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.
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“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…”
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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…
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It is a privilege to address you as ‘community’ and to be able to truly mean it. During my years working here, I have fallen more and more in love with City Heights and her people, places, and incredible beauty and resilience.
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“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…”
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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.
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“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.”
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When Marta was one month away from being out on the streets, you stepped in…
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Someone was crying.
It’s not a sound we typically hear around our office, but the quiet sobs were unmistakable.
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"It's not an easy job, but when they call me with their thanks and they’re so emotional... hearing their joy that they won't have to lose their home is so beautiful...I go to sleep with a smile on my face. It’s just so rewarding."
—Cristobal Navarrete
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Exciting milestone alert! Together, we’ve helped over 300 evictions! Your donations are helping these households stay safely in their homes and off the streets.
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The City of San Diego will begin budget discussions very soon, and with that comes debate over rent relief for the thousands of struggling households in our communities. Here are 5 things to consider.
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As the entire planet preps for COVID-19 and practices social distancing, we're reminded that many on our team and in our community aren’t able to inside.
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Good news if you live in San Diego! Our City Council and Mayor are providing thoughtful and just leadership in this current crisis….
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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!
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Yesterday evening, we stood before our city council to share the following thoughts, but I began by asking them a simple question: which is better, proactive prevention or a passive response, after the fact?
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