VOTES: 5-0 (PASS)
With inflation at a 40-year high, the budgets of housing and service providers for the 360,000+ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in California, who require special services and care at great expense, have been strained. This board letters details four recommmendations to remove funding barriers to provide more community housing options to more people with I/DD that align with the County's efforts to advance equity and end homelessness.

VOTES: 5-0 (PASS)
The lack of middle-class housing affordability in San Diego County has pushed some of our local workforce to live in areas distant from their jobs. This board letter recommends several actions to help increase the production of middle-class housing in our region through the creation of a pilot workforce housing program.

VOTES: 5-0 (PASS)

The State of California put additional restrictions on the federal government's emergency rental assistance funds distributed to the County of San Diego and other counties throughout the State. This board letter asks for more flexibility in disbursing the rental assistance money and giving landlords 100% of what they were owed instead of 80% of back-rent and 25% of prospective rent. This letter also asks the Board to carve out a portion of American Rescue Package funds in creation of a shallow rent subsidy program for those who are living in hotels or couch surfing, who don’t qualify for rental assistance. 

VOTES: 5-0 (PASS)

As SANDAG’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment and many other reports indicate, there is a housing shortage in San Diego County, particularly for affordable housing units. In 2019, the Board of Supervisors created an Innovative Housing Trust Fund to incentive developers to build units at an affordable housing rate. This board letter is an initiative to expand this Innovative Housing Trust Fund by 25 million dollars that was unanimously referred to the County’s budget for fiscal year 2021/2022.