Marin County has moved one step closer to building the largest affordable development project in the unincorporated parts of the county in nearly 50 years.

It is a two-part building project targeted for working families, one of them specifically for educators. They are planned for an 8.5-acre elevated site on state-owned land that faces west on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard between San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and Drake’s Cove Road. Called Oak Hill Apartments, it is a partnership between nonprofit developers Eden Housing and Education Housing Partners. 

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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.