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  • August 2010 Issue
  • Story by Geraldine Warner
  • Farmworker housing opens in Othello

    The development provides clean space for families who were formerly served by an unlicensed camp.

    [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] The Othello Housing Authority’s new Lugar Seguro (Safe Place) housing development has 19 units designed to accommodate 96 farm­workers and family members. Each unit has two or three bedrooms, a bathroom, and fully equipped kitchen. The development has an on-site ­manager. The Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing, in Yakima, Washington, helped the Housing Authority to develop the project, which opened this summer. ORFH Executive Director Marty Miller said the Washington Department of Health’s closure of […]

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