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According to authorities, he then drove to a nearby farm where he had previously worked and killed three more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack allegedly stemmed from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">a dispute between Zhao and his boss\u003c/a>, who had tried to charge him $100 for damaged construction equipment, Wagstaffe told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe also previously confirmed reporting by NBC Bay Area that Zhao had confronted his boss and a co-worker, whom he blamed for a workplace accident, just before the shootings. The co-worker and boss were reportedly among those shot.[aside postID=news_12037511 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246581187-1020x765.jpg']The killings shed light upon Half Moon Bay farmworkers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">deplorable workplace and living conditions\u003c/a>. In a visit to the mourning community after the shootings, Newsom noted that farmworkers, many of whom are migrants, often labor for sub-minimum wage at just $9 an hour and are forced to live in on-site shipping containers, as was the case for Zhao and some of the shooting victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months after the rampage, questions swirled about whether Wagstaffe would seek to execute the man officials have said is responsible for it. 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From 1983 through 1994, his office sought the death penalty 18 times, winning verdicts in 14 of those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Wagstaffe was the trial prosecutor in the last case that resulted in a capital conviction in the county, following the 2006 slaying of an East Palo Alto Police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, as top prosecutor in the county, he joined the Riverside and San Bernardino County district attorneys in asking California’s First District Court of Appeal to lift the state’s stays of execution, arguing that they have the right to pursue the execution of those sentenced to death in their jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to enforce the law — not to make it — but it is still the law,” Wagstaffe told KQED. “In my 14-and-a-half years as the district attorney, I have said no in so many dozens of cases where it’s technically eligible. 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However, the moratorium ends with the governor’s term, and his successor could choose not to reinstate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a 2021 poll by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when an effort to repeal it failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a\u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5qq8v6c1/qt5qq8v6c1.pdf\"> 2021 poll\u003c/a> by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11097442/death-penalty-propositions-divide-voters\">an effort to repeal it failed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of November’s election raised further questions about whether voters are souring on progressive criminal justice policy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The killings shed light upon Half Moon Bay farmworkers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">deplorable workplace and living conditions\u003c/a>. In a visit to the mourning community after the shootings, Newsom noted that farmworkers, many of whom are migrants, often labor for sub-minimum wage at just $9 an hour and are forced to live in on-site shipping containers, as was the case for Zhao and some of the shooting victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months after the rampage, questions swirled about whether Wagstaffe would seek to execute the man officials have said is responsible for it. However, Wagstaffe, who told KQED he supports the use of the death penalty, has long been an advocate for the use of capital punishment in extreme cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe was working as a prosecutor in the 1980s, during an unusual wave of death penalty cases in San Mateo County. From 1983 through 1994, his office sought the death penalty 18 times, winning verdicts in 14 of those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Wagstaffe was the trial prosecutor in the last case that resulted in a capital conviction in the county, following the 2006 slaying of an East Palo Alto Police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, as top prosecutor in the county, he joined the Riverside and San Bernardino County district attorneys in asking California’s First District Court of Appeal to lift the state’s stays of execution, arguing that they have the right to pursue the execution of those sentenced to death in their jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to enforce the law — not to make it — but it is still the law,” Wagstaffe told KQED. “In my 14-and-a-half years as the district attorney, I have said no in so many dozens of cases where it’s technically eligible. This one here, while I can’t go in front of the desk, I had to weigh and balance it, because [the death penalty] is still on the books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, the death penalty still exists in California, and prosecutors can seek it. But no one has been put to death in the state in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital-punishment/inmates-executed-1978-to-present/executed-inmate-summary-clarence-ray-allen/%20\">nearly 20 years\u003c/a>. In 2019, Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938061/california-will-dismantle-death-row-some-cheer-but-others-are-outraged\"> imposed a moratorium on executions\u003c/a> and closed the death chamber at San Quentin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943855/were-turning-a-new-page-infamous-san-quentin-prison-to-be-transformed-into-rehabilitation-center\">the recently renovated \u003c/a>19th-century prison overlooking San Francisco Bay. However, the moratorium ends with the governor’s term, and his successor could choose not to reinstate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a 2021 poll by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when an effort to repeal it failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a\u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5qq8v6c1/qt5qq8v6c1.pdf\"> 2021 poll\u003c/a> by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11097442/death-penalty-propositions-divide-voters\">an effort to repeal it failed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of November’s election raised further questions about whether voters are souring on progressive criminal justice policy. Californians overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035165/california-officials-warn-prop-36-may-drain-resources-from-successful-community-programs\">Proposition 36\u003c/a>, which increased penalties for drug and theft crimes, and rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-against-outlawing-slavery-why-is-prop-6-failing\">Proposition 6\u003c/a>, which would have banned forced labor in prisons and jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">district attorneys in Alameda\u003c/a> and Los Angeles counties were also voted out of office, leading some to speculate about a potential sea change in attitudes toward reform efforts of previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County’s new district attorney, Nathan Hochman, has begun seeking the death penalty again. In Alameda County, Ursula Jones Dickson has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">quietly withdrawn death row resentencing\u003c/a> efforts for at least four people — petitions that had been championed by former DA Pamela Price to correct decades of unconstitutional conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Kate DeLucco, a spokesperson for the Sacramento abolitionist group Death Penalty Focus, said the changes in California mirror wider political shifts that have happened since the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing in California is reflective of what we’re seeing in the United States as a whole. There has been, clearly, a backlash to what people perceive as liberal dogma,” DeLucco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLucco reiterated common criticisms of the death penalty: that the sentence does not impact crime rates, and that the death penalty system is vastly more expensive to taxpayers than life in prison, due to the length of proceedings and number of appeals — up to $4 billion more since 1978, according to a USC Law School \u003ca href=\"https://gould.usc.edu/news/the-high-cost-of-a-death-sentence/\">study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also criticized the DA’s decision to pursue the charges in the case against Zhao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge disappointment that Wagstaffe would choose to do this,” DeLucco said. “Everything about this is a tragedy, and a continuation of this cycle of violence. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">El Tímpano\u003c/a>, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area. The original version of the story can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/housing/aging-farmworkers-in-half-moon-bay-want-a-place-to-rest-with-dignity/\">found here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]avier and Felix Torres, two brothers from Guanajuato, Mexico, have lived, raised families and worked at farms in and around Half Moon Bay for more than 40 years. The brothers, now in their 60s, spoke with El Tímpano just outside Cabrillo Farms in late June. Their work day had just finished around 3 p.m., and their hands were stained green from harvesting sweet snap peas. It was a windy afternoon, but Javier Torres said that the cool weather was part of what he loved about Half Moon Bay because it made working the fields in long sleeves easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled his first three nights in the United States in 1979. He was in Pescadero, a town in unincorporated San Mateo County about 30 minutes south of Half Moon Bay, sleeping head-to-toe on a bed with strangers before finding work at a farm near Half Moon Bay. Now, Javier Torres owns a four-bedroom home with his wife, his two adult children and his granddaughter, but he said he knows the high cost of living has made overcrowding common practice in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay last year left seven people dead and revealed horrific conditions for the farmworkers, who were living on-site in shipping containers later described by county officials as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-farms-were-not-17747665.php\">deplorable\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996909\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural depicting ALAS, Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, workers and the communities they serve lines the driveway of the organization’s main office in Half Moon Bay on Monday, June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, addressing the urgent need for affordable housing is far from simple. A proposed five-story affordable housing development for senior farmworkers, located at 555 Kelly Ave., was finally approved in May after three five-hour meetings and criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The joint project, led by affordable housing developer Mercy Housing and Half Moon Bay nonprofit Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS), was promptly appealed by some community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltimpano.org/housing/half-moon-bay-council-approves-crucial-housing-project-for-senior-farmworkers/\">Half Moon Bay’s city council reaffirmed the planning commission’s decision\u003c/a> in late June, voting unanimously to deny three appeals to the project. Yet the delays pushed the expected groundbreaking to mid-2026, according to Mercy Housing. Work is also underway on \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/supervisors-allocate-115m-critical-next-step-toward-farmworker-housing\">47 manufactured homes for farmworkers \u003c/a>in Half Moon Bay and is expected to be move-in ready by early 2025. The project, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-announces-16-million-to-support-farmworker-homeownership\">received state funding and support\u003c/a>, will give priority to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996912\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at 880 Stone Pine Rd is underway to create a mobile housing community for farmworkers, photographed Monday, June 24, 2024. Survivors of the shooting on Jan. 23, 2023, at the nearby California Terra Gardens and Concord Farms that left seven farmworkers dead will be given priority to live at 880 Stone Pine Rd. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortages of affordable housing and low wages mean that farmworkers who have built their lives in the region struggle to afford living there. Most coastside farmworkers have lived in the community for many years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/6659/A_HMB_Housing-Needs-Assessment_TRACK-CHANGES\">Half Moon Bay’s draft housing element (PDF)\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/media/31031/download?inline=\">2016 San Mateo County Agricultural Workforce Needs Assessment (PDF)\u003c/a>. The agriculture industry makes up approximately 1,300 jobs in San Mateo County, according to the 2017 Department of Agriculture census of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a community that’s been in the shadows for so long,” ALAS Farmworker Program Director Sandra Sencion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sencion said that many of the farmworkers ALAS serves speak only Spanish, work long hours and have few transportation options, which limits their access to support and assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 affordable housing units were needed for farmworkers throughout San Mateo County, the 2016 Agricultural Workforce Needs Assessment estimated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/6659/A_HMB_Housing-Needs-Assessment_TRACK-CHANGES\">Latinos also experience overcrowding at the highest rate\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay and households with low-income are at a higher risk of overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ALAS has just created a space where folks can come together and support each other,” Sencion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996911\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Left: Sandra Sencion, Farmworker Director at ALAS, and Jorge Sánchez, Farmworker Community Case Manager at ALAS, in discussion prior to a farm visit in their double-decker bus which provides social, educational and health services to the farmworker community on Monday, June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local farmworkers who have lived and worked in Half Moon Bay for decades have begun advocating for affordable housing, speaking in support of housing at local meetings and informing others in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, there’s a gap between the people making the decisions and who it’s affecting. I think we have seen that dynamic change in our community, shifting the power,” Sencion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Torres, a farmworker in Half Moon Bay, poses for a portrait near the shuttered fruit stand at the edge of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Javier Torres and his brother, Felix, were both present at the June 26 evening appeals hearing despite their 5:30 a.m. start to the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here there are families that have up to 15 people in one house,” Torres said in Spanish, explaining his support of the 555 Kelly Ave. project mere hours before the city council decided to deny appeals that sought to derail the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Felix Torres, a farm worker in Half Moon Bay, poses for a portrait on the flatbed of his truck at the edge of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Right: Artichoke fields at Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Felix Torres says that finding affordable housing in Half Moon Bay is challenging. He has lived in the same apartment for around 24 years, which he shares with one of his sons in order to afford rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a point of pride for me to work so many years in the field, for 44 years,” Felix Torres said in Spanish. He later added, “If they carry out those apartments, then the simple truth is that we can rest with dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Torres, a farmworker in Half Moon Bay, poses for a portrait near the shuttered fruit stand at the edge of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Half Moon Bay resident Yajayra Sonoqui spoke in support of the 555 Kelly project on behalf of her