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More than 700 animals were also recently seized from a southern California rescue, most of them “suffering from severe neglect,” according to an \u003ca href=\"https://sdhumane.org/san-diego-humane-society-provides-update-on-large-scale-animal-rescue-in-julian-2/\">SDHS press release. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260824-Animal-Rescue-Presser-ZF-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096579\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260824-Animal-Rescue-Presser-ZF-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260824-Animal-Rescue-Presser-ZF-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260824-Animal-Rescue-Presser-ZF-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Animal advocates gather at a press conference to introduce a bill to reform California’s animal welfare system at the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 24, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> reduced its official homeless count in 2025 after years of increases. Now, preliminary data for 2026 shows many places in the state are continuing to make progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties up and down the state are reporting that their homeless populations dropped this year, citing early results of the point-in-time count conducted in January. Some of the drops were significant. San Joaquin County cut its total unhoused population by nearly a third compared to 2024 and nearly halved the number of people sleeping on the street without shelter. Others were more modest, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">San Francisco’s 4% drop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 28 counties or continuums of care (which group smaller counties together into single counts) that released 2026 data, more than half reported a decline in homelessness. Eight others did not conduct a point-in-time count this year, while seven had not publicly released their results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in counties where the homeless count dropped credit their progress to creating more shelter beds and low-income housing, which they say was made possible by new state funds released over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some activists are questioning whether the numbers really are as rosy as they seem. Cities have ramped up enforcement against unhoused people in recent years – clearing encampments and citing people for illegal camping more frequently – which causes people to scatter and become harder to count. Just because someone is missing from an official count doesn’t mean they moved off the street and into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in counties celebrating wins this year, officials wonder whether they can maintain those gains in the face of recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2026/08/medi-cal-the-cut-healthcare-threatened/\">federal cuts to Medi-Cal\u003c/a> and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve made progress,” said Jonathan Russell, director of Alameda County Health Housing and Homelessness Services, which reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084262/homelessness-is-down-in-alameda-county-can-it-maintain-that-progress\">a 13% drop in homelessness compared to 2024\u003c/a>. “And there are real threats, real peril.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the 2026 point-in-time counts show\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federal government requires every county to conduct a point-in-time census of its homeless population at least every other year, though some do it every year. Typically, volunteers join city, county and nonprofit staffers on a single night in January to tally every unhoused person they see. The results are generally considered an undercount, as it’s easy to overlook people tucked away behind bushes or hunkered down in parked cars. But despite the count’s flaws, it’s the only standardized way the state (and the rest of the country) has to measure fluctuations in its homeless populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 181,934 homeless Californians counted last year – a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/05/point-in-time-homelessness-report/\">nearly 3% drop\u003c/a> from 2024. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which compiles the data from each county, won’t release the official statewide or nationwide 2026 count for many months. But most counties that did a 2026 count have published the preliminary results on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-6oAWh\" style=\"min-height: 931px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6oAWh/full.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing the change in total homeless counts, expressed as a percent change, between either 2024 or 2025 and 2026. The largest decline was in Fresno and Madera counties, with a 34% drop. The largest increase was in Amador, Calveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne which saw a more than doubling —130%.\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In some counties, the results were disappointing. Los Angeles County, after two years of declines, reported a 1% increase in homelessness this year. Homelessness increased 13% throughout Sacramento County from 2024, though it was down within the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>, after a significant decrease between 2024 and 2025, saw homelessness creep up 7% this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, there were several reminders this year that the point-in-time counts are not perfect. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-11/accounting-glitch-caused-nearly-half-of-l-a-s-increase-in-homeless-count\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> uncovered an accounting glitch that inflated the city’s homeless count by more than 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS23880_20170126_CC_county_homeless_count_215-e1530300027897.jpg\" alt=\"The homeless camp of Jarrett Keesling and Kelli Lengele, whom are among the hundreds of homeless the Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) interacted with as it conducts its annual count of homeless county residents Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment near an overpass in Contra Costa County, on Jan. 26, 2017. The county recorded an almost 7% increase in homelessness this year since 2025. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Central California, Fresno and Madera counties, which combined reported a 34% drop in homelessness compared to last year, appeared to have the largest reduction in the state. But the counties \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cc7bc02e8ba44aa938ccd4f/t/6a234bea54fe294ede543e7c/1780698092853/2026+PIT+Preliminary+Summary.pdf\">changed\u003c/a> the way they counted this year, potentially skewing the numbers. Instead of tallying everyone who was visible on the street as they did in 2025, this year, volunteers counted only people who confirmed they are homeless and agreed to participate in a survey. That change makes this year’s count difficult to compare to 2025 data, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/article316062827.html\">officials admitted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties touted wins in moving people off the street and into shelters – a feat that’s considered progress even though those people are still considered homeless. In Alameda County, the percentage of unhoused people living in shelters \u003ca href=\"https://weblink.alamedacountyca.gov/ACHHS/DocView.aspx?id=2336&dbid=0&repo=ACH-DocumentLibrary&cr=1\">increased\u003c/a> from 21% in 2019 to 37% this year.