Dear John,

September 15th marked the start of Hispanic Heritage Month here in the United States.

The Congressional district I live in—where I’ve lived my entire life—is 68% Hispanic, making it one of the most Latino-heavy in the country. Like many families in the San Fernando Valley, my parents immigrated here in search of a better life to raise their family.

One of my favorite things in the district is its wealth of murals and traditional Mexican art. Plaza Del Valle in Panorama City, in particular, is full of them—there are a handful of them in our new video, below!

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Screenshot from Angelica Duenas’ new campaign video. Angelica is pictured driving her car, pointing to a nearby building. The caption reads “Here is where I was born; here is all I know.” A Frida Kahlo illustration is dangling from the rearview mirror.

Murals are beautiful, but to really honor our Hispanic heritage and culture we need to take care of Hispanic people, too. Like other Latino-majority parts of LA, this is a quickly gentrifying area. Every couple blocks sees new luxury apartments getting built, and longtime residents forced out.

Based on the just-released homeless count numbers, Latinos now make up 44.5% of all homeless people in Los Angeles County, up 26% over the pandemic.

Screenshot of a headline from the news magazine LAist, which reads: “Amid Pandemic, LA Latino Communities Face Stark Increases in Homelessness.” Included is a photo of a street in Los Angeles where several unhoused people are living in tents on the sidewalk. There are many cars parked along the street and graffiti and street art on the walls of the surrounding building. The sky is overcast and the scene looks grim.

That’s a very troubling trend, an issue that I don’t see our representatives at the federal level paying much attention to at all.

Affordable housing is a big part of my platform, and a big reason why this campaign did so well in 2020. We would fight to expand investments in low-income housing, end speculation and long-term vacancies, fund public housing, and enact universal rent control.

Our culture is alive in our present, and we shouldn’t be left behind or pushed out of our communities.

If you are with me in this fight, please split a contribution between my grassroots campaign and my partner, Brand New Congress now.

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In solidarity,

Angélica Dueñas
Candidate for Congress, CA-29

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