Minnie Street also has benefited from attention by the group Latino Health Access, which uses outreach workers to address social problems among Santa Ana residents with the lowest incomes.

Minnie Street was built up in the early 1960s, designed as small, efficient, off-base housing for military personnel at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.

SANTA ANA – Yolanda Perez knows Minnie Street’s reputation only too well. “Everybody puts it down,” she said of the neighborhood where she has lived for 25 years and where she and her ...