By Concerned Point Loman
While San Diego officials double down on messaging around affordable housing and equitable access in every neighborhood, an unsettling contradiction is quietly unfolding on city-owned land in Point Loma, right adjacent to Point Loma Nazarene University.
Just up the hill from the surf, in an area that embodies the classic history of the area, the City of San Diego is preparing to evict 11 low-income tenants from a cluster of historic cottages it owns literally less than a stone's throw from the university -- at 4101 Lomaland #1 -- #4.
These modest cottages, some over 100 years old, are still home to seniors, families with young children, and multigenerational residents—whom pay affordable rent, maintain their homes themselves, and cover full property taxes, despite the City owning the land since 1992. This is not a failing community. It’s a thriving, affordable one that represents precisely the kind of housing San Diego claims to need more of.
What’s replacing them? Storm drain improvements and landscaping, part of the Sunset Cliffs Natural Park Drainage Improvements Project.
The city is choosing to demolish existing affordable housing in a walkable, transit-accessible coastal community, the exact kind of neighborhood city leaders say should welcome more low- and middle-income residents.
By Concerned Point Loman
While San Diego officials double down on messaging around affordable housing and equitable access in every neighborhood, an unsettling contradiction is quietly unfolding on city-owned land in Point Loma, right adjacent to Point Loma Nazarene University.
Just up the hill from the surf, in an area that embodies the classic history of the area, the City of San Diego is preparing to evict 11 low-income tenants from a cluster of historic cottages it owns literally less than a stone's throw from the university -- at 4101 Lomaland #1 -- #4.
These modest cottages, some over 100 years old, are still home to seniors, families with young children, and multigenerational residents—whom pay affordable rent, maintain their homes themselves, and cover full property taxes, despite the City owning the land since 1992. This is not a failing community. It’s a thriving, affordable one that represents precisely the kind of housing San Diego claims to need more of.
What’s replacing them? Storm drain improvements and landscaping, part of the Sunset Cliffs Natural Park Drainage Improvements Project.
The city is choosing to demolish existing affordable housing in a walkable, transit-accessible coastal community, the exact kind of neighborhood city leaders say should welcome more low- and middle-income residents.