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"disqusTitle": "'We Need the Food That We Lost.' Low-Income Families Still Reeling From Blackouts",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric turned off power to Ana Patricia Rios’ neighborhood in Sonoma County for eight days in October, three at the beginning of the month and five near the end. The mother of three young boys watched twice as nearly all of the food in her refrigerator spoiled. She threw out at least $500 worth of meat, fruit, vegetables, salsas and other food that would have supplied her family with months of meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big impact because we need the food that we lost,” Rios said in Spanish, two days after the lights finally came back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11784017']Similar losses occurred throughout Rios’ wooded, hilly neighborhood, which is mostly home to Hispanic families. Many are vineyard and hospitality workers, and sometimes several families share a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, last weekend, Rios received a PG&E alert that her family might be plunged into the dark once again this week. She decided to cook the one package of meat in her freezer, which is now mostly empty to avoid another colossal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the electricity doesn’t arrive,” she said, “the bills do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters1-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788117\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1200x817.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios picked up food and volunteered at a food distribution at her children’s school in Sonoma County after she lost at least $500 of food during the outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across California, low-income households like the Rios family faced hunger and financial crisis as the food in their refrigerators spoiled during October’s unprecedented, deliberate blackouts. Utility companies shut down the power in certain fire-prone communities during windy, dry conditions to reduce the risk of an electric line sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inconvenience for many, losing hundreds of dollars of food was an economic disaster for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many of the areas that lost power, such as parts of Marin County and the Napa Valley, tend to be wealthier than the rest of the state, tens of thousands of the affected households live on extremely tight budgets, according to a CalMatters analysis of census tracts touched by PG&E’s power outage that began on Oct. 26 and in some cases lasted through Oct. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters’ analysis found that one in 10 residents and one in eight children in the affected census tracts live below the federal poverty level, which is $25,750 of annual income for a family of four. The estimates are based on PG&E’s maps of the approximate areas affected by the shutoffs and averaged data from the 2013 through 2017 annual American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='power-shutoffs' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10102019_pge_power-shutoffs_bay-area_sonoma-qut-1020x680.jpg' label='The Power Shutoffs']Several very poor communities lost power. In some of the sections of Vallejo, San Pablo, Berkeley, San Rafael, Santa Cruz, Clearlake, Redding, Arcata and Sonora where the lights went out, more than a third of the people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, people who were unable to replace their spoiled food faced immediate hunger. Many relied on local food banks, some of which lost their own power and had to throw out their food. Some schools had to shut down, so families like the Rioses had to feed children who usually eat free and reduced-price school meals. And many scrambled to pull together the November rent while also refilling their fridges. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-11/pge-power-outage-darkness-stress-debt-vulnerable?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">elderly\u003c/a>, ill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-25/problems-disabled-help-power-outages?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">disabled\u003c/a> struggled the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shutoffs not only taxed our network but deepened hunger among those already food insecure,” Andrew Cheyne, director of government affairs at the California Association of Food Banks, said in a state Senate committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/calendar?startdate=11-18-2019&enddate=11-18-2019\">hearing\u003c/a> on Monday. “We cannot be there for everyone in need, and Californians are not refilling those refrigerators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of hunger triggered by outages continues. On Wednesday morning, PG&E shut off power to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191120_nov_20_psps_update_improved_weather_conditions_reduce_scope_of_psps_event_power_turned_off_for_safety_to_a_total_of_approximately_50000_customers_in_11_counties\">50,000 customers\u003c/a> in 11 Northern California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poverty level of areas affected by PG&E’s Oct. 26 planned blackouts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View larger map\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will families be reimbursed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios was one of more than 2.7 million Californians who lost power during October’s deliberate power outages. PG&E was responsible for most, while Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) each blacked out tens of thousands of customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 480,000 people, including 120,000 children and 81,000 seniors, live in poverty in the affected census tracts. However, that’s an overestimate of the number of poor people who actually lost power, given that many census tracts reach far beyond shutoff zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfire risk persists, how utility companies will protect low-income customers from hunger and financial crisis is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='left' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom']'We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs.'[/pullquote] Gov. Gavin Newsom called the planned outages “unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs,” Newsom told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowing to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-demands-pge-accountability-for-mismanaged-public-safety-power-shutoffs/\">demand\u003c/a> from Newsom, PG&E agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\">provide a one-time rebate\u003c/a> of $100 for households and $250 for businesses affected by the first wave of outages that begin Oct. 9, plunging roughly 738,000 customers into darkness with limited notice and bungled communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But will it meet the losses? In many cases it will not,” Newsom told CalMatters. “And that’s why it’s still inadequate. It was the least they could do under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378\">bill\u003c/a> that would require utilities to reimburse customers for the costs they accrued during planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1920x1321.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson answers questions before the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, along with the warning about this week’s planned shutoff, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191117_pge_monitoring_a_mid-week_potentially_strong_offshore_wind_event\">announced\u003c/a> it would donate $2 million to nonprofits that provide food, water, shelter and other services to “low-income children and families, communities of color, seniors, and tribal members” during disasters and planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most vulnerable among us, those who depend on life-sustaining medical equipment or cannot afford to replace lost food, losing power for an extended period can come with considerable fear and safety risks,” said PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson in prepared remarks at Monday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to narrow the scope and duration of future safety shutoffs and minimizing their customer impact as much as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Families struggle to find food\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two days after the lights came back on, Rios’ family spent Día de Los Muertos — the day after Halloween and her son’s 12th birthday — volunteering at a food distribution at her children’s school in El Verano, an unincorporated community in Sonoma County. They hadn’t celebrated anything yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the kids, no, right now buying a costume is not a necessity. It’s first being able to buy food,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Rios’ job coordinating adult-ed classes and her husband’s job as a gardener, they usually bring in about $3,500 each month. That means they earn $1,000 above the federal poverty level for a family of five. Nevertheless, Rios said it’s a struggle to pull together the money for rent — which consumes nearly half of their income — and for food and monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='left' citation='Maite Iturri, El Verano Elementary School principal']'The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, 'Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend.' These people aren’t going to Tahoe.'[/pullquote]Plus, Rios had missed eight days of work due to the outages. Her husband lost four days of work because of the smoke from the Kincade Fire 40 miles north, which may have been \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/kincade-fire-origin/\">sparked by PG&E equipment\u003c/a>, despite the planned outages. Rios has relied heavily on food bank distributions to feed her family since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day at the El Verano Elementary School, nearly 250 families lined up to replace the food they had lost, filling boxes with potatoes, onions, milk, cheese, eggs and bread trucked in by the Redwood Empire Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve lost all of the foods in their homes because our families can’t afford to buy generators to keep their refrigerators running all night,” said Maite Iturri, the school’s principal. “You end up with some pretty serious situations that are hard for people to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iturri said that 86% of students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at the school, but the meals were not available during the outages because the school was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, ‘Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend,’” Iturri said. “These people aren’t going to Tahoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788122\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families whose food spoiled during the outages pick up fresh produce from a food bank distribution at El Verano Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Sonoma’s reputation as a luxe destination for well-to-do wine lovers, nearly one in three county residents, or about 60,000 households, couldn’t afford three healthy meals a day last year, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about 16,000 households receive food stamps. That means Sonoma County’s main tool for fighting hunger caused by the outages — providing replacement benefits to families on food stamps who had to throw away food — only goes so far. Over 3,000 county residents have claimed replacement food stamps to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 49,000 households received an automatic replacement of food stamp benefits after PG&E’s Oct. 9 outage, amounting to $5,730,774\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>Counties are continuing to accept requests for replacement food stamp benefits from households affected by later outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Chavez, Sonoma County assistant director of human services, lost everything in his own refrigerator during the outages. His wife and four sons drove five hours south to stay with family in Bakersfield, while he stayed to work the county evacuation shelters for the Kincade Fire. He bought most of his meals at restaurants and invested in a generator to keep warm at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows that many Sonoma families couldn’t afford those surprise expenses. Chavez said he was particularly worried about undocumented families, who often don’t qualify for or are reluctant to access safety net benefits and disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is perhaps a new reality for us, the potential of power shutoffs with greater frequency, so I think we’ll want to really think about how we can provide additional safeguards or supports for vulnerable populations,” Chavez said. “We have a lot to learn. This is new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food banks hit hard, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In response to the strains of the outages and other emergencies, the California Association of Food Banks has requested a one-time state investment of $32 million to fund backup power and emergency supply for food banks, said Cheyne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood Empire Food Bank distributed about 300,000 pounds of food to 25,000 people affected by the fire and outages across Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties as of Nov. 8. The San Diego Food Bank distributed $50,000 in cash cards to affected families. In Shasta County, the food bank saw a 34% spike in food demand in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, the Food for People food bank lost power twice last month for a total of four days, said Executive Director Anne Holcomb.