We’re cookin’ with gasoline! At the least for now.
This week on the VOSD Podcast, hosts Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña assessment how we acquired right here — a time when pundits, native and nationwide, are debating what gasoline stoves imply to us as a society and whether or not the fumes they spout are dangerous to people and the atmosphere. (As a result of when has burning pure gasoline ever harm anyone?)
To our hosts, that is one other second when San Diego’s coverage has caught up with actuality. As a result of we’ve been planning to section out gas-burning home equipment for some time, as Voice reporter MacKenzie Elmer wrote this week.
As the good gasoline range debate crackles throughout the web this week, Lewis, Keatts and Lopez-Villafaña reviewed San Diego’s strategy to section out gasoline stoves — and the way the long-term plan to curb local weather change and electrify the town emerged through the Faulconer administration. Additional, the present debate echoes native initiatives in current historical past, akin to SANDAG’s proposed driving charge, which intention to progress the area however typically get kneecapped or nixed altogether.
The Housing Support Lottery Isn’t Price It
Typically if you see a brand new homelessness story, the numbers are all about inhabitants measurement — or what number of people are newly homeless in comparison with those that misplaced shelter for the primary time.
However Voice’s Lisa Halverstadt reported this week on a distinct information level: paying hire.
Knowledge from a countywide database that tracks folks receiving homeless companies revealed that many residents acquired into their new properties with out monetary help. As Keatts mentioned on this week’s podcast, and Halverstadt present in her reporting, the paths to safe housing subsidies or land legit inexpensive housing are so exhausting that the majority unhoused residents simply do with out.
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