Jaques Kaswan

Jacques and I co founded TNDC ( Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation) which has grown to be the most successful nonprofit housing corporation in SF.
JAQUES was my mentor and rabbi plus a super mensch that taught me so much about life. He is so missed even to this day.

Thanks for your phone call, Alice. I remember many conversations with Jaques, about many things but politics and the state of the country often manifested. He was a visionary who worked to right what he saw as wrongs--and there were many of those.

Jack Foley

I was greatly saddened to hear of Jacques' passing. Although I did not personally know him well, Jacques played an important part in TNDC's founding and early history. He exhibited the values and ideals that shaped TNDC, and we are grateful for his contribution. He will be missed.

Thirty-five years ago, Jaques was a pioneer in the development of housing cooperatives in Berkeley and the Bay Area. Later, he helped found the Arizmendi Bakery worker collectives. In helping people live and work cooperatively, Jaques was kind, keen, and persistent. We see his legacy all around. Thank you, dear friend Jaques, for your life and work.

Jack Sawyer, Ph.D., President
Parker Street Foundation
Berkeley, California

An amazing man who was my partner and mentor for many years as we gave birth to Tenderloin neighborhood devolpment corporation and other housing co-ops. In many ways a Jewish Saint of the first orderq

My wife Nadya and I have such warm and wonderful memories of Jaques. He was my doctoral dissertation advisor at The Ohio State University and was so monumentally helpful and kind that our oldest son, Deryck D'Arcy Jaques, is named partially after Jaques. Thus, he will always be remembered by us. What a lovely man he was!

Our deepest condolences to the family: you are, and will be, in our thoughts.

(My great friend, classmate, and one of my graduate school roommates, Jill...