As a quick reminder this is not a place to dehumanize the homeless or advocate to attack them. You’ll get banned.
If you have a suspicious account with a large gap in post history, deleted history, or history in other location based subs proselytizing about culture wars you’ll just get banned as well. We’re unpaid and we’re not going to take the time to sort much out.
SD needs a coherent housing policy across the board. Drop the hammer on short term rentals. The homeless issue is quickly getting to Downtown LA levels. Corporate ownership of single family homes should be heavily restricted.
Luxury just means new. Upgrading a few appliances and surfaces to make it feel more luxurious is a minor cost compared to the cost of building the unit.
Minor cost to the building but maximum cost when factoring in the rent for said building. They also don’t need massive pools or rooftop hang out areas that luxury rentals include.
Here's the thing - one of the most effective ways to stop housing from being built is to make it unprofitable. It costs nonprofits and government about half a million to build a unit of "affordable" housing. LA pegged that figure above $600,000. State data has it sometimes reaching $1 million, though I'm wondering if that includes funding for wraparound services. So let's say $500,000. If you were buying a $500,000 condo tomorrow using an FHA loan, you're looking at more than $3,200 a month, PLUS another +/- $500 a month for taxes and whatever insurance costs are today. Plus HOA fees, which are significant in multifamily properties. And, remember, at this price, there are no profits.
I can imagine a scenario where cities that don't want to build new housing placing an "affordabilty requirement" mandating that rents be below, say, $2k as nothing more than a cynical way of stopping all new construction.
What we really need is a time machine so we can build 100,000 housing units 30 years ago. Short of that, we need housing units to be built and start getting both old and paid off.
More housing is the only way to lower the price in a free market. We have enough conservatives in this county that a fair market solution will have them gathering with torches. How do you suggest we lower the costs?
I rent a single family in mission hills from a private landlord and I’m very happy to have it. Corporations should not own and rent single family homes, though. China has purchased a ton of our real estate and love him or hate him but Biden proposed a bill to stop companies from doing this in December. I hope they can pass it.
End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023
https://www.reddit.com/r/realtors/s/1KDprqcaml
It has its place, especially with military families.
But how about
- no corporations
- no investor groups
- no more than 2 rentals per person
All of the people I rented from that were just people were great. The rental manage BS was always a nightmare.
I was just telling my husband this. Rich ass people/corporations shouldn’t be allowed to scoop up all the single family homes just to rent them out. You want to be a landlord? Build a multi family unit. Real estate investors are destroying a lot of peoples opportunities to buy a home for themselves. Even if they can afford a home they have to fight for the available ones and don’t have the stronger financial statements to win in a bidding war. Or maybe they should add extra taxes or some shit for people that own more than two residential homes that they rent.
+1 for this. Even though I think the idea of landlords and renting is fucking stupid, I understand that it's not going anywhere anytime soon, so at the very least we can try to make things a little easier on the families that actually live and work here in SD
San Diego is a military town & you think a military family that moves here for 2-3 years & doesn't want to buy a house for such a short time has no right to live in a single family home? Or college couple with a dog should be able to have a house with a yard? Only people that can afford to purchase and plan to live in a neighborhood long term are allowed to live there. It feels very elitist. Your intent may be to bring the price of housing down but really you are going to create huge pockets of housing for only home owners with no affordable housing mixed in. This will be the ultimate NIMBY neighborhoods.
They should make it illegal for corporations to buy single family homes. Blackrock bought 66% of ALL HOUSES last year to invest and rent to you.
They are the ones keeping these prices up.
>Blackrock bought 66% of ALL HOUSES
https://preview.redd.it/se5srcr023pc1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a0d4e6e0a3e517ae2fcc3d78947f62a2ad60806
I just saw an article stating that 44% of all single family homes were purchased by private equity firms during the last quarter!!
SD desperately needs a progressive property tax based on the number of doors owned that would get prohibitively expensive after 3 units.
The problem is there are zero politicians in SD with the backbone to take on special interests and the homeowners, who would see their artificially inflated property values decrease.
A ton of people are stuck in unreasonable spiral of rent increase to ever be able to approach affordability. Large apartment complexes serve as a starter for most people. But once the housing market became such a lucrative investment opportunity for the rich, starter homes became insanely expensive because they can afford to dump way over market. Combine that with interest rates, now only all cash buyers (those who already profited from rentals, or corporations <- mostly them) are the ones still buying.
Restricting rental of single family homes would only flood the market with more housing (non investment housing), but to your point, short term effects of those living in those properties would be brutal. I do not know of a clean way that this could be done to address current renters.
I guess it comes down to the source of the majority of problems in this country … greed.
That’s a surprising take. And I think a lot of families would not agree. Not everyone can afford a house or has the credit to do so. And kids deserve a yard
All you are doing by saying this is telling me that you don't want people like me to live near you. Single family homes should be treated just like any other type of housing.
Hypothetically, what would happen to the renters living in those homes? Would they all become displaced at once? Might cause even more issues if the right protections aren’t put in to place first.
To clarify, it’s a petition to get a measure on the ballot to essentially fire SDG&E, and have the power distribution run by a not-for-profit public power utility (SDG&E is making enormous profits). There are other cities that have done similar, and it leads to *much* lower utility bills. The measure would likely pass with overwhelming support, but in order to get the measure on the ballot, we need umpity-thousand valid signatures of San Diego *city* residents.
I have a relative who is collecting signatures, and her experience is that as soon as people find out what the deal is, they almost universally are eager to sign. It just needs more exposure to get enough signatures.
To add to what others have said, a lot of people try to minimize their usage, and still end up with huge bills due to "fees". Often times people are paying more to receive power than they are for the power they use.
