The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded a $1 million grant to San Mateo County to further efforts to build affordable housing for local agricultural laborers and their families.
“There are few communities more deeply impacted by the rising cost of housing than farmworkers,” Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, said in a county press release. “This project will help add more safe and affordable housing options for farmworkers and their families in Half Moon Bay, and we hope it will be a catalyst for similar investments throughout the region.”
The grant comes as the county is working with the city of Half Moon Bay, farmworker advocates, farmers and others to build more housing and modernize existing housing. The grant will support efforts to build new housing at 880 Stone Pine Road, a city-owned site south of State Route 92 about a half-mile east of Highway 1. Together, officials from Half Moon Bay and the county are developing a design that includes detached prefabricated homes, according to the press release.
Homes would be offered at below-market rates to farmworkers with low incomes and farmworkers and their families who were displaced by the January mass shooting that killed seven farmworkers in Half Moon Bay.
“We are grateful for the support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative that will aid the county in providing this vital affordable farmworker housing,” Supervisor Ray Mueller said, whose District 3 encompasses much of the county’s agricultural land.
In June, the state announced the county received a $5 million Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant to support the efforts, according to the county.
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