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It serves about 10% of the roughly 136,000 residents of Humboldt County, where one in five people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With almost no advance notice before the first 24-hour outage on Oct. 9, the food bank was able to load most perishables into refrigerated trucks, but had to throw out 60 pounds of meat and nearly 3,000 eggs, Holcomb said. That first round of outages, though shorter, led to the largest losses, because many of the county’s poorest residents had just done a big food shop after receiving their food stamps or Social Security checks on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11779299']“Particularly if you’re already living close to the edge financially, if you just bought $30 or $40 worth of groceries and it goes bad, that’s a significant loss,” Holcomb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether utilities violated regulations by failing to properly notify customers of the outages is the focus of an \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M319/K527/319527577.PDF\">investigation that the California Public Utilities Commission opened last week. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one way (the utilities) can prevent food loss is letting customers know in advance,” said Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves. “It’s clear that there’s been an impact here that could have been reduced from my perspective if there had been proper noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eating the food during the outages could make people sick because bacteria can build up without refrigeration. During an outage, most food will stay cold for no more than four hours in a refrigerator and two days in a freezer, according to federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/d3506874-2867-4190-a941-d511d3fcae71/Keep_Your_Food_Safe_During_Emergencies.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s very hard for people to have to sacrifice all this food,” said Linda Harris, a food microbiologist at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of eating spoiled food include vomiting and diarrhea. “If you think that there’s a risk, then throwing it away is the safest thing to do,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the next blackout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios said she changed the way she shops. “I learned to no longer buy in volume.” It’s more expensive to shop every few days, especially because she generally drives about an hour to find the best prices. But her family can’t afford to empty out a full freezer again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788124\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1200x913.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1920x1461.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios puts away folding tables after volunteering at a food distribution for families like hers that were affected by the power outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having lived through the terror-filled evacuations of the North Bay fires two years earlier, she understands why utilities cut power to prevent wildfire. But she doubts whether PG&E had taken into account how families are affected and whether the shutoffs actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think if it’s for your safety, to prevent a bigger disaster, that’s good,” said Rios. “At the same time, it doesn’t make sense because we see that the accidents keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric turned off power to Ana Patricia Rios’ neighborhood in Sonoma County for eight days in October, three at the beginning of the month and five near the end. The mother of three young boys watched twice as nearly all of the food in her refrigerator spoiled. She threw out at least $500 worth of meat, fruit, vegetables, salsas and other food that would have supplied her family with months of meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big impact because we need the food that we lost,” Rios said in Spanish, two days after the lights finally came back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Similar losses occurred throughout Rios’ wooded, hilly neighborhood, which is mostly home to Hispanic families. Many are vineyard and hospitality workers, and sometimes several families share a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, last weekend, Rios received a PG&E alert that her family might be plunged into the dark once again this week. She decided to cook the one package of meat in her freezer, which is now mostly empty to avoid another colossal loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the electricity doesn’t arrive,” she said, “the bills do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters1-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788117\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1200x817.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters1-1920x1307.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios picked up food and volunteered at a food distribution at her children’s school in Sonoma County after she lost at least $500 of food during the outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across California, low-income households like the Rios family faced hunger and financial crisis as the food in their refrigerators spoiled during October’s unprecedented, deliberate blackouts. Utility companies shut down the power in certain fire-prone communities during windy, dry conditions to reduce the risk of an electric line sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inconvenience for many, losing hundreds of dollars of food was an economic disaster for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many of the areas that lost power, such as parts of Marin County and the Napa Valley, tend to be wealthier than the rest of the state, tens of thousands of the affected households live on extremely tight budgets, according to a CalMatters analysis of census tracts touched by PG&E’s power outage that began on Oct. 26 and in some cases lasted through Oct. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters’ analysis found that one in 10 residents and one in eight children in the affected census tracts live below the federal poverty level, which is $25,750 of annual income for a family of four. The estimates are based on PG&E’s maps of the approximate areas affected by the shutoffs and averaged data from the 2013 through 2017 annual American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Several very poor communities lost power. In some of the sections of Vallejo, San Pablo, Berkeley, San Rafael, Santa Cruz, Clearlake, Redding, Arcata and Sonora where the lights went out, more than a third of the people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, people who were unable to replace their spoiled food faced immediate hunger. Many relied on local food banks, some of which lost their own power and had to throw out their food. Some schools had to shut down, so families like the Rioses had to feed children who usually eat free and reduced-price school meals. And many scrambled to pull together the November rent while also refilling their fridges. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-11/pge-power-outage-darkness-stress-debt-vulnerable?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">elderly\u003c/a>, ill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-25/problems-disabled-help-power-outages?utm_source=Essential+California&utm_campaign=22d095aee4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6e35f7f85b-22d095aee4-84307433\">disabled\u003c/a> struggled the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shutoffs not only taxed our network but deepened hunger among those already food insecure,” Andrew Cheyne, director of government affairs at the California Association of Food Banks, said in a state Senate committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/calendar?startdate=11-18-2019&enddate=11-18-2019\">hearing\u003c/a> on Monday. “We cannot be there for everyone in need, and Californians are not refilling those refrigerators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of hunger triggered by outages continues. On Wednesday morning, PG&E shut off power to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191120_nov_20_psps_update_improved_weather_conditions_reduce_scope_of_psps_event_power_turned_off_for_safety_to_a_total_of_approximately_50000_customers_in_11_counties\">50,000 customers\u003c/a> in 11 Northern California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poverty level of areas affected by PG&E’s Oct. 26 planned blackouts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://mediaprogram.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=cf4649f10fc3486290e45c55bd7264da&extent=-128.6245,32.4662,-112.7932,42.0028&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&details=true&basemap_gallery=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View larger map\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Will families be reimbursed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios was one of more than 2.7 million Californians who lost power during October’s deliberate power outages. PG&E was responsible for most, while Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) each blacked out tens of thousands of customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 480,000 people, including 120,000 children and 81,000 seniors, live in poverty in the affected census tracts. However, that’s an overestimate of the number of poor people who actually lost power, given that many census tracts reach far beyond shutoff zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfire risk persists, how utility companies will protect low-income customers from hunger and financial crisis is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Gov. Gavin Newsom called the planned outages “unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to incur the economic losses, the potential health and human costs associated with these power shutoffs,” Newsom told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowing to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-demands-pge-accountability-for-mismanaged-public-safety-power-shutoffs/\">demand\u003c/a> from Newsom, PG&E agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\">provide a one-time rebate\u003c/a> of $100 for households and $250 for businesses affected by the first wave of outages that begin Oct. 9, plunging roughly 738,000 customers into darkness with limited notice and bungled communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But will it meet the losses? In many cases it will not,” Newsom told CalMatters. “And that’s why it’s still inadequate. It was the least they could do under the circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB378\">bill\u003c/a> that would require utilities to reimburse customers for the costs they accrued during planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3-1920x1321.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson answers questions before the California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, along with the warning about this week’s planned shutoff, PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191117_pge_monitoring_a_mid-week_potentially_strong_offshore_wind_event\">announced\u003c/a> it would donate $2 million to nonprofits that provide food, water, shelter and other services to “low-income children and families, communities of color, seniors, and tribal members” during disasters and planned outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most vulnerable among us, those who depend on life-sustaining medical equipment or cannot afford to replace lost food, losing power for an extended period can come with considerable fear and safety risks,” said PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson in prepared remarks at Monday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working to narrow the scope and duration of future safety shutoffs and minimizing their customer impact as much as possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Families struggle to find food\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two days after the lights came back on, Rios’ family spent Día de Los Muertos — the day after Halloween and her son’s 12th birthday — volunteering at a food distribution at her children’s school in El Verano, an unincorporated community in Sonoma County. They hadn’t celebrated anything yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the kids, no, right now buying a costume is not a necessity. It’s first being able to buy food,” Rios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Rios’ job coordinating adult-ed classes and her husband’s job as a gardener, they usually bring in about $3,500 each month. That means they earn $1,000 above the federal poverty level for a family of five. Nevertheless, Rios said it’s a struggle to pull together the money for rent — which consumes nearly half of their income — and for food and monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Plus, Rios had missed eight days of work due to the outages. Her husband lost four days of work because of the smoke from the Kincade Fire 40 miles north, which may have been \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/kincade-fire-origin/\">sparked by PG&E equipment\u003c/a>, despite the planned outages. Rios has relied heavily on food bank distributions to feed her family