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Walking around Mutual Housing at Lemon Hill, you can forgive yourself for wondering if you made a wrong turn somewhere and wound up in a park rather in an affordable-housing apartment building. Over in the community room, you see about 30 smiling women twirling their arms skyward as they finish a senior fitness class. Step…
Category Archives: The Mutual Blog
Sep
20
2018
They read the report commissioned by the Sacramento chapter of the NAACP. They saw the numbers. And now, residents of Mutual Housing California are mobilizing to help solve the problem of how local school districts suspend African American male students at some of the highest rates in the state. At Mutual Housing’s quarterly residents’ meeting…
Sep
18
2018
Since her arrival in California more than 35 years ago from Grand Rapids, Mich., few people in the Golden State have been as deeply involved on housing issues or been more committed to making it accessible and affordable than Mutual Housing California Board Chair Cathy Creswell. She worked for 25 years in the state’s Department…
Sep
13
2018
Emma Middlemiss lives a half a block away from what she hopes might one day be her future. A state environmental scientist, Emma, who is 35, and who is queer, thinks about her life 25 years or more down the road, and she says she can’t think of a better place to spend it than…
Aug
30
2018
“New Harmony” is what they called it, and nearly a thousand people lived there at the peak of its popularity, in 1825, on the banks of the Wabash River in southwestern Indiana, where visionaries from all over the world gathered to experiment in the ideals of cooperative living. Nothing at New Harmony was more important…
Aug
27
2018
A strong contingent of Mutual Housing California resident members and officials stood behind Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other elected officials today to support two measures on the November ballot that promise to build more affordable housing at a time of a rental crisis for the state’s poorest citizens. With an astonishing 20 percent of…
Aug
09
2018
Like millions of people across the country, residents of six Mutual Housing California communities in Sacramento joined with their neighbors Tuesday afternoon and evening to participate in National Night Out activities. At Mutual Housing at Norwood, the community room began to fill up early in the afternoon with kids twisting balloons into body ornaments and…
Aug
08
2018
Kim Vann, the state director of Rural Development, talking to Holly Wunder Stiles, Mutual Housing Californina director of housing development, in one of the Mutual Housing at Spring Lake units. The state director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural economic development division visited the internationally-acclaimed Mutual Housing at Spring Lake development in Woodland and…
Aug
06
2018
Add Mutual Housing California to the list of agencies that want to make sure the city of Sacramento does the right thing when it comes to disposing of its surplus land. In a July 9 letter to Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the Environmental Council of Sacramento and the Sacramento Housing Alliance asked whether the city is complying…
Aug
02
2018
Sacramento voters will get one of their best chances ever to weigh in on behalf of affordable housing, and Mutual Housing California was well-represented this week when the City Council voted 7-1 to put an expanded Measure U on the municipal ballot. Before Tuesday night’s successful vote, incoming Mutual Housing board chair Cathy Creswell and…