Date: Monday, May 4, 2026
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Where: Zoom

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:
– Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, Senior Vice President, Community Impact & Systems Change, Sobrato Philanthropies
– 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