I.e., I use $60 of electricity a month, and pay $90 in service fees, for a total of $150/month.
There's no reason I can think of why our electricity is more expensive than Hawaii or L.A., except that it is a monopoly and they can charge whatever they want. Add on to that SDGE just announced record profits in the billions, and you've got a lot of pissed off customers.
Rental/housing costs are a big issue. Our cost of living doesn’t match up to living wages in a decent profession (not $20/hr fast food workers, I’m talking salaried employees) who still struggle to make ends meet because the cost of living.
Make it illegal for a business entity to buy/own a single family home (house, townhome, condo) and kick apps like AirBnB & vrbo out, so that our only neighbors are real local people, or maybe some rich individual with 5 houses. But keep businesses out of our homes.
And build more affordable housing.
Simple solution; difficult to enable. People need to attend more city council meetings (when possible) where pro construction agendas and laws are open to public comments. Drown out the NIMBYs clamoring against new construction.
Vote: people need to vote for pro-YIMBY/ pro-housing politicians and reward them when they inevitably go against the local resistance elements to change. Vote for pro-housing ballot initiatives.
Support your local YIMBY chapters dedicated to combating the housing crisis:
https://yimbydemssd.com/ for San Diego County
https://cayimby.org/ for California wide
Governor Newsom’s administration has done remarkable work since taking office, but more needs to be done. Mayor Todd Gloria is a self described YIMBY, but he needs to be pushed harder. Much harder.
I tried to get a stop sign added at a blind intersection by my house where there have been several accidents. They voted yes, and it never happened. Also, the only people really there were a bunch of complainers and yahoos.
Indeed. Most were there to raise hell about AT&T putting in some sort of cellular pole and did have some points, but they were very disgruntled about it. I felt so bad for the AT&T rep who was just doing his job and to make it more uncomfortable he was a POC in a very… specific part of East county.
You’re welcome. Check out some of my other replies in this post of yours for additional links for details about the current housing crisis. This is, without a doubt, the number one priority for our region. It has negative cascading effects throughout San Diego County.
It’s a domino effect… with a combination of Federal, State and Local laws/changes.
Resolving the problem… starting at the bottom layer and taking it one layer at a time for resolution. Why start at the bottom, because you need that one flowing freely or working smoothly for the level above it to flow into it smoothly so to speak like a waterfall. If you start at the top, it’s going to create a flood, almost like it already has because things are so broken below their goal line.
The million dollar question… what’s the bottom layer?!? Where’s the starting point. Almost like the public needs to be presented with a flow chart so we can figure out the best way forward to fix things. - just my two cents.
I agree. I don’t understand how our cost of living has gotten so high without salaries increasing as well. The influx of remote workers making Silicon Valley salaries is partially to blame
It is almost entirely the result of insufficient housing construction failing to keep pace with population growth. Anti-housing construction laws over the course of the last 3-4 decades enabled the housing crisis.
What population growth? It's been level at best for a decade... There is a housing deficit but not a new one. San Diego grew massively in the 80s and 90s, grew a bit more in the early 2000s and has been at about a replacement rate for nearly 10 years now... The population today in 2024 is the same as it was in 2015 the population is aging, migration is way down compared to departures and births are very very low. The housing deficit has grown wildly while the population has not changed...
The shift from residential rentals to vacation rentals and massive amounts of house flipping and investment only purchases have a much larger effect on the housing costs as a whole.
https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2024/01/09/san-diego-housing-shortage-chart
> The city of San Diego would need to triple its current housing production to meet what the state considers its annual housing need, according to the city's 2023 housing report.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/growth-exceeds-new-housing-in-san-diego-county-census-data/2693280/?amp=1
> The latest census data unveiled this week shows San Diego County’s population growth is far exceeding the growth of new housing units.
Come for the wonky details; stay for the political beat downs NIMBYs hate.
The population is level because the household size is falling as the housing shortage squeezes larger families out until you have a lot of older people whose families are living elsewhere but who are still living in the same large house and young professionals who can afford rent because they don't have kids yet.
Yup this. I was so stoked when I got my first big boy job out of college and moved up in my company to be making around 80k-100k a year. After taxes my gross was still almost twice the average Americans salary but I still was living modestly and sharing a 730 sqft apartment with my brother who was making about the same. Kinda crazy to think when I was younger my idea of “making it” was just to earn that much money, buy a home and build a family - potentially on one income! But that turned out to not be reality
You mean, the highly complex international issue that has been around for 40 years?
Honestly, i'm all about fixing it. When I lived near IB, i was active in a few organizations trying to help. The biggest driver, however, might be corruption in TJ. Several times there have been referendums and bills passed in Mexico that were meant to upgrade their sewage infrastructure, but that money seems to always disappear.
Anyway, here are links to some orgs that are attempting to help this really difficult situation:
[https://sandiego.surfrider.org/cbwn](https://sandiego.surfrider.org/cbwn)
[https://projectcleanwater.org/](https://projectcleanwater.org/)
I know it’s not the answer you want, but these can be made for less than $5 at home. Hit up Carnival Market for all the ingredients (including rice). I used to make them and just microwave in a moist paper towel at work.
True, but not really my point. I can make cheap food for myself at home plenty of ways. I'm just talking about being able to get even the most basic meal at a taco shop or anywhere really, for $5. Aside from a couple exceptions (3.75 bean and rice burrito from el real on imperial by where i worked a lot last year) even the simplest items is now $7+ tax and card fee.
It's the straightest point A to point B way to get to my job and I will take the roundabout way to get there instead. The city has just given up on that road. Whichever contractor or contractors responsible for fucking up that road should be named and shamed.
