Farmworkers may find it easier to buy or keep a home in California through a $16 million grant program announced by the state Thursday.
The program follows a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay early this year that left seven immigrant farmworkers dead. Living conditions were unsanitary and housing was unpermitted at the two coastal farms where the shootings took place.
"California isn't California without our farmworkers," Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement."Not only are they our state's economic backbone, but they help us produce over a third of our country's vegetables and three-quarters of the country's fruits and nuts." About 18 of the homes will be given to households displaced in the shooting. The other 10 will go to extremely low-income farmworker households and those displaced from dilapidated homes.
County officials have established a task force to improve housing for farmworkers and have pledged $1 million for the planning costs of farmworker housing.
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