Source: Suzy Khimm, NBC NEWS, 9/23/19

 After days spent harvesting beans, bagging sugar and driving tractors in the blistering heat, the farmworkers return to decaying homes. The residents of the Okeechobee Center in Belle Glade have mold creeping up their walls and ceilings riddled with holes. One mother reported roaches crawling over her infant’s face. Sewage was found leaking onto the ground outside the squat concrete buildings. These broken-down homes were built with money from U.S. taxpayers. The Okeechobee Center is part of the country’s biggest federal housing complex for farmworkers, and is supported by federal subsidies that help cover some poor families’ rent. 

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