Sacramento Needs 63,000 New Rental Units, Housing Nonprofit Says
Author Archives: Mutual Housing California
With CA’s most closely watched housing bill on life support, what’s next?
Charlie Burres, The Westerner I was born in Stockton in 1932. My wife was born in Miami, OK 10 years later. I am of sound mind and beat up body, 78 years old, and still enjoying every day that I am able to. Most of my life I have been a carpenter and cabinet maker.…
For two years, Jeremiah Russell and his younger sister and his mother and father coped with a predicament – the predicament of homelessness. They had been living in a perfectly stable situation in south Sacramento. Both parents worked, and they made plenty enough money to pay the rent. Then, the bad news – the value…
Mutual Housing honored for voter-engagement project
Residents take affordable housing fight to the ballot box – and win
Mutual Housing Makes Move to Go Smoke-Free
Julia Chandler bore so much pain. Abandoned on the streets at age 15, her destitution led to prostitution. She gave birth to a son who had a stroke when he was six months old and who never walked or spoke and who died young. Then came the drug use and the eventual addiction, and a…
Learning from the best: ‘The secret’s in the sauce!’
She came to America at the age of 2, the daughter of Hmong refugees, herself a refugee, born in a refugee camp in Thailand. She grew up in a home where reading the books that she loved was considered a waste of time spent better on necessities such as cooking and cleaning. She prevailed on…