Mayor Kevin Faulconer Wins National Praise On Homelessness | Michael Smolens

Mayor Kevin Faulconer has appeared recently in conservative news outlets and on pop-culture radio shows where he is being lauded for something that would have been unimaginable just two years ago: progress on combating homelessness. The mayor was a rising political star after his 2014 election and was considered a leading Republican candidate for governor a couple of years later, but that changed dramatically when San Diego was thrown into crisis by the 2017 hepatitis A outbreak linked to homelessness that killed 20 people and sickened nearly 600 across the region. At least on the air, it seems like a new day for Faulconer. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2019-07-23/nearly-sunk-by-homeless-hepatitis-crisis-faulconer-now-sought-for-advice