{"id":248221,"date":"2026-04-02T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248221\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:15:11","slug":"san-diego-seniors-turn-to-local-nonprofit-to-survive-rising-rent-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248221\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego seniors turn to local nonprofit to survive rising rent costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 Between gas and rent, the cost of living in San Diego continues to rise, leaving some residents struggling to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>In Logan Heights, a local nonprofit says the need for services is increasing, with seniors at the center of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A fall last year left San Diego resident Brenda Scales with more than just injuries. Medical bills pushed her finances to the edge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After paying my, um, bill, for my hospital bills, I couldn&#8217;t keep up with my rent,&#8221; Scales said.<\/p>\n<p>Scales turned to 2-1-1, which connected her to the Logan Heights Community Development Corporation. The organization connects residents with resources, including financial solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you fall down, and you feel like you&#8217;ve fallen all the way to the bottom and lost everything that you have. It&#8217;s hard to try to fix that, and you&#8217;d, if you don&#8217;t know where to go,&#8221; Scales said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a lot of resources, and you have to put pride aside sometimes and go use them,&#8221; Scales said.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit says stories like hers are becoming more common. In the past year, they have seen a noticeable increase in people walking through their doors, many of them seniors living on fixed incomes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If costs increase like rent, gas prices, they have a harder time in spending money on those things because there&#8217;s not a way for them to increase their income,&#8221; Director of Economic Development William Burties said.<\/p>\n<p>For many, the biggest challenge is keeping up with rent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been helping a lot of clients who have been coming in and their income is here, and their rent is here, and it didn&#8217;t start off that way,&#8221; Burties said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization helps clients rework their budgets, cut back on expenses, and find ways to stay afloat. With prices still climbing, they expect the need to keep up as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are planning on helping more families that are in need, and we&#8217;re focusing on making sure we provide the right resources and connections for them,&#8221; Burties said.<\/p>\n<p>Burties said the best way the community can help is by pointing someone in need in their direction.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 Between gas and rent, the cost of living in San Diego continues to rise,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[110763,24816,110764,74,110765,76,75,110766],"class_list":{"0":"post-248221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-211-resources","9":"tag-logan-heights","10":"tag-logan-heights-community-development-corporation","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-cost-of-living","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-senior-financial-help"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}