Camphora Apartments in Soledad, CA

Camphora will provide 44 new affordable rental apartments for farmworkers and their families. Transforming what used to be a run-down labor camp with concrete block structures, Camphora will be a welcoming home for its farmworker residents.  

The new community will include two turf soccer fields, half-court basketball, a 3,000 sq ft community center, a computer lab, and great patio areas for families to congregate and for community events.

In partnership with the City of Soledad and Monterey County, Camphora will have a connection to the municipal sewage system, replacing the aged onsite septic system. This required boring under a Union Pacific railway line and Highway 101.

Monterey County has been working of over 20 years to find a way to rehabilitate this run down facility that was built in 1960 as part of the Bracero program.

Twenty-five of the previous residents have been relocated temporarily and will return to the new community post construction. A small number of families whose household income was more than income thresholds received permanent relocation benefits. Many of the farmworker families have lived at Camphora for decades and we are pleased so many of them will be returning.