Tag: Refugees

  • Tweet City Heights: Feral Dogs, Fried Brain Cells and Free Lunch

    By Megan Burks While we’re out researching and writing full-length features, 140 characters can go a long way in helping us keep readers up-to-date. But some tweets deserve more than that. That’s why I’m beginning a weekly feature here on SpeakCityHeights.org called Tweet City Heights. Each Friday, I’ll bring you the week’s Twitter chatter as…

  • Community Gardens Can Now Be Planted Citywide

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido The San Diego City Council has made it much easier to start community gardens — once banned or too expensive to permit — on most vacant land citywide. The council voted unanimously Tuesday to support removing costly permitting requirements and zoning restrictions on gardens. Now, San Diegans will…

  • Around the Community Table

    Photo Credit: Adam, age 12, Iraq | Courtesy of The AjA Project Craft, organic coffee and specialty produce were once reserved for farmers markets and niche grocers in affluent neighborhoods. In City Heights, however, Agora Bean + Leaf sells specialty tea and coffee in chic packaging from the same row of stalls where refugees sell…

  • Red Tape Turns a Green Farm into an Eyesore

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 30, 2011 on For close to three decades, a group of mostly poor Cambodian refugees eked out a subsistence living by farming a parcel of land at the end of a southeastern San Diego cul-de-sac. The sprawling farm was impressive. Over the years the refugees had…

  • A Rule Changes, a County Stumbles and Refugees Suffer

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published April 19, 2011 on When Amaal Al-Mifraji arrived in San Diego in February, the worst of her troubles appeared to be over. She and her two children, ages 17 and 20, settled into a small one-bedroom apartment in a sprawling complex in El Cajon, one among the…