Arlene G. Linder
Candidate for City Council Member, Rohnert Park, District 5 · Retired Artist
Arlene Linder is a San Francisco native who previously owned homes in Marin County with her late husband, an attorney. After he died in 2015 following an illness that depleted their savings, she moved out of state to live near family before returning to the North Bay in 2025. She now lives at Altamont Apartments, an affordable senior housing community in Rohnert Park, and describes herself as a retired artist.
Positions in brief
Linder's public profile centers on her own experience finding affordable senior housing, which she has spoken about in local coverage of the region's housing costs.
Describing her family's financial hardship after her husband's illness, Linder said, "We did everything we're supposed to do. And then he got sick. This is what happens when you get old." On the cost of housing after returning to California, she said, "I never thought I'd be this old. And you never expect the prices to be what they are today."
On the issues
- Housing & Homelessness
Speaks from personal experience about the difficulty of finding affordable housing as a widowed retiree.
“I never thought I'd be this old. And you never expect the prices to be what they are today.”
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