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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]C[/dropcap]alifornia expects voters to make a lot of big choices. We elect representatives, the governor and judges, but we also decide the future of the gas tax, how dialysis clinics are paid and if egg-laying chickens need more space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those questions and eight others will be asked of voters on this November’s ballot as part of an initiative process that is among the most powerful in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responsibility leaves a lot of California voters, like Cloud Backus, overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because I’m not that smart!” she laughed. And, while the longtime teacher might have downplayed her qualifications, it’s a familiar sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of us have a hard enough time deciding what to have for dinner on a nightly basis. How is the average person supposed to judge the pros and cons of employment law for ambulance workers (which is also on the ballot)?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historian William Deverell at the University of Southern California said the system we see in action today might be unrecognizable to those who fought for it more than a century ago. It “has grown quite unwieldy and crude in ways that have perverted the initial vision,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wasn’t the first state to embrace initiatives, but Deverell said we did it on a scale that made us direct-democracy trailblazers. The movement was born in the wake of the Gilded Age, when a small cadre of super wealthy industrialists pulled all the political strings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, the force that everyone points to is the railroad,” said Deverell. “It's a perfect enemy in many respects. It's distant, it's powerful, it's rich and owns all the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"He was a fighter, and he saw [initiatives] as tools for fights. He sold it as, 'It'll be like a gun in a man's hand.'\"\u003ccite>Joe Mathews, journalist and author of 'California Crackup'\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The railroad, it turns out, also owned California politicians, that is, until Hiram Johnson came along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson achieved renown as an attorney in San Francisco fighting graft and political corruption at the turn of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had gotten a reputation as a no-nonsense, honest political fighter for good,” said Deverell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1910, he ran for governor on a platform of opposition to special interests like the railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And his race then is sculpted into a kind of Goliath versus David phenomenon where Hiram Johnson is cast as the David going after the corporate behemoths, the Goliath, that was the Southern Pacific,” said Deverell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Old Testament hero, Johnson was successful. He won the governor’s seat and ushered in a set of constitutional amendments to wrest power from moneyed interests and put it in the hands of the people with the initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HiramSeated-800x742.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. 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Hiram Johnson first achieved renown as an attorney in San Francisco fighting graft and political corruption. \u003ccite>(Bain News Service, Courtesy: Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all sounds very righteous, but according to journalist Joe Mathews, who co-wrote the book, “California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It,” Johnson was no saint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was loud, bombastic, angry, prone to dark moods, personalized disputes,” said Mathews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson’s personal foibles may have had an enduring legacy on our democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a fighter, and he saw in initiatives, not some way to bring the people into the process,” said Mathews. “He saw them as tools for fights. He sold it as, ‘It'll be like a gun in a man's hand.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Johnson’s primary targets was his own father, a state legislator who’d made his career as just the kind of politician Johnson railed against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His father campaigned against him and said, ‘Don't elect this guy,’ ” said Mathews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Johnson took power and it came time to craft the initiative process, he made it extra difficult for the Legislature to fiddle with. Once an initiative passes in California, the Legislature can’t touch it, even to make simple, logical improvements, unless the initiative specifically stipulates they can. Otherwise, any change has to go back through the process for a vote by the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They kept the initiative process totally separate from the legislative process, which his father and his friends controlled,” said Mathews. He thinks that part of what explains California’s extreme, inflexible direct-democracy systems is Johnson’s “daddy issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, three of the initiatives on this year’s ballot are revisions or reactions to previously passed ones, which leaves many voters like Cloud Backus thoroughly confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many unintended consequences. And then we have another initiative to correct the errors. 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He sold it as, 'It'll be like a gun in a man's hand.'\"\u003ccite>Joe Mathews, journalist and author of 'California Crackup'\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The railroad, it turns out, also owned California politicians, that is, until Hiram Johnson came along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson achieved renown as an attorney in San Francisco fighting graft and political corruption at the turn of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had gotten a reputation as a no-nonsense, honest political fighter for good,” said Deverell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1910, he ran for governor on a platform of opposition to special interests like the railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And his race then is sculpted into a kind of Goliath versus David phenomenon where Hiram Johnson is cast as the David going after the corporate behemoths, the Goliath, that was the Southern Pacific,” said Deverell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Old Testament hero, Johnson was successful. He won the governor’s seat and ushered in a set of constitutional amendments to wrest power from moneyed interests and put it in the hands of the people with the initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HiramSeated-800x742.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. 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Hiram Johnson first achieved renown as an attorney in San Francisco fighting graft and political corruption. \u003ccite>(Bain News Service, Courtesy: Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all sounds very righteous, but according to journalist Joe Mathews, who co-wrote the book, “California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It,” Johnson was no saint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was loud, bombastic, angry, prone to dark moods, personalized disputes,” said Mathews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Johnson’s personal foibles may have had an enduring legacy on our democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a fighter, and he saw in initiatives, not some way to bring the people into the process,” said Mathews. “He saw them as tools for fights. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was an essential promise of Proposition 13: People would be able to keep their homes, neighborhoods would be stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">The California Dream: The Oakland Block That Proposition 13 Built\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/10/23/Prop13600.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, Proposition 13 has played an outsized role in who can afford to live in California. Did it save the California Dream, or spoil it? To answer that question, we focused on a single block in a middle-class neighborhood in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That promise played a role in the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Proposition 13 when it was challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the State has a legitimate interest in local neighborhood preservation, continuity, and stability,” wrote Justice Harry A. Blackmun in the \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/1/#tab-opinion-1959053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1992 opinion\u003c/a>, “it legitimately can decide to structure its tax system to discourage rapid turnover in ownership of homes and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 13, however, has not stopped gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that as prices soar, the tax benefits of Proposition 13 aren’t enough to stop owners from selling or renting their properties. As for stable property taxes: They offer no direct help to renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say that there aren’t significant benefits for longtime homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited property tax increases have helped keep people like Dorothy in her three-bedroom, one-bath home in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy, whose last name is withheld to protect her privacy, says she bought her modest home back in 1956 for $10,000. Today it’s worth more than $500,000. According to county records, she pays less than $1,300 a year in property taxes. Someone buying that same home today would pay more than $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy says she’d struggle to pay more. So she’s appreciative of the low taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m good,” she says, “I’m still very blessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I look at how some people had to sell to leave and go other places to live, I’m doing good to still be sitting here since 1956.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy talks to us through her metal screen door; she says she wasn’t dressed for company. Another neighbor walks over. “I’m just checking on you,” he calls up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy says her son is encouraging her to move someplace closer to him, someplace with cheaper housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/19922/the-taxpayers-revolt-how-proposition-13-changed-california-an-illustrated-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">Prop. 13 Explained\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/19922/the-taxpayers-revolt-how-proposition-13-changed-california-an-illustrated-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11700722 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon.png 606w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-160x80.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-240x120.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-375x187.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-520x259.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My church is right around the corner up there, and when I get ready to go to the beauty shop I walk down the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her neighbor, Donna, has lived on this block since 1989. She’s in her early 90s and equally rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More or less keeping on, keeping on, takes about all the energy I have really,” she laughs. “At my age, I wouldn’t dream of moving out, and I have no intention of living in an old person’s home, believe me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Dorothys and Donnas may well be the exception — the outliers a generation after Proposition 13 fundamentally changed California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some cases it could help people hold on, dig in their heels,” says Dowell Myers, an urban planning professor at USC. “But against this tide of a [housing] shortage, you can’t stop change at all. It’s like a flood. It’ll overwhelm you eventually, it’ll break through your defenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>What is the connection between Proposition 13 and gentrification?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know a lot, is the bottom line,” says Isaac William Martin, a professor of sociology at UC San Diego, who has studied the relationship between gentrification and limits on property taxes. “We couldn’t find any evidence that laws like Proposition 13 have any effect on the probability of displacement from gentrifying neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrell H. Brown has rented on this block since the mid-’80s. But his landlord has asked him to leave, and he can’t afford another place in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some level, it comes down to renters vs. owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11700635 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrell H. Brown has rented on this block since the mid-’80s. But his landlord has asked him to leave, and he can’t afford another place in the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When we think about gentrification,” Martin says, “there are people at risk of being displaced, and they are overwhelmingly renters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords, like other homeowners, benefit from Proposition 13. But, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office: “The extent to which landlords pass on their tax relief to renters is unclear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we do know: Neighborhoods in California’s in-demand coastal cities are changing quickly. Researchers found the number of gentrified neighborhoods in Los Angeles County jumped 16 percent between 1990 and 2015. San Diego County saw an 18 percent increase in gentrified neighborhoods in the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the demand for housing in the Bay Area grows, Oakland neighborhoods like this are losing low-income residents, according to research from the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this block where we’ve based this reporting project, Dorothy and Donna are among the few remaining longtime residents. According to data from the 2016 American Community Survey, about 10 percent of residents moved into the area before or during the 1980s. Only 4 percent of the residents in this neighborhood lived here before 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1970, homes in this neighborhood sold for about $13,800, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even when you account for inflation, there is a massive gulf between then and now. The cost of a home then, adjusted for inflation, would be about $92,000 today. Median rent in the neighborhood was $86 a month in the 1970s, about $574 in today’s dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, homes on this block can sell for more than $1 million. A two-bed, two-bath apartment on the block rents for $3,000 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the prices have changed, the demographics of the neighborhood have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-800x282.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-800x282.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-160x56.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-1020x360.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-1200x423.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-1920x678.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-1180x416.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-960x339.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-240x85.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-375x132.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM-520x183.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-23-at-11.38.02-AM.png 2046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The North Oakland block’s census tract has seen rising home values and a high percentage of new residents in recent decades. \u003ccite>(SOURCE: 2016 American Community Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 1970, about 85 percent of the residents were black, according to U.S. Census data. As of 2016, about 40 percent of the population was white, 33 percent black, about 10 percent Hispanic and 8 percent Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, about 4 percent of adults had four years of college education or more. Now, more than four in 10 residents have earned at least a bachelor’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As real estate in the Bay Area has passed the boiling point, this once-modest neighborhood has also started attracting wealthier residents. According to 2016 census data, median household income was nearly $56,000 a year. Nearly a third of households made more than $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hates that he has to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My neighbors are great to me,” says Brown. “They are brothers and sisters to me. They care about me like I care about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His experience reflects the pain of gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrell H. Brown wishes he could afford to to stay in the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When a neighborhood gentrifies, longtime residents may start to move out, and that can really be disruptive for the feeling of community and for long-term relationships,” says Martin, the UC San Diego professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, what gentrification means for homeowners and renters is profoundly different. Homeowners often get to sell at a profit, says Martin. Renters are more often evicted or pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important when we think about gentrification to distinguish between the way it can strain the fabric of community, and the way it can harm individuals,” says Martin, “because some of the way it strains the fabric of the community is by benefiting some people more than others.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was an essential promise of Proposition 13: People would be able to keep their homes, neighborhoods would be stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">The California Dream: The Oakland Block That Proposition 13 Built\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/10/23/Prop13600.