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But the possibility of being separated from her mother already feels real to Guadalupe, already makes her anxious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afraid she might lose her DACA status after Trump became president, Garcia drew up notarized papers making her younger sister, who is a U.S. citizen, the legal guardian of Guadalupe, in case she is deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole atmosphere we’re creating, that somehow it’s OK to threaten to split up a family, is devastating to a kid,” said Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, an advocacy organization based in Oakland that also signed on to the statement submitted to the court. “That uncertainty and fear has a huge impact on a kid’s health and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That assertion is backed up by research that says that when children live with the fear of a parent’s deportation, they are more likely to experience anxiety and depression and perform poorly in school or drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guadalupe has plans to attend Cal State Fullerton after high school, then go to medical school in New York. She wants to be a pediatrician. Her mom is proud of her daughter’s dreams. Garcia said she also had good grades in high school, until she realized what it meant that she was undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think I could go to college, and I kind of like gave up,” Garcia said. “I was a good student, I had good grades, I had a really good GPA. I felt like I hit a wall and I couldn’t go or do anything when I realized I was an [undocumented] immigrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Ted Lempert, President of Children Now\"]'The whole atmosphere we’re creating, that somehow it’s OK to threaten to split up a family, is devastating to a kid.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia worries that her own immigration status will derail her daughter’s dreams. She’s already heard her daughter say she’ll protect her mom, apply for immigration papers for her, make sure she’s able to stay. But Garcia doesn’t know if that’s even a possibility. 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"disqusTitle": "After Violence and Asylum Battles, Young Oakland Migrants Face a New Challenge: Graduating High School",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen a young woman from Honduras crossed a stage in Oakland last June to receive her high school diploma, it wasn’t just any graduation. She had escaped gang violence in her home country, Honduras, and kidnapping in Mexico on the journey north. Then, she endured detention after crossing the border and asking for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After arriving in the East Bay, she attended three different high schools, before finally graduating from \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/rudsdale\">Rudsdale Newcomer High School\u003c/a>, a continuation school opened in 2017 by Oakland Unified School District tailored to newcomer students like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could have dropped out two years before, but I wanted to get my diploma, and especially learn the language because, with that, you can go farther,” she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked only to use her middle name, Yamileth, because she is still afraid of the gang that targeted her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of teenagers and children from Central America have come to the United States since 2014, fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their home countries. They’ve enrolled in school districts across the country, but they often face a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/california-schools-help-unaccompanied-immigrant-students-combat-trauma-language-barriers/607928\">daunting set of obstacles\u003c/a> to graduate high school, enroll in college or prepare for careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, these teens have to work to pay for their own rent or help with family expenses. High school can be overwhelming for them. They often deal with being older than other students when they start high school, having survived severe trauma or missed years of school in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students at Rudsdale Newcommer High School play soccer on the field they share with Castlemont High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Rudsdale Newcommer High School play soccer on the field they share with Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamileth was 17 when she arrived in Oakland from Honduras in the spring of 2015. She was already in the middle of her senior year of high school back in Honduras. The Oakland Unified School District enrolled her in the ninth grade because she didn’t speak English and she had no school records with her. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yamileth stopped going to class just after a few months. A fellow student bullied her. She got beat up, her hair pulled, and was called names like “enana,” or dwarf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she was able to transfer to Oakland International High School, a school with students from all over the world, with an intense focus on English development and academic content. Yamileth loved it, but she was behind, and time was running out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2121\">A law passed last fall\u003c/a> in California allows newly-arrived immigrant students to enroll in a fifth year of high school if necessary, but they still need to finish before they turn 21. When Yamileth was about to turn 20 and only in her second full year of high school, she realized there was no way she could get enough credits to graduate in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was also embarrassed because of my age,” she said. “I was 19, almost 20, and I was still in high school. I said to myself, 'no, I’m going to be 21 and still in high school, no!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was when Oakland Unified offered her a new option: a continuation school just for immigrant students who are 16 or older, have been in the United States for fewer than three years, and who need to work or care for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before Rudsdale, she wouldn't be a student we would send to continuation school because maybe her English wasn't strong enough, but now we have this opportunity,” said Elizabeth Paniagua, a counselor at Oakland International High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://interactive.pri.org/embeds/2019-02/oakland-school-490.html\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County has received \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-released-to-sponsors-by-county\">the second-largest number\u003c/a> of unaccompanied minors in California, second only to Los Angeles. The largest school district in the county — Oakland Unified School District — experienced a spike in newcomer students in high school from 575 students in 2013 to 2014, to 1,337 students in 2017 to 2018, according to district officials. The district responded by opening up new programs, hiring a coordinator to track and support those students who had crossed the border alone and working to connect students to legal services and mental health therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders found that these students are more likely than others to drop out before finishing high school. Teachers would suddenly not hear from students again and have no idea what happened to them, or find them serving food at a local restaurant instead of in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were seeing was that students were having to choose basically between work and school, so there would be some students who might be truant for, like, two weeks, a month, a whole marking period or a semester,” said Acacia Woods-Chan, who teaches newcomers at Castlemont High School. She often refers struggling students to Rusdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Life at Rudsdale\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Francisco Sanchez, the after school program coordinator at Rudsdale Newcomer High School, helps the students find their new electives for the day. He currently must stretch the budget from Rudsdale Continuation High School but hopes to secure more funding specifically for this school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Sanchez, the after school program coordinator at Rudsdale Newcomer High School, helps the students find their new electives for the day. He currently must stretch the budget from Rudsdale Continuation High School but hopes to secure more funding specifically for this school. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For students who grew up in the United States and don’t have enough credits to graduate on time, or need more flexible schedules to work, many school districts have continuation schools. But these schools usually don't offer English as second language classes or have staff with expertise in teaching and supporting newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes at Rudsdale are small. School starts an hour later and ends an hour earlier than a traditional high school, with classes starting at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 2:30 p.m. This allows students to get to work in the afternoon, and to sleep in after working late at night. There’s no homework. And credits are earned on a six-week cycle, allowing students to constantly assess their progress toward graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a schedule that worked for Yamileth, who was also working as a dishwasher in a restaurant while going to school. She didn’t get off work until 11:00 p.m. and often wouldn’t get home until midnight. Sometimes, she says, she would miss four days of school in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I didn’t stop my studies,” she said in Spanish. “When I would come back to school, I would find out how far I was behind and I would go early to make up my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Principal Emma Batten-Bowman says getting students to show up to class is a big challenge, but she and other staff try to offer flexibility, allowing a student who is a mother to go home and breastfeed between classes, for example, or giving students time off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly talking to the students about, ‘Let us know if your schedule changes, we can put you on independent study for a short time, or we can work something out. Let us figure out a plan together. Don’t just drop off the face of the earth,’” Batten-Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges for many recent newcomers from Central America is missed years of schooling in their home countries, either because they lived in rural communities where junior high or high school was not available, or because it was dangerous to attend school because of gangs. When newcomers haven’t yet mastered academic reading, writing, or math in their home language, they have a lot more to learn in order to grasp high-school level material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only do they need to practice phonics, but they need to learn how to read a map. They need to know, like, you put the holes on the left and write your name on the right, some basic school skills organization,” Batten-Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamileth says she felt more confident at Rudsdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were all learning English,\" she said, \"so I knew there was no one who knew more than I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A student arriving to class in the morning at Rudsdale Newcomer High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student arriving to class in the morning at Rudsdale Newcomer High School. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school also offers some internships to improve students’ work skills. Some students interned this year at a local hospital and school leaders are looking into another internship at a dental clinic, where students could use their language skills in Spanish or Mam, an Indigenous language from Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etienne Torres, who teaches newcomers at Castlemont High School, says Rudsdale has made a huge difference for some students. He sees a lot of students get frustrated with the pace of learning English at Castlemont and feeling they will never finish high school. He ran into a former student who had transferred to Rudsdale and the difference was palpable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was sharing he had an internship in a hospital and he was super excited. I never saw him that excited about education when I had him for a whole year,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamileth enrolled in a dog care elective, where newcomer students spent time every week at a farmhouse where mistreated pit bulls are rehabilitated with loving care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Futures Open Up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In June 2018, Yamileth finally graduated, just days before her 21st birthday. She wore a white cap and gown. Her mom and little brother came to cheer her on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"A bulletin board displays graduates of Rudsdale Newcomer High School in the building's main office. \" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731813\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-1200x807.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bulletin board displays graduates of Rudsdale Newcomer High School in the building's main office. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That same month, she and her family won their asylum case to stay in the U.S., after fighting in court for three years. They can't be deported back to Honduras, and this year, they can apply for permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, she returned to Oakland International High School to seek out an old counselor to ask for help registering for cosmetology classes at a local community college. The steps proved somewhat daunting — at the college, someone asked Yamileth about her immigration status and asked her for more paperwork. The interaction left Yamileth thinking she might have to pay more than she could afford for classes and she decided she would wait to register until she has her green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Yamileth says she’s made it this far, and she isn’t ready to give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She fled beatings in Honduras after her mother refused to pay gang members a portion of her revenue from a clothing business. On the journey north, in Mexico, Yamileth, her mother and little brother were kidnapped at a bus station and held by a group of people who claimed to part of a drug cartel. One day, when their captors had gone out to collect ransom money for another captive, they were able to escape. Yamileth says it was an act of God — she was the one who found the door unlocked and told her mother and brother to run as fast as they could. She didn't join them until she was sure it was safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since God gave me the opportunity to be here,” she said in Spanish, “I have to make the most of that, most of all for my mom, for her future and for mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to open her own business. She says she’s always had a good head for it, helping her mother sell clothes and food back in Honduras from the time she was nine. Maybe she’ll open her own beauty parlor. Or maybe a restaurant. Or maybe she’ll become a veterinarian, drawing on the dog-care skills she learned at Rudsdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It feels like her whole future could open up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was first published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-02-25/newcomer-students-face-daunting-obstacles-graduate-california-high-school-makes\">Public Radio International\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It was reported in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org\">EdSource\u003c/a> and with support from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewa.org\">Education Writers Association\u003c/a> Reporting Fellowship.