A shortage of farm worker housing prompted the Santa Cruz county Board of Supervisors to vote in favor of a plan to build 5-hundred units of affordable housing over the next five years.
The plan is a combination of developers building homes on specific sites and updating regulations to make it easier for farmers to construct housing on their farmland.
A 2018 regional study found that the average farmworker in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties shares a home with seven people.
