Applications dropped from a high of 1,445 during the first week of April to 526 the last week of May, according to data from the Department of Local Affairs. The money is designed to help renters and landlords still dealing with the economic impacts of the pandemic.
KUNC Ana Gomez (left) sits down to get her COVID-19 vaccine at the Boys and Girls Club in Fort Collins on May 1, 2021.
On a recent Saturday morning, the local Boys and Girls Club in Fort Collins hosted an all-out vaccine party in its gymnasium. A mariachi band serenaded patients. Volunteers served fresh churros and horchata.
But behind the cinnamon sugar and celebratory mood was a small army of community organizers with an urgent mission: Get as many Hispanic and Latino residents as possible immunized against COVID-19, and help close wide disparities within Colorado’s ongoing vaccine rollout.
“We’ve seen the struggle of our community in the last year,” said Jesús Castro, an organizer with the group Fuerza Latina. “So we wanted to make something nice, like a reunion.”
Fort Collins considers creating legal defense fund for immigrants
Fort Collins leaders are considering a pilot program that would fund legal assistance for immigrants, potentially addressing the significantly heightened risk of deportation for community members in immigration proceedings who can’t afford an attorney.
The program may involve city funding for regional nonprofits to provide free representation for a small number of qualifying Fort Collins immigrants who are going through deportation proceedings, who arrived in the United States unaccompanied, or who need help applying for citizenship or other legal residency, among other things. Forty-two other municipalities throughout the country, including Denver, have similar programs with varying mechanisms for funding.
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A pandemic year in the life of a New York City block
“Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park.
People gathered for a “Unity March Against Hate” in Sunset Park in Brooklyn on March 14.
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Jesús Delgado and three of his employees are making tortillas like they’ve been doing every day for the past month. One feeds a giant ball of fresh masa into the metal mouth of a tortilla machine, while two more stack the puffy, steaming rounds that roll out onto a conveyor belt. A fourth man weighs and packages the stacks for the customers, who will come from down the block, or as far away as Maryland or Pennsylvania, to buy them from Tortilleria La Malinche. The Sunset Park tortilleria is one of the only places in Brooklyn that actually makes them fresh.