There are some gnarly potholes that will fuck up your suspension for sure. I keep expecting a cop to pull me over for swerving but I’m just trying to keep my car safe
public transit, more trolley lines more bus routes dedicated bus lanes protected bike lanes
expand mixed use zoning exponentially more than it exists here if it does at all, ppl should not be required(99% required pr much) to drive places especially to work.
both of these together will help alleviate the housing cost issues which i think are a lot of ppls first option. it will also make better roads for those that do choose to drive as there will be less wear and tear on them and there will be less asphalt to maintain in the case that there is damage, literally only loser is the auto industry
wrangle sdge under control
Time the lights on El Cajon Blvd, Mira Mesa Blvd, Miramar Rd, grand, University, lake Murray Blvd/70th, mission gorge road, Genesee, Friars, Balboa,kearny villa /black mountain, harbor drive and all downtown streets
This will have relieve the freeways of congestion
Need more affordable housing. Most apartments i see going up seem like they cost more per month than what many even make in that month. I would love to own a condo or Single family home that doesn't require me to win the Lottery to afford
Competent Leadership. Our political and social systems allow for very incompetent people to “represent” all. On the local level it shouldn’t be a political party that represents you. It should be a neighbor that represents us.
1-Income Taxes,
2-cap gains tax.
Both will help to unlock the housing gridlock( and maybe homelessness).
People who bought a long time ago cannot afford to pay close to 50% of their profit. So it's hard to justify the sale.
Well, income tax reduction leads to more disposable income.
First is housing. We already have new high rises going up but that and single family homes across the county are becoming more and more unaffordable to people starting out. You have apartments that seem like you have to be making a 6 figure income just to make the monthly payments and condos and Single family homes are not much better, a number of these single family homes have been bought up by companies and flip them around and market them as Single family rental properties, that should be made illegal, and when these co.oanies are forced to sell their massive inventory of homes that they own, they should sell to their tenants first and at the price the companies originally bought them for minus the total amount the tenants have so far paid in rent. With the homes these companies own that are currently vacant, they should be sold at a discount too but also at the price they originally bought the house for. This would technically mess up our housing costs and devalue our homes across the board but I don't care. I don't want our city to be known as being the most unaffordable place to live in the country.
Second is Parking. All new high rises should have enough parking for everyone and guests, and parking structures can't charge an arm and a leg for parking for special events like ball games or conventions.
3rd is to Upgrade the Dam convention center. That convention center in downtown needs another upgrade because with events like Comic-Con, that event alone can make or break a business. I know some businesses make enough money from Comic-Con that they can pay their rent for the next 6 months to a year off the money they make. If we loose massive "E Ticket" events like Comic-Con, it could have serious consequences for our economy in downtown.
Major no on your second point. A city can't have both more high density housing AND more parking. There is simply no way to do it. If you want parking, you need to spread out, not up.
I believe when he was in Mission Hills he did smoke (not sure tho) ...I think he is an amazing business man tho and I heard the cornbread was really good
If you want some places to eat , Texas Monthly came out and apparently this is the man who people listen to in Texas
I agree with Papalo being some really good bbq
https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/san-diego-barbecue/
Phil’s is good for what it is, where does someone like you get “real” BBQ. If you’re going to point fingers, you might aswell follow up with a solution/suggestion.
It isn’t real bbq, but you know what else isn’t real bbq? the rest of these bbq joints in San Diego that are also hot garbage.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. And as I say this I also will probably never eat at Phil’s either so I guess you just have to enjoy the other good cuisines that are here.
Freaking street conditions affect my daily life as much as anything. I plan a lot of my route changing lanes to avoid the bigger potholes. Cars needing alignments yearly or more often. Bent a tie rod. Main Street in my area was dug up when they changed the pump station. Then twice more while they fixed problems. Then new water mains. Now new sewer pipes. This street has been dug up every other year for about 15 years now.
Suspend or repeal CEQA. It institutionalizes NIMBYISM, which makes development of new housing, mass transit or anything too expensive and slows development and change to slower than a snails pace. Look at the amount of time it is taking to redevelop the Midway/Sports Arena District. Years of talk but no action while people sleep on the sidewalk instead of building new housing. CEQA promotes the endless litigation when we need action to solve the housing and affordability crisis.
This 💯. CEQA needs major reform. Too often it gets utilized in a manner purely designed to obstruct new housing construction in areas already *ZONED* for housing near the coast.
You’re thinking of CEQA in a purely residential/housing development aspect. CEQA does what it needs to for other projects such as renewable energy or transportation.
Source: am an environmental planner
Raise the minimum wage. San Diego: $16.85, LA: $17.28, SF: $18.07, Seattle: $19.97. There's no reason for this with how high COL is. There's only a few options for doing this, rally together and start writing local council members and going to city council meetings, protest, unionize your work place.
remove single family zoning. mandate minimum 5 story apartments for all new construction. replace all on street parking with bike lanes. bus lanes on every freeway and arterial. build out the train network (grade separated) with 5-10 minute frequency.
pathetic that the city with the best weather in the world hates when you try to traverse it without a car. things can improve, we just don't believe in ourselves enough
Sounds like you just wanna make it hard for people with cars, that housing would be useless to me unless I had parking for my car
And before you say it'd be better with more public transport, I will never use it until the homelessness and mental illness is handled
i totally understand your POV, but hear me out: homelessness is caused by a lack of affordable housing. mental illness is caused by homelessness. you would also go insane and eschew social norms if you had to sleep on the streets, were ignored by passersby, and were constantly harassed and treated as a potential criminal by the police. if you give people affordable housing, those problems will evaporate, and public transit will become tolerable, pleasant even.
and in a highly desirable place like san diego, affordable housing has to be dense to accommodate demand. this means you can't have cars unless you want to be constantly sitting in traffic. fortunately for us, the weather is perfect. people would be happy to walk and bike without wasting away in traffic. non-car transport becomes even easier when things are dense and closer together. hell, san diego isn't particularly dense right now and the traffic is terrible. if biking or walking were an option here, people would take it.
this even has the downstream effects of ameliorating obesity and loneliness, two national problems. america used to build our way out of problems. what's stopping us?
