Todd Rex Gloria (born May 10, 1978)[1][2] is an American politician serving as the 37th mayor of San Diego since 2020.

[5] Gloria and his family grew up in the Clairemont neighborhood of San Diego, where he attended Hawthorne Elementary School.

[1] He began his career at the County of San Diego’s Health and Human Services Agency and joined the office of Susan Davis as a community representative.

He established legislation addressing issues in San Diego, such as housing and homelessness, gun violence, and global warming.

[15] Gloria ran for the District 3 seat on the San Diego City Council vacated by the termed-out Toni Atkins in the 2008 election.

He received a plurality of votes in the June 2008 primary, leading to a November run-off election against fellow Democrat Stephen Whitburn, a former journalist, community activist, and ally of then-District 6 Councilmember Donna Frye.

[16] As of his second term, District 3 included the neighborhoods of Balboa Park, Bankers Hill/Park West, Downtown San Diego, Golden Hill, Hillcrest, Little Italy, Mission Hills, Normal Heights, North Park, Old Town, and University Heights.

[23] His new interim role led to San Diego becoming the second-largest city in the United States, after Houston, with an openly gay mayor.

He ordered city police and zoning code officers to resume enforcement actions against medical marijuana,[28] re-hired lobbying firms in Sacramento and Washington that Filner had fired,[29] and ordered public records be made more quickly and easily available to citizens.

[33] On November 8, 2016, Gloria was easily elected over his relatively unknown Republican opponent with the second-highest margin of victory in San Diego County.

Shortly after assuming office in 2016, Gloria was chosen by Speaker Anthony Rendon to join Democratic leadership in the Assembly as Assistant Majority Whip.

Gloria's campaign focused on issues such as the housing crisis, affordability, public transportation, and climate change.

[45] With the Mayor's office being a "voter-nominated" position in San Diego, Gloria and Bry advanced to the general election as the top two vote-getters from the primary.

[46] On November 3, he was elected mayor, making history as the first Native American and the first Filipino-American to hold this position in a U.S. city with over a million people.

[50] From the budget initiatives, several projects that support San Diego's Capital Improvements Program (CIP) are underway to repair the city's infrastructure.

[51] These projects focus on areas that provide important services for San Diego residents such as fire stations, libraries, and parks.

The proposal also invests $1 million into funding for the People Assisting the Homeless Coordinated Street Outreach Program.

This program uses "a person-centered, neighborhood-based approach" to establish trust with homeless residents and link them to housing and services.

[59] In late June 2023, Todd Gloria signed the "Unsafe Camping Ordinance" following its passage by the San Diego City Council by a 5-4 vote.

[64] On April 4, 2024, Gloria announced a tentative 35-year lease agreement to convert a 65,000-square-foot commercial building at Kettner Boulevard and Vine Street in Middletown into the city's largest permanent homeless shelter.

[67] However, San Diego's independent budget analyst (IBA) urged caution because, as proposed, the shelter would be above market rate, costing $72 million in rent throughout the 30-year lease.