father, a longtime farmworker who was unable to attend the June 26 meeting as he recovered from surgery to remove several of his toes. Sonoqui said her father, who is 68 years old, worked at farms in Half Moon Bay for 42 years and is an active volunteer in the community, but his health has declined in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hoped her parents could someday move into one of the few two-bedroom apartments at the development to live out their days more comfortably and have additional room for a family caretaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yajayra Sonoqui used her 1 minute of public comment to talk about the life-changing amputation her father underwent recently and how a project like 555 Kelly would help him and other elderly farm workers with similar economic and health conditions on Wednesday, June 26, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sonoqui and eight other family members, including her parents, share a three-bedroom apartment to make ends meet. She said with her father’s recent surgery and her mother’s dialysis, having more space for the aging couple would be a relief for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Christian Landaverde, Farmworker Outreach Coordinator at ALAS, opens sugar snap peas near the entrance of the Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Right: Tractor tracks etched into dry dirt on the perimeter of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rocio Avila, a local farmworker and member of the ALAS Housing Committee, said her own experience with overcrowded housing led her to advocate for more affordable housing in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Avila, a farmworker promotora with ALAS, poses for a portrait at the ALAS main office on Monday, June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until four months ago, Avila, her husband and their three children crammed into a single room in a house shared with her three brothers. According to Avila, she and her husband and their two youngest children shared a bed while her eldest daughter slept in a small space on the floor before they could move into a three-bedroom mobile home earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996910\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996910\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Morales-Galvan, ALAS Equity Express Program Coordinator, and Jorge Sánchez, Farmworker Community Case Manager at ALAS, load bags of vegetables at the organization’s headquarters. The bags were delivered to farmworkers in Pescadero. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Avila was among the farmworkers who spoke in support of the 555 Kelly Ave. project at Wednesday’s city council hearing. Following the vote, she celebrated with tears in her eyes, hugging those around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Avila embraces a community member in support of the 555 Kelly Ave affordable housing project on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Avila’s eyes welled with tears as her peer relayed their congratulations in her ear. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">El Tímpano\u003c/a>, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area. The original version of the story can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/housing/aging-farmworkers-in-half-moon-bay-want-a-place-to-rest-with-dignity/\">found here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">J\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>avier and Felix Torres, two brothers from Guanajuato, Mexico, have lived, raised families and worked at farms in and around Half Moon Bay for more than 40 years. The brothers, now in their 60s, spoke with El Tímpano just outside Cabrillo Farms in late June. Their work day had just finished around 3 p.m., and their hands were stained green from harvesting sweet snap peas. It was a windy afternoon, but Javier Torres said that the cool weather was part of what he loved about Half Moon Bay because it made working the fields in long sleeves easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled his first three nights in the United States in 1979. He was in Pescadero, a town in unincorporated San Mateo County about 30 minutes south of Half Moon Bay, sleeping head-to-toe on a bed with strangers before finding work at a farm near Half Moon Bay. Now, Javier Torres owns a four-bedroom home with his wife, his two adult children and his granddaughter, but he said he knows the high cost of living has made overcrowding common practice in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay last year left seven people dead and revealed horrific conditions for the farmworkers, who were living on-site in shipping containers later described by county officials as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-farms-were-not-17747665.php\">deplorable\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996909\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-04-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural depicting ALAS, Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, workers and the communities they serve lines the driveway of the organization’s main office in Half Moon Bay on Monday, June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, addressing the urgent need for affordable housing is far from simple. A proposed five-story affordable housing development for senior farmworkers, located at 555 Kelly Ave., was finally approved in May after three five-hour meetings and criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The joint project, led by affordable housing developer Mercy Housing and Half Moon Bay nonprofit Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS), was promptly appealed by some community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltimpano.org/housing/half-moon-bay-council-approves-crucial-housing-project-for-senior-farmworkers/\">Half Moon Bay’s city council reaffirmed the planning commission’s decision\u003c/a> in late June, voting unanimously to deny three appeals to the project. Yet the delays pushed the expected groundbreaking to mid-2026, according to Mercy Housing. Work is also underway on \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/supervisors-allocate-115m-critical-next-step-toward-farmworker-housing\">47 manufactured homes for farmworkers \u003c/a>in Half Moon Bay and is expected to be move-in ready by early 2025. The project, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-announces-16-million-to-support-farmworker-homeownership\">received state funding and support\u003c/a>, will give priority to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996912\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-13-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at 880 Stone Pine Rd is underway to create a mobile housing community for farmworkers, photographed Monday, June 24, 2024. Survivors of the shooting on Jan. 23, 2023, at the nearby California Terra Gardens and Concord Farms that left seven farmworkers dead will be given priority to live at 880 Stone Pine Rd. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortages of affordable housing and low wages mean that farmworkers who have built their lives in the region struggle to afford living there. Most coastside farmworkers have lived in the community for many years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/6659/A_HMB_Housing-Needs-Assessment_TRACK-CHANGES\">Half Moon Bay’s draft housing element (PDF)\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/media/31031/download?inline=\">2016 San Mateo County Agricultural Workforce Needs Assessment (PDF)\u003c/a>. The agriculture industry makes up approximately 1,300 jobs in San Mateo County, according to the 2017 Department of Agriculture census of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a community that’s been in the shadows for so long,” ALAS Farmworker Program Director Sandra Sencion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sencion said that many of the farmworkers ALAS serves speak only Spanish, work long hours and have few transportation options, which limits their access to support and assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 affordable housing units were needed for farmworkers throughout San Mateo County, the 2016 Agricultural Workforce Needs Assessment estimated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/6659/A_HMB_Housing-Needs-Assessment_TRACK-CHANGES\">Latinos also experience overcrowding at the highest