Affordable Housing Month is a month-long series of events that take place annually in the month of May.
It serves to highlight the importance of what it means to our neighbors and communities to have affordable places to live and call home. During this month, we will explore different affordable housing projects and the policies that make it all possible.
Join us on May 15th, 2026 for our Annual Policy Breakfast and Affordable Housing Bus Tour!
Enjoy a delicious breakfast while networking and hearing insights from a panel of legislators!
This panel will include: Congressman Sam Liccardo, State Assemblymember Marc Berman, Board of Supervisors Board President Noelia Corzo, Good City Company Principal Aaron Aknin.
After our policy breakfast, join us for our annual Affordable Housing Month Bus Tour. Attendees will get the chance to visit a variety of affordable homes in San Mateo county!
We will visit: Middlefield Junction in North Fair Oaks, Shores Landing in Redwood City, Rotary Terrace in South San Francisco, and will attend the grand opening ceremony of Eucalyptus Grove in Burlingame!
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to support affordable housing advocacy work happening in San Mateo County while receiving exposure to thousands of San Mateo County community members, elected officials, developers, investors and other stakeholders through our comprehensive marketing efforts!
See our Affordable Housing Month event lineup below!
May 4, 2026
12:00 pm: Meeting the Moment for Farmworker Housing: A Case Study of Stone Pine Cove
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May 4, 2026
Although farmworkers play a key role in the operation and delivery of the state's food system, they face a number of economic challenges compared to California's population as a whole. Farmworkers tend to have lower inconsistent incomes; higher risk of living in poverty; and have limited access to safe, healthy, and affordable housing choices. In the wake of the 2023 Half Moon Bay shootings, farmworkers and their families were displaced from their employer-based housing due to substandard conditions. Fast forward to today, 47 new manufactured units, at Stone Pine Cove, in Half Moon Bay, are now home to many of the families impacted by the tragedy and other low-income farmworkers across the coast. The project used innovative approaches to bring the development into fruition, including streamlined building/entitlement processes, the support of public private partnerships with foundation funding, utilization of the State Joe Serna subsidy to purchase the manufactured homes and the creation of a unique loan program for extremely low and low-income households. Additionally, the housing application process was supported with local community support from Coastside Hope.
Learn more about the partnerships that brought housing stability to our farmworker communities from:
- Xiomara Cisneros, Sr Program Officer, CZI (Facilitator)
- Rose Cade, Deputy Director, Department of Housing County of San Mateo
- Judith Guerrero, Executive Director, Coastside Hope
- Matthew Chidester, City Manager, City of Half Moon Bay
- Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, Senior Vice President, Community Impact & Systems Change, Sobrato Philanthropies
