Some 60 low-income Latino families in Marin County, Calif., are getting a new home thanks to the efforts of a local nonprofit.
The Marin Independent Journal reports that the Bolinas Community Land Trust has set up an emergency camp on 20 acres in Bolinas to house the families who have been living in trailers, mobile homes, and other structures deemed "unfit for habitation" by the county.
Most of the families are low-income and include more than a dozen children.
"Our hardships have been hiding in your plain sight for two decades," one resident told the Marin County Board of Supervisors last week.
The county gave the land trust $622,000 to set up the camp, and it has already received a $500,000 loan from an anonymous donor and a $500,000 emergency permit to build a septic system on site.
"The trust, its leadership and supporters, sees a need for providing safe, healthful and sanitary places for people in their community and is doing something about it," the Marin Independent Journal states.
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