Casay Comunidad: Latino/a/x Housing in Oregon

Overview

Casa y Comunidad: Latino/a/x Housing in Oregon, a groundbreaking oral history-based documentary, highlights the housing needs, challenges, and successes of the Latino/a/x essential workers who provide the most, yet who have access to the least. They include Latino/a/x workers in agriculture, forestry, viticulture, maritime industries, food processing, and service sectors. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, essential workers represent about 34% to 43% of the U . S . w o r k f o rc e . I n O re g o n , t h e s e circumstances are especially precarious for Latino/a/x immigrants from Mexico and Central America because they remain in precarious positions through either undocumented status or on migrant-labor visas.