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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Dec. 16, 2019\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal in a case originating from Boise, Idaho, that would have made it a crime to camp and sleep in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to let a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stand has reverberating effects for the states under the circuit court, including California. The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal is considered a setback for governments in much of the West that are grappling with widespread homelessness by designing laws to regulate makeshift encampments on sidewalks and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11777005,news_11764548']The case stems from a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago. A handful of people sued the city of Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for violating an ordinance against sleeping outside. While Boise officials later amended their ordinance, the 9th Circuit eventually determined the local law was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decision last year, the court said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means states across the 9th Circuit can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case now returns to the 9th Circuit. The city of Boise says it’s evaluating its next steps.\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787861253/how-boises-fight-over-homelessness-is-rippling-across-the-west-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR’s original story\u003c/a> on the Boise case published Dec. 13, 2019:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s billed as one of the most livable places in the country with its good schools, leafy streets and safe neighborhoods. That’s what makes Boise, Idaho, an odd backdrop for a heated legal fight around homelessness that is reverberating across the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes back nearly a decade to when seven homeless people sued Boise for repeatedly ticketing them for sleeping outside. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/04/01/15-35845.pdf\">ruled in their favor\u003c/a>. The decision said it was “cruel and unusual punishment” to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go. That means in states across the 9th Circuit — including Washington, Oregon and California — cities and counties can no longer enforce similar statutes if they don’t have enough shelter beds for homeless people sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pam Hawkes was one of the original plaintiffs in the case. She now lives in Spokane, Washington, where she had been in and out of homelessness and only recently found stable housing. Seven years ago, she and her then-partner had nowhere to live in Boise, and many nights, they had no other choice but to pitch a tent in a wooded area along the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘I just need somewhere to lay my head overnight,’ and it’s not like we left camp up,” she said. “We always packed up and we always kept it clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she says she tried to keep herself hidden, police issued her more than a dozen tickets. Like most people living on the streets, Hawkes didn’t have steady work and couldn’t pay the fines. So she ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d never been in jail a whole day and night before,” she said. “It was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boise has hired a high-powered Los Angeles-based law firm to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Dozens of other municipalities and organizations, ranging from the downtown L.A. YMCA to a group of California counties, have filed amicus briefs in support of the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the fight over how to deal with the ever-growing homelessness crisis — most acutely visible in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle — is dividing cities, neighborhoods and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a deciding factor in the unusually heated Boise mayoral race between two Democrats this past fall. Like many western cities, Boise is in the midst of an extraordinary affordable housing shortage. It’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a source of tension in some corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message that prevailed was city council president Lauren McLean’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention, if we want to prevent camps, we have to prevent homelessness,” she said during a forum at at a local homeless shelter. “We’ve got to address the affordability crisis in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a divisive runoff earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/runoff-election-results-2019-mclean-wins-boise-mayor-race-mcgee-takes-caldwell-city-council\">McLean handily beat the city’s longest-serving mayor\u003c/a>, Dave Bieter. He took heat for the city spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal a case, money that some argued should be going to housing and more support services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bieter warned that the famously pleasant and livable city of Boise can remain that way only if it has the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of tent cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really concerned when I see Seattle or Portland or San Francisco, I go there and I see a city that’s overwhelmed by the problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/san-francisco-like-many-places-across-the-west-face-a-growing-homelessness-crisis/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791457\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco, like many places across the West, face a growing homelessness crisis. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cities like those, and in Los Angeles, the homelessness crisis is far more eye-opening than in Boise. Homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Los Angeles’ skid row, some 3,000 people sleep on the streets in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos. The county is home to nearly 60,000 homeless people, and the city’s homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html\">population jumped 16%\u003c/a> in the last year. California is where nearly a quarter of the country’s homeless population live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer and Los Angeles County each filed \u003ca href=\"http://filedn.com/lOJqn8isbUNJvUBnJTlV5OS/CITY%20OF%20LA%20AMICUS%20BRIEF%20CITY%20OF%20BOISE.pdf\">amicus briefs\u003c/a> in support of the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the Supreme Court to issue clear rules that lead there to be certainty in jurisdictions like ours as to how we can regulate — constitutionally — conduct on our sidewalks,” Feuer said. “A shared space for which we need to strike a very fine balance between the rights and legitimate interests of homeless people and the rights and legitimate interests of other residents and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11752329,news_11748088,news_11739894,news_11745902,news_11678178' label='The Rise in Homelessness']The Boise ruling, he said, sweeps too broadly. He wants clarity. Does Los Angeles have the right to intervene if someone, for example, refuses to take an available shelter bed even if the city doesn’t have beds for everyone? Is the city required to do burdensome nightly counts of the homeless population as compared with the number of shelter beds available?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to assure that there are rules that everybody can live by, so that all our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody,” he said. “Occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement, and sometimes a level of enforcement is going to pertain to people who are homeless, not because of their status of being homeless, but because of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is nowhere near the number of shelter beds or temporary and permanent housing for the people who need it, Feuer said. But as the city works to solve the crisis, it also needs tools to keep Los Angeles safe. Business owners, housed residents, homeless people and advocates are frustrated with the growing encampments, garbage, human feces and used needles. This is all increasing as the city spends more on tackling the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh\">Proposition HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion affordable housing bond program to build 10,000 supportive housing units for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles. Not one unit is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/in-los-angeles-homeless-encampments-sprout-up-in-underpasses-along-streets-on-scores-of-sidewalks-and-inside-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791458\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1920x1479.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, homeless encampments sprout up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Three years later, we have more houseless people than ever before. Three years later, three houseless people per day are dying. Three years later, 150 people per day are entering into the houseless ranks,” said Pete White, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://cangress.org/\">Los Angeles Community Action Network\u003c/a> or L.A. CAN, based on skid row. His organization has been on the other side of many legal challenges against city ordinances it considers anti-homeless, from property confiscation to stopping people who have nowhere to go from sleeping in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Los Angeles and other cities have to stop reaching into a toolbox to police the problem and start reaching into a toolbox to solve the problem. The solution is clear: affordable housing and services for the underserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the L.A. CAN office, Juan Brown is shaking his head as he watches sanitation workers fill garbage trucks and power-wash the sidewalks. Police are taping off the area as outreach workers roam the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another ploy to harass the homeless, making us move,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was living on the corner where he stands for three years before finally getting into housing a month ago. He lost his job as a truck driver after he was hit by a drunken driver. He couldn’t make rent and ended up outside. He refers to the clean streets effort he’s watching as clean sweeps, because homeless people are forced to move, temporarily. If they don’t get their stuff out of the way in time, he said, it gets confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re targeted because Los Angeles look at us like cockroaches instead of human beings,” he said. “We’re no longer human beings out here. Homeless people are cockroaches to society now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Romo of NPR also contributed reporting to this updated article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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So she ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d never been in jail a whole day and night before,” she said. “It was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boise