AFTER YEARS OF HEATED negotiations between tenants, city officials and a private equity landlord, a large apartment complex in San Rafael’s Canal District is on course to become long-term affordable housing through a regional program designed to prevent displacement in high-cost markets.

The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority has finalized a partnership with the owner of The Meridian, a 99-unit apartment complex at 400 Canal St. The deal uses BAHFA’s Welfare Tax Exemption Preservation Program to convert at least 60 units into affordable housing, with plans to convert the remaining units soon.

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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.