by Stephanie Picard Bowen | May 1, 2020 | Housing News
After 18 years of home ownership in Sebastopol, my husband and I divorced. I immediately started searching for a long term rental for my teenage daughters and me in our community. I was open to any and all options; but the odds were stacked against us. When I typed...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Apr 27, 2020 | Housing News
Bold investment in housing is necessary for individual health and our economic recovery: “during the New Deal, President Roosevelt and his advisors embraced the idea that all citizens had a right to a safe, decent and stable home—and that, with local governments...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Apr 17, 2020 | Housing News
“This pandemic is a reminder of how closely housing and healthcare are intertwined, and that the latter cannot exist when the former is not accessible and affordable.” Read the article
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Apr 13, 2020 | Housing News
Gen H board members Dev Goetchius and Larry Florin quoted in today’s @ThePressDemocrat article about the potential impact of COVID-19 on affordable housing development. Now more than ever we need to be advocating for more and more streamlined affordable housing...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Apr 6, 2020 | Housing News
“The financial shock from the coronavirus pandemic threatens the housing security of millions of Americans, prompting federal, state and local officials — and even judges and the police — to move quickly to ward off foreclosures and evictions.” See our...