If you've read John Steinbeck or grew up in a farmworker family, you know that farm laborers in California have struggled to find decent housing for decades. Except in a few cases, farmers have no legal obligation to house their employees. And there's not a lot of state or federal money earmarked for farmworker housing. For the series California Foodways, Lisa Morehouse takes us to the Salinas Valley town of Spreckles, built for workers over a century ago. These days it's become the site of tension over a new experiment in farmworker housing.
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