rate\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay and households with low-income are at a higher risk of overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think ALAS has just created a space where folks can come together and support each other,” Sencion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996911\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-07-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Left: Sandra Sencion, Farmworker Director at ALAS, and Jorge Sánchez, Farmworker Community Case Manager at ALAS, in discussion prior to a farm visit in their double-decker bus which provides social, educational and health services to the farmworker community on Monday, June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local farmworkers who have lived and worked in Half Moon Bay for decades have begun advocating for affordable housing, speaking in support of housing at local meetings and informing others in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, there’s a gap between the people making the decisions and who it’s affecting. I think we have seen that dynamic change in our community, shifting the power,” Sencion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-32-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Torres, a farmworker in Half Moon Bay, poses for a portrait near the shuttered fruit stand at the edge of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Javier Torres and his brother, Felix, were both present at the June 26 evening appeals hearing despite their 5:30 a.m. start to the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here there are families that have up to 15 people in one house,” Torres said in Spanish, explaining his support of the 555 Kelly Ave. project mere hours before the city council decided to deny appeals that sought to derail the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996918\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Felix Torres, a farm worker in Half Moon Bay, poses for a portrait on the flatbed of his truck at the edge of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Right: Artichoke fields at Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Felix Torres says that finding affordable housing in Half Moon Bay is challenging. He has lived in the same apartment for around 24 years, which he shares with one of his sons in order to afford rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a point of pride for me to work so many years in the field, for 44 years,” Felix Torres said in Spanish. He later added, “If they carry out those apartments, then the simple truth is that we can rest with dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-23-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Torres, a farmworker in Half Moon Bay, poses for a portrait near the shuttered fruit stand at the edge of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Half Moon Bay resident Yajayra Sonoqui spoke in support of the 555 Kelly project on behalf of her father, a longtime farmworker who was unable to attend the June 26 meeting as he recovered from surgery to remove several of his toes. Sonoqui said her father, who is 68 years old, worked at farms in Half Moon Bay for 42 years and is an active volunteer in the community, but his health has declined in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hoped her parents could someday move into one of the few two-bedroom apartments at the development to live out their days more comfortably and have additional room for a family caretaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-56-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yajayra Sonoqui used her 1 minute of public comment to talk about the life-changing amputation her father underwent recently and how a project like 555 Kelly would help him and other elderly farm workers with similar economic and health conditions on Wednesday, June 26, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sonoqui and eight other family members, including her parents, share a three-bedroom apartment to make ends meet. She said with her father’s recent surgery and her mother’s dialysis, having more space for the aging couple would be a relief for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996919\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Christian Landaverde, Farmworker Outreach Coordinator at ALAS, opens sugar snap peas near the entrance of the Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Right: Tractor tracks etched into dry dirt on the perimeter of Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rocio Avila, a local farmworker and member of the ALAS Housing Committee, said her own experience with overcrowded housing led her to advocate for more affordable housing in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-10-KQED-e1721764367461-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Avila, a farmworker promotora with ALAS, poses for a portrait at the ALAS main office on Monday, June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until four months ago, Avila, her husband and their three children crammed into a single room in a house shared with her three brothers. According to Avila, she and her husband and their two youngest children shared a bed while her eldest daughter slept in a small space on the floor before they could move into a three-bedroom mobile home earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996910\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996910\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.24.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-05-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Morales-Galvan, ALAS Equity Express Program Coordinator, and Jorge Sánchez, Farmworker Community Case Manager at ALAS, load bags of vegetables at the organization’s headquarters. The bags were delivered to farmworkers in Pescadero. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Avila was among the farmworkers who spoke in support of the 555 Kelly Ave. project at Wednesday’s city council hearing. Following the vote, she celebrated with tears in her eyes, hugging those around her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/06.26.2024-HMB-FARMER-HOUSING-74-KQED-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocio Avila embraces a community member in support of the 555 Kelly Ave affordable housing project on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Avila’s eyes welled with tears as her peer relayed their congratulations in her ear. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> officials cleared the way for an embattled affordable housing project for farmworkers to move forward, a year after a mass shooting at a mushroom farm in the city put a spotlight on the wretched living conditions of many of the area’s agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the City Council unanimously approved the 40-unit development that will house about 100 very low-income senior farmworkers, rejecting appeals that sought to block the project after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986281/half-moon-bay-farmworker-housing-gains-approval-after-push-by-newsom\">city planning commissioners initially approved it in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really were holding our breath going into this meeting,” said Belinda Hernández-Arriaga, executive director of the community organization Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS), which worked with the nonprofit developer Mercy Housing to design the project. “We’re just so grateful, and we’re extremely happy today because this changes the lives of our senior farm workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan’s initial approval last month came after extensive public wrangling led Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985585/newsom-threatens-half-moon-bay-with-legal-action-over-delays-in-approving-farmworker-housing\">to intercede on behalf of the project\u003c/a>, calling the delay “egregious” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/05/09/governor-newsom-calls-on-half-moon-bay-to-approve-housing-for-farmworkers-following-mass-shooting/\">threatening to sic\u003c/a> the state’s Housing Accountability Unit on the city if leaders didn’t go ahead with development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, within days of the planning commissioners’ vote, opponents \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/845/555-Kelly-Avenue---Affordable-Housing\">filed three appeals\u003c/a>, challenging