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of teenagers and children from Central America have come to the United States since 2014, fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their home countries. They’ve enrolled in school districts across the country, but they often face a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/california-schools-help-unaccompanied-immigrant-students-combat-trauma-language-barriers/607928\">daunting set of obstacles\u003c/a> to graduate high school, enroll in college or prepare for careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, these teens have to work to pay for their own rent or help with family expenses. High school can be overwhelming for them. They often deal with being older than other students when they start high school, having survived severe trauma or missed years of school in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students at Rudsdale Newcommer High School play soccer on the field they share with Castlemont High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35692__DSC6725.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Rudsdale Newcommer High School play soccer on the field they share with Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamileth was 17 when she arrived in Oakland from Honduras in the spring of 2015. She was already in the middle of her senior year of high school back in Honduras. The Oakland Unified School District enrolled her in the ninth grade because she didn’t speak English and she had no school records with her. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yamileth stopped going to class just after a few months. A fellow student bullied her. She got beat up, her hair pulled, and was called names like “enana,” or dwarf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, she was able to transfer to Oakland International High School, a school with students from all over the world, with an intense focus on English development and academic content. Yamileth loved it, but she was behind, and time was running out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2121\">A law passed last fall\u003c/a> in California allows newly-arrived immigrant students to enroll in a fifth year of high school if necessary, but they still need to finish before they turn 21. When Yamileth was about to turn 20 and only in her second full year of high school, she realized there was no way she could get enough credits to graduate in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was also embarrassed because of my age,” she said. “I was 19, almost 20, and I was still in high school. I said to myself, 'no, I’m going to be 21 and still in high school, no!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was when Oakland Unified offered her a new option: a continuation school just for immigrant students who are 16 or older, have been in the United States for fewer than three years, and who need to work or care for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before Rudsdale, she wouldn't be a student we would send to continuation school because maybe her English wasn't strong enough, but now we have this opportunity,” said Elizabeth Paniagua, a counselor at Oakland International High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://interactive.pri.org/embeds/2019-02/oakland-school-490.html\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County has received \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-released-to-sponsors-by-county\">the second-largest number\u003c/a> of unaccompanied minors in California, second only to Los Angeles. The largest school district in the county — Oakland Unified School District — experienced a spike in newcomer students in high school from 575 students in 2013 to 2014, to 1,337 students in 2017 to 2018, according to district officials. The district responded by opening up new programs, hiring a coordinator to track and support those students who had crossed the border alone and working to connect students to legal services and mental health therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District leaders found that these students are more likely than others to drop out before finishing high school. Teachers would suddenly not hear from students again and have no idea what happened to them, or find them serving food at a local restaurant instead of in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were seeing was that students were having to choose basically between work and school, so there would be some students who might be truant for, like, two weeks, a month, a whole marking period or a semester,” said Acacia Woods-Chan, who teaches newcomers at Castlemont High School. She often refers struggling students to Rusdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Life at Rudsdale\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Francisco Sanchez, the after school program coordinator at Rudsdale Newcomer High School, helps the students find their new electives for the day. He currently must stretch the budget from Rudsdale Continuation High School but hopes to secure more funding specifically for this school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35683__DSC6663.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Sanchez, the after school program coordinator at Rudsdale Newcomer High School, helps the students find their new electives for the day. He currently must stretch the budget from Rudsdale Continuation High School but hopes to secure more funding specifically for this school. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For students who grew up in the United States and don’t have enough credits to graduate on time, or need more flexible schedules to work, many school districts have continuation schools. But these schools usually don't offer English as second language classes or have staff with expertise in teaching and supporting newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes at Rudsdale are small. School starts an hour later and ends an hour earlier than a traditional high school, with classes starting at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 2:30 p.m. This allows students to get to work in the afternoon, and to sleep in after working late at night. There’s no homework. And credits are earned on a six-week cycle, allowing students to constantly assess their progress toward graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a schedule that worked for Yamileth, who was also working as a dishwasher in a restaurant while going to school. She didn’t get off work until 11:00 p.m. and often wouldn’t get home until midnight. Sometimes, she says, she would miss four days of school in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I didn’t stop my studies,” she said in Spanish. “When I would come back to school, I would find out how far I was behind and I would go early to make up my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Principal Emma Batten-Bowman says getting students to show up to class is a big challenge, but she and other staff try to offer flexibility, allowing a student who is a mother to go home and breastfeed between classes, for example, or giving students time off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly talking to the students about, ‘Let us know if your schedule changes, we can put you on independent study for a short time, or we can work something out. Let us figure out a plan together. Don’t just drop off the face of the earth,’” Batten-Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges for many recent newcomers from Central America is missed years of schooling in their home countries, either because they lived in rural communities where junior high or high school was not available, or because it was dangerous to attend school because of gangs. When newcomers haven’t yet mastered academic reading, writing, or math in their home language, they have a lot more to learn in order to grasp high-school level material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only do they need to practice phonics, but they need to learn how to read a map. They need to know, like, you put the holes on the left and write your name on the right, some basic school skills organization,” Batten-Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamileth says she felt more confident at Rudsdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were all learning English,\" she said, \"so I knew there was no one who knew more than I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A student arriving to class in the morning at Rudsdale Newcomer High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35673__DSC6592.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student arriving to class in the morning at Rudsdale Newcomer High School. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school also offers some internships to improve students’ work skills. Some students interned this year at a local hospital and school leaders are looking into another internship at a dental clinic, where students could use their language skills in Spanish or Mam, an Indigenous language from Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etienne Torres, who teaches newcomers at Castlemont High School, says Rudsdale has made a huge difference for some students. He sees a lot of students get frustrated with the pace of learning English at Castlemont and feeling they will never finish high school. He ran into a former student who had transferred to Rudsdale and the difference was palpable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was sharing he had an internship in a hospital and he was super excited. I never saw him that excited about education when I had him for a whole year,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamileth enrolled in a dog care elective, where newcomer students spent time every week at a farmhouse where mistreated pit bulls are rehabilitated with loving care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Futures Open Up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In June 2018, Yamileth finally graduated, just days before her 21st birthday. She wore a white cap and gown. Her mom and little brother came to cheer her on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"A bulletin board displays graduates of Rudsdale Newcomer High School in the building's main office. \" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11731813\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop-1200x807.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/GradCrop.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bulletin board displays graduates of Rudsdale Newcomer High School in the building's main office. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That same month, she and her family won their asylum case to stay in the U.S., after fighting in court for three years. They can't be deported back to Honduras, and this year, they can apply for permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, she returned to Oakland International High School to seek out an old counselor to ask for help registering for cosmetology classes at a local community college. The steps proved somewhat daunting — at the college, someone asked Yamileth about her immigration status and asked her for more paperwork. The interaction left Yamileth thinking she might have to pay more than she could afford for classes and she decided she would wait to register until she has her green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Yamileth says she’s made it this far, and she isn’t ready to give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She fled beatings in Honduras after her mother refused to pay gang members a portion of her revenue from a clothing business. On the journey north, in Mexico, Yamileth, her mother and little brother were kidnapped at a bus station and held by a group of people who claimed to part of a drug cartel. One day, when their captors had gone out to collect ransom money for another captive, they were able to escape. Yamileth says it was an act of God — she was the one who found the door unlocked and told her mother and brother to run as fast as they could. She didn't join them until she was sure it was safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since God gave me the opportunity to be here,” she said in Spanish, “I have to make the most of that, most of all for my mom, for her future and for mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to open her own business. She says she’s always had a good head for it, helping her mother sell clothes and food back in Honduras from the time she was nine. Maybe she’ll open her own beauty parlor. Or maybe a restaurant. Or maybe she’ll become a veterinarian, drawing on the dog-care skills she learned at Rudsdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It feels like her whole future could open up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was first published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-02-25/newcomer-students-face-daunting-obstacles-graduate-california-high-school-makes\">Public Radio International\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Vanessa and Richard Bulnes got an eviction notice, it felt sadly ironic. The Bulneses were unable to pay the rent because their corporate landlord took three years to remediate high levels of lead in the backyard soil, which caused Vanessa to lose her business -- a family home child care that she had run for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were nights where I would wake up and think, 'We're squatters.' And we felt really bad about that because it was never our intention to not pay rent,\" Vanessa said. \"Because after you lose a house for not paying your mortgage, we knew that’s not the way to go. This was like a second chance. We didn’t want to be at the mercy of somebody saying, 'You gotta get out' again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the latest in a string of injustices that happened to the Bulnes family: first, loan modification fraud, then foreclosure, now the threat of eviction. Their story is emblematic of a bigger problem: the disproportionate loss of African-American and Latino wealth during the foreclosure crisis and the obstacles to build up that wealth again. Between 2007 and 2013, so many African-American and Latino homeowners in Oakland were wiped out by foreclosure that entire neighborhoods were transformed. Many of the homes that were lost ended up in the hands of corporate investors, who then rented them out, sometimes to the same families who had lost their own homes. And that put those families, like the Bulneses, at risk of much more loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/05/StavelyBulnesPart1.mp3\" program=\"KQED News\" title=\"Part 1: From Foreclosure to Eviction: One Family’s Struggle to Recover\" image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/05/26/RS25501MG2276qut.