CARLSBAD (CA): City agrees to $2 million for new farmworker housing

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Source: North County (CA) Times

CARLSBAD: City agrees to $2 million for new farmworker housing
BY BARBARA HENRY | Posted: July 13, 2010 11:05 pm


Carlsbad's City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday to release nearly $2 million in construction funding to Catholic Charities for a long-sought farmworker housing project.

Surrounded by happy supporters moments after the vote, Sister RayMonda Duvall said that only one more step remains before her nonprofit can start building ---- the project still needs its city construction permits. City staff members estimate the permit process will take roughly a year, but Duvall said she hopes it happens quicker than that.
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Advocates have long campaigned to get the city to do more to solve a farmworker housing shortfall, and the shelter project is the latest in a series of housing proposals they have put forward. Their plans have run into opposition from the San Diego Minutemen, an anti-illegal immigration group.

Gerry Nance, a Carlsbad member of the Minutemen, told the council Tuesday that he didn't believe the information Catholic Charities was providing about this project. He said that he thought the shelter would house illegal immigrants, and not people who have legal permission to work in the United States.


http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/carlsbad/article_51363ca3-a381-5a12-aa72-75ef8fce492a.html

[Omaha Steve]

1. To late to R

Sorry I was very busy yesterday and didn't get to this.

OS