has hired a high-powered Los Angeles-based law firm to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Dozens of other municipalities and organizations, ranging from the downtown L.A. YMCA to a group of California counties, have filed amicus briefs in support of the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the fight over how to deal with the ever-growing homelessness crisis — most acutely visible in places such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle — is dividing cities, neighborhoods and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a deciding factor in the unusually heated Boise mayoral race between two Democrats this past fall. Like many western cities, Boise is in the midst of an extraordinary affordable housing shortage. It’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, a source of tension in some corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message that prevailed was city council president Lauren McLean’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The part that is missed all too often is the importance of prevention, if we want to prevent camps, we have to prevent homelessness,” she said during a forum at at a local homeless shelter. “We’ve got to address the affordability crisis in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a divisive runoff earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/runoff-election-results-2019-mclean-wins-boise-mayor-race-mcgee-takes-caldwell-city-council\">McLean handily beat the city’s longest-serving mayor\u003c/a>, Dave Bieter. He took heat for the city spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to appeal a case, money that some argued should be going to housing and more support services for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bieter warned that the famously pleasant and livable city of Boise can remain that way only if it has the ability to issue some tickets to stop the spread of tent cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really concerned when I see Seattle or Portland or San Francisco, I go there and I see a city that’s overwhelmed by the problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/san-francisco-like-many-places-across-the-west-face-a-growing-homelessness-crisis/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791457\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19269761182883-3bfcfa8078ccf933b69ae0a098d95e5125d52c03-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco, like many places across the West, face a growing homelessness crisis. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In cities like those, and in Los Angeles, the homelessness crisis is far more eye-opening than in Boise. Homeless encampments are sprouting up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In downtown Los Angeles’ skid row, some 3,000 people sleep on the streets in the shadow of the financial district and luxury condos. The county is home to nearly 60,000 homeless people, and the city’s homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html\">population jumped 16%\u003c/a> in the last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Boise ruling, he said, sweeps too broadly. He wants clarity. Does Los Angeles have the right to intervene if someone, for example, refuses to take an available shelter bed even if the city doesn’t have beds for everyone? Is the city required to do burdensome nightly counts of the homeless population as compared with the number of shelter beds available?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to assure that there are rules that everybody can live by, so that all our public spaces that are shared by everybody can be safe for everybody,” he said. “Occasionally that is going to require some level of enforcement, and sometimes a level of enforcement is going to pertain to people who are homeless, not because of their status of being homeless, but because of conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is nowhere near the number of shelter beds or temporary and permanent housing for the people who need it, Feuer said. But as the city works to solve the crisis, it also needs tools to keep Los Angeles safe. Business owners, housed residents, homeless people and advocates are frustrated with the growing encampments, garbage, human feces and used needles. This is all increasing as the city spends more on tackling the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh\">Proposition HHH\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion affordable housing bond program to build 10,000 supportive housing units for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles. Not one unit is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/16/supreme-court-wont-hear-case-to-ticket-homeless-for-sleeping-in-public-spaces/in-los-angeles-homeless-encampments-sprout-up-in-underpasses-along-streets-on-scores-of-sidewalks-and-inside-parks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791458\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11791458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19260724848862_custom-aaa0707327a7a774ae1e2642b42c62ec6c22da0e-1920x1479.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, homeless encampments sprout up in underpasses, along streets, on scores of sidewalks and inside parks. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Three years later, we have more houseless people than ever before. Three years later, three houseless people per day are dying. Three years later, 150 people per day are entering into the houseless ranks,” said Pete White, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://cangress.org/\">Los Angeles Community Action Network\u003c/a> or L.A. CAN, based on skid row. His organization has been on the other side of many legal challenges against city ordinances it considers anti-homeless, from property confiscation to stopping people who have nowhere to go from sleeping in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Los Angeles and other cities have to stop reaching into a toolbox to police the problem and start reaching into a toolbox to solve the problem. The solution is clear: affordable housing and services for the underserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the L.A. CAN office, Juan Brown is shaking his head as he watches sanitation workers fill garbage trucks and power-wash the sidewalks. Police are taping off the area as outreach workers roam the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just another ploy to harass the homeless, making us move,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was living on the corner where he stands for three years before finally getting into housing a month ago. He lost his job as a truck driver after he was hit by a drunken driver. He couldn’t make rent and ended up outside. He refers to the clean streets effort he’s watching as clean sweeps, because homeless people are forced to move, temporarily. If they don’t get their stuff out of the way in time, he said, it gets confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re targeted because Los Angeles look at us like cockroaches instead of human beings,” he said. “We’re no longer human beings out here. Homeless people are cockroaches to society now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Romo of NPR also contributed reporting to this updated article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Education Secretary Betsy DeVos endured a withering barrage of questions on Wednesday about her handling of a program meant to provide debt relief to federal student loan borrowers who say they were defrauded by for-profit colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Madame Secretary, your refusal to process claims is inflicting serious harm on students,” Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., said in his opening statement. “These defrauded borrowers have been left with piles of debt, worthless degrees and none of the jobs that were promised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11790670\" label=\"\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos testified before the House education committee one day after NPR published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790670/betsy-devos-overruled-education-department-findings-on-defrauded-student-borrowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">internal memos \u003c/a>showing the secretary overruled her own department’s findings that borrowers deserved full relief from their loans, because their college credits are essentially worthless. Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are in limbo, and several members referred to the memos in their questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questioning got heated and personal at times. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., in her trademark cowboy hat adorned with purple glitter, stated that the secretary was “out to destroy public education.” Wilson told Devos, “You are the most unpopular person in our government. … When many people vote in 2020 they will vote to remove you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Virginia Foxx, the committee’s ranking Republican, called those comments “over the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In answering questions from the panel, DeVos acknowledged some of the problems. “Yes, there is a backlog of borrower defense claims at Federal Student Aid,” she said. “To say that I am frustrated by that is an understatement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she stated her intention to enforce current regulations in “good faith,” DeVos also repeated her position that taxpayers’ interests need to be protected when deciding who should get their money back and how much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are my number one priority,” DeVos said in her opening statement. “They are why I come to work every day. So if students have been deceived by institutions and suffered financial harm as a result, they should be made whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300,000 borrowers have pending claims, DeVos said Wednesday. Some have been waiting, in many cases for years, for the Education Department to decide their financial fate. Federal agencies found, starting in 2015, that some for-profit colleges, including the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/07/08/329550897/the-collapse-of-corinthian-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corinthian Colleges\u003c/a> and ITT Technical Institute, lied to these students about their job prospects and the value of their credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the waning days of the Obama administration, the Education Department decided to grant full loan relief to these defrauded borrowers under a previously little-used rule called “borrower defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when DeVos took over, she quickly made clear that the department would not be offering borrowers blanket relief. She came up with a new formula that would provide only partial relief to the vast majority of borrowers, based on their present-day income. That idea was stopped by the courts on the grounds that using Social Security earnings data to calculate relief violates borrowers’ privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questioning by Republicans on the committee, including Rep. Fred Keller of Pennsylvania, focused on the court case as the reason that borrower