[aside postID=news_12084262 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1247572601-scaled-e1760372488675.jpg']Alameda County reached another significant milestone last year: for the first time since the county began tracking in 2021, slightly more people left homelessness and moved into housing than became newly homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell credits a major influx of state homelessness dollars that appeared in the county’s coffers about four years ago, including investments in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/05/newsom-homekey-records/\">Homekey\u003c/a> (the state program that helps cities and counties buy hotels to turn into homeless housing) and the state’s Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention fund. The state also awarded additional housing funds for homeless Californians with mental illness and substance use disorder in 2023 and 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County, which boasted one of the biggest drops in overall homelessness and unsheltered homelessness in California, added more than 100 shelter beds and more than 1,000 permanent housing units between 2024 and 2026. That allowed the county to increase the number of people living in permanent housing by 86%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just wasn’t money available 10 years ago like there is now,” said Dawn McLeish, deputy director of the county’s human services department. “It just took a couple years for those investments to get all the way off the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-7JDyb\" style=\"min-height: 826px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7JDyb/full.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing the change in total homeless counts, expressed as a percent change, between either 2024 or 2025 and 2026. The largest decline was in Fresno and Madera counties, with a 34% drop. The largest increase was in Amador, Calveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne which saw a more than doubling —130%.\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Niki Jones, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, views downward-trending numbers across the state with suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can call it progress if they want to,” she said. “I call baloney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">gave cities more leeway\u003c/a> to crack down on homeless encampments, cities have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/camping-ban-ordinances/\">passed new ordinances\u003c/a> banning camps, police are giving out \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/homelessness-enforcement-data/\">more citations\u003c/a> for camping-related offenses and activists are reporting more frequent encampment clearings. When people are forced to disperse from their camps, they become more difficult to spot during point-in-time counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot harder to find one person with a blanket somewhere than it is to see a camp,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4903-1.html\">recent study\u003c/a> looking at the Skid Row, Hollywood and Venice neighborhoods in Los Angeles found the overall level of unsheltered homelessness didn’t change between December 2024 and January 2026. But the number of people living in tents dropped 23%, while the number of people “sleeping rough” (without a tent, tarp or other shelter) increased 20%, according to data from the nonprofit research organization RAND.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077679\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/050422-SAN-JOSE-HOMELESS-SJM-DS-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/050422-SAN-JOSE-HOMELESS-SJM-DS-CM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/050422-SAN-JOSE-HOMELESS-SJM-DS-CM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man walks at the homeless encampment located along Coleman Avenue between West Hedding Street and Asbury Street in San Jose on June 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift away from camps could pose a challenge in getting people into housing, as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ main intervention – the Inside Safe program – specifically targets people living in tent encampments and moves them into hotels. In addition, rough sleepers generally have a harder time holding onto their personal documents and phones, making it harder for them to navigate the process of getting into housing, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased enforcement could lead to people going uncounted, but it’s hard to tell how much that is really affecting point-in-time count results, said Roxanne Wilson, homeless services director for Monterey County. She does know that she’s seeing more people in her community move into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County saw a 15% decrease in overall homelessness compared to 2024, while the number of people living outdoors dropped by nearly a quarter. Wilson attributes that largely to state funds. Monterey County won three state Encampment Resolution Grants that helped it move more than 150 people out of encampments along the Pajaro River levee, in Soledad and in King City. The money went toward opening a new shelter for the Pajaro River residents in Santa Cruz County, tiny homes in Soledad and hotel rooms in King City, Wilson said. People moved from the camps into those temporary accommodations, where they could then focus on securing permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson called that a “huge accomplishment.” But state homelessness funding comes in the form of one-time grants, meaning counties never know for sure how much money they’ll get next year – or if they’ll get anything at all. That makes it hard to plan ahead and invest in long-term strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that it’s going to be hard to hold this line,” Wilson said, “if we don’t start having more stable funding sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story reflected an incorrect number of new shelter beds in San Joaquin County. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> reduced its official homeless count in 2025 after years of increases. Now, preliminary data for 2026 shows many places in the state are continuing to make progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties up and down the state are reporting that their homeless populations dropped this year, citing early results of the point-in-time count conducted in January. Some of the drops were significant. San Joaquin County cut its total unhoused population by nearly a third compared to 2024 and nearly halved the number of people sleeping on the street without shelter. Others were more modest, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">San Francisco’s 4% drop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 28 counties or continuums of care (which group smaller counties together into single counts) that released 2026 data, more than half reported a decline in homelessness. Eight others did not conduct a point-in-time count this year, while seven had not publicly released their results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in counties where the homeless count dropped credit their progress to creating more shelter beds and low-income housing, which they say was made possible by new state funds