The new community coaltion with an interesting name
Tomorrow, a group calling itself the San Diego Coalition for a Strong Middle Class will hold its first press conference at Hoover High School in City Heights. The group’s headed by a familiar name: Richard Lawrence, a longtime affordable-housing advocate who was recently appointed to the board of the Southeastern Economic Development Corp., San Diego’s second largest redevelopment overseer that found itself mired in scandal last year.
The group is calling for accountability in how San Diego’s share of economic-stimulus money is used—specifically, they want that jobs created by stimulus funding to be ones that pay a solid, middle-class wage
“Every one of those jobs must be a good job with a middle-class career path for local residents,” Lawrence said in a statement. The coalition includes the Center on Policy Initiatives, the social-justice-minded think tank that spearheaded the city of San Diego’s living wage ordinance in 2005.