relief has been delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, DeVos came back with a new plan for partial relief that would rely on publicly available income data. In the hearing today, DeVos defended the principle of providing “fair relief to all borrowers who actually have been harmed. … They would not be entitled to relief if they can’t demonstrate they’ve been financially harmed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon was among many Democrats to argue that “just because someone is making money doesn’t mean they weren’t defrauded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary was defiant on Wednesday in her opposition to existing regulation and the findings of her own department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking office, DeVos had to sign off on thousands of borrower defense claims that had already been approved by the previous administration. As pointed out by Wilson during the hearing, she added three words below her signature: “with extreme displeasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, DeVos said that the Obama administration had “weaponized borrower defense against schools that they didn’t like.” When asked directly, by Democrats Kim Schrier of Washington state and later by Andy Levin of Michigan, whether she believed Corinthian students had indeed been defrauded, the secretary did not answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘People Just Laugh in My Face’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rep. Scott in his opening statement referred directly to NPR’s reporting this week. “A media outlet published documents revealing that [the department’s] own staff conducted research … and found students deserved full debt relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He demanded: “Are there other relevant documents the department is withholding?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR on Wednesday published previously unreleased, internal Education Department memos that show just how strongly career staff in the department’s Borrower Defense Unit had come down on the side of defrauded borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the memos, the unit reviewed thousands of borrower complaints against Corinthian and ITT Tech. Just weeks before DeVos was sworn in as secretary, the unit recommended to the department’s political leadership that these borrowers deserve no less than full relief from their student debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11782808,news_11637321,news_10908778\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572882-1-9-2017-Memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One memo, dated Jan. 9, 2017\u003c/a>, begins: “Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (‘Corinthian’) consistently represented that all graduates obtained jobs after graduation or, relatedly, that its students were guaranteed employment after graduation. These representations were false and misleading. Accordingly, the Borrower Defense Unit recommends full relief for Corinthian borrower defense (BD) applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572883-1-10-2017-Memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another memo, dated the next day\u003c/a> — Jan. 10, 2017 — arrived at the same conclusion for California-based students who allege they were lied to by ITT Technical Institute, and likewise recommended full relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos also include quotes from individual borrowers. In the Jan. 9, 2017, memo, a Corinthian graduate complains, “I was told I would find a job in my field. … I ‘graduated’ and still can’t find a job that will honor my degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers will not touch me,” says a borrower quoted in \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572884-10-24-2016-Memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a memo dated Oct. 24, 2016\u003c/a>. “After graduating I posted a resume online. I did not receive any responses until I removed [the school’s name] from my resume.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another borrower says, “People just laugh in my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an especially tense exchange, Rep. Jahana Hayes, a freshman Democrat from Connecticut, entered the memos published by NPR into the record and scolded DeVos for not reviewing them before her testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you explain why you ignored that memo? 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Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., in her trademark cowboy hat adorned with purple glitter, stated that the secretary was “out to destroy public education.” Wilson told Devos, “You are the most unpopular person in our government. … When many people vote in 2020 they will vote to remove you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:38 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned votes on two articles of impeachment against President Trump were delayed late Thursday night by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He asked members to consider how they want to vote and to reconvene at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranking minority member Rep. Doug Collins and others protested that Nadler had upset the committee's plans without consulting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judiciary Committee had sparred for more than 12 hours Thursday ahead of an expected votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/jLKQgEir9Bs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the articles will head to a vote of the full House, likely by the end of next week. A vote to impeach would trigger a Senate trial, expected in January, over whether Trump keeps his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month's spectacle is rare — it is only the fourth time articles of impeachment have been introduced. If the House votes to impeach Trump, that would represent only the third such instance in United States history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knife fight over amendments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Judiciary Committee's Republicans did not go along quietly Thursday and sought to delay the panel's actions with procedural motions and appeals to the chairman, Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., including for a hearing of their own they believe they're owed under the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791064\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791064\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Jim Jordan speaks with speaks with Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, moved to strike the language of the first article of impeachment and to substitute words that emphasized what he called an account of the Ukraine affair that underscored how Trump had done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., opposed that amendment to preserve the articles of impeachment based on what he called Trump's improper conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, said, \"There simply wasn't a crime committed here and there shouldn't be an impeachment here, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., had his own take: \"There are no crimes here? That is the defense? ... How about the highest crime that one who holds public office can commit — a crime against our Constitution?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791063\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791063\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., listens during a House Judiciary Committee markup hearing on the articles of impeachment against President Trump on Capitol Hill on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee rejected Jordan's amendment on a party line vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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Democrats don't want to focus on what Gaetz called the true corruption here — that which involved the Bidens and Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791062\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791062\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee holds up a Constitution as she speaks during a Thursday's hearing. \u003ccite>(Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., announced his opposition to Gaetz's proposal, alluding indirectly to reports about Gaetz's arrest in connection with allegedly driving under the influence. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/01/facebook-posts/post-says-rep-matt-gaetz-has-numerous-duis-wrong/\">Those charges were dropped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pot calling the kettle black is not something we should do,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so ran the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Next steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats control the majority in the committee and in the full House. They can control the text of the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Thursday that she is leaving it up to members about how to decide to vote when the time comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no message,\" she said, alluding to the practice of encouraging members to vote a certain way via an officer in the legislature known as the \"whip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not whipping this legislation nor do we ever whip something like this,\" Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued the speaker: \"People need to come to their own conclusions. They've seen the facts as presented in the Intelligence Committee. They have seen the Constitution as they know it they take an oath to protect and defend it ... They'll make their own decisions. I don't say anything to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meanwhile, circulated a note to members on Thursday that featured a line in red with the key word emphasized in all-capital letters: \"Whip Scalise recommends a NO vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full House could vote sometime next week on impeachment. If the measure passes, it would launch the trial in the Senate, expected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans control the Senate and they're expected to acquit Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has called the proceedings a \"witch hunt\" and \"failing.\" He dubbed it \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-2020-rally-hershey-pennsylvania-impeachment-20191210.html\">impeachment lite\u003c/a>\" and \"the lightest impeachment in the history of our country by far.