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, Proposition 13 has played an outsized role in who can afford to live in California. Did it save the California Dream, or spoil it? To answer that question, we focused on a single block in a middle-class neighborhood in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That promise played a role in the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Proposition 13 when it was challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the State has a legitimate interest in local neighborhood preservation, continuity, and stability,” wrote Justice Harry A. Blackmun in the \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/1/#tab-opinion-1959053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1992 opinion\u003c/a>, “it legitimately can decide to structure its tax system to discourage rapid turnover in ownership of homes and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 13, however, has not stopped gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that as prices soar, the tax benefits of Proposition 13 aren’t enough to stop owners from selling or renting their properties. As for stable property taxes: They offer no direct help to renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say that there aren’t significant benefits for longtime homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited property tax increases have helped keep people like Dorothy in her three-bedroom, one-bath home in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy, whose last name is withheld to protect her privacy, says she bought her modest home back in 1956 for $10,000. Today it’s worth more than $500,000. According to county records, she pays less than $1,300 a year in property taxes. Someone buying that same home today would pay more than $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy says she’d struggle to pay more. So she’s appreciative of the low taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m good,” she says, “I’m still very blessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I look at how some people had to sell to leave and go other places to live, I’m doing good to still be sitting here since 1956.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy talks to us through her metal screen door; she says she wasn’t dressed for company. Another neighbor walks over. “I’m just checking on you,” he calls up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorothy says her son is encouraging her to move someplace closer to him, someplace with cheaper housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/19922/the-taxpayers-revolt-how-proposition-13-changed-california-an-illustrated-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">Prop. 13 Explained\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/19922/the-taxpayers-revolt-how-proposition-13-changed-california-an-illustrated-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11700722 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon.png 606w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-160x80.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-240x120.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-375x187.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/cartoon-520x259.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“My church is right around the corner up there, and when I get ready to go to the beauty shop I walk down the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her neighbor, Donna, has lived on this block since 1989. She’s in her early 90s and equally rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More or less keeping on, keeping on, takes about all the energy I have really,” she laughs. “At my age, I wouldn’t dream of moving out, and I have no intention of living in an old person’s home, believe me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Dorothys and Donnas may well be the exception — the outliers a generation after Proposition 13 fundamentally changed California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some cases it could help people hold on, dig in their heels,” says Dowell Myers, an urban planning professor at USC. “But against this tide of a [housing] shortage, you can’t stop change at all. It’s like a flood. It’ll overwhelm you eventually, it’ll break through your defenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>What is the connection between Proposition 13 and gentrification?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know a lot, is the bottom line,” says Isaac William Martin, a professor of sociology at UC San Diego, who has studied the relationship between gentrification and limits on property taxes. “We couldn’t find any evidence that laws like Proposition 13 have any effect on the probability of displacement from gentrifying neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrell H. Brown has rented on this block since the mid-’80s. But his landlord has asked him to leave, and he can’t afford another place in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some level, it comes down to renters vs. owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11700635 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/gentrification-darrell-alley-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrell H. Brown has rented on this block since the mid-’80s. But his landlord has asked him to leave, and he can’t afford another place in the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When we think about gentrification,” Martin says, “there are people at risk of being displaced, and they are overwhelmingly renters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords, like other homeowners, benefit from Proposition 13. But, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office: “The extent to which landlords pass on their tax relief to renters is unclear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we do know: Neighborhoods in California’s in-demand coastal cities are changing quickly. Researchers found the number of gentrified neighborhoods in Los Angeles County jumped 16 percent between 1990 and 2015. San Diego County saw an 18 percent increase in gentrified neighborhoods in the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the demand for housing in the Bay Area grows, Oakland neighborhoods like this are losing low-income residents, according to research from the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this block where we’ve based this reporting project, Dorothy and Donna are among the few remaining longtime residents. According to data from the 2016 American Community Survey, about 10 percent of residents moved into the area before or during the 1980s. Only 4 percent of the residents in this neighborhood lived here before 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1970, homes in this neighborhood sold for about $13,800, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Even when you account for inflation, there is a massive gulf between then and now. The cost of a home then, adjusted for inflation, would be about $92,000 today. Median rent in the neighborhood was $86 a month in the 1970s, about $574 in today’s dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, homes on this block can sell for more than $1 million. 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As of 2016, about 40 percent of the population was white, 33 percent black, about 10 percent Hispanic and 8 percent Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, about 4 percent of adults had four years of college education or more. Now, more than four in 10 residents have earned at least a bachelor’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As real estate in the Bay Area has passed the boiling point, this once-modest neighborhood has also started attracting wealthier residents. According to 2016 census data, median household income was nearly $56,000 a year. Nearly a third of households made more than $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hates that he has to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My neighbors are great to me,” says Brown. “They are brothers and sisters to me. They care about me like I care about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His experience reflects the pain of gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/The-block-that-Prop.-13-built_-Neighborhood-in-flux-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrell H. Brown wishes he could afford to to stay in the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey/California Dream)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When a neighborhood gentrifies, longtime residents may start to move out, and that can really be disruptive for the feeling of community and for long-term relationships,” says Martin, the UC San Diego professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, what gentrification means for homeowners and renters is profoundly different. Homeowners often get to sell at a profit, says Martin. Renters are more often evicted or pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Often one of the first steps to helping people out of homelessness is getting them a steady job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about the thousands of homeless Californians who are already working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinning down exactly how many Californians are working while homeless is not easy. Many try to hide it. And it’s certainly true that most people without a place to live are out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent estimates suggest that it’s not uncommon for homeless Californians to hold down jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Point-in-Time-Count-General-FINAL-6.21.17.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2017 survey\u003c/a> of the homeless population in San Francisco found 13 percent of respondents reporting part or full-time employment. That’s in a city with an estimated 7,499 people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, an estimated 10 percent of the 4,990 people living unsheltered in San Diego \u003ca href=\"https://www.rtfhsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2018-WPoint-in-Time-Count-Annual-Report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said they were currently working\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County has more than 50,000 residents who are homeless. Eight percent of adults surveyed in 2017 said they were working to some degree, mostly in part-time, seasonal or temporary work. Among homeless adults with children, 27 percent said they were working either part or full time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘You Don’t Have a Place to Go’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes parents like Nereida, a single mother of two young daughters who works full time at a Los Angeles optometrist’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do pre-testing,” said Nereida, who asked that her last name not be used in this story. “I take measurements of [patients’] eyes. After that, the doctor sees them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days a week, she finishes her shift with a few appointment reminder calls. Then she turns off the display lights in the eyeglass cases. She sets the alarm, locks the doors and walks out to her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some weeks, she hasn't had a place to go home to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been several times where I just slept in my car,” she said. “I parked close to the gym, because that's where I get ready in the mornings.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida moved to the Los Angeles area almost a year ago. She’s been able to rent rooms for a few months here and there. Lately, she’s been staying with a friend. Someone has always been willing to let her kids spend the night. But she never thought finding a place of her own would be this hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She admits her credit score is bad. And between car payments, gas and childcare costs, Nereida hasn’t been able to save for a deposit plus first and last month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $17 an hour, she earns more than minimum wage. But even if she did manage to find an apartment, the city’s median rent for a two-bedroom — \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/national-rent-data/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimated at $1,752\u003c/a> by listings website Apartment List — would claim more than half of her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really focus on work when you're at work, and try to put on a face that everything's OK,” Nereida said. “Once you're done, you break down. Because you don't have a place to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless Employees Lack Legal Protections at Work\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida hasn’t told her boss that she doesn’t have a stable place to live. She said she would be embarrassed. And she wonders if she would be treated differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want him to have a different view of me, and to think that [it] is going to affect my work life,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have protections on the job when it comes to factors like race and gender. But \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/staff/jessica-bartholow/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Bartholow\u003c/a>, a policy advocate with the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said, “There are no laws in California that protect you from being discriminated against based on your housing status.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartholow was one of the advocates pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2012 California bill\u003c/a> that would have banned discrimination against homeless employees. Had it passed, California would have joined Rhode Island in defining homelessness as a protected class in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faced opposition from groups like the California Chamber of Commerce; it died in committee. Bartholow looks at California’s housing crisis today and wonders why legislators haven’t reconsidered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we know that income is one of the best ways out of poverty, why wouldn't it be a best policy practice to make sure that people who are homeless and working are not at risk of losing their jobs or having reduced hours?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Employers Can Help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employers have succeeded at helping their workers pull themselves out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kim-Wyard-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690341\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Wyard works in her office at a Northeast Valley Health Corporation office in San Fernando on Aug. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have the solution of being able to solve everything with money,” said \u003ca href=\"https://nevhc.org/our-team/kimberly-wyard/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Wyard\u003c/a>, CEO of the Northeast Valley Health Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not a food bank. And we're not a housing organization. But we can certainly help make those connections,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyard’s organization provides health services to people who are low-income or homeless. It already has strong connections with the Los Angeles homeless support system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rare cases when one of its employees has fallen into homelessness, Wyard said those connections were a huge help. Calls to the housing provider LA Family Housing recently helped one employee and her family get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyard’s advice to other employers worried about homelessness in their workforce is to know who to call for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that it may take a little bit of digging to put a homeless resource list together for your staff,” she said. “But those resources are there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for that approach to work, employees would need to feel comfortable telling their bosses about their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida, the optometrist’s assistant, said her employer treats her well and pays her fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she looks for housing assistance, she feels people's image of homelessness works against her. She describes herself as a soccer mom, and she looks the part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've gotten comments like, ‘Sorry, but if I looked at you, I wouldn't assume that you're homeless,’” Nereida said. “Do I have to have ripped clothes? Dirty clothes? I have a job. So I can't come to work unpresentable or unprofessional.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida is not sure how long her current housing situation at a friend's place will last. Her biggest fear is that she'll end up back in her car. But this time, with her kids in the back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Among homeless adults with children, 27 percent said they were working either part or full time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘You Don’t Have a Place to Go’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes parents like Nereida, a single mother of two young daughters who works full time at a Los Angeles optometrist’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do pre-testing,” said Nereida, who asked that her last name not be used in this story. “I take measurements of [patients’] eyes. After that, the doctor sees them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days a week, she finishes her shift with a few appointment reminder calls. Then she turns off the display lights in the eyeglass cases. She sets the alarm, locks the doors and walks out to her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some weeks, she hasn't had a place to go home to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been several times where I just slept in my car,” she said. “I parked close to the gym, because that's where I get ready in the mornings.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida moved to the Los Angeles area almost a year ago. She’s been able to rent rooms for a few months here and there. Lately, she’s been staying with a friend. Someone has always been willing to let her kids spend the night. But she never thought finding a place of her own would be this hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She admits her credit score is bad. And between car payments, gas and childcare costs, Nereida hasn’t been able to save for a deposit plus first and last month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $17 an hour, she earns more than minimum wage. But even if she did manage to find an apartment, the city’s median rent for a two-bedroom — \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/national-rent-data/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimated at $1,752\u003c/a> by listings website Apartment List — would claim more than half of her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really focus on work when you're at work, and try to put on a face that everything's OK,” Nereida said. “Once you're done, you break down. Because you don't have a place to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Homeless Employees Lack Legal Protections at Work\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida hasn’t told her boss that she doesn’t have a stable place to live. She said she would be embarrassed. And she wonders if she would be treated differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want him to have a different view of me, and to think that [it] is going to affect my work life,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have protections on the job when it comes to factors like race and gender. But \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/staff/jessica-bartholow/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Bartholow\u003c/a>, a policy advocate with the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said, “There are no laws in California that protect you from being discriminated against based on your housing status.