California Attorney General Rob Bonta marked National Fair Housing Month at a public address in Oakland this week, as the state Legislature considers whether to strengthen his enforcement powers over cities.

Bonta was surrounded by residents and small business owners Thursday at Casa Sueños, a new 181-unit affordable housing development. It was built through a partnership with nonprofit developers BRIDGE Housing and The Unity Council. The project is part of a mixed-use development adjacent to BART called the Fruitvale Transit Village. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.