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. 

“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…

Ask anyone in City Heights what they consider to be the most pressing challenge residents face, and most will tell you without even blinking: housing is the challenge. This is why so much of our work over the past 40 years has been focused on housing…

Our mission: we create opportunities for City Heights residents to shape their streets, community, city, and region; everything in the built environment ranging from transit systems to parks.

All year long, we’ve shared stories of the community to celebrate four decades of community power, and now we’re asking you to invest in the decades to come by donating where it’s needed most.

This Giving Tuesday, make a donation where it's needed most. Join us in keeping people housed, fed, employed, and thriving in their community.

The image above outlines the need for donors to help finalize the art and funding for the "Unity in the Community" mural at Teralta Park!

The SD Food Justice Project is the latest chapter in to our long-term food security efforts in City Heights and beyond, and our Economic Development team is working hard to find the first 100 small business applicants with priority focus on marginalized business owners and supporting the entrepreneurship of individuals with limited English proficiency, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.

Thanks to all who made this second annual Street Food Fest and 40th birthday such a success. This work began four decades ago in City Heights, when a handful of neighbors committed to working together to make life better for all.

Street Food Fest was born in early 2019, when several of us gathered around a conference table to dream of a more community-focused way to fundraise and celebrate together.

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.

With a record number of San Diegans out of work and still struggling under the pandemic, we’re challenging community members with the resources to consider donating any portion of their stimulus checks.

Please don't let the flurry of funding requests distort this: today is actually about YOU and the impact you are having as you enable good work in the world.

If we reach this goal, a funding partner will provide an additional $100k, totalling $200k for small businesses struggling under COVID-19 in City Heights!

Recently, the amazing community of Light Church held a benefit concert for our new program, One Month Away and they raised over $5k for eviction prevention!

You know the feeling…

It gnaws at you, keeps you up at night. Try as you might, you can’t help but stress about that debt, that deadline, those bills, that exam, that thing that just won’t leave you alone.