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ukraine affair\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786579846/read-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump\">The two articles Democrats introduced\u003c/a> are for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The abuse of power charge centers on a pressure campaign carried out against Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple witnesses testified to an effort to get Ukraine to announce investigations into conspiracy theories about the 2016 campaign and into the Bidens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pressure campaign mounted, the Trump administration froze nearly $400 million in military aid already allocated by Congress and promised a White House meeting for Ukraine's president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds were eventually released; the White House meeting still has not taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obstruction of Congress charge owes to Trump's broad directive to block witnesses from testifying and documents from being released in connection with the Ukraine matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing notably was in prime-time television viewing. Polling has barely budged any views. By a 45% to 44% margin, Americans were split on whether Trump should be impeached and removed, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\">NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Trump Impeachment Inquiry\" tag=\"impeachment\"]That split also was on full display Wednesday night \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786861542/house-democrats-to-begin-amending-impeachment-articles-wednesday-evening\">when the markup began\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats were firm in their view that the president tried to \"cheat\" in the 2020 election by soliciting foreign interference in U.S. elections — and should be impeached and removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In pressuring Ukraine for a personal favor, President Trump both betrayed our national security and attempted to corrupt our elections,\" Nadler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, on the other hand, were dug in on their view that this impeachment is simply about politics, that Democrats have sought to impeach Trump since he was elected and that Trump committed no specific criminal act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been on this path since November 2016,\" Collins said. \"The only thing that's changed is your desire to impeach the president when you became the majority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:38 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned votes on two articles of impeachment against President Trump were delayed late Thursday night by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He asked members to consider how they want to vote and to reconvene at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranking minority member Rep. Doug Collins and others protested that Nadler had upset the committee's plans without consulting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judiciary Committee had sparred for more than 12 hours Thursday ahead of an expected votes.\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/jLKQgEir9Bs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jLKQgEir9Bs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If approved, the articles will head to a vote of the full House, likely by the end of next week. A vote to impeach would trigger a Senate trial, expected in January, over whether Trump keeps his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month's spectacle is rare — it is only the fourth time articles of impeachment have been introduced. If the House votes to impeach Trump, that would represent only the third such instance in United States history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knife fight over amendments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Judiciary Committee's Republicans did not go along quietly Thursday and sought to delay the panel's actions with procedural motions and appeals to the chairman, Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., including for a hearing of their own they believe they're owed under the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791064\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791064\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr2-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Jim Jordan speaks with speaks with Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, moved to strike the language of the first article of impeachment and to substitute words that emphasized what he called an account of the Ukraine affair that underscored how Trump had done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., opposed that amendment to preserve the articles of impeachment based on what he called Trump's improper conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, said, \"There simply wasn't a crime committed here and there shouldn't be an impeachment here, either.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., had his own take: \"There are no crimes here? That is the defense? ... How about the highest crime that one who holds public office can commit — a crime against our Constitution?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791063\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791063\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr3-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., listens during a House Judiciary Committee markup hearing on the articles of impeachment against President Trump on Capitol Hill on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The committee rejected Jordan's amendment on a party line vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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Democrats don't want to focus on what Gaetz called the true corruption here — that which involved the Bidens and Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11791062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/12/watch-live-judiciary-committee-debates-articles-of-impeachment/npr4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11791062\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11791062\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/npr4-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee holds up a Constitution as she speaks during a Thursday's hearing. \u003ccite>(Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., announced his opposition to Gaetz's proposal, alluding indirectly to reports about Gaetz's arrest in connection with allegedly driving under the influence. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/01/facebook-posts/post-says-rep-matt-gaetz-has-numerous-duis-wrong/\">Those charges were dropped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pot calling the kettle black is not something we should do,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so ran the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Next steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats control the majority in the committee and in the full House. They can control the text of the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Thursday that she is leaving it up to members about how to decide to vote when the time comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no message,\" she said, alluding to the practice of encouraging members to vote a certain way via an officer in the legislature known as the \"whip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not whipping this legislation nor do we ever whip something like this,\" Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continued the speaker: \"People need to come to their own conclusions. They've seen the facts as presented in the Intelligence Committee. They have seen the Constitution as they know it they take an oath to protect and defend it ... They'll make their own decisions. I don't say anything to them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meanwhile, circulated a note to members on Thursday that featured a line in red with the key word emphasized in all-capital letters: \"Whip Scalise recommends a NO vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full House could vote sometime next week on impeachment. 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"content": "\u003cp>Documents obtained by NPR shed new light on a bitter fight between defrauded student borrowers and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/777262292/betsy-devos-and-the-high-stakes-standoff-over-student-loan-forgiveness\">a rule called “borrower defense.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos disagrees: She says most student borrowers still got value from these schools and deserve only \u003cem>partial\u003c/em> relief from their federal loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, internal Education Department memos obtained by NPR show that career staff in the department’s Borrower Defense Unit came down firmly on the side of defrauded borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos show this unit reviewed thousands of borrower complaints against now-defunct, for-profit colleges, including Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Just weeks before DeVos was sworn in as secretary, the unit recommended to the department’s political leadership that these borrowers deserve no less than full relief from their student debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572882-1-9-2017-Memo\">One memo, dated Jan. 9, 2017\u003c/a>, begins: “Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (‘Corinthian’) consistently represented that all graduates obtained jobs after graduation or, relatedly, that its students were guaranteed employment after graduation. These representations were false and misleading. Accordingly, the Borrower Defense Unit recommends full relief for Corinthian borrower defense (BD) applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572883-1-10-2017-Memo\">Another memo, dated the next day\u003c/a> — Jan. 10, 2017 — arrived at the same conclusion for California-based students who allege they were lied to by ITT Technical Institute, and likewise recommended full relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Counternarrative to DeVos’ Position\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Until now, these internal department memos have been hidden from public view. Lawmakers had previously requested access to them, but DeVos and her department refused to hand them over. Instead, DeVos has criticized the Obama administration for lack of due diligence in processing borrower defense claims. In a Nov. 7 letter to Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., the chairman of the House education committee, DeVos wrote, “the clear intent of the prior Administration was to eventually provide blanket relief without review of the facts and evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Student borrower quoted in an Oct. 24, 2016 memo\"]‘After graduating I posted a resume online. I did not receive any responses until I removed [the school’s name] from my resume.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the memos provide a robust review of the evidence, as well as a thoroughly researched counternarrative to DeVos’ position. Instead of limiting students’ debt relief by arguing, as DeVos does, that defrauded borrowers still got some value from their educations, these memos arrive at a different conclusion: that credits earned from Corinthian and ITT schools are essentially worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hundreds of unprompted student statements confirm that lack of value of an ITT education, as ITT students time and again report that their education was sub-standard and that their degree or affiliation with the school was an impediment rather than an asset as they sought employment,” reads the Jan. 10, 2017, memo. It concludes: “Given this extensively well-documented, pervasive, and highly publicized misconduct, the Department has determined that the value of an ITT education — like Corinthian — is likely either negligible or non-existent. … Accordingly, it is appropriate for the Department to award eligible borrowers full relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memos also include quotes from individual borrowers. In the Jan, 9, 2017, memo, a Corinthian graduate complains, “I was told I would find a job in my field. … I ‘graduated’ and still can’t find a job that will honor my degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers will not touch me,” says a borrower quoted in \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6572884-10-24-2016-Memo\">a memo dated Oct. 24, 2016\u003c/a>. “After graduating I posted a resume online. I did not receive any responses until I removed [the school’s name] from my resume.