released over the past several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some activists are questioning whether the numbers really are as rosy as they seem. Cities have ramped up enforcement against unhoused people in recent years – clearing encampments and citing people for illegal camping more frequently – which causes people to scatter and become harder to count. Just because someone is missing from an official count doesn’t mean they moved off the street and into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in counties celebrating wins this year, officials wonder whether they can maintain those gains in the face of recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2026/08/medi-cal-the-cut-healthcare-threatened/\">federal cuts to Medi-Cal\u003c/a> and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve made progress,” said Jonathan Russell, director of Alameda County Health Housing and Homelessness Services, which reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084262/homelessness-is-down-in-alameda-county-can-it-maintain-that-progress\">a 13% drop in homelessness compared to 2024\u003c/a>. “And there are real threats, real peril.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the 2026 point-in-time counts show\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federal government requires every county to conduct a point-in-time census of its homeless population at least every other year, though some do it every year. Typically, volunteers join city, county and nonprofit staffers on a single night in January to tally every unhoused person they see. The results are generally considered an undercount, as it’s easy to overlook people tucked away behind bushes or hunkered down in parked cars. But despite the count’s flaws, it’s the only standardized way the state (and the rest of the country) has to measure fluctuations in its homeless populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 181,934 homeless Californians counted last year – a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/05/point-in-time-homelessness-report/\">nearly 3% drop\u003c/a> from 2024. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which compiles the data from each county, won’t release the official statewide or nationwide 2026 count for many months. But most counties that did a 2026 count have published the preliminary results on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-6oAWh\" style=\"min-height: 931px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6oAWh/full.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing the change in total homeless counts, expressed as a percent change, between either 2024 or 2025 and 2026. The largest decline was in Fresno and Madera counties, with a 34% drop. The largest increase was in Amador, Calveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne which saw a more than doubling —130%.\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>In some counties, the results were disappointing. Los Angeles County, after two years of declines, reported a 1% increase in homelessness this year. Homelessness increased 13% throughout Sacramento County from 2024, though it was down within the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a>, after a significant decrease between 2024 and 2025, saw homelessness creep up 7% this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, there were several reminders this year that the point-in-time counts are not perfect. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-11/accounting-glitch-caused-nearly-half-of-l-a-s-increase-in-homeless-count\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> uncovered an accounting glitch that inflated the city’s homeless count by more than 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11678220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS23880_20170126_CC_county_homeless_count_215-e1530300027897.jpg\" alt=\"The homeless camp of Jarrett Keesling and Kelli Lengele, whom are among the hundreds of homeless the Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) interacted with as it conducts its annual count of homeless county residents Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment near an overpass in Contra Costa County, on Jan. 26, 2017. The county recorded an almost 7% increase in homelessness this year since 2025. \u003ccite>(Eric Kayne/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Central California, Fresno and Madera counties, which combined reported a 34% drop in homelessness compared to last year, appeared to have the largest reduction in the state. But the counties \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cc7bc02e8ba44aa938ccd4f/t/6a234bea54fe294ede543e7c/1780698092853/2026+PIT+Preliminary+Summary.pdf\">changed\u003c/a> the way they counted this year, potentially skewing the numbers. Instead of tallying everyone who was visible on the street as they did in 2025, this year, volunteers counted only people who confirmed they are homeless and agreed to participate in a survey. That change makes this year’s count difficult to compare to 2025 data, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/article316062827.html\">officials admitted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties touted wins in moving people off the street and into shelters – a feat that’s considered progress even though those people are still considered homeless. In Alameda County, the percentage of unhoused people living in shelters \u003ca href=\"https://weblink.alamedacountyca.gov/ACHHS/DocView.aspx?id=2336&dbid=0&repo=ACH-DocumentLibrary&cr=1\">increased\u003c/a> from 21% in 2019 to 37% this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Alameda County reached another significant milestone last year: for the first time since the county began tracking in 2021, slightly more people left homelessness and moved into housing than became newly homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell credits a major influx of state homelessness dollars that appeared in the county’s coffers about four years ago, including investments in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/05/newsom-homekey-records/\">Homekey\u003c/a> (the state program that helps cities and counties buy hotels to turn into homeless housing) and the state’s Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention fund. The state also awarded additional housing funds for homeless Californians with mental illness and substance use disorder in 2023 and 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County, which boasted one of the biggest drops in overall homelessness and unsheltered homelessness in California, added more than 100 shelter beds and more than 1,000 permanent housing units between 2024 and 2026. That allowed the county to increase the number of people living in permanent housing by 86%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just wasn’t money available 10 years ago like there is now,” said Dawn McLeish, deputy director of the county’s human services department. “It just took a couple years for those investments to get all the way off the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-7JDyb\" style=\"min-height: 826px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/7JDyb/full.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing the change in total homeless counts, expressed as a percent change, between either 2024 or 2025 and 2026. The largest decline was in Fresno and Madera counties, with a 34% drop. The largest increase was in Amador, Calveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne which saw a more than doubling —130%.