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartholow was one of the advocates pushing for a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2012 California bill\u003c/a> that would have banned discrimination against homeless employees. Had it passed, California would have joined Rhode Island in defining homelessness as a protected class in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faced opposition from groups like the California Chamber of Commerce; it died in committee. Bartholow looks at California’s housing crisis today and wonders why legislators haven’t reconsidered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we know that income is one of the best ways out of poverty, why wouldn't it be a best policy practice to make sure that people who are homeless and working are not at risk of losing their jobs or having reduced hours?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Employers Can Help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employers have succeeded at helping their workers pull themselves out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kim-Wyard-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690341\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Wyard works in her office at a Northeast Valley Health Corporation office in San Fernando on Aug. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have the solution of being able to solve everything with money,” said \u003ca href=\"https://nevhc.org/our-team/kimberly-wyard/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Wyard\u003c/a>, CEO of the Northeast Valley Health Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not a food bank. And we're not a housing organization. But we can certainly help make those connections,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyard’s organization provides health services to people who are low-income or homeless. It already has strong connections with the Los Angeles homeless support system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rare cases when one of its employees has fallen into homelessness, Wyard said those connections were a huge help. Calls to the housing provider LA Family Housing recently helped one employee and her family get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyard’s advice to other employers worried about homelessness in their workforce is to know who to call for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that it may take a little bit of digging to put a homeless resource list together for your staff,” she said. “But those resources are there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for that approach to work, employees would need to feel comfortable telling their bosses about their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida, the optometrist’s assistant, said her employer treats her well and pays her fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she looks for housing assistance, she feels people's image of homelessness works against her. She describes herself as a soccer mom, and she looks the part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've gotten comments like, ‘Sorry, but if I looked at you, I wouldn't assume that you're homeless,’” Nereida said. “Do I have to have ripped clothes? Dirty clothes? I have a job. So I can't come to work unpresentable or unprofessional.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nereida is not sure how long her current housing situation at a friend's place will last. Her biggest fear is that she'll end up back in her car. But this time, with her kids in the back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While housing costs in California have skyrocketed, what is often the second biggest expense for a household is commonly overlooked and is contributing to the surge in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-poverty advocates have called for measures to provide low-income residents more assistance with transportation costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to reliable transportation is crucial to maintaining stable employment, reaching educational opportunities, caring for family and staying healthy, they said. But there is no consistent safety net to help struggling people meet that need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/images/nbhds_exec_summary.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by Harvard University found access to transportation is the single biggest factor in the odds of escaping poverty and avoiding homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people that just cannot make ends meet before you even get to the concept of transportation,\" said Veronica Lewis, a director at Homeless Outreach Programs Integrated System, or HOPICS, one of the largest homeless service providers in Los Angeles. \"Honestly, it's one of the biggest barriers for some of our clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Oscar Ramos, formerly homeless, for whom HOPICS has recently secured temporary housing at a hotel in Long Beach. Ramos is in the process of documenting medical issues and applying for Social Security benefits, so he has regular appointments he needs to get to in downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey from his new housing in Long Beach will take more than an hour on a train and a bus with walking in between. HOPICS provides Ramos with transit tokens as a form of temporary relief, but without the emergency assistance he has few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I walk,\" he said. \"I've got some new shoes and the heels are already messed up from walking so much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Costs Quickly Add Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $1.75 L.A. Metro ticket doesn't sound like much, but taking multiple trips a day adds up quickly. A monthly pass might save Ramos money, but at $76, it would eat up a third of the assistance he gets to cover his monthly expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we don't figure out a way to increase people's access, reduce the burden of taking care of their business, getting to and fro, the problem will continue to get worse,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HOPICS cobbles together transportation support from a patchwork of public subsidies, but it's not enough. The nonprofit draws on its general budget to buy extra Metro tokens and run a fleet of vans, using funds it gets through foundations, the city and county that could otherwise be put to services like housing, health care and job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis wants to see more coordinated efforts to strengthen the transportation safety net, not only for people like Ramos, but for low-income communities before they fall into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seattle Is Working on a Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many advocates point to a program in the Seattle area as a model for such an approach. It's the first big city in the country to try a simple idea: Charge low-income people less to use transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew that there is a population that can't afford to use public transportation, and that it's a very vulnerable population that we wanted to make sure we reached,\" said Christina O'Claire, a manager with King County Metro Transit, which runs the \u003ca href=\"https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/fares-orca/orca-cards/lift.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ORCA LIFT\u003c/a> low-income discount program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds obvious, but what King County has done is pretty unique: They cut the base fares for single rides and passes on all forms of transit in the county by about half, and partnered with other social service agencies to enroll people when they pick up food stamps or go to the doctor. So far they've signed up about 70,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, many transit agencies offer discounts to students, seniors or the disabled, but there are very few programs for low-income people who don't fit into those groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some exceptions, though none as comprehensive or deeply discounted as Seattle's. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority offers about a 20 percent discount on its monthly pass and is working on allowing users to pay in weekly installments, instead of $76 on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency offers steeply discounted bus passes for $38 a month. In coming months, three more Bay Area transit agencies will join a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/523-mtc-meeting-wrap-commission-offers-support-proposed-bart-tod-policy-approves-pilot-program\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pilot program\u003c/a> with at least 20 percent off fares on Bay Area Rapid Transit, Caltrain and Golden Gate Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Helping With Fares Isn't the Only Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But simply addressing the dollar cost might not be enough to really help low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They also need something that can work for them in terms of time cost,\" said Marlon Boarnet, chair of the urban planning department at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Boarnet co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/how-transit-affects-job-seekers-first-and-last-mile-to-the-station-make-all-the-difference/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of how different modes of transportation affect access to jobs by low-income workers in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found transit is not nearly as good at connecting people to the labor market as cars,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers had access to 30 times the number of jobs within a half-hour commute compared to those who relied on public transportation. The time disparity is particularly fraught for low-wage workers who may have odd hours, work overnight and can often be docked pay or fired for being late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the cost of owning a vehicle can be prohibitive. One s\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_704LRR.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tudy\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California found low-income people in the San Francisco Bay Area spent about 10 times as much on transportation if they drove compared to taking transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Boarnet found that simply shortening the time it takes people get to transit stops could improve people's job access considerably. It would be the equivalent of adding 25 percent more buses and trains throughout the public transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What could help make transit a better job access tool? One answer is dockless bikes, e-bikes and scooters,\" Boarnet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting a Broader Safety Net\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes emerging technologies can offer big benefits to low-income people who can't afford cars. But he said it's up to policymakers to ensure the services are accessible to people who need them most, like Oscar Ramos, who doesn't have a phone or a credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boarnet said the transportation safety net may need to be broader to include solutions to banking, smartphones and subsidies for the many private services that are filling gaps in the transportation network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no one size fits all,\" said Lewis at HOPICS. \"The people that come into our office have all kinds of stories and experiences and needs, so we have to be able to do all those things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization was able to give Ramos a van ride to his new housing in Long Beach. 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You don't know how much that would mean to me — to be able to have a good paying job, a house for them to come stay the night,\" he said. \"The joy would just fill my heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A monthly pass might save Ramos money, but at $76, it would eat up a third of the assistance he gets to cover his monthly expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we don't figure out a way to increase people's access, reduce the burden of taking care of their business, getting to and fro, the problem will continue to get worse,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HOPICS cobbles together transportation support from a patchwork of public subsidies, but it's not enough. The nonprofit draws on its general budget to buy extra Metro tokens and run a fleet of vans, using funds it gets through foundations, the city and county that could otherwise be put to services like housing, health care and job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis wants to see more coordinated efforts to strengthen the transportation safety net, not only for people like Ramos, but for low-income communities before they fall into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seattle Is Working on a Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many advocates point to a program in the Seattle area as a model for such an approach. It's the first big city in the country to try a simple idea: Charge low-income people less to use transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew that there is a population that can't afford to use public transportation, and that it's a very vulnerable population that we wanted to make sure we reached,\" said Christina O'Claire, a manager with King County Metro Transit, which runs the \u003ca href=\"https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/fares-orca/orca-cards/lift.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ORCA LIFT\u003c/a> low-income discount program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds obvious, but what King County has done is pretty unique: They cut the base fares for single rides and passes on all forms of transit in the county by about half, and partnered with other social service agencies to enroll people when they pick up food stamps or go to the doctor. So far they've signed up about 70,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, many transit agencies offer discounts to students, seniors or the disabled, but there are very few programs for low-income people who don't fit into those groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some exceptions, though none as comprehensive or deeply discounted as Seattle's. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority offers about a 20 percent discount on its monthly pass and is working on allowing users to pay in weekly installments, instead of $76 on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency offers steeply discounted bus passes for $38 a month. In coming months, three more Bay Area transit agencies will join a \u003ca href=\"https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/523-mtc-meeting-wrap-commission-offers-support-proposed-bart-tod-policy-approves-pilot-program\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pilot program\u003c/a> with at least 20 percent off fares on Bay Area Rapid Transit, Caltrain and Golden Gate Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Helping With Fares Isn't the Only Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But simply addressing the dollar cost might not be enough to really help low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They also need something that can work for them in terms of time cost,\" said Marlon Boarnet, chair of the urban planning department at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Boarnet co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/how-transit-affects-job-seekers-first-and-last-mile-to-the-station-make-all-the-difference/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of how different modes of transportation affect access to jobs by low-income workers in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found transit is not nearly as good at connecting people to the labor market as cars,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers had access to 30 times the number of jobs within a half-hour commute compared to those who relied on public transportation. The time disparity is particularly fraught for low-wage workers who may have odd hours, work overnight and can often be docked pay or fired for being late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the cost of owning a vehicle can be prohibitive. One s\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_704LRR.