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another borrower says, “People just laugh in my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘With Extreme Displeasure’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The education secretary has the authority to override the recommendations of department staff, and DeVos has done just that. On Tuesday, the department unveiled a new plan to calculate how much defrauded students benefited from their educations and thus how much, if any, debt relief they deserve. Under this new model, most borrowers are unlikely to qualify for full relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the release, the department’s new plan will compare the median earnings of defrauded borrowers to the earnings of students who attended similar programs at other schools. “If the earnings from the school in question under the [borrower defense] application are lower than the median for that program at all comparable schools, then they will be determined to have suffered harm and will receive student loan relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11782808,news_11637321,news_10908778\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new plan, DeVos said Tuesday, “treats students fairly and ensures that taxpayers who did not go to college or who faithfully paid off their student loans do not shoulder student loan costs for those who didn’t suffer harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos has argued for years that the Obama administration’s full-relief interpretation of the borrower defense rule was too lenient. In a\u003ca href=\"https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/22/mackinac-devos-romney-mcdaniel/105897636/\"> 2017 speech\u003c/a>, she said, “While students should have protections from predatory practices, schools and taxpayers should also be treated fairly as well. Under the previous rules, all one had to do was raise his or her hands to be entitled to so-called free money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When DeVos had to sign off on thousands of borrower defense claims that had already been approved by the previous administration, she added three words below her signature: “with extreme displeasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Education Department press secretary Angela Morabito tells NPR: ” \u003cem>‘\u003c/em>Full relief’ sounds nice, but it really means ‘full liability’ for taxpayers – and that’s not fair in cases where a borrower is not entitled to it. That’s why it’s imperative that we consider each Borrower Defense claim individually. To force taxpayers to provide blanket forgiveness would be abandoning our duty to be good stewards of tax dollars. The Department will provide student loan relief to those who qualify for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVos’ new plan is the department’s second attempt at resolving the more than 200,000 outstanding borrower defense claims. The first attempt was blocked in May 2018 by Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Kim said the department’s use of income data violated students’ privacy, and she ordered DeVos to stop collecting on the debts of certain Corinthian students. In October, Kim fined DeVos $100,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773334681/devos-held-in-contempt-of-court-ed-department-fined-100-000-in-student-loan-case\">contempt of court\u003c/a> after it was revealed the department had not stopped collections. The department apologized, calling the collections a mistake, and said it was quickly moving to issue refunds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether DeVos’ new use of earnings data will also run afoul of the law. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:51 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in the House took the next step toward impeachment on Monday with the presentation of what they call the evidence of President Trump’s improper conduct in the Ukraine affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump’s persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security,” said Daniel Goldman, the Democratic staff counsel who presented the Democrats’ case in the Judiciary Committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman, a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, presented evidence congressional investigators had gathered about what he called Trump’s “months-long scheme to solicit foreign help in his 2020 reelection campaign, withholding official acts from the government of Ukraine in order to coerce and secure political interference in our domestic affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0AS_HI5CTY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats said they believe the case for taking action is obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence shows that Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States, has put himself before his country,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York said in his opening statement. “He has violated his most basic responsibilities to the people. He has broken his oath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican ranking member Doug Collins of Georgia argued that Democrats are pursuing impeachment because of a “personal vendetta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t get over the fact that Donald J. Trump is president of the United States,” Collins said, “and they don’t think they have a candidate who can beat [him]. It’s all a show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., confirmed last week that she and her lieutenants have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/05/785014085/watch-live-pelosi-addresses-status-of-impeachment-inquiry\">decided to draft articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against President Trump. So now, the Judiciary Committee says it must first receive the Intelligence Committee’s report formally and then assess what charges to prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Read the Transcripts!’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, President Trump asked his Twitter followers to read the account of the phone call he had on July 25 with his Ukrainian counterpart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Read the Transcripts!” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1204065132894142469\">he wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1204065132894142469?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interpretation of a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the key to whether what the president did was improper and impeachable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that call, according to a call summary released by the White House, Trump asked for a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764052120/read-transcript-of-president-trumps-call-with-ukraine-s-leader\">favor, though\u003c/a>” after Zelenskiy mentioned key weapons that Ukraine needs and has been using in its fight against Russia at its eastern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump proceeded to ask for help investigating two conspiracy theories — one about Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 election (for which there is no evidence) and a conspiracy theory about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Trump Impeachment Inquiry\" tag=\"impeachment\"]Several witnesses, which included senior diplomats and national security officials, testified over the past few weeks that they thought the call was inappropriate, that the request was political and intended to help the president’s reelection and not about corruption writ large in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, the American public says that what the president did was wrong — 70% in the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780540637/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-say-impeachment-hearings-wont-change-their-minds\">NPR/\u003cem>PBS NewsHour\u003c/em>/Marist poll \u003c/a>said it is not acceptable for a president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration was withholding a White House meeting and almost $400 million in military aid, while a pressure campaign was taking place, led by the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who had multiple contacts with Giuliani, the president and Ukrainian officials, testified that there was a “quid pro quo.” He said a White House meeting was being held up until Ukraine announced the investigations Giuliani and President Trump sought. That meeting has never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aid was eventually released Sept. 11 without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican counsel Stephen Castor, who asked many of the questions during the Intelligence Committee hearings, questioned the strength of Sondland’s testimony. He said Sondland had “no firsthand knowledge” of a direct “quid pro quo” linkage to President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He merely presumed there were preconditions,” Castor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castor said Democrats are centering their evidence of wrongdoing on the call summary the White House released with Ukraine’s president. But, he contended, “it is not” evidence of of impeachable conduct. He also called Democrats’ reasoning “baloney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castor was also critical of Democrats’ timeline for impeachment, calling it an “artificial and arbitrary” deadline. On the process, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763700264/trumps-ukraine-call-may-be-game-changer-on-impeachment\">began in September\u003c/a>, he accused Democrats of “fundamentally unfair” tactics, calling the impeachment inquiry a “rushed, take-it-or-leave-it approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_XZ-wHK2uc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the potential articles of impeachment Democrats could bring against the president is obstruction of Congress. That centers on the number of witnesses and documents that have not been released from the Trump administration despite subpoenas for those witnesses and documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castor later contended that Trump was “not asking for a personal favor” on the phone call with Zelenskiy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was speaking on behalf of the American people,” Castor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Republican Complaints About Phone Records\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond the contents of that Trump-Zelenskiy call, Republicans voiced frustration with congressional investigators gathering \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784819728/giuliani-nunes-and-1-a-look-at-what-the-impeachment-report-phone-records-mean\">phone records of key players involved in the pressure campaign\u003c/a>. Those records included, perhaps surprisingly, Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes was integral in the questioning of witnesses during the public and private impeachment proceedings and depositions. He strongly made the case for the president and against the Democratic process, in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records found several contacts between Nunes, Giuliani, and Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-parnas-and-igor-fruman-charged-conspiring-violate-straw-and-foreign-donor-bans\">indicted by federal prosecutors \u003c/a>for violating bans on straw and foreign donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins objected to those phone records being included and demanded to know of Goldman who ordered them to be included. He called their inclusion a “gratuitous drive by” and a “smear campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>How safe is your Uber ride? That question has dogged the company for years, as it has faced complaints from passengers and drivers alleging they have been sexually assaulted in an Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Uber is revealing the scale of those complaints for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company received 5,981 allegations of serious sexual assault in the U.S. over two years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/about/reports/us-safety-report/\">new report covering 2017 and 2018\u003c/a>. The claims range from unwanted touching and kissing to rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.-only report also covers deaths involving Uber rides. During those two years, 107 people died in crashes involving Uber cars, and 19 people were killed in physical assaults during or soon after an Uber ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As troubling as those statistics are, the incidents they capture are rare. People in the U.S. took 2.3 billion rides using Uber in those two years. For 99.9% of those trips, no safety incident was reported, and the serious safety problems detailed in the report were even more uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the scale that Uber operates, we're going to see both the good and the bad that happens in society because we're operating so many trips every single day,\" said Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the unfortunate but sad truths is that sexual assault, sexual violence is far more prevalent in American society than a lot of people recognize,\" he said. \"That exists in companies, it exists in classrooms, it exists on university campuses and homes. Uber's not immune to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Data Paint a Mixed, and Limited, Picture\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The report is a window into a long-standing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782732967/uber-stripped-of-its-license-to-operate-in-london\">problem \u003c/a>for ride-hailing companies — not just Uber, but competitors around the world, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899409/lyft-facing-flood-of-lawsuits-after-riders-report-they-were-sexually-attacked-by\">Lyft\u003c/a> in the U.S., Didi in China and Ola in India. The apps have come under intense scrutiny for how they screen drivers, handle complaints and remove offenders from their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Uber's report doesn't present a complete picture. When it comes to sexual assaults, Uber includes what it defines as the five most severe categories: nonconsensual kissing of a nonsexual body part, attempted nonconsensual sexual penetration, nonconsensual touching of a sexual body part, nonconsensual kissing of a sexual body part and nonconsensual sexual penetration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report does not include other types of sexual misconduct, like masturbation, asking for sex or verbal threats of assault. Uber worked with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and other advocacy groups to develop the report and address safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11789655 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/12042019_Lyft-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report counts car crashes and physical assaults that resulted in a death, but not those that resulted in injuries — likely far larger numbers. The company says it will release updated figures every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate of serious sexual assault incidents per ride went down in every category between 2017 and 2018. For example, the average rate of sexual assault reports across the five categories fell 16% from one year to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel comfortable that Uber is a very safe mode of transportation. And I think the data in this report actually indicates that as well,\" West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber also warned that rates could go up in the years to come if more people are encouraged to report sexual assault. Reporting rates for sexual violence and misconduct are notoriously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual assault numbers in Uber's report cover a wide range of allegations. Some of the claims ended up being investigated by police and criminally prosecuted. In other cases, Uber was unable to reach the person who reported the assault for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victims were both riders and drivers. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/728005817/uber-to-start-banning-passengers-with-low-ratings\">passengers\u003c/a> were accused of sexual assault in nearly half the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most frequent reports were of unwanted touching of sexual body parts — the mouth, breasts, buttocks or genitals. Uber received 1,440 such reports in 2017 and 1,560 in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company received 235 reports of nonconsensual sexual penetration — rape — last year and 229 such reports the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 19 deaths from physical assault, Uber did not break down who committed the assaults. Eight victims were riders, seven were Uber drivers and four were third parties, such as people outside the cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber considers a fatal assault as related to Uber if it involved at least one person using the app — either a rider or driver — or if it involved people paired by the Uber app and took place within 48 hours of the ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is Uber More or Less Safe Than a Taxi?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A question the report does not answer is how Uber's safety record compares with other forms of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no national statistics for how many sexual assaults or deaths happen in U.S. taxis each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxis are typically regulated by individual cities, and most police departments do not track whether sexual assaults involve a particular company or type of work, said John Boit, executive vice president of the Transportation Alliance, a trade group that represents taxi and limousine companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rachel Abrams, San Francisco lawyer whose firm represents victims of sexual assault on ride-hailing apps\"]'Having a dashboard camera for these rides would, I think, prevent a substantial portion of the assaults from happening.'[/pullquote]The data that are available are hard to compare directly with Uber's report. San Francisco's transportation regulator tracks complaints about taxis, mainly through the city's 311 hotline. In 2017, for example, San Francisco received 14 reports of violence or physical altercations and four reports of accidents involving injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city does not separate out sexual assault complaints. And without knowing the total number of rides taken in San Francisco taxis in that year, it is impossible to calculate how often such incidents occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the 107 people killed in crashes involving an Uber vehicle in the two years covered by the report, that compares with 74,033 people in total killed in crashes on U.S. roads during that period, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber's fatality rate per mile driven was about half the national rate, according to the NHTSA, in each year of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weighing Safety and Privacy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, Uber has introduced a number of safety features, including a \"panic button\" in its app that connects passengers and drivers to emergency services, using sensors in drivers' smartphones to detect possible crashes and performing continuous background checks of drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is considering additional safety measures, including recording rides with audio or video and sharing with other ride-hailing companies the names of drivers who have been banned from its app for serious safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newest proposals raise questions about how Uber will balance the safety of passengers and drivers with their rights to privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11777002,news_11773127,news_11738380 label='Related Coverage']Sharing the names of banned drivers could help prevent a driver banned for groping, for example, from simply switching over to driving for rival Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're committed to doing that in a way that's fair and that is compliant with the law,\" West said. \"But we think it is important that if someone is not deemed to be safe on our platform that that information is shared with others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company already shares this information in Chicago, where local law requires ride-hailing apps to notify city officials when they ban a driver for reasons including complaints of sexual misconduct and physical assault. The city then passes those names on to other ride-hailing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could flag drivers who behave unsafely or inappropriately, even if their behavior does not violate the law. Allegations may not be corroborated the way they would be in a criminal case, however, and it is unclear how much information another company would require to ban a driver for behavior conducted while using a different app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is also testing audio recording in some cities in Latin America and video recording in Texas. It allows either drivers or passengers to initiate recordings. They can choose to send the file to Uber but cannot access or save it for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many critics have pushed for Uber to require cameras in cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a dashboard camera for these rides would, I think, prevent a substantial portion of the assaults from happening,\" said Rachel Abrams, a lawyer in San Francisco whose firm represents victims of sexual assault on ride-hailing apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rolling out such recordings more widely will require navigating privacy and notification laws that differ across states and countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is the first ride-hailing company to publicly release its safety data. Lyft has also said it is working on a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, victims of sexual assault are taking their claims against Uber \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/12/759876637/lawsuits-say-lyft-doesnt-do-enough-to-protect-women-from-predator-drivers\">and Lyft\u003c/a> to court. 