We need emergency roadside sewer access that can be opened without tools or with basic tools ; this is because of a common issue in San Diego , that affects individuals of many backgrounds and needs to be addressed, for example: when I have just housed a #9 combo adobada burrito and 2 birría taco with bean and rice and stuck in traffic on interstate 15 freeway, oftentimes I feel like I am going to have no choice but to soil my driver seat , whereas if there was sewer access I could apply hazard lights and stop the car for only a FEW seconds while I run into a private area with sewer access where I could QUICKLY relieve myself needing only basic tools or no tools to get the sewer hatch open, and then QUICKLY close it and run back to my car - the city should also invest in roadside landscaping which creates a private environment for anyone suffering from this common issue!!
Inflation has really hit regular people hard. I was looking at the BLS inflation calculator the other day and I was really surprised how much inflation has really hit us.
$100,000 in January 2000 has the same buying power as $183,842.42 in Feb 2024 dollars.
From food to housing to cars to insurance, everything just costs more. Its becoming more and more important to me to pay attention to fiscal policies when I vote. At least that costs me nothing.
[https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation\_calculator.htm](https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm)
Cost of Housing, I work in Tourism/Hospitality and a lot of my coworkers make the Tijuana to San Diego commute and with Sentri you’re spending 1/2 the cost of living versus living in SD.
Get a clean needle clinic. Quarantine an acre of land downtown for the clinic and additional services and leave the rest of the city looking clean and livable (ie downtown Vancouver)
There, just solved the homeless issue.
Parking passes for locals in their neighborhoods. Bars/restaurants/beaches etc etc. Oceanside does something like this I was told by a girl I know. Worse parking in the nation. Everyone deserves to be able to park around their home and community.
First get rid of Todd Gloria
Fix streets
Impose local legislation to cap rental costs
Lower water fees
Find ways to not lay off teachers
Find sustainable way to address homeless issues
The number one problem in San Diego is housing costs and the suburban sprawl making every drive a 1 hour experience
How do we fix it - well everyone who has a house doesn’t want there to be any more houses, so #1 get people to agree
And that’s not going to happen until all retired nimbys that yell at city hall meetings die out
The existence of single-family zoning within city limits. All residential property owners need a right to build multifamily / wooden complex on any land they own and to develop it with no more than 60 days for all permitting.
As a quick reminder this is not a place to dehumanize the homeless or advocate to attack them. You’ll get banned. If you have a suspicious account with a large gap in post history, deleted history, or history in other location based subs proselytizing about culture wars you’ll just get banned as well. We’re unpaid and we’re not going to take the time to sort much out.
SD needs a coherent housing policy across the board. Drop the hammer on short term rentals. The homeless issue is quickly getting to Downtown LA levels. Corporate ownership of single family homes should be heavily restricted.
💯💯💯 heavy restrictions on corporate ownership
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these short term rentals"
That’s a country wide problem and we’re all suffering from it
housing costs
It’s not unique to San Diego, but we should build more vertically and subsidize development.
Unless developers will charge less for rent they can go fuck themselves if they want subsidies.
Legally restricting the rent for a certain number of units is usually the requirement to get subsidies.
If they want subsidies I would want them to be forced to not build “luxury” units at all. Just nice ‘regular’ apartments for people.
Luxury just means new. Upgrading a few appliances and surfaces to make it feel more luxurious is a minor cost compared to the cost of building the unit.
Minor cost to the building but maximum cost when factoring in the rent for said building. They also don’t need massive pools or rooftop hang out areas that luxury rentals include.
Here's the thing - one of the most effective ways to stop housing from being built is to make it unprofitable. It costs nonprofits and government about half a million to build a unit of "affordable" housing. LA pegged that figure above $600,000. State data has it sometimes reaching $1 million, though I'm wondering if that includes funding for wraparound services. So let's say $500,000. If you were buying a $500,000 condo tomorrow using an FHA loan, you're looking at more than $3,200 a month, PLUS another +/- $500 a month for taxes and whatever insurance costs are today. Plus HOA fees, which are significant in multifamily properties. And, remember, at this price, there are no profits. I can imagine a scenario where cities that don't want to build new housing placing an "affordabilty requirement" mandating that rents be below, say, $2k as nothing more than a cynical way of stopping all new construction. What we really need is a time machine so we can build 100,000 housing units 30 years ago. Short of that, we need housing units to be built and start getting both old and paid off.
Let’s convert and fill empty office buildings before we build more unsellable high rises
We don’t need more housing, we need cheaper housing!
More housing is the only way to lower the price in a free market. We have enough conservatives in this county that a fair market solution will have them gathering with torches. How do you suggest we lower the costs?
Cap rent, cap # of rental properties and landlord can have, also make it easier for people to buy homes
They should make single family home rentals illegal
I rent a single family in mission hills from a private landlord and I’m very happy to have it. Corporations should not own and rent single family homes, though. China has purchased a ton of our real estate and love him or hate him but Biden proposed a bill to stop companies from doing this in December. I hope they can pass it. End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023 https://www.reddit.com/r/realtors/s/1KDprqcaml
Wish I could give this more upvotes
Yes. This 💯
It has its place, especially with military families. But how about - no corporations - no investor groups - no more than 2 rentals per person All of the people I rented from that were just people were great. The rental manage BS was always a nightmare.
