‘I won’t let them drink the water’: The California towns where clean drinking water is out of reach |
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Christina Velazquez runs the water at the highest pressure in her Pixley home on Sept. 4, 2024. Velazquez doesn’t let her family drink the water because of contamination of local wells. |
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Sherry Hunter stands outside on the porch of her home in Allensworth on Sept.4, 2024. The community of Allensworth has been dealing with an ongoing issue of arsenic leaking into its wells, one of which consistently exceeds state health limits. |
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Is Berkeley’s Aquatic Park on the brink of a new era? |
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Sunset at Aquatic Park on Aug. 1, 2024. Aquatic Park, the West Berkeley public park along Interstate 80, and its artificial mile-long lagoon have been at the center of different and sometimes clashing visions about its future. |
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California is expensive and we have to make difficult decisions to survive |
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Lyssette Mendoza stands for a portrait near her new apartment, where she lives with her eldest daughter, on July 1, 2024. Mendoza and her eldest daughter live in a spare apartment owned by her former boss. She worries that the deal she struck with her old boss might end any month and force her back on the apartment market.
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Homeless students can sleep safely in their cars at this California college. Other campuses say no |
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Brad Butterfield pauses after checking the top of his RV for leaks in Arcata on Aug. 24, 2024. Due to the high cost of education, Butterfield lived in his vehicle on campus at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt until the university banned students from doing so in the fall of 2023. Now, Butterfield parks in the city of Arcata, which requires him to move his vehicle every 72 hours or receive a ticket. |
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These handwritten notes reveal human cost of S.F.’s aggressive homeless sweeps |
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Justin Frank, 28, sits next to what is left of his and his neighbor’s belongings after San Francisco Public Works street cleaners took their belongings in the morning, which included his medication on Aug. 7, 2024. |
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Marlon Arostegui, who moved from Nicaragua due to the country’s political turmoil, stands next to his RV that he has been living in for the past several years in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. “I’m grateful for the support."
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Inland Empire Resource Center celebrates new location in San Bernardino |
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Photo by Aryana Noroozi/Black Voice News/CatchLight Local/Report for America |
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From left: HUD Counselor Ernest Diaz, Executive Director Linda Jackson, San Bernardino Mayor Helen Tran and Senior Representative Michael Townsend (D-50th District) celebrate the grand opening of the new Inland Empire Resource Center in San Bernardino. The organization supports financial literacy through housing education and counseling. |
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