The neighborhood retains its share of elderly residents - many of them longtime low-income immigrants - and of jet-setters who live in showpiece apartments.
Ayuda Ayuda's mission is to protect the rights of low-income immigrants in the DC metropolitan area.
In many cases, authorities say, the telephone bandits market their stolen long-distance service to low-income immigrants who want to call home cheaply.
Ayuda provides of multilingual legal and social services for low-income immigrants in the areas of immigration, human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault.
And he questions the capacities of low-income immigrants to assimilate into America's largely middle-class culture as rapidly as preceding generations did.
Rev. Gannett encouraged it to become more involved with its downtown neighborhood of low-income immigrants.
This arbitrary 5-year waiting period leaves vulnerable, low-income legal immigrants uninsured, requiring them to delay medical care until their condition worsens.
What is happening in suburban districts, they say, is the unwillingness of taxpayers to pay extra for bilingual programs, which benefit low-income immigrants.
Moreover, low-income immigrants are over two times more likely to lack health insurance than low-income citizens.
Many low-income Spanish-speaking immigrants settled in traditionally low-income areas of Houston inside Loop 610.