Today, Mayor Todd Gloria announced that he was repurposing his proposed 1000-bed facility at Kettner and Vine. What had been intended as a permanent homeless shelter is now being pitched as a low-cost hotel for …
July 26, 2024
Gloria: “Many people are rightly concerned about the unsheltered who live among us day in, day out. But what of the unsheltered who buy badges to Comic-Con and then find themselves unable to afford a hotel room? Don’t they deserve our consideration and care, they who have sacrificed so much and worked so hard to get here? I ask you: what happens if they stop coming, stop paying that sweet Transient Hotel Occupancy Tax? I’ll tell you what happens: our budget for taking care of the homeless goes right in the port-a-potty. Remember the words of Jesus: ’The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.’”
Posted July 24, 2024
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Mayor Gloria shifts emphasis to transients threatening to leave town