Three of the planned 47 manufactured homes for a new farmworker affordable housing community on the San Mateo County coast arrived Tuesday at Stone Pine Cove, county officials said.

Stone Pine Cove is a housing development aimed at providing permanent housing for agricultural workers and their families. The first families are expected to move in by June, according to a county spokesperson.

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Concerns over substandard farmworker housing intensified after a 2023 mass shooting in Half Moon Bay drew attention to the unsafe and often overlooked living conditions of the region’s agricultural workforce.

“We made a promise — to honor the hands that feed us with dignity and safe shelter,” San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller said in a statement. “And now, with urgency and humanity as our guide, the community, the State of California, the County of San Mateo and the City of Half Moon Bay have come together to fulfill that promise in the creation of this new neighborhood.”

The county committed $11.5 million last year for construction and an additional $6 million for the purchase and installation of the manufactured homes.

The one- to three-bedroom manufactured homes are all-electric and Energy Star certified. The units feature wood-frame exterior walls with insulation, as well as up-to-code plumbing and wiring, officials said.

Qualified families will be able to rent the homes at below-market rates, with the option to purchase later through a state program for low-income farmworkers.

In San Mateo County, a family of four earning up to $156,650 is considered “low income,” according to federal data. Meanwhile, a 2023 study by UC Merced found farmworkers earned an average of $24,871 annually in 2022. According to a 2024 report by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, between 1,300 and 1,600 farmworkers live in San Mateo County.

To meet its 2031 housing targets, Half Moon Bay plans to build 480 units, including 285 reserved for low- to very-low-income residents.