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Article: Growers Find Constructive Solution to Housing -- Sense of community, desire for skilled labor prompt investment in Hood River dwellings
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- September 20, 1999
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HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) - 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