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The Workers Missing From America’s Housing Crisis

The Workers Missing From America’s Housing Crisis

by zhenjia.zhang | May 13, 2025 | Featured, Housing, immigrant

At 6 a.m. on a chilly April morning, Luis C, a 46-year-old migrant construction worker from Chile, was waiting for the path train to Journal Square in Jersey City to start work. Two years ago, he came to the U.S. with his wife and their 4-year-old daughter on a...

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