Amie Fishman Quoted in the Christian Science Monitor

Amie Fishman was quoted in a recent Christian Science Monitor article discussing the devastating choices people are faced with when dealing with staying in or finding affordable homes.

“Frequent moving and overcrowded homes have been shown to negatively affect children’s performance in school. The stress of looking for new housing, facing foreclosure or eviction, and enduring long commutes has also been linked to health disorders. All of it – the uncertainty and stress of where to live, of how to make ends meet, pay utilities, put food on the table – these are devastating choices people have to make,” says Amie Fishman, executive director of the San Francisco-based Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California.

For those who get evicted or priced out of a neighborhood, she says, “you lose not just your home but your network, your support systems, the predictability of your life.”

Read the article here.