Yulisa and her partner, Guillermo, stand among a cluster of volunteers, preparing for a day of touch-up paint. When she looks around, though, Yulisa sees beyond the baseboard in need of an extra coat of white.
“I’m excited about just how hopeful I am that things are going to get better for my family,” she says. It’s Yulisa’s first day at Esperanza Place, the neighborhood that in a few months, she will call home.