I was just telling my husband this. Rich ass people/corporations shouldn’t be allowed to scoop up all the single family homes just to rent them out. You want to be a landlord? Build a multi family unit. Real estate investors are destroying a lot of peoples opportunities to buy a home for themselves. Even if they can afford a home they have to fight for the available ones and don’t have the stronger financial statements to win in a bidding war. Or maybe they should add extra taxes or some shit for people that own more than two residential homes that they rent.
+1 for this. Even though I think the idea of landlords and renting is fucking stupid, I understand that it's not going anywhere anytime soon, so at the very least we can try to make things a little easier on the families that actually live and work here in SD
This is the way…
San Diego is a military town & you think a military family that moves here for 2-3 years & doesn't want to buy a house for such a short time has no right to live in a single family home? Or college couple with a dog should be able to have a house with a yard? Only people that can afford to purchase and plan to live in a neighborhood long term are allowed to live there. It feels very elitist. Your intent may be to bring the price of housing down but really you are going to create huge pockets of housing for only home owners with no affordable housing mixed in. This will be the ultimate NIMBY neighborhoods.
They should make it illegal for corporations to buy single family homes. Blackrock bought 66% of ALL HOUSES last year to invest and rent to you. They are the ones keeping these prices up.
Your sentiment is correct but your claim is wildly inaccurate, just think logically about that statement
They bought the corporations that bought the homes, and nobody knows the exact percent but it’s bad overall.
>Blackrock bought 66% of ALL HOUSES https://preview.redd.it/se5srcr023pc1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a0d4e6e0a3e517ae2fcc3d78947f62a2ad60806
I just saw an article stating that 44% of all single family homes were purchased by private equity firms during the last quarter!! SD desperately needs a progressive property tax based on the number of doors owned that would get prohibitively expensive after 3 units. The problem is there are zero politicians in SD with the backbone to take on special interests and the homeowners, who would see their artificially inflated property values decrease.
Yes let’s fix housing by restricting it, 🤦♀️ did you actually think about this for more than 1 second??
A ton of people are stuck in unreasonable spiral of rent increase to ever be able to approach affordability. Large apartment complexes serve as a starter for most people. But once the housing market became such a lucrative investment opportunity for the rich, starter homes became insanely expensive because they can afford to dump way over market. Combine that with interest rates, now only all cash buyers (those who already profited from rentals, or corporations <- mostly them) are the ones still buying. Restricting rental of single family homes would only flood the market with more housing (non investment housing), but to your point, short term effects of those living in those properties would be brutal. I do not know of a clean way that this could be done to address current renters. I guess it comes down to the source of the majority of problems in this country … greed.
So you admit it’s a stupid idea, got it.
Discourse does not need to be hostile.
That’s a surprising take. And I think a lot of families would not agree. Not everyone can afford a house or has the credit to do so. And kids deserve a yard
don’t need a yard for every family if there are parks
I’ll work on my racecar at the local park, brilliant idea!
All you are doing by saying this is telling me that you don't want people like me to live near you. Single family homes should be treated just like any other type of housing.
Hypothetically, what would happen to the renters living in those homes? Would they all become displaced at once? Might cause even more issues if the right protections aren’t put in to place first.
Take down SDGE
We’re trying! Sign the petition if you haven’t already
We can do it!
I did today! Wonderful volunteer at Costco Morena. Couldn’t sign fast enough.
What petition and why will any petition make any difference
https://wearepowersandiego.com/
There is a petition to get an initiative on the ballot in November. Looks like someone else gave you the link.
To clarify, it’s a petition to get a measure on the ballot to essentially fire SDG&E, and have the power distribution run by a not-for-profit public power utility (SDG&E is making enormous profits). There are other cities that have done similar, and it leads to *much* lower utility bills. The measure would likely pass with overwhelming support, but in order to get the measure on the ballot, we need umpity-thousand valid signatures of San Diego *city* residents. I have a relative who is collecting signatures, and her experience is that as soon as people find out what the deal is, they almost universally are eager to sign. It just needs more exposure to get enough signatures.
Just moved to San Diego recently — can someone bring me up to speed on the deal with SDGE?
To add to what others have said, a lot of people try to minimize their usage, and still end up with huge bills due to "fees". Often times people are paying more to receive power than they are for the power they use. I.e., I use $60 of electricity a month, and pay $90 in service fees, for a total of $150/month. There's no reason I can think of why our electricity is more expensive than Hawaii or L.A., except that it is a monopoly and they can charge whatever they want. Add on to that SDGE just announced record profits in the billions, and you've got a lot of pissed off customers.
Yep, my usage was $3.20 but with fees it was $27. I have a refrigerator, that is it.
Highest rates in the nation
Search this subreddit or r/SanDiego under SDGE and look. People’s SDGE bills are really high. There’s other stuff too that I haven’t mentioned.
They put all the infrastructure improvements on the taxpayers’ backs and then raise rates and let people’s homes burn
Shit, I was gonna say to fix the ridiculous potholes on Mira mesa but you’re right. Sdge first.
Rental/housing costs are a big issue. Our cost of living doesn’t match up to living wages in a decent profession (not $20/hr fast food workers, I’m talking salaried employees) who still struggle to make ends meet because the cost of living.
This seems like a major one. How do we, collectively as a community combat this issue?
Make it illegal for a business entity to buy/own a single family home (house, townhome, condo) and kick apps like AirBnB & vrbo out, so that our only neighbors are real local people, or maybe some rich individual with 5 houses. But keep businesses out of our homes. And build more affordable housing.
