Cochran. executive director. Rural Housing Alliance. testified before the rural housing hearings of the Senate Housing Subcommittee. He said: One of the most poorly housed groups in this country is the hired farm worker. particularly seasonal and migrant workers. but also including many regular workers. He added: * . * no one honestly questions that the conditions under which many farm workers live and raise their kids. and the resulting shame. degradation. ill health and disease are matters that will require a special effort. Domestic farmworkers are among the poorest of our countrys lowincome workers. In 1972. the average seasonal farmworker had an annual income of only $2.019. But the poverty of farm laborers goes beyond substandard wages to include the most disgraceful housing conditions in the Nation. The average migrant home consists of two rooms for a family of 6.4 people. These homes are located in farm labor housing camps where little or no effort is made to provide sanitary conditions. We had a tragic example of the neglect of sanitary needs in a farm labor camp in March of last year1973when a typhoid epidemic broke out in a farm labor housing project in Florida.