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tudy\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California found low-income people in the San Francisco Bay Area spent about 10 times as much on transportation if they drove compared to taking transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Boarnet found that simply shortening the time it takes people get to transit stops could improve people's job access considerably. It would be the equivalent of adding 25 percent more buses and trains throughout the public transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What could help make transit a better job access tool? One answer is dockless bikes, e-bikes and scooters,\" Boarnet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting a Broader Safety Net\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes emerging technologies can offer big benefits to low-income people who can't afford cars. But he said it's up to policymakers to ensure the services are accessible to people who need them most, like Oscar Ramos, who doesn't have a phone or a credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boarnet said the transportation safety net may need to be broader to include solutions to banking, smartphones and subsidies for the many private services that are filling gaps in the transportation network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no one size fits all,\" said Lewis at HOPICS. \"The people that come into our office have all kinds of stories and experiences and needs, so we have to be able to do all those things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization was able to give Ramos a van ride to his new housing in Long Beach. It's just one step in a long haul toward getting on his feet, but Ramos was heartened that he's further down the road to a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have five children. You don't know how much that would mean to me — to be able to have a good paying job, a house for them to come stay the night,\" he said. \"The joy would just fill my heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Melanie Gerber started working as a mortgage loan officer in Riverside seven years ago, she didn't see many first-time buyers hitting up their parents for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she sees it all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have one that just went into escrow yesterday,\" Gerber said. \"They're having money gifted from the family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates about half of her borrowers are now getting money from mom and dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the parents just want them to make it on their own and know they can't do it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's observations are backed up by federal data. If you want to buy a home in California, it increasingly helps to have relatives who can chip in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California Real Estate Is Flush With Family Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KPCC crunched \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/rmra/oe/rpts/sfsnap/sfsnap\">the numbers on more than 600,000 FHA loans\u003c/a>, a type of government-backed mortgage that's common with first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FHA borrowers can use money from relatives for their down payment. In recent years, that kind of family financial help has been on the rise in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2011, about one in four FHA loans in California included down payment money from relatives. Today, it's one in three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Percent of family-assisted down payments for FHA loans, by county\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>County-level data via HUD; current through May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family down payment support is playing an even bigger role in many parts of California, outstripping the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Housing/documents/2017fhaannualreport.pdf\">national rate of 26 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in dozens of California ZIP codes — covering parts of East San Jose, North Hollywood, South Central Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Alpine in eastern San Diego County — at least half of FHA borrowers were getting family members to help with the down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many first-time buyers choose FHA loans for their low down payment options and relaxed credit requirements. FHA loans have been declining as a share of California's overall mortgage market. Still, in 2017 about 15 percent of all homes sold in California had an FHA loan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/surveys/ahs\">a survey\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These loans can help young families get into lower to mid-priced California homes. However, lending limits max out at close to $680,000, making FHA loans unrealistic for California's most expensive markets. Very few people use them to buy homes in areas like San Francisco or L.A.'s Westside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>FHA loans with family down payment assistance by ZIP Code, 2011 - May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/maps/bay.html\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"470px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data via HUD, U.S. Census; ZIP codes with fewer than 50 loans not shown on map\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan officer Gerber gave her son nearly $10,000 to get him into a $365,000 house in Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw the prices going higher and higher. And I knew that if we didn't help him, he would not be able to buy something when he was actually ready to purchase,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's 24-year-old son, Brandon Miller said, \"I could not be in this house without my family's help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller has embraced homeownership. His modest ranch house has a nice front yard where his two massive Great Danes can run around. He enjoys watering the plants and looking for midcentury furniture to highlight the house's 1950s charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living here keeps Miller close to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do everything possible to show that I'm grateful for what they did,\" he said. \"I keep my house nice. I try to improve my house when I can. I want to show that what they invested in is actually going toward something good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller shares the house with a few renters, so he can easily cover his portion of the monthly payments. He said it costs him less than renting an apartment. And he's building equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I definitely feel like I was able to achieve the California Dream, since a lot of people nowadays can't afford houses,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parental Help Takes Many Forms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Median California home prices are now more than double the national average. Student loan debt and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/may/29/californias-high-rent-leaves-many-one-crisis-away-/\">unaffordable rents\u003c/a> can make it hard to save. When parents see their kids struggling under those pressures, of course they want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they're not just gifting down payments to their kids. They're also co-buying houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/mortgage-origination/q1-2018-loan-origination-trends-report/\">quarterly report\u003c/a> from Irvine-based real estate data firm Attom Data Solutions found that 48 percent of houses purchased in San Jose had sales deeds that listed multiple non-married buyers (often an indication that parents are co-buying with their children). The same was true for 38 percent of homes purchased in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are making \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/07/12/57900/socal-so-curious-who-are-the-cash-buyers-in-socal/\">all-cash purchases\u003c/a> for their kids. Family money can be involved in other ways that are harder to detect. Buyers can purchase homes with inheritances or trust fund money, which don't show up in data on FHA loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parental help is happening in many non-FHA loans as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1200x989.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-960x791.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-240x198.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-375x309.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-520x428.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Labor union representative Raphael Leib used a conventional mortgage to buy a $390,000 house on the Eastside of Los Angeles three years ago with his wife, a high school French teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is raising their two young children in the three-bedroom house thanks in part to about $40,000 worth of help from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a gift from both our sets of parents really meant that we could find a place that our family could grow into,\" Leib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leib has seen others also tapping into generational wealth to buy homes in Los Angeles. He doesn't want to see long-term residents priced out of his City Terrace neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago.'\u003ccite>Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is a nice neighborhood. The neighbors have been here a long time. I know them all well. They know me well. It's a close-knit community,\" he said. \"I'd rather not see it be gentrified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Has Wealth to Share?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing experts worry about the rising reliance on family wealth in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have huge wealth inequality and homeownership inequalities by race and ethnicity,\" said UC Berkeley's Carolina Reid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black and Hispanic families today don't have as much wealth to share as white families, said Reid, because past government policies shut them out of homeownership. As recently as the 1960s, the practice of \"redlining\" explicitly denied government-backed home loans to residents in minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid predicts today's wealth gaps will only get worse if first-time buyers increasingly need to have parents who can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago,\" Reid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Green, the director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said families that have owned homes in California for generations have an advantage. Others may need to leave the state if they want to purchase a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like we're feudal now,\" Green said. \"You inherit the manor from your family if you happen to be a landowner. If you're not a landowner, it's really hard to get in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For Some, Family Money Can Be a Leg Up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, money from relatives isn't just benefiting families that have always been homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Dillon, a social worker at a Los Angeles hospital, was raised by a single mom who immigrated to the United States from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's family has always rented. Which is why getting an FHA loan to buy a house in South Los Angeles earlier this year was such a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had balloons in here,\" Dillon said. \"We never see my mom cry. But she actually shed a tear that day. She was just so happy. I think she felt proud of me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1200x919.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-960x735.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dillon shares the house with her mother. She now feels more financially secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not want to be renting my entire life and not establishing any wealth,\" she said. \"For me, it means that we're out of poverty and actually building a future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's savings covered roughly half of the down payment and closing costs on the $450,000 house. But she had another source of help — money passed down to her after her grandmother's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My grandma was the matriarch of our family,\" Dillon said. \"Our family has always had very intelligent, strong and compassionate women. So that, to me, was just her helping us yet again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon said if she kept saving, in a few years she might have been able to afford the down payment on her own. But then again, in a few years, who knows what a house like this will cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I Would Love to Stay in California'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those who don't have relatives in a position to help, owning a house in California can feel unachievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Pavón has been renting in Northeast Los Angeles with her husband Fernando for about six years. The couple has a 15-month-old son. They've considered buying a house. But Pavón said even with their decent incomes, they can't save up enough for a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big factor in our staying where we are is that we don't have assistance from other family,\" said Pavón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've watched prices in their neighborhood skyrocket. A three-bedroom house on their street recently sold for $1 million. Another house in the area — barely bigger than their apartment at 789 square feet — is on the market for $499,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people like myself who can't afford to live in a house like this. And I do wonder who can,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavón said her family could continue to rent in Los Angeles, or they could join her sister-in-law in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would love to stay in Los Angeles,\" she said. \"I would love to stay in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you helped your kids buy a home in California? Did you get help from your parents? Join the conversation on our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\">\u003cem>CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note about data:\u003c/strong> The California Dream collaborative analyzed 89 months of FHA loan data for California, from January 2011 - May 2018. That data, which represents over 600,000 mortgages, is \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/rmra/oe/rpts/sfsnap/sfsnap\">\u003cem>available here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Lenders submit the information about down payment support to HUD, and family support does not necessarily mean that relatives provided 100 percent of the down payment. On the map, we chose to show the data broken down by ZIP code, the most specific geography available. The shapes on the map are ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which are approximations of ZIP codes, created by the U.S. Census. All ZIP codes shown on the map had at least 50 loans during this time period. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's observations are backed up by federal data. If you want to buy a home in California, it increasingly helps to have relatives who can chip in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California Real Estate Is Flush With Family Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KPCC crunched \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/rmra/oe/rpts/sfsnap/sfsnap\">the numbers on more than 600,000 FHA loans\u003c/a>, a type of government-backed mortgage that's common with first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FHA borrowers can use money from relatives for their down payment. In recent years, that kind of family financial help has been on the rise in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2011, about one in four FHA loans in California included down payment money from relatives. Today, it's one in three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Percent of family-assisted down payments for FHA loans, by county\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>County-level data via HUD; current through May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family down payment support is playing an even bigger role in many parts of California, outstripping the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Housing/documents/2017fhaannualreport.pdf\">national rate of 26 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in dozens of California ZIP codes — covering parts of East San Jose, North Hollywood, South Central Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Alpine in eastern San Diego County — at least half of FHA borrowers were getting family members to help with the down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many first-time buyers choose FHA loans for their low down payment options and relaxed credit requirements. FHA loans have been declining as a share of California's overall mortgage market. Still, in 2017 about 15 percent of all homes sold in California had an FHA loan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/surveys/ahs\">a survey\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These loans can help young families get into lower to mid-priced California homes. However, lending limits max out at close to $680,000, making FHA loans unrealistic for California's most expensive markets. Very few people use them to buy homes in areas like San Francisco or L.A.'s Westside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>FHA loans with family down payment assistance by ZIP Code, 2011 - May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/maps/bay.html\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"470px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data via HUD, U.S. Census; ZIP codes with fewer than 50 loans not shown on map\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan officer Gerber gave her son nearly $10,000 to get him into a $365,000 house in Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw the prices going higher and higher. And I knew that if we didn't help him, he would not be able to buy something when he was actually ready to purchase,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's 24-year-old son, Brandon Miller said, \"I could not be in this house without my family's help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller has embraced homeownership. His modest ranch house has a nice front yard where his two massive Great Danes can run around. He enjoys watering the plants and looking for midcentury furniture to highlight the house's 1950s charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living here keeps Miller close to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do everything possible to show that I'm grateful for what they did,\" he said. \"I keep my house nice. I try to improve my house when I can. I want to show that what they invested in is actually going toward something good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller shares the house with a few renters, so he can easily cover his portion of the monthly payments. He said it costs him less than renting an apartment. And he's building equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I definitely feel like I was able to achieve the California Dream, since a lot of people nowadays can't afford houses,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parental Help Takes Many Forms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Median California home prices are now more than double the national average. Student loan debt and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/may/29/californias-high-rent-leaves-many-one-crisis-away-/\">unaffordable rents\u003c/a> can make it hard to save. When parents see their kids struggling under those pressures, of course they want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they're not just gifting down payments to their kids. They're also co-buying houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/mortgage-origination/q1-2018-loan-origination-trends-report/\">quarterly report\u003c/a> from Irvine-based real estate data firm Attom Data Solutions found that 48 percent of houses purchased in San Jose had sales deeds that listed multiple non-married buyers (often an indication that parents are co-buying with their children). The same was true for 38 percent of homes purchased in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are making \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/07/12/57900/socal-so-curious-who-are-the-cash-buyers-in-socal/\">all-cash purchases\u003c/a> for their kids. Family money can be involved in other ways that are harder to detect. Buyers can purchase homes with inheritances or trust fund money, which don't show up in data on FHA loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parental help is happening in many non-FHA loans as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1200x989.