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/05/20170531stavely.mp3\" program=\"KQED News\" title=\"Part 2: From Foreclosure to Eviction: One Family’s Struggle to Recover\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/06/20170601stavely3.mp3\" program=\"KQED News\" title=\"Part 3: From Foreclosure to Eviction: One Family’s Struggle to Recover\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d.jpg\"]\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Richard and Vanessa met at church in Oakland. Richard is Latino and grew up in San Francisco. Vanessa is African-American and grew up in North Carolina. They bought their house on 104th Avenue in East Oakland in 1992, shortly after they got married. It cost $141,500, and Richard’s sister was kind enough to give them the money for a $20,000 down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For them, this house is where they became a family. It's where they brought their third baby, a daughter, home from the hospital. It's where they took prom photos of their kids and all their friends when they were in high school. It was also where Vanessa started her own child care business, planting collard greens in the backyard with the kids in her care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their financial troubles all started one morning in 2008. Richard woke up early, as he likes to, took a shower and began to comb his hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I pride myself on my hair, because so many people are bald-headed now, especially at my age. But I am not,\" said Richard, 68, with a wry smile. \"[But] as I tried to comb my hair, I couldn’t lift up my right arm. I came in the bedroom, woke up my wife and told her, 'I think you need to take me to the hospital.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing a home often begins this way: A family hits a hard spot, a health crisis or a loss of income. At the time of the stroke, Richard was working at Meals on Wheels. The family lost about $2,000 a month in income, about the same amount as their mortgage payment at the time, which had ballooned after they refinanced. They still had Vanessa's income from her child care business, but they decided their best option was to try to modify their loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulneses, though, were caught up in a bigger web. Oakland and other cities across the country are now suing big banks for targeting African-American and Latino homeowners with loans that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511482.2013.771788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had abusive rates\u003c/a>. At the same time, many banks weren't playing fair to help homeowners modify their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed like at every point, when we got to where we thought we were going to get a modification, they needed another piece of paperwork, they needed another bank statement,\" said Vanessa, who is 58. \"There was always something else they needed, and when we gave them that, 'Oh we lost that, could you send something else?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa strokes Richard Bulnes' hair as he declares that he is still in love with her after 29 years. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Vanessa describes sounds really familiar to Maeve Elise Brown, director of the statewide organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.heraca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing and Economic Rights Advocates\u003c/a>. In 2009, President Barack Obama had introduced the Home Affordable Modification Program to help struggling homeowners modify their loans, but homeowner advocates, researchers and news organizations like ProPublica found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-a-revealing-look-at-the-mortgage-mod-meltdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banks often broke the rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mortgage servicers were telling people to turn in paperwork over and over and over again. They weren’t looking at it, they would shred it. They would deny people instantly,\" Brown said. \"Not everyone qualified, but a whole bunch of people could, but were prevented from accessing that relief by the mortgage servicing companies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino and African-American neighborhoods, like the Bulneses', were hit the hardest by the foreclosure crisis. These are the same neighborhoods that were \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlined\u003c/a> decades ago, with residents denied mortgages simply because of where they lived. Across the country, African-American and Latino neighborhoods lost three to four times more homes than white neighborhoods during the recent mortgage crisis, according to \u003ca href=\"http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/05/home-foreclosures-fueled-racial-segregation-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell University research\u003c/a>. On the Bulneses' six-block street alone, at least 35 properties were foreclosed between January 2006 and December 2012, according to the website \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PropertyRadar\u003c/a>, which tracks foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484036\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bulnes chokes up on stage after talking with Bishop J.W. Macklin about his hospital visits. Vanessa Bulnes comforts him at the Sunday morning service at Glad Tidings Church in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our neighbors right next to us, they both work for AC Transit, and we saw them lose their house. So we started praying harder. Then we saw the neighbor next door to us on the other side lose their house,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreclosure seemed almost like a virus that Vanessa and Richard Bulnes could catch. They decided to pay an attorney to help them. Other companies began circling them. Vanessa called them vultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would get all kinds of letters in the mail saying, 'Call this number,' and you’d call that number, and they’d say, 'Are you behind on your mortgage?', and we’d say, 'No,' and they'd say, 'We can help you. The first thing you do is stop paying your mortgage,' \" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was skeptical. But one letter from \"The Gordon Law Firm\" had a logo that looked like it was from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. On this firm’s advice they stopped paying their mortgage. But the firm was lying. They weren’t HUD, and they couldn’t modify Vanessa and Richard’s loan. Years later, through a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cfpbconsumerprotection-gordon.org/Home/Faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, the Bulneses won $3,500 back, but that’s just a fraction of the wealth they lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2012, the foreclosure was final. The house Vanessa and Richard owned on 104th Avenue was no longer theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cried like a baby,\" said Richard, remembering when he and his wife lost their home to foreclosure. \"A grown man, crying like a baby. We had lived here 21 years. I raised three kids here. So, this is what we knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa knew they had to find a place by Christmas, so her daughter would have a place to come home to during winter break from her freshman year at college, and so the kids at her day care could transition easily while school was out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife, because she’s so practical, she said, 'Babe, you gotta wipe the tears out of your eyes,' \" Richard remembered. \"I said, 'Man, I ain’t finished crying yet.' She said, 'Well, whether you’re finished or not, we got to find another house.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families who lost their homes were forced out of Oakland, but Vanessa and Richard Bulnes were able to find a new place to rent. What they didn't know is that they were now at risk of losing a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renting from a Wall Street Landlord\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa and Richard were paying more to rent their new house than they had been paying on their mortgage before their first home was lost to foreclosure, but in many ways, the rental was perfect. It only had one level, so Richard didn’t have too many steps to climb, which was hard after his stroke. And the house was spacious, with lots of room for Vanessa's day care, Tender Arms Family Child Care. She had a contract with Head Start to care for low-income children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa wanted to plant greens with the kids in the backyard as she had at her old home, so in the fall she called a group to come out and test the soil. That’s when she ran into a big problem: The level of lead in the soil was 1,350 parts per million, right in the area that the kids used for the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes sit on the couch of their rental home looking through an old photo album reminiscing about the past. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amount of lead in the Bulneses' backyard was more than three times the amount the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/lead/hazard-standards-lead-paint-dust-and-soil-tsca-section-403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> considers a hazard in play areas, and almost 17 times the amount California's \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/risk/soils091709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment\u003c/a> considers a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vanessa got the lead results back, she called Head Start immediately, and they came out and put a temporary rubber cover on part of the patio. But they emphasized a permanent solution had to be found if she wanted to keep her contract. Alameda County has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/programs/leadfunding.htm#financial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial assistance program\u003c/a> to help low-income residents remove or fix lead problems, with priority for family child care providers like Vanessa. If Vanessa still lived in a home she owned, she would have had it done right away. But now, she was renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because we’re not the owners, we couldn’t apply to have the work done. We needed the owners to give us consent, and that’s where we didn’t get any cooperation with the property owner,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the Bulneses' new home wasn’t just any landlord. It was a corporation: Waypoint Homes. It merged in 2016 with another top real estate investor, Colony American Homes, to become \u003ca href=\"http://colonystarwood.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colony Starwood Homes\u003c/a>. Co-chairman of the board, Thomas Barrack, is a billionaire who helped raise $35 million for President Trump’s campaign and chaired his inaugural committee. The company owns more than 30,000 single-family homes across the country and close to 4,000 in California. On the company website, Colony Starwood boasts, \"We recognized the unique opportunity created by the housing crisis and acted upon it in a bold way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Strategies Council found that in Oakland, 42 percent of foreclosed homes between 2007 and 2011 were \u003ca href=\"http://community-wealth.org/content/who-owns-your-neighborhood-role-investors-post-foreclosure-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">snapped up by corporate investors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, corporate takeover of homes happened mostly in low-income neighborhoods, essentially shifting ownership from the hands of largely Latino and African-American residents to the hands of Wall Street corporations. Latino and African-American buyers are still largely locked out of home loans in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://greenlining.org/issues/2016/new-report-finds-racial-disparities-possible-redlining-in-oakland-mortgage-lending/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One report\u003c/a> found that in 2013, the top 12 lenders financed only four homes for African-American buyers and only seven for Latino buyers, compared with 40 for white buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did investors snap up homes. They also decided to keep them and make money off them by renting them out. Since single-family homes are exempt from limits on rent increases under California's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, for the most part, property owners could charge higher rents for them. It was a new moneymaking venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484040\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes had lead in the backyard of their new rental house. In order to have a day care out of their home they placed this turf down, but they needed the property owner to do more in order to keep their business. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 survey conducted by the group Tenants Together found that 40 percent of Californians renting from the top three Wall Street real estate investors reported that these landlords \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenantstogether.org/updates/report-released-tenant-experience-renting-wall-street-landlords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weren’t repairing or maintaining\u003c/a> homes as they should. The three companies included both Waypoint Homes and Colony American Homes. Now, Vanessa Bulnes had to rely on them to get the lead fixed, so she could keep her contract with Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I’m on the phone, my husband and I, we’re calling Waypoint, and emails and everything like that,\" Vanessa said. \"Here we are, the clock is ticking. I’m like OK, I’m taking pictures, this is the area, this is how big it is, this is what we need you to have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa first contacted Waypoint in 2013, when the lead was found. But she says property managers came and went, and each time she had to start the process again. In June 2016, almost three years after the lead had been found, Head Start told Vanessa they couldn’t renew for the next school year if the lead wasn’t fixed by September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I’m like, 'OK, this is affecting my income.' I give all these red flags about what’s going to happen if nothing is done. Still no urgency on their part,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one email in August 2016, a regional manager for Waypoint Homes wrote, \"Unfortunately, we are not in a position to work with this program at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until November that someone from Waypoint Homes finally came to walk through the property with an Alameda County representative. When questioned why it took the company so long to fix the lead problem, a spokesperson did not respond, instead stating that the company finished the work on Nov. 28, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, three years after Vanessa's initial request, it was too late. The school year had already begun, and Head Start had canceled her contract. The family’s main source of income, which had gotten them through the stroke and the foreclosure, was gone. They had to apply for assistance for food, and Vanessa had to change her health insurance from Covered California to Medi-Cal. They began to fall behind on their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before they started working on the lead remediation, Colony Starwood Homes had already begun trying to evict the Bulneses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take a protest at the headquarters of Thomas Barrack's real estate investment company Colony NorthStar in Los Angeles, organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acceaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, legal help, and financial support from their church for the Bulneses to finally get their corporate landlord to back off. In January, Colony Starwood Homes agreed to cancel the eviction, plus four months of back rent. Vanessa now has a job at an outside day care and is trying to make due off her hourly salary of $17. She says that amounts to about a third of what she brought in when she had her own child care business at home. She can pay the rent, but she says she's behind on other bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Bulnes hangs a \"Welcome\" sign on the door of their rental house. It's the same sign she used to have up when the children arrived for day care. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their precarious situation could now affect their children's financial future. When you don't own a home and are one step away from eviction, you're a lot farther behind people who can help their children with a down payment or pay for college. In fact, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/in-the-balance/issue12-2015/why-didnt-higher-education-protect-hispanic-and-black-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data showing that black college graduates \u003c/a>have lost wealth over the past generation, while white college graduates’ wealth has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulnes family's youngest daughter is about to graduate from a historically black college in Texas. Vanessa says her daughter has had to call on other relatives and friends from church to help out when she needs money at school. Still, she says, there are other lessons she's passing on to her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When she has a day that’s trying and she thinks she can't make it, she’ll text me, and she’s like, 'Mom, this is so hard,' and she’s really down and sorry for herself. I’m like, 'But think about your mom, what you’ve seen me go through, what you’ve seen us go through. You came from me,' \" Vanessa said. \"Those are the kinds of things we’re passing on to our kids. It may not be money. It may not be a house. But there’s so much more that we want to pass on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that is financial advice, learned the hard way. And then there's this: Vanessa is now an active community organizer, helping other Oaklanders try to fight off their landlords and stay in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They still had Vanessa's income from her child care business, but they decided their best option was to try to modify their loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulneses, though, were caught up in a bigger web. Oakland and other cities across the country are now suing big banks for targeting African-American and Latino homeowners with loans that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511482.2013.771788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had abusive rates\u003c/a>. At the same time, many banks weren't playing fair to help homeowners modify their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed like at every point, when we got to where we thought we were going to get a modification, they needed another piece of paperwork, they needed another bank statement,\" said Vanessa, who is 58. \"There was always something else they needed, and when we gave them that, 'Oh we lost that, could you send something else?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa strokes Richard Bulnes' hair as he declares that he is still in love with her after 29 years. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Vanessa describes sounds really familiar to Maeve Elise Brown, director of the statewide organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.heraca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing and Economic Rights Advocates\u003c/a>. In 2009, President Barack Obama had introduced the Home Affordable Modification Program to help struggling homeowners modify their loans, but homeowner advocates, researchers and news organizations like ProPublica found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-a-revealing-look-at-the-mortgage-mod-meltdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banks often broke the rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mortgage servicers were telling people to turn in paperwork over and over and over again. They weren’t looking at it, they would shred it. They would deny people instantly,\" Brown said. \"Not everyone qualified, but a whole bunch of people could, but were prevented from accessing that relief by the mortgage servicing companies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino and African-American neighborhoods, like the Bulneses', were hit the hardest by the foreclosure crisis. These are the same neighborhoods that were \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlined\u003c/a> decades ago, with residents denied mortgages simply because of where they lived. Across the country, African-American and Latino neighborhoods lost three to four times more homes than white neighborhoods during the recent mortgage crisis, according to \u003ca href=\"http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/05/home-foreclosures-fueled-racial-segregation-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell University research\u003c/a>. On the Bulneses' six-block street alone, at least 35 properties were foreclosed between January 2006 and December 2012, according to the website \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PropertyRadar\u003c/a>, which tracks foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484036\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bulnes chokes up on stage after talking with Bishop J.W. Macklin about his hospital visits. Vanessa Bulnes comforts him at the Sunday morning service at Glad Tidings Church in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our neighbors right next to us, they both work for AC Transit, and we saw them lose their house. So we started praying harder. Then we saw the neighbor next door to us on the other side lose their house,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreclosure seemed almost like a virus that Vanessa and Richard Bulnes could catch. They decided to pay an attorney to help them. Other companies began circling them. Vanessa called them vultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would get all kinds of letters in the mail saying, 'Call this number,' and you’d call that number, and they’d say, 'Are you behind on your mortgage?', and we’d say, 'No,' and they'd say, 'We can help you. The first thing you do is stop paying your mortgage,' \" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was skeptical. But one letter from \"The Gordon Law Firm\" had a logo that looked like it was from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. On this firm’s advice they stopped paying their mortgage. But the firm was lying. They weren’t HUD, and they couldn’t modify Vanessa and Richard’s loan. Years later, through a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cfpbconsumerprotection-gordon.org/Home/Faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, the Bulneses won $3,500 back, but that’s just a fraction of the wealth they lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2012, the foreclosure was final. The house Vanessa and Richard owned on 104th Avenue was no longer theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cried like a baby,\" said Richard, remembering when he and his wife lost their home to foreclosure. \"A grown man, crying like a baby. We had lived here 21 years. I raised three kids here. So, this is what we knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa knew they had to find a place by Christmas, so her daughter would have a place to come home to during winter break from her freshman year at college, and so the kids at her day care could transition easily while school was out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife, because she’s so practical, she said, 'Babe, you gotta wipe the tears out of your eyes,' \" Richard remembered. \"I said, 'Man, I ain’t finished crying yet.' She said, 'Well, whether you’re finished or not, we got to find another house.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families who lost their homes were forced out of Oakland, but Vanessa and Richard Bulnes were able to find a new place to rent. What they didn't know is that they were now at risk of losing a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renting from a Wall Street Landlord\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa and Richard were paying more to rent their new house than they had been paying on their mortgage before their first home was lost to foreclosure, but in many ways, the rental was perfect. It only had one level, so Richard didn’t have too many steps to climb, which was hard after his stroke. And the house was spacious, with lots of room for Vanessa's day care, Tender Arms Family Child Care. She had a contract with Head Start to care for low-income children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa wanted to plant greens with the kids in the backyard as she had at her old home, so in the fall she called a group to come out and test the soil. That’s when she ran into a big problem: The level of lead in the soil was 1,350 parts per million, right in the area that the kids used for the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes sit on the couch of their rental home looking through an old photo album reminiscing about the past. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amount of lead in the Bulneses' backyard was more than three times the amount the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/lead/hazard-standards-lead-paint-dust-and-soil-tsca-section-403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> considers a hazard in play areas, and almost 17 times the amount California's \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/risk/soils091709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment\u003c/a> considers a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vanessa got the lead results back, she called Head Start immediately, and they came out and put a temporary rubber cover on part of the patio. But they emphasized a permanent solution had to be found if she wanted to keep her contract. Alameda County has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/programs/leadfunding.htm#financial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial assistance program\u003c/a> to help low-income residents remove or fix lead problems, with priority for family child care providers like Vanessa. If Vanessa still lived in a home she owned, she would have had it done right away. But now, she was renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because we’re not the owners, we couldn’t apply to have the work done. We needed the owners to give us consent, and that’s where we didn’t get any cooperation with the property owner,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the Bulneses' new home wasn’t just any landlord. It was a corporation: Waypoint Homes. It merged in 2016 with another top real estate investor, Colony American Homes, to become \u003ca href=\"http://colonystarwood.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colony Starwood Homes\u003c/a>. Co-chairman of the board, Thomas Barrack, is a billionaire who helped raise $35 million for President Trump’s campaign and chaired his inaugural committee. The company owns more than 30,000 single-family homes across the country and close to 4,000 in California. On the company website, Colony Starwood boasts, \"We recognized the unique opportunity created by the housing crisis and acted upon it in a bold way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Strategies Council found that in Oakland, 42 percent of foreclosed homes between 2007 and 2011 were \u003ca href=\"http://community-wealth.org/content/who-owns-your-neighborhood-role-investors-post-foreclosure-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">snapped up by corporate investors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, corporate takeover of homes happened mostly in low-income neighborhoods, essentially shifting ownership from the hands of largely Latino and African-American residents to the hands of Wall Street corporations. Latino and African-American buyers are still largely locked out of home loans in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://greenlining.org/issues/2016/new-report-finds-racial-disparities-possible-redlining-in-oakland-mortgage-lending/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One report\u003c/a> found that in 2013, the top 12 lenders financed only four homes for African-American buyers and only seven for Latino buyers, compared with 40 for white buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did investors snap up homes. They also decided to keep them and make money off them by renting them out. Since single-family homes are exempt from limits on rent increases under California's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, for the most part, property owners could charge higher rents for them. It was a new moneymaking venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484040\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes had lead in the backyard of their new rental house. In order to have a day care out of their home they placed this turf down, but they needed the property owner to do more in order to keep their business. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 survey conducted by the group Tenants Together found that 40 percent of Californians renting from the top three Wall Street real estate investors reported that these landlords \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenantstogether.org/updates/report-released-tenant-experience-renting-wall-street-landlords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weren’t repairing or maintaining\u003c/a> homes as they should. The three companies included both Waypoint Homes and Colony American Homes. Now, Vanessa Bulnes had to rely on them to get the lead fixed, so she could keep her contract with Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I’m on the phone, my husband and I, we’re calling Waypoint, and emails and everything like that,\" Vanessa said. \"Here we are, the clock is ticking. I’m like OK, I’m taking pictures, this is the area, this is how big it is, this is what we need you to have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa first contacted Waypoint in 2013, when the lead was found. But she says property managers came and went, and each time she had to start the process again. In June 2016, almost three years after the lead had been found, Head Start told Vanessa they couldn’t renew for the next school year if the lead wasn’t fixed by September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I’m like, 'OK, this is affecting my income.' I give all these red flags about what’s going to happen if nothing is done. Still no urgency on their part,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one email in August 2016, a regional manager for Waypoint Homes wrote, \"Unfortunately, we are not in a position to work with this program at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until November that someone from Waypoint Homes finally came to walk through the property with an Alameda County representative. When questioned why it took the company so long to fix the lead problem, a spokesperson did not respond, instead stating that the company finished the work on Nov. 28, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, three years after Vanessa's initial request, it was too late. The school year had already begun, and Head Start had canceled her contract. The family’s main source of income, which had gotten them through the stroke and the foreclosure, was gone. They had to apply for assistance for food, and Vanessa had to change her health insurance from Covered California to Medi-Cal. They began to fall behind on their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before they started working on the lead remediation, Colony Starwood Homes had already begun trying to evict the Bulneses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take a protest at the headquarters of Thomas Barrack's real estate investment company Colony NorthStar in Los Angeles, organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acceaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, legal help, and financial support from their church for the Bulneses to finally get their corporate landlord to back off. In January, Colony Starwood Homes agreed to cancel the eviction, plus four months of back rent. Vanessa now has a job at an outside day care and is trying to make due off her hourly salary of $17. She says that amounts to about a third of what she brought in when she had her own child care business at home. She can pay the rent, but she says she's behind on other bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Bulnes hangs a \"Welcome\" sign on the door of their rental house. It's the same sign she used to have up when the children arrived for day care. