Despite limited resources, Bay Area nonprofits working hard to support renters during pandemic

When Spanish-speaking tenants in East Palo Alto needed rent relief earlier this year, community organizer Gabriel Manrique helped them write to their elected officials. In one month alone, he translated more than 50 such letters.

Manrique works for the San Jose-based organization Latinos United for a New America (LUNA), which is partnering with tenants’ group el Comité de Vecinos del lado oeste, East Palo Alto to support tenants. He said it was hard not to get emotional when hearing some of their stories.