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But Southern California real estate developer and entrepreneur Quay Hays wants to change that. His company, GROW Holdings, develops green projects. But this is Hays' first foray into creating a new town. He's worked in marketing, book publishing, finance and the film industry. 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He says it will create professional careers as well as retail jobs. Hays also says the future city of 75,000 people will feature houses and apartments run on solar energy, a graywater system and a futuristic transportation system called a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/who-wants-to-design-a-hyperloop-for-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperloop\u003c/a>, first imagined by Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the initial testing of moving humans, it could be an intermodal transportation system within Quay Valley,” Hays adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GROW Holdings is paying for all the plans, permitting, land and water acquisitions. Development funds will come from private capital and buyers. But for this city to become a reality, the company’s plans will have to get past the Kings County Planning Division, led by Greg Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited about this process, but to build an entire new community when there’s nothing that exists there is very comprehensive in terms of everything that would be necessary to actually support that,” says Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013000\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11013000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-800x988.jpg\" alt=\"A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-400x494.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GROW Holdings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gatzka’s staff is working with Hays on the very early stages of planning. He says there are a number of looming questions yet to be answered. His biggest concern is that lack of water could halt the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the water going to come from and how are they going to provide it in a sustainable manner?\" Gatkza asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finished, the town is supposed to use around 12,000 acre-feet of water a year. Some of that water will come from water rights Hays purchased for the initial phase, but he isn’t sure where the rest will come from. UC Davis environmental design professor Stephen Wheeler questions whether this project is even sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am pretty skeptical,” says Wheeler. “If we were really thinking about investing $5 billion or whatever it’s going to be, it would be way more sustainable to invest it in some existing city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would rather see that money used in communities with infrastructure already in place. Cal State Fresno urban planning professor Hongwei Dong agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s supposed to be self-sustained, but on the other hand I assume they are going to rely on people from off-site to go shopping there, to go there for entertainment,” Dong adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says all those people traveling to Quay Valley could actually increase pollution in the area. An environmental review will also need to take place as part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Kettleman City, people who live in the area, like Michelle Magallan, think a high-tech town could boost the economy in Kings County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would she live in Quay Valley?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably would. It’d probably keep me healthier and living longer. Why not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will be at least a couple of years before Magallan could even consider buying a house in Quay Valley. Developers would like the first set of homes and attractions ready to live in and shop in by 2019.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get people from out of state, out of the country,\" Magallan says. \"You’re in the middle of nowhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magallan says she’s heard rumors of a state-of-the-art city in the works about 8 miles south of here on I-5 called Quay Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11013051\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Kettleman City is one of the largest rest stops on Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-400x235.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-1180x693.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-960x564.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kettleman City is one of the largest rest stops on Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the moment this proposed town is nothing but 7,500 acres of desert. But Southern California real estate developer and entrepreneur Quay Hays wants to change that. His company, GROW Holdings, develops green projects. But this is Hays' first foray into creating a new town. He's worked in marketing, book publishing, finance and the film industry. It’s sort of a legacy project for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My name’s on the door,” Hays says. “I gotta make sure it turns out OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed town calls for multiple mixed-use village centers with stores, parks, restaurants, a mall and a college with a focus on sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ll go under an underpass and what you’ll see to the right we would have a very large entertainment destination,\" says Hays. \"On the left we would have some very unique themed resort hotels and then you go into the community itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272737620&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272737620'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007 a slump in the economy and a lawsuit over water halted Hays' initial plan to build Quay Valley. Now the project is back on the table. He says it will create professional careers as well as retail jobs. Hays also says the future city of 75,000 people will feature houses and apartments run on solar energy, a graywater system and a futuristic transportation system called a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/who-wants-to-design-a-hyperloop-for-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperloop\u003c/a>, first imagined by Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the initial testing of moving humans, it could be an intermodal transportation system within Quay Valley,” Hays adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GROW Holdings is paying for all the plans, permitting, land and water acquisitions. Development funds will come from private capital and buyers. But for this city to become a reality, the company’s plans will have to get past the Kings County Planning Division, led by Greg Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited about this process, but to build an entire new community when there’s nothing that exists there is very comprehensive in terms of everything that would be necessary to actually support that,” says Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013000\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11013000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-800x988.jpg\" alt=\"A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-400x494.