The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in southern Colorado needed to upgrade its aging water and wastewater system to continue to provide services to the Towaoc community and expand services to reach new customers.
In San Joaquin Valley, California, the world’s most productive agricultural area, there is an astonishing quantity of inadequate, often dilapidated housing. For most low-income, working families, the dream of homeownership is out of reach.
For many low-income, working families, the dream of homeownership is out of reach. These families who provide agricultural, hotel and tourism industry labor, and other vital services have incomes too low to qualify for traditional financing.
Ukiah, a community with more than 15,000 residents in Mendocino County, has a median household income of $42,609. More than 22 percent of households are below poverty level.
There is a severe shortage of affordable housing in St. Helena and the Napa Valley as a whole. The average price for a modest home is $950,000, which prices many out of the market, especially farmworkers.