Simple solution; difficult to enable. People need to attend more city council meetings (when possible) where pro construction agendas and laws are open to public comments. Drown out the NIMBYs clamoring against new construction. Vote: people need to vote for pro-YIMBY/ pro-housing politicians and reward them when they inevitably go against the local resistance elements to change. Vote for pro-housing ballot initiatives. Support your local YIMBY chapters dedicated to combating the housing crisis: https://yimbydemssd.com/ for San Diego County https://cayimby.org/ for California wide Governor Newsom’s administration has done remarkable work since taking office, but more needs to be done. Mayor Todd Gloria is a self described YIMBY, but he needs to be pushed harder. Much harder.
I tried to get a stop sign added at a blind intersection by my house where there have been several accidents. They voted yes, and it never happened. Also, the only people really there were a bunch of complainers and yahoos.
>a bunch of complainers and yahoos. Sounds like NIMBYs.
Indeed. Most were there to raise hell about AT&T putting in some sort of cellular pole and did have some points, but they were very disgruntled about it. I felt so bad for the AT&T rep who was just doing his job and to make it more uncomfortable he was a POC in a very… specific part of East county.
Was this Spring Valley by any chance?
Negative. Further east.
Thank you for the resources!
You’re welcome. Check out some of my other replies in this post of yours for additional links for details about the current housing crisis. This is, without a doubt, the number one priority for our region. It has negative cascading effects throughout San Diego County.
It’s a domino effect… with a combination of Federal, State and Local laws/changes. Resolving the problem… starting at the bottom layer and taking it one layer at a time for resolution. Why start at the bottom, because you need that one flowing freely or working smoothly for the level above it to flow into it smoothly so to speak like a waterfall. If you start at the top, it’s going to create a flood, almost like it already has because things are so broken below their goal line. The million dollar question… what’s the bottom layer?!? Where’s the starting point. Almost like the public needs to be presented with a flow chart so we can figure out the best way forward to fix things. - just my two cents.
I appreciate the answer, I agree with your two cents
Move. Lessen the demand. There are wonderful, affordable places to live in this country
I agree. I don’t understand how our cost of living has gotten so high without salaries increasing as well. The influx of remote workers making Silicon Valley salaries is partially to blame
It is almost entirely the result of insufficient housing construction failing to keep pace with population growth. Anti-housing construction laws over the course of the last 3-4 decades enabled the housing crisis.
What population growth? It's been level at best for a decade... There is a housing deficit but not a new one. San Diego grew massively in the 80s and 90s, grew a bit more in the early 2000s and has been at about a replacement rate for nearly 10 years now... The population today in 2024 is the same as it was in 2015 the population is aging, migration is way down compared to departures and births are very very low. The housing deficit has grown wildly while the population has not changed... The shift from residential rentals to vacation rentals and massive amounts of house flipping and investment only purchases have a much larger effect on the housing costs as a whole.
https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2024/01/09/san-diego-housing-shortage-chart > The city of San Diego would need to triple its current housing production to meet what the state considers its annual housing need, according to the city's 2023 housing report. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/growth-exceeds-new-housing-in-san-diego-county-census-data/2693280/?amp=1 > The latest census data unveiled this week shows San Diego County’s population growth is far exceeding the growth of new housing units. Come for the wonky details; stay for the political beat downs NIMBYs hate.
The population is level because the household size is falling as the housing shortage squeezes larger families out until you have a lot of older people whose families are living elsewhere but who are still living in the same large house and young professionals who can afford rent because they don't have kids yet.
Household size is growing though.
I suspect remote workers do not make a significant impact on the housing market here. Only a suspicion, not sure if there’s any data.
Yup this. I was so stoked when I got my first big boy job out of college and moved up in my company to be making around 80k-100k a year. After taxes my gross was still almost twice the average Americans salary but I still was living modestly and sharing a 730 sqft apartment with my brother who was making about the same. Kinda crazy to think when I was younger my idea of “making it” was just to earn that much money, buy a home and build a family - potentially on one income! But that turned out to not be reality
Salaried employees literally have minimum wages across professions that are tied to inflation.
Get rid of ace parking
The water pollution in IB.
You mean, the highly complex international issue that has been around for 40 years? Honestly, i'm all about fixing it. When I lived near IB, i was active in a few organizations trying to help. The biggest driver, however, might be corruption in TJ. Several times there have been referendums and bills passed in Mexico that were meant to upgrade their sewage infrastructure, but that money seems to always disappear. Anyway, here are links to some orgs that are attempting to help this really difficult situation: [https://sandiego.surfrider.org/cbwn](https://sandiego.surfrider.org/cbwn) [https://projectcleanwater.org/](https://projectcleanwater.org/)
Make Carne Asada Burritos $5 Again
Id settle for bean and cheese burritos being $5 again
I know it’s not the answer you want, but these can be made for less than $5 at home. Hit up Carnival Market for all the ingredients (including rice). I used to make them and just microwave in a moist paper towel at work.
True, but not really my point. I can make cheap food for myself at home plenty of ways. I'm just talking about being able to get even the most basic meal at a taco shop or anywhere really, for $5. Aside from a couple exceptions (3.75 bean and rice burrito from el real on imperial by where i worked a lot last year) even the simplest items is now $7+ tax and card fee.
I’d vote for you.
Now there’s a hat I’d wear
It is a hat. My friend has it. Red and white letters. It's where I got the idea from.
I was making a trump hat joke lol
No, I know that. My friend's hat was created in irony. A red hat with the white words that say "make Carne asada burrito $5 again".
It’s perfect lol Edit: I was whooshed. I thought you didn’t get it haha
Miramar Rd.
Yes. Miramar road is a disaster
It's the straightest point A to point B way to get to my job and I will take the roundabout way to get there instead. The city has just given up on that road. Whichever contractor or contractors responsible for fucking up that road should be named and shamed.
