Mutual Housing with Jeffrey Callison

June 7, 2011

In Sacramento, people need to earn almost $20 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment, yet the average hourly wage for area renters is a little more than $14.

Today on Insight, you'll hear about a local housing project that's trying to help. Mutual Housing provides training and mentoring as well as educational programs, community-building activities and services for residents and neighbors.

We'll talk about it with Rachel Iskow, Sacramento-Yolo Mutual Housing Association Executive Director, and Mindy Romero, the new chair of the Board of Directors of Mutual Housing and a resident of Tremont Green, one of Mutual Housing's communities in Yolo County.

Click below to listen.

Mutual Housing develops and operates well-designed rental housing for modest-income households in Sacramento and Yolo counties. The communities have 2,600 residents, half of whom are children.  

Through Mutual Housing’s focus on leadership, the nonprofit also provides training and mentoring as well as educational programs, community-building activities and services for residents and neighbors.  

For more information, visit www.mutualhousing.com.