After two years, a neighborhood beautification event returned to City Heights Saturday, making improvements to nine homes in the community.
"FaceLift" is an operation put together by community members, nonprofits, and corporations to give a “face lift” to homes of low-income residents in the City Heights.
Tools in hand, volunteers made home improvements to nine houses including painting, planting and parkway beautification. The work took place from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wightman Street, between 41st and 43rd streets.
The event was last held in 2014. Now, due to funding by Civic San Diego, the City Heights Housing Trust and SDG&E, the FaceLift project is operable again.
The project aims to not only beautify the exterior of the selected homes but to create and improve a lasting benefit for the community as well.
Since 1995, more than 500 homes have been beautified in City Heights through this project.