since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day at the El Verano Elementary School, nearly 250 families lined up to replace the food they had lost, filling boxes with potatoes, onions, milk, cheese, eggs and bread trucked in by the Redwood Empire Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve lost all of the foods in their homes because our families can’t afford to buy generators to keep their refrigerators running all night,” said Maite Iturri, the school’s principal. “You end up with some pretty serious situations that are hard for people to recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iturri said that 86% of students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at the school, but the meals were not available during the outages because the school was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact it has with people who are disenfranchised or marginalized to begin with is much greater than (for) families who are like, ‘Oh OK, well I’m going to go to Tahoe for the weekend,’” Iturri said. “These people aren’t going to Tahoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788122\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788122\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families whose food spoiled during the outages pick up fresh produce from a food bank distribution at El Verano Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite Sonoma’s reputation as a luxe destination for well-to-do wine lovers, nearly one in three county residents, or about 60,000 households, couldn’t afford three healthy meals a day last year, according to county estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only about 16,000 households receive food stamps. That means Sonoma County’s main tool for fighting hunger caused by the outages — providing replacement benefits to families on food stamps who had to throw away food — only goes so far. Over 3,000 county residents have claimed replacement food stamps to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 49,000 households received an automatic replacement of food stamp benefits after PG&E’s Oct. 9 outage, amounting to $5,730,774\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>Counties are continuing to accept requests for replacement food stamp benefits from households affected by later outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Chavez, Sonoma County assistant director of human services, lost everything in his own refrigerator during the outages. His wife and four sons drove five hours south to stay with family in Bakersfield, while he stayed to work the county evacuation shelters for the Kincade Fire. He bought most of his meals at restaurants and invested in a generator to keep warm at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows that many Sonoma families couldn’t afford those surprise expenses. Chavez said he was particularly worried about undocumented families, who often don’t qualify for or are reluctant to access safety net benefits and disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is perhaps a new reality for us, the potential of power shutoffs with greater frequency, so I think we’ll want to really think about how we can provide additional safeguards or supports for vulnerable populations,” Chavez said. “We have a lot to learn. This is new territory for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Food banks hit hard, too\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In response to the strains of the outages and other emergencies, the California Association of Food Banks has requested a one-time state investment of $32 million to fund backup power and emergency supply for food banks, said Cheyne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood Empire Food Bank distributed about 300,000 pounds of food to 25,000 people affected by the fire and outages across Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties as of Nov. 8. The San Diego Food Bank distributed $50,000 in cash cards to affected families. In Shasta County, the food bank saw a 34% spike in food demand in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, the Food for People food bank lost power twice last month for a total of four days, said Executive Director Anne Holcomb.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It serves about 10% of the roughly 136,000 residents of Humboldt County, where one in five people live in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With almost no advance notice before the first 24-hour outage on Oct. 9, the food bank was able to load most perishables into refrigerated trucks, but had to throw out 60 pounds of meat and nearly 3,000 eggs, Holcomb said. That first round of outages, though shorter, led to the largest losses, because many of the county’s poorest residents had just done a big food shop after receiving their food stamps or Social Security checks on the first of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Particularly if you’re already living close to the edge financially, if you just bought $30 or $40 worth of groceries and it goes bad, that’s a significant loss,” Holcomb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether utilities violated regulations by failing to properly notify customers of the outages is the focus of an \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M319/K527/319527577.PDF\">investigation that the California Public Utilities Commission opened last week. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one way (the utilities) can prevent food loss is letting customers know in advance,” said Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves. “It’s clear that there’s been an impact here that could have been reduced from my perspective if there had been proper noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eating the food during the outages could make people sick because bacteria can build up without refrigeration. During an outage, most food will stay cold for no more than four hours in a refrigerator and two days in a freezer, according to federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/d3506874-2867-4190-a941-d511d3fcae71/Keep_Your_Food_Safe_During_Emergencies.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s very hard for people to have to sacrifice all this food,” said Linda Harris, a food microbiologist at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences of eating spoiled food include vomiting and diarrhea. “If you think that there’s a risk, then throwing it away is the safest thing to do,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the next blackout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rios said she changed the way she shops. “I learned to no longer buy in volume.” It’s more expensive to shop every few days, especially because she generally drives about an hour to find the best prices. But her family can’t afford to empty out a full freezer again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/22/we-need-the-food-that-we-lost-low-income-families-still-reeling-from-blackouts/calmatters6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11788124\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11788124\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1200x913.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/calmatters6-1920x1461.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Patricia Rios puts away folding tables after volunteering at a food distribution for families like hers that were affected by the power outages. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having lived through the terror-filled evacuations of the North Bay fires two years earlier, she understands why utilities cut power to prevent wildfire. But she doubts whether PG&E had taken into account how families are affected and whether the shutoffs actually work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think if it’s for your safety, to prevent a bigger disaster, that’s good,” said Rios. “At the same time, it doesn’t make sense because we see that the accidents keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters. This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With each passing year, more and more companies — and governments— are tracking us for a wide range of reasons. Not surprisingly, six in 10 U.S. adults \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/how-americans-think-about-privacy-and-the-vulnerability-of-their-personal-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed last June\u003c/a> reported feeling like they’re being watched all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are not convinced that the benefits of tracking outweigh the risks of tracking, and they are feeling that they don’t have very much control over what is happening to them,” said Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The online survey of 4,272 people also found that distress over the lack of data privacy is bi-partisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There aren’t dramatic differences between Republicans and Democrats,” Rainie said. “That’s a big story in a time when much of the rest of culture and politics has become polarized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11787014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg 1150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-1020x589.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew Research Center survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, there is widespread disagreement about how government could or should address the problem. This survey did not ask about specific regulatory responses ranging from the conceptual, like establishing a \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lofgren-introduce-the-online-privacy-act/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new federal agency\u003c/a> proposed by Silicon Valley Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo, to the already enacted, like the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> that takes effect Jan. 1, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy percent of those polled said they believe their data is less secure than it was five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, this data shows that Americans are anxious for more to be done and more clarity to be established in how data is captured and used. 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Hornback says two projects are all his company, Ridge Construction, can handle, because so many laborers and tradespeople were displaced due to the fire. Some 23% of construction workers in Butte County lived in Paradise and neighboring Magalia, which was partially destroyed by the fire, according to the Chico Builders Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='camp-fire' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, you know, they’ve not come back,” Hornback said. “And so consequently, those people that we would have had maybe some pool to pull from — your manpower, laborers, skilled tradespeople — are not here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to quantify how many construction laborers work in Butte County, said Kate Leyden, executive director of the Chico Builders Association. But she does know, anecdotally, that there was a labor shortage before the fire, when there were around only 1,000 new homes built in the whole county each year. Nearly 14,000 homes burned in the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re pretty sure we don’t have the right number of workers,” Leyden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help connect contractors with workers, the Chico Builders Association is helping to build a database of tradespeople and their skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then when a general contractor is looking for a plumber, ideally he or she will be able to look up the plumbers in this directory and give him a call and see if they’re available to help,” Leyden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers from Sacramento and the Bay Area have offered to come to Paradise, but Hornback said they were asking for around $80 per hour — much higher than the $50 hourly rate that’s standard in Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes it kind of tough because you’re paying somebody an awful lot more than you normally would to do the same job, or you just struggle along with the help that you have,” Hornback said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has opted not to hire workers from out of town, because his clients and other Paradise residents can’t afford the extra cost. Before the fires, homes had a median value of about $260,000, according to the online real estate company Zillow. That’s a far cry from the median home value in the Bay Area — almost $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, Hornback would have a crew of six people per house. But, for right now, it’s mostly him and his son-in-law, Michael Richardson, bouncing between their two projects and occasionally bringing in some extra help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Sharrett, the homeowner, is anxious about the construction setbacks and the possibility that the project could be delayed even more if it’s not watertight by the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11785591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Sharrett stands in the living space of his new home in Paradise. He lost the home that used to stand here in the Camp Fire. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40169_bill-sharrett-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Sharrett stands in the living space of his new home in Paradise. He lost the home that used to stand here in the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frustrating,” Sharrett said. “We currently live in Oroville. We have our mother- and father-in-law that live with us. They have a bed in the living room. We have a two-story house. They can’t go upstairs. So it’s a tough condition to be in. And the sooner we get up here, the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Richardson was optimistic, despite the challenges of having only a two-person crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating, but it always works out,” Richardson said. “The Buzzards, the first house that we started, they want to move in by Christmas. We’re two guys,” said Richardson, pausing to laugh, “but we’re gonna try our hardest to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A college student in Fresno who struggles with hunger has applied for food stamps three times. Another student, who is homeless in Sacramento, has applied twice. Each time, they were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 61-year-old in-home caretaker in Oakland was cut off from food stamps last year when her paperwork got lost. Out of work, she can’t afford groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While picking up a monthly box of free food, a 62-year-old senior in San Diego told outreach workers that she won’t apply for food stamps because she worries that it might prevent her from qualifying for U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe preparing lunch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, prepares lunch in a homeless shelter after an English class at Sacramento City College. Some days, she skipped lunch to save money. She recently dropped all her classes so she could focus on finding work. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All told, roughly 1.6 million Californians are not getting help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh here, even though they are eligible. That means \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-food-stamp-enrollment-rate-calfresh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28% of people\u003c/a> with poverty-level budgets didn’t receive the food assistance they needed, according to 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bookends of adulthood, college students and seniors increasingly struggle to pay their bills yet they are among the groups most likely to miss out on the food stamps they qualify for, according to interviews with more than a dozen outreach workers and state and county officials. Obstacles also face immigrants, working families and homeless people, experts said. When these categories overlap, the hurdles to obtaining food stamps are often higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University\u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> campuses\u003c/a> in 2016, just 5% of students were getting food stamps even though one in every four is eligible. For \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/research/resource-library/snap-map-snap-matters-to-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors in California\u003c/a>, just 19% get the assistance, compared with 42% of seniors nationally, according to 2015 data. And citizens who are immigrants are less likely to sign up than those who were born in the United States.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/959f427a-1571-4e5a-9290-65ae23e5533d?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh participation gaps among college students, seniors, working poor\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those living on the edge, food stamps can make a big difference: The \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Characteristics2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average CalFresh\u003c/a> household each month earns $735 and gets $272 in food stamps, which amounts to $3 per meal. A family of two qualifies with $16,920 per year after paying expenses such as housing and childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a human level, what that means is that we continue to allow Californians to go without food,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s low enrollment is not inevitable. Nine states, including neighbors Oregon and Washington, enrolled nearly every eligible person in 2016, according to federal data, while California had the \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fifth lowest rate\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/overall/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.4 million Californians\u003c/a> lack reliable access to sufficient food, including 644,300 \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/The%20State%20of%20Senior%20Hunger%20in%202017_F2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors\u003c/a> and 1,638,430 \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/child/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children\u003c/a>. In a statewide survey of college students, 35% were\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/2018-19_student_expenses_and_resources_survey_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> food insecure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each story of someone who loses out on food stamps provides a lesson for how county officials and state lawmakers could clear the roadblocks that prevent people from getting help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s like a job itself to apply”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On an empty stomach, Beverly Callupe’s brain felt hazy and slow while her English instructor reviewed possible exam questions on the memoir \u003cem>The Glass Castle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just try to write down everything and try to make sense of it after, when I’ve gotten some food,” said Callupe, 20, a Sacramento City College student. “Doing something as simple as reading just becomes so exhausting. Paying attention is really difficult. It is not the best state to go to class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunger has been a constant for Callupe since June, when she left what she describes as the abusive household of a parent and became homeless overnight. Now living in a shelter, she supplements free dinners there with the cheapest foods she can find: canned soup, pancake mix, granola bars, canned peaches. She often skips lunch, and said she goes to bed hungry “almost every single night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe eating soup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1200x822.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, eats a bowl of soup after class. Callupe knows that she should eat more but would rather save money in case she loses her housing. She was turned down for food stamps twice. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time Sacramento County denied Callupe’s CalFresh application, several months ago, she wasn’t sure why. The second time, a county worker told her that she needed to work more hours to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because federal law bars full-time students from receiving CalFresh benefits unless they meet one of several exceptions or work at least 20 hours per week — an amount that can hurt their grades and delay graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really sad and frustrated because I was really depending on that,” said Callupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, she dropped all of her courses to focus on finding a job. She is hesitant to apply for CalFresh again because she plans to enroll as a full-time student again next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students also struggle to navigate the complex rules. Ruby Sultan first learned about CalFresh in a class for her major in Food Science and Nutrition at Fresno State University. The instructor assigned the students to live for one week on just $21 worth of food — a typical food stamp budget. To Sultan, the assignment felt like an abstract exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s like my real life,” said Sultan, 26, who has since moved out of her mother’s house, become financially independent and unsuccessfully applied for CalFresh three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between odd jobs and teaching classes at three fitness studios, Sultan said she hardly has enough money to cover food and rent. But the aspiring dietitian refuses to let her budget diminish the quality of her diet, so she meticulously plans meals with fresh veggies, seeds and grains. Meanwhile, she holds off on other expenses, like textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the $25-$30 she spends on groceries each week, she relies on free rice, beans and oranges from a food pantry, and weekly hot meals at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultan frequently works over 20 hours a week but has struggled to prove it to Fresno County. The first time she was denied CalFresh, she couldn’t get pay stubs for one job in time. The second time, she hadn’t worked enough hours to qualify. The last time, in September, she was working enough hours but failed to get a boss to sign a form before time ran out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Ruby Sultan lifting weights. \" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Sultan, 26, teaches a fitness class at Fresno State’s Student Recreation Center in Fresno. \u003ccite>(Eric Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&oq=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&aqs=chrome..69i57.8118j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunger and homelessness\u003c/a> in California is widespread. In a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> at 23 California State University campuses, more than 40% of students reported food insecurity while one in ten said they experienced homelessness in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really has to do with this kind of mythology about students that comes from the history of education being reserved for elite and middle class people,” said Bartholow of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. While previous generations might have been able to rely on their parents for help with food costs, she said, many of today’s students come from families already grappling with hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have children or receive certain other forms of aid — such as Cal Grants and federal work-study jobs — are still eligible for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California campuses have stepped up their efforts to help students like Callupe and Sultan negotiate the CalFresh bureaucracy. Some hold \u003ca href=\"http://triton.news/2018/02/hundreds-students-seek-calfresh-information-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fairs\u003c/a> in which hundreds sign up en masse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County sends county workers to fairs at two area colleges — though not to Callupe’s — several times a year to help students apply on the spot, said Media Officer Janna Haynes. Fresno County has trained staff at campuses to help students apply and has clarified letters to students, said Social Service Program Manager Angela Stillwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support is there if [students] have the time to seek it,” said Stillwell. But she said there’s only so much Fresno County can do to simplify the process given federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus outreach workers say their biggest challenge is meeting the growing demand from students who want to apply but need support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fresno State added a CalFresh application link to its class registration system, interest among students skyrocketed, said Jessica Medina, who runs the school’s food security project. Nearly 400 students have applied this quarter alone, she said, compared with a total of about 200 over the previous two years. Medina estimates she’d need two to three assistants to handle the volume of questions her office receives. Right now, she has one part-time helper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> might make a dent by streamlining the student application for CalFresh. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2143/related-bills?r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two bills\u003c/a> pending in Congress would expand student eligibility for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after her third denial, Sultan said she was too discouraged to apply again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much time. It’s like a job itself to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of students sitting outside the food pantry room at UC Berkeley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit against the wall while they wait for the campus food pantry to open at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>( Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“I don’t know why they cut me off.”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not only students who struggle to navigate CalFresh. A year ago, Ruth Aquino, 61, received a letter from Alameda County saying that her CalFresh benefits had ended because she failed to turn in a report verifying that she was still eligible. But Aquino says she did submit the report, and left a voicemail to confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why they cut me off when I submitted the papers. I have the receipt,” said Aquino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had come to count on the $91 per month. Now, between jobs as an in-home caretaker after a client died, she has no income. To save money, she stopped filling prescriptions to treat her high cholesterol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, she learned that she could sign up for CalFresh in the lobby of her low-income senior apartment building in West Oakland. She decided it was time to apply again, no matter how frustrating her last experience had been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’m looking at food that I want to buy that I cannot afford,” Aquino said. With the extra grocery money, she’d be able to buy meat with less saturated fat. She daydreamed about making a big spaghetti dish with lots of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of an outreach worker from the Alameda County Community Food Bank, it took half an hour to upload Aquino’s documents — ID, rent receipt, utility bills — and answer the application’s many \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF285.