A REMODELED QUADPLEX, a triplex and a couple of single-family homes are some of the properties being pursued by the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin to house displaced and ill-housed farm workers before the spring. One project in Point Reyes Station is being engineered for two lives — a temporary tiny home village and permanent affordable housing.

The trust faces a deadline of March 1. That is when 12 ranches on the Point Reyes National Seashore will close operations in accordance with a new land management plan brought by the National Park Service as part of a legal agreement with the Nature Conservancy and other groups. That January decision has led to the imminent displacement of 90 ranch workers. 

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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.