\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Niki Jones, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, views downward-trending numbers across the state with suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can call it progress if they want to,” she said. “I call baloney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">gave cities more leeway\u003c/a> to crack down on homeless encampments, cities have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/camping-ban-ordinances/\">passed new ordinances\u003c/a> banning camps, police are giving out \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/homelessness-enforcement-data/\">more citations\u003c/a> for camping-related offenses and activists are reporting more frequent encampment clearings. When people are forced to disperse from their camps, they become more difficult to spot during point-in-time counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot harder to find one person with a blanket somewhere than it is to see a camp,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4903-1.html\">recent study\u003c/a> looking at the Skid Row, Hollywood and Venice neighborhoods in Los Angeles found the overall level of unsheltered homelessness didn’t change between December 2024 and January 2026. But the number of people living in tents dropped 23%, while the number of people “sleeping rough” (without a tent, tarp or other shelter) increased 20%, according to data from the nonprofit research organization RAND.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077679\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/050422-SAN-JOSE-HOMELESS-SJM-DS-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/050422-SAN-JOSE-HOMELESS-SJM-DS-CM.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/050422-SAN-JOSE-HOMELESS-SJM-DS-CM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man walks at the homeless encampment located along Coleman Avenue between West Hedding Street and Asbury Street in San Jose on June 22, 2021. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift away from camps could pose a challenge in getting people into housing, as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ main intervention – the Inside Safe program – specifically targets people living in tent encampments and moves them into hotels. In addition, rough sleepers generally have a harder time holding onto their personal documents and phones, making it harder for them to navigate the process of getting into housing, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased enforcement could lead to people going uncounted, but it’s hard to tell how much that is really affecting point-in-time count results, said Roxanne Wilson, homeless services director for Monterey County. She does know that she’s seeing more people in her community move into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County saw a 15% decrease in overall homelessness compared to 2024, while the number of people living outdoors dropped by nearly a quarter. Wilson attributes that largely to state funds. Monterey County won three state Encampment Resolution Grants that helped it move more than 150 people out of encampments along the Pajaro River levee, in Soledad and in King City. The money went toward opening a new shelter for the Pajaro River residents in Santa Cruz County, tiny homes in Soledad and hotel rooms in King City, Wilson said. People moved from the camps into those temporary accommodations, where they could then focus on securing permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson called that a “huge accomplishment.” But state homelessness funding comes in the form of one-time grants, meaning counties never know for sure how much money they’ll get next year – or if they’ll get anything at all. That makes it hard to plan ahead and invest in long-term strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that it’s going to be hard to hold this line,” Wilson said, “if we don’t start having more stable funding sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story reflected an incorrect number of new shelter beds in San Joaquin County. 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(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA issued the citations on Aug. 12. Due to the agency’s role as a workplace safety monitor, its findings focused only on the three Blackbird guides who died. A Cal/OSHA spokesperson said a separate investigation by the agency’s Bureau of Investigations remains open.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Blackbird announced a formal \u003ca href=\"https://blackbirdguides.com/pages/live-incident-updates\">appeal\u003c/a> on Friday morning, saying it continues to cooperate with all investigations related to the avalanche. The company said it operated in full compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, and that its guides were highly certified.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The citations do not reflect the reality of our profession or the safety program we have built,” the company said in a statement. “Mountain guiding takes place in dynamic wilderness environments where conditions change minute to minute — it’s not a controlled setting such as construction sites. We welcome the opportunity to work with Cal/OSHA to contextualize the unique realities of operating in backcountry environments.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The February incident hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074158/tahoe-avalanche-backcountry-101-castle-peak-frog-lake-donner-summit-weather\">home for many Bay Area skiers\u003c/a> who frequent Tahoe’s ski resorts and backcountry. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Of the nine victims, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073851/tahoe-avalanche-heres-what-we-know-about-the-victims\">six of them were mothers\u003c/a>, several living in the Bay Area, part of a group of eight women who were skilled and frequent backcountry skiers. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074292/all-9-tahoe-avalanche-victims-identified-and-bodies-recovered\">three other victims\u003c/a> were guides whom Blackbird praised at the time for their professionalism and “passion for the mountains.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a February report by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, two surviving members of the party detailed their harrowing attempts to rescue their buried group members.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074177/california-authorities-launch-investigation-of-criminal-negligence-in-deadly-tahoe-avalanche\">opened its own investigation\u003c/a> of the incident in late February. That office confirmed Friday the case has been turned over to the Nevada County District Attorney’s Office. The office did not respond to KQED’s inquiries on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an independent \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0298/8159/8051/files/2.17_Independent_Preliminary_Report_Supplemental_Key_Findings_8.1.26.pdf?v=1786255485\">report\u003c/a> prepared for Blackbird Mountain Guides earlier this month, avalanche professional Don Sharaf concluded the group was attempting to get out of avalanche danger when the slide hit but was obstructed by an unusually open creek, normally bridged by snow.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing easy about any part of this,” Blackbird wrote in a statement accompanying the report. “Nine deeply loved people are gone, three of them our own guides. There is still much that remains unknown, but this is the most complete information available so far and we hope the release of this information can help the community begin to heal together.