Lisa Halverstadt
Reporter at Voice of San Diego
@VoiceofSanDiego senior investigative reporter digging into San Diego's homelessness, housing & behavioral health crises. 📧[email protected]
Articles
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1 week ago |
poynter.org | Lisa Halverstadt
As homelessness has surged across the country, more reporters are covering the topic and grappling with journalistic quandaries unique to this complex crisis. The nature of homelessness and the increasingly politically charged conversation surrounding it make telling those stories complicated and nuanced.
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1 week ago |
poynter.org | Lisa Halverstadt
Senior Investigative Reporter Voice of San Diego Lisa Halverstadt is a senior investigative reporter at nonprofit news site Voice of San Diego who has been on the homelessness beat for about a decade. She started her professional journalism career at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix after graduating from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 2008.
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1 week ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt
An attorney for the city’s former top bureaucrat, who Mayor Todd Gloria belatedly claimed he fired for cause, says the ex-COO has reached a tentative $146,000 settlement with the city. The proposed settlement is larger than the three months of severance that ex-COO Eric Dargan sought when he was abruptly dismissed in February, attorney Michael Conger said.
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2 weeks ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt
Four San Diego City Councilmembers are calling for funding to provide more ramp-down time for a Midway homeless shelter to keep residents from ending up on the street. Council President Joe LaCava and Councilmembers Henry Foster, Kent Lee and Sean Elo-Rivera are jointly proposing to buy more time for the 150-bed shelter that could otherwise close in coming weeks.
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2 weeks ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt
For the first time since 2020, the region’s annual census shows a year-over-year decline in homelessness across San Diego County. The Regional Task Force on Homelessness, which oversees the annual point-in-time count, tallied a 7 percent drop in both unsheltered and sheltered homelessness. The Task Force also reported an overall 13.5 percent overall drop in homelessness in the city of San Diego and a 3.9 percent decrease in street homelessness.
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San Diego Mayor @ToddGloria and @SanDiegoCounty officials have yet to reach an agreement to keep a Midway District homeless shelter open, unsettling shelter residents and staff who are worried about what's next. https://t.co/LDITuBIqTR
RT @CalMatters: A year after granting Medi-Cal access to low-income immigrants without legal status, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to free…
Via @sdut: "San Diego Mayor @ToddGloria is reversing his proposals to close a police station and eliminate detectives focused on prostitution — but there aren’t many other big changes in the revised budget he is releasing Wednesday." https://t.co/fe42joNp7n
