© 2024 Hawaiʻi Public Radio
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Farm Worker Housing in California

Many of the people who harvest the abundant crops in Southern California's Coachella Valley have no decent place to live. For the "Housing First" series, NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on one community's attempt to address the housing shortage for migrant workers.

Copyright 2003 NPR

Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."
More from Hawai‘i Public Radio