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-960x791.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-240x198.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-375x309.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-520x428.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Labor union representative Raphael Leib used a conventional mortgage to buy a $390,000 house on the Eastside of Los Angeles three years ago with his wife, a high school French teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is raising their two young children in the three-bedroom house thanks in part to about $40,000 worth of help from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a gift from both our sets of parents really meant that we could find a place that our family could grow into,\" Leib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leib has seen others also tapping into generational wealth to buy homes in Los Angeles. He doesn't want to see long-term residents priced out of his City Terrace neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago.'\u003ccite>Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is a nice neighborhood. The neighbors have been here a long time. I know them all well. They know me well. It's a close-knit community,\" he said. \"I'd rather not see it be gentrified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Has Wealth to Share?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing experts worry about the rising reliance on family wealth in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have huge wealth inequality and homeownership inequalities by race and ethnicity,\" said UC Berkeley's Carolina Reid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black and Hispanic families today don't have as much wealth to share as white families, said Reid, because past government policies shut them out of homeownership. As recently as the 1960s, the practice of \"redlining\" explicitly denied government-backed home loans to residents in minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid predicts today's wealth gaps will only get worse if first-time buyers increasingly need to have parents who can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago,\" Reid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Green, the director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said families that have owned homes in California for generations have an advantage. Others may need to leave the state if they want to purchase a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like we're feudal now,\" Green said. \"You inherit the manor from your family if you happen to be a landowner. If you're not a landowner, it's really hard to get in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For Some, Family Money Can Be a Leg Up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, money from relatives isn't just benefiting families that have always been homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Dillon, a social worker at a Los Angeles hospital, was raised by a single mom who immigrated to the United States from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's family has always rented. Which is why getting an FHA loan to buy a house in South Los Angeles earlier this year was such a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had balloons in here,\" Dillon said. \"We never see my mom cry. But she actually shed a tear that day. She was just so happy. I think she felt proud of me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1200x919.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-960x735.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dillon shares the house with her mother. She now feels more financially secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not want to be renting my entire life and not establishing any wealth,\" she said. \"For me, it means that we're out of poverty and actually building a future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's savings covered roughly half of the down payment and closing costs on the $450,000 house. But she had another source of help — money passed down to her after her grandmother's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My grandma was the matriarch of our family,\" Dillon said. \"Our family has always had very intelligent, strong and compassionate women. So that, to me, was just her helping us yet again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon said if she kept saving, in a few years she might have been able to afford the down payment on her own. But then again, in a few years, who knows what a house like this will cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I Would Love to Stay in California'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those who don't have relatives in a position to help, owning a house in California can feel unachievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Pavón has been renting in Northeast Los Angeles with her husband Fernando for about six years. The couple has a 15-month-old son. They've considered buying a house. But Pavón said even with their decent incomes, they can't save up enough for a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big factor in our staying where we are is that we don't have assistance from other family,\" said Pavón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've watched prices in their neighborhood skyrocket. A three-bedroom house on their street recently sold for $1 million. Another house in the area — barely bigger than their apartment at 789 square feet — is on the market for $499,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people like myself who can't afford to live in a house like this. And I do wonder who can,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavón said her family could continue to rent in Los Angeles, or they could join her sister-in-law in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would love to stay in Los Angeles,\" she said. \"I would love to stay in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you helped your kids buy a home in California? Did you get help from your parents? Join the conversation on our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\">\u003cem>CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note about data:\u003c/strong> The California Dream collaborative analyzed 89 months of FHA loan data for California, from January 2011 - May 2018. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pulitzer-Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold, who wrote lyrically and passionately about everything from taquerias to the world's finest restaurants, has died. He was 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss will be felt deeply in the city of Los Angeles and by food lovers everywhere. Gold, a Los Angeles native, had just recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died at an L.A. hospital surrounded by family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be difficult to overstate Gold's impact on the culture of food in Southern California. His reviews of L.A.'s restaurants drew international attention to the region's unique fusion of cultures. But he also saw it as a mosaic, an \"anti-melting pot,\" where immigrants opened restaurants that maintained the unique flavors of home without having to bow to American palates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that you have all these communities, and all these viewpoints, and all these histories coming together in sort of this vast glittering fabric,\" he said in an interview with Take Two when the 2016 documentary about his life \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__2uT1cZWkY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"City of Gold\"\u003c/a> was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He celebrated the kitchens of the fanciest restaurants and food trucks alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what the late Anthony Bourdain had to say about Gold during a trip to L.A. for his web series \u003ca href=\"https://explorepartsunknown.com/play/little-los-angeles/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Little Los Angeles:\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's Jonathan Gold country, you know? He was really the first guy to change the focus from white tablecloth restaurants to really cool little places in strip malls. I mean, he was working that beat for a really long time. Won a Pulitzer for it. Rightfully so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gold was no snob.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-jonathan-gold-staff.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times' bio\u003c/a> he bragged that he was \"delighted that he has managed to forge a career out of the professional eating of tacos.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/20332-eight.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Gold in 2007\" width=\"324\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11681931\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/20332-eight.jpg 324w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/20332-eight-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/20332-eight-240x159.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Gold in 2007\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(John Rabe / KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An instantly recognizable figure around the city for many -- even before he gave up at least the illusion of anonymity maintained by most food critics -- Gold stood out from other restaurant critics early by discovering culinary wonders in places that others wouldn't look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His passion for his work came out when he talked about his process for reviewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking notes while you're eating is like taking notes while you're making love,\" he said. \"You can do it , but you lose something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He described how he experienced dining in that same \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/03/10/47091/city-of-gold-one-critics-guide-to-the-hidden-gems/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview with KPCC's Take Two\u003c/a> in 2016:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There are definitely moments when you're eating with me that I will be in a trance state. I'll be trying to think about things and think about how the way that things get put together... But one of my problems with a lot of food writing is that so much of the music of it gets buried in the details of the ingredients or the preparation of someone trying to puzzle out how a certain dish gets put together. It's like going to the philharmonic and going to hear Mahler and worrying about his use of the suspended second. Maybe it's part of it, but it doesn't really tell you anything. You're better off just listening to the music.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gold was a good friend to public radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He co-hosted KCRW's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/good-food-on-the-road\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Good Food On The Road.\"\u003c/a> And he was a frequent guest on KPCC. Just a few weeks ago, ahead of the quintessentially L.A. matchup of South Korea and Mexico in the World Cup, he came into the station to talk about the rich intersection of those two cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he finished taping the interview, Gold reminded editors that he lived close by and was always happy to help out. It wasn't just talk, he meant it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was Gold. He was naturally shy, but acutely aware how much it meant to people eager for the chance to meet him. And he was generous with his time, patiently listening to fans, many of them giddy with excitement, and always up for a selfie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PhilRosenthal/status/791148662814547969\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, Gold was lured back to the L.A. Times, where he got his start after graduating from UCLA. He'd been writing for L.A. Weekly since 1984. His singular column on food began two years later. Even its title foreshadowed that he'd be different. He called it \"Counter Intelligence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was in that role that his distinctive best restaurant list -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/jonathan-golds-99-essential-la-restaurants-2011-2172910\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants\u003c/a> -- became a bible for foodies. When he moved to the L.A. Times he expanded the list by two and it became \u003ca href=\"http://ballots.latimes.com/lists/101-best-restaurants-jonathan-gold/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew he held tremendous power to make, or break, an establishment. A negative review from him had the potential to put many low-wage people out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when he didn't like a place, he tried to understand why other people might. In one case, he returned to a crowded Taiwanese restaurant 16 or 17 times to see if the unfamiliar flavors grew on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I realized that the food wasn't like this, because they were bad cooks. My ideas of it were because of my cultural relativism,\" he told \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/18/470833911/city-of-gold-patchwork-of-cultures-a-tour-of-las-food-scene\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR's Renee Montagne in 2016\u003c/a>. \"It wasn't food that I was used to eating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ultimate ruling? He just didn't crave the food. And that was OK because he came to understand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I think in a lot of ways that's more valuable than if I'd just gone in there and made cheap jokes at the expense of the food,\" he said, \"or I'd given it a bad review because I thought it was bad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading his reviews was like listening to friends talk about the best meals they'd ever eaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an excerpt from one of the stories that made him the first, and only, food critic to earn print journalism's highest honor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jonathan-gold\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Pulitzer Prize, in 2007\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"When it is 109 degrees in Pasadena, when the live oaks droop and the front range of the San Gabriels burns with a terrible heat, there is no better place to be in the city than the shaded courtyard of the Pacific Asia Museum, among the Japanese statues and the swimming koi, the muscular Myron Hunt architecture, and the frail cart that houses Bulgarini Gelato, whose pistachio is fragrant as a lyric poem, whose lemon tames the sun, whose peach-moscato sorbetto is even more delicious than a chilled Bellini, even more delicious than a chilled Bellini made from a peach you have plucked from your own tree.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gold was 57. He is survived by his wife Laurie Ochoa, an editor at the L.A. Times, and a son and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll have more about his life and impact on the city.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, Gold was lured back to the L.A. Times, where he got his start after graduating from UCLA. He'd been writing for L.A. Weekly since 1984. His singular column on food began two years later. Even its title foreshadowed that he'd be different. He called it \"Counter Intelligence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was in that role that his distinctive best restaurant list -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/jonathan-golds-99-essential-la-restaurants-2011-2172910\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants\u003c/a> -- became a bible for foodies. When he moved to the L.A. Times he expanded the list by two and it became \u003ca href=\"http://ballots.latimes.com/lists/101-best-restaurants-jonathan-gold/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew he held tremendous power to make, or break, an establishment. A negative review from him had the potential to put many low-wage people out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when he didn't like a place, he tried to understand why other people might. In one case, he returned to a crowded Taiwanese restaurant 16 or 17 times to see if the unfamiliar flavors grew on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I realized that the food wasn't like this, because they were bad cooks. My ideas of it were because of my cultural relativism,\" he told \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/18/470833911/city-of-gold-patchwork-of-cultures-a-tour-of-las-food-scene\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR's Renee Montagne in 2016\u003c/a>. \"It wasn't food that I was used to eating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ultimate ruling? He just didn't crave the food. And that was OK because he came to understand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I think in a lot of ways that's more valuable than if I'd just gone in there and made cheap jokes at the expense of the food,\" he said, \"or I'd given it a bad review because I thought it was bad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading his reviews was like listening to friends talk about the best meals they'd ever eaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an excerpt from one of the stories that made him the first, and only, food critic to earn print journalism's highest honor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jonathan-gold\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Pulitzer Prize, in 2007\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"When it is 109 degrees in Pasadena, when the live oaks droop and the front range of the San Gabriels burns with a terrible heat, there is no better place to be in the city than the shaded courtyard of the Pacific Asia Museum, among the Japanese statues and the swimming koi, the muscular Myron Hunt architecture, and the frail cart that houses Bulgarini Gelato, whose pistachio is fragrant as a lyric poem, whose lemon tames the sun, whose peach-moscato sorbetto is even more delicious than a chilled Bellini, even more delicious than a chilled Bellini made from a peach you have plucked from your own tree.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gold was 57. He is survived by his wife Laurie Ochoa, an editor at the L.A. Times, and a son and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An unauthorized Guatemalan immigrant father and son, separated by federal agents at the Mexican border in late May, are finally back together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-eight days after Hermelindo Che Coc last saw his six-year-old son, Jefferson, the pair was reunited at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/kpcc2.jpg\" alt=\"Jefferson Jacinto Che Pop arrives with an escort of airline employees to meet his father on July 14, 2018, after they were separated for 48 days. The boy, age 6, had been held at a shelter in the Bronx, New York, since late May when he and his father, Hermelindo Che Coc, were separated.