November 14, 2024
San Diego Housing Commission’s Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report Promotes Accessibility and Highlights Positive Impacts
Web-based format facilitates translation into multiple languages and the use of an online tool to support access for people with disabilities.
SAN DIEGO, CA — Continuing the San Diego Housing Commission’s (SDHC) commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and access, the agency published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Annual Report today in a web-based format that facilitates translation into the language of the reader’s choice and is compatible with an accessibility tool on SDHC’s website that assists people with disabilities.
“The new format and content in our Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report reflect our dedication to putting people first every day,” SDHC President and CEO Lisa Jones said. “The inspiring stories and programs detailed in our annual report demonstrate to the community the comprehensive and vital housing assistance we provide throughout the year. We are proud to help ensure San Diego is a thriving, diverse city for people to call home. We thank the City Council, Mayor, our Board of Commissioners, our many community partners and our exceptional staff for making our innovative programs available to assist families struggling economically in the City of San Diego.”
SDHC published the annual report on its website, www.sdhc.org.
The FY 2024 (July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024) Annual Report includes video and written profiles of several individuals SDHC assisted throughout the year, whose inspirational stories reflect resilience, personal aspirations and devotion to their loved ones.
For example, Umi, whose family receives rental assistance from SDHC, was one of the first 17 graduates of the SDHC Achievement Academy’s Healthcare Career Catalyst for Young Adults program, which launched in FY 2024.
“I feel very accomplished,” Umi said. “I feel I’m actually prepared enough to go into the real world now and apply to jobs as a medical assistant, to go do externships and take everything that I’ve learned in the classroom from my instructors, from my peers, and actually use it in the real life to go make a difference somewhere. And I’m very excited.”
Data highlighted in the annual report include:
- 19,026 households received federal rental assistance during Fiscal Year 2024.
- 716 affordable rental housing units were completed, consisting of new construction as well as rehabilitation of existing units.
- 1,928 affordable rental housing units have at least preliminary approval and are pending completion.
- 56 first-time homebuyers were assisted through City of San Diego and County of San Diego programs that SDHC administers.
- 799 housing solutions were created through HOUSING FIRST – SAN DIEGO, SDHC’s ongoing homelessness initiative.
- 5,864 households were housed through SDHC- and City-funded homelessness programs.
- 16,649 individuals were served through City homelessness shelters and services programs that SDHC administers.
SDHC’s legislative affairs activities, national and local recognition, and new initiatives are also featured, including:
- The State of California awarded $55.75 million from the third round of Homekey funding to SDHC, in collaboration with the City of San Diego and County of San Diego. These funds support projects that will create 236 new affordable housing units with supportive services for people experiencing homelessness.
- An updated analysis of the crisis response and housing needs to address homelessness was presented to the San Diego City Council as part of the Community Action Plan on Homelessness for the City of San Diego. The update also highlighted progress achieved from 2019 to 2023.
- SDHC received federal funding to convert underutilized SDHC office space into a shelter for transition-age youth (young adults ages 18 to 24) experiencing homelessness. The shelter will serve any transition-age youth, but the program is the first of its kind in San Diego to tailor its services specifically to affirm transition-age youth who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
- SDHC received $750,000 in State funding to support the Multidisciplinary Outreach Program in the City, which was launched in 2022 and serves people experiencing unsheltered homelessness who are among the highest utilizers of the criminal justice, emergency services or homelessness services systems.
- SDHC released a study of residential eviction trends in the City of San Diego that identified that communities with lower income, higher rental cost burden, a higher proportion of Black and Hispanic households, more single-parent households, and higher unemployment levels are more likely to experience evictions.
SDHC’s Annual Report is produced in-house by the agency’s Communications & Government Relations Division.
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Media Contact:
Scott Marshall
Vice President of Communications
San Diego Housing Commission
619-578-7138