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GROW Holdings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gatzka’s staff is working with Hays on the very early stages of planning. He says there are a number of looming questions yet to be answered. His biggest concern is that lack of water could halt the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the water going to come from and how are they going to provide it in a sustainable manner?\" Gatkza asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finished, the town is supposed to use around 12,000 acre-feet of water a year. Some of that water will come from water rights Hays purchased for the initial phase, but he isn’t sure where the rest will come from. UC Davis environmental design professor Stephen Wheeler questions whether this project is even sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am pretty skeptical,” says Wheeler. “If we were really thinking about investing $5 billion or whatever it’s going to be, it would be way more sustainable to invest it in some existing city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would rather see that money used in communities with infrastructure already in place. Cal State Fresno urban planning professor Hongwei Dong agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s supposed to be self-sustained, but on the other hand I assume they are going to rely on people from off-site to go shopping there, to go there for entertainment,” Dong adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says all those people traveling to Quay Valley could actually increase pollution in the area. An environmental review will also need to take place as part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Kettleman City, people who live in the area, like Michelle Magallan, think a high-tech town could boost the economy in Kings County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would she live in Quay Valley?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably would. It’d probably keep me healthier and living longer. Why not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will be at least a couple of years before Magallan could even consider buying a house in Quay Valley. 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"disqusTitle": "Outside Yosemite, Rural Town Grapples with Homelessness",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you mention homelessness to anyone in the mountain town of Mariposa near Yosemite National Park, you’ll hear the same name over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Walter Brooks was considered Mariposa’s one and only homeless person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born here in 1948 and this is my home turf,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walter is iconic in this community,” says Doug Binnewies, sheriff of Mariposa County. But these days the myth of the one homeless person is gone. Mariposa, like many rural towns in California, has seen a big spike in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272286361\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think AB109, combined with the recession, really fueled this issue,” says Binnewies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB109, parolees who committed non-serious crimes like theft or drug possession are sent back to the county where they were charged, even if it isn’t their hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Binnewies says, it’s safer to be homeless in a rural area than in a city, especially a place like Mariposa where the people are friendly and the weather is great. “The homeless are often victimized in other jurisdictions,” he says. “They’re a preyed-upon population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Iudice, a commercial real estate owner, says downtown business owners were initially riled by the increase in people living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know who these people were that were in town,” he says. “At the time there was urinating in public doorways of businesses, just sleeping out in public areas. We were afraid transients were going to scare the tourists away, and so the businesses got up in arms about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006775\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism fuels Mariposa's economy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism fuels Mariposa's economy. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless issue stirs up a lot of feelings, says the Rev. Ginger Foster, pastor of Mariposa United Methodist Church. The town had to have some hard conversations about how to handle this new reality. But Foster doesn’t buy the idea that Walter Brooks was the only homeless person before the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure we’ve had homelessness all the way back to the Gold Rush,” she says. Especially in a rural, forested area where people can camp out for months undetected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa United Methodist opens its doors five nights a week for those who need dinner and a place to sleep. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church down the street handles the other two nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very stringent rules,” says the Rev. Steve Bulfer. “No drugs, no drinking. We’re doing what we can, but it’s not the long-term answer and we know it.” For one, it’s a drain on his small church community, where most of the members are geriatric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the shelter has caused a little controversy. Both Foster and Bulfer have been told their efforts are attracting homeless people to Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean people have actually said to me, ‘Because you have this program, people come here.’ And that’s a little true but hello, we’ve got a huge magnet in our county. It’s called Yosemite National Park. People come for seasonal employment. They come just to sightsee, you know, with their thumb,” Foster says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instability of seasonal work is just one factor, Foster says. There are other issues: mental health, substance abuse, lack of transportation. And decent affordable housing in Mariposa is almost impossible to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every person that’s sitting in this room right now, there’s a different combination of things that brought them to this point,” Foster says one night at mealtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006773 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Ginger Foster (left) appreciates the help she gets from shelter volunteer Linda Campbell. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Linda Campbell says she came to Mariposa after working in Yosemite. She had a job here until she lost her 17-year-old son -- and not long after, her sobriety. Grief and alcohol ran her life. But she stopped drinking five years ago and is now working on her GED. She says church leaders and the many local volunteers who bring in dinner almost every night have been life savers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t put us down,” Campbell says. “And this is hope for us. We see people on a daily basis that say, ‘Hey, how are you doing today? What can I pray with you about today?’ And it encourages us a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County Supervisor Marshall Long says there have always been homeless people in Mariposa County. “My family moved here in 1951, and there were homeless people living on our ranch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there still are. Long pays them to cut firewood. “It helps to clear the land, and they make a little extra money,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long says people aren’t taking care of each other like they used to, and they’re relying on the government to do that job. “I hope there are more people like me who take these folks and actually give them something to do because they want to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Blair Chenoweth. He was homeless for a year and a half, living in his car. He says he came to Mariposa to be near his kids, who live here with his ex-wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was kind of the person who said, ‘OK look, I’m homeless. I’m here, I’m looking for a job.’ So I sort of called people out on that thing about like the homeless never want to get a job, the homeless never want to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church where he now volunteers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church, where he now volunteers. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chenoweth found a job at a local nonprofit. He got some encouragement from Chevon Kothari. She’s the county’s director for Human Services. Kothari says helping people in a smaller town is sometimes easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of look at Mariposa sometimes like a Petri dish,” she says. “We can actually visibly see the results of our work, and I think that keeps us all motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people are motivated to help. County leaders have worked hard to come up with a plan to help the estimated 40 homeless people in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kothari points to a local park and says many of them used to gather here. Then county organizations pooled their resources and created a wellness center away from the business district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place where people could gather during the day, connect with services they may need, have a hot meal in the winter and lunch in the summer,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the county has housed 13 people who were homeless, including Walter Brooks. But his story has been a little more complicated. His landlord asked him to leave because he and his friends were too loud. The county recently found him another place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might make some business owners happy, but he says he’d rather live the way he always has: hanging out downtown where things are happening and finding a warm porch to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006777\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006777 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg\" alt=\"mariposa-6\" width=\"800\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-400x575.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-1180x1697.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-960x1381.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Brooks now has a place to live, but for a long time, he was considered Mariposa's one homeless person. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even his caseworker, Bobbi DePuertis, is conflicted. When he was on the street, “he was walking and he was up more,” she says. “Now since we’ve moved him into this house, he doesn’t want to get up and walk. He doesn’t want to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, she says, Brooks is ultimately safer. “I’ve seen him in the ER,” she says. “There were times when he was much worse off than he is now.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272286361&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272286361'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think AB109, combined with the recession, really fueled this issue,” says Binnewies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB109, parolees who committed non-serious crimes like theft or drug possession are sent back to the county where they were charged, even if it isn’t their hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Binnewies says, it’s safer to be homeless in a rural area than in a city, especially a place like Mariposa where the people are friendly and the weather is great. “The homeless are often victimized in other jurisdictions,” he says. “They’re a preyed-upon population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Iudice, a commercial real estate owner, says downtown business owners were initially riled by the increase in people living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know who these people were that were in town,” he says. “At the time there was urinating in public doorways of businesses, just sleeping out in public areas. We were afraid transients were going to scare the tourists away, and so the businesses got up in arms about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006775\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism fuels Mariposa's economy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism fuels Mariposa's economy. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless issue stirs up a lot of feelings, says the Rev. Ginger Foster, pastor of Mariposa United Methodist Church. The town had to have some hard conversations about how to handle this new reality. But Foster doesn’t buy the idea that Walter Brooks was the only homeless person before the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure we’ve had homelessness all the way back to the Gold Rush,” she says. Especially in a rural, forested area where people can camp out for months undetected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa United Methodist opens its doors five nights a week for those who need dinner and a place to sleep. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church down the street handles the other two nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very stringent rules,” says the Rev. Steve Bulfer. “No drugs, no drinking. We’re doing what we can, but it’s not the long-term answer and we know it.” For one, it’s a drain on his small church community, where most of the members are geriatric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the shelter has caused a little controversy. Both Foster and Bulfer have been told their efforts are attracting homeless people to Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean people have actually said to me, ‘Because you have this program, people come here.’ And that’s a little true but hello, we’ve got a huge magnet in our county. It’s called Yosemite National Park. People come for seasonal employment. They come just to sightsee, you know, with their thumb,” Foster says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instability of seasonal work is just one factor, Foster says. There are other issues: mental health, substance abuse, lack of transportation. And decent affordable housing in Mariposa is almost impossible to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every person that’s sitting in this room right now, there’s a different combination of things that brought them to this point,” Foster says one night at mealtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006773 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Ginger Foster (left) appreciates the help she gets from shelter volunteer Linda Campbell. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Linda Campbell says she came to Mariposa after working in Yosemite. She had a job here until she lost her 17-year-old son -- and not long after, her sobriety. Grief and alcohol ran her life. But she stopped drinking five years ago and is now working on her GED. She says church leaders and the many local volunteers who bring in dinner almost every night have been life savers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t put us down,” Campbell says. “And this is hope for us. We see people on a daily basis that say, ‘Hey, how are you doing today? What can I pray with you about today?’ And it encourages us a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County Supervisor Marshall Long says there have always been homeless people in Mariposa County. “My family moved here in 1951, and there were homeless people living on our ranch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there still are. Long pays them to cut firewood. “It helps to clear the land, and they make a little extra money,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long says people aren’t taking care of each other like they used to, and they’re relying on the government to do that job. “I hope there are more people like me who take these folks and actually give them something to do because they want to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Blair Chenoweth. He was homeless for a year and a half, living in his car. He says he came to Mariposa to be near his kids, who live here with his ex-wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was kind of the person who said, ‘OK look, I’m homeless. I’m here, I’m looking for a job.’ So I sort of called people out on that thing about like the homeless never want to get a job, the homeless never want to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church where he now volunteers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church, where he now volunteers. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chenoweth found a job at a local nonprofit. He got some encouragement from Chevon Kothari. She’s the county’s director for Human Services. Kothari says helping people in a smaller town is sometimes easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of look at Mariposa sometimes like a Petri dish,” she says. “We can actually visibly see the results of our work, and I think that keeps us all motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people are motivated to help. County leaders have worked hard to come up with a plan to help the estimated 40 homeless people in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kothari points to a local park and says many of them used to gather here. Then county organizations pooled their resources and created a wellness center away from the business district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place where people could gather during the day, connect with services they may need, have a hot meal in the winter and lunch in the summer,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the county has housed 13 people who were homeless, including Walter Brooks. But his story has been a little more complicated. His landlord asked him to leave because he and his friends were too loud. The county recently found him another place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might make some business owners happy, but he says he’d rather live the way he always has: hanging out downtown where things are happening and finding a warm porch to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006777\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006777 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg\" alt=\"mariposa-6\" width=\"800\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-400x575.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-1180x1697.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-960x1381.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Brooks now has a place to live, but for a long time, he was considered Mariposa's one homeless person. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even his caseworker, Bobbi DePuertis, is conflicted. 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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. transportation authorities are investigating the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/30/484258419/nhtsa-will-look-at-tesla-s-autopilot-mode-after-deadly-car-crash\">deadly collision\u003c/a> of a Tesla Model S car. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/self-driving-tesla-fatal-crash-investigation.html?_r=0\">many reports\u003c/a> say the fatal crash has heightened concern about self-driving cars. Which may be true. Except — Model S isn't a self-driving car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's Sonari Glinton \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/07/01/484284728/after-deadly-crash-safety-officials-will-examine-teslas-autopilot-mode\" target=\"_blank\">points out\u003c/a>, what Tesla's Model S has are self-driving \u003cem>features\u003c/em>, autonomous elements meant to assist drivers rather than replace them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtually all major car and tech companies are pursuing self-driving technology as the future of transportation. But Tesla and Google are the earliest innovators, taking very different approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Elon Musk's approach with Tesla is to roll out Autopilot (a sort of highly advanced cruise control) and other autonomous features like self-parking with software updates over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss\" target=\"_blank\">underscored\u003c/a> this week in response to the deadly crash, Tesla drivers are required to explicitly acknowledge \"that the system is new technology and still in a public beta phase.\" In other words, Tesla's drivers are the beta testers of self-driving technology and assume the risk associated with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is from \u003ca href=\"https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla's blog\u003c/a> in response to the fatal crash:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Autopilot is getting better all the time, but it is not perfect and still requires the driver to remain alert. Nonetheless, when used in conjunction with driver oversight, the data is unequivocal that Autopilot reduces driver workload and results in a statistically significant improvement in safety when compared to purely manual driving.