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    ‘I want to be heard’: Half Moon Bay farmworkers struggle in ‘deplorable’ conditions

    by Susanne Rust, Jack Flemming and Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times Jan 28, 2023 5 minutes
    Crime scene tape is seen from this drone view at California Terra Gardens on Jan. 25, 2023, in Half Moon Bay, California.

    HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — It’s not news to Bernardina Medrano and Margarita Martinez that many migrant farmworkers along the San Mateo County coast live in “deplorable” conditions, as Gov. Gavin Newsom and county Supervisor Ray Mueller have described.

    Medrano, 43, who pays $850 a month to share a two-bedroom trailer in Pescadero with four other adults and two children, has been here 16 years. Martinez, who lives in a garage, has been here more than 10.

    They say finding affordable and safe housing is one of the community’s biggest obstacles and hope the attention focused on the area after Monday’s mass killing of farmworkers in Half Moon Bay will prompt political decision-makers and the public to finally listen.

    “To me, that’s the magic word: Listen. I want to be heard,” Martinez said.

    To most Bay Area residents, Half Moon Bay and nearby coastal areas,

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