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The race, which pitted the progressive Wahab against the more moderate Hernandez, drew \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12095020/aisha-wahab-to-file-fec-complaint-over-alleged-election-interference-in-race-for-swalwell-seat\">millions in outside spending\u003c/a> — much of it from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in support of Hernandez. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wahab will become the nation’s first Afghan American member of Congress. The former Hayward council member has represented parts of the East Bay and South Bay in the state Legislature since 2022. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260309-DEAF-DEPORTEE-MD-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083964\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260309-DEAF-DEPORTEE-MD-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260309-DEAF-DEPORTEE-MD-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260309-DEAF-DEPORTEE-MD-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. Eric Swalwell addresses the press event in Hayward on March 9, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This victory belongs to the voters who made clear that our district cannot be bought,” Wahab said in a statement. “From foster care to Congress, this journey shows the possibility of the American Dream.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wahab and Hernandez were already running for a full term in the 14th District when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079800/eric-swalwell-allegations-resign-congress-california-governor-race-who-is-running-primary\">Swalwell resigned from the seat\u003c/a> in April, in the face of multiple allegations of sexual assault that arose during his campaign for governor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special election for June 16 to fill the seat, and a number of congressional Democrats pushed for candidates to clear the way for a caretaker to claim an outright majority and take office immediately in a divided Congress. Wahab resisted the effort and described it as out of touch with the district. She finished first with 43% of the vote, with Hernandez trailing in second with 17%.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In just 63 days, we closed a gap from 26,000 to 6,000 votes by sharing our message of lowering housing costs, creating jobs, and supporting strong public safety,” Hernandez said in a statement after Thursday’s results. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The race heated up in the nine weeks between the primary and Tuesday’s runoff. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>AIPAC spent $2.4 million to boost Hernandez through its super PAC, United Democracy Project. That group also contributed over $1.5 million this year to BOLD America, a separate super PAC that has spent over $2 million to help Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The spending came after Wahab said in a candidate forum that she believed that Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people constituted a genocide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both campaigns head into the general election with reason for optimism. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wahab will be the incumbent and can count on a higher turnout that could allow her to activate younger voters and progressives. AIPAC’s political spending, meanwhile, has become a flashpoint in Democrat vs. Democrat races across the country. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I believe that AIPAC has been nothing but racist and prejudiced in this effort,” Wahab told KQED on election night. “I support our Jewish constituents and really want to serve everybody — human rights is not a zero-sum game.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The November election will take place with slightly different district lines, under changes approved by California voters last year in Proposition 50. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hernandez pointed to the fact that the new 14th District will add more than 26,000 voters in Dublin, where she served as mayor and city council member. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This district has changed,” Hernandez said in an interview. “Folks know my leadership and what we’ve done in the city of Dublin.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout in Tuesday’s primary sits at just 23%, with an unknown number of ballots left to count. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wahab and Hernandez were already running for a full term in the 14th District when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079800/eric-swalwell-allegations-resign-congress-california-governor-race-who-is-running-primary\">Swalwell resigned from the seat\u003c/a> in April, in the face of multiple allegations of sexual assault that arose during his campaign for governor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special election for June 16 to fill the seat, and a number of congressional Democrats pushed for candidates to clear the way for a caretaker to claim an outright majority and take office immediately in a divided Congress. Wahab resisted the effort and described it as out of touch with the district. She finished first with 43% of the vote, with Hernandez trailing in second with 17%.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In just 63 days, we closed a gap from 26,000 to 6,000 votes by sharing our message of lowering housing costs, creating jobs, and supporting strong public safety,” Hernandez said in a statement after Thursday’s results. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The race heated up in the nine weeks between the primary and Tuesday’s runoff. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>AIPAC spent $2.4 million to boost Hernandez through its super PAC, United Democracy Project. That group also contributed over $1.5 million this year to BOLD America, a separate super PAC that has spent over $2 million to help Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The spending came after Wahab said in a candidate forum that she believed that Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people constituted a genocide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both campaigns head into the general election with reason for optimism. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wahab will be the incumbent and can count on a higher turnout that could allow her to activate younger voters and progressives. AIPAC’s political spending, meanwhile, has become a flashpoint in Democrat vs. Democrat races across the country. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I believe that AIPAC has been nothing but racist and prejudiced in this effort,” Wahab told KQED on election night. “I support our Jewish constituents and really want to serve everybody — human rights is not a zero-sum game.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The November election will take place with slightly different district lines, under changes approved by California voters last year in Proposition 50. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hernandez pointed to the fact that the new 14th District will add more than 26,000 voters in Dublin, where she served as mayor and city council member. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This district has changed,” Hernandez said in an interview. “Folks know my leadership and what we’ve done in the city of Dublin.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout in Tuesday’s primary sits at just 23%, with an unknown number of ballots left to count. That’s lower than the 29% of voters who cast ballots in the June 16 special primary election and the 37% of voters who participated in the regularly scheduled June 2 primary.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two dozen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> Assembly Democrats and one state senator sent a letter Wednesday to legislative leaders asking them to delay fees under SB 54, the state’s landmark plastic reduction law, for two years — an eleventh-hour push as the Legislature hurtles toward the end of session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter, addressed to Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, was signed by 23 Assemblymembers and Sen. Melissa Hurtado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It asks lawmakers to pause fee assessment and collection this year and next, commit to a “reform package” next session, and increase legislative oversight of the program going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request lands amid a broader fight over how the plastics law is rolling out. Little by little California is demanding that the packages you pick up at your doorstep or at the store contain less plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_Ridwell_DB_01232_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker sorts plastics at Ridwell’s processing plant in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four years ago aims to phase out 25% of non-recyclable, non-compostable plastic by 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get there, the state tasked a nonprofit, the Circular Action Alliance, with drafting a plan to meet the state goals. The group estimated the work would cost $17.2 billion over five years – and is asking for a three-year exemption from the source-reduction deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the state moves to implement the law, questions are mounting over how the organization calculates the fees producers — and eventually consumers — will pay, and how much oversight the group actually faces.[aside postID=science_2001611 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/08/ClimateSolutionsGetty.jpg']Industry groups say the price tag for complying with the law could be tens of billions of dollars higher than California originally estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An industry-commissioned study found the law could cost consumers three times what the state projected — between $683 and $948 a year, rather than $190.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means groceries, shampoo bottles and other consumer goods packed in plastic could cost a little more as the law takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which oversees implementation, declined an interview but said in a written statement that the law puts consumers first and pushes producers to design packaging with recycling in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians are facing rising costs and pollution from increasingly complex packaging that wasn’t designed for the recycling systems local governments, ratepayers, and the state developed and funded over the past four decades,” said CalRecycle director Zoe Heller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law’s rollout is a dial, not a switch, giving producers flexibility to redesign packaging, invest in recycling systems, reduce single-use plastics, and make adjustments along the way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watching the watchers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Circular Action Alliance published its fee schedule in June, spelling out what each producer owes into the system. The fees could add up to more than $10 million for some businesses, according to the Dairy Institute of California. The Dairy Institute is a trade association that represents milk processors and dairy product manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike a state agency, the Circular Action Alliance answers to almost no one, said Katie Davey, executive director of the Dairy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The alliance] does not have to go through an audit by the state auditor. They’re not subject to the (California open government law) Brown Act. They’re not subject to public records requests. The Legislature does not approve their budget and does not approve how many employees they need, or how many fees they can charge,” Davey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Recology, hundreds of tons of recycling is loaded onto conveyor belts and nonrecyclable materials are separated by hand. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a private nonprofit, Circular Action Alliance indeed is not subject to the Brown Act or public-records law — but records it submits to CalRecycle or other government entities may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalRecycle must approve its fee schedule and implementation plan, and has the authority to audit the organization’s performance, said CalRecycle spokesperson Lance Klug, who added that the plastics law includes provisions to ensure the group’s budget and fees are appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alliance’s role “is not to set California policy,” said its spokesperson, Larine Urbina. “Our role is to implement the framework established by SB 54 under CalRecycle’s oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davey said the gap extends to enforcement. Businesses that fall short will face so-called \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64260ed078c36925b1cf3385/t/6a2ffce95c73742ee3a1dc97/1781529833493/10_Eco-Modulation_CAA_CA_Plan_20260615.pdf\">malus fees,\u003c/a> which fund bonuses for those that comply. But the Circular Action Alliance hasn’t said what those fees will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shane Gusman, a lobbyist for the Teamsters, which represents hundreds of thousands of California workers, raised similar concerns. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They’re a wholly independent nonprofit organization that has no oversight. That’s part of the problem.” The union backed the plastics law hoping it would boost jobs; Guzman now says the fees could affect workers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the alliance published its fee schedule, Davey and a coalition of industry leaders — including the California Restaurant Association, the California League of Food Producers, the American Forest and Paper Association and the Print Creative Alliance — commissioned a study disputing CalRecycle’s numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort plastics at the Ridwell processing plant in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It found CalRecycle’s 2025 estimate of $21 billion in implementation costs, or $190 a year per California household, rests on “idealized assumptions that fail to capture real-world costs and complications the regulations will create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study puts the number somewhere between $35 and $58 billion, rising after the implementation period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klug of CalRecycle said the agency’s earlier reports were just estimates. “The actual costs will be determined by producer choices,” he said. “These costs, for