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USA "Down and Still Out: Homeless in Salinas" Jay Dunn 138 images Created 18 Nov 2015

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  • Michael Barron carries young Jenifer Garcia, 5, towards the warming shelter at 20 W. Market St. in Salinas.
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  • Playtime in the parking lot for Jenifer, 5, Marlen, 7, and Iris Garcia in pink. The girls are waiting for the warming shelter to open at 20 W. Market St. in Salinas.
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  • In the car, often their mobile home, three of the girls play. From left, Brisa Garcia, 12, gathers her things for sleeping in the shelter, while sisters Jenifer, 5, and Iris, 11, check out the info on someone’s phone.
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  • Jenifer Garcia, 5, has fun “plugging in” the car in the warming shelter parking lot in Salinas.
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  • Marlen Garcia, 7, gives her mom a kiss as Brisa Garcia, 12, stands by outside the warming shelter at 20 W. Market St. in Salinas.
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  • Estela’s husband Michael Barron, waiting with the family for the warming shelter in Salinas to open.
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  • From left, Iris Garcia, 11, Estela Cardenas, and Brisa Garcia, 12, by their car as they wait for the warming shelter at 20 W. Market St. in Salinas to open.
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  • While her sisters play outside in the parking lot, Jenifer Garcia, 5, hides in the car behind her favorite toy.
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  • From left, Brisa Garcia, 12, Estela Cardenas, and young Jenifer Garcia, 5, outside the warming shelter at 20 W. Market St. in Salinas.
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  • In the front lobby of the Chinatown Health Services Center in Salinas, Nathaniel Ashlin, 11, folds a dollar bill into various shapes as his mother Joan Sassman looks on.
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  • Nathaniel Ashlin, 11, has a laugh with his mom Joan Sassman as they wait for a shower at the Chinatown Health Services Center in Salinas. Nathaniel took the day off from school to be with his mom, who wasn't feeling well.
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  • While waiting for a shower at the Chinatown Health Services Center in Salinas, Joan Sassman makes a call, and her son Nathaniel Ashlin, 11, folds a dollar bill into various shapes. By all accounts, Nathaniel is an excellent student.
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  • Shoes for Adalasia are a must near the concrete. Victoria and Ricardo are loving parents, and do their best.
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  • Adalasia is two years-old, and loves to play. The family will move on from the gas station shortly.
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  • The pale blue of this ring is Victoria's favorite color. The ten dollars in her hand was earned by recycling, and most of it will go for gas for the van.
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  • Adalasia and Ricardo chill out in the van. Ricardo works the night shift, and gets little sleep.
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  • Victoria, Adalasia, and Ricardo outside their van, temporarily parked at the Exxon station in Salinas.
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  • Time for some morning sun after a changes of clothes.
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  • Perched on the middle bench of their van, Adalasia gets a morning change of clothes.
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  • Victoria Pence changes Adalasia, 2, in their van, temporarily parked at the Exxon station in Salinas.
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  • Ricardo Zamudio takes the family's recycling for redemption at the Exxon station on N. Main St. in Salinas.
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  • Ricardo and Victoria park near the Exxon station's recycling center on N. Main St. in Salinas.
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  • Nathaniel Ashlin's portrait of his mom, Joan Sassman, taken in early April, 2017, at the warming shelter in Salinas.
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  • Nathaniel Ashlin, 11, dabs for fun after dinner at the warming shelter in Salinas in early April, 2017. Nathaniel is with his mother Joan Sassman.
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  • Nathaniel Ashlin, 11, shows off his Pokemon cards at the warming shelter in Salinas. He is there with his mom Joan Sassman.
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  • Daniela Mejia goes over her forms during Wednesday's survey.
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  • Daniela Mejia makes a quick note on her hand as she looks for encampments during the survey in Salinas.
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  • Sunrise during the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey in Salinas.
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  • In an outlying section of town, possessions in a shopping cart stand ready to move.
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  • Daniela Mejia checks her forms for accuracy during the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Michelle B. checks for homeless residents along a freeway embankment during the survey.
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  • Volunteer Michelle B. walks down a muddy path toward an encampment that had been cleared out the previous week.
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  • Volunteers Michelle B. and Daniela Mejia point out an encampment that had been cleared out the previous week.
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  • Volunteers Daniela Mejia and Michelle B. check a fence during the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Volunteer Daniela Mejia quietly checks for occupants in a vehicle on the street during the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Volunteer Daniela Mejia check ger census tract map during the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Christina Connery, left, and a volunteer coordinate at the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Volunteers check out with materials they need for the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Christina Connery, left, conducts training for volunteers at the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Volunteers check in to the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Christina Connery, left, goes over census tract maps with volunteers at the 2017 Point-In-Time Homeless Count and Survey conducted by the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers in Salinas early Wednesday morning, Jan. 25th.
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  • Volunteer Daniela Mejia walks away from an encampment early Wednesday morning.
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  • A homeless man walks by his friends early in the morning on Soledad St. in Salinas. Cold and wet weather has made lives miserable for those without shelter.
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  • On Soledad St. in Salinas, a woman drags her mattress down the middle of the street in search of a safe place to sleep.
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  • New affordable housing looms behind tents of the homeless in an alley off Market Way in Salinas.
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  • On the move just past eight in the morning, a homeless youth pushes his belongings down Market Way in Salinas.
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  • A agricultural worker from Puebla, Mexico, now out of work until the spring, survives the winter in this Salinas lot by the railroad tracks.
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  • A freight train rounds the bend by this lonely spot, home to perhaps ten homeless people in Salinas.
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  • Homeless now for two months straight, a Mexican agricultural worker in Salinas makes the wait for seasonal ag employment count by cobbling together bicycles and selling metal.
