In the News: Plan for emergency housing in Bolinas comes at right time

“The Bolinas Community Land Trust’s creation of emergency housing on a large parcel off Mesa Road is an example of a community taking care of its own.

The temporary camp, consisting of 27 new recreational vehicles, is providing safe and sanitary housing for many of the local labor families living in substandard housing on Tacchera ranchland. Most of those estimated 60 residents are low-income Latino families, including more than a dozen children.

The need is clear.

As one resident put it at last week’s Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting, “Our hardships have been hiding in your plain sight for two decades.” Through an interpreter, Ingris Lopez Hernandez said she and others – many of them local agricultural workers – endured the poor living conditions because they feared they would lose what they had.”

by the Marin IJ Editorial Board for the Marin Independent Journal