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Article: HOOD RIVER FARM-WORKER HOUSING DEFIES `STANDARD'.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 21, 1999
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Camille Hukari hasn't torn down the shack because it reminds her of the horrific conditions that used to exist here for migrant workers.
A crude home built in the mid-1930s for farm workers, the shack was converted to a storage shed when Hukari built apartment-style dwellings for laborers on her 60-acre pear farm in 1971.
The contrast says a lot about Hood River County, home to nearly half of Oregon's 300 registered farm-labor camps. County farmers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on worker housing, guaranteeing a skilled work force.
How can so many Hood River growers do what other farmers cannot or will not do? And why would they?
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