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Marin City affordable housing site sparks fears of gentrification

By Ruth Dusseault • Bay City News

February 24, 2026

In about the same number of days it takes to mail a box of books from coast to coast, a 5-story prefabricated building has risen in Marin City.

The Drake Avenue Apartments sit like a monolith between three Black cultural spaces — Manzanita Recreation Center, George “Rocky” Graham Park and the Village Oduduwa adult living facility.

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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.