Year: 2011

  • Video: Community Garden Targets Health Issues Associated With Poor Housing

    By Brian Myers   A community garden near Fairmount Boulevard and University Avenue is growing medicinal plants that can relieve the symptoms of asthma, which they say is a community health epidemic in City Heights because of poor housing stock. The volunteer-run Remedy Community Medicine Garden has a small, but dedicated, crew of caretakers, including…

  • Solutions Waning for Tenants of Substandard Housing

    Residents say substandard housing conditions are common in City Heights. This resident has endured cockroaches, rats and leaky plumbing for about a decade. Her apartment also lacks heating and a smoke detector. She finally came forward this year, but it wasn’t easy. By Megan Burks and Brian Myers   The autumn breeze drifts through a…

  • City Heights Man In Deportation Proceedings Following Traffic Stop

    By Marissa Cabrera On Sept. 24, an officer pulled over a 29-year old City Heights man. The man’s family said he was driving with his music too loudly. However, instead of issuing a citation, the officer called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and now the driver is facing deportation. San Diego’s Executive Assistant Chief of Police David…

  • Tweet City Heights: CalFresh Challenge Raises Awareness for Hunger

    By Megan Burks San Diego Veg Week and CalFresh Challenge Change Diets, Minds This week, San Diego social media let us in on a lot more than the usual “who went where with whom” status updates. I found out exactly what some San Diegans were putting in their bellies—Councilwoman Marti Emerald was all about Italian…

  • More Hispanic Children Living in Poverty

    By Jessica Plautz A new report says more Hispanic children in the United States are living in poverty than any other ethnic group. The Pew Hispanic Center tracked child poverty rates from 1976 to 2010, and found that last year was the first in which the single largest group of poor children was not white.…