In January 2023, a mass shooting exposed squalid living conditions at some farms along the coast.
An empty greenhouse at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. After more than 100 years in business the company will close. San Mateo County has scrapped plans for a large farmworker housing project in Half Moon Bay more than a year after seven local farmworkers were killed in a mass shooting that exposed squalid living conditions at some farms along the coast.
“It broke my heart,” said Supervisor Ray Mueller, who represents the coast. “We will be looking for another location for the housing and agricultural center.” The tarp-covered shacks and flimsy trailers at the two farms where the shooting occurred — Concord Farms and California Terra Garden — have been condemned, and the workers relocated to temporary housing.
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