Re “County job growth slows in 2025, lowest since pandemic” (Jan. 24): Are the city’s leaders guiding widespread blight? The city encouraged new office buildings downtown, but as recognized by the sales of office buildings at significant losses, the future of office space is dismal. Now the city is encouraging vast increases in residential units (Midway Rising, Mission Valley, Hillcrest, etc.). Where will those residents find jobs to pay their rents? The developers will need to recover their initial and continuing costs, so they will be inhibited from significantly lowering rents. Are housing units being overbuilt to create future blight?
But maybe new residents will want to live here so they can pay for parking at Balboa Park, pay the high costs of all utilities and suffer the impacts of city deficit spending as they seek jobs. Two portions of the equation for successful growth include housing and jobs. The city leaders are messing up the first portion; how about the second?
— Clifford Weiler, Mission Hills