1-minute voter guide: San Diego City Council races

Driving the news: Council president Sean Elo-Rivera is facing re-election in District 9 against fellow Democrat Terry Hoskins, a retired police officer.

• District 3 representative Stephen Whitburn is facing Coleen Cusack, a pro-bono attorney who has sued to stop police crackdowns on homelessness, in another Democrat-vs-Democrat race.

By the numbers: Elo-Rivera won 51.9% of the vote and Hoskins took 30% in a three-person March primary.

• Whitburn reached 52.4% during the primary while Cusack came in second among three challengers with 20.9%.

Zoom in: Whitburn has been an outspoken champion of Mayor Todd Gloria's plan to build a 1,000-bed shelter in Middletown, while Cusack has promised to push to undo the city's "unsafe camping ordinance" if elected.

• Elo-Rivera is pursuing a plan to use eminent domain to acquire under-used properties to turn them into homeless housing to combat the crisis.
• Hoskins is running against city policies that allow homeowners to use "granny flat" regulations to build small apartment buildings on their properties and adopting stricter short-term vacation rental rules.