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From his early years as a VISTA volunteer, to his work as a legal aid attorney, to multiple positions at the California Department of Housing and Community Development, Javor has spent almost 40 years working to improve communities and to increase access to affordable housing. His contributions include developing and implementing new housing financing programs to finance affordable rental housing construction; expansion and improvement of farm worker housing rehabilitation; and initial development of the State’s first emergency shelter operating grants program.
Javor’s advocacy on behalf of tenants, the disabled, code enforcement and lead-based paint mitigation protects the health and wellbeing of his constituents. He has provided technical, financial, and legal advice to housing nonprofits throughout the state to improve housing development and preservation activities. He has ensured the provision of educational programs for local government housing departments, associations of public and private housing stakeholders, and community associations related to housing development and neighborhood improvement.
His contributions don’t stop there. Javor also volunteers his free time with several organizations, serving on the boards of the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center, the Sacramento Housing Alliance, the Sacramento Mutual Housing Association and Sacramento Self-Help Housing.
Javor has an unwavering commitment to social justice, to revitalizing aging communities, and to fair access to affordable housing. He is creative in developing programs that increase accessibility and in making programs work to the benefit of low-income and minority populations. His work and clarity of purpose have infused the Department of Housing and Community Development and much of its staff with a sense of immediacy in meeting the housing needs of low-income people.
He works equally well with nonprofit organizations and for-profit developers, mobile home park tenants and owners, and farm workers. His passion, tenacity and commitment are an inspiration to others. His dedication to the empowerment of low-income people and to improving conditions of lower-income and disabled people is an inspiration for others to keep moving toward a vision of strong community and housing access for all.
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