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Mutual Housing expands award-winning community in Woodland with 39 new Positive Net Energy homes Since they moved to California some 20 years ago to harvest the food that America eats, the one constant in the lives of Jose and Alicia Guzman has been the underlying stress of their housing instability. At the migrant labor camp…
Everybody loves a firefighter, and we at Mutual Housing California strongly support these heroes and all the other first responders who keep us safe in our communities. As someone who has been homeless due to losing my childhood home to a fire, I am particularly grateful for their service. It was very sad to see,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Five years ago, all Elizabeth Reynaga wanted for herself and her family was a bigger place to live with a lower rent to pay. She and her husband and their five kids got both when they relocated from an apartment building south of Sacramento to the mobile home that they bought at The Westerner, a…
The unfortunate fact about our free market system is that sometimes it doesn’t balance things out, and nowhere is this shortcoming of supply and demand more apparent than when it comes to housing and jobs in California. In a perfect free-market world, developers would build homes and employers would provide jobs that paid people enough…
Mutual Housing California CEO Roberto Jiménez hailed Tuesday night’s passage of Propositions 1 and 2 on the California ballot that together will provide $6 billion in affordable housing construction for veterans, low-income people, and the homeless mentally ill. Jiménez also strongly welcomed the verdict returned by Sacramento voters in favor of Measure U on the…
For a lesson in Community Organizing 101, meet Jessica Cuevas. Not long after she became the organizer at Mutual Housing on the Greenway, Jessica walked into a problem: some of the kids, as kids do and have always done, picked on each other. The maintenance tech at the Greenway saw it, and so did a…
