Election Day is Tuesday. We take one last look at some local races and the issues involved. Then, recent changes to state and local housing laws are opening new avenues for housing development.
VOTER HUB: Find explainers, an interactive virtual ballot guide and everything else you need to know to vote Nov. 5.S1: Welcome to KPBS roundtable. I'm Scott rod. Ready or not , election day is nearly here. We take one final look at some local races , including one that could determine the balance of power for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
S1: This race has started to started to get a little contentious. What claims have the two candidates made about each other , and have there been any surprising developments here in the homestretch ? Yeah. S1: Let's switch gears to Assembly District 75. This district is it's a massive district. It covers most of east San Diego County and stretches up north as well. It includes a 50 mile stretch of the US-Mexico border. This race has been pretty wild from the start.
S1: Absolutely. Let's switch gears to the San Diego mayor's race , which is. Gotten a lot more interesting in the last month or so. Independent Larry Turner is running against Mayor Todd Gloria. He's the Democratic incumbent. S1: Finally , there's a trend that's happening at major newspapers across the country the LA times , Washington Post , USA today , along with its network of hundreds of local papers. They're declining to endorse presidential candidates. You're editor in chief of a local news outlet. So give me your $0.02 on this.
S1: That's ahead on roundtable. You're listening to KPBS roundtable. I'm Scott rod. Concern over the high cost of housing and its availability is top of mind for voters here in San Diego and beyond. KPBS Metro reporter Andrew Bowen recently looked into the impact of some recent housing laws enacted by the state legislature aimed at increasing housing production. And he joins me now to talk about it. Andrew , Welcome back to roundtable. Thanks , Scott.
S5: Um , I realized that I didn't necessarily have the resources to do that on my own. And so I did a lot of Google searching about the possibility of other things that I could do with it. S4: Also applications. They told me by my deadline at least they couldn't get me the numbers for 2024 , but they had already put together the numbers for 2022 and 23 , and that's the first two years that SB nine was in effect. And in those two years they received 13 applications for lot splits. By the end of 2023 , zero of those had been approved.
S4: So , um , SB ten basically allows a city or a county , any local jurisdiction to quickly and easily rezone properties for up to ten units without having to go through a very long and legally , uh , fraught process of an environmental impact report. Um , so , Mayor Todd Gloria took this law , SB ten brought forward a version of it to the city's planning commission , and it died very quickly. Actually , the Planning Commission voted it down.
S4: They feed it through this algorithm that they've developed , and that algorithm spits out a number that tells a landlord how much they should charge for rent. So this story had a really big impact. It touches on these fears of artificial intelligence , these fears or these frustrations that many people have with the housing market that is just too expensive.
S7: It was their open registration day last Saturday , and it just got overwhelmed. So it kind of caused a lot of frustration with folks looking to get signed up , get their tickets going , and , uh , they basically had to cancel it , you know , about a half hour after starting it because it just kind of shut down. And I know , you know , we hear about these sort of ticket meltdowns or Ticketmaster shutdowns , things like that.
S7: And I think this brought me back to the reporting from Calmatters Marisa Kendall , who we've had on the show a couple of times talking about her reporting. She looked into the audit and some of the spending. I think the states spent upwards , you know , of 20 plus billion dollars on homelessness. And this audit kind of brought up a lot. Like how effective is the spending , how is it being tracked ? And you're right , San Diego was definitely a part of that.
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