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Google instead is focusing on creating a fully autonomous car, all at once, and isn't selling any of them. That means it's lagging behind Tesla on driven miles, but they don't involve regular drivers. 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Several \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2016/05/26/tesla-autopilot-crash/\" target=\"_blank\">have blamed\u003c/a> the company for accidents that did occur, including 1) \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/model-s-on-autopilot-crashes-into-other-car-proving-yet-again-tesla-owners-arent-paying-close-enough/\" target=\"_blank\">this one in Europe\u003c/a>, 2) \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/another-driver-says-teslas-autopilot-failed-to-brake-tesla-says-otherwise/\" target=\"_blank\">this one in California\u003c/a> and 3) \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/11/11658226/tesla-model-s-summon-autopilot-crash-letter\" target=\"_blank\">this one in Utah\u003c/a> — in which the Tesla crashed without the driver inside while the car was self-parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, after reviewing vehicle logs, has attributed those accidents to human error, saying the drivers 1) were inattentive, 2) disabled the automation and 3) misused the Summon feature and didn't heed the vehicle's warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's fully self-driving cars, which mostly ride in city environments as opposed to highways, have so far caused one crash. 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And we do have good programs that are helping people get out of homelessness much more quickly,” she says. “We just don’t have enough of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León started thinking about the bill last fall after taking a tour of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Counties already provide various services to the homeless. But de León says having a home is key to helping a person get stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just cannot provide psychotherapeutic services or substance abuse therapeutic services and expect them to go back and live in a cardboard box in an alley or adjacent to an off-ramp,” he says. “It’s nonsensical. It’s illogical. And you’re wasting money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and studies homelessness. She says housing-first approaches have been extremely successful. She acknowledges the strategy is initially expensive, but says it’s a good investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately it costs taxpayers more money to leave people on the streets,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch does foresee some challenges, specifically where the housing will be built. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area city of Vallejo has been searching for an economic stimulus since 1996, when the city's U.S. Navy base closed. Vallejo lost tens of thousands of jobs and eventually went bankrupt during the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a new electric car company called Faraday Future is taking steps to set up a factory in Vallejo. Residents are hopeful, but wary. Faraday is the latest in a line of companies that have shown up promising urban renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/270035169\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrea Ouse, Vallejo's community and economic development director, showed me around the old Navy base across from the city on \u003ca href=\"http://discovermareisland.com/\">Mare Island\u003c/a>. The Navy set up shop here in the 1850s, about a decade before the Civil War. Now the brick buildings are abandoned and boarded-up. Ouse says part of the island looks like the post-apocalyptic movie \"Mad Max.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it's not that bleak here. Ouse says a company like Faraday could breathe life back into this part of the old base. Faraday signed an agreement that gives it six months to assess if a 157-acre parcel here is fit for a factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faraday is not the first suitor for Mare Island. Ouse says eight organizations have come in recent years. Not all of them had good intentions, according to Marc Garman, who runs the local blog \u003ca href=\"https://vibvallejo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo Independent Bulletin\u003c/a>. \"We've seen our share of hucksters come through town,\" Garman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10995979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10995979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NavyBuildings.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Navy first built a base on Mare Island in the 1850s. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve got kids, or are expecting one, you’ve probably been warned a million times: Child care is expensive. But just how expensive is it here in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenscouncil.org/families/find-child-care/child-care-costs/\">$1,800 a month\u003c/a> and up for an infant, according to Kim Kruckel with the \u003ca href=\"http://childcarelaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Child Care Law Center\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price might come down a bit once your kid is walking or out of diapers, but not by much. It means that monthly expense is more than rent or a mortgage payment for most people. So why does child care cost so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268329570\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Mackey, who’s spent the last 14 years turning the ground floor of her West Oakland house into a well-respected child care center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyparentsnetwork.org/recommend/preschool/lilnancy\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nancy's Primary Schoolhouse\u003c/a>, says building her business hasn’t come cheap. Walking through colorful rooms filled with small children, Mackey points out a children's kitchen set that cost $300 and small tables that cost $200 apiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest costs for Mackey is labor. For the 12 kids enrolled at Miss Nancy's, as it's known, she has three assistants every day in order to comply with \u003ca href=\"http://www.daycare.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">state-mandated staffing ratios\u003c/a>. And she has to pay her employees at least\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/d/MinimumWage/index.htm\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$12.55 an hour\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because of a minimum wage increase that Oakland\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Oakland_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Initiative,_Measure_FF_(November_2014)\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voters approved in 2014\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978154\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978154 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Nancy Mackey, better known as \"Miss Nancy", operates a Child Care facility out of her her Oakland home.