\" width=\"631\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11680718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/kpcc2.jpg 631w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/kpcc2-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/kpcc2-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/kpcc2-375x289.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/kpcc2-520x401.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jefferson Jacinto Che Pop arrives with an escort of airline employees to meet his father on July 14, 2018, after they were separated for 48 days. 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The pair were apprehended in Texas and separated for 48 days under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy. \" width=\"608\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11680719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/212047-eight.jpg 608w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/212047-eight-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/212047-eight-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/212047-eight-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/212047-eight-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hermelindo Che Coc, an unauthorized immigrant from Guatemala, greets his son Jefferson at Los Angeles International Airport on July 14, 2018. 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"content": "\u003cp>The immigration crackdown by the Trump administration in Los Angeles has spawned no shortage of activists, local clergy included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their prayer shawls and collars, some faith leaders are among the most visible in demonstrations supporting immigrants, with a couple dozen getting arrested recently in downtown L.A. in a show of civil disobedience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for other Southern California clergy, the immigration debate can feel removed from their daily lives — like for some among the 30-plus pastors taking part in an immigration workshop earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo Torres, a trainer with the interfaith group Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), scanned a packed conference room in its downtown L.A. offices that included Presbyterians, Baptists and Lutherans — some from the city, some from suburbs with homogenous congregations that don’t have many immigrants in the pews.,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Torres was determined to show all of them why they and their churches need to fight for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Faith leaders have the moral imperative to be the conscience of this country when we are witnessing such uncompassionate policies towards people of the immigrant community,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested how faith communities can get involved, including offering sanctuary for asylum-seekers and those facing deportation and creating legal funds for immigrants who need the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be connected to the suffering of others,” Torres said. “They need to see us out there. 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While they were receptive to Torres’ message, some wondered if their congregations are ready to tackle immigration issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isis Pickens, a youth minister at the predominantly African-American Zion Hill Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, said other issues can take priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it can feel like the immigration conversation is outside our community because we are so inundated with other economic issues,” Pickens said. “But it is something we need to engage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said the young people in her church, those 18 and under, are particularly interested in issues affecting people outside the immediate community. She planned to invite some to the next training that CLUE is leading on how to help immigrant detainees on July 19 at Temple Israel in Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1016778379490496513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres acknowledged that religious people are divided over the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Top evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham have lamented the family separations brought on by federal immigration policy, but have sidestepped criticism of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the workshop of L.A.-area clergy, there were dismayed sighs and shaking heads whenever Torres brought up the issue of migrant children separated from their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration is not an issue that Jenny Chrien has to personally contend with as pastor of a mostly white congregation at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Simi Valley. Nor is it an issue that Simi Valley officials are happy about, with the council coming out against California’s sanctuary state law that limits cooperation by local police with federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Chrien was trying to nail down ways to help her congregation identify with the uncertainty and fear many immigrants face under the Trump administration’s strict enforcement policies. Perhaps, she said, she would bring in a participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to share his or her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA participants, brought to the U.S. without authorization as children, have been allowed to temporarily live and work legally in the U.S., but that permission will expire unless Congress acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it can build compassion for something that might seem like it’s the ‘other,’ ” Chrien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres advised the room that it’s timely to introduce immigration issues to congregations, given that so many in the country have been following the family separations, and the slow process to reunite children with parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are more open to hearing these stories than ever before,” Torres said. “Their hearts are open.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Faith leaders have the moral imperative to be the conscience of this country when we are witnessing such uncompassionate policies towards people of the immigrant community,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested how faith communities can get involved, including offering sanctuary for asylum-seekers and those facing deportation and creating legal funds for immigrants who need the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be connected to the suffering of others,” Torres said. “They need to see us out there. For a person that’s oppressed, a religious figure standing with them in solidarity — that means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"Guillermo Torres, an organizer with Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice, suggests ways that pastors can help an immigrant community facing pressure under the Trump administration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-960x699.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-520x379.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guillermo Torres, an organizer with Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice, suggests ways that pastors can help an immigrant community facing pressure under the Trump administration. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group attending the workshop was made up of early-career clergy who are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pepperdine.edu/spiritual-life/communitas/\">Communitas Pastoral Leadership Program\u003c/a> at Pepperdine University as well as some of their spouses. While they were receptive to Torres’ message, some wondered if their congregations are ready to tackle immigration issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isis Pickens, a youth minister at the predominantly African-American Zion Hill Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, said other issues can take priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it can feel like the immigration conversation is outside our community because we are so inundated with other economic issues,” Pickens said. “But it is something we need to engage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said the young people in her church, those 18 and under, are particularly interested in issues affecting people outside the immediate community. She planned to invite some to the next training that CLUE is leading on how to help immigrant detainees on July 19 at Temple Israel in Long Beach.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Plenty of workers still move West each year for a new job in California. But the state’s high cost of housing may be deterring many other job seekers from moving into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders up and down the state say California’s expensive housing makes it challenging to recruit new workers -- and to keep existing employees here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're competing, now, with a low unemployment rate in California, and people have options,” said Mary Leslie, president of the Los Angeles Business Council. In April, the state’s unemployment rate hit a record low of 4.2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the affordable housing, we're not as competitive,” Leslie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job recruiters see California’s housing crisis from both sides. They work with employers feeling pressure to raise wages, and they talk with job seekers scared off by median home prices that top $1 million in parts of the Bay Area, and over $500,000 in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Stone, a Los Angeles recruiter with Proven Recruiting, said plenty of workers are still drawn to sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Living near the beach, having that active lifestyle, being able to see the Hollywood stars every once in a while,” Stone said. “Those are the reasons for the people who aren't from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he should know. Stone is a transplant himself, moving from upstate New York in 2016. He’s able to walk job seekers through the perks of taking a new job in California, and guide them away from the neighborhoods that could lock them into a terrible commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">What $500,000 Buys You Around California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SanJoseHomeMain-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During a call with a certified public accountant in North Carolina, Stone asked, “Have you been out to L.A. before?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have,” said the candidate, who we’re not naming to protect his job with his current employer. “There’s always downsides to everywhere that you go. And I know that there, it’s the crowds and traffic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, California’s sky-high housing costs. The median price of a California home -- now $538,640, according to the California Association of Realtors -- is more than double the national median home price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of financial workers Stone recruits could always find work in a less expensive part of the country. They do get a pay bump in California, but their annual salary alone is often not enough to afford a house in urban, coastal Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred thousand dollars here isn't going to go nearly as far as in Kansas or Missouri or any of those states,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently takes an annual household income of $112,930 to afford a median-priced Los Angeles home, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2018releases/1qtr2018hai\">a recent report\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. Homes in other parts of the state are significantly cheaper -- like the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles -- but in San Francisco, homebuyers need to earn as much as $333,270 to keep up with median monthly home payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11670700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-960x620.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-520x336.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a candidate does get an offer, Stone sometimes goes outside his job description to help them complete the move. One worker he successfully recruited from the Washington, D.C., area didn't have much time to find a place to live. So Stone scouted apartments for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he toured the apartments using his phone’s Facetime app, “just letting him know a little bit about the areas the apartment was in as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in today’s tight labor market, Proven recruiters said they still find plenty of job seekers living in California who are open to new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recruiting people from out of state is more difficult. In recent years, only 7 percent of Proven’s California placements have been filled with people from out of state. Ingram Losner, the firm’s co-founder, said that number was lower than he expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at it on paper, and you see the cost differential between living in California and living outside of California, you can’t live on the promise of a dream,” Losner said. “And that’s clearly where people decide to remove themselves from the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Proven Recruiting having a tough time luring people to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_CEO_Survey_Booklet_Digital_.pdf\">a 2016 Silicon Valley Leadership Group survey\u003c/a>, local CEOs said the area’s high cost of housing was their number one business challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's something a lot of employers in Southern California struggle with, too. A 2017 University of Southern California survey found that housing costs were concerning to 75 percent of large employers in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if companies were losing workers due to unaffordable housing. Some weren’t sure, but among those who did answer, 70 percent said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">5 Reasons California's Housing Costs Are So High\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHomeForSale-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers out of state, California’s economic growth could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the pressures continue, do they just say this California isn’t the California I thought it was?” Bostic asked. “I don’t think it’s in California’s interest to have more and more people facing that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of losing workers has even led some employers, like the Los Angeles Unified School District, to develop housing for certain workers who may not have any other affordable options nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco has for years discussed the possibility of building teacher housing within the city, and in April announced the selection of an affordable housing developer to carry out the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech giants like Google and Facebook also have plans to create new housing near their Bay Area headquarters in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys have found some evidence that employers are taking cost of living into account when negotiating hiring packages to lure top-level workers to California. 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He’s able to walk job seekers through the perks of taking a new job in California, and guide them away from the neighborhoods that could lock them into a terrible commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">What $500,000 Buys You Around California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SanJoseHomeMain-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During a call with a certified public accountant in North Carolina, Stone asked, “Have you been out to L.A. before?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have,” said the candidate, who we’re not naming to protect his job with his current employer. “There’s always downsides to everywhere that you go. And I know that there, it’s the crowds and traffic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, California’s sky-high housing costs. The median price of a California home -- now $538,640, according to the California Association of Realtors -- is more than double the national median home price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of financial workers Stone recruits could always find work in a less expensive part of the country. They do get a pay bump in California, but their annual salary alone is often not enough to afford a house in urban, coastal Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred thousand dollars here isn't going to go nearly as far as in Kansas or Missouri or any of those states,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently takes an annual household income of $112,930 to afford a median-priced Los Angeles home, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2018releases/1qtr2018hai\">a recent report\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. Homes in other parts of the state are significantly cheaper -- like the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles -- but in San Francisco, homebuyers need to earn as much as $333,270 to keep up with median monthly home payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11670700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-960x620.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-520x336.