[image.png] [image.png] [image.png] Dear Mayor Taylor & City of Menlo Park, Thousands and thousands of people want to address the challenge of homelessness in our day; especially for seniors, especially for homeless Vets. Valley View Senior Housing is one of the most exciting communities in the USA to address and fulfill this burgeoning need. Today, governments know the why; now they can know the how. Homelessness challenges us nation-wide, and its solution can be approached through local governments, as shown here. If you are motivated to get a new affordable housing project built in your locale, A Solution to Homelessness in Your Town: Valley View Senior Housing, Napa County, California, is the place to start. To support this colorful, well-documented and, most importantly, activist book, please consider purchasing an advance copy. The final copy will be out for distribution in two months (for $29.95). This advance copy is available, including shipping cost, for $25. Herein describes how the small town of American Canyon, CA, prepared, launched, and fulfilled their intention to healthfully house folks otherwise without housing. Charles Durrett is an architect of affordable, socially responsible housing, who has made major contributions to community-based architecture. He has designed over a hundred affordable housing projects and has consulted on many more worldwide. He is the principal architect at McCamant & Durrett Architects, based in Nevada City, CA. His work has been featured in Time, New York Times, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Architecture, Architectural Record, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and a wide variety of other publications. He has spoken twice in front of the U.S. Congress regarding affordable housing. He devotes his time, vision, and activism to new affordable housing developments. He has authored about a dozen other popular books about housing. Durrett wrote A Solution to Homelessness in Your Town right in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. While an inordinate number of homeless people in this country are already extremely vulnerable, for them, Covid-19 has been horror on top of horror. After all, those in homeless straits have no place to shelter-in-place. Built in 2019 in American Canyon, CA, Valley View Senior Housing is an affordable senior housing community consisting of 70 cottages with an average of 500ft2. It would not be surprising if no resident dies from the effects of Covid-19 at Valley View Senior Housing because they have come into a healthy place to shelter, practice distancing, but not be isolated, and within a community setting that encourages each other to stay healthy. Residents are successfully sheltering-in-place—because they have a place. On the day of this writing, 70 residents of a homeless emergency shelter in San Francisco tested positive for Covid-19. On this same day, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that, in total, 60,000 homeless in California will be ill-affected by the virus. All 16 funders came to the groundbreaking, giddy to be a part of this critical solution. One new resident bespoke at the grand opening, “you know that freeway you guys drove in on? I was under that freeway for more than six years, and I’m a Vietnam veteran, and now I have a home.” We invite you to help us launch this ground-breaking book, and by extension, it's important work, by sending $25 for this advance copy, to the address below: McCamant & Durrett Architects 241 B Commercial St. Nevada City, CA 95959 Or available at www.cohousingco.com http://www.cohousingco.com/ > Thank you for your interest and consideration. This can be replaced ? By this? [image.png] [image.png] [image.png] [image.png] [image.png] [image.png] Matt, the Vietnam Vet. Charles R. Durrett Principal Architect - AIA McCamant & Durrett Architects The Cohousing Company 241-B Commercial Street Nevada City, CA 95959 530-265-9980 office 916-716-6721 cell phone www.cohousingco.com http://www.cohousingco.com > (image/png attachment: image.png ) (image/png attachment: 02-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 03-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 04-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 05-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 06-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 07-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 08-image.png ) (image/png attachment: 09-image.png )
