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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.…
Author Archives: Mutual Housing California
Apr
24
2019
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…
Mar
29
2019
Mutual Housing honored for voter-engagement project
Mar
29
2019
Residents take affordable housing fight to the ballot box – and win
Mar
28
2019
Mutual Housing Makes Move to Go Smoke-Free
Mar
18
2019
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…
Mar
18
2019
Learning from the best: ‘The secret’s in the sauce!’
Mar
07
2019
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…
Mar
01
2019
<p><strong>Edith Bikoba, Twin Pines</strong></p> <p>Living at Twin Pines has had a great influence on me and my family. At my old apartments, I didn’t have any friends and wasn’t familiar with my neighbors. Because there was no diversity, it was hard to relate to people. It wasn’t until I moved to Twin Pines that everything…
Feb
25
2019
Demita Pinchback grabbed onto the future. In her case, it was a steering wheel, one that belonged to a zero-emission electronic vehicle at Mutual Housing at Sky Park. In a few seconds, she would hum the Chevy Volt out of the parking lot on a test drive. In a few years, the hope is that…