Erik Anderson
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KPBS
The city of San Diego recently completed a pilot program in which people transitioning out of homelessness were hired to pick contaminants out of organic waste collected in the city's green bins, it was announced Monday.
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KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego State University tests a private-public partnership to build student housing, just off campus. -
California utilities will invest nearly $768 million to expand a network of charging stations and build other infrastructure for electric vehicles as the state moves toward a goal of 5 million zero-emission cars on the roads by 2030. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe state’s notoriously high housing costs are gobbling up paychecks, leaving many teetering on the brink of financial disaster. -
San Diego is on the low end of the racial segregation scale among American cities because it grew quickly in recent decades. -
The San Diego Association of Governments' Borders Committee Friday will receive an overview of trade corridor projects to be funded with $104 million from California's recently implemented gas tax. -
A proposed budget for SANDAG, the countywide transportation agency, contains delays for several bike projects. SANDAG has come under criticism lately because of its slow rollout of its regional bikeways program. -
The median price of a home in San Diego County rose by 8.6 percent in April compared with the same month a year earlier, as median home prices across Southern California edged up to a record level, a real estate information service announced Tuesday. -
San Diego City Council members have extended the operating contracts for three tent shelters spearheaded by Mayor Kevin Faulconer. The council is increasingly skeptical of the tents, however, as data shows they are falling far short of their goals. -
The proposed middle-income housing density bonus would allow developers to build more homes on a parcel of land if they agree to reserve a portion of them for middle-income earners. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe median price of a California single-family home is now well over half a million dollars. That’s more than double what the average house costs in the rest of the U.S.
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