Tag: San Diego

  • Rallying For Redevelopment Dollars

    By Katie Orr Published February 22, 2011 on All Councilman Todd Gloria needed was a mega-phone and a letter sweater at a news conference about redevelopment on Tuesday. Gloria stood at a podium in the shadow of an affordable housing project and rallied those who gathered before him. “Is City Heights better off today because…

  • Pulling Themselves, and Each other, Out of Poverty

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published February 17, 2011 on When Hamun Yussuf was a girl, a vicious civil war broke out in Somalia, her home. Many of the men in her tribe left to fight. A lot never returned. Yussuf’s family fled to Kenya, where her mother worked at a shop while…

  • Somalis Adjust to U.S. Life, But Integration and Jobs Still Problems

    By Amita Sharma Published September 28, 2010 on Photo Courtesy of Amina Farrah   It was 2 o’clock in the morning back in 1988. Amina Farah was about to go from a middle-class mother with a house and a job at the Central Bank of Somalia to refugee. Civil war had just erupted. The dark…