Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Migrant Housing
Clip: Season 12 Episode 6 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
To qualify for one of California's migrant housing camps, workers must follow strict rules.
In the spring, migrant farm workers arrive to one of California's 24 migrant housing centers to try to "win" the apartment lottery. If they and their family are lucky enough, they have to follow the rules of the state in order to live there, including moving 50 miles away once the center closes for the season, leaving school-age children with only a part-year education.
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Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Migrant Housing
Clip: Season 12 Episode 6 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
In the spring, migrant farm workers arrive to one of California's 24 migrant housing centers to try to "win" the apartment lottery. If they and their family are lucky enough, they have to follow the rules of the state in order to live there, including moving 50 miles away once the center closes for the season, leaving school-age children with only a part-year education.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipJOHN VALERA: There's three basic requirements for someone to live in a migrant camp.
Number one is their income must come from agriculture, at least 50% of their income.
And obviously, they have to be eligible to work in the United States.
Also, during the offseason, they have to bring proof that they've been living at least 50 miles, or further away, from this camp.
So anywhere, even Roseville, is more than 50 miles.
Los Angeles, Bakersfield, anywhere.
(stammers) A lot of families go back to Mexico.
They go back to Texas.
But they have to bring three proofs that they were more than 50 miles away.
Could be anything.
A receipt from a cell phone or light bill receipt, cable bill, uh, gas station receipt.
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