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  • Under police guard and roped-off streets, workers hired by the city of Salinas clean out homeless encampments in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • Under police guard on roped-off streets, contractors hired by the city of Salinas clean out homeless encampments on Thursday, March 24th in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • A resident moves what she can under police supervision during a sweep of homeless encampments in Salinas on Thursday, March 24th in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • Police officers patrol Soledad Street in Salinas during a sweep of homeless encampments on Thursday, March 24th in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • A Chinatown resident moves what possessions he can during a sweep by the city of Salinas of homeless encampments in the Market Way area.
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  • A family goes to check on friends during Thursday's sweep of homeless encampments in the Market Way area of Chinatown. <br />
Under police guard on roped-off streets, workers hired by the city of Salinas clean out
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  • An disconsolate elderly resident sits as workers hired by the city clean up Market Way in a sweep of homeless encampments in Chinatown.
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  • Mobile homes were subject to towing by the city of Salinas as it made a sweep of homeless encampments on Thursday, March 24th in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • Under police guard on roped-off streets, workers hired by the city of Salinas clean out homeless encampments on Thursday, March 24th in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • A resident's possessions on Market Way during a sweep of homeless encampments on Thursday, March 24th in Salinas' Chinatown.
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  • Diana Soto, center, is distraught after losing her RV on Thursday to towing by the city of Salinas. Friends are helping take care of her pets. On Thursday morning, March 24th, under police guard, contractors began to clean out homeless encampments in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • The home housing Diana Soto, Angel Menchaca, and their two small dogs is towed away by the city of Salinas in a sweep of homeless encampments on Thursday, March 24th in the Market Way area of Chinatown.
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  • Protesters and Chinatown residents block Soledad Street from trucks commissioned by the city to clean up the area on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016.
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  • City officials debate what to do after protesters and Chinatown residents blocked Soledad Street from trucks commissioned by the city to clean up the area on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016.
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  • Protesters and Chinatown residents block Soledad Street from trucks commissioned by the city to clean up the area on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016.
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  • Protesters and Chinatown residents block Soledad Street from trucks commissioned by the city to clean up the area on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016.
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  • Protesters and Chinatown residents block Soledad Street from trucks commissioned by the city to clean up the area on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016.
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  • Looking along Soledad St. towards Market Way in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • Looking down Soledad St. towards Market Way in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • American flags along Market Way in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • Tents covered with tarps help protect residents from winter weather in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • Looking down Market Way in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • Looking down Market Way in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • Looking toward Soledad St. on Market Way in the Chinatown area of Salinas on March 8, 2016.
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  • At the Chinatown Learning Center on Wednesday, March 2nd, Attorney Anthony Prince briefs members of the press on the state of a lawsuit filed on the behalf of the homeless in Salinas.
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  • Early Sunday morning on the corner of Market Way and Soledad in Salinas, homeless gather to warm in the sun.
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  • Seen with a long lens from Pajaro Street and Market in Salinas, "The Forgotten" is at least thirty feet long and was installed by art group C3 using a scissor jack.
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  • From left, homeless advocates William Silas, Van Gresham, attorney Anthony Prince, Frank Alvarado Sr. (holding sign) Elizabeth Madrigal, and Wes White in front of City Hall Tuesday.
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  • Diana Soto, 60, in the doorway of the mobile home she shares with Angel Menchaca and their two dogs in Salinas' Chinatown.
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  • Salinas City Councilmember Jose Castañeda speaks on behalf of 83 year-old Epifania Dumpit, who is homeless. At her side is William Silas, also homeless.
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  • John Lerma asks for understanding from those attending the First Annual Salinas King Day Justice Rally in Salinas' Chinatown on Monday. Listening are Wendy Aispuro, his wife, and attorney Anthony Prince.
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  • A bleak scene in mid-November, 2015, on Market Way looking toward Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown.
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  • A relative of a homeless Chinatown resident tries to make what he can out of a collapsed structure on Market Way in Salinas.
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  • From the top of a landscaping truck, Monday's scene at 38 Soledad St. in Salinas' Chinatown.
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  • Private contractors hired by the city of Salinas clear out the possessions of homeless people residing on the property of 38 Soledad St.
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  • A private contractor surveys the remaining tents along the side of 38 Soledad St. in Salinas.
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  • A child takes temporary refuge from this morning's eviction at Diana Soto's RV.
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  • Residents keep their possessions together during Monday's eviction at 38 Soledad St.
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  • Private contractors hired by the city of Salinas clear out the possessions of homeless people residing on the property of 38 Soledad St.
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  • Residents of 38 Soledad St. hurry to break down their tents on Monday.
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  • Fencing along the back of 38 Soledad St, target of a clearance action by the city of Salinas on Monday, October 5th, 2015.
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  • Soledad St. resident William Silas, 65, who has formally asked the city for a public forum on homelessness in Salinas.
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  • Residents exit the area in advance of Monday's eviction at 38 Soledad St. in Salinas.
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  • Many residents were saddened by the morning's evictions at 38 Soledad St. in Salinas.
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  • Safe for now along the railroad tracks, a resident watches the evictions.
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  • A tiny piece of home in the lot next to 38 Soledad St. in Salinas.
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  • A scene of confusion and abject misery on Monday morning in Salinas' Chinatown, as private contractors hired by the city of Salinas clear out the possessions of homeless people residing on the property of 38 Soledad St.
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  • Private contractors tear down the fencing at 38 Soledad St in Salinas.
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  • Homeless, but still proud in Salinas.
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  • Homeless residents of Chinatown whose tents were on the front lot and alley next to 38 Soledad St., a private property, were evicted on Monday morning, October 5th by contractors hired by the city of Salinas. While their living conditions were clearly a public health hazard, no accommodation is apparently being made for their possessions or future place to live.
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