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No Refuge From the Fields: Findings From a Survey of Farmworker Housing Conditions in the United States

No Refuge From the Fields: Findings From a Survey of Farmworker Housing Conditions in the United States
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Reports on a survey of farmworker housing, which found that structural problems, broken appliances, and overcrowding were common. The survey collected information on 4,625 housing units occupied by farmworkers. There were 1,592 cases in the Eastern migrant stream, 1,367 in the Midwestern migrant stream, and 1,666 in the Western migrant stream. These units housed 24,433 people, of which 16,301 were adults and 8,132 were children. Children were present in almost 69 percent of the units examined

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Reports on a survey of farmworker housing, which found that structural problems, broken appliances, and overcrowding were common.

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