example, will reflect the infrastructure needed to recycle materials that producers are choosing to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agriculture groups push back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The biggest hurdle for producers is cutting plastic use 25% by 2032 — which state regulators say will require redesigning packaging and shifting toward reusable products, such as dishes at restaurants and paper-based packaging for produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business groups say they support the state’s goals but call the timeline unworkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food safety is one sticking point: alternatives like paper-based containers for berries are less breathable and spoil faster, while heavier glass or cardboard adds transportation costs, said Casey Creamer, president of the California Fresh Fruit Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11320553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11320553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Driscoll's, the largest berry producer in the world, now grows about the same quantity of raspberries and strawberries in Mexico as it does in California. Many American producers have recently expanded their production to Mexico.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-960x717.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driscoll’s, the largest berry producer in the world, now grows about the same quantity of raspberries and strawberries in Mexico as it does in California. Many American producers have recently expanded their production to Mexico. \u003ccite>(Mike Mozart/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t want to force something out and not be able to deliver a fresh, healthy commodity, or create a situation that has more significant or adverse environmental concerns just because we look at plastics and packaging in a silo,” Creamer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups oppose any pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us pay for plastic pollution through higher garbage bills and clean-ups of polluted beaches and waterways, not to mention the damage to our environment and our health,”said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat representing coastal Los Angeles County who authored the law, said it’s time plastic producers are held accountable for the waste they produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 11th-hour Hail Mary is only trying to maintain status quo and avoid due responsibility, throwing years of good-faith negotiations, and affordability and sustainability improvements out the window,” he said in a statement about producers’ efforts to pause implementation of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Businesses pass costs to consumers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether the plastics law is actually driving up grocery prices yet is hard to pin down. Creamer said businesses may already be factoring the organization’s planned fees into their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data show grocery prices dipped slightly in July from June, though prices have climbed year over year and that rate is accelerating, said Richard Volpe, a consumer-price expert at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Neither the USDA nor the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released August figures, and no data yet isolates the state plastics law’s effect from broader inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volpe said retailers, who run on thin margins, will eventually pass costs on to consumers — but probably not right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1920x1344.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raw Farm raw milk containers are displayed on a shelf at a grocery store on Nov. 25, 2024, in San Anselmo, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It will not happen overnight,” he said. “And it will still be relatively small, mostly on the order of pennies on the dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups warn it will add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s even on the cusp of food insecurity and they’re looking at $1,000 more a year, that’s pushing them over the food cliff,” said Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Teamsters, which backed the plastics law hoping it would boost jobs, now worry the fees could affect workers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law “has been morphed into something that is going to cost California consumers a substantial amount of money at a time when I don’t know if we need to spend thousands more on groceries,” said Gusman, the Teamsters lobbyist. “That also has an impact on the workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/08/plastics-law-producer-responsibility-consumer/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Industry groups say the price tag for complying with the law could be tens of billions of dollars higher than California originally estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An industry-commissioned study found the law could cost consumers three times what the state projected — between $683 and $948 a year, rather than $190.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means groceries, shampoo bottles and other consumer goods packed in plastic could cost a little more as the law takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which oversees implementation, declined an interview but said in a written statement that the law puts consumers first and pushes producers to design packaging with recycling in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians are facing rising costs and pollution from increasingly complex packaging that wasn’t designed for the recycling systems local governments, ratepayers, and the state developed and funded over the past four decades,” said CalRecycle director Zoe Heller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law’s rollout is a dial, not a switch, giving producers flexibility to redesign packaging, invest in recycling systems, reduce single-use plastics, and make adjustments along the way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watching the watchers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Circular Action Alliance published its fee schedule in June, spelling out what each producer owes into the system. The fees could add up to more than $10 million for some businesses, according to the Dairy Institute of California. The Dairy Institute is a trade association that represents milk processors and dairy product manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike a state agency, the Circular Action Alliance answers to almost no one, said Katie Davey, executive director of the Dairy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The alliance] does not have to go through an audit by the state auditor. They’re not subject to the (California open government law) Brown Act. They’re not subject to public records requests. The Legislature does not approve their budget and does not approve how many employees they need, or how many fees they can charge,” Davey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-03-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Recology, hundreds of tons of recycling is loaded onto conveyor belts and nonrecyclable materials are separated by hand. