Housing Claremont Board

Gene moved to activist retirement at Pilgrim Place in Claremont in 2004. For over 70 years, since he was a teenager, Gene has been building non-profit organizations. He has been in leadership, founder, and organizer roles in many advocacy, labor, and movement groups confronting poverty, homelessness, hunger, wars, and injustices against immigrants, low-wage workers, and marginalized voters. He has hosted, produced, or edited radio and TV series, numerous media and technology events, and publications. He has pastored congregations, led councils of churches, and participated in multi-faith regional, national, and world-level activities.

In government service, he was the founding Executive Director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the initial Administrator of the nation’s highest-funded FEMA food and shelter local board, the chair of anti-poverty boards in Los Angeles, Fresno, and Wisconsin, and a lobbyist in Washington DC, Sacramento, and Madison. He is grateful to be a musician and a loved and loving member of a large diverse family, which now includes five great-grandchildren.

Ilsa Lund is a Claremont resident who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience
working on issues related to housing and homelessness. As immediate Past President
of Housing Claremont, she has been integral to the foundation of our organization and its initiatives, with a special focus on working with stakeholders and community members to increase Claremont’s affordable housing stock.

She has worked in the non-profit field since 1996, dedicating her career to agencies in Minnesota, New York, Wyoming and California committed to addressing poverty, its impacts and its root causes. She has worked in a variety of roles at Larkin Street Youth Services since 2004, and currently serves as the Chief of Strategy. Ilsa has worked in many aspects of non-profit management, including oversight of public grants and contracts, project management, and implementation of strategic initiatives.

Nancy Treser Osgood served for a decade as an elected member of the Claremont Unified School District Board of Education, with an emphasis as an advocate for homeless students and their families. Nancy has worked in alumni relations for over 30 years (since 1989), at Claremont Graduate University, Pomona College, and Pitzer College. Her colleagues deeply appreciate her experience as a recognized expert in making institutions successful. She is frequently called upon by advancement leaders at other institutions to serve as a consultant to provide an external review of their alumni relations programs and has been a leader of The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (“CASE”), an international nonprofit association of professionals in the field of educational advancement.

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An active parent and community volunteer, Nancy has served on the boards of the Claremont Educational Foundation (CEF) and Claremont After School Program (CLASP). She attended Pomona College and the Claremont School of Theology and has been a Claremont resident since 1988.

As a longtime resident of Claremont, Lynne brings years of both professional and volunteer experience in social work to the board. She has served on Claremont’s Committee on Aging and Human Services Commission. Lynne has taken the lead in helping to form Housing Claremont’s initiatives relating to senior housing and homelessness. She is an effective volunteer political organizer and campaigner, having moved to Mount San Antonio Gardens in 2019.

Lynne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with her own consulting practice based in Claremont. She is a frequent co-author on academic articles on implementing evidence-based practices in social services. Her collaborators want you to know that it is so valuable when a board has wisdom like hers, based on broad research experience in the operating and funding of the nonprofit sector, community outreach, policy studies, and mental health programs.

After graduating from Pitzer College, Monique traveled the United States conducting research on head injuries in sports before finally settling back in Claremont with her husband to raise their four children. The family is very active in the busy and community-building world of youth sports. In 2004, she obtained her real estate broker license to help more residents become homeowners by founding Advent Property Management and Real Estate. In 2017, Monique served as a board member of Community Relations at Citrus Valley Association of Realtors, where she was selected to represent legislation to California senators and representatives to protect homeowner rights.

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At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Monique opened the doors to HOTT Homes Real Estate and Property Management and also joined the board of Housing Claremont, where she has mentored her collaborators with her insight into housing issues as they relate to buying and selling property, as well as to better understand the relationship between landlords and tenants. That expert knowledge has greatly strengthened the Board.

"As a board member, it will be my duty to motivate builders to provide affordable housing and work with the City of Claremont to write ordinances that will allocate a portion of every building to affordable housing."

Zach is a founder and former president of Housing Claremont. He became engaged in homelessness issues through volunteering for the Claremont Homelessness Advocacy Program (CHAP), having served as their grant writer. In January of 2019, he was asked by former Claremont council member Joe Lyons to spearhead creating a new non-profit, envisioned as part of the city of Claremont’s Homelessness Services Plan. The result has been the creation of Housing Claremont, focused on advocacy, education, and coordination of housing and homelessness issues in the Claremont community.

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Zach is a professor at Claremont McKenna College and a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Institute in Washington. He teaches and researches public policy, and co-directs the CMC Policy Lab. He is a former Chair of Claremont’s Traffic and Transportation Commission and served on the boards of Claremont Heritage and Pilgrim Place. Zach has mentored our interns and his colleagues on our Board in understanding housing politics and policy, and led our effort to increase Additional Dwelling Unit construction in Claremont.