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So don't mess with me when it comes to words like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://jwp.io/s/8ntzA5zi\">Watch the exchange\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202631185052164096\">Trump responded on Twitter\u003c/a>, saying Pelosi had \"a nervous fit.\" As to her statement that she prays for the president, Trump said, \"I don't believe her, not even close.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202631185052164096?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her earlier remarks from the Capitol on Thursday morning, Pelosi said the president \"leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit.\" She said Trump \"has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi continued, \"Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our Founders and our heart full of love for our America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairs of the House Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees have been leading the inquiry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/gKGNbvzw-HWSueGzu.html\">Watch her full announcement about moving toward articles of impeachment here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1202591921853652993?s=20\">responded to Pelosi's announcement on Twitter,\u003c/a> indicating that the White House is focused on the next stage of the impeachment process — a Senate impeachment trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1202591921853652993?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement, \"We are less than a year away from Election Day 2020 and Democrats can't possibly explain to the American people why they want to take the decision of who should be president out of the hands of voters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Pelosi has \"weakened this nation\" with her impeachment announcement, and Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>To Michelle Seifer, the timing was just a coincidence: after losing power in a summer storm, she came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn't until two days later, when a carbon monoxide detector activated and a utility company worker tested levels in her home, that she learned she was being poisoned by the portable generator she had been running in her open garage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I went to the hospital and learned that my levels were high enough where they needed to admit me,\" said Seifer, a finance manager and mother of five in Hartland, Mich. \"Because if I didn't receive the proper treatment for the carbon monoxide poisoning, if I were to fall asleep I wouldn't wake up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two days of oxygen therapy for Seifer's levels to normalize, and several months for other aspects of her life to follow suit. She experienced confusion, dizziness, and vertigo, and missed days of work when her symptoms were bad. She said it is not uncommon for people to live with long-term effects from a single instance of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is like \"silently suffocating to death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain levels, just five minutes of carbon monoxide exposure is \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">enough to be fatal\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">colorless, odorless gas \u003c/a>is produced wherever fuel is burned, and can build to deadly levels especially quickly in enclosed spaces. Portable generators, whose engines each emit as much carbon monoxide as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf\">approximately 450 cars\u003c/a>, are especially common culprits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=news_11784435,news_11788115,news_11787221]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To Michelle Seifer, the timing was just a coincidence: after losing power in a summer storm, she came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn't until two days later, when a carbon monoxide detector activated and a utility company worker tested levels in her home, that she learned she was being poisoned by the portable generator she had been running in her open garage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I went to the hospital and learned that my levels were high enough where they needed to admit me,\" said Seifer, a finance manager and mother of five in Hartland, Mich. \"Because if I didn't receive the proper treatment for the carbon monoxide poisoning, if I were to fall asleep I wouldn't wake up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two days of oxygen therapy for Seifer's levels to normalize, and several months for other aspects of her life to follow suit. She experienced confusion, dizziness, and vertigo, and missed days of work when her symptoms were bad. She said it is not uncommon for people to live with long-term effects from a single instance of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is like \"silently suffocating to death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain levels, just five minutes of carbon monoxide exposure is \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">enough to be fatal\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">colorless, odorless gas \u003c/a>is produced wherever fuel is burned, and can build to deadly levels especially quickly in enclosed spaces. Portable generators, whose engines each emit as much carbon monoxide as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf\">approximately 450 cars\u003c/a>, are especially common culprits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chelsea and Noah Isaacs were busy new parents to twin daughters when they lost their home in the Camp Fire in Paradise. That same day — Nov. 8, 2018 — Chelsea discovered she was pregnant again; later she would learn it was with another set of twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of those things kind of created this perfect storm of appreciation for what I've got, but then at the same time this feeling of 'how is this all going to work?' that was really overwhelming initially,\" Chelsea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the canyon on Aug. 1 in Magalia. Only a handful of homes in nearby Paradise have been rebuilt since the Camp Fire in November 2018. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family evacuated safely, but their home was destroyed. Noah said just two artifacts mysteriously survived unscathed: his 1956 Studebaker Commander, and the small patch of grass beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"camp-fire\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, had been living on the Isaacs' land in a tiny house before the fire and was displaced alongside them. Together, the family stayed with friends and relatives in the weeks after the fire as they assessed their options: Should they rebuild or relocate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah and Kim both work in Chico, a city about 15 miles away, and needed to stay in the area. Noah said he and Chelsea considered buying a home in a neighboring town, but it was costly and just didn't feel right. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/724407043/after-paradise-living-with-fire-means-redefining-resilience\">Rebuilding a new house\u003c/a> on the same property ultimately proved the better option for insurance purposes, as they could build a bigger structure from scratch at a reasonable rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really, as crappy as everything went ... when everything's said and done and we look back, we'll say that might have been one of the best things that's happened to us,\" Noah said. \"And I know a lot of people can't say that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11788835 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea holds her newborn twin boys, August and Bishop, while Noah watches Harper and Riley play outside their RV in August. Since the fire, Chelsea and Noah and Chelsea's mom decided to rebuild their home in Paradise, California, on their same piece of land. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year after the fire,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777801169/the-camp-fire-destroyed-11-000-homes-a-year-later-only-11-have-been-rebuilt\"> only 11 of the 11,000 homes destroyed\u003c/a> in Paradise have been rebuilt. Noah credited his cousin, a longtime general contractor, and Chelsea's grandfather, an architect, with respectively providing the industry knowledge and \"fair deal\" needed to jump-start the process efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Noah holds 4-month-old Bishop in the bedroom of their RV in November. Right: Riley looks out the window of their RV. Bottom: Harper and Riley, 2, wake up in their cribs. The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I know we couldn't leave this area too far because we have everybody here, all our family's here and that's really important to us,\" Chelsea said. \"Noah has ... people who babysat him when he was a child that he still talks to, and stuff like that. I want my kids to have that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea said thinking about her growing family helped her get through this period of uncertainty. The timing was \"kind of perfect,\" she said, because it gave her an opportunity to focus on something other than the fire. And it forced her to keep stress-induced habits, like eating junk food and smoking cigarettes, at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, holds Bishop. Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With construction underway, Kim, Chelsea, Noah and their girls — who were less than 2 years old at the time — moved into a temporary home. They bought an RV and parked it on a friend's vacant lot in nearby Magalia. Two newborns boys joined them in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Space in the trailer is limited but used efficiently. For example, Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, says there is just enough room for two pack-and-play cribs at the back of the RV, and she sleeps in the loft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea take their kids to look at their new house they're rebuilding in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwartz says her family is \"exceptional at this situation.