PAIR Program  Portside Air Quality & Improvement Relief Do you qualify for a free air monitor and purifier in your home? What is the PAIR Program? The PAIR Program is a two-year program dedicated to improving the indoor air quality in homes within Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, Sherman Heights, and West National City. These neighborhoods are known as Portside Communities because they are near the Port of San Diego. Portside Communities are exposed to more pollution than the rest of California because of their closeness to freeways, freight, and industrial activities. Through funding fr ..read more

Thanksgiving First Nations Day of Resilience  As an organization rooted in the civil rights movement, we cannot support racist and oppressive traditions. Our staff, community members, and board of directors reflected deeply on the traditional “holiday” of Thanksgiving and found that it does  not fit with our values – equity, justice, and empowering communities. It marks just the opposite. Thanksgiving marks the beginning of a violent history of oppression of the First Nations and countless acts of injustices against them by European colonizers. Instead, this Thursday, November 2 ..read more

Juneteenth a Celebration of Freedom   More than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed 3 million enslaved people in the U.S, an estimated 250,000 people were still being forced into slavery in Texas. That changed soon after General Granger arrived in the state with his troops. On June 19, 1865, General Granger delivered General Order Number 3, which read: “The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights o ..read more

  Did you know that June is Healthy Homes Month?  During this pandemic year, we should be calling it Healthy Homes & Healthy Office Month. For many of us, chances are that your home is also your office. While we have been cleaning and disinfecting to keep COVID-19 away, a healthy home is much more than that.  A healthy home is well-ventilated, dry, clean, safe, pest-free, contaminant-free, well maintained, and thermally controlled.  For most parents, I know it’s been challenging to keep our homes and offices healthy, especially during this pandemic year. I invite you ..read more

Our communities have suffered for too long from the pollution generated by the Port of San Diego and its tenants. Communities neighboring the Port have some of the highest levels of diesel pollution in the San Diego region. Barrio Logan has 98% more diesel pollution than the rest of the state. Port Pollution Is Hurting Our Health Diesel pollution causes lung cancer, and chronic diseases like asthma, heart disease, breathing problems, and more. In 2018, chronic diseases like these caused 53% of all deaths in South San Diego. The children in our neighborhoods have more than double the rate of ..read more