New Salinas farmworker housing moves forward
SALINAS, Calif. (KION)
A project to add housing for more than one thousand farmworkers in the Salinas area is moving forward.
Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter told reporters Wednesday that the goal is to have the new facility up and running next year.
This development comes as the City sends more than three acres of land near the intersection of Rossi and North Davis to Café Toro Investments LLC. A city report for Tuesday's council meeting states that the company would use the land to combine it with adjacent property and construct the agricultural employee housing.
Gunter says this would be 150 apartments with beds for roughly 1,200 H-2A workers.
Read the council staff report here:
