Street vendor grants
Street vendor grants
- August 23, 2025
- Rocio Rosales, sociology, LAist, Aug. 23, 2025
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“I talked to one vendor [recently] who said he's relying on loans from friends; he's buying fruit on credit from the wholesale market,” said Rocio Rosales, a professor at UC Irvine whose book, Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles, is a study of the vendors’ networks. She said street vendors and the income they generate form an extensive economic web, which affects far more people than the seller alone.
For the full story, please visit https://laist.com/brief/news/westside-la-group-gives-street-vendors-500-grants-as-ice-sweeps-cut-into-their-income.
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