Is it only for residents?

No. The Community Resource Center is open to the wider farmworker community and to local residents in need, and its community room is available to Half Moon Bay nonprofits for meetings and celebrations.

State, federal, and county funding has been committed as of October 2023, including $6.575 million from San Mateo County

What happens to the parking?

18 resident spaces and 14 bicycle spaces on site, plus a full reconfiguration of the 28 existing Ted Adcock Community Center spaces.

Why downtown, and not somewhere cheaper?

Because the point isn't only shelter. Elders housed far from town become isolated, and isolation is a health condition our mental health team treats every week. Downtown means walking to a clinic, a church, a shop, a friend.

One Love,
One Coast

Q: Who will live at 555 Kelly?

Senior farmworkers who have spent their working lives in the fields of this coast.

Forty homes in downtown Half Moon Bay for the senior farmworkers who have fed this coast for forty years.

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For generations, Coastside farmworkers have cultivated deep roots in Half Moon Bay. But as they age, many face a quiet crisis: rising costs, isolation, and a severe lack of housing designed for their needs.

In January 2023, seven farmworkers were killed at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms. In the days after, officials walked the sites where they had lived. Twenty-seven workers and their families were housed in converted trailers. Neither farm held a permit to house anyone, and the county found no inspection records for either.

On this coast, farmworkers keep working into their seventies and eighties, because wages and the cost of living leave them no way to stop. There is no retirement in the fields — only working until you can't anymore, and to hope somoene has room for you.

For many farmworkers, a trip to the doctor, the pharmacy, or the county office simply isn't possible. ALAS has brought that help to them.

In the fields

Our Equity Express bus drives out to the farms with telehealth, mental health support, tutoring and internet access on board

At the table

Food pantries and La Mesa, our monthly dinner where farmworkers, growers, chefs and policymakers sit down together.

At
our door

A free bilingual mental health clinic, legal consultations, case management, and cultural arts programs.

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DIGNIFIED HOMES

40 affordable homes for senior farmworkers

So residents can walk to shops, social activities and public transit — reducing the isolation that so often comes with age.

A WALKABLE LOCATION

Mental health support, immigration resources, and healthcare navigation

A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE WHOLE COAST

18 resident parking spaces, 14 bicycle spaces, and a full reconfiguration of the 28 existing Ted Adcock Community Center spaces.

BALANCED TRANSPORTATION

"We must ensure that the people who contribute so much to our daily lives are not left behind. They deserve a safe and affordable place to call home, just as much as anyone else."

Luis Enrique Bazán

Board Member

The Journey

Spring 2023 — Community engagement begins: three public meetings across the year draw 100, 50 and 30 participants.

Spring 2024 — The Planning Commission reviews the proposal on 23 April, 30 April and 14 May. On 14 May, 555 Kelly receives full planning approvals.

Summer 2025 — City approvals completed.

October 2025 — Council directs staff to move forward with the ground lease.

Spring 2026 — Council approves the agreements with Mercy Housing California.

July 2026 — Following a certified referendum petition, the Council votes unanimously to place the ordinance before Half Moon Bay voters.

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