An aerial image of Golden Gate Village in Marin City on Monday, Dec. 31, 1979. The traditional public housing property was built in 1961 to house Marin City workers, many of them African American shipbuilders, after World War II. The property is in line for an estimated $266.6 million revitalization beginning in January 2026. (Marin Housing Authority via Bay City News)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting public comments by Feb. 20 on one corner of the renovation of the historic Golden Gate Village housing complex in Marin City. The area falls within a designated flood plain, thus federal rules require its own public comment.
Built in 1961 and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protege Aaron Green, Golden Gate Village was created to house workers after World War II. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the community includes 300 low-income families.
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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.
Public comment sought on floodplain improvements at historic Marin City complex
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting public comments by Feb. 20 on one corner of the renovation of the historic Golden Gate Village housing complex in Marin City. The area falls within a designated flood plain, thus federal rules require its own public comment.
Built in 1961 and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protege Aaron Green, Golden Gate Village was created to house workers after World War II. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the community includes 300 low-income families.
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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.
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