Daily Business Report: March 2, 2026
Quarterly EDC report: 1.4% increase in employment for S.D. region
City New Service | Times of San Diego
San Diego employment was steady in the fourth quarter of 2025, up 1.4% compared to the same period of 2024, according to a report from the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.
According to the EDC Quarterly Snapshot, there was a 6.6% growth in health care and social assistance jobs, but a 2.3% drop in professional and business services jobs.
“With each innovation job supporting two jobs elsewhere in the economy, challenges in these high-impact economic sectors threaten San Diego’s long-term competitiveness amid a year of heightened economic uncertainty,” the report stated.
Judge Orders Children’s Hospital to Extend Trans Patient Care
by Rnady Dotinga | Voice of San Diego
A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego to continue providing gender-transition care to transgender children through at least late April instead of early March, giving patients another six weeks or more of treatment with puberty blockers and hormones before the services could be cut.
The ruling by Judge Matthew Braner comes as children’s hospitals nationwide continue to eliminate their gender-care clinics under pressure from the Trump Administration. Braner is considering whether to force Rady and its sister hospital in Orange County to continue providing gender-transition therapies.
Braner has described the hospital system as being between a “rock and a hard place” as it navigate threats from both the state and the federal government.
Factory-built housing hasn’t taken off in California yet, but this year might be different
By Ben Christopher | CalMatters
As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan — “like a boxcar with picture windows,” according to a journalist on the scene — the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development proclaimed it “the coming of a real revolution in housing.”
For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes. Now, amid a national housing shortage, the question felt as pressing as ever: What if construction could harness the speed, efficiency, quality control and cost-savings of the assembly line? What if, rather than building homes on-site from the ground up, they were cranked out of factories, one unit after another, shipped to where they were needed and dropped into place? What if the United States could mass-produce its way out of a housing crisis?
In Kalamazoo, that vision finally seemed a reality. The HUD chief predicted that within a decade two-thirds of all housing construction across the United States “would be industrialized.”
