February 18, 2024 — A February 15 Opinion column in the San Diego Union-Tribune grossly misstated the mission of Neighbors For A Better San Diego (NFABSD). It's very unfortunate that the Union-Tribune's editors did not fact-check this wildly inaccurate column and contact us for a response before publishing it. That's why it's vitally important for us to correct the errors and mistruths. 

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NFABSD is not — and never has been — supported by "anti-housing advocates who have relentlessly resisted pro-housing policy implementation." Nor have we "doubled down on … efforts to keep San Diego low-density and exclusionary."  In fact, the public record confirms that NFABSD has, since our inception, supported smart, sustainable growth, including the construction of multi-unit housing projects, especially for very-low and low-income residents, and within realistic walkable distance to transit, retail, and public facilities.

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Unlike the author of this scurrilous column, we vigorously opposed the "off-siting" of affordable units to so-called "moderate" neighborhoods. We urged San Diego's City Council to keep the requirement that developers of Complete Communities projects include their very-low and low-income units in the same building as their market-rate units, which was how the concept of Complete Communities was sold to the public in 2020 and one of the main reasons the City Council voted for it.

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Sadly, these grossly misinformed attacks appear to be nothing more than an attempt to deregulate the housing industry — either intentionally or out of ignorance.

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