the approval process and arguing that the project violated local policies and state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council heard arguments from supporters and detractors on Wednesday before deciding. Objectors said the \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/2615131/11._Public_Comments_05.09.2024_thru_05.10.2024.pdf\">development threatens the city’s small-town appeal\u003c/a>, citing traffic congestion and raising concerns it would strain the area’s already-limited parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-story apartment building is one of two low-income developments for farmworkers the city has pursued since the shooting. The other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982817/half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing\">consists of 47 manufactured homes\u003c/a> for very low-income families, including those displaced from the mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drawn-out approval process for the senior housing has pushed back the completion timeline significantly, said Kelly Hollywood, an associate director of real estate development at Mercy Housing. Without the final OK, developers couldn’t apply for crucial sources of funding, some of which only become available a couple of times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these approvals, we can work towards those other local and state sources,” Hollywood said. She expects to be able to apply for vital tax credits from the state in mid-2025. “We’re thankful that the determination of the community and the spirit allowed us to continue to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is set to start in mid-2026 and wrap up in late 2027 at the earliest. The building is expected to cost $43 million and will include a farmworker resource center run by ALAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the farmworker population is difficult to count, \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/assets/files/publications/housing-smcs-farmworkers-final-june-2024.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> commissioned after last year’s shooting estimated that 1,300 to 1,600 farmworkers live in San Mateo County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/media/31031/download?inline=\">A 2016 assessment \u003c/a>estimated San Mateo County needs over 1,000 affordable housing units for farmworkers, finding that “a key reason for the county’s shrinking farm labor pool is the lack of available housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though this project only meets a fraction of the need, Hernández-Arriaga said she hopes it will serve as a model of “what housing should look like for senior farmworkers across California and if not across the country,” noting that farmworkers, particularly seniors, are often relegated to city outskirts. “Taking them out of the shadows, bringing them into the main streets of our downtowns, [in] housing that is vibrant, that allows them to not be isolated, not be hidden, to be in and with the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One year later, California workplace regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">accused\u003c/a> the two farm employers of various \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">safety\u003c/a> and labor law violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal grand jury indicted the alleged gunman, Chunli Zhao, with seven counts of murder, among other charges. The judge in the case scheduled an arraignment for later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao allegedly shot five people at California Terra Garden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">one of whom survived\u003c/a>. The former forklift operator, 66 at the time of the attacks, then shot and killed three more people at nearby Concord Farms, where he used to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers can check if they are owed wages by searching the Department of Labor’s \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/QLyCC5yWjXS6RzNRuz34vp?domain=webapps.dol.gov\">Workers Owed Wages website\u003c/a>, said an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also call a toll-free helpline at 1-866-487-9243 or contact the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/3E5MC680k4syMgwMS6yUM6?domain=dol.gov\">local office\u003c/a> where the case was managed. The California Terra Garden case was handled by the department’s Walnut Creek Area office at 415-625-7720.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The five Chinese farmworkers sitting together in Half Moon Bay Library on a foggy afternoon last month were there to receive information about their permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It had been almost a year since they were displaced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">mass shooting at two produce farms\u003c/a> in the small city on California’s coast. They lost more than their homes. They also lost their sense of community and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deadliest shooting recorded in San Mateo County was the third in a week of gun violence that rocked California in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 16, six people, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948187/california-teen-mother-baby-murdered-gang-related-mass-shooting\">teenage mother and her infant son\u003c/a>, were massacred in a house in Goshen, an unincorporated community in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 21, a gunman opened fire in a Monterey Park dance studio, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938863/the-long-process-of-healing-aapi-community-members-react-to-the-lunar-new-year-mass-shooting\">killing 11 people\u003c/a> celebrating the Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Jan. 23, seven people were killed across two mushroom farms about three miles apart in Half Moon Bay. Five of the victims were Chinese, and two were Latino. Almost 30 people who lived on the farms in sheds, shipping containers and converted trailers were left unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973075\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A candlelit vigil for the victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/044_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at a memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay says, ‘We Stand With You’ after a vigil in their honor at Mac Dutra Park in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mass shooting brought renewed attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940017/under-the-radar-half-moon-bay-and-the-vulnerability-of-farmwork\">living and working conditions of California’s farmworkers\u003c/a>. Farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants and fear deportation, are less likely to report safety violations and wage theft. In the state where the national movement to organize farmworkers began more than five decades ago, agricultural laborers still face employer retaliation for unionizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who toil in fields for long hours and low wages struggle to afford housing and find themselves sleeping in unsafe structures on farms. But experts, community advocates and survivors interviewed by KQED for this story said the gun violence in Half Moon Bay exposed the emergent vulnerability of Chinese farmworkers, who are almost invisible because they represent a sliver of migrant farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yvonne Lee, a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission, said AAPI farmworkers are vulnerable because of isolation. The closest Chinatown to Half Moon Bay is in San Francisco, about an hour’s drive.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Lee, member, US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission\"]‘They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.’[/pullquote]“If you are in a farming industry — No. 1, it’s more fragmented — and farming, you tend to be in a rural area outside of the traditional Asian enclaves that you would find support,” Lee said. “Yes, Half Moon Bay is not that far, but if you’re talking about an immigrant who doesn’t own a car — even if they own a car, they have limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t think, ‘Hey, what I’m experiencing, it may not be fair.’ So they keep it on themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said very few Americans know of the legacy of AAPI farmworkers in the agricultural industry. In the 1850s, Chinese workers began migrating to America to work in California’s gold mines. Chinese immigrants were also instrumental in building the transcontinental railroad from 1863–69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese migrants also took agricultural jobs and introduced new farming techniques, including shifting California’s agricultural business from grain to vegetables and fruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concord Farms can be seen in the distance in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-Chinese racism festered among white laborers, particularly among unemployed European immigrants who refused to work in fields. The resentment culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, the xenophobic 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. The law was repealed in 1943.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Lee, member, US Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission\"]‘Very few people will know that back in the late 1880s, Asian farmers and workers contributed to almost 70% of California’s produce output.’[/pullquote]The agricultural jobs vacated by the Chinese were filled by Japanese workers until the incarceration of people of Japanese descent, many of whom were American citizens, disrupted California’s vegetable industry. Japanese farmers grew most of the state’s peppers, celery, tomatoes and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, about 96% of farmworkers in California identify as Hispanic, with \u003ca href=\"https://farmworkerfamily.org/information\">75% undocumented\u003c/a>, according to the Center for Farmworker Families. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Asian_Producers.pdf\">census (PDF)\u003c/a>, which is conducted every five years, found that Asian producers accounted for 0.7% of the country’s 3.4 million producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At roughly 7,000, California had the highest number of Asian farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s a forever memory’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chunli Zhao opened fire at California Terra Garden, where he lived and worked as a forklift driver, killing four people and wounding Pedro Romero Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao then drove to Concord Farms, a farm he was reportedly fired from in 2015, and fatally shot three people. Zhao, 67, was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/half-moon-bay-shooting-suspect-interview/3140537/\">interview\u003c/a> three days after the shooting, Zhao told NBC Bay Area that he had endured years of bullying and long hours working at the two farms. According to Steve Wagstaffe, the San Mateo County district attorney, Zhao told investigators that he was angry at the time of the shootings because California Terra Garden demanded $100 to repair a damaged forklift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven victims were Jose Romero Pérez, 38; Zhishen Liu, 73; Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50; Aixiang Zhang, 74; Qizhong Cheng, 66; Jingzhi Lu, 64; and Yetao Bing, 43.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973088\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large vigil with many bouquets of flowers, candles and handwritten signs in memory of those who were victims of the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/046_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner lights a candle after a vigil in Half Moon Bay for victims of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting earlier in the week, which left 7 dead and 1 wounded, on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedro Romero Pérez, the younger brother of José Romero Pérez, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">learning to play accordion in a music therapy class\u003c/a> at another farm in Half Moon Bay, KQED reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were forced to move off the farms as the police and FBI conducted investigations. They’ve moved between hotels and short-term rentals. The rent will be paid by San Mateo County through March or April, according to a Half Moon Bay city official. The city will need to raise money for temporary housing, officials told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a December afternoon the week before Christmas, KQED interviewed a middle-aged Chinese couple through an interpreter at the Half Moon Bay Library. Before the mass shooting, they lived in a shed on Concord Farms without a kitchen or bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the library’s community room, an elderly Chinese couple never left each other’s side. The man walked with a hunch, and his wife clutched the handle of her cane with one hand and rested the other on his walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man joined the couple. In bits of English and Cantonese, he talked with a KQED reporter whose mother immigrated from China about how both of their families have roots in Guangdong, a coastal province in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speak with KQED, the younger of the two couples requested anonymity to maintain their privacy while discussing the massacre and their housing situation. Their case manager, Sao Leng U, translated from Mandarin to English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman made intense eye contact with Leng U during the interview. Her husband, a truck driver who was on his daily route when his coworkers and friends were fatally shot, kept his eyes glued to a handout printed in Mandarin.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Half Moon Bay farmworker\"]‘We, of course, want stable housing. In the past, we were living at the farm, and after the shooting, we cannot. So we just want to know, ‘What’s my future? What does it look like?”[/pullquote]“I was at the farm, but the farm is quite loud and noisy,” the woman told KQED. “I didn’t know anything had happened until we went outside and saw [the farmworkers who had been shot] and called the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, they’ve been burdened with lingering trauma, the fear of losing pay, and the uncertainty of where they’ll live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the shooting happened, we are kind of moving from place to place, and we’re feeling insecure,” the woman said. “We, of course, want stable housing. In the past, we were living at the farm, and after the shooting, we cannot. So we just want to know, ‘What’s my future? What does it look like?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about returning to work a week after the shooting, the man looked up and spoke for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we might have a little bit of PTSD,” he said through the interpreter. “It’s not like a sickness or something, but every time we go back, we’re thinking of the incident. It’s no longer like before. Because before, even though we were working really hard, we were happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple said they are unsure if they will ever truly move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a forever memory,” the woman said. “Especially now, we’re still working at the farm. Because all the farmworkers are living together, we have different sheds, but we have lots of memories. Especially because I am a witness, it’s really difficult to move on, and it’s not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A community overlooked\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just a turn off Highway 92 is Spanish Town Shops, where a metal T. rex sculpture, intricate water fountains and handcrafted pottery greet visitors. Nestled between the shops is a narrow, rutted road and a creek bridge that leads to California Terra Garden, formerly known as Mountain Mushroom Farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a greenhouse to the right, and on a recent visit, there were about a dozen cars in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple signs tell lurkers to “Keep Out” and to not take photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concord Farms is down Highway 1, a 10-minute drive with ocean views. After a stretch of unpaved road, the farm appears with tractors on one side and rolling hills in the distance. Trucks drive in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half Moon Bay’s reputation as a picturesque oceanside getaway known for its quaint pumpkin festival and big wave surfing was jolted by the shooting. A year ago, the farmworker community was overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/halfmoonbaycitycalifornia\">2023 U.S. Census data\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay, with a population of roughly 11,000, is 65.8% white, 24.5% Hispanic or Latino and 5.1% Asian. The median household income is $149,000, and only 6.8% live below the poverty line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The farms are] driven by frequently. Lots of people drive on Highway 92,” said Karen Decker, Half Moon Bay’s economic and city vitality manager. “You pass these landmarks, but just past those recognizable landmarks, there are really insular communities, and you have isolation within isolation.