{"id":1919590,"date":"2023-04-26T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T00:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-diego-moves-to-purchase-hotels-for-homeless-at-cost-of-400k-per-room\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T00:27:35","slug":"san-diego-moves-to-purchase-hotels-for-homeless-at-cost-of-400k-per-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-diego-moves-to-purchase-hotels-for-homeless-at-cost-of-400k-per-room\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Moves To Purchase Hotels for Homeless at Cost of $400K Per Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-diego-moves-to-purchase-hotels-for-homeless-at-cost-of-400k-per-room%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1919590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>San Diego Leaders Request State Funds to Buy Hotels for Homeless<\/h2>\n<p>San Diego, a wealthy city where homelessness has surged to record highs, is requesting state funds to purchase three hotels for the city&#8217;s homeless at a cost of $383,000 per room, according to the <em>San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The city will apply for the funds from California governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s latest $736 million round of funding from his homelessness grant program. Despite the high cost of the plan, city officials are unfazed, with commissioner Ryan Clumpner calling it &#8220;a fantastic value proposition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>San Diego&#8217;s Homelessness Crisis<\/h3>\n<p>San Diego is eyeing the hotel purchases despite the recent failure of a similar initiative. In 2020, city commissioners approved the purchase of two hotels to house homeless people at $278,000 to $353,000 per room. A newly opened affordable housing apartment project cost $51.1 million in total, or $583,000 per room. Still, downtown San Diego\u2019s homeless population reached a new record high earlier this year of nearly 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re nuts,&#8221; said San Diego businessman Bob Rauch, whose company owns and operates hotels, of the city&#8217;s leaders. &#8220;They overpaid last time during a pandemic, and they\u2019d be overpaying again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>California&#8217;s Homelessness Crisis<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass&#8217;s latest budget proposal includes $1.3 billion for the city\u2019s nearly 41,000 homeless, which equates to $32,000 per person. The per capita Los Angeles income is $39,380.<\/p>\n<p>A similar trend has played out on the state level. California Democrats have spent some $20 billion over the past five years to address a growing homelessness crisis. Last month, Newsom proposed a ballot initiative to approve a minimum of $1 billion each year to house homeless people who are mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>According to the federal government\u2019s latest count, California holds nearly a third of the nation\u2019s homeless\u2014multitudes more than any other state.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a legislative committee approved a bipartisan request for an audit of where local, state and federal funds to address homelessness are going and what the dollars are accomplishing.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>San Diego&#8217;s leaders are taking bold steps to address the city&#8217;s homelessness crisis, despite criticism from some quarters. With California&#8217;s homelessness crisis continuing to grow, it remains to be seen whether these initiatives will be successful in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego leaders are requesting state funds to buy three hotels for the city\u2019s homeless at a cost of $383,000 per room, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The wealthy city, where homelessness has surged to record highs in recent months, will apply for the funds from California governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s (D.) latest $736 million round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1604,"featured_media":1919591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[12418,5975,11147,4586,10117,5368,5384,7285],"class_list":["post-1919590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-400k","tag-cost","tag-diego","tag-homeless","tag-hotels","tag-moves","tag-purchase","tag-san"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}