“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…

A robust economy in City Heights is not possible without steady, sustainable businesses for its residents. That’s why we work alongside local business owners and entrepreneurs

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.

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

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.

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!

How do we choose who gets help? What are the long term vs short term solutions? What other resources are out there for people concerned about being evicted? Find answers here.