In Holyoke, a home of her own: One woman’s struggle to build a life in the state’s poorest place
Like others in this city’s large Puerto Rican community, Nereida Badillo longed for a more stable life. But history is difficult to overcome.
She was ready to move up quite literally.
Up from Holyokes downtown neighborhoods, where the citys large and growing Latino community has long been concentrated, held in place by poverty and prejudi…