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Mackey, better known as 'Miss Nancy,' operates a child care facility out of her Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My staff deserves to get paid well. I pay them the best I can,\" says Mackey, who supported the ballot initiative. \"... And I pay them based upon how the parents are able to pay us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But passing that increase on to parents made for a tough discussion. Mackey called a meeting with parents after the minimum wage went into effect to talk about how daily rates would increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was gonna be kind of sudden,” said Erin McNerney, whose 2-year-old daughter comes to Mackey's home every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not something I thought about at all when we voted for the minimum wage in Oakland,” McNerney added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Business Owners Want a Cost of Living Adjustment, Too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those rising labor costs also mean that as a business owner, Mackey takes home less herself. So she and others like her are trying to ride the momentum of the \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for 15\u003c/a>, the movement for a $15 minimum wage. After spending the last couple of years supporting a wage increase for their employees, they don’t want to be left behind, and are advocating for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katina Richardson, who runs a day care center out of her home in Hayward, was one of a group of early childhood educators marching through downtown Oakland in April, calling for increased state child care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re setting us up for failure and we need more,\" said Richardson, who routinely works 12-hour days and estimates she ends up with less than $6 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have benefits. We don’t have retirement set up. At the end of the day, I’m working every day not knowing if I’ll ever be able to retire,” Richardson added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978155\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978155 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Child Care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a \"Fight for 15\" demonstration on April 14, 2016.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a 'Fight for 15' demonstration on April 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of Richardson’s families receive state subsidies to help pay for child care, but the state doesn’t pay much -- providers may end up receiving\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/ece/documents/Welsh-Loveman_APA_5202015.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">as little as $4 or $5 an hour per child\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And as the minimum wage has been rising, that subsidy rate hasn’t gone up with it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there’s a huge waiting list for those benefits — advocates say an estimated 300,000 people at last count. There are no official numbers, because in 2011 the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cabinetreport.com/budget-finance/no-money-for-accurate-count-of-childcare-needs\" target=\"_blank\">state eliminated funding to track the waiting list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Harlan, who lives in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood with her four children, says she's been on the waiting list for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My children never got child care. My parents actually helped me keep my children while me and my husband went to work,\" said Harlan. If her parents weren't around, Harlan says the family would probably move to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson says the \u003ca href=\"http://womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2016-02-11-lwc-releases-2016-budget-and-policy-priorities\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Women’s Caucus requested $800 million\u003c/a> from this year’s budget for early child care and education. They want the money to pay, in part, for an increase to reimbursement rates, and to move thousands of children off the waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole child care system in California has never been properly funded. Never,” said Jackson. “This is probably the most universally agreed to priority within the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/governor-offers-a-new-approach-but-no-new-funding-for-early-childhood-education/93034\" target=\"_blank\">it’s not on his list of priorities\u003c/a>. 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And she has to pay her employees at least\u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/government/o/CityAdministration/d/MinimumWage/index.htm\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$12.55 an hour\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because of a minimum wage increase that Oakland\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Oakland_Minimum_Wage_Increase_Initiative,_Measure_FF_(November_2014)\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voters approved in 2014\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978154\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978154 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Nancy Mackey, better known as \"Miss Nancy", operates a Child Care facility out of her her Oakland home.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19703_Nancy-Mackey-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Mackey, better known as 'Miss Nancy,' operates a child care facility out of her Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My staff deserves to get paid well. I pay them the best I can,\" says Mackey, who supported the ballot initiative. \"... And I pay them based upon how the parents are able to pay us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But passing that increase on to parents made for a tough discussion. Mackey called a meeting with parents after the minimum wage went into effect to talk about how daily rates would increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was gonna be kind of sudden,” said Erin McNerney, whose 2-year-old daughter comes to Mackey's home every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not something I thought about at all when we voted for the minimum wage in Oakland,” McNerney added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Business Owners Want a Cost of Living Adjustment, Too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those rising labor costs also mean that as a business owner, Mackey takes home less herself. So she and others like her are trying to ride the momentum of the \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight for 15\u003c/a>, the movement for a $15 