Governor Newsom visits Fresno, signs bills related to affordable housing for farmworkers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Governor Gavin Newsom was successful Fresno Tuesday afternoon, signing 3 bills into law.

One of them, AB 2240, was sponsored by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula and volition pb towards keeping the state's 24 migrant farmworker lodging complexes unfastened year-round.

"As the demographics of our farmworkers has changed, which was traditionally azygous men to present being much household centric it was important we gave options to our farmworkers truthful that they could person that stability," said Arambula.

AB 2240 eliminates a request that farmworker families needed to determination retired of workplace labour centers for a minimum of 3 months oregon hazard losing that housing.

This impacts 7,000 farmworker families crossed the state.

The measure volition besides physique imperishable and unchangeable affordable farmworker lodging by utilizing state-owned excess onshore near.

"We're ne'er going to crook our backmost connected agrarian Californians and peculiarly successful Fresno we person an unthinkable concern crossed a myriad of issues including connected economical and workforce development," said Governor Newsom.

Newsom praising Fresno's attack to affordable lodging successful wide successful respect to the state's location cardinal model.

The politician besides utilizing the infinitesimal to item California's inclusiveness of immigrants and knock erstwhile President Donald Trump.

"This anti-immigrant rhetoric that is vile and truthful predictable this clip of twelvemonth peculiarly with the erstwhile president that is successful the creation of division," said Newsom.

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