Once unhoused himself, Berkeley Law student Anthony Carrascohas helped a homeless man get off the streets and enroll in school. Carrasco has also used his past as fuel to bring about change to Bay Area homeless policies, especially those involving children.
has been using his past experiences, his research, and his heart to try and make a difference in the lives of those unhoused, as he once was.to highlight individuals in his city who have engaged in acts of kindness.
"I went over to see how I could help," Carrasco shared, adding, "And we developed a very meaningful friendship." "He had very little grasp of email at all, so we worked together on a number of issues that he wanted to work on, like getting an email address, getting an ID. All the things he wanted to do, but he didn't know how to do them. I was helping him read, write, and interpret," Carrasco said, adding proudly, "And now he’s a full-time community college student with housing."
It was adjacent to a freeway and his family lived among others in need of long-term housing. "There were formerly incarcerated people, sex workers and families like mine," Carrasco shared. Anthony Carrasco's mother, Kimberly Carrasco, and his younger brother Desi Carrasco in the motel where the family lived, in Santa Ana, Calif. taken some time in 2001.
"She developed stomach cancer when I was about 8 or 9 years old," Carrasco explained. "She died 6 months of diagnosis." It was a challenge for his parents to find work, and the money went quickly, but ultimately the family settled in French Gulch, in Shasta County, where they found a three-bedroom apartment for $800 a month.
Among his other accomplishments at Berkeley, he was named a recipient of the Ronald E. McNair scholarship, a prestigious and highly selective program geared toward underrepresented and/or first-generation low-income college students. Carrasco used the opportunity to conduct research on homelessness in the Bay Area.
"There is no data to show how frequently a child loses housing," Carrasco explained. "I was evicted as a child, and I know it had a very negative impact on me, psychologically, emotionally and physically." "It's cruel and it's unusual, and I don't think our society should have any place for it," Carrasco stressed, adding,I can't rewrite history, I can’t undo time, but if I can work on this with my all, then it makes it much more bearable, and it helps me to keep going."
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