Matos moves to nonprofit work
In October 2007, Kica Matos, a city community services administrator, visited Yale to address the Yale Political Union on key issues pertaining to the public safety of immigrants in New Haven. Her speech, during a debate about providing services for immigrants, enumerated the challenges in her line of work — undocumented families, for instance, renting spaces in unlivable conditions targeted by thieves.
Speaking about one family whose landlord cut utilities for a late rent payment rather than serve an eviction notice, Matos said, “There was no electricity, no heat and 11 people...
that Gold guy is absolutely ridiculous. america is a country of immigrants. why can't he understand that his family or his type don't own this land...it belongs to all of us!