The Affordable Housing Complex That Could: How Community Economic Development Advocacy Secured 100 Units of Permanent Housing for Formerly Homeless Persons on Former Military Base

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When the government closes a military base, federal law requires that redevelopment of the former base take into account the economic needs of homeless persons in the affected communities. In Sacramento, California, a team of housing providers, homeless activists, and legal services and private attorneys and their supporters persevered for years against the county to establish permanent housing to formerly homeless families on a former military base that has been transformed into a thriving business park.

By Mona Tawatao From July - August 2003