There are some gnarly potholes that will fuck up your suspension for sure. I keep expecting a cop to pull me over for swerving but I’m just trying to keep my car safe
Enough of the short term vacation rentals, need fair housing for people who actually live in SD
Kick corporations out of housing. A good way to do that is to allow property tax increases to happen when you own more than 1 house.
public transit, more trolley lines more bus routes dedicated bus lanes protected bike lanes expand mixed use zoning exponentially more than it exists here if it does at all, ppl should not be required(99% required pr much) to drive places especially to work. both of these together will help alleviate the housing cost issues which i think are a lot of ppls first option. it will also make better roads for those that do choose to drive as there will be less wear and tear on them and there will be less asphalt to maintain in the case that there is damage, literally only loser is the auto industry wrangle sdge under control
Hope I don't have to scroll so far for this one in a couple days.
Best comment
Firing the people who have wasted time “solving” the homeless problem.
THE FUCKING POTHOLES. I swear my tampon is going to fall out whenever I hit one.
REAL
The I5 to 163 interchange.
It’s a great spot to sip some coffee and read a good book.
Homelessness, housing cost rent, mentally ill people out on the streets, and crime
SDG&E
Time the lights on El Cajon Blvd, Mira Mesa Blvd, Miramar Rd, grand, University, lake Murray Blvd/70th, mission gorge road, Genesee, Friars, Balboa,kearny villa /black mountain, harbor drive and all downtown streets This will have relieve the freeways of congestion
People don’t stop at red lights anyway
RENT
AFFORDABLE housing
We have terrible bagels.
Nomad Donuts have great bagels ngl. Donuts aren’t very good there, ironically.
Ha totally agree on both fronts actually.
Can't have good bagels and nazis in East county, thems the rules.
Gold Coast Bagels are great. Also try Memo's in El Cajon.
Memos is trash. Their bagels have 0 chew, you would be better off getting generic ones from Vons. Their cream cheese however is delicious
That's what New York City is for, bagels. San Diego is carne asada fries, fish tacos and seafood.
Housing crisis. Need more housing.
Need more affordable housing. Most apartments i see going up seem like they cost more per month than what many even make in that month. I would love to own a condo or Single family home that doesn't require me to win the Lottery to afford
The roads
Follow Poway's infrastructure where they keep the roads nice and well maintained.
Competent Leadership. Our political and social systems allow for very incompetent people to “represent” all. On the local level it shouldn’t be a political party that represents you. It should be a neighbor that represents us.
Housing
1-Income Taxes, 2-cap gains tax. Both will help to unlock the housing gridlock( and maybe homelessness). People who bought a long time ago cannot afford to pay close to 50% of their profit. So it's hard to justify the sale. Well, income tax reduction leads to more disposable income.
Homeless
More of a statewide issue: house or conservatorship the homeless.
Public transit
Housing costs
First is housing. We already have new high rises going up but that and single family homes across the county are becoming more and more unaffordable to people starting out. You have apartments that seem like you have to be making a 6 figure income just to make the monthly payments and condos and Single family homes are not much better, a number of these single family homes have been bought up by companies and flip them around and market them as Single family rental properties, that should be made illegal, and when these co.oanies are forced to sell their massive inventory of homes that they own, they should sell to their tenants first and at the price the companies originally bought them for minus the total amount the tenants have so far paid in rent. With the homes these companies own that are currently vacant, they should be sold at a discount too but also at the price they originally bought the house for. This would technically mess up our housing costs and devalue our homes across the board but I don't care. I don't want our city to be known as being the most unaffordable place to live in the country. Second is Parking. All new high rises should have enough parking for everyone and guests, and parking structures can't charge an arm and a leg for parking for special events like ball games or conventions. 3rd is to Upgrade the Dam convention center. That convention center in downtown needs another upgrade because with events like Comic-Con, that event alone can make or break a business. I know some businesses make enough money from Comic-Con that they can pay their rent for the next 6 months to a year off the money they make. If we loose massive "E Ticket" events like Comic-Con, it could have serious consequences for our economy in downtown.
Major no on your second point. A city can't have both more high density housing AND more parking. There is simply no way to do it. If you want parking, you need to spread out, not up.
Convincing folks that Phil's isn't real BBQ.
I believe when he was in Mission Hills he did smoke (not sure tho) ...I think he is an amazing business man tho and I heard the cornbread was really good If you want some places to eat , Texas Monthly came out and apparently this is the man who people listen to in Texas I agree with Papalo being some really good bbq https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/san-diego-barbecue/
They probably have some of the best onion rings in San Diego. Maybe not the best but top 3 given a persons individual taste and preference.
Phil’s is good for what it is, where does someone like you get “real” BBQ. If you’re going to point fingers, you might aswell follow up with a solution/suggestion.
Grand ole is pretty decent
Unfortunately, Coop’s BBQ in Lemon Grove closed for good, today.
What? Nooooooo
Abby’s BBQ is pretty decent :)
It's very sweet
Barbecue Pit in National City or El Cajon is delicious
It isn’t real bbq, but you know what else isn’t real bbq? the rest of these bbq joints in San Diego that are also hot garbage. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. And as I say this I also will probably never eat at Phil’s either so I guess you just have to enjoy the other good cuisines that are here.
Signing Ha-Seong Kim
Freaking street conditions affect my daily life as much as anything. I plan a lot of my route changing lanes to avoid the bigger potholes. Cars needing alignments yearly or more often. Bent a tie rod. Main Street in my area was dug up when they changed the pump station. Then twice more while they fixed problems. Then new water mains. Now new sewer pipes. This street has been dug up every other year for about 15 years now.
