Saturday, April 30, 2011

Issues in the community

Update of Downtown
Madison Ave. - downtown has a lot of Spanish restaurants in Perth Amboy.
The mall is beyond small. Reminds me of this flee market place my mom and aunt go to in the city
State St. - has three restaurants “Mi Tierra” “El Pollon” and “El Taco Loco”
State Fayette gardens- a little townhouse where Latinos live.
E &H communications- this is where people go to make international calls to their home countries.
A new restaurant fancy restaurant/grocery store opened called “Terraza.”
Update on Waterfront
As discussed in a previous blog, mostly white people live by the waterfront where the homes are nicer. They have big houses, along with really nice condominiums. I have some pictures that I can upload into my blog of the scenery.
As I was in Perth Amboy a few weeks ago, I asked a few of the Saint Michael’s church members about some issues within the Latin community of this city. Here is a summary of their responses.
Schools
When I asked about the education of the Hispanic children, I was told that the schools are becoming too overpopulated with Hispanic students. However, the city discussed building a new school for some time now and has yet to even build it. They feel that in the future some of the children will not be able to enroll in school because of the overpopulation. This will increase taxes in the city for them, especially since the taxes are already high.
Taxes
One of the main issues in Perth Amboy involves taxes. Taxes are high all the time and also rent payments for apartments. If you want to sell your house and put it on the market, the cost for the house will be low. They feel like with prices going up for everything, they cannot pay for much, including the bills for their own homes.
Jobs
As for jobs, there are none available. Perth Amboy put agencies around the city in order for people, mainly Latinos, to find jobs. The problem is when people go to these agencies; they don’t ever have any jobs available. Factories around the city pay these agencies to hire workers to work for their factories, but the agencies pay the workers less than what they are supposed to earn.
Churches
While I drove around Perth Amboy, I saw churches on pretty much every corner. The churches are very diverse. Some of the churches I seen were first bapist churches, second Baptist churches, Hispanic churches, and African churches. The Saint Michael’s church where I got information from some of the members is a Catholic Church. It celebrates different masses are different times for different ethnicities. When I was at the church, the mass for the Hispanics was in service. The Catholic Churches are having their own financial problems also. The city said they are going to combine the seven catholic churches because they receive no money.

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