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a private nonprofit, Circular Action Alliance indeed is not subject to the Brown Act or public-records law — but records it submits to CalRecycle or other government entities may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalRecycle must approve its fee schedule and implementation plan, and has the authority to audit the organization’s performance, said CalRecycle spokesperson Lance Klug, who added that the plastics law includes provisions to ensure the group’s budget and fees are appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alliance’s role “is not to set California policy,” said its spokesperson, Larine Urbina. “Our role is to implement the framework established by SB 54 under CalRecycle’s oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davey said the gap extends to enforcement. Businesses that fall short will face so-called \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64260ed078c36925b1cf3385/t/6a2ffce95c73742ee3a1dc97/1781529833493/10_Eco-Modulation_CAA_CA_Plan_20260615.pdf\">malus fees,\u003c/a> which fund bonuses for those that comply. But the Circular Action Alliance hasn’t said what those fees will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shane Gusman, a lobbyist for the Teamsters, which represents hundreds of thousands of California workers, raised similar concerns. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They’re a wholly independent nonprofit organization that has no oversight. That’s part of the problem.” The union backed the plastics law hoping it would boost jobs; Guzman now says the fees could affect workers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the alliance published its fee schedule, Davey and a coalition of industry leaders — including the California Restaurant Association, the California League of Food Producers, the American Forest and Paper Association and the Print Creative Alliance — commissioned a study disputing CalRecycle’s numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250124_RIDWELL_DB_00484-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort plastics at the Ridwell processing plant in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It found CalRecycle’s 2025 estimate of $21 billion in implementation costs, or $190 a year per California household, rests on “idealized assumptions that fail to capture real-world costs and complications the regulations will create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study puts the number somewhere between $35 and $58 billion, rising after the implementation period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klug of CalRecycle said the agency’s earlier reports were just estimates. “The actual costs will be determined by producer choices,” he said. “These costs, for example, will reflect the infrastructure needed to recycle materials that producers are choosing to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agriculture groups push back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The biggest hurdle for producers is cutting plastic use 25% by 2032 — which state regulators say will require redesigning packaging and shifting toward reusable products, such as dishes at restaurants and paper-based packaging for produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business groups say they support the state’s goals but call the timeline unworkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food safety is one sticking point: alternatives like paper-based containers for berries are less breathable and spoil faster, while heavier glass or cardboard adds transportation costs, said Casey Creamer, president of the California Fresh Fruit Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11320553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11320553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Driscoll's, the largest berry producer in the world, now grows about the same quantity of raspberries and strawberries in Mexico as it does in California. Many American producers have recently expanded their production to Mexico.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-960x717.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/11320552-thumb-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driscoll’s, the largest berry producer in the world, now grows about the same quantity of raspberries and strawberries in Mexico as it does in California. Many American producers have recently expanded their production to Mexico. \u003ccite>(Mike Mozart/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We just don’t want to force something out and not be able to deliver a fresh, healthy commodity, or create a situation that has more significant or adverse environmental concerns just because we look at plastics and packaging in a silo,” Creamer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups oppose any pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us pay for plastic pollution through higher garbage bills and clean-ups of polluted beaches and waterways, not to mention the damage to our environment and our health,”said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat representing coastal Los Angeles County who authored the law, said it’s time plastic producers are held accountable for the waste they produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 11th-hour Hail Mary is only trying to maintain status quo and avoid due responsibility, throwing years of good-faith negotiations, and affordability and sustainability improvements out the window,” he said in a statement about producers’ efforts to pause implementation of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Businesses pass costs to consumers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether the plastics law is actually driving up grocery prices yet is hard to pin down. Creamer said businesses may already be factoring the organization’s planned fees into their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data show grocery prices dipped slightly in July from June, though prices have climbed year over year and that rate is accelerating, said Richard Volpe, a consumer-price expert at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Neither the USDA nor the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released August figures, and no data yet isolates the state plastics law’s effect from broader inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volpe said retailers, who run on thin margins, will eventually pass costs on to consumers — but probably not right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluMilkFresnoGetty-1920x1344.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raw Farm raw milk containers are displayed on a shelf at a grocery store on Nov. 25, 2024, in San Anselmo, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It will not happen overnight,” he said. “And it will still be relatively small, mostly on the order of pennies on the dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups warn it will add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s even on the cusp of food insecurity and they’re looking at $1,000 more a year, that’s pushing them over the food cliff,” said Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Teamsters, which backed the plastics law hoping it would boost jobs, now worry the fees could affect workers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law “has been morphed into something that is going to cost California consumers a substantial amount of money at a time when I don’t know if we need to spend thousands more on groceries,” said Gusman, the Teamsters lobbyist. “That also has an impact on the workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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