Choose your location
inewsource
What Riverside can learn from the jail death crisis in San Diego
The high death rate in San Diego County’s jail system has troubled attorneys, lawmakers and community activists for years. It has prompted audits, lawsuits and a new state law to enact jail reforms. The same crisis is unfolding in another nearby jail system. In Riverside County, the jail death...
4 things to watch in 2024 on San Diego’s education beat
From chronic absences to enrollment declines, San Diego County schools spent last year continuing their attempts to bounce back from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year is likely to bring the same challenges. The consequences of the pandemic remain evident: Chronic absenteeism remains high across the county nearly...
New year, new reader experiences
Greetings inewsource readers. As we step into the new year, we do so with you in mind, eager to enhance and maximize your reader experience. Our goal is to ensure our content is not only accessible but also engaging and easy to navigate, allowing you to seamlessly explore our coverage and learn more about who we are and our ongoing initiatives.
4 things to watch in 2024 on San Diego’s housing, homelessness beat
A ban on camping in public, a rush to expand shelters, a shortfall in housing construction and a program that disproportionately hurts poor and unhoused San Diegans. It’s been quite a year on the housing and homelessness beat in San Diego. Last year’s census of San Diegans experiencing unsheltered...
This refugee has championed a San Diego urban farm for years. Now, a nonprofit is threatening to evict her.
When Fatima Abdelrahman learned that the organization running New Roots Community Farm — a widely celebrated neighborhood garden in City Heights — didn’t have an active lease on the property, she was as much confused as distressed. Then she got an eviction threat. Founded in 2008 on...
2023 in photos: Immigration, homelessness drove news in San Diego County
The issues of immigration and homelessness dominated attention spans and headlines in 2023. Here’s a look at the inewsource’s take on these stories, through the lens and reporting of inewsource photo and video journalist Zoë Meyers. The end of Title 42. Within a climate of constantly changing...
How a new 400-person Border Patrol station could transform a historic San Diego town
Grant Spotts’ family came to Dulzura in the 1880s, searching for water and a home in the rural southeast San Diego County community. After nearly 150 years, the well on their property continues to deliver. But around them, Dulzura has transformed in other ways, said Spotts, who owns and...
MTS saw loitering, violence at bus stops. So the agency removed their benches.
Transportation officials uninstalled public benches at bus stops in southeast San Diego last month following reports of crime — but residents and the area’s city councilmember question if the move was fair to transit riders. The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System removed three benches at westbound and eastbound...
California lawmakers say they want to save journalism. They must not leave out vital local news sources.
At inewsource, we distinguish ourselves by independence, neutrality and fierce dedication to public service journalism. As part of that brand, we don’t give our opinions, but today I’m advocating for the very survival of local news. I submitted the letter below to the California Senate Judiciary Committee as...
Dual language teachers are key to making more California students bilingual. Few seek the job
Fourth grader Carla Rosas says she knows three languages. A Colombian, she speaks Spanish fluently, but she also speaks English and is in the French immersion program at the Language Academy, a San Diego Unified magnet school. She says her parents have encouraged her to pursue another language, too. “They...
Two new community members join inewsource Board
Inewsource’s Board of Directors welcomed two new members, continuing an expansion of the diversity and expertise of our board. Elisabeth Eisner Forbes and Susana Villegas will start their three-year terms this month. “Both Forbes and Villegas bring to inewsource vast experience in both varied board service and subject matter...
Our newsletter and audio offering is expanding at inewsource. Here’s what to expect.
As inewsource’s Product Manager and Content Producer, we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can distribute our local reporting in ways that are as convenient as possible for you. Earlier this year, we refreshed our website design, navigation and coverage areas to simplify pathways for you...
How to know when a rent increase is illegal
Four years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws on the same day that were hailed as the strongest renter protections in the nation. One set a 10% maximum cap on rent increases, with a few exceptions, and the other prohibited landlords from discriminating against people with a Section 8 housing voucher, a federal program that helps low-income tenants pay rents on the private market.
San Diegan says she was forced to pay illegal rent increase for a year. She fought back
Wendy Patrick knew the rent was about to go up for her one-bedroom apartment in City Heights. The complex had just been sold, her lease was facing renewal and she hadn’t received a single increase in the five years she lived there. She felt ready for it, though. For...
San Diegans love their cars. SANDAG wants employers to encourage a different way to commute
Twice a week at 7:15 a.m., 29-year-old Matt Beer waits at the Route 2 bus stop in North Park for his commute to work on in-office days. His company, an engineering consulting firm called AECOM, gives its employees $100 every month to pay for parking or public transit. A monthly bus pass costs him $72, so he bought one. Perks of riding, he said, include being able to “zone out,” text his friends or fiddle on his phone doing other tasks.
It has no predator and spreads quickly. Meet the organism causing alarm in San Diego Bay
Coronado Cays, Calif. – Just below Nino the gondolier and the couple he’s paddling along for a sunset ride down canals lined by multimillion-dollar homes, a less idyllic scene is unfolding. An aggressive algae able to clone itself from a fragment the size of a fingernail into an...
After inewsource report, San Diego official says any unlawful rent hikes should be returned
One of the most powerful elected officials in the region wants the San Diego Housing Commission to claw back unlawful rent increases that may have been paid to private landlords. On Tuesday, San Diego City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera told the agency’s interim executive director, Jeff Davis, that he wants...
Has your rent increased? We want to hear from you
State law protects many tenants from rent increases that exceed a certain amount in a year. That cap is currently 10% for San Diegans. An inewsource investigation found that the San Diego Housing Commission isn’t checking to make sure rent increases on Section 8 voucher holders comply with state law.
San Diego agency might be approving illegal rent increases while taxpayers foot the bill
Each year, the San Diego Housing Commission doles out about $300 million in federal money to help low-income tenants afford rents on the private market. When landlords want to increase the rent on those tenants, the Housing Commission must first approve — and it does so nine times out of 10.
inewsource
604+
Posts
3M+
Views
inewsource is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to improving lives in the San Diego region and beyond through impactful, data-based investigative and accountability journalism.
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments. It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency: our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. We strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation. Join us in shaping the news narrative together.