With over 195 tenants currently on the waitlist, our Eviction Prevention team is working diligently to address the number of families and individuals at risk of eviction and potential homelessness or displacement. 

Thank you to St. Paul's Senior Services for the wonderful opportunity earlier this month to share with their community members about the Coordinated Evictions Prevention System (CEPS) Program. 

During this series of workshops, our team’s goal is to inform tenants and landlords about their duties and rights, ensuring fair practices and protections are in place for both.

“My background is in property management and that’s my work now, so I’ve seen both sides of the work. Property managers and landlords want sustainable housing, and vulnerable tenants should be protected—I’ve experienced both.”

“I don’t think people realize how humiliated renters can be, how few rights we have, and how often landlords break or go around the few protections we do have…”

Our eviction prevention work began as a simple idea: what if we could keep people housed by preventing an eviction, keeping people housed for another month and getting at the root cause of most homelessness?

In many ways, it was a grand experiment…

“The imbalance of power between landlords and tenants, which is created by weak tenant protections, places the tenants in a vulnerable position that is further amplified when the tenant has language, financial, or other barriers.”

“My family and I were evicted just a few years after we moved to the United States. I was around 8 years old, maybe younger, and it was traumatic. You don't forget those things…”

“I think people of color often get stuck on this idea that they shouldn’t ask for help,” Cierra began. As an eviction prevention outreach manager, Cierra is on the frontlines of the housing crisis…

Let’s celebrate a housing justice win!

We teamed up with the Legal Aid Society of San Diego on Monday, April 4th to present in favor of the City of San Diego No Fault Eviction Moratorium.

Good news! Many of you know there’s a labor shortage, and you may know we’ve been looking to hire for a few positions on our team. In the coming weeks, we’ll introduce you to some new faces we’re thrilled to have onboard, starting with Ashton.

“When my husband left us early in the pandemic, I was so afraid…”

Norma tugged at her bracelet then continued: “I thought my world might fall apart, or maybe it already had. It was a dark place. One day, I simply made the decision to believe in myself, to believe I could make it through this. So I went out and bought this bracelet.”

When Marta was one month away from being out on the streets, you stepped in…

With many San Diegans still out of work and struggling under the pandemic, we're thrilled announce the new Housing Help San Diego, a one-stop hub made to help renters and landlords alike understand their rights and the resources available to help prevent evictions and homelessness.

Someone was crying.

It’s not a sound we typically hear around our office, but the quiet sobs were unmistakable.

“I know what it takes to get things done and to organize the community because I’ve done it, and that’s why I’m sharing my story. Many are struggling to pay their rent.”

This is Iris, and she is incredible.

This is one month-old baby Diana. Isn’t she beautiful?

Diana’s mother wraps the blanket around the newborn as she tells her story.

Miriam served her country, she worked two jobs, she's a full time student, she never missed a rent payment, but the weight of this pandemic is threatening to break everything she's worked so hard to build for herself and her kids.

Let's not sugar coat it: 2020 was hard.

The year was endlessly difficult. Yet you, the amazing City Heights community, chose to step into the confusion and to be a force for good.

About a year ago, you helped launch One Month Away, an eviction and homelessness prevention plan. When we launched, we had no idea how important this work would become…