Gloria Lando

Gloria Lando, a specialist for the nonprofit agency Fremont Fair Housing and Landlord-Tenant Services, confirmed his contention, saying that landlords ignore the situation in order to make "more of a profit."

Her agency has received calls regarding at least one of the apartment complexes along Central, she said.But legally, there is little the agency can do to address overcrowding, unless the landlord discriminates based on race, religion, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation, she said.

In other words, it is OK to be a slumlord as long as you are an equal-opportunity slumlord, she said.

Down the road at Centerville Presbyterian, Janice Silberhorn shelves books at the church library.As a member of the church for more than 40 years, she has seen the neighborhood gradually change with the arrival of new immigrants.

She said you cannot blame illegal immigrants for wanting to come here.