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions\u003c/a>. Days later, a county worker called Aquino for a required interview. When her application was approved about a week later, she received $194, the maximum amount per month for a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To veteran CalFresh outreach workers, the phenomenon of people reapplying after they accidentally fall off is called “churn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first quarter of 2019, 23% of all new CalFresh applications statewide came from people who had received the food aid within the last 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes people churn because their income temporarily rises above the limit, but more often it’s due to paperwork problems. Often people miss the deadline for their six-month \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/SAR7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">status report\u003c/a> or annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recertification\u003c/a>, or their paperwork is deemed incomplete. It’s not uncommon that documents get lost at the county, according to outreach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sharon Johnston-Corson stands in the middle of the street with a plastic bag on her hand and a rolling bag on the other. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, leaves the River City Food Bank in Sacramento, where she reapplied for CalFresh and picked up food for herself, her husband and her teenage twins. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, of Sacramento, it took losing a job to have time to deal with CalFresh. Without a computer at home, she said she and her husband had struggled to find time outside of their full-time jobs to go to a library where they could upload required documents. A month ago their CalFresh was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Johnston-Corson’s temporary job has ended, their family — including teenage twins — is living on the $11 per hour her husband makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing being out of work is that I do have time to get to the food bank and get all of that (CalFresh) stuff done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, about 61% of eligible working poor people participated in CalFresh in 2016, compared to 75% across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incomplete applications and churn are especially common among homeless people, who often lack an address and cellphone, said Amy Dierlam, CalFresh outreach director at the River City Food Bank, a lifeline for Sacramento’s growing homeless population. Some have trouble keeping track of papers and appointments due to disability, mental illness or addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While waiting for Dierlam’s help on a recent afternoon, Antonio Chaquies, a middle-aged homeless man, railed off a list of things that have gone wrong: His CalFresh card was stolen, his benefits were cut because he didn’t turn in one of his interim reports, his backpack containing personal documents was stolen. He’d missed multiple county meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just don’t get through the hoops,” Dierlam said. Her job often feels like detective work, piecing together clients’ stories with letters from the county to figure out why their CalFresh was cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some, it’s life or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Richard Valentin standing in line to pick up food from the River City Food Bank. He places the bags of food on his walker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Valentine, 70, picks up food from the River City Food Bank in Sacramento for himself and his brother Antonio Chaquies, who struggles to hold onto CalFresh. The two brothers are homeless. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“This program is not for me anymore”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nearly two decades ago, when Evangelina Castaneda’s husband passed away, food stamps helped her family make ends meet. But now the 62-year-old San Diego resident doesn’t want to depend on governmental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have fear that I will lose my papers,” said Castaneda who is originally from Mexico, but as a lawful permanent resident for decades, is eligible for food stamps. “Now it’s a little scary because of the president…. I hear about what he says sometimes in the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda said she usually has enough to eat, and when she doesn’t, she picks up boxes from the food bank or attends meals at a local church. Of her four adult children, she said, “They don’t know I go to these places to eat food…. I’m not going to tell them, because they have their own families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda’s concern has become increasingly common among immigrant communities since early 2017, said food bank outreach workers. That’s when a version was first leaked of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776046/immigrants-afraid-of-trumps-public-charge-rule-are-dropping-food-stamps-medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Trump administration rule\u003c/a> that would make it harder for immigrants to get a green card if they were likely to use safety net benefits like food stamps or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and other states sued the Trump administration and federal courts blocked the rule on Oct. 11, days before it would it take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court battle hasn’t made a difference on the ground. Maria Lewis, a San Diego Food Bank CalFresh outreach coordinator, estimates that she talks to about 10 people each week who worry applying for CalFresh would harm their or a family member’s green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, social services providers have reported that even those, like Castaneda, who would be unaffected by the federal rule increasingly are avoiding safety net programs because of uncertainty and confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/11/college-students-seniors-and-immigrants-miss-out-on-food-stamps-heres-why/calfreshprofilesphoto5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11785994\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11785994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a man signing a document at a table with an ad that says CalFresh.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man signs up for food stamps, known as CalFresh in California, at a low-income health clinic in Contra Costa County. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fear has made it harder to get CalFresh to immigrants. But the puzzle of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility/citizen/non-citizen-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal eligibility requirements for non-citizens\u003c/a> has long been difficult for county workers to explain in English, let alone in other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among U.S. citizens who fall below the income limit for the program, the rate of immigrants who reported participating in CalFresh is 70% that of people born in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to 2018 California Health Interview Survey data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties can fight the chilling effect by ensuring that all paperwork is well-translated into locally-spoken languages, said Almas Sayeed, deputy director of California Immigrant Policy Center. She said county offices dedicated to providing immigrants with a welcoming space in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara provide a model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda also didn’t want to accept food stamps because she thought it should go to needier people, a belief common among seniors. “These programs are good but I feel that this program is not for me anymore because I’m healthy,” said Castaneda. “I don’t want to take advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited knowledge of the program and the intimidating amount of paperwork also are significant barriers for seniors, said Lorena Carranza, CalFresh outreach manager at the Sacramento Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent policy change may help educate seniors and dispel myths. Until June of this year, low-income seniors and disabled people receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) were barred from getting CalFresh. But California lawmakers voted last year to expand the program to SSI recipients, so counties and food bank mobilized \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234714092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statewide enrollment campaign\u003c/a>. As of Oct. 1, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">243,000\u003c/a> SSI recipients had enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/22910855-23f0-4f3f-a1e4-14d9a80b7939?src=embed\" title=\"California Food Insecurity\" width=\"800\" height=\"715\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons learned\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are common themes among these tales of Californians — college students, immigrants, seniors, people working long hours and those without homes — who are not getting the food they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misconceptions about who’s entitled to food stamps abound. Getting on and staying on the program requires a lot of time, diligent record-keeping and comfort navigating bureaucracy. Many need the support of food banks and non-profits to guide them through the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Fernandez, acting chief of the California Department of Social Services CalFresh branch, said increasing participation among students, working people and seniors is a priority for the state. Some progress already has been made: The state has dropped requirements for fingerprints, a test of financial assets and a lifetime ban on people with drug-related felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allowing people to apply and be approved for the program all in the same day, as Washington state has done, would greatly reduce barriers, said policy advocate Bartholow. Some California counties have moved towards this model by checking state databases rather than requiring people to track down documents, offering applications entirely over the phone and letting people do the interview on-demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the roll-out hasn’t been uniform across the state’s 58 counties, which each run the program separately. State leaders have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/09/california-food-stamp-participation-counties-challenges/?_thumbnail_id=86399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clashed\u003c/a> over how much improvement can be gained by pressuring counties to be more efficient and how much depends on the state providing more funding for workers and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high as populations who are vulnerable to hunger swell. Seniors, who are increasingly poor and immigrant, are the \u003ca href=\"https://grayingcalifornia.org/stories/data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fastest growing age group in the state\u003c/a>. More low-income students are attending California colleges than in the past. And homelessness is rising rapidly amid a housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But closing the gap between those who need food stamps and those who aren’t getting them is doable, Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as complicated as being hungry and trying to go to school, or being hungry and trying to find housing, or being hungry and trying to care for your kids, or being hungry and needing to take medication with your meals,” Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a meal with their name on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-800x415.jpg\" alt='Photo of people going through an assembly line to pick up groceries. 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Botts is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A college student in Fresno who struggles with hunger has applied for food stamps three times. Another student, who is homeless in Sacramento, has applied twice. Each time, they were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 61-year-old in-home caretaker in Oakland was cut off from food stamps last year when her paperwork got lost. Out of work, she can’t afford groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While picking up a monthly box of free food, a 62-year-old senior in San Diego told outreach workers that she won’t apply for food stamps because she worries that it might prevent her from qualifying for U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe preparing lunch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, prepares lunch in a homeless shelter after an English class at Sacramento City College. Some days, she skipped lunch to save money. She recently dropped all her classes so she could focus on finding work. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All told, roughly 1.6 million Californians are not getting help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh here, even though they are eligible. That means \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/07/california-food-stamp-enrollment-rate-calfresh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28% of people\u003c/a> with poverty-level budgets didn’t receive the food assistance they needed, according to 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bookends of adulthood, college students and seniors increasingly struggle to pay their bills yet they are among the groups most likely to miss out on the food stamps they qualify for, according to interviews with more than a dozen outreach workers and state and county officials. Obstacles also face immigrants, working families and homeless people, experts said. When these categories overlap, the hurdles to obtaining food stamps are often higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University\u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> campuses\u003c/a> in 2016, just 5% of students were getting food stamps even though one in every four is eligible. For \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/research/resource-library/snap-map-snap-matters-to-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors in California\u003c/a>, just 19% get the assistance, compared with 42% of seniors nationally, according to 2015 data. And citizens who are immigrants are less likely to sign up than those who were born in the United States.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/959f427a-1571-4e5a-9290-65ae23e5533d?src=embed\" title=\"CalFresh participation gaps among college students, seniors, working poor\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those living on the edge, food stamps can make a big difference: The \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Characteristics2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average CalFresh\u003c/a> household each month earns $735 and gets $272 in food stamps, which amounts to $3 per meal. A family of two qualifies with $16,920 per year after paying expenses such as housing and childcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On a human level, what that means is that we continue to allow Californians to go without food,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s low enrollment is not inevitable. Nine states, including neighbors Oregon and Washington, enrolled nearly every eligible person in 2016, according to federal data, while California had the \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fifth lowest rate\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/overall/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4.4 million Californians\u003c/a> lack reliable access to sufficient food, including 644,300 \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/The%20State%20of%20Senior%20Hunger%20in%202017_F2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors\u003c/a> and 1,638,430 \u003ca href=\"https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2017/child/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children\u003c/a>. In a statewide survey of college students, 35% were\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/2018-19_student_expenses_and_resources_survey_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> food insecure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each story of someone who loses out on food stamps provides a lesson for how county officials and state lawmakers could clear the roadblocks that prevent people from getting help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s like a job itself to apply”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On an empty stomach, Beverly Callupe’s brain felt hazy and slow while her English instructor reviewed possible exam questions on the memoir \u003cem>The Glass Castle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just try to write down everything and try to make sense of it after, when I’ve gotten some food,” said Callupe, 20, a Sacramento City College student. “Doing something as simple as reading just becomes so exhausting. Paying attention is really difficult. It is not the best state to go to class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunger has been a constant for Callupe since June, when she left what she describes as the abusive household of a parent and became homeless overnight. Now living in a shelter, she supplements free dinners there with the cheapest foods she can find: canned soup, pancake mix, granola bars, canned peaches. She often skips lunch, and said she goes to bed hungry “almost every single night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Beverly Callupe eating soup.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6-1200x822.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto6.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Callupe, 20, eats a bowl of soup after class. Callupe knows that she should eat more but would rather save money in case she loses her housing. She was turned down for food stamps twice. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time Sacramento County denied Callupe’s CalFresh application, several months ago, she wasn’t sure why. The second time, a county worker told her that she needed to work more hours to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because federal law bars full-time students from receiving CalFresh benefits unless they meet one of several exceptions or work at least 20 hours per week — an amount that can hurt their grades and delay graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really sad and frustrated because I was really depending on that,” said Callupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, she dropped all of her courses to focus on finding a job. She is hesitant to apply for CalFresh again because she plans to enroll as a full-time student again next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students also struggle to navigate the complex rules. Ruby Sultan first learned about CalFresh in a class for her major in Food Science and Nutrition at Fresno State University. The instructor assigned the students to live for one week on just $21 worth of food — a typical food stamp budget. To Sultan, the assignment felt like an abstract exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s like my real life,” said Sultan, 26, who has since moved out of her mother’s house, become financially independent and unsuccessfully applied for CalFresh three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between odd jobs and teaching classes at three fitness studios, Sultan said she hardly has enough money to cover food and rent. But the aspiring dietitian refuses to let her budget diminish the quality of her diet, so she meticulously plans meals with fresh veggies, seeds and grains. Meanwhile, she holds off on other expenses, like textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the $25-$30 she spends on groceries each week, she relies on free rice, beans and oranges from a food pantry, and weekly hot meals at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultan frequently works over 20 hours a week but has struggled to prove it to Fresno County. The first time she was denied CalFresh, she couldn’t get pay stubs for one job in time. The second time, she hadn’t worked enough hours to qualify. The last time, in September, she was working enough hours but failed to get a boss to sign a form before time ran out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Ruby Sultan lifting weights. \" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8-1200x845.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Sultan, 26, teaches a fitness class at Fresno State’s Student Recreation Center in Fresno. \u003ccite>(Eric Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Student \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&oq=california+campuses+confront+a+growing+challenge+homeless+kqed&aqs=chrome..69i57.8118j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunger and homelessness\u003c/a> in California is widespread. In a 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Documents/BasicNeedsStudy_phaseII_withAccessibilityComments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> at 23 California State University campuses, more than 40% of students reported food insecurity while one in ten said they experienced homelessness in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really has to do with this kind of mythology about students that comes from the history of education being reserved for elite and middle class people,” said Bartholow of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. While previous generations might have been able to rely on their parents for help with food costs, she said, many of today’s students come from families already grappling with hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who have children or receive certain other forms of aid — such as Cal Grants and federal work-study jobs — are still eligible for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California campuses have stepped up their efforts to help students like Callupe and Sultan negotiate the CalFresh bureaucracy. Some hold \u003ca href=\"http://triton.news/2018/02/hundreds-students-seek-calfresh-information-benefits/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fairs\u003c/a> in which hundreds sign up en masse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County sends county workers to fairs at two area colleges — though not to Callupe’s — several times a year to help students apply on the spot, said Media Officer Janna Haynes. Fresno County has trained staff at campuses to help students apply and has clarified letters to students, said Social Service Program Manager Angela Stillwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support is there if [students] have the time to seek it,” said Stillwell. But she said there’s only so much Fresno County can do to simplify the process given federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus outreach workers say their biggest challenge is meeting the growing demand from students who want to apply but need support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Fresno State added a CalFresh application link to its class registration system, interest among students skyrocketed, said Jessica Medina, who runs the school’s food security project. Nearly 400 students have applied this quarter alone, she said, compared with a total of about 200 over the previous two years. Medina estimates she’d need two to three assistants to handle the volume of questions her office receives. Right now, she has one part-time helper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law\u003c/a> might make a dent by streamlining the student application for CalFresh. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2143/related-bills?r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two bills\u003c/a> pending in Congress would expand student eligibility for food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after her third denial, Sultan said she was too discouraged to apply again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too much time. It’s like a job itself to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of students sitting outside the food pantry room at UC Berkeley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students sit against the wall while they wait for the campus food pantry to open at UC Berkeley. \u003ccite>( Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“I don’t know why they cut me off.”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not only students who struggle to navigate CalFresh. A year ago, Ruth Aquino, 61, received a letter from Alameda County saying that her CalFresh benefits had ended because she failed to turn in a report verifying that she was still eligible. But Aquino says she did submit the report, and left a voicemail to confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why they cut me off when I submitted the papers. I have the receipt,” said Aquino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had come to count on the $91 per month. Now, between jobs as an in-home caretaker after a client died, she has no income. To save money, she stopped filling prescriptions to treat her high cholesterol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, she learned that she could sign up for CalFresh in the lobby of her low-income senior apartment building in West Oakland. She decided it was time to apply again, no matter how frustrating her last experience had been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I’m looking at food that I want to buy that I cannot afford,” Aquino said. With the extra grocery money, she’d be able to buy meat with less saturated fat. She daydreamed about making a big spaghetti dish with lots of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of an outreach worker from the Alameda County Community Food Bank, it took half an hour to upload Aquino’s documents — ID, rent receipt, utility bills — and answer the application’s many \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF285.