This is part of a series examining the Corridor and its impact in the surrounding communities, produced in partnership with the California Endowment.
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In these neighborhoods, you'll see elementary schools full of bright children whose clothes smell of fabric softener, and high schools with limited advanced placement classes, but whose students are determined to help their families succeed and survive nonetheless.
The majority of the population here is under the age of 25 and the density rivals that of Manhattan. This land used to be floodplains, farmlands split into long, narrow plots by depression-era developers.
Tiny houses were sold and rented to Oakies, the Cherokee, and the Cree, forced from their homes by dust bowls and Manifest Destiny. By the s, most of the working poor white people and Native Americans moved, going the way of the closed tire manufacturers. Latinos moved here for work and some brought their small businesses to grow along with their families.
