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Paying for the Past, Building for the Future with Mayor Todd Gloria
Mayors today inherit decades of decisions they didn’t make: deferred city infrastructure maintenance, underfunded pensions, and land use policies that limited what could be built. Now, as residents demand action on affordability, mayors are expected to fix the past while setting their cities up for the future.
In this episode of Building Better Cities, Kate Gasparro sits down with San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, who now leads the U.S. Conference of Mayors and its nearly 1,400 mayors from red and blue states alike. Gloria took office in a city without an ambulance contract or an energy franchise…
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