Daily Business Report: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Can We Keep People from Falling into Homelessness?
By Lisa Halverstadt| Voice of San Diego
San Diego’s homelessness crisis has spiked over the past decade as hundreds of San Diegans lose their homes each month. The region could step up preventive measures over the next two decades and significantly reduce that suffering.
What the region likely can’t do: fully stem the tide of people falling into homelessness without drastic changes to the housing market and federal policies outside the bounds of local control.
The past several years, the city and county of San Diego have ramped up programs that offer subsidies to keep people from losing their homes, collectively serving hundreds of seniors and families each year.
Blakespear among those urging Encinitas to commit to safety measures along busy corridor
By City News Service | Times of San Diego
Regional leaders and educators on Saturday called on the Encinitas City Council to preserve safety components of the $4.1 million Santa Fe Drive Corridor Improvements Project.
The local- and state-funded effort is designed to address safety and circulation needs along a half-mile stretch of the drive that is heavily traveled by students, faculty and families at San Dieguito Academy High School.
The corridor and adjacent streets have been the site of multiple tragedies, according to officials, including the death of 15-year-old Brodee Champlain-Kingman in June 2023.
Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t Immune
By Mark Kreidler | Capital & Main
Measles, a disease so effectively treated that the U.S. declared it eliminated from our country 25 years ago, is making a grim comeback. And despite California’s status as a comparatively well vaccinated state, residents here won’t be spared — and lower-income families and communities, as always, will be most vulnerable to its spread.
That concern has been real enough all year, even though the number of officially confirmed cases nationally — 1,356 as of Aug. 5, the most recent reporting period — would strike many people as miniscule in a country of 340 million.
Two things about that, though: 1. The number, while appearing small, marks the worst spread of the disease in the U.S. in more than three decades; and 2. Public health experts say the total is an undercount — perhaps a severe one.
