Criticism comes as Lucky Duck Foundation announces Shamrocks and Shipwrecks initiative to hold officials accountable
A San Diego philanthropic group is launching an initiative it says will hold elected officials accountable for what they are doing to end the homelessness crisis.
“A few years back, our mayor, Todd Gloria, decided that the park would be a terrific place for a massive homeless encampment with its accompanying nightmares of enormous amounts of trash, safety issues, lack of sanitation, health problems and security issues,” he said, referring to an area of Balboa Park near his home in Hillcrest. “This is absurd and insane. This is a shipwreck.”
On Tuesday, Walton said the mayor had responded to his emails with a 45-minute phone conversation that left him unsatisfied. “San Diegans are frustrated with the worsening homelessness crisis, and Mayor Gloria shares that frustration,” wrote Gloria’s Director of Communications Rachel Laing. “But unlike Mr. Walton, Mayor Gloria is translating that frustration into decisive, sustained action to improve the situation. To say that he has done nothing on homelessness is objectively false.”
Moser and Lucky Duck Foundation board member Dan Shea said the efforts by Gloria’s administration have not been enough. Shea said the city must do more than promising to open small shelters, such as the planned shelter in the old Central Library, which could provide 26 beds during inclement weather, the number allowed by the fire marshal.“Are we to believe his hot air or our own eyes?” he said. “Things are worse now than ever before.
Asked if there is a concrete plan they would like to see the city to pursue, Shea said it is up to politicians to come up with a plan, but a simple answer was to provide more beds.
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