Sentence:  Mr. Munoz stresses that the crime rate has been dropping in Little Village and that he backs a tax-increment financing district in his ward — a controversial stance in other Hispanic areas. Because the neighborhood is improving, “folks like me — yuppies, luppies, <WSD>huppies</WSD>, whatever you want to call them — will be able to find homes here,” he says, referring to the Latino and Hispanic variations of young urban professionals. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A Hispanic yuppie; an affluent professional of Latin American descent.