Community Story
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Marvina Tatum, Housing Works Client
Housing Works client Marvina Tatum is featured in the “Fashion Saved My Life” campaign to promote Fashion for Action 2008.
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David Cohen, Board Chair, Housing Works, Inc.
“Housing Works is one of the most ambitious AIDS organizations in the world.”
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Alan Light, Board Cochair, Housing Works Bookstore Café
“Live from Home concerts bring new people into the Bookstore. That’s rewarding.”
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Jill Devoe, Volunteer
“It makes sense to let people be themselves and be human and get basic care.”
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Miguel Mendez, Housing Works Senior Vice President of Operations
“In the late 80s and early 90s, most of my friends and family were getting AIDS and dying of AIDS”
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Vivian Lopez Ponce, Housing Works client
“Housing Works support groups remind me I’m not the only one who went through hell.”
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Norma Reinhardt Mascarotti, Thrift Shops Volunteer
“I had worked all my life and still wanted to be involved in something.” -
Ayana Mortley, Thrift Shops Volunteer
“We have to take care of people who have HIV but also prevent infections.”
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Derrick Chandler, Housing Works Peer Advocate and Client
“I’m still alive and here from what I learned at Housing Works.”
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Alison Richards, Women’s Health Center client
“I was in denial. I didn’t want to hear that I had HIV.”
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Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works
“No matter what we’ve accomplished, to me, Housing Works remains a healing community.”
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Denise Gordon, Board Member, Housing Works, Inc.
“You always ask yourself how you can help people. This was something close to home where I felt I could give back.” -
Johnny Guaylupo, Housing Works Intake Coordinator
“People come in who are homeless or just out of jail…and I’m the first person they see.”
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Robin Bluford, Housing Works Administrative Assistant
“Housing Works Job Training Program challenged me to rise to the occasion. It showed me I could stand on my own two feet.”
