MARIN COUNTY WILL FUNNEL about $2.3 million in federal funds, and additional state and local funds, to affordable housing developments, facility improvements and services for low-income residents, the board of supervisors decided Tuesday.

Part of the funds come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grants, which are given to states and local governments to meet housing and service needs of people with low- and moderate-incomes. The county received $1.6 million in block grant funding. It also received $676,000 in HUD’s HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which are used for activities like building, buying and rehabilitating housing and tenant-based rental assistance.

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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.