LANDSCAPE Marin City is located in Marin County 7 miles north of San Francisco and sites on the northwest border of Sausalito and west of Mill Valley, California. 

The Marin City Legacy dates back to the Marin Ship days where migrant workers from across the nation can to help build ships of the WWII effort.  

Marin City is a significantly diverse unincorporated area that harbors a  long history and multi-cultural evolution that has shape Marin City into what it is today.  

More detail information we be made available in the near future; but for the purposes of this site and the ISOJI mission we must focus on the here and now.   

Our purposes and mission is guided by the need for permanent systemic community transformation and our work reflects the accomplishments that are taking us in that direction. 

Marin City is composed of 4 loosely connected socio-economic sectors which gives the community its statistical characteristics.  The sectors range from the only public housing land-housing in the county with an average household income of approx 16K annually.  

There is a middle section of the community called "the bowl" which is occupied by apartments and town home, 40% of which are classified as affordable. 

Circling the "bowl" are the older pole homes and coop apartments.  Beyond that the pole homes are the "headlands" which is the more affluent section of the community. Diversity stops in the headlands.  Approx 96% White, many headland residents refer to themselves as living in Sausalito in order to maintain higher real estate values.  

The Marin City or Gateway shopping center is a retail business that is jointly owned by the Marin City Community Land Corporation and Smart Growth Fund.  The Center is currently being sold in its entirety to an independent investor which means the ownership of the lands will change hands from the community to an outside investor. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE SECTOR

Like most communities, Marin City has three constellatons of overarching concerns, authority and responsibility.  They are (1) The Goverment/Civic Sector, (2) Economic Empowerment-Development Sector, and (3) the Human (People) Development (e.g. education, health, job creation, child care and development, )

Key organizations include the following

• CSD -- Community Services District (Government)
• CDC -- Economic Development Corporation
• CLC -- Communtity Land Corporation
• Golden Gate Public Housing
• Spiritual Community -- St Andrew Presbyterian Church
• Spriitual Community -- Village Baptist Church
• Spiritual Community -- Cornerstone Community Church
• SPiritual Community -- First Missionary Baptist Church
• Spiritual Community -- People's Fellowship Church
• Spiritual Community -- Gospel Fellowship Church
• The Marin City Network -- youth empowerment
• Women Helping All People 
•  The Scholastic Academy
• The Sausalito School District 
• The Marin City Health & Wellness Center 
• The Manzanita Child Care Center  (CAM)
  
• The Marin City Library 
• Several Local Housing Association
• Manzanita Child Development Center
• The Learning Center
• 0-5 School Readiness Program
• The Scholastic Academy
• The Phoenix Project -- Youth empowerment
• The Marin City Recreation Department
• Marin City Senior Center 
• ISOJI (e-so-gee)
• Grassroots Leadership Network
• The Phoenix Project
• Performing Stars of Marin
• Family Service Agency 
• The Floating Homes (boat homes)
• more to be added

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