Workers displaced by shooting priority for new Half Moon Bay housing project

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San Mateo County Supervisors set aside $6 million in grant funds to build the affordable housing project.

A city-owned site which may become Stone Pine Cove affordable housing in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to provide nearly $6 million for much-needed affordable housing for farm laborers, which would prioritize families displaced by a mass shooting last year that killed seven people.

The money will be used to purchase manufactured homes for farmworkers. At least 19 families who were displaced by the shooting in Half Moon Bay will be given priority. A total of 28 of the 45 to 50 units at Stone Pine Cove, a 22-acre property zoned for multiple affordable housing buildings, will be set aside for agricultural workers.

“Every family deserves a safe and healthy place to live,” said Supervisor Ray Mueller, who represents District 3, where a majority of the county’s farmland is located. “We must absolutely create opportunities for farmworkers to live in San Mateo County, as well as invest resources in stabilizing the agricultural economy that provides for farmworking jobs.”After last year’s deadly shootings, Half Moon Bay said it would build more farmworker housing.

“These latest funds bolster the county’s recent efforts to improve farmworker living conditions,” San Mateo County said in a press release. At least $1 million of those funds will go toward the planning stage of the project.

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