Nov. 2022 Election: Q&A with Jennifer Campbell, candidate San Diego City Council District 2 [Opinion]
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A: San Diego has aggressive goals on climate — as we should — but we need more action that turns those goals into reality. One of the first things I did when elected to the City Council was bring forward the ordinance to launch San Diego Community Power, which holds great promise for cleaner energy and lower utility rates.
A: Fixing our roads and reducing congestion has to be a top priority, but this proposed mileage fee isn’t the solution. It would hit low-income San Diegans the hardest at a time when working families are really struggling with rising costs. We need to find alternative revenue streams to pay for our much-needed infrastructure upgrades.
I’m focused on solutions that will create more affordable and middle-class housing as quickly as possible. I pressed the city’s real estate department to do a swift, comprehensive review of all underutilized city-owned properties with an eye towards converting them to homes earlier this year. And we created San Diego’s first mixed-use zoning to upgrade old malls and shopping centers with new amenities and more homes.
Mental health care and addiction treatment are now a core part of the city’s homelessness response. That is why I pushed to launch the city’s new Conservatorship Unit to mandate treatment for homeless people suffering from the most severe mental illnesses. The only options the current council were left with were flawed. So I made the tough decision among only bad options to go with the solution that overall was the best for our city, to not continue years of costly litigation without a solution and to move forward and put this mess behind us. Mayor Gloria and a majority of the City Council agreed. Going forward, we need more oversight and more accountability to protect taxpayers from short-sighted real estate deals.
Another way we’ve supported our police is to provide a low-cost lease for their first-in-the-nation child care center created by our Police Officers Association. Our police often have changing schedules and work long hours, so this is a great way to support them — and is part of our effort to ensure that we hire more women and people of color to diversify our police force.
We need to focus police funding in smarter, more effective ways. An incredibly promising path we have taken is utilizing the county’s new Mobile Crisis Response Teams to address city homelessness emergencies. I’m committed to expanding these Mobile Crisis Response Teams so that trained mental health clinicians, not just police, are responding to mental health crises.
Q: Do you support repealing the People’s Ordinance, which bans city officials from charging fees for trash collection at single-family homes? Why or why not?
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