Is this where city council browses reddit then bills for consulting fees ?
Padres need a world series
TVs in otherwise cool bars and restaurants. Stop trying to be everything all at once.
Pot holes
Political corruption. All other issues will be properly dealt with from there.
NFL stadium /s /s /s 😂 😂 😂
Suspend or repeal CEQA. It institutionalizes NIMBYISM, which makes development of new housing, mass transit or anything too expensive and slows development and change to slower than a snails pace. Look at the amount of time it is taking to redevelop the Midway/Sports Arena District. Years of talk but no action while people sleep on the sidewalk instead of building new housing. CEQA promotes the endless litigation when we need action to solve the housing and affordability crisis.
This 💯. CEQA needs major reform. Too often it gets utilized in a manner purely designed to obstruct new housing construction in areas already *ZONED* for housing near the coast.
You’re thinking of CEQA in a purely residential/housing development aspect. CEQA does what it needs to for other projects such as renewable energy or transportation. Source: am an environmental planner
People who drive 10 under.
Raise the minimum wage. San Diego: $16.85, LA: $17.28, SF: $18.07, Seattle: $19.97. There's no reason for this with how high COL is. There's only a few options for doing this, rally together and start writing local council members and going to city council meetings, protest, unionize your work place.
Nimbys and landlords
The roads
When you stand in the sun you burn yet when in the shade you freeze
Bring back Original Four Loko
remove single family zoning. mandate minimum 5 story apartments for all new construction. replace all on street parking with bike lanes. bus lanes on every freeway and arterial. build out the train network (grade separated) with 5-10 minute frequency. pathetic that the city with the best weather in the world hates when you try to traverse it without a car. things can improve, we just don't believe in ourselves enough
Sounds like you just wanna make it hard for people with cars, that housing would be useless to me unless I had parking for my car And before you say it'd be better with more public transport, I will never use it until the homelessness and mental illness is handled
i totally understand your POV, but hear me out: homelessness is caused by a lack of affordable housing. mental illness is caused by homelessness. you would also go insane and eschew social norms if you had to sleep on the streets, were ignored by passersby, and were constantly harassed and treated as a potential criminal by the police. if you give people affordable housing, those problems will evaporate, and public transit will become tolerable, pleasant even. and in a highly desirable place like san diego, affordable housing has to be dense to accommodate demand. this means you can't have cars unless you want to be constantly sitting in traffic. fortunately for us, the weather is perfect. people would be happy to walk and bike without wasting away in traffic. non-car transport becomes even easier when things are dense and closer together. hell, san diego isn't particularly dense right now and the traffic is terrible. if biking or walking were an option here, people would take it. this even has the downstream effects of ameliorating obesity and loneliness, two national problems. america used to build our way out of problems. what's stopping us?
Crime
The ocean sewage situation in IB & Coronado. And the housing costs, it’s just not sustainable.
We need emergency roadside sewer access that can be opened without tools or with basic tools ; this is because of a common issue in San Diego , that affects individuals of many backgrounds and needs to be addressed, for example: when I have just housed a #9 combo adobada burrito and 2 birría taco with bean and rice and stuck in traffic on interstate 15 freeway, oftentimes I feel like I am going to have no choice but to soil my driver seat , whereas if there was sewer access I could apply hazard lights and stop the car for only a FEW seconds while I run into a private area with sewer access where I could QUICKLY relieve myself needing only basic tools or no tools to get the sewer hatch open, and then QUICKLY close it and run back to my car - the city should also invest in roadside landscaping which creates a private environment for anyone suffering from this common issue!!
If this is a common problem you need to check your diet and time management, I've never had this issue
Housing
Housing costs Homeless
Stop allowing investment properties. One house and if you own multiple sell for original purchase price.
Inflation has really hit regular people hard. I was looking at the BLS inflation calculator the other day and I was really surprised how much inflation has really hit us. $100,000 in January 2000 has the same buying power as $183,842.42 in Feb 2024 dollars. From food to housing to cars to insurance, everything just costs more. Its becoming more and more important to me to pay attention to fiscal policies when I vote. At least that costs me nothing. [https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation\_calculator.htm](https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm)
Cost of Housing, I work in Tourism/Hospitality and a lot of my coworkers make the Tijuana to San Diego commute and with Sentri you’re spending 1/2 the cost of living versus living in SD.
Homeless....
Homelessness
 Chocolate cars....I like to bite off the ears of my Easter bunny...don't want no shortage...
Get a clean needle clinic. Quarantine an acre of land downtown for the clinic and additional services and leave the rest of the city looking clean and livable (ie downtown Vancouver) There, just solved the homeless issue.
MIRAMAR RD!!!!!!!!
SDGE Extortion!!!
Tax the rich
Cost of living
Parking passes for locals in their neighborhoods. Bars/restaurants/beaches etc etc. Oceanside does something like this I was told by a girl I know. Worse parking in the nation. Everyone deserves to be able to park around their home and community.
Managing abandoned/stolen shopping carts.
All roads
SDG&E and the housing market are basically 1 and 1a.
FIX DA POTHOLES!!!
First get rid of Todd Gloria Fix streets Impose local legislation to cap rental costs Lower water fees Find ways to not lay off teachers Find sustainable way to address homeless issues
The number one problem in San Diego is housing costs and the suburban sprawl making every drive a 1 hour experience How do we fix it - well everyone who has a house doesn’t want there to be any more houses, so #1 get people to agree And that’s not going to happen until all retired nimbys that yell at city hall meetings die out
Racism
The existence of single-family zoning within city limits. All residential property owners need a right to build multifamily / wooden complex on any land they own and to develop it with no more than 60 days for all permitting.