San Diego's public encampment ban has been in effect for four months. On Roundtable, we take a look at the effort to connect homeless San Diegans with housing. Also, the city is looking to change affordable housing rules for developers.
Residents of Chula Vista, San Diego County District 4, and Fallbrook and Rainbow head to the polls on Tuesday — visit the KPBS Voter Hub for full coveragS1: This week on Kpbs roundtable. San Diego's camping ban has been in effect for about four months. Is that impacting efforts to get homeless residents into housing ? Plus , the city is making an effort to change the rules to boost the number of affordable housing units.
S1: Don't go anywhere. Roundtable is coming up next. Welcome to Kpbs roundtable. I'm Matt Hoffman. The city of San Diego's public camping ban has been in effect for a little over four months now. Now , the county is proposing a similar ordinance to also clean up encampments. Meanwhile , the city is making an effort to change rules regarding affordable housing for developers.
S1: And sort of along those lines in terms of why building more affordable housing matters. Blake , our region is seeing more people becoming homeless than those actually getting out of it. S1: And when you say build more , I mean , there's all sorts of different like housing density , right ? Or like in terms of like how many , how much money people are making in those areas , like , I think your story said , like they could build like an apartment tower in La Jolla , but then build the affordable housing portion of that somewhere else , like in a less wealthier neighborhood. Exactly.
S1: And when you say , LaCava that you're talking about council member Joe LaCava and Jean not sure if you want to jump in here , but we know that obviously creating more affordable housing is something that you know needs to happen statewide. S1: Our discussion continues next , just after the break. You're listening to Kpbs roundtable. I'm your host , Matt Hoffman , and today we're talking about housing and the role that it plays in alleviating homelessness here in San Diego. Our guests today are Wil Hunt's Barry from Voice of San Diego , Jeannie Kwong from Cal Matters , and the Union Tribune's Blake Nelson.
S1: And Blake here in San Diego , at least the city of San Diego , in terms of temporary options , it's more congregate right than in terms of some of these tiny houses with individual rooms. S1: About a quarter of those were deed restricted for affordable housing. So if this proposed change happens and developers can , you know , build these affordable , these mandated affordable units somewhere else , has the mayor's office said , like we think this is going to make hundreds more or thousands more.
S1: And we know that one requirement of San Diego's ban on public encampments is that shelter beds need to be available to enforce it , and that's except for in those quote unquote , sensitive areas. But , Jeannie , your reporting has raised some questions about what California cities mean when they say adequate shelter. What sort of at issue here ? What's like the rub ? Yeah.
S2: Yeah. I think what I'll be watching for in the next few weeks is whether or not the Supreme Court takes up a case that could overturn that Idaho case that I talked about earlier.
S1: And that's something that impacts people going into Mexico and people coming back here to the US. And we know that that's a there's a huge cross border economy that goes back and forth , people going to school , as we've talked about here on roundtable or maybe even going to work down there. Yeah.
S1: There's certainly a lot of buzz around soccer right now. It's so cool to see you know the top women's league doing so well. And then there's kind of been all this , you know , bubbling up news about the top men's team that's going to be coming here. Yeah.
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