An accessory dwelling unit built by Marin County students was unveiled at a ribbon-cutting Tuesday in Novato, highlighting a model that addresses the local housing shortage, helps low-income seniors, and prepares high school students for degrees in business or work in the construction trades.

It was one component of ongoing efforts by the Rebuilding Together East Bay Network, a nonprofit affordable housing facilitator that has partnered with several Bay Area high schools, local leaders, community nonprofits and the Marin Housing Authority. Benefits to the public emerge at every stage of the process.

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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.