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their precarious situation could now affect their children's financial future. When you don't own a home and are one step away from eviction, you're a lot farther behind people who can help their children with a down payment or pay for college. In fact, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/in-the-balance/issue12-2015/why-didnt-higher-education-protect-hispanic-and-black-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data showing that black college graduates \u003c/a>have lost wealth over the past generation, while white college graduates’ wealth has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulnes family's youngest daughter is about to graduate from a historically black college in Texas. Vanessa says her daughter has had to call on other relatives and friends from church to help out when she needs money at school. Still, she says, there are other lessons she's passing on to her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When she has a day that’s trying and she thinks she can't make it, she’ll text me, and she’s like, 'Mom, this is so hard,' and she’s really down and sorry for herself. I’m like, 'But think about your mom, what you’ve seen me go through, what you’ve seen us go through. You came from me,' \" Vanessa said. \"Those are the kinds of things we’re passing on to our kids. It may not be money. It may not be a house. But there’s so much more that we want to pass on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At her kitchen table in Oakland, Yahaira Carrillo leafs through an old photo album with faded pictures of a little curly-haired girl. The album is precious to her: She saw her baby pictures for the first time only a few years ago, when her aunt brought the album from Mexico. That's because when Carrillo crossed the border as a 7-year-old with her mom, they left almost everything behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up undocumented, first in California, then in Missouri, Carrillo, now 32, was taught to always be on her best behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any sort of wrong moves could result in my parents getting deported or my getting deported, or ending up in foster care,\" Carrillo said. \"[My mom] was like, 'Always be good. We have to be model citizens, model behavior. We have to be as normal, as American, as possible, instead of raising any red flags.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a big risk for undocumented immigrants to admit they don’t have papers, especially now, when President Trump is targeting immigrants and vowing to deport them in record numbers. And yet, in the past decade, more and more young people who were brought to the U.S. as children have been doing just that -- especially those who are LGBTQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-14b-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/04/14/BertProtestImg.jpg\" Title=\"Queer and Undocumented: A Powerful Force in the Dreamer Movement\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Carrillo grew up, she ran into obstacles because of her immigration status. When she went to college, she didn’t qualify for financial aid, so she had to work full time to pay tuition, and it took her nine years to graduate. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/1291\" target=\"_blank\">DREAM Act\u003c/a> (an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) would have given undocumented young people like her a path to a green card. But years after it was first introduced in 2001, the bill still hadn’t passed. So Carrillo decided to start lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had reached a point where we had to tell our own stories, we had to speak for ourselves,\" Carrillo said, \"because it was suffocating, you know, living in this place of fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffocating — like when you're gay and in the closet. Carrillo also knew what that felt like. She came out as bisexual when she was 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it’s about living life on your own terms,\" Carrillo said. \"[It's about] you calling the shots about how you move about the world, and facing society head on, in your full truth, in both of those areas. And there's power in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EFIDkoJ1DqthjlKMkv2c098EdOOjUzY8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the most outspoken, undocumented young activists who organized across the country for the DREAM Act are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. After the bill failed in Congress in 2007, they began taking a page from the in-your-face civil disobedience of AIDS and gay rights groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.actupny.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Act Up!\u003c/a> and adopting the practice — advocated by Harvey Milk and other LGBTQ activists — of “coming out” publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to know that queer people exist, and people need to know that undocumented people exist, and that we live next door, and that we brush our teeth, and that we floss, or don’t floss, just like everybody else,\" Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, as four \"Dreamers\" (young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without papers as children) walked from Florida to Washington, D.C., to push for the DREAM Act, a group of undocumented youth in Chicago declared \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.iyjl.org/national-coming-out-of-the-shadows-day/\" target=\"_blank\">National Coming Out of the Shadows\u003c/a>\" month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2010, Carrillo and four other young people decided to put their bodies on the line, in the place they felt was most dangerous for undocumented immigrants: Arizona. Just weeks before, the state had passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1070\u003c/a>, which made it a crime to be undocumented in the state and required police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained, if police suspected they did not have government permission to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11408716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11408716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-800x1008.jpg\" alt=\"Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo, and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-160x202.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-240x302.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-375x473.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-520x655.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yahaira Carrillo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carrillo and the others walked into Sen. John McCain’s office, wearing blue graduation caps and gowns. They sat on the floor, and said they would not leave until the senator agreed to co-sponsor the DREAM Act. Carrillo remembers a police officer tried to talk them out of it. He said he had a son, too, and asked them to think of their future: How would they get a job if they were arrested?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I remember one of us saying, 'But you don’t understand. That’s the problem: that we can’t. We can't get a job,' \" Carrillo recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were risking everything. Four of the young people were arrested that day. Carrillo and two others were turned over to immigration authorities. They were later released but faced possible deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, more protests were happening around the country. A queer immigrant organizer named Prerna Lal, one of the founders of a group called \u003ca href=\"http://dreamactivist.org/\" target=\"_blank\">DreamActivist\u003c/a>, helped shut down Wilshire Boulevard outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what I did because I didn’t feel like there was an alternative for me, or for my friends,\" said Lal, 32. \"For far too long, we had been cast aside, marginalized. Our stories were not seen as important, our lives not important. And I was tired of living that way and I couldn’t live that way. I felt like coming out and organizing was better. If it meant being deported, so be it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it's about living life on your own terms.'\u003ccite>Yahaira Carrillo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lal and her parents came from Fiji and overstayed their visas. By the time her parents got green cards, she was over 21 and couldn't legalize her status with them. Friends suggested she could get a green card another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told many times, 'Get married! Just find a boy!' And I was like, 'Well that’s not me, that’s not who I am,\" Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage wasn't legal at the time, but Lal says many mainstream immigrant rights organizations didn't want to address that obstacle as part of the fight for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We felt like we were being told, 'While your immigrant stories are great, we don’t want to hear about your sexual orientation, that’s something you do in private,' \" said Lal. \"It's kind of funny talking about that now because we have come so far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DREAM Act didn't pass, but the Dreamers started something. After the arrest in McCain's office, more and more people began declaring themselves \"Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic!\" a refrain that has echoes of the chant \"We're here, we're queer, get used to it!\" of radical gay rights organizations. That summer, 21 young undocumented people were arrested while holding sit-ins on Capitol Hill. Almost half of them also identified as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal says the Dreamers risking arrest and deportation caught the attention of the country … and the president. In 2012, President Barack Obama issued temporary protection from deportation for undocumented youth, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca\" target=\"_blank\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a>, known by its initials as DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DACA’s only in place because people fought for it to be in place,\" Lal said. \"Obama didn’t wake up one day and just decide to do it on his own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZLCyTWBblPnSPt0oCqQ2sTyoQroBFeCw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, in the months before Obama's announcement, undocumented youth held sit-ins in his campaign offices, calling for an executive order to stop deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia Escobar worked in the White House as special assistant to President Obama on immigration policy, and she helped craft DACA. She says the administration had been working on the directive for months before its announcement, and was not directly affected by the sit-ins that summer. She acknowledges, however, that the president and others in his administration had been meeting with undocumented youth from the beginning of his first term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that Dreamers have been, you know, unafraid to come out and share their story has had a tremendous impact on the entire immigrant rights movement,\" said Escobar. \"They’re able to humanize the issue, they’re articulate, you see them, you hear them. They moved the ball forward in a really impactful way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 750,000 DACA applications have been approved since the policy began in 2012. During his campaign, Donald Trump vowed to end DACA. But as president, he has backed off somewhat, saying he would deal with people who have DACA with \"great heart,\" and leave it in place, at least for now. At the same time, he's promised to increase deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As of now it seems like DACA youth are safe,\" said Escobar, \"but they don’t live in a vacuum. They’re worried about their parents. They're worried about their siblings, who may not have qualified for DACA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"daScyNAOZZnxuNvGVawHaO8vPl1IyjGA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal and Carrillo now see that fear and uncertainty every day at the East Bay Community Law Center where they both work. Lal is an attorney serving undocumented students at UC Berkeley. After Trump's inauguration, Lal says the number of students seeking legal help went up by 50 percent. She says she has even had clients who have refused needed medical care because they are worried that if their family members come to see them in the hospital, they could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my greatest fears when Trump was elected was not that he would take DACA away, but that he would keep it and use it as a bargaining chip. And that's precisely what I see is happening,\" said Lal. \"A bargaining chip, saying, 'We'll deport everyone else, except for these young, amazing, quote-unquote children.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal fought her own deportation all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, but that same court ended up granting her a path to permanent residency when it ruled that same-sex marriage is legal. That allowed her to obtain a green card through her marriage to her U.S. citizen wife. Carrillo has a visa to live and work here now, too. Both of them say they know some people wonder if, under Trump, “coming out” as undocumented is too great a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s real,\" said Carrillo. \"But at the end of the day we don’t want to go back to the same place we were before. Because that’s basically the same thing we were told in 2010: 'We do this for your safety. We speak for you so you can be safe.' I have no desire to go back to that. I also have no desire to tell people they’re going to be safe. If you are not undocumented, it’s not your place to tell people. It’s just like coming out as queer. You choose when you come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11407603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Blanca Vazquez invites undocumented immigrants to \"come out of the shadows\" at a rally in Oakland in April 2017.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Vazquez, of the East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition, invites undocumented immigrants to 'come out of the shadows' at a rally in Oakland in April 2017. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some undocumented youth and adults are still choosing to come out, and they're still using the chant \"Undocumented! Unafraid!\" at rallies and protests. Sometimes they end by shouting \"Queer, Trans, and Unashamed!\" At a recent rally outside the Alameda County Sheriff's Office in Oakland, people lined up for a turn at a microphone to \"come out of the shadows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Vazquez, 28, helped organize the event. She said she arrived in the U.S. when she was 6 months old and applied for DACA last year, but she's still waiting for approval. Even with all the uncertainty under the Trump administration, she says she'll keep speaking out about her status. She still remembers the first time she saw someone share publicly that they were undocumented. After being told her entire life not to share her immigration status, she was shocked and remembers thinking, \"Does he know what he’s about to do? You just don’t do that. You don’t talk about this kind of thing with strangers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, she burst into tears. In that moment, Vazquez says she also learned something: \"That my silence isolated me, and isolated everyone who was undocumented, and our isolation was not protecting us.