San Diego's Affordable Housing Crisis

Anne Wilson is the Senior Vice President of Community HousingWorks, a nonprofit responsible for creating or renovating close to 3,000 affordable housing units in San Diego.  The lack of affordable housing has become a serious issue around the state; San Diego alone needs over 100,000 more affordable rental units.  Anne has a Masters Degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and upon completion, she moved to Boston  where she first tackled the issue of affordable housing.  She moved to San Diego in 1991 and became the founding director of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.  She joined  Community HousingWorks in 2002, and in 2017, she was selected as a "Community Hero" by KPBS and the National Conflict Resolution Center.