Thread by @LoriSaldanaSD

1/The response of #SanDiego Mayor @Kevin_Faulconer when it comes to #homelessness and/or reacting to people protesting his policies that increasingly criminalize families who are #homeless : Call the police

Now: he wants to be Governor of #California

2/But @Kevin_Faulconer has badly mismanaged #ProjectRoomkey a @Cal_OES program to provide emergency #COVID funds & hotel rooms for people at risk of #coronavirus

#SanDiego is LAST in CA to use these funds to provide safe, private, secure housing to unsheltered San Diegans

3/ Instead: under @Kevin_Faulconer the @RTFHSD @sdhousingcommision @SDConventionCtr has been re-directing funding to keep the Convention Center operating as a shelter for about 900 people- at a cost of $5.7 million/month

4/ The Chair of the @RTFHSD is @ChrisWard4AD78 who was just elected to the CA Assembly. Here he is (behind "updates") with Faulconer (R) & @SupFletcher (L).

These men are allowing 1000s of people to remain unhoused during the #coronavirus pandemic, even w/the new 10 PM curfew

5/Per this letter (rtfhsd.org/wp-content/upl…) I just called to ask how someone can get a referral to a hotel room: "If a person requires temporary lodging for isolation, please call [phone] between 7:004M and 7:00PM ,7-days a week to speak with the Placement Coordinator..."

6/ I explained I had been the Assemblywoman for this district, and people were asking me to help with #ProjectRoomkey

Now I'm waiting for a call back from a "team leader" re:how to get someone into a hotel room.

7/ It's been 2 hours since I called [phone]

I talked with person who said she would have someone call me back who could explain the process.

So far: No call back FYI @KenStoneMedia @SDUTmcdonald

Source: rtfhsd.org/wp-content/upl…

8/ It's been 3 hours now without a call back

If you know someone in #SanDiego who is unsheltered, has a medical condition/is at high risk from #COVID & needs a hotel room to stay in while recuperating & during the new 10PM curfew: please call 858-715-2350 and ask for a referral

9/ It's been 6 hrs- no response. No information on what to tell people who are medically in need of shelter to avoid additional exposure or transmission of communicable disease

This is an ongoing failure to protect #publichealth- but not sure at what level: City? County? Agency?