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a candidate does get an offer, Stone sometimes goes outside his job description to help them complete the move. One worker he successfully recruited from the Washington, D.C., area didn't have much time to find a place to live. So Stone scouted apartments for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he toured the apartments using his phone’s Facetime app, “just letting him know a little bit about the areas the apartment was in as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in today’s tight labor market, Proven recruiters said they still find plenty of job seekers living in California who are open to new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recruiting people from out of state is more difficult. In recent years, only 7 percent of Proven’s California placements have been filled with people from out of state. Ingram Losner, the firm’s co-founder, said that number was lower than he expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at it on paper, and you see the cost differential between living in California and living outside of California, you can’t live on the promise of a dream,” Losner said. “And that’s clearly where people decide to remove themselves from the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Proven Recruiting having a tough time luring people to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_CEO_Survey_Booklet_Digital_.pdf\">a 2016 Silicon Valley Leadership Group survey\u003c/a>, local CEOs said the area’s high cost of housing was their number one business challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's something a lot of employers in Southern California struggle with, too. A 2017 University of Southern California survey found that housing costs were concerning to 75 percent of large employers in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if companies were losing workers due to unaffordable housing. Some weren’t sure, but among those who did answer, 70 percent said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">5 Reasons California's Housing Costs Are So High\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHomeForSale-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers out of state, California’s economic growth could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the pressures continue, do they just say this California isn’t the California I thought it was?” Bostic asked. “I don’t think it’s in California’s interest to have more and more people facing that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of losing workers has even led some employers, like the Los Angeles Unified School District, to develop housing for certain workers who may not have any other affordable options nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco has for years discussed the possibility of building teacher housing within the city, and in April announced the selection of an affordable housing developer to carry out the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech giants like Google and Facebook also have plans to create new housing near their Bay Area headquarters in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys have found some evidence that employers are taking cost of living into account when negotiating hiring packages to lure top-level workers to California. But lower-wage workers are not getting as much help to offset rising rents. If these trends continue, the future could hold more inequality and stagnant growth, said USC professor Gary Painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kind of economy that California might grow into is one where there’s a few people earning a lot, and then a bunch of lower-wage workers,” said Painter. “And that has never been a recipe for long-term quality of life and economic growth in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d like to know about your experience looking for work in California. Join the conversation on our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\">\u003cem>CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With California’s problems of affordability and congestion, many of us are paying a higher price for an ever-shrinking sliver of California paradise. Even those lucky enough to be able to afford a home often do so at the expense of some of the quintessential perks of life in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downsizing of the California Dream is readily apparent for Jenny Gov. In 2015, she and her boyfriend bought a home in Lakewood, a bedroom community near Long Beach that was once a classic example of the midcentury suburb and all that it offered — including easy access to good jobs, tight-knit community, the beach, the mountains and nearby Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov and her boyfriend moved here seeking many of the same things tens of thousands of buyers before them sought in Lakewood, only today they’re paying a higher price and getting less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time Gov stays within a 10-minute radius of her house, if she even gets that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to drive as little as possible,” she said, pointing out the Target five minutes from home that constitutes her usual night out on the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica so during her off hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica, so during her off-hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \u003ccite>(Meghan McCarty/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a big change from her early life growing up in Los Angeles, when she’d go out to explore music and art, check out hip coffee shops or seek out a meal in one of the many ethnic enclaves of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now her world is much smaller. She’s taken to meal prepping to avoid unnecessary trips to the grocery store, she does workout videos instead of going to the gym and she’s finally giving up the family dentist she’s had for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I'm going to just find a dentist closer to me now,” she said. “It's not that far, but I think because I drive so much, I don't want to drive anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov, like an increasing number of Californians, has an extreme commute to her job. She works in communications at a nonprofit organization about 30 miles away, up the notorious 405 to Santa Monica. On good days it takes an hour and a half each way; on the worst days it’s 2½ hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s literally like a part-time job,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov’s boyfriend has a similarly long commute into Los Angeles. They wish they could live closer in, but homes closer to their jobs were way out of their price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they settled in Lakewood, among the rows of modest little ranch-style houses, repeated in one of 20 or so iterations, interspersed with shopping centers, parks and schools. It’s a landscape that today appears completely unremarkable, but half a century ago embodied a powerful vision of the good life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zfGG1IbwpZg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise of Lakewood was enough of the good things of an everyday life -- a simple house, a yard, infrastructure of schools and churches and shopping centers,” said D.J. Waldie, an author and former city historian who wrote the book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” about life in Lakewood from the 1950s, when the subdivision exploded out of lima bean fields into a suburb of 70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 homes were built with assembly-line efficiency over a period of three years. They were bought up before they were even completed, mostly by working-class families able to take advantage of generous federal housing financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents commuted to nearby aerospace jobs or the shipyards of Long Beach. Their paychecks afforded them not only a home but -- with the new state-of-the-art freeways -- a world of things to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678781\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. 1952 Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-375x443.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-520x614.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California made it possible to really reach out to and touch an awful lot of the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region -- travel to the beaches, to the mountains, to the desert,” said Waldie, whose own family took full advantage of their access to California’s natural splendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the midcentury lanes of Lakewood have scarcely changed since then, what success feels like in today’s California certainly has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a cruel reality of the current economic conditions that some of the ways in which an ordinary working-class suburb like Lakewood made life better aren't available,” said Waldie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those solid middle-class jobs nearby have shipped out. To afford to buy a home here, a lot more people are living like Jenny Gov -- spending more of their day in ever-worsening traffic, leaving little time to spend with family and neighbors, coaching Little League or exploring the wonders of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of places like Lakewood has been carved down into little pieces with Californians forced to pick between them: choose the house or choose the nearby job, but seldom both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-520x372.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Taylor, an urban planning professor who directs the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA, said the housing crisis has exacerbated the dilemma in recent years, as new housing construction has lagged in parts of the state where well-paid employment in the more knowledge-based economy has multiplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What California needs, he said, is more housing in areas closer to jobs, rather than the exurban sprawl that, he says, has compounded the problem. But many communities have opposed denser housing in already built-up areas over fears it will lead to loss of neighborhood character and greater traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so now we don't build the housing we need, then we have huge ramp-ups in housing costs which has big economic impacts and means people often live much farther from where they would like to, which makes the traffic worse,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building denser housing closer to jobs could alleviate some pressure in the housing market and shorten some commutes, said Taylor, but it could also mean sacrificing the single-family home part of the California Dream, an ideal many folks, like Jenny Gov, aren’t ready to let go of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give up a lot of my life to traffic, “ she said. “But even with that it’s just owning a home, a little bit more peace for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/california-dream-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now her world is much smaller. She’s taken to meal prepping to avoid unnecessary trips to the grocery store, she does workout videos instead of going to the gym and she’s finally giving up the family dentist she’s had for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I'm going to just find a dentist closer to me now,” she said. “It's not that far, but I think because I drive so much, I don't want to drive anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov, like an increasing number of Californians, has an extreme commute to her job. She works in communications at a nonprofit organization about 30 miles away, up the notorious 405 to Santa Monica. On good days it takes an hour and a half each way; on the worst days it’s 2½ hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s literally like a part-time job,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov’s boyfriend has a similarly long commute into Los Angeles. They wish they could live closer in, but homes closer to their jobs were way out of their price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they settled in Lakewood, among the rows of modest little ranch-style houses, repeated in one of 20 or so iterations, interspersed with shopping centers, parks and schools. It’s a landscape that today appears completely unremarkable, but half a century ago embodied a powerful vision of the good life in California.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zfGG1IbwpZg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zfGG1IbwpZg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The promise of Lakewood was enough of the good things of an everyday life -- a simple house, a yard, infrastructure of schools and churches and shopping centers,” said D.J. Waldie, an author and former city historian who wrote the book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” about life in Lakewood from the 1950s, when the subdivision exploded out of lima bean fields into a suburb of 70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 homes were built with assembly-line efficiency over a period of three years. They were bought up before they were even completed, mostly by working-class families able to take advantage of generous federal housing financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents commuted to nearby aerospace jobs or the shipyards of Long Beach. Their paychecks afforded them not only a home but -- with the new state-of-the-art freeways -- a world of things to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678781\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. 1952 Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-375x443.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-520x614.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California made it possible to really reach out to and touch an awful lot of the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region -- travel to the beaches, to the mountains, to the desert,” said Waldie, whose own family took full advantage of their access to California’s natural splendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the midcentury lanes of Lakewood have scarcely changed since then, what success feels like in today’s California certainly has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a cruel reality of the current economic conditions that some of the ways in which an ordinary working-class suburb like Lakewood made life better aren't available,” said Waldie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those solid middle-class jobs nearby have shipped out. To afford to buy a home here, a lot more people are living like Jenny Gov -- spending more of their day in ever-worsening traffic, leaving little time to spend with family and neighbors, coaching Little League or exploring the wonders of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of places like Lakewood has been carved down into little pieces with Californians forced to pick between them: choose the house or choose the nearby job, but seldom both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-520x372.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Taylor, an urban planning professor who directs the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA, said the housing crisis has exacerbated the dilemma in recent years, as new housing construction has lagged in parts of the state where well-paid employment in the more knowledge-based economy has multiplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What California needs, he said, is more housing in areas closer to jobs, rather than the exurban sprawl that, he says, has compounded the problem. But many communities have opposed denser housing in already built-up areas over fears it will lead to loss of neighborhood character and greater traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so now we don't build the housing we need, then we have huge ramp-ups in housing costs which has big economic impacts and means people often live much farther from where they would like to, which makes the traffic worse,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building denser housing closer to jobs could alleviate some pressure in the housing market and shorten some commutes, said Taylor, but it could also mean sacrificing the single-family home part of the California Dream, an ideal many folks, like Jenny Gov, aren’t ready to let go of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give up a lot of my life to traffic, “ she said. “But even with that it’s just owning a home, a little bit more peace for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After being a finalist for LAPD chief in 2009 only to see the job go to Charlie Beck, Michel Moore has been selected to succeed Beck by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, a 37-year veteran of the force, runs the LAPD’s day-to-day patrol operations as first assistant chief, the number two at the department behind Beck, who’s stepping down June 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, 54, has held nearly every top job at the department, overseeing everything from the budget to personnel to special operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti noted Moore’s extensive senior-level experience, adding that in his interviews he “brought a very deep sense of what we needed to do” to deal with the various challenges facing the department. “Also, he has the capacity to fire on multiple pistons at the same time,” the mayor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti picked Moore over Deputy Chief Robert Arcos, a 29-year veteran, and San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, a former LAPD deputy chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. City Council still must confirm Garcetti’s selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said “I was humbled beyond description” when Garcetti called Monday to offer him the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He praised Beck for the job he has done during his tenure, and said he’s not coming into the position with a preconceived agenda. Moore stressed that he wants to continue a listening campaign that he has been carrying out with people throughout L.A. and with the men and women of the LAPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said community members have expressed “a desire that we be more engaged, that we be more deeply invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The LAPD Rank-and-File ‘Get to … Be Heard Again’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moore said some of the things LAPD officers told him confirmed what he already knew, but in some cases what he heard “was water on my face in the sense of waking me up and saying I need to take a fresh look at this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an apparent allusion to the sometimes chilly relations between some of the rank-and-file and Beck, Moore said, “I need the people of this great department to know that today is a day that they get to step forward and be heard again. Whether they feel like they have been in the past is not relevant.” What is relevant, Moore said, “is today as I take on this new position that they know that the organization has an opportunity to reset, an opportunity to reinvent, an opportunity to reinvigorate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board of directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the officers union, congratulated Moore and expressed its hope that if he’s confirmed “he will take immediate action to address low officer morale stemming from our critically low police staffing and that he will be absolutely committed to collaborating on new ideas to reduce violent crime and prepare our city for the 2028 Olympics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore “is one of the most knowledgeable people at the LAPD,” said L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell, who worked alongside Moore for nearly three decades at the LAPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mike Moore is an excellent problem-solver,” said Shane Murphy Goldsmith, who sits on the five-member Police Commission that recommended the three finalists to Garcetti. “He has vast experience and will be able to hit the ground running on day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moore was a candidate for chief in 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that he was widely credited with helping lower crime rates in the San Fernando Valley during his more than four years in charge of the bureau that oversaw that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was one of eight finalists last year for the job of chief of the Dallas Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several L.A. Latino political leaders had lobbied Garcetti to select Arcos, who would have been the city’s first Latino police chief. When asked about that, the mayor noted that he hired the city’s first Latino fire chief and selected an African-American woman to run Los Angeles World Airports. Garcetti then said, “I wasn’t looking to fill a demographic or make history,” adding, “I wanted the best person for the job, and that’s Mike Moore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor called Arcos and Scott “exceptional” candidates. “Bobby Arcos will be an amazing chief one day, whether it’s here or another city,” Garcetti said. “He’s an empath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Arcos’ advocates, L.A. City Councilman Gil Cedillo, issued a decidedly lukewarm statement following Moore’s selection. He called Garcetti’s announcement “the first step in the selection process,” saying that as the City Council considers the appointment, “I look forward to engaging in a rigorous vetting process with my colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-960x669.