Less than a week after BillWalton's powerful speech on our out-of-control homeless crisis, the San Diego City Council and Board of Supervisors met for the first time since 2000.
, Bill Walton partnered with The Lucky Duck Foundation to deliver a powerful and emotional speech about his personal experiences dealing with San Diego’s now out-of-control homeless crisis.
Under Mayor Todd Gloria, there is a record high 1,609 homeless people living in downtown, at least according to the official August count. To make matters worse, there has also been a record high number of deaths among members of the homeless population in San Diego, people are literally dying on the streets.
Almost a full week since the press conference, and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and San Diego City Council led a joint meeting, the first time the two bodies met since 2000. Supervisor Nathan Fletcher’s assistant, James Canning, insists the meeting was not a result of Walton’s powerful words, as he
— Support efforts to leverage public, private and other funds to accelerate affordable housing with urgency; and
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