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had reached a point where we had to tell our own stories, we had to speak for ourselves,\" Carrillo said, \"because it was suffocating, you know, living in this place of fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffocating — like when you're gay and in the closet. Carrillo also knew what that felt like. She came out as bisexual when she was 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it’s about living life on your own terms,\" Carrillo said. \"[It's about] you calling the shots about how you move about the world, and facing society head on, in your full truth, in both of those areas. And there's power in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the most outspoken, undocumented young activists who organized across the country for the DREAM Act are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. After the bill failed in Congress in 2007, they began taking a page from the in-your-face civil disobedience of AIDS and gay rights groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.actupny.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Act Up!\u003c/a> and adopting the practice — advocated by Harvey Milk and other LGBTQ activists — of “coming out” publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People need to know that queer people exist, and people need to know that undocumented people exist, and that we live next door, and that we brush our teeth, and that we floss, or don’t floss, just like everybody else,\" Carrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, as four \"Dreamers\" (young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without papers as children) walked from Florida to Washington, D.C., to push for the DREAM Act, a group of undocumented youth in Chicago declared \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.iyjl.org/national-coming-out-of-the-shadows-day/\" target=\"_blank\">National Coming Out of the Shadows\u003c/a>\" month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2010, Carrillo and four other young people decided to put their bodies on the line, in the place they felt was most dangerous for undocumented immigrants: Arizona. Just weeks before, the state had passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1070\u003c/a>, which made it a crime to be undocumented in the state and required police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained, if police suspected they did not have government permission to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11408716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11408716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-800x1008.jpg\" alt=\"Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo, and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-160x202.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-240x302.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-375x473.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/McCainSitIn-520x655.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four undocumented youth, Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo and Mohammad Abdollahi, accompanied by Raúl Alcaraz, held a sit-in in John McCain’s office in Arizona in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yahaira Carrillo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carrillo and the others walked into Sen. John McCain’s office, wearing blue graduation caps and gowns. They sat on the floor, and said they would not leave until the senator agreed to co-sponsor the DREAM Act. Carrillo remembers a police officer tried to talk them out of it. He said he had a son, too, and asked them to think of their future: How would they get a job if they were arrested?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I remember one of us saying, 'But you don’t understand. That’s the problem: that we can’t. We can't get a job,' \" Carrillo recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were risking everything. Four of the young people were arrested that day. Carrillo and two others were turned over to immigration authorities. They were later released but faced possible deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, more protests were happening around the country. A queer immigrant organizer named Prerna Lal, one of the founders of a group called \u003ca href=\"http://dreamactivist.org/\" target=\"_blank\">DreamActivist\u003c/a>, helped shut down Wilshire Boulevard outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what I did because I didn’t feel like there was an alternative for me, or for my friends,\" said Lal, 32. \"For far too long, we had been cast aside, marginalized. Our stories were not seen as important, our lives not important. And I was tired of living that way and I couldn’t live that way. I felt like coming out and organizing was better. If it meant being deported, so be it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Both coming out as queer and coming out as undocumented, it's about living life on your own terms.'\u003ccite>Yahaira Carrillo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lal and her parents came from Fiji and overstayed their visas. By the time her parents got green cards, she was over 21 and couldn't legalize her status with them. Friends suggested she could get a green card another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told many times, 'Get married! Just find a boy!' And I was like, 'Well that’s not me, that’s not who I am,\" Lal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage wasn't legal at the time, but Lal says many mainstream immigrant rights organizations didn't want to address that obstacle as part of the fight for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We felt like we were being told, 'While your immigrant stories are great, we don’t want to hear about your sexual orientation, that’s something you do in private,' \" said Lal. \"It's kind of funny talking about that now because we have come so far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DREAM Act didn't pass, but the Dreamers started something. After the arrest in McCain's office, more and more people began declaring themselves \"Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic!\" a refrain that has echoes of the chant \"We're here, we're queer, get used to it!\" of radical gay rights organizations. That summer, 21 young undocumented people were arrested while holding sit-ins on Capitol Hill. Almost half of them also identified as queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal says the Dreamers risking arrest and deportation caught the attention of the country … and the president. In 2012, President Barack Obama issued temporary protection from deportation for undocumented youth, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca\" target=\"_blank\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a>, known by its initials as DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DACA’s only in place because people fought for it to be in place,\" Lal said. \"Obama didn’t wake up one day and just decide to do it on his own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, in the months before Obama's announcement, undocumented youth held sit-ins in his campaign offices, calling for an executive order to stop deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia Escobar worked in the White House as special assistant to President Obama on immigration policy, and she helped craft DACA. She says the administration had been working on the directive for months before its announcement, and was not directly affected by the sit-ins that summer. She acknowledges, however, that the president and others in his administration had been meeting with undocumented youth from the beginning of his first term in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that Dreamers have been, you know, unafraid to come out and share their story has had a tremendous impact on the entire immigrant rights movement,\" said Escobar. \"They’re able to humanize the issue, they’re articulate, you see them, you hear them. They moved the ball forward in a really impactful way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 750,000 DACA applications have been approved since the policy began in 2012. During his campaign, Donald Trump vowed to end DACA. But as president, he has backed off somewhat, saying he would deal with people who have DACA with \"great heart,\" and leave it in place, at least for now. At the same time, he's promised to increase deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As of now it seems like DACA youth are safe,\" said Escobar, \"but they don’t live in a vacuum. They’re worried about their parents. They're worried about their siblings, who may not have qualified for DACA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal and Carrillo now see that fear and uncertainty every day at the East Bay Community Law Center where they both work. Lal is an attorney serving undocumented students at UC Berkeley. After Trump's inauguration, Lal says the number of students seeking legal help went up by 50 percent. She says she has even had clients who have refused needed medical care because they are worried that if their family members come to see them in the hospital, they could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my greatest fears when Trump was elected was not that he would take DACA away, but that he would keep it and use it as a bargaining chip. And that's precisely what I see is happening,\" said Lal. \"A bargaining chip, saying, 'We'll deport everyone else, except for these young, amazing, quote-unquote children.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lal fought her own deportation all the way to the Supreme Court and lost, but that same court ended up granting her a path to permanent residency when it ruled that same-sex marriage is legal. That allowed her to obtain a green card through her marriage to her U.S. citizen wife. Carrillo has a visa to live and work here now, too. Both of them say they know some people wonder if, under Trump, “coming out” as undocumented is too great a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s real,\" said Carrillo. \"But at the end of the day we don’t want to go back to the same place we were before. Because that’s basically the same thing we were told in 2010: 'We do this for your safety. We speak for you so you can be safe.' I have no desire to go back to that. I also have no desire to tell people they’re going to be safe. If you are not undocumented, it’s not your place to tell people. It’s just like coming out as queer. You choose when you come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11407603 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Blanca Vazquez invites undocumented immigrants to \"come out of the shadows\" at a rally in Oakland in April 2017.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24937_IMG_3682-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Vazquez, of the East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition, invites undocumented immigrants to 'come out of the shadows' at a rally in Oakland in April 2017. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some undocumented youth and adults are still choosing to come out, and they're still using the chant \"Undocumented! Unafraid!\" at rallies and protests. Sometimes they end by shouting \"Queer, Trans, and Unashamed!\" At a recent rally outside the Alameda County Sheriff's Office in Oakland, people lined up for a turn at a microphone to \"come out of the shadows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Vazquez, 28, helped organize the event. She said she arrived in the U.S. when she was 6 months old and applied for DACA last year, but she's still waiting for approval. Even with all the uncertainty under the Trump administration, she says she'll keep speaking out about her status. She still remembers the first time she saw someone share publicly that they were undocumented. After being told her entire life not to share her immigration status, she was shocked and remembers thinking, \"Does he know what he’s about to do? You just don’t do that. You don’t talk about this kind of thing with strangers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>To get to his room at the Hotel Travelers in downtown Oakland, Orlando Chavez has to climb two flights of stairs and pass through hallways completely gutted by construction, lined with plastic sheeting and debris. At the end of a corridor, tucked into a corner, is his room, one of only two rooms on the floor that are still intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are three people left in the building,” said Chavez. “Everyone else is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez’s room smells overwhelmingly of mildew after a recent plumbing leak. It’s a small room, crammed with his belongings and a huge teddy bear on the bed that Chavez says he found on the street and rescued “from eviction”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/307921585″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez, 65, says he has lived in Oakland since 1953. The hotel is convenient for him: It’s about a block from BART, which he rides to get to the GLIDE clinic in the Tenderloin, where he works with drug users. He’s lived here eight years, and he pays $686 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I moved in here because it had affordable rent, I was on disability at the time, and I was paying twice as much somewhere else,” Chavez says. “Even though it wasn’t the Taj Mahal, it was a place of refuge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. He is one of a few tenants who are holding onto their rent-controlled units while the building's owner is conducting extensive renovations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Chavez in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. He is one of a few tenants who are holding onto their rent-controlled units while the building’s owner is conducting extensive renovations. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Single-room-occupancy hotels, or SROs, typically don’t require a deposit, proof of income, a credit check or a long-term lease, so they have long been last-resort housing for people who have nowhere else to go. But in Oakland, many SROs are now being sold and rehabbed for tourists, student housing or market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, new owners took over the Hotel Travelers. The way Chavez tells it, they shut down the elevator and the Wi-Fi, and got rid of the maid service and the doorman. He thinks they were trying to get people out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually would approach you with a stack of cash, with a wad of cash, in their hand and the contract in the other one,” Chavez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the new landlords is Danny Haber, co-founder of the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenegev.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Negev,\u003c/a> which advertises as catering to people who want to live in “personality-based housing,” renting rooms to people with similar interests in the same buildings. Haber and his colleagues have gained notoriety for renovating buildings like the Hotel Travelers on both sides of the bay, and they’ve been accused of pushing out low-income renters before. But they see the renovations in an entirely different light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one was forced out!” said Edward Singer, an attorney for the landlords. He says the building was in disrepair, with no sprinklers and a failing elevator, and his clients are doing the right thing by bringing the building up to code, making it safe. He recognizes displacement of low-income people is an issue in Oakland, but he says it’s unfair to make only residential hotel landlords responsible for fixing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a nonprofit,” Singer said. “It’s being driven by the ability to make the building more attractive to tech workers who want to live in downtown Oakland and take care of all the cultural amenities down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On rental sites like Hotbeds.com and Trulia, the owners are advertising renovated rooms at the Travelers at $1,100 a month, more than one and a half times what Chavez pays now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost, in the last several years, many SRO hotels,” said Elissa Dennis, an affordable housing advocate with the nonprofit Community Economics. “We lost Lake Merritt Lodge to become student housing, we’ve lost the Will Rogers to become the Clarion, we’re losing the Travelers here. There are rumors that the Sutter is going to become a boutique hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City law considers guests who stay longer than 30 days permanent residents with rent increases tied to inflation and some protections from eviction. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/report/oak055799.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 report\u003c/a> by the city’s Housing and Community Development Department, 50 of the 70 residents at the Hotel Travelers at the time were considered permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dennis says Oakland’s policy doesn’t have the teeth to prevent residential hotels from being converted to move in people who can pay more. And when low-income tenants are pushed out of these hotels, they often end up on the street. So advocates started looking at ordinances in other cities, like San Francisco, which requires hotel owners to replace affordable units if they convert, or pay to replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Hey, let’s do that here in Oakland,’ ” Dennis said. “And we felt we had political will to do it, but ran into legal issues with the Ellis Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. The building is being gutted and renovated and Chavez says he and the other few remaining low-income tenants are facing pressure to leave.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. The building is being gutted and renovated, and Chavez says he and the other few remaining low-income tenants are facing pressure to leave. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Ellis Act allows landlords to evict tenants if they convert their building to a different use. Currently, only cities with more than a million residents, and San Francisco, which is its own county, are able to get around the Ellis Act to prevent evictions from residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by Democratic state Assemblyman Rob Bonta would add Oakland to that list. The California Apartment Association, which represents landlords and usually defends the Ellis Act, has not yet taken a position on Bonta’s bill. The California Hotel and Lodging Association and the California Association of Realtors did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Chavez says he supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to do something really quickly or it’s going to be game over for affordable housing for seniors and low-income people,” said Chavez. “I see what happens to people that get kicked out of hotels every day. The line goes down the block. They end up in the emergency rooms and the jails and the shelters and in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who pays for that?” he asks. “Who pays, and who profits?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I moved in here because it had affordable rent, I was on disability at the time, and I was paying twice as much somewhere else,” Chavez says. “Even though it wasn’t the Taj Mahal, it was a place of refuge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. He is one of a few tenants who are holding onto their rent-controlled units while the building's owner is conducting extensive renovations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24274_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Chavez in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. He is one of a few tenants who are holding onto their rent-controlled units while the building’s owner is conducting extensive renovations. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Single-room-occupancy hotels, or SROs, typically don’t require a deposit, proof of income, a credit check or a long-term lease, so they have long been last-resort housing for people who have nowhere else to go. But in Oakland, many SROs are now being sold and rehabbed for tourists, student housing or market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, new owners took over the Hotel Travelers. The way Chavez tells it, they shut down the elevator and the Wi-Fi, and got rid of the maid service and the doorman. He thinks they were trying to get people out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually would approach you with a stack of cash, with a wad of cash, in their hand and the contract in the other one,” Chavez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the new landlords is Danny Haber, co-founder of the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenegev.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Negev,\u003c/a> which advertises as catering to people who want to live in “personality-based housing,” renting rooms to people with similar interests in the same buildings. Haber and his colleagues have gained notoriety for renovating buildings like the Hotel Travelers on both sides of the bay, and they’ve been accused of pushing out low-income renters before. But they see the renovations in an entirely different light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one was forced out!” said Edward Singer, an attorney for the landlords. He says the building was in disrepair, with no sprinklers and a failing elevator, and his clients are doing the right thing by bringing the building up to code, making it safe. He recognizes displacement of low-income people is an issue in Oakland, but he says it’s unfair to make only residential hotel landlords responsible for fixing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a nonprofit,” Singer said. “It’s being driven by the ability to make the building more attractive to tech workers who want to live in downtown Oakland and take care of all the cultural amenities down there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On rental sites like Hotbeds.com and Trulia, the owners are advertising renovated rooms at the Travelers at $1,100 a month, more than one and a half times what Chavez pays now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve lost, in the last several years, many SRO hotels,” said Elissa Dennis, an affordable housing advocate with the nonprofit Community Economics. “We lost Lake Merritt Lodge to become student housing, we’ve lost the Will Rogers to become the Clarion, we’re losing the Travelers here. There are rumors that the Sutter is going to become a boutique hotel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City law considers guests who stay longer than 30 days permanent residents with rent increases tied to inflation and some protections from eviction. According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/report/oak055799.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 report\u003c/a> by the city’s Housing and Community Development Department, 50 of the 70 residents at the Hotel Travelers at the time were considered permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dennis says Oakland’s policy doesn’t have the teeth to prevent residential hotels from being converted to move in people who can pay more. And when low-income tenants are pushed out of these hotels, they often end up on the street. So advocates started looking at ordinances in other cities, like San Francisco, which requires hotel owners to replace affordable units if they convert, or pay to replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘Hey, let’s do that here in Oakland,’ ” Dennis said. “And we felt we had political will to do it, but ran into legal issues with the Ellis Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11319700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. The building is being gutted and renovated and Chavez says he and the other few remaining low-income tenants are facing pressure to leave.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24275_20170216_OrlandoChavez_HotelTravelers_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Chavez points to a sign warning of an unstable floor in Hotel Travelers, the SRO where he has lived for nearly nine years, on Feb. 16, 2017. The building is being gutted and renovated, and Chavez says he and the other few remaining low-income tenants are facing pressure to leave. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Ellis Act allows landlords to evict tenants if they convert their building to a different use. Currently, only cities with more than a million residents, and San Francisco, which is its own county, are able to get around the Ellis Act to prevent evictions from residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new bill introduced by Democratic state Assemblyman Rob Bonta would add Oakland to that list. The California Apartment Association, which represents landlords and usually defends the Ellis Act, has not yet taken a position on Bonta’s bill. The California Hotel and Lodging Association and the California Association of Realtors did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Chavez says he supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to do something really quickly or it’s going to be game over for affordable housing for seniors and low-income people,” said Chavez. “I see what happens to people that get kicked out of hotels every day. The line goes down the block. They end up in the emergency rooms and the jails and the shelters and in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s before sunrise when Brenda Goldstein and Eddie Heard head into the cold under an Oakland freeway and start counting the tents and homeless people they see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305632572\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every county that receives federal funding for the homeless is required to go out every two years and count homeless people during one day in January. Alameda County tried something new in 2017: paying people who have been homeless themselves to guide volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein and Heard never met before Tuesday, Jan. 31, the morning of the homeless survey. Goldstein works at a community health center. Heard runs concessions at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11296572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11296572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-800x976.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Goldstein of El Cerrito fills out survey forms during the Alameda County Point-In-Time homeless survey on Jan. 31, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-800x976.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-160x195.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-1020x1244.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-1180x1439.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-960x1171.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-240x293.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-375x457.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-520x634.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Goldstein of El Cerrito fills out survey forms during the Alameda County Point-In-Time homeless survey on Jan. 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein has been a volunteer on several previous homeless counts, but she's never had a guide before. Heard has special expertise: Two or three years ago, after separating from a longtime partner, he became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lived just like place to place, like you know, with family members and hotels and stuff like that,\" Heard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heard is in transitional housing now. He and other guides are getting paid $15 an hour to help with the count. He helps Goldstein when she isn't sure if there’s someone sleeping under rolled-up blankets or make-do tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11295322 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Heard and Goldstein spent hours in Goldstein's car in order to cover two whole census tracts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heard and Goldstein spent hours in Goldstein's car in order to cover two whole census tracts. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Eddie’s really, really helpful,\" Goldstein said. \"He's kind of the reality check for me. When I look at a tent, he says, 'That's going to have at least two or three people in it.' I have a lot more confidence going out with him, too, knowing we’re looking in the right places.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County officials expect to get a more accurate count using homeless guides during the 2017 Point-in-Time Count. It's a strategy some other counties already use, but in past years Alameda County sent volunteers to sites where homeless people get services, and used surveys to estimate how many people are homeless. For the first time this year, they're trying to cover every block, so they’ll know how many homeless people are in each city, even down to the census tract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 150 guides and more than 400 volunteers have been enlisted in Alameda County, according to Elaine de Coligny, executive director of EveryOne Home, an organization set up by the county to coordinate efforts to stop homelessness. The guides will be conducting surveys over the next two weeks with homeless people to get more information about how they became homeless, how long they’ve been homeless, their health and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last count in 2015, volunteers estimated 4,040 people were homeless -- 2,397 of them without shelter. Heard thinks that number is probably low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11295318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland, photographed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the Point-In-Time survey of Alameda County's homeless population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland, photographed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the Point-In-Time survey of Alameda County's homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve already identified about 47 people living in homeless encampments,\" said Goldstein, \"just along the freeway, just one tent after another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was just in the first hour. They have to cover two whole census tracts, so they spend hours in Goldstein’s car, peering into corners and doorways, and getting out to walk under bridges and overpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers for this year's homeless count will be available this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11295239 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Heard looked through a broken fence in Oakland to count the tents in a homeless encampment on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Heard, who is formerly homeless, was hired by EveryOne Home as a guide to help volunteers conduct a more accurate count during the Point-In-Time survey of Alameda County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Heard looked through a broken fence in Oakland to count the tents in a homeless encampment on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s before sunrise when Brenda Goldstein and Eddie Heard head into the cold under an Oakland freeway and start counting the tents and homeless people they see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305632572&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/305632572'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every county that receives federal funding for the homeless is required to go out every two years and count homeless people during one day in January. Alameda County tried something new in 2017: paying people who have been homeless themselves to guide volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein and Heard never met before Tuesday, Jan. 31, the morning of the homeless survey. Goldstein works at a community health center. Heard runs concessions at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11296572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11296572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-800x976.