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions\u003c/a>. Days later, a county worker called Aquino for a required interview. When her application was approved about a week later, she received $194, the maximum amount per month for a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To veteran CalFresh outreach workers, the phenomenon of people reapplying after they accidentally fall off is called “churn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first quarter of 2019, 23% of all new CalFresh applications statewide came from people who had received the food aid within the last 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes people churn because their income temporarily rises above the limit, but more often it’s due to paperwork problems. Often people miss the deadline for their six-month \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/SAR7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">status report\u003c/a> or annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CF37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recertification\u003c/a>, or their paperwork is deemed incomplete. It’s not uncommon that documents get lost at the county, according to outreach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sharon Johnston-Corson stands in the middle of the street with a plastic bag on her hand and a rolling bag on the other. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, leaves the River City Food Bank in Sacramento, where she reapplied for CalFresh and picked up food for herself, her husband and her teenage twins. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Sharon Johnston-Corson, 50, of Sacramento, it took losing a job to have time to deal with CalFresh. Without a computer at home, she said she and her husband had struggled to find time outside of their full-time jobs to go to a library where they could upload required documents. A month ago their CalFresh was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Johnston-Corson’s temporary job has ended, their family — including teenage twins — is living on the $11 per hour her husband makes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing being out of work is that I do have time to get to the food bank and get all of that (CalFresh) stuff done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, about 61% of eligible working poor people participated in CalFresh in 2016, compared to 75% across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Reaching2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incomplete applications and churn are especially common among homeless people, who often lack an address and cellphone, said Amy Dierlam, CalFresh outreach director at the River City Food Bank, a lifeline for Sacramento’s growing homeless population. Some have trouble keeping track of papers and appointments due to disability, mental illness or addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While waiting for Dierlam’s help on a recent afternoon, Antonio Chaquies, a middle-aged homeless man, railed off a list of things that have gone wrong: His CalFresh card was stolen, his benefits were cut because he didn’t turn in one of his interim reports, his backpack containing personal documents was stolen. He’d missed multiple county meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just don’t get through the hoops,” Dierlam said. Her job often feels like detective work, piecing together clients’ stories with letters from the county to figure out why their CalFresh was cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some, it’s life or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Richard Valentin standing in line to pick up food from the River City Food Bank. He places the bags of food on his walker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto3-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Valentine, 70, picks up food from the River City Food Bank in Sacramento for himself and his brother Antonio Chaquies, who struggles to hold onto CalFresh. The two brothers are homeless. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>“This program is not for me anymore”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nearly two decades ago, when Evangelina Castaneda’s husband passed away, food stamps helped her family make ends meet. But now the 62-year-old San Diego resident doesn’t want to depend on governmental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have fear that I will lose my papers,” said Castaneda who is originally from Mexico, but as a lawful permanent resident for decades, is eligible for food stamps. “Now it’s a little scary because of the president…. I hear about what he says sometimes in the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda said she usually has enough to eat, and when she doesn’t, she picks up boxes from the food bank or attends meals at a local church. Of her four adult children, she said, “They don’t know I go to these places to eat food…. I’m not going to tell them, because they have their own families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda’s concern has become increasingly common among immigrant communities since early 2017, said food bank outreach workers. That’s when a version was first leaked of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776046/immigrants-afraid-of-trumps-public-charge-rule-are-dropping-food-stamps-medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Trump administration rule\u003c/a> that would make it harder for immigrants to get a green card if they were likely to use safety net benefits like food stamps or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and other states sued the Trump administration and federal courts blocked the rule on Oct. 11, days before it would it take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court battle hasn’t made a difference on the ground. Maria Lewis, a San Diego Food Bank CalFresh outreach coordinator, estimates that she talks to about 10 people each week who worry applying for CalFresh would harm their or a family member’s green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, social services providers have reported that even those, like Castaneda, who would be unaffected by the federal rule increasingly are avoiding safety net programs because of uncertainty and confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/11/college-students-seniors-and-immigrants-miss-out-on-food-stamps-heres-why/calfreshprofilesphoto5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11785994\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11785994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a man signing a document at a table with an ad that says CalFresh.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man signs up for food stamps, known as CalFresh in California, at a low-income health clinic in Contra Costa County. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fear has made it harder to get CalFresh to immigrants. But the puzzle of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility/citizen/non-citizen-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal eligibility requirements for non-citizens\u003c/a> has long been difficult for county workers to explain in English, let alone in other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among U.S. citizens who fall below the income limit for the program, the rate of immigrants who reported participating in CalFresh is 70% that of people born in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to 2018 California Health Interview Survey data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties can fight the chilling effect by ensuring that all paperwork is well-translated into locally-spoken languages, said Almas Sayeed, deputy director of California Immigrant Policy Center. She said county offices dedicated to providing immigrants with a welcoming space in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara provide a model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castaneda also didn’t want to accept food stamps because she thought it should go to needier people, a belief common among seniors. “These programs are good but I feel that this program is not for me anymore because I’m healthy,” said Castaneda. “I don’t want to take advantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited knowledge of the program and the intimidating amount of paperwork also are significant barriers for seniors, said Lorena Carranza, CalFresh outreach manager at the Sacramento Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent policy change may help educate seniors and dispel myths. Until June of this year, low-income seniors and disabled people receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) were barred from getting CalFresh. But California lawmakers voted last year to expand the program to SSI recipients, so counties and food bank mobilized \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article234714092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statewide enrollment campaign\u003c/a>. As of Oct. 1, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/california.department.of.social.services#!/vizhome/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home?publish=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">243,000\u003c/a> SSI recipients had enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/22910855-23f0-4f3f-a1e4-14d9a80b7939?src=embed\" title=\"California Food Insecurity\" width=\"800\" height=\"715\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons learned\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are common themes among these tales of Californians — college students, immigrants, seniors, people working long hours and those without homes — who are not getting the food they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misconceptions about who’s entitled to food stamps abound. Getting on and staying on the program requires a lot of time, diligent record-keeping and comfort navigating bureaucracy. Many need the support of food banks and non-profits to guide them through the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Fernandez, acting chief of the California Department of Social Services CalFresh branch, said increasing participation among students, working people and seniors is a priority for the state. Some progress already has been made: The state has dropped requirements for fingerprints, a test of financial assets and a lifetime ban on people with drug-related felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allowing people to apply and be approved for the program all in the same day, as Washington state has done, would greatly reduce barriers, said policy advocate Bartholow. Some California counties have moved towards this model by checking state databases rather than requiring people to track down documents, offering applications entirely over the phone and letting people do the interview on-demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the roll-out hasn’t been uniform across the state’s 58 counties, which each run the program separately. State leaders have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2019/09/california-food-stamp-participation-counties-challenges/?_thumbnail_id=86399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clashed\u003c/a> over how much improvement can be gained by pressuring counties to be more efficient and how much depends on the state providing more funding for workers and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high as populations who are vulnerable to hunger swell. Seniors, who are increasingly poor and immigrant, are the \u003ca href=\"https://grayingcalifornia.org/stories/data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fastest growing age group in the state\u003c/a>. More low-income students are attending California colleges than in the past. And homelessness is rising rapidly amid a housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But closing the gap between those who need food stamps and those who aren’t getting them is doable, Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as complicated as being hungry and trying to go to school, or being hungry and trying to find housing, or being hungry and trying to care for your kids, or being hungry and needing to take medication with your meals,” Bartholow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a meal with their name on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-800x415.jpg\" alt='Photo of people going through an assembly line to pick up groceries. There is a sign above the line that reads \"nutrition.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-800x415.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-160x83.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-1020x529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4-1200x622.