Kevin's priorities
Issues
Homelessness
Proven results to solve homelessness while keeping our neighborhoods clean and safe.
Kevin Faulconer knows it isn’t right or fair to let people live and die on the street. He also knows that we shouldn’t have to live with dangerous and unsanitary camps in our neighborhoods. As San Diego Mayor, Kevin saw the homeless problem and took action. The result? San Diego was the only big city in California where outdoor homelessness went down - by 12 percent.
His approach focused on compassion. He quickly opened shelters with safe, clean beds and made sure they had access to mental health services and drug and alcohol treatment. He helped hundreds of men, women, families, and veterans find long-term housing. And he cleaned up public spaces, removing trash and homeless encampments that were public health hazards and growing centers of crime.
As YOUR County Supervisor, Kevin will bring his compassionate and results-oriented approach to all of San Diego. He will aggressively build shelters to make sure every person has a safe place to sleep, clean themselves, and get the help they need. He’ll dramatically expand mental health services and addiction treatment. He’ll clean up the trash generated by encampments in our streets, parks, and public spaces and make our public spaces pleasant places we can feel safe in. Perhaps most important he will act immediately and push other elected officials to do the same… he’s done it before and he’ll do it again.
Public Safety
Kevin Faulconer believes every person deserves to be safe, and feel safe, in their neighborhood and everywhere else in our county. As mayor, Kevin Faulconer kept San Diego one of the safest big cities in the United States.
Keeping people safe is governments first priority.
As other cities defunded the police, he increased the department’s budget and staffing. He appointed the city’s first female police chief, made 9-1-1 response times faster, and became a national leader in requiring the implementation of body-worn cameras.
He will support our deputy sheriffs and police who keep us safe, while ensuring they meet the highest standards. Kevin knows it’s not just his job to make sure we reduce crime, but that crime is prevented to start with. That means helping people avoid a life of crime, with youth and diversion programs, and making sure that those who still do chose a life of crime will be arrested and punished appropriately.
Fiscal Responsibility
A plan to make sure everyone can afford a place to live.
Kevin Faulconer believes everyone who works hard should be able to afford to buy or rent a home so that they can stay in San Diego. As mayor, Kevin saw we needed more housing – and that we needed to make it easier to build this housing for every type of person or family. He led the state with reforms to make housing less expensive, fixing many of the backward government regulations and unnecessary fees that slowed down construction and increased prices.
As YOUR County Supervisor, Kevin will encourage builders to build the kind of neighborhood appropriate housing that people of every kind want and need, at every different price point. His first housing priority will be to make it easier and cheaper to build, so that housing costs and rent go down. That means getting rid of layer after layer of unfair rules and fees that add to the cost of our housing. That also means encouraging builders to build more housing, speeding up the sluggish approval process and making the government treat people who want to build as customers rather than opponents to slow down or block.
Innovative Governing
Helping you deal with government on-line, instead of after waiting in a line.
Kevin Faulconer believes your interaction with government should be fast and easy so you can get on with your day. As mayor, Kevin required government to start treating people like valued customers, using technology to make your experience as fast, inexpensive, and as painless as possible. He helped drag the government into the 21st century with award-winning services that let people go online to easily apply for a permit, report a pothole, request graffiti removal, get trash cleaned up, and more.
As Your County Supervisor, Kevin will make your interactions with the government faster and less annoying – moving many things online so that you can do with a click of a button what used to take a drive and a long line. He’ll work to change the bureaucratic culture from “that’s impossible” to “let’s get it done.” He’ll make sure everyone has an easy number to call when they need something from the county where you will get a response within 24 hours and a plan to solve the problem within 7 days.
Climate Action
Keeping our parks and natural spaces places we can enjoy.
Kevin Faulconer knows we all want to enjoy a clean, beautiful environment. Even before he was mayor, Kevin Faulconer had a long history of doing what’s right for the environment. As Chairman of the Mission Bay Committee he made sure that money generated at the park stayed there to stop pollution and restore wetlands. As mayor he removed thousands of tons of trash from San Diego, including parks and wetlands. He passed one of the most rigorous Climate Action Plans in the nation, heralded by environmental groups as a major step forward.
As YOUR County Supervisor, Kevin is committed to not just protect the environment we have, but to expand our natural spaces so that every person can enjoy them in their own community. He will help prevent climate change by speeding up the transition to green energy. He’ll make sure our beaches get the sand they need and work to prevent the erosion of our cliffs and bluffs. He will restore and protect our parks and wetlands and canyons, many of which have been scarred by illegal camping. And Kevin will raise hell about the raw sewage coming from Mexico that is polluting our beautiful beaches and making people sick.
Kevin Faulconer believes we all deserve cheap, reliable, and environmentally conscious energy. As mayor, Kevin led with bold solutions to invest in clean and reliable green energy without higher bills. He brought in competition to reduce rates. He gathered business and environmental leaders together to adopt the one of the most ambitious and respected Climate Action Plans in the country… a plan that moves the city fully to green energy within our lifetimes.
As YOUR County Supervisor, Kevin Faulconer will hold power companies accountable for providing reliable energy and keep your bill low. At the same time, he will work to fight climate change by transitioning all of San Diego to green energy. He’ll encourage green energy companies to move here, providing good paying jobs and helping make us the hub of the green revolution.
Making sure your power is cheaper, reliable, and greener.
Infrastructure
Ending gridlock and filling potholes so you can get where you want to go.
Kevin Faulconer has sat in gridlock and bounced over potholes and hates it as much as you do. As mayor, Kevin Faulconer successfully repaved over half the streets in the city, installed more and safer bike lanes, and spearheaded new public transportation projects to start the process of making it faster, easier and safer to get from one place to another in a reasonable about of time.
As YOUR County Supervisor, Kevin Faulconer will work to get our roads repaired and our streetlights timed correctly to reduce the amount of time you spend in the car. At the same time, he will work to make public transportation safer, cleaner, and with a wider reach so that more people can get where you are going without a car.