\" They have always been close, and have adapted to their new routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/468172578/ready-for-a-road-trip-rvs-are-rolling-back-into-fashion\">life in the RV \u003c/a>has its challenges. Privacy is limited, the structure doesn't necessarily feel stable or safe, and it is parked in a relatively remote area surrounded by trees — a fire hazard that makes Chelsea nervous. Beyond that, when her daughters play inside, they shake the thin-walled structure and wake up their brothers, and Chelsea wishes she didn't have to tell them \"no\" so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea takes her kids to the grocery store. The family won't miss the RV when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At least we have something that's ours again, we're regaining something,\" Chelsea said. \"But then having to adapt to how different our lives had become overnight was ... intense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. And, as Noah says, it brought them literally and figuratively closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea watches her twin daughters, Harper and Riley, while her mom, Kim, plays with the twin boys, August and Bishop, in their RV. Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they won't miss it when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I'll ... take the things that I've learned here, and the patience that I've had to gain with my kids and with Noah and with my mom, and I'll take those things and use them in the future and credit this time in the trailer to it,\" Chelsea said. \"But I don't know that I'll be like, 'Man, I wish I was ... standing under that trickling shower.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea hug after taking their kids to look at their new house they are rebuilding in Paradise on Nov. 8. The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. Grocery stores in Paradise won't have everything they need, and as far as they know their kids won't have others to play with in the neighborhood. But returning to their old property feels right, and Chelsea says that if that changes, they will reevaluate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You wouldn't be able to pick our yard out of any other yard on the street because they're all the same, just dirt,\" she said. \"But that dirt felt like ours still. It still felt like we weren't done there yet, and it felt in a good way, like we need to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rachelbujalski.com/\">\u003cem>Rachel Bujalski\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a documentary photographer based in San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Camp+Fire+Burned+Their+Home%2C+But+Strong+Family+Ties+Kept+Them+In+Paradise&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chelsea and Noah Isaacs were busy new parents to twin daughters when they lost their home in the Camp Fire in Paradise. That same day — Nov. 8, 2018 — Chelsea discovered she was pregnant again; later she would learn it was with another set of twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of those things kind of created this perfect storm of appreciation for what I've got, but then at the same time this feeling of 'how is this all going to work?' that was really overwhelming initially,\" Chelsea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9820_e_npr_custom-87b31035be8ef53e08d57cb5c4c5db07754ee401-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the canyon on Aug. 1 in Magalia. Only a handful of homes in nearby Paradise have been rebuilt since the Camp Fire in November 2018. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family evacuated safely, but their home was destroyed. Noah said just two artifacts mysteriously survived unscathed: his 1956 Studebaker Commander, and the small patch of grass beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, had been living on the Isaacs' land in a tiny house before the fire and was displaced alongside them. Together, the family stayed with friends and relatives in the weeks after the fire as they assessed their options: Should they rebuild or relocate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah and Kim both work in Chico, a city about 15 miles away, and needed to stay in the area. Noah said he and Chelsea considered buying a home in a neighboring town, but it was costly and just didn't feel right. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/724407043/after-paradise-living-with-fire-means-redefining-resilience\">Rebuilding a new house\u003c/a> on the same property ultimately proved the better option for insurance purposes, as they could build a bigger structure from scratch at a reasonable rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really, as crappy as everything went ... when everything's said and done and we look back, we'll say that might have been one of the best things that's happened to us,\" Noah said. \"And I know a lot of people can't say that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11788835 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a9258_e_npr-edit_custom-4beec8ae0e36e9972cedd91968df28c5cc45b634-s1300-c85-1-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea holds her newborn twin boys, August and Bishop, while Noah watches Harper and Riley play outside their RV in August. Since the fire, Chelsea and Noah and Chelsea's mom decided to rebuild their home in Paradise, California, on their same piece of land. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year after the fire,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777801169/the-camp-fire-destroyed-11-000-homes-a-year-later-only-11-have-been-rebuilt\"> only 11 of the 11,000 homes destroyed\u003c/a> in Paradise have been rebuilt. Noah credited his cousin, a longtime general contractor, and Chelsea's grandfather, an architect, with respectively providing the industry knowledge and \"fair deal\" needed to jump-start the process efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/paradise-trio1_custom-cb9335b81755e71dff51926de77d3422cecfadd3-s1300-c85-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Noah holds 4-month-old Bishop in the bedroom of their RV in November. Right: Riley looks out the window of their RV. Bottom: Harper and Riley, 2, wake up in their cribs. The Isaacses place an enormous value on family. It's the reason they are able to rebuild in an area that was ravaged by fires, and the reason they want to stay there in the first place. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I know we couldn't leave this area too far because we have everybody here, all our family's here and that's really important to us,\" Chelsea said. \"Noah has ... people who babysat him when he was a child that he still talks to, and stuff like that. I want my kids to have that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea said thinking about her growing family helped her get through this period of uncertainty. The timing was \"kind of perfect,\" she said, because it gave her an opportunity to focus on something other than the fire. And it forced her to keep stress-induced habits, like eating junk food and smoking cigarettes, at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788838\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a4147_e_npr_custom-1722918fa907bd124e1a7e760433e58b74db8d3e-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, holds Bishop. Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With construction underway, Kim, Chelsea, Noah and their girls — who were less than 2 years old at the time — moved into a temporary home. They bought an RV and parked it on a friend's vacant lot in nearby Magalia. Two newborns boys joined them in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Space in the trailer is limited but used efficiently. For example, Chelsea's mom, Kim Schwartz, says there is just enough room for two pack-and-play cribs at the back of the RV, and she sleeps in the loft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788839\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3507_e_npr_custom-519af7e53870d7edef30e0bd930eb0bbac20d861-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea take their kids to look at their new house they're rebuilding in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwartz says her family is \"exceptional at this situation.\" They have always been close, and have adapted to their new routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/468172578/ready-for-a-road-trip-rvs-are-rolling-back-into-fashion\">life in the RV \u003c/a>has its challenges. Privacy is limited, the structure doesn't necessarily feel stable or safe, and it is parked in a relatively remote area surrounded by trees — a fire hazard that makes Chelsea nervous. Beyond that, when her daughters play inside, they shake the thin-walled structure and wake up their brothers, and Chelsea wishes she didn't have to tell them \"no\" so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3825_e_npr_custom-9ecc5405bbd34dc501672a1ea1a3136b8b320476-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea takes her kids to the grocery store. The family won't miss the RV when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At least we have something that's ours again, we're regaining something,\" Chelsea said. \"But then having to adapt to how different our lives had become overnight was ... intense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. And, as Noah says, it brought them literally and figuratively closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a2957_e_npr_custom-ae183c5c8b42e03a11291d28cd1d5809dcf5bec3-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea watches her twin daughters, Harper and Riley, while her mom, Kim, plays with the twin boys, August and Bishop, in their RV. Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they won't miss it when it's time to move into their new home in January. They are looking forward to the big things, like making the house their own, and the little things, like having better water pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I'll ... take the things that I've learned here, and the patience that I've had to gain with my kids and with Noah and with my mom, and I'll take those things and use them in the future and credit this time in the trailer to it,\" Chelsea said. \"But I don't know that I'll be like, 'Man, I wish I was ... standing under that trickling shower.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz will move into a tract home on a piece of land next to Chelsea and Noah's house. She is excited to have her own place but still be near her four grandchildren, with whom she hopes to arrange monthly individual overnights for quality one-on-one time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/49a3715_e_npr_custom-c58d7a616039b7c4e0f218e5d446655b2936cf88-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah and Chelsea hug after taking their kids to look at their new house they are rebuilding in Paradise on Nov. 8. The family members say they are thankful for their time in the trailer. It gave them a place to call home in a time of extreme transition. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noah and Chelsea don't know how it will feel to be back in their house, one of the first on their street to be rebuilt. Grocery stores in Paradise won't have everything they need, and as far as they know their kids won't have others to play with in the neighborhood. But returning to their old property feels right, and Chelsea says that if that changes, they will reevaluate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You wouldn't be able to pick our yard out of any other yard on the street because they're all the same, just dirt,\" she said. \"But that dirt felt like ours still. It still felt like we weren't done there yet, and it felt in a good way, like we need to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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