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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2 days ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt
It was late summer 2017 and San Diego’s homelessness crisis had entered a deadly new chapter. Months earlier, the county had declared a hepatitis A outbreak, warning that homeless people and illicit drug users were most at risk. The number of cases and deaths rose in the months that followed, and the city and county didn’t seem to be aggressively fighting back. Unsheltered residents with limited options to protect themselves were scared – and I was scared for them.
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2 weeks ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Jakob McWhinney |Lisa Halverstadt
On Tuesday, San Diego’s City Council approved a budget that walked back many of the significant cuts in Mayor Todd Gloria’s budget. They also added some items of their own. One of those additions was allocating $250,000 for a long talked about safe sleeping site for families with children at San Diego Unified’s now-vacant Central Elementary.
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2 weeks ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt
The San Diego City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday to approve a budget that avoided many previously threatened cuts to library and lake hours, recreation centers and park restrooms. It also adds back the chief operating officer position that Mayor Todd Gloria abruptly nixed and took over earlier this year, funds a safe parking lot for homeless families at Central Elementary and restores the Office of Race and Equity.
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3 weeks ago |
voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt
The county’s longtime purchasing and contracting chief has sued the county, alleging he was fired based on his age and race. Jack Pellegrino is a 65-year-old White man. In his March lawsuit, Pellegrino revealed that Chief Administrative Officer Ebony Shelton terminated him with no explanation last September and alleged that he was discriminated against “based on his race and/or color” because the county planned to replace him with a person of color.
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1 month 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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