Ray Street Artists

Thank you to Uptown News and Morgan Hurley for bringing attention to our hard working artists! [See “The ‘visual voices’ of North Park” Vol. 6 Issue 4] Today [Feb. 14] is the opening of a new show at San Diego Art Department featuring Nancy Plank who appeared in the Ray Street Artist book! The show is up for a month – check it out.

—Patric Stillman via sduptownnews.com

Old Globe talks affordable housing

Regrettably, I was down with the Flu and unable to attend this meeting [See “Old Globe panel sinks its teeth into San Diego affordable housing” Vol. 6 Issue 4], but appreciate the effort that went into holding it. The numbers do give a dim view of the future of San Diego as a city increasingly divided as the haves and have-nots.

Had I been able to attend, I would have asked if the numbers could be broken down by gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, age, education. Studies nationally and locally document that there are specific issues for the diverse minority segments which together account for a significant proportion of the total population. These differences are being uncovered and identify that there is no one size fits all solution and would suggest a deeper more detailed study may be necessary to address significant anomalies at play. For many of these segments, there are unique sets of circumstances particular to the specific segments — education levels, age, health, gender and sexual preference to name a few.

—William E. Kelly via sduptownnews.com