It was Angelique’s experience as a business owner, and a neighborhood activist, coupled with her earlier years as a single mother living in low-income housing, using food stamps and subsidized child care while attending law school and raising her son on her own, that gave her the perspective necessary to usher in a new day at Sacramento’s City Hall.
Too many families can’t afford their rent or mortgage — and too many of our neighbors end up unhoused on our streets. We can do better. We must.
Angelique introduced the homeless plan currently being implemented by City Hall, championed the expansion of St. John’s Women’s Shelter, helped pass policies promoting affordable housing, established the city’s housing trust fund, made the inclusionary housing ordinance apply citywide, built several affordable complexes in her district, helped fund downtown units through the Revitalization Corp, established millions of dollars annually to fund programs for women and children facing homelessness, hosted a citywide roundtable for service providers working with families experiencing homelessness, and worked to establish ongoing funding to house transition-age youth coming out of foster care.