minimum wage. After spending the last couple of years supporting a wage increase for their employees, they don’t want to be left behind, and are advocating for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katina Richardson, who runs a day care center out of her home in Hayward, was one of a group of early childhood educators marching through downtown Oakland in April, calling for increased state child care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re setting us up for failure and we need more,\" said Richardson, who routinely works 12-hour days and estimates she ends up with less than $6 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have benefits. We don’t have retirement set up. At the end of the day, I’m working every day not knowing if I’ll ever be able to retire,” Richardson added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10978155\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10978155 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt='Child Care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a \"Fight for 15\" demonstration on April 14, 2016.' width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19713_workers-and-kids-marching-qut-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child care workers and their supporters march through downtown Oakland as part of a 'Fight for 15' demonstration on April 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of Richardson’s families receive state subsidies to help pay for child care, but the state doesn’t pay much -- providers may end up receiving\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/ece/documents/Welsh-Loveman_APA_5202015.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">as little as $4 or $5 an hour per child\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And as the minimum wage has been rising, that subsidy rate hasn’t gone up with it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there’s a huge waiting list for those benefits — advocates say an estimated 300,000 people at last count. There are no official numbers, because in 2011 the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cabinetreport.com/budget-finance/no-money-for-accurate-count-of-childcare-needs\" target=\"_blank\">state eliminated funding to track the waiting list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Harlan, who lives in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood with her four children, says she's been on the waiting list for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My children never got child care. My parents actually helped me keep my children while me and my husband went to work,\" said Harlan. If her parents weren't around, Harlan says the family would probably move to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson says the \u003ca href=\"http://womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2016-02-11-lwc-releases-2016-budget-and-policy-priorities\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Women’s Caucus requested $800 million\u003c/a> from this year’s budget for early child care and education. They want the money to pay, in part, for an increase to reimbursement rates, and to move thousands of children off the waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole child care system in California has never been properly funded. Never,” said Jackson. “This is probably the most universally agreed to priority within the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Gov. Jerry Brown has indicated \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/2016/governor-offers-a-new-approach-but-no-new-funding-for-early-childhood-education/93034\" target=\"_blank\">it’s not on his list of priorities\u003c/a>. Lawmakers are negotiating with the governor over how much, if any, will be included in the final budget, which must be passed by June 15. Jackson admits that whatever they get would only be a drop in the bucket. It would take billions to provide affordable child care to everyone in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the minimum wage across the state continue to rise.\u003ca href=\"http://www.aghwlaw.com/bay-area-minimum-wages-on-the-rise-2016-increases-to-california-and-local-minimum-wages/\"> On July 1, it will hit $13 an hour in San Francisco and Emeryville\u003c/a>. California’s minimum wage is scheduled to rise every year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-minimum-wage-deal-20160326-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">and reach $15 an hour in 2022.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gail Anderson is driving around her Richmond neighborhood, checking out all the best spots -- for potholes. She says they’re actually not very hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"See these cracks in here. ... A whole line just tore up. ... They go anywhere from 2 to 3 inches deep,\" Anderson explains, as she swerves to stay on flat ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is frustrated about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/29481\" target=\"_blank\">state of the streets\u003c/a>, but she’s even more upset about the mattresses, furniture and other trash piled up on the sidewalks, and a tree branch that fell on her house last year -- she’s afraid the whole tree will fall soon. On all of these issues, the city has not given this life-long Richmond resident the help she thinks citizens deserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not taking care of the citizens of this city. The graffiti, the holes in the road, the dumping which is just outrageous. It just makes the city look unclean, “ says Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969635\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10969635 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gail Anderson and a pothole in front of her house.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Anderson-and-pothole-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gail Anderson and a pothole in front of her house. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is embarrassing to me that we can’t keep our city together. They call it a city of pride and purpose, but it’s pathetic and pitiful to me,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Richmond’s crime rate has significantly improved in the last few years, it’s not necessarily sharing in the Bay Area's economic boom. New businesses have been slow to invest, and wealthy newcomers have been gravitating toward other East Bay cities, like Berkeley and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Richmond came up with a potential new revenue source: a half-cent sales tax called \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/City_of_Richmond_Sales_Tax,_Measure_U_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\">Measure U\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2014/e-forum%20template%202014_clip_image038_0004.jpg\">informational mailers paid for by the city\u003c/a>, Measure U was promoted as a way to help fund improvements to roads, as well as public safety and youth programs. However, Mayor Tom Butt says it didn’t quite turn out as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Measure U was actually born with the idea that it would provide additional revenue, some of which could be \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2014/14-11-01a.html\" target=\"_blank\">used for streets\u003c/a>. And as it developed, we came to realize that it probably wasn’t all gonna be used for streets,” Butt explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the money raised through the tax \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_28339604/richmond-looks-use-road-fund-money-balance-budget\" target=\"_blank\">has gone straight into the city’s general fund\u003c/a>. The way the initiative was worded, that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/cc/meas/U/\" target=\"_blank\">completely within the law\u003c/a>. But Jack Weir, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwij14nS_frMAhVK8GMKHd5uCRkQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cocotax.