San Diego lifeguards want everyone who visits San Diego beaches to have a safe and enjoyable experience. With more than 40 miles of oceanfront and bay shoreline to patrol throughout the city, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department lifeguards help keep an average of 17 million visitors safe and conduct an… Read more about City of San Diego Lifeguards Encourage Beach Safety This Summer
In response to anexecutive ordersigned in January by Mayor Todd Gloria, the Development Services Department announced this week that it has created the Affordable Housing Permit Now program for 100% affordable housing projects and emergency shelters. The program provides enhanced customer service… Read more about City of San Diego Announces Creation of Affordable Housing Permit Now Program
Employees from the City of San Diegos Environmental Services Department (ESD) are gaining fame thanks to the newest installment of the highly popular YouTube series Challenge Accepted. The recently released episode,I Tried Garbage Collection,is shining a spotlight not on the 15-ton vehicles that… Read more about YouTube Star Spotlights City of San Diego Sanitation Drivers in New Video
Working to expand pathways to move San Diegans off the streets and into housing, the City Councilauthorized the expenditure of a $2.45 million grant awarded to the City of San Diego to help end peoples homelessness in East Village. San Diego was one of eight communities across the state last… Read more about City Council Approves State Funding to House People Living in Encampments
Prior to his first public appearance at Mayor Todd Gloria’s 2023 State of the City Address, local poet Jason Magabo Perez, Ph.D., was appointed as the City of San Diego 2023-2024 Poet Laureate. During the Jan. 11 State of the City Address, Perez recited his poem "We Draft Work Songs for This City"… Read more about City of San Diego Announces Selection of Long-Time Resident as New Poet Laureate
City of San Diego residents will soon be able to make a significant impact on climate change by diverting theirorganicwastefrom the landfill.As part of the Citys newOrganicWasteRecyclingprogram, and in compliance with state requirements, new green bins and kitchen pails will be delivered to City-… Read more about City of San Diego to Begin Phased Rollout of Organic Waste Recycling Program
Alexandra Devers was placed into the foster care system when she was just three months old. By the time she was four years old, she had lived in 10 foster and group homes. Finally, at age 13, she was welcomed into a permanent foster home by a woman she now calls Mom. Her mom, her 6th grade teacher-… Read more about City Intern Strives to Help Children and Families in San Diego
