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About Street roots. (Portland, OR) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (May 24, 2013)
Angelica Perez, holding her infant daughter Brittany, stands in the studio apartm ent she and her partner Fidel Cervantes share with their fo u r children. This room serves as the fam ily room, storage and bedroom fo r the entire family. A pictorial on immigrant farmworkers and housing in rural Oregon - regon is a bountiful state. We are without health insurance and have limited access to health care produce 220 crops and livestock commodities, a providers. greater variety than any state except Topping the list of needs, however, Florida and California. The value of is housing. Only a small fraction of these crops and commodities totalled the state’s farmworkers live on state- more than $5 billion in 2011, a record registered farmworker camps. The high. Farmworker Housing Development As consumers, we can shop row Corporation, a nonprofit based in upon row of premium produce, meats Woodburn, is working to fill the and other products, most of us with enormous deficit, building little thought about who makes that community-based properties to possible — the roughly 90,000 provide stable, supportive housing for migrant and seasonal farmworkers this vital labor force. who work in Oregon each year. In this edition, Street Roots For them, Oregon’s agricultural presents the first of a two-part photo industry presents a much different experience. Farmworkers, nearly all series by photographer Alan Borrud of them immigrants, receive nonimal illustrating the FHDC housing pay for labor-intensive work, suffer community of Oregon farmworkers. food insecurity and hunger, and most See LAND OF PLENTY, page Photos by Alan Borrud O Page 7 A conversation with Roberto Jimenez about the challenges and opportunities in housing for Oregon farmworkers. Poverty’s power voice Finding peace, inside and out The N ations Greg K aufm ann dispells the myths about poverty in America Yoga instructor draws on her own experiences to help others heal Page 3 Page 4 See pages 7-9 lo r more images iro m the lives ©1 farm w orker fam ilies. 38 $ 7 Rose Haven Center for women expands to meet the growing needs o f women on the streets Page 5
