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We are proud to announce that our Mutual Housing at Spring Lake community is included as a case study in the forthcoming book Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, published by Island Press. In this fully revised edition, co-authors Kimberly Vermeer and Walker Wells capture the rapid evolution of green building practices, using Mutual Housing California’s…
Category Archives: The Mutual Blog
Jun
29
2020
From the depths of her homelessness, Jennifer Bale willed her life onto an upward trajectory. She recovered from substance abuse. She got her kids back. She got married. She got a job and a career. Now, she’s got her own house. For nearly a decade, Jennifer lived at Mutual Housing at the Highlands, where she…
May
19
2020
With a goal of doubling its size in a short period of time, Mutual Housing California has added a new member to its board of directors who has been there and done that when it comes to handling growth for one of the country’s biggest nonprofit affordable housing developers. Corinne Morrison worked for nearly two…
May
07
2020
Once again, a team of Mutual Housing California resident advocates and activists roared out of a NeighborWorks® America training session fired up and ready to roll, this time on the related goals of political participation and the U.S. Census count. Six of our resident leaders and two Mutual Housing staff members returned from the Community…
Feb
05
2020
The Stockton City Council approved a $396,000 loan Tuesday to a partnership between Mutual Housing California and the Asian Pacific Self Development and Residential Association to renovate the 208-unit Park Village Apartments, a center of activism and resolve in the city’s Cambodian community for more than 40 years. With the city’s federal HOME Investment Partnerships…
Jan
06
2020
The first thing you notice when you walk into Carol Phillips home is that it is spotless. As a woman with a licensed cleaning business, this makes for a pretty good first impression on her resume. The second thing you find out in talking to Carol is that she cares about her neighbors, loves her…
Nov
01
2019
Hurting and suspicious when she first arrived at the Mutual Housing community in south Sacramento, Yolanda Foster has since taken a seat at the table. Her fellow residents now view her as a future leader. Three years ago, when Yolanda Foster got the call that there was an opening for a two-bedroom apartment at Mutual…
Oct
04
2019
If you walk too quickly past the Moore Village Mutual Housing Community in Davis, you just might miss it. Oak and sycamore and other trees and shrubbery surround it, hiding it in green along a quiet and curvy street, between two parks and around the corner from a golf course, in a neighborhood where more…
Sep
11
2019
After spending two years as community development director for Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Vanessa Guerra has returned to Mutual Housing California, to once again put her talents to work as a senior project manager. It’s a role that fits her well, which Vanessa, 37, proved when she helped shape the Mutual Housing at Spring Lake…
Jun
08
2019
Council votes 8-1 for bond that includes $100 million for affordable housing Mutual Housing California Board President Cathy Creswell and four other Mutual Housing officials and residents testified at a public hearing June 4 to help convince the Sacramento City Council to approve a new “inclusive economic development framework” that includes a goal of $100…