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
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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
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lo r more
images iro m
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farm w orker
fam ilies.
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Rose Haven
Center for women
expands to meet
the growing needs
o f women on the
streets
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