonprofit affiliate
The vote came after presentations from several organizations who also cited the critical need for housing.
The Global Policy Leadership Academy’s Jennifer LeSar told government leaders that San Diego is noted nationally for tackling affordability but there is still more work to do. Figures showed that 81% of earned low-income households in the county are paying more than half their income on housing costs. And that puts a number of households at risk for homelessness. For those already experiencing homelessness, the Point in Time count found 8,427 people. From that total, 4,321 are sheltered but 4,106 are unsheltered.
The San Diego Foundation is developing a GIS mapping tool of open parcels on public land in the cities of San Diego and Chula Vista, the County and excess state lands that could be developed for affordable housing. The parcels are judged on quality of life, the ease of building housing, land use, transit and more.
The foundation’s presentation also included details on its Housing Impact Fund and its $10 million commitment to raise an additional $90 million to address housing needs.
The San Diego Housing Commission has 22,000 units in service but is exploring ways to add more to the 4,120 properties it owns while keeping in mind climate goals, equity, a variety of housing types and income levels plus childcare.
“We have a long way to go but everyone that you see here before you today is really committed to doing this work … and working through all these challenges to make sure we see real progress,” said Chair Fletcher. “As County government…, we pledge the County government will be more active and more engaged than at any point in history.”
Council President Elo-Rivera said we must make sure the resolution is not just symbolic and called for an accountability check early next year.
(Source: County of San Diego Communications Office)
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【《We Chinese in America》Media Editor Tang Zhao, October 3, 2022】Per County of San Diego Communications Office, The County of San Diego released its Annual Report calling on San Diegans to “Connect With Us” to build “a just, sustainable and resilient future.” (Photo credit: County of San Diego Communications Office)
The report also listed accomplishments and cited goals ranging from ending homelessness to enhancing communities and correcting climate change.
The County’s Annual Report provides a snapshot of what it has achieved in the past year and outlines goals it looks to accomplish.
County Chief Administrative Officer Helen Robbins-Meyer opened the Annual Report by calling on residents to connect with the County to help build a future that would make all San Diegans proud.
Robbins-Meyer said the County was moving community engagement to the center of its general management system to make it easier than ever for people to be a part of their local government.
“This year we’ll ramp up community engagement more than ever,” Robbins-Meyer said, “from adding a Community Engagement Manager and Community Engagement web hub, to expanding our translation services to eight languages.”
The report included a long list of achievements. Some included strengthening regional firefighting by adding three firefighting helicopters, enacting new gun-safety laws, and spending $20 million on five housing projects to help low-income homeless San Diegans, seniors and veterans. The County also expanded Mobile Crisis Response Teams to help people experiencing mental health issues and worked on an ambitious Regional Decarbonization Framework plan that aims to move the entire region toward zero-carbon emissions.
The Annual Report broke the County’s accomplishments and goals into eight categories: Community Engagement; Enhancing Communities and Keeping them Safe; Equity and Access; Homelessness and Housing; Justice Reform; Mental Health and Substance Use Support; Supporting Families; and Sustainability and Fighting Climate Change.
The County provides services and programs that touch the lives of nearly every person living in the region.
For example, it provides public health services, which took on added importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides law enforcement through the Sheriff’s Department, health and social services, and guides land use in the unincorporated areas. It runs elections regionwide, monitors beach water quality, and operates County parks and 33 public libraries.
Other highlights from the Annual Report include:
- The County’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice implemented its new Budget Equity Assessment Tool that helps County departments prioritize services and allocations with equity in mind. The tool uses a series of questions and public input to better understand how department allocations affect historically marginalized vulnerable communities, those who are low-income, or those that have historically, or currently, suffer from inequality.
- The County completed its new Youth Transition Campus in Kearny Mesa. The campus is designed to be less like a correctional facility and more like a therapeutic, rehabilitative center to provide young people the help and resources they need to succeed.
- The County, health professionals and law enforcement opened One Safe Place, a new family justice center in San Marcos to support survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, human trafficking and violence.
- The Health and Human Services Agency added a new Live Well Mobile Office, a bus that delivers a wide range of County services into communities.
- The County initiated a two-year pilot program that could give aspiring chefs an economic hand-up by allowing them to turn their homes or apartments into mini-restaurants. Micro Enterprise Home Kitchens, or MEHKOs, can serve up to 30 in-person, take-out or delivery meals a day, up to 60 meals a week.
- The County opened its second and third North County Crisis Stabilization Units in Vista and Oceanside. The units give people who are experiencing mental health episodes a calming place to get help 24 hours a day, seven days a week – rather than being sent to jails or emergency rooms.
- The County made $10 million available to the county’s 18 cities to build shelters and places to stay for people experiencing homelessness. One recent partnership with the Lucky Duck Foundation and City of San Diego created the 150-bed Rosecrans Bridge emergency shelter this summer.
- The County completed fire station upgrades at Palomar Mountain and Sunshine Summit, built a new station on Laguna, and plans to build a new fire station in Jacumba.
