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The San Diego Housing Commission is under fire over plans to purchase and convert three hotels into housing for the homeless that comes with a price tag of $400,000 per room. Critics of the plan argue its a waste of taxpayer money that fails to address the root causes of homelessness. “California’s got about a third of the homeless of the entire country. And we keep just throwing more and more dollars at this problem without really getting to the root cause of mental health or alcohol abuse or drug abuse,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said on “Fox...