While poking around about the Sail a Small Boat Day at the Richmond Yacht Club, I was reading about the area and Rosie The Riviter and related stories. I read about the housing built for the workers at the Richmond shipyards. It is called Atchison Village. I grew up in the area, so I remember having friends that lived there. Wanna buy affordable housing? You can there, it's still a pretty ok place.



Victoria Sawicki, a San Francisco mail carrier, bought a two-bedroom home a year ago, after she was evicted from her San Francisco apartment because the owner wanted to move into the unit.



"I was looking for a community, and there's like a built-in community here, " said Sawicki, 54, who didn't imagine she would ever be able to even afford a studio. "This place is like a gift from heaven. I'm still pinching myself."