photo courtesy of Sacramento News & Review | Ashley Clark has found Folsom Oaks an inviting place while attending church and helping neighbors support each other. Photograph by Joan Cusick
In the Sacramento area, when affordable housing is done well, it changes lives
Before securing affordable housing, artist Jose DiGregorio was sleeping in his art studio. Charnelle Burdine and Ashley Clark were living on the streets. Jessie Ann Wagster and her 15-year-old chihuahua, Jake, were living “day to day” out of her car.
But gaining a safe and affordable place to live — with rent capped at 30% of their gross income — turned their lives around.
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