Complete communities

What specific state or city policies do you wanna see changed that allow things to get built without the direct oversight of the city council or that you would like to have, as you said, local control over? So I'll start with you.

Are there city laws, complete communities, zoning plans in place, or state laws that you would like to see changed so that you could have more control over housing, as you said?

Yes.

First of all, we would need to reboot complete communities in order to ensure that there is transit in-- that exists in areas where higher density is being implemented because it goes back to the topography of San Diego and especially District 2.

One, we are transit deserts, and two, we need to make sure that people have access to it.

And if we're losing access to it, we need to look at the private equity that's scooping up all of the short-term vacation rentals that have removed the six thousand whole units that are there.

But it's also looking at the corporate, um, ability to pay cash for homes.

There needs to be a hundred-day waiting period for that, and we can also talk about the working with the state to limit the number of vacancies because you have very large private equity firms that are giving millions of dollars to their shareholders, that they have empty units floating the market, and they're controlling everything, and that is absolutely unacceptable for working families in San Diego.