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Jump to navigation By 06/30/2021 Farmworker housing advocates are facing some hard lessons from a pilot project that fell drastically short of its goal. Starting in 2012, a collaborative between the Marin Community Foundation and Marin County used a combination of public and private funds to build and renovate agricultural worker housing on ranches in West Marin. The group initially planned to fund 200 units within five years, but later sharply reduced the goal to 20 units. In the end, only a dozen units were built, while the need for more affordable housing never went away. “There were a number of lessons learned, including that using public funding on private land is really challenging,” said Leelee Thomas, the planning manager with the Marin County Community Development Agency who led the project. ....
Oyster farm in california, was recently informed that they would not be allowed to renew their federal park lease. the interior department plans to turn the land into a marine wilderness area, and as a result, the oyster company and 30 employees are out of work. kevin is the owner of drake s bay and now suing for an injunction to keep his business open. good morning to you, kevin. good morning, gretchen. how are you? gretchen: doing just fine. thank you for getting up so early. so tell me what you ve been doing for all these years, your oyster farm. the oyster farm is really kind of a main stay in our community. we produce about a third of the oysters grown in the state of california. we get about 50,000 visitors a year who love this place, been here for over eight decades and the community and our county and san francisco bay area loves ush washington, d.c. gretchen: so the interior department wants to shut you ....