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Goldstein of El Cerrito fills out survey forms during the Alameda County Point-In-Time homeless survey on Jan. 31, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-800x976.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-160x195.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-1020x1244.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-1180x1439.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-960x1171.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-240x293.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-375x457.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Brenda-520x634.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Goldstein of El Cerrito fills out survey forms during the Alameda County Point-In-Time homeless survey on Jan. 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein has been a volunteer on several previous homeless counts, but she's never had a guide before. Heard has special expertise: Two or three years ago, after separating from a longtime partner, he became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lived just like place to place, like you know, with family members and hotels and stuff like that,\" Heard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heard is in transitional housing now. He and other guides are getting paid $15 an hour to help with the count. He helps Goldstein when she isn't sure if there’s someone sleeping under rolled-up blankets or make-do tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11295322 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Heard and Goldstein spent hours in Goldstein's car in order to cover two whole census tracts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23944_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heard and Goldstein spent hours in Goldstein's car in order to cover two whole census tracts. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Eddie’s really, really helpful,\" Goldstein said. \"He's kind of the reality check for me. When I look at a tent, he says, 'That's going to have at least two or three people in it.' I have a lot more confidence going out with him, too, knowing we’re looking in the right places.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County officials expect to get a more accurate count using homeless guides during the 2017 Point-in-Time Count. It's a strategy some other counties already use, but in past years Alameda County sent volunteers to sites where homeless people get services, and used surveys to estimate how many people are homeless. For the first time this year, they're trying to cover every block, so they’ll know how many homeless people are in each city, even down to the census tract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 150 guides and more than 400 volunteers have been enlisted in Alameda County, according to Elaine de Coligny, executive director of EveryOne Home, an organization set up by the county to coordinate efforts to stop homelessness. The guides will be conducting surveys over the next two weeks with homeless people to get more information about how they became homeless, how long they’ve been homeless, their health and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last count in 2015, volunteers estimated 4,040 people were homeless -- 2,397 of them without shelter. Heard thinks that number is probably low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11295318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland, photographed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the Point-In-Time survey of Alameda County's homeless population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23938_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent under a freeway overpass in Oakland, photographed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, the day of the Point-In-Time survey of Alameda County's homeless population. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve already identified about 47 people living in homeless encampments,\" said Goldstein, \"just along the freeway, just one tent after another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was just in the first hour. They have to cover two whole census tracts, so they spend hours in Goldstein’s car, peering into corners and doorways, and getting out to walk under bridges and overpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers for this year's homeless count will be available this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11295239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11295239 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Heard looked through a broken fence in Oakland to count the tents in a homeless encampment on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Heard, who is formerly homeless, was hired by EveryOne Home as a guide to help volunteers conduct a more accurate count during the Point-In-Time survey of Alameda County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23937_20170131_AlamedaCountyHomelessCount_Credit_BertJohnson-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Heard looked through a broken fence in Oakland to count the tents in a homeless encampment on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. 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"content": "\u003cp>Freshta Kohgadai has lived in Alameda most of her life, but as a Muslim-American woman who wears a hijab, President Donald Trump's executive order and talk about banning Muslims has made her uneasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These past couple of days or even months, honestly, I’ve personally felt very alone and very targeted, and scared to go out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when about 300 people showed up on Sunday at the Islamic Center of Alameda with the message, \"We love our Muslim neighbors,\" it made her feel safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the turnout here is so amazing and so empowering and it just gives me so much hope, that even though the administration is against us, we have people here fighting for us, fighting for our rights, standing next to us, and they’re going to protect us,\" Kohgadai said. \"I'm overwhelmed with joy seeing Alameda's community unified like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11292236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11292236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Freshta Kohgadai at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. "I'm overwhelmed with joy seeing Alameda's community unified like this. We feel appreciated and loved. During these last weeks, I felt very alone and scared of going outside. Being here today has shown me that this is a safe space for me."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshta Kohgadai at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/For KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The action was organized in response to Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees for an indefinite period of time, temporarily stops entry of all refugees, and stops most people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a point at which, when families are getting separated and doctors are not being allowed to come back and do cardiac medicine, that you have to, as a community, say enough is enough,\" said Amanda Cooper, an Alameda resident who helped organize the action. \"We live right down the street, we pass here all the time, my daughter and I take dance class across the street. This center has always been good neighbors to us, and we felt like it was time to show that we want to be good neighbors to them as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd chanted \"No ban, no wall, Alameda is for all,\" and \"The people united will never be divided.\" A mother and son sang \"This Land is Your Land.\" Cars honked in support. Ninety-one-year-old Joyce Lashof carried a sign that said: \"End the Muslim ban now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11292231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11292231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/For KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"To put a blockade for a whole population is just an un-American thing to do,\" said Lashof, regarding President Trump's executive order. \"My grandparents were refugees from Russia, and many, many people in our country are refugees from difficult places. So we stand in solidarity with the Muslims around the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Islamic Center greeted their neighbors, shared cookies, and invited them inside to learn more about Islam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For all of us, it’s beautiful,\" said Eslamoddin Sedighi, who prays at the mosque. \"We know each other. We got to love each other. This is the way we have to show up, to see the beauty of the humanity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11292312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11292312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/For KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alameda resident Nadia Mahrazi, who originally came to the U.S. from Algeria, said \"I’m Muslim. I’m an American citizen but I come from oppression, so this is a personal thing to me. It means for me to stand up against dictatorship, against closed-minded people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"22MHUIBUBGwRrvSgcnR9e0lEnMdjK5xV\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denisse Bayardo came from Santa Rosa to stand with her college friend, Maria Khatri, who was born in England and whose family is from Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Denisse is Mexican, I’m Muslim. It’s so great to see how we’re all coming together to fight this,\" said Khatri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both of us had to work hard to get our citizenship, too,\" she added. \"It’s not that easy. The people who are coming right now are in such grave danger. America is supposed to be a refuge. It’s really scary to see what it’s becoming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Freshta Kohgadai has lived in Alameda most of her life, but as a Muslim-American woman who wears a hijab, President Donald Trump's executive order and talk about banning Muslims has made her uneasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These past couple of days or even months, honestly, I’ve personally felt very alone and very targeted, and scared to go out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when about 300 people showed up on Sunday at the Islamic Center of Alameda with the message, \"We love our Muslim neighbors,\" it made her feel safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the turnout here is so amazing and so empowering and it just gives me so much hope, that even though the administration is against us, we have people here fighting for us, fighting for our rights, standing next to us, and they’re going to protect us,\" Kohgadai said. \"I'm overwhelmed with joy seeing Alameda's community unified like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11292236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11292236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Freshta Kohgadai at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. "I'm overwhelmed with joy seeing Alameda's community unified like this. We feel appreciated and loved. During these last weeks, I felt very alone and scared of going outside. Being here today has shown me that this is a safe space for me."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23918_FullSizeRender-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshta Kohgadai at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/For KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The action was organized in response to Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees for an indefinite period of time, temporarily stops entry of all refugees, and stops most people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a point at which, when families are getting separated and doctors are not being allowed to come back and do cardiac medicine, that you have to, as a community, say enough is enough,\" said Amanda Cooper, an Alameda resident who helped organize the action. \"We live right down the street, we pass here all the time, my daughter and I take dance class across the street. This center has always been good neighbors to us, and we felt like it was time to show that we want to be good neighbors to them as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd chanted \"No ban, no wall, Alameda is for all,\" and \"The people united will never be divided.\" A mother and son sang \"This Land is Your Land.\" Cars honked in support. Ninety-one-year-old Joyce Lashof carried a sign that said: \"End the Muslim ban now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11292231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11292231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23922_FullSizeRender-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/For KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"To put a blockade for a whole population is just an un-American thing to do,\" said Lashof, regarding President Trump's executive order. \"My grandparents were refugees from Russia, and many, many people in our country are refugees from difficult places. So we stand in solidarity with the Muslims around the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Islamic Center greeted their neighbors, shared cookies, and invited them inside to learn more about Islam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For all of us, it’s beautiful,\" said Eslamoddin Sedighi, who prays at the mosque. \"We know each other. We got to love each other. This is the way we have to show up, to see the beauty of the humanity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11292312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11292312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23916__LK12188.JPG-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People came out to support the Muslim community at the Islamic Center of Alameda, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/For KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alameda resident Nadia Mahrazi, who originally came to the U.S. from Algeria, said \"I’m Muslim. I’m an American citizen but I come from oppression, so this is a personal thing to me. It means for me to stand up against dictatorship, against closed-minded people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denisse Bayardo came from Santa Rosa to stand with her college friend, Maria Khatri, who was born in England and whose family is from Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Denisse is Mexican, I’m Muslim. It’s so great to see how we’re all coming together to fight this,\" said Khatri.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both of us had to work hard to get our citizenship, too,\" she added. \"It’s not that easy. The people who are coming right now are in such grave danger. America is supposed to be a refuge. It’s really scary to see what it’s becoming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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