“We can literally feel the stress in the population because so many folks are doing everything they can, working their socks off, just to be able to get by,” Lift to Rise CEO Heather Viakona shared.
The housing crisis in California has been around even before the pandemic forced an eviction moratorium across the state in 2020.
But since then, the housing crisis has been at the forefront of many people’s minds, including Heather Vaikona’s.
“Before COVID, we saw that housing insecurity was a crisis, but it was sort of difficult to articulate because what COVID really did for us is it shored up that housing is a really central and foundational issue of our own health,” Viakona explained. “If we don’t have somewhere to call home in a place that we can live, everything else suffers.
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