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Karen Decker, economic and city vitality manager, Half Moon Bay\"]‘Sometimes, you would hear like an eruption of crying, and you didn’t know if a family had just received a death notification or if they already knew.’[/pullquote]Decker was at the community center that was converted to a reunification site on Jan. 23, 2023. She recalled a large crowd of Spanish-speaking farmworkers on one side and, on another, a group of six to eight Chinese farmworkers huddled together, speaking Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, you would hear like an eruption of crying, and you didn’t know if a family had just received a death notification or if they already knew,” Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled asking one Chinese woman about her biggest need, expecting to hear water or food. Instead, Decker said the woman conveyed a “great anxiety about missing work” the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so frantic that they’re going to lose their housing if they can’t work,” Decker said. “They’re terrified about missing, like, an hour of wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Decker and other volunteers went to pick up the farmworkers from their hotels on Jan. 24, 2023, no one was eating the continental breakfast. They didn’t know it was included, Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became clear to us that the people we work with who were displaced hadn’t stayed in a hotel before,” Decker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leng U, the director of social services at Self-Help for the Elderly, a San Francisco Chinatown nonprofit that provides case management to Chinese farmworkers, said many Chinese immigrants rely on family to house them after arriving in the U.S. That’s not the case for the Half Moon Bay farmworkers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240103-HMBFARMS-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to California Terra Garden farm in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said most of the affected Chinese farmworkers did not have family support. Advertisements for farms in publications like Sing Tao, a Bay Area Chinese newspaper, offer on-site housing. That’s what drew the workers to Half Moon Bay, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, they are stationed at the farm. They live at the farm. They eat at the farm,” Leng U added. “They get along with each other like family because most of them have very limited social interaction with the people outside. There is no agency that specifically works with the Chinese population. They don’t have any community connection.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘Some of you should see where these folks are living — the conditions they’re in. Living in shipping containers. Folks getting $9 an hour. No health care, no support, no services.’[/pullquote]Leng U visited both farms after the shooting. The sheds used as homes had plastic sheets for insulation and just enough room for a mattress and personal belongings. There were makeshift outdoor kitchens. During the winter months, cold temperatures caused the farmworkers to lose sleep, according to Leng U.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of you should see where these folks are living — the conditions they’re in,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Jan. 24, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fD7JYgh1wI'\">press conference\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay. “Living in shipping containers. Folks getting $9 an hour. No health care, no support, no services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a Jan. 28, 2023, story in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-farms-were-not-17747665.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, San Mateo County officials did not find records of housing permits or inspection records for either farm. In June 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">Cal/OSHA cited both farms\u003c/a> for failure to secure labor camp permits for onsite worker housing, among other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/01/governor-newsom-announces-16-million-to-support-farmworker-homeownership/\">$16 million\u003c/a> to increase homeownership for California farmworkers, $5 million of which would be allocated to Half Moon Bay to purchase 28 housing units, in June 2023. The city has set aside $1 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.half-moon-bay.ca.us/881/880-Stone-Pine---Frequently-Asked-Questi\">to plan a development\u003c/a> slated to be completed in 2025.[aside postID=news_11941716 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2540-1-1020x765.jpeg']Wei-ting Chen, the executive director of community engagement at the Stanford School of Medicine, volunteered to translate for the Chinese farmworkers in the immediate aftermath. She routinely goes to Half Moon Bay to deliver supplies and texts the farmworkers using WeChat, a Chinese messaging app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, the farmworkers feel that the temporary housing, while comfortable, doesn’t feel like their homes. They will sleep there, but they still cook on the farm because the smoke from their woks fills the apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They still do most of their living on the farm,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chen, most of the employees work six days a week. Their one day off is used to run errands. One older couple decided to retire, but the rest of the Chinese workers returned to work almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were eager to go back to work because if they didn’t work, they didn’t get paid,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Nonprofit-Provides-Half-Moon-Bay-Farmworker-Community-with-Music-Therapy.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music students trickled into the red barn at Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay for their 6 p.m. class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They assembled in a farmworker break room and kitchen and unzipped bulky, black backpacks. Inside were accordions. Immediately, musical notes began to fill the space. Some students work at Cabrillo Farms, while others work at nearby farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first to arrive was Pedro Romero Pérez. He is on medical leave and hasn’t returned to work since he was shot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">last January’s mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> that claimed the lives of his brother, José Romero Pérez, and six other farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming to class every Wednesday gives Romero Pérez an excuse to leave his home in nearby El Granada, where he spends much of his time alone, healing from his injuries, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before this program, I didn’t have anything to do in the afternoons and I would feel bored,” said Romero Pérez, 24, who only referenced “the accident” in explaining why he isn’t working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people smile while sitting together indoors and holding bright red accordions.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-47-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, Yesenia Garcia, Hilario Lopez, and Pedro Romero Pérez play accordion during a lesson at Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay on Nov. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I see this as a great opportunity,” he said. “I had never studied music before. It’s challenging, but we’re getting somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The classes are part of a music therapy program created by Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, the founder and executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, a local social service provider. In Spanish, the name means “Helping Latinos to Dream,” and its acronym, ALAS, means “wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALAS has been on the frontlines of serving Half Moon Bay’s farmworker community through COVID, extreme winter storms and wildfires. After the Jan. 23 mass shooting, the organization stepped in with food and trauma support.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar\"]‘Music elevates the soul. It speaks to the soul. It brings in memories of home — cultura, joy and sadness, too. A lot of emotion’[/pullquote]The music classes are an extension of the group’s mantra, “cultura cura” or “culture cures,” said Hernandez-Arriaga, a licensed clinical social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mental health is a big part of our program, along with the cultural arts,” she said. “After the shooting happened, we thought, ‘How can we bring the cultural arts into the fields directly?’ Especially for what the farmworkers have gone through, we really wanted to bring a special program that would elevate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since September, classes have met on Wednesdays and sometimes Fridays at Cabrillo Farms, a family-owned farm across Highway 1 from the Half Moon Bay Airport and Mavericks Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A farm may seem unlikely to hold music lessons, but Hernandez-Arriaga said her organization wanted a place that would feel familiar. To jumpstart the program, ALAS secured funding from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to cover expenses, including the accordions, which cost close to $600 apiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap addresses a group of people while holding an accordion.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hernan Hernandez Jr. sings during an accordion lesson. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Music elevates the soul. It speaks to the soul. It brings in memories of home — cultura, joy and sadness, too. A lot of emotion,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “But it’s also a central language of healing. One of the best ways of healing trauma is through sensory integration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent class, the students, who range in age from their early 20s to their 60s, sat in chairs lined against a wall. They practiced scales as instructor Hernan Hernandez Jr. led them through a lesson. He demonstrated tapping a few keys to create a sequence of notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, who is based in San José, learned to play music from his father, Hernan Hernandez Sr., the bass player in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lostigresdelnorte.com/english/about.html\">Los Tigres Del Norte\u003c/a>, one of the most prolific and celebrated Mexican bands. The band was founded in the late 1960s by several brothers and cousins who hail from the state of Sinaloa but made the Bay Area their U.S. home base. In their six decades of making music, Los Tigres Del Norte has sold more than 36 million records.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"half-moon-bay\"]Hernandez Jr. and two of his brothers started their band, Suenatron, which plays what he calls “popteño” — a mix of norteño, pop and cumbia sounds. The accordion, he said, is a key component of many genres of Mexican and Latin American music. The instrument may have originated elsewhere, “but we made it our own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides music, Hernandez said he learned from his father and uncles about the importance of supporting immigrant and Mexican communities in the United States. Many of Los Tigres Del Norte’s songs chronicle the experiences of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Its 1984 hit, “La Jaula de Oro,” is about an undocumented Mexican immigrant whose children have assimilated into American culture. Other classics, including “Somos Mas Americanos” and “America,” have become anthems for celebrating Latino identity and the contributions of Latinos to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s important is that we give back to our people,” Hernandez, 44, said. “[Los Tigres] are always about the people, not about themselves. It’s really about the music and the people, and giving back and being able to see the smiles on their faces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez learned about ALAS after his father’s band helped raise money for the group in the wake of the mass shooting. When Hernandez-Arriaga asked if he would help with music lessons, he jumped at the opportunity even though he had no teaching experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our students, his brother, passed away,” Hernandez said, referring to Romero Pérez. “To see the happiness on his face, to see him come here and kind of forget about that, even if it’s just for an hour or hour and a half, and to put all his effort into this instrument, to me that speaks volumes of what (ALAS) is doing for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short hair plays a bright red accordion while sitting next to other people also playing the accordion.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-48-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hilario Lopez plays accordion during a lesson with Hernan Hernandez. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another student, Yesenia García Hernández, lives in a sky-blue trailer at Cabrillo Farms, where she works planting, harvesting, and packing produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she has wanted to learn to play an instrument for years and now looks forward to playing music with her family during gatherings and celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part of the program, García Hernández said, is the bond she’s formed with her classmates. During the class, her loud bursts of laughter could be heard over the musical notes she and her classmates were practicing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Learning music is like emotional therapy,” García Hernández, 30, said. “You can say that music brings you joy and happiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez wrapped up the class, the students and staffers from ALAS surprised him with a cake to celebrate his birthday. One of the students, Hilario Lopez, 22, played “Las Mañanitas,” the traditional Mexican birthday song, as others sang along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being here has changed my perspective, my mentality of what music is,” Hernandez said to the students. “To be here with you guys it showed me that there’s more to music. It’s not just about the limelight and the awards and the money that comes along with it. This is what truly makes me proud and makes me happy because, honestly, it’s music that connects us. This is the beautiful part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is for students to perform at least part of a song as a group at an upcoming ALAS holiday event in December. Hernandez-Arriaga said their musical progress is obvious, but the intangible changes are evident in the students’ smiles and enthusiasm for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people are seen playing accordions together throough an open doorway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231101-MusicTherapyHMBFarmworkers-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hernan Hernandez Jr. leads an accordion lesson at Cabrillo Farms. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am seeing that this is having a direct impact,” she said. “They have all told me, like, ‘We love it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Romero Pérez set up an altar to honor his 38-year-old brother as part of a Día de los Muertos event that ALAS hosted in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the class ended, he sat on a couch and observed the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now when I see musicians playing music, I hope that one day I’ll be able to do that, too, and learn to play songs by Los Tigres Del Norte and some corridos,” he said, referring to traditional Mexican ballads. “I enjoy learning and being able to move forward. 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