“These older apartment complexes are actually affordable. It’s inhumane conditions, like either the heating doesn’t work, old system, mold and whatnot, and no one really complains because they’re afraid if they get kicked out, where are they going to live? They can’t afford anywhere else. So I understand they always say that they have a couple of apartments that are like affordable housing or whatnot that’s like rent control, but I feel that that’s not enough in this neighborhood. Because most of the people there, they don’t make enough to be able to afford that rent.”

“My priority is really the rent. My parents help but I can’t… nothing, just the rent money has to be there because I’ve seen how they yell at my neighbors.”

“The biggest issue was the employment issue that I was talking about earlier... the easiest way to fix that is like if we give all the undocumented migrants work authorization almost immediately. That’d help a lot. Cause what you’ve done now is like you have a thousand men here who are willing to like, who can’t really legally work. So like you’re willing to work for illegal amounts, right? So like, maybe they’re willing to work for like $10 or $15 an hour and like, as a result, like at least 5 or 6 people I know have lost jobs just cause, like if they used to clean, or if they used to like, you know, just do some sort of a small job in a store, or something like they almost always get like bid out. So like, I think just giving worker authorization so they could work legally and, like, you know, support themselves. ”