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-375x261.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cedillo went on to say that council members “know what experience is most important to our communities. It’s within that framework that the council must make its decision to determine what experience matters most and who the next Police Chief will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, said Moore “has worked productively with ACLU and other civil rights and community organizations in the LAPD’s creation of a more humane impound policy, enforcement of street vending laws, and limiting the department’s interactions with immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagra went on to say that Moore must commit himself to “completely disentangling the department from federal immigration enforcement and limiting dragnet surveillance,” adding that, if confirmed, Moore “must also adopt de-escalation policies, reform gang enforcement practices, and increase transparency and accountability around officer misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Am One to Challenge That Status Quo’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KPCC before his selection, Moore listed several goals, including: hiring more women and black officers; improving community relations, especially with African-Americans; diving deeper into the role implicit bias may be playing in policing at the LAPD; and shifting more officers from specialized units to patrol cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief-to-be is demanding of employees and peers alike, said Deputy Chief Bob Green. “He is very assertive. He can dominate a meeting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am one to challenge that status quo,” Moore told KPCC. “That means disrupting a conversation that was going pretty mellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “I’ve had leaders hold that against me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore did say “there’s been maturing on my part” over time. “I need to slow down and I need to engage others … I’ve also had to learn I am not always right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting as a 21-year-old patrol officer in 1981, Moore moved up through the ranks, serving as a detective, sergeant and lieutenant, according to his LAPD bio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was promoted to captain in 1998, which led to one of his key assignments: assuming command of the Rampart Division following the arrest of then-officer Raphael Perez in a widespread corruption scandal that involving stealing cocaine booked as evidence and stealing drugs from suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore reached the rank of commander in 2002 and deputy chief in 2004. He became an assistant chief in 2010 and was put in charge of the detective bureau and the counterterrorism and special operations bureau. Beck put him at the head of the LAPD’s office of administrative services in 2015, where he oversaw fiscal, personnel, training and other operations. He also chaired the department’s use-of-force review board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he rose through the ranks, Moore became known as a detail-oriented, data-focused boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s got a memory for everything and he’s very Type A,” said Green. “And his ability to make a good decision is unsurpassed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green recalled one of the first times he saw Moore in action, during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in L.A. Moore issued a dispersal order to a group of protesters that was in part an acknowledgement of their concerns, said Green, an expert in dealing with that type of situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just extremely impressed by his knowledge of crowd management,” said Green, adding that Moore knew how to use more forceful persuasion, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pentecostal Values, Seeking ‘A Life That Had Meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moore said he first thought about becoming a police officer when he was 14. He liked the idea of working outdoors in a challenging profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, I wanted to do something larger than myself,” he said, “to live a life that had meaning, that felt like I was helping people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned those values attending Pentecostal churches with his family, adding, “my butt was in a lot of pews for a lot of revivals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, Moore’s family also attended a Seventh-day Adventist church, which honors Saturday as the Sabbath. “That meant sitting at home Friday nights missing high school football games,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s father was a Basque immigrant who moved the family a lot looking for work. Born in Porterville, California, Moore ended up graduating from high school in Conway, Arkansas. By then his father had left and his mother had remarried. His stepfather suggested he drop his father’s name of Sanchotena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his mother and stepfather broke up, they moved back to California, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, Moore thought he’d study accounting. But he heard then-LAPD Chief Daryl Gates talk about needing cops who wouldn’t drive by dark alleys but down them. He quit his better-paying Lockheed job building planes and joined the LAPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a great deal of violence,” Moore said of his early years, when the scourge of rock cocaine brought piles of cash, guns by the thousands and untold misery to poor neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Community ‘Saw Us as Occupiers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He was involved in two shootings. In 1985, while working in South L.A.’s Newton Division, Moore wounded a man who pointed a gun at him and his partner inside a produce market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, he was moonlighting as a security guard at Topanga Plaza when a man with a rifle killed his wife in the parking lot. Moore won the LAPD’s Medal of Valor for confronting the man and fatally shooting him as he turned the gun on Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the violence was taking its toll and Moore looked around for other ways to police the community. He joined Gates’ anti-drug DARE program and talked to school kids for a year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said he noticed during his time on the streets that “the people we were trying to protect saw us as occupiers. They thought we were punishing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience led him to join a group of officers who changed their thinking and embraced community policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Here’s to the Crazy Ones … The Rebels’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moore traces his independent thinking to his childhood, growing up with different dads and a mother who raised five kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to find my own way a lot,” said Moore, who has been married 27 years and has a 19-year-old-daughter. He said he plans to move from Santa Clarita to L.A. to serve as chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since he was a captain, Moore has had a poster on the wall that’s an old Apple ad written by Steve Jobs highlighting its slogan, “Think Different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels …” it starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s favorite part: “You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “What I really thrive on is we are here to make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. City Council still must confirm Garcetti’s selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said “I was humbled beyond description” when Garcetti called Monday to offer him the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He praised Beck for the job he has done during his tenure, and said he’s not coming into the position with a preconceived agenda. Moore stressed that he wants to continue a listening campaign that he has been carrying out with people throughout L.A. and with the men and women of the LAPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said community members have expressed “a desire that we be more engaged, that we be more deeply invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The LAPD Rank-and-File ‘Get to … Be Heard Again’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moore said some of the things LAPD officers told him confirmed what he already knew, but in some cases what he heard “was water on my face in the sense of waking me up and saying I need to take a fresh look at this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an apparent allusion to the sometimes chilly relations between some of the rank-and-file and Beck, Moore said, “I need the people of this great department to know that today is a day that they get to step forward and be heard again. Whether they feel like they have been in the past is not relevant.” What is relevant, Moore said, “is today as I take on this new position that they know that the organization has an opportunity to reset, an opportunity to reinvent, an opportunity to reinvigorate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board of directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the officers union, congratulated Moore and expressed its hope that if he’s confirmed “he will take immediate action to address low officer morale stemming from our critically low police staffing and that he will be absolutely committed to collaborating on new ideas to reduce violent crime and prepare our city for the 2028 Olympics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore “is one of the most knowledgeable people at the LAPD,” said L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell, who worked alongside Moore for nearly three decades at the LAPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mike Moore is an excellent problem-solver,” said Shane Murphy Goldsmith, who sits on the five-member Police Commission that recommended the three finalists to Garcetti. “He has vast experience and will be able to hit the ground running on day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Moore was a candidate for chief in 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that he was widely credited with helping lower crime rates in the San Fernando Valley during his more than four years in charge of the bureau that oversaw that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was one of eight finalists last year for the job of chief of the Dallas Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several L.A. Latino political leaders had lobbied Garcetti to select Arcos, who would have been the city’s first Latino police chief. When asked about that, the mayor noted that he hired the city’s first Latino fire chief and selected an African-American woman to run Los Angeles World Airports. Garcetti then said, “I wasn’t looking to fill a demographic or make history,” adding, “I wanted the best person for the job, and that’s Mike Moore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor called Arcos and Scott “exceptional” candidates. “Bobby Arcos will be an amazing chief one day, whether it’s here or another city,” Garcetti said. “He’s an empath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Arcos’ advocates, L.A. City Councilman Gil Cedillo, issued a decidedly lukewarm statement following Moore’s selection. He called Garcetti’s announcement “the first step in the selection process,” saying that as the City Council considers the appointment, “I look forward to engaging in a rigorous vetting process with my colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-960x669.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-240x167.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-375x261.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Garcetti-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cedillo went on to say that council members “know what experience is most important to our communities. It’s within that framework that the council must make its decision to determine what experience matters most and who the next Police Chief will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, said Moore “has worked productively with ACLU and other civil rights and community organizations in the LAPD’s creation of a more humane impound policy, enforcement of street vending laws, and limiting the department’s interactions with immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villagra went on to say that Moore must commit himself to “completely disentangling the department from federal immigration enforcement and limiting dragnet surveillance,” adding that, if confirmed, Moore “must also adopt de-escalation policies, reform gang enforcement practices, and increase transparency and accountability around officer misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Am One to Challenge That Status Quo’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KPCC before his selection, Moore listed several goals, including: hiring more women and black officers; improving community relations, especially with African-Americans; diving deeper into the role implicit bias may be playing in policing at the LAPD; and shifting more officers from specialized units to patrol cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief-to-be is demanding of employees and peers alike, said Deputy Chief Bob Green. “He is very assertive. He can dominate a meeting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am one to challenge that status quo,” Moore told KPCC. “That means disrupting a conversation that was going pretty mellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “I’ve had leaders hold that against me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore did say “there’s been maturing on my part” over time. “I need to slow down and I need to engage others … I’ve also had to learn I am not always right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting as a 21-year-old patrol officer in 1981, Moore moved up through the ranks, serving as a detective, sergeant and lieutenant, according to his LAPD bio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was promoted to captain in 1998, which led to one of his key assignments: assuming command of the Rampart Division following the arrest of then-officer Raphael Perez in a widespread corruption scandal that involving stealing cocaine booked as evidence and stealing drugs from suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore reached the rank of commander in 2002 and deputy chief in 2004. He became an assistant chief in 2010 and was put in charge of the detective bureau and the counterterrorism and special operations bureau. Beck put him at the head of the LAPD’s office of administrative services in 2015, where he oversaw fiscal, personnel, training and other operations. He also chaired the department’s use-of-force review board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he rose through the ranks, Moore became known as a detail-oriented, data-focused boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s got a memory for everything and he’s very Type A,” said Green. “And his ability to make a good decision is unsurpassed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green recalled one of the first times he saw Moore in action, during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in L.A. Moore issued a dispersal order to a group of protesters that was in part an acknowledgement of their concerns, said Green, an expert in dealing with that type of situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just extremely impressed by his knowledge of crowd management,” said Green, adding that Moore knew how to use more forceful persuasion, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pentecostal Values, Seeking ‘A Life That Had Meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moore said he first thought about becoming a police officer when he was 14. He liked the idea of working outdoors in a challenging profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, I wanted to do something larger than myself,” he said, “to live a life that had meaning, that felt like I was helping people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned those values attending Pentecostal churches with his family, adding, “my butt was in a lot of pews for a lot of revivals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, Moore’s family also attended a Seventh-day Adventist church, which honors Saturday as the Sabbath. “That meant sitting at home Friday nights missing high school football games,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore’s father was a Basque immigrant who moved the family a lot looking for work. Born in Porterville, California, Moore ended up graduating from high school in Conway, Arkansas. By then his father had left and his mother had remarried. His stepfather suggested he drop his father’s name of Sanchotena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his mother and stepfather broke up, they moved back to California, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, Moore thought he’d study accounting. But he heard then-LAPD Chief Daryl Gates talk about needing cops who wouldn’t drive by dark alleys but down them. He quit his better-paying Lockheed job building planes and joined the LAPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a great deal of violence,” Moore said of his early years, when the scourge of rock cocaine brought piles of cash, guns by the thousands and untold misery to poor neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Community ‘Saw Us as Occupiers’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>He was involved in two shootings. 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