San Diego’s coastline is more than a postcard backdrop — it’s part of who we are. It’s where families gather, where tourists visit, where small businesses thrive, and where thousands of service members at Camp Pendleton train to protect our nation.

For more than a decade, 1,400 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel have sat on our coastline at the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The plant closed in 2013, but the waste has remained — with no national repository, no federal plan, and no progress from Washington. Temporary storage has quietly become permanent by default.

It sounds strange to say it, but I want to make selling a home affordable. At our upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting, I’m bringing forward an effort that I believe is long overdue — and absolutely essential if we want to give families, seniors, veterans, and young people a real shot at homeownership again.

Today, the County of San Diego had the privilege of recognizing Executive Director Perla Hurtado and the exceptional team at the Foundation for Senior Care in Fallbrook.

When I first took office, I made a commitment: we were going to stop leaving people on the streets to suffer and start getting them into treatment. Not with speeches or task forces — but with real infrastructure and real results.

San Diego is already one of the most expensive places to live in the entire country — and now, some of my colleagues are considering placing two new tax increases on your ballot.

For years, Californians have been told that billions of dollars in homelessness funding would help solve one of our state’s most pressing challenges.

This week, my proposal to protect San Diegans from being priced out of homeownership by foreign investors and corporate speculators was rejected by my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors.

San Diego is facing one of the biggest crises of our time: the American Dream of homeownership is slipping away for working families and young people.

We talk a lot about the housing crisis in San Diego, but here's the truth: policies are making it worse.