Bryan Pease for San Diego City Council

from:		Bryan Pease <bryan@bryanpease.com>
to:		maryeng1@gmail.com
date:		Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:52 AM
subject:		No more excuses for inaction!

Hi --

As a taxpayer and resident of San Diego, I am tired of city leaders continuing to act confused in the face of issues they simply lack the political will to take on.

The biggest example right now: Housing and homelessness.

While our homelessness crisis continues to escalate and the Hepatitis A outbreak puts public health at risk, our housing supply is becoming less stable, and people are being priced out of their homes.

San Diego has allowed the continuation of policies that replace affordable housing units with luxury condos, segregate neighborhoods based on race and income, and criminalize people for being homeless so they stay homeless.

Check out my segment on Politically Speaking last weekend where I explain some of what needs to be done:


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My housing policy adviser, Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Esq., has identified some basic steps the city can and should implement right now to ease the burden on low-income individuals and families and our housing supply, including:

1) Stop allowing San Diego Housing Commission to opt out of federal laws aimed at protecting housing assistance recipients

2) Stop following a new Trump rule designed to exacerbate racial segregation in housing

3) Immediately update Section 8 payment standards instead of basing housing assistance on 2015 market rents

4) Pass rent control, or at least remove certain harmful exemptions from our Just Cause Eviction Ordinance (SDMC 78.0730)

5) Update our single room occupancy (SRO) ordinances and significantly increase assistance for displaced tenants

6) Stop arresting homeless people for being homeless and allowing landlords to inquire into and discriminate based on past arrests

7) Ban source of income discrimination in rental housing (i.e., Section 8 vouchers)

8) Pass an anti-harassment ordinance to prohibit landlords from threatening to evict instead of performing repairs

9) Require all new developments to include a significant percentage of affordable housing, and greatly increase "in lieu" fees (currently it is cheaper for developers to pay a fee instead of including affordable housing, when it should be more expensive to fail to do so)

You can be sure the District 2 Republican I'm running against would oppose each one of these very basic and crucial steps if brought forward.

However, no such proposals are even up for consideration despite other large cities having implemented them and shown results. We don't have to reinvent the wheel--we just need leaders who are willing to drive the bus!

The above items would only be a start to addressing a crisis our city has not even begun to tackle. The City Council needs a public interest attorney on it--I will identify solutions and have the backbone to push to actually implement them.

Please support my campaign, and together we can solve the housing crisis and many other problems. 


Sincerely,
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Bryan Pease, Esq.
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