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Casa Maria tries to fight redevelopment

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By Jordan Chin/El Inde

The single square-mile “Pueblo within a City” is best known for its Mexican restaurants and its population living below poverty. For forty years, a soup kitchen called Casa Maria has been helping out homeless communities. Its hardest-working volunteer, Glenda Avalos, who is also part of the Barrio Neighborhood Coalition, is working to address the immediate needs of locally displaced people.

Casa Maria volunteers clean after a morning of giving out coffee,
pan dulce and to-go bags. Photo by Jordan Chin.
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Casa Maria tries to fight redevelopment