Affordable Housing : The Palisades development : Isidro Guzman

The heart and soul of any community is almost always with the young families that establish long term residence and lay the foundation for multi-generational presence.  

In the early 1990's a local general contractor applied for permission to build 44 single family homes in Calistoga.  The fascinating story how that developer chose to build 22 of the 44 homes as affordable, focusing on local residents and discouraging second home/investment buyers, is worth reviewing almost 30 years later.

This conversation is with Isidro Guzman, who came to Calistoga as a young man but almost 40 years later has deep roots throughout our community.  He and his wife qualified to purchase one of the 22 affordable homes in the Palisades.