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The entire Mutual Housing California community is saddened by the recent passing of Max Fernandez, a member of our board of directors who touched us all with his intelligence, insight and commitment to sustainable affordable housing communities.
Max was a straightforward guy who always let you know exactly how he saw things and what he thought about them – qualities that are hard to come by in a political town like Sacramento. I, for one, really appreciated it, and I know that our residents did, too. Everything that he did for us, he did with their well-being first and foremost in his mind.
A career public servant, Max had served on our board since 2015. Before that, he was the city of Sacramento’s community services director and the chief of its neighborhood services and code enforcement division. Mayor Darrell Steinberg called him “a pioneer in launching the neighborhood movement” in Sacramento.
As a building inspector, he held himself to the highest standards of integrity which he then applied to his life’s work. He was the scourge of slumlords, a man who fought for the best in the housing quality, no matter the income of the people who lived in it.