Sahid is the founder and executive director of the Partnership for the Progression of New Us citizens. She life in Metropolis Heights. Even in advance of the COVID-19 pandemic, around 14.5 % of San Diegans — virtually 200,000 individuals — lived down below the poverty line in town boundaries, battling […]
Relief
San Diego slow to send relief to struggling tenants
Genea Wall, a City Heights resident who was recently approved for San Diego’s rent relief program, speaks at a downtown protest over San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s budget proposal, May 25, 2021. The protesters advocated spending more on housing and other community issues. (Zoë Meyers/inewsource) More than two months ago, […]
Rental Relief Aims To Prevent Tsunami Of Evictions, But Will It Be Enough?
Ramon Toscano and his family have been hanging by a thread since the start of the pandemic. Toscano is undocumented and works as a day laborer. But he stopped working in March 2020 when COVID-19 cases began to rise, fearing he’d catch the virus and pass it on to his […]