With our 2023 Street Food Fest just a couple months away, we’re excited to see this third annual event grow into a bigger and better fundraiser than ever!

Juan Pablo thinks current attitudes around parking are changing among both customers and businesses owners who are now enjoying the benefits brought by additional outdoor seating: eyes on the street, crime reduction, and a safer inviting space.

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.

Consider this photo of one resident’s front porch. She’s a mother, a wife, a professional, and she’s battling cancer during a pandemic.

Nearly 40 years ago, our founders mobilized around a shared belief in the power of community.

Too often when a community or neighborhood faces a problem, the community isn’t seen as the key to solving that problem. It happened at our founding, when non locals began carving up streets and making decisions about our community without our consent, and it still happens today.

Friends, this is why we’re working in partnership with the San Diego Latino Health Coalition and amazing promotoras like Miriam! Resources are out there. Education is out there. A healthy reopening of our economy is possible, but we must work in partnership and focus on more equitable services if we’re going to get there!

Latinos are dying at a much higher rate to COVID-19.

34% of San Diego county are Latinx, yet they make up 61% of infections and 45% of the deaths.

So what can we do? It’s a tough, complicated question, but that's why it's so important we ask it—and we are doing something about it!

As if launching a new business weren’t challenging enough, Andrew Benavides launched a year before the pandemic.

Great news! A second round of funding is now available for small businesses battling to survive the pandemic!

This pandemic has devastated small businesses, and we’re jumping in to help. Click to read more and apply for funding to help keep your business operating.

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!

40 years ago, our community faced many challenges, but the defining struggle was against the devastation caused by the instillation of the 15 freeway.

Today, after nearly four decades spent working alongside our neighbors, we face a new defining struggle: the housing crisis.

In 2019, our Resident Services team received, processed, packaged, and distributed 390 ‘packages’ of emergency food.
In just March and April of this year, the team distributed 321 packages of emergency food. That means we’re on pace to provide more emergency food in 10 weeks than we did in ALL of 2019!

The month so many are dreading is finally here.

Thousands in our community are out of work, have no income, and can’t pay their rent, and the eviction moratorium ends at the end of May. Will the city extend it? Will there be some kind of debt forgiveness or a payment plan?

As we face COVID together, we have to all acknowledge with some humility that it’s all new, and that means we’re all learning.

In response to the COVID-19 virus, we are compiling a living list of resources available to our neighbors in City Heights. This will be a shared, regularly-updated list of resources for families weathering this difficult time. We hope it helps!