SANTA MARIA, Calif.—Oscar Oswalvo Loera wakes up before dawn each day to pick lettuce, strawberries and other produce in the fertile fields surrounding this farm town.
The home he walks out of is a former Econo Lodge, which used to cater to Highway 101 budget travelers. Now it sits at the intersection of two of California’s deepest and most polarizing issues: immigration and the lack of affordable housing.
GallaherCaren Couldn’t they use harvesting crop equipment instead of immigrants
Housing for migrant farm workers: GOOD. Housing for homeless drunks and druggies: BAD. It just makes sense, to everyone but progressives.
This should not be a surprise. CA has had a massive housing shortage for about a decade.
I stayed at the hotel last year. It was empty anyways.
The people that work to provide our food should sleep where exactly? FoH.