- The County became the first coastal county in the nation to start using a rapid, DNA-based ocean-water testing technology that produces faster results and earlier warnings to help beachgoers make informed decisions about when bacteria levels reach unhealthy levels in the ocean.
For more information, go to the County’s Annual Report webpage.
(Source: County of San Diego Communications Office)
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【《We Chinese in America》Media Editor Tang Zhao, October 1, 2022】Don't miss this opportunity to spend a day at the J. Paul Getty Villa Museum, a one-of-a-kind destination offering ancient Greek and Roman art, tranquil gardens, and ocean breezes. Your day will include a curator-led tour of the exhibition Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan which presents highlights from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's extensive collection of Nubian objects and features superbly crafted jewelry, metalwork, and sculpture exhibiting the wealth and splendor of Nubian society. The trip includes round-trip luxury coach transportation, light breakfast, private tour and a gourmet snack with wine for the ride home.
Travel Day Itinerary
11:00 am Exhibition Tour (Group 1)
12:30 pm Lunch on Your Own
6:45 pm Arrive at Lomas Santa Fe
7:15 pm Arrive at Balboa Park
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California is in the process of approving new guidelines for math education in public schools that "pushes Algebra 1 back to 9th grade, de-emphasizes calculus, and applies social justice principles to math lessons," writes Joe Hong via the San Francisco Standard. The new approach would have been approved earlier this month but has been delayed due to the attention and controversy it has received. Here's an excerpt from the report:When Rebecca Pariso agreed to join a team of educators tasked in late 2019 with California's new mathematics framework, she said she expected some controversy. But she didn't expect her work would be in the national spotlight. Every eight years, a group of educators comes together to update the state's math curriculum framework. This particular update has attracted extra attention, and controversy, because of perceived changes it makes to how "gifted" students progress -- and because it pushes Algebra 1 back to 9th grade, de-emphasizes calculus, and applies social justice principles to math lessons. San Francisco pioneered key aspects of the new approach, opting in 2014 to delay algebra instruction until 9th grade and to push advanced mathematics courses until at least after 10th grade as a means of promoting equity. (Photo credit: Educational App Store)
San Francisco Unified School District touted the effort as a success, asserting that algebra failure rates fell and the number of students taking advanced math rose as a result of the change. The California Department of Education cited those results in drafting the statewide framework. But critics have accused the district of using cherry-picked and misleading assertions to bolster the case for the changes. The intent of the state mathematics framework, its designers say, is to maintain rigor while also helping remedy California's achievement gaps for black, Latino and low-income students, which remain some of the largest in the nation. At the heart of the wrangling lies a broad agreement about at least one thing: The way California public schools teach math isn't working. On national standardized tests, California ranks in the bottom quartile among all states and U.S. territories for 8th grade math scores.
Yet for all the sound and fury, the proposed framework, about 800-pages long, is little more than a set of suggestions. Its designers are revising it now and will subject it to 60 more days of public review. Once it's approved in July, districts may adopt as much or as little of the framework as they choose -- and can disregard it completely without any penalty. "It's not mandated that you use the framework," said framework team member Dianne Wilson, a program specialist at Elk Grove Unified. "There's a concern that it will be implemented unequally."
(Source: New York Times)
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【《We Chinese in America》Media Editor Tang Zhao, September 30, 2022】Per passenger using the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) has been diagnosed with infectious pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) according to San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA).(Photo credit: County of San Diego Communications Office)
HHSA is working with Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) officials to notify individuals who were possibly exposed. Riders using the following routes between Feb. 16, 2022, and Aug. 16, 2022 were potentially exposed and are at risk for infection:
- Trolley Blue Line from San Ysidro to 12th and Imperial station Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.
- Trolley Orange Line from 12th and Imperial to Lemon Grove Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7 a.m.
- Trolley Orange Line from Lemon Grove to 12th and Imperial Monday through Friday roughly between 4:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.
- Trolley Blue Line from 12th and Imperial to San Ysidro Monday through Friday roughly between 5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
Potentially affected passengers are advised to consult with their medical provider or contact Public Health to arrange testing.
“Symptoms of active TB include persistent cough, fever, night sweats and unexplained weight loss,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer. “Most people who become infected after exposure to tuberculosis do not get sick right away. Some who become infected with tuberculosis will become ill at some point in the future, sometimes even years later. Blood tests and skin tests are effective to determine whether someone has been infected.”
People who are infected, and people at high risk of becoming ill quickly after an infection such as those with an immunocompromising condition, should discuss treatments with a medical provider, as antibiotics can prevent people with TB infection from becoming sick.
Individuals who would like more information on this potential exposure are asked to call the County TB Control Program at (619) 692-8621.
The number of annual TB cases in San Diego County has decreased since the early 1990s and has stabilized in recent years. There were 264 cases reported in 2019, 192 cases in 2020 and 201 cases of tuberculosis disease reported in 2021. Through the end of August, 97 cases have been reported to date in 2022.
(Source: County of San Diego Communications Office)
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