Incumbent Stephen Whitburn faces homeless advocate and attorney Coleen Cusack in the race to represent District 3, which includes downtown, Hillcrest and North…
Incumbent Stephen Whitburn faces homeless advocate and attorney Coleen Cusack in the race to represent District 3, which includes downtown, Hillcrest and North Park.While walking through the neighborhoods constituting District 3, look up and you can see skyscrapers and high-rises. Look down in many areas, though, and you see people sleeping on the sidewalk. The district puts the stark contrast between wealth and destitution in downtown San Diego on full display.
"We are seeing people go into safe sleeping sites, into shelters, into permanent housing,” said Whitburn. “That is what we have done, and that is what we need to keep doing. We are building more housing and affordable housing in San Diego and in my district today than ever before in the city's history.”
“If we have a safer and healthier place for you to go, if we have a shelter bed, a safe sleeping site, a permanent home, then you cannot make it a choice to just stay in an encampment on the sidewalk,” Whitburn said.
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