Our community is celebrating a major transportation justice victory! Today, the MTS Board approved…
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The MTS Board will be meeting this Thursday, 3/11 at 9:00 am to vote on a new Regional Fare Ordinance, and the San Diego Transportation Equity Working Group (SDTEWG) is calling upon community members to speak during Public Comment…
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“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.
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“He wasn’t just a unique community member in City Heights, he was unique in the whole region.”
That’s a common response when you ask people about Bill Tall, who passed away last month after a long battle with cancer.
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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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This is John, the owner of a new mobile bike repair business called Stay True Cycleworks. As many small businesses struggle to stay solvent under the pandemic, John’s business is booming.
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This week we’re celebrating two women who embody community care in powerful ways: Rickie Brown and Miriam Rodriguez.
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It happens every year on Martin Luther King Jr. day, and it’s happening right now.
Well-meaning people share his more palatable, more agreeable statements while avoiding the simple fact that MLK held very radical views throughout his life, and those views are still applicable to today.
Here are a few of our favorites…
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Alexis knows how it feels to be forced out of City Heights. She’s been displaced.
“I remember the landlord talking about how he was going to make more money and that would mean us moving out,” she recalled.
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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.
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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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“For me, I got my first glimpse of promotora work watching my auntie. After a long hard day of work, she would take the time to connect with neighbors and friends and check in on them. She often found ways to connect people with the resources or contacts they needed at that time.”
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This is Esperanza, a pillar of our community and one of the promotora healthcare community advocates we're supporting in the battle against COVID-19.
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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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The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is planning the future Purple Line rail transit and other mobility improvements from South Bay, to Mid-City, to Sorrento, and the first meeting is happening today from 2:00-4:00 pm.
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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.
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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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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.
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If you know anyone who needs an example of stellar affordable housing having a huge impact on people who need it most, introduce them to Talmadge Gateway.
Opened in 2017, Talmadge Gateway is San Diego’s first 100% permanent supportive housing for homeless seniors…
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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.
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