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNGGQqH9_gKkK9MM5C67mkd_66uILg&sig2=IQaNa4veVMV7BfalWXX2TA\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, \u003c/a>said it’s a bad way to run city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole controversy about Measure U. It's not just about that they didn’t use the money the way they said,\" said Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 774px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10969638 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg\" alt=\"An 2014 election season mailer, touting how measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city servives.\" width=\"774\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg 774w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best-400x472.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2014 election season mailer, touting how Measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city services.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the roads aren’t properly maintained over time, taxpayers wind up having to pay way more to keep the infrastructure capable of fulfilling its expected useful life. And that’s bad management, both from a policy perspective and from a fiscal perspective,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/04/31289/\" target=\"_blank\">in a tough place\u003c/a>. It's been facing budget deficits for years. Last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Richmond-CA-issuer-rating-to-Baa1-from-A1--PR_325368\" target=\"_blank\">Moody’s downgraded Richmond’s bond rating\u003c/a>, and the California State Controller’s Office \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_29188200/richmond-list-california-cities-rated-at-high-risk?source=infinite-up\" target=\"_blank\">briefly opened an investigation into the city’s finances\u003c/a>. To try and keep its financial reputation afloat, the city's 2016-17 draft budget again routes all the Measure U revenue, almost $8 million, into the city’s general fund. Nothing is earmarked for streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay admits no one is tracking how the Measure U money is being spent, but says, \"The Measure U story really isn't done yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay says population growth should lead to more sales tax revenue in the next few years, which could free up the City Council to fund things that the Measure U campaign promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two, three years, four years down the road, looking back, I expect our pavement condition index is going to be better, and my hope is that the voters feel like it was a good investment,” said Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, there may be more new taxes coming soon. \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/01/richmond-mayor-to-pursue-taxes-and-fees-on-soda-litter-marijuana/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Butt is pursuing a hike in the city's real estate transfer tax and a “litter” fee on cigarettes\u003c/a>, to appear on the November ballot. Both of those pots of money, he says, would go to the general fund as well.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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However, Mayor Tom Butt says it didn’t quite turn out as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Measure U was actually born with the idea that it would provide additional revenue, some of which could be \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2014/14-11-01a.html\" target=\"_blank\">used for streets\u003c/a>. And as it developed, we came to realize that it probably wasn’t all gonna be used for streets,” Butt explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the money raised through the tax \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_28339604/richmond-looks-use-road-fund-money-balance-budget\" target=\"_blank\">has gone straight into the city’s general fund\u003c/a>. The way the initiative was worded, that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2014/11/04/ca/cc/meas/U/\" target=\"_blank\">completely within the law\u003c/a>. But Jack Weir, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwij14nS_frMAhVK8GMKHd5uCRkQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cocotax.org%2F&usg=AFQjCNGGQqH9_gKkK9MM5C67mkd_66uILg&sig2=IQaNa4veVMV7BfalWXX2TA\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, \u003c/a>said it’s a bad way to run city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole controversy about Measure U. It's not just about that they didn’t use the money the way they said,\" said Weir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 774px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10969638 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg\" alt=\"An 2014 election season mailer, touting how measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city servives.\" width=\"774\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best.jpg 774w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/measure-u-flyer-best-400x472.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2014 election season mailer, touting how Measure U would improve Richmond's streets and other city services.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the roads aren’t properly maintained over time, taxpayers wind up having to pay way more to keep the infrastructure capable of fulfilling its expected useful life. And that’s bad management, both from a policy perspective and from a fiscal perspective,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2016/04/31289/\" target=\"_blank\">in a tough place\u003c/a>. It's been facing budget deficits for years. Last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Richmond-CA-issuer-rating-to-Baa1-from-A1--PR_325368\" target=\"_blank\">Moody’s downgraded Richmond’s bond rating\u003c/a>, and the California State Controller’s Office \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_29188200/richmond-list-california-cities-rated-at-high-risk?source=infinite-up\" target=\"_blank\">briefly opened an investigation into the city’s finances\u003c/a>. To try and keep its financial reputation afloat, the city's 2016-17 draft budget again routes all the Measure U revenue, almost $8 million, into the city’s general fund. 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