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/CalFreshprofilesphoto4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People pick up produce, canned goods, meat, dairy and bread at the River City Food Bank in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts and Felicia Mellow are CalMatters journalists. Botts is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Each morning, just after the sun lights up the shores of Half Moon Bay, Rosa Manrriquez steps out her door, walks past the neatly manicured flowers lining her walkway and drives to the Bay City Flower Company, a place she has called a second home since 1979, when she began working there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on this October morning, the trip to work is one of her last. On Nov. 10, the family-owned flower operation will close its doors for good, marking the end of an era for a company, started 110 years ago by a Japanese immigrant, that survived the Great Depression and the family’s internment during World War II, and grew into one of the largest employers in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many area residents fear that the closure, which the company attributes in part to rising labor and production costs, is an ominous sign for the remaining nurseries in San Mateo County, which in recent years have struggled to keep up with a changing economy and the global flower market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who work there, the end of Bay City means the loss not just of a steady paycheck in a coastal community that has seen steep cost of living increases but of a sense of belonging. Nearly 200 workers — on average, the flower company’s employees have worked there for 21 years — will lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a milestone in the community is going away,” says Judith Guerrero, the executive director of the nonprofit Coastside Hope. “There are people who have been working in that nursery since they were 16 years old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manrriquez’s history with the company spans four decades and three generations of company leadership. During that time, she learned how to cultivate plants from hydrangeas to calla lilies, lived through the boom and bust of the flower industry, had three children and earned enough money to buy a house a short drive from the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a week, though, she will walk into the white domed greenhouse where she has spent so much time over the years and say goodbye to it forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I liked the work, I liked the whole situation,” Manrriquez says. “[Bay City] recognized our abilities. They gave us opportunities to grow. Bay City in the community meant a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1910, the company’s founder, Nobuo Higaki, immigrated to the United States from Japan and started a nursery in Redwood City. His was one of a number of influential Japanese-owned nurseries in the Bay Area at the time. But the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor brought a harsh new chapter for the Higakis. They were forced into internment and Nobuo was separated from the family and sent to a camp in North Dakota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a local grower who leased their greenhouses while they were gone and looked after their crops, the Higaki’s nursery survived, and after the war, the family came back to it. Nobuo’s son, Harry, became president of the Bay City. In 1960, the nursery moved to Half Moon Bay and Harry was later succeeded by his son, Harrison, the company’s current president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started my job, it was one of the first farms that I heard beautiful stories about,” says Krystlyn Giedt, the president and CEO of the Half Moon Bay Coastside Chamber of Commerce and Visitors’ Bureau. “About how they made it through the war. So to hear about them closing and knowing how it had been a family legacy for them for so long, it’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Higaki, 99, walks alone down a row of greenhouses at at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Harry is the son of the original owner Nobuo Higaki who started the business over 100 years ago. Next month the company will close its doors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785831\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Higaki, 99, walks alone down a row of greenhouses at at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Harry is the son of the original owner Nobuo Higaki who started the business over 100 years ago. Next month the company will close its doors. \u003ccite>(Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers got word of the closure on Sept. 10, when Higaki announced that the company, which primarily sells potted plants and distributes them nationally, would send out its final flower shipment next month. About 50 employees were laid off, said Victor Gaitan, a management analyst with the city of Half Moon Bay, who is leading job recovery efforts for the workers. In total, 195 employees will lose their jobs when the nursery closes, according to paperwork filed with the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Higaki said the family convened earlier this year. “We realized that it was the time to bring closure to the flower business,” he said. “We prayed that God would provide a buyer for our nursery that would employ more than half our associates, most that have worked with the company for 10-40 years. We also prayed that we could pay off all of the debt owed to our wonderful and loyal vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this vision in our hearts,” he added, “we have been actively marketing our properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higaki said the decision to close was based on a number of factors, but pointed to the cost of labor as the primary driver. The minimum wage in California for employers with at least 26 employees is $12 per hour and is slated to rise to $15 by January 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor is our single highest expense category,” he said. “The writing was on the wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Half Moon Bay region was once one of the world’s top flower producers, said San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner Fred Crowder. But beginning in the 1990s, the once thriving industry began to falter. In 1991, to discourage the cultivation of coca plants, used to make cocaine, the U.S. government removed tariffs on Colombian flowers, opening up the market to competition. Then, in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, went into effect, which lowered tariffs and removed trade restrictions between the United States, Canada and Mexico, making it even harder for local producers to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With NAFTA and the dropping of the tariffs on South American flowers, that whole industry just got destroyed,” Crowder said. By 2000, he said, the industry “started to decline. And it has declined ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2001 to 2011, the production value of floral and nursery crops in San Mateo County decreased by 45% when adjusted for inflation, according to a 2015 report by the County Department of Agriculture, the most recent analysis available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowder cited the introduction of online flower vendors and the move away from agriculture and toward tourism on the San Mateo coastline as additional challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The price of land, labor, commodities, everything goes up,” he says. “So you start losing your irrigation supplier, your tractor repair guy, your farm supplies. Now you have to go to Salinas or Watsonville in order to get services to supply your farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Bay City’s closure imminent, Teresa Covarrubias, a gregarious employee who has been with the company since 1994, is on the hunt for another job. But she is sad to leave it behind, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covarrubias said she is “grateful” that the company hired her as a single mom and allowed her to leave work during the day to pick up her three children from school and bring them to appointments. Now, with an uncertain future on the horizon, Covarrubias says she and other workers are feeling tense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent doesn’t wait, bills don’t wait,” she says. “People are stressed. It’s very hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Higaki told employees the operation would wind down, she said, “All the workers dropped their heads when he made the announcement. It was a very sad day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rosa Marriquez picks out some flowers at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Marriquez started working at the company in 1979. After more than 100 years in business the company will be closing, leaving many like Marriquez out of work.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Marriquez picks out some flowers at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Marriquez started working at the company in 1979. After more than 100 years in business the company will be closing, leaving many like Marriquez out of work. \u003ccite>(Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Half Moon Bay is rallying behind the affected workers and recently hosted a job and resource fair, which included leads from local employers and booths staffed by service agencies. But many concede it will be hard for all of them to find agricultural jobs nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our agriculture has slipped down so much it’s very difficult to find jobs in the areas that they are the most skilled,” Giedt says. “I think a lot of them are going to have to go out there a little bit on a wing and a prayer and learn some new things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covarrubias would like to stay in Half Moon Bay but knows she may have to relocate if she finds work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, though, she’s cautiously optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll move forward,” she says. “I think we will be OK but it will be a slow process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erica Hellerstein is a Mercury News reporter who is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Each morning, just after the sun lights up the shores of Half Moon Bay, Rosa Manrriquez steps out her door, walks past the neatly manicured flowers lining her walkway and drives to the Bay City Flower Company, a place she has called a second home since 1979, when she began working there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on this October morning, the trip to work is one of her last. On Nov. 10, the family-owned flower operation will close its doors for good, marking the end of an era for a company, started 110 years ago by a Japanese immigrant, that survived the Great Depression and the family’s internment during World War II, and grew into one of the largest employers in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many area residents fear that the closure, which the company attributes in part to rising labor and production costs, is an ominous sign for the remaining nurseries in San Mateo County, which in recent years have struggled to keep up with a changing economy and the global flower market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who work there, the end of Bay City means the loss not just of a steady paycheck in a coastal community that has seen steep cost of living increases but of a sense of belonging. Nearly 200 workers — on average, the flower company’s employees have worked there for 21 years — will lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a milestone in the community is going away,” says Judith Guerrero, the executive director of the nonprofit Coastside Hope. “There are people who have been working in that nursery since they were 16 years old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manrriquez’s history with the company spans four decades and three generations of company leadership. During that time, she learned how to cultivate plants from hydrangeas to calla lilies, lived through the boom and bust of the flower industry, had three children and earned enough money to buy a house a short drive from the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a week, though, she will walk into the white domed greenhouse where she has spent so much time over the years and say goodbye to it forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I liked the work, I liked the whole situation,” Manrriquez says. “[Bay City] recognized our abilities. They gave us opportunities to grow. Bay City in the community meant a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1910, the company’s founder, Nobuo Higaki, immigrated to the United States from Japan and started a nursery in Redwood City. His was one of a number of influential Japanese-owned nurseries in the Bay Area at the time. But the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor brought a harsh new chapter for the Higakis. They were forced into internment and Nobuo was separated from the family and sent to a camp in North Dakota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a local grower who leased their greenhouses while they were gone and looked after their crops, the Higaki’s nursery survived, and after the war, the family came back to it. Nobuo’s son, Harry, became president of the Bay City. In 1960, the nursery moved to Half Moon Bay and Harry was later succeeded by his son, Harrison, the company’s current president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started my job, it was one of the first farms that I heard beautiful stories about,” says Krystlyn Giedt, the president and CEO of the Half Moon Bay Coastside Chamber of Commerce and Visitors’ Bureau. “About how they made it through the war. So to hear about them closing and knowing how it had been a family legacy for them for so long, it’s really sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Higaki, 99, walks alone down a row of greenhouses at at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Harry is the son of the original owner Nobuo Higaki who started the business over 100 years ago. Next month the company will close its doors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785831\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-14-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Higaki, 99, walks alone down a row of greenhouses at at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Harry is the son of the original owner Nobuo Higaki who started the business over 100 years ago. Next month the company will close its doors. \u003ccite>(Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers got word of the closure on Sept. 10, when Higaki announced that the company, which primarily sells potted plants and distributes them nationally, would send out its final flower shipment next month. About 50 employees were laid off, said Victor Gaitan, a management analyst with the city of Half Moon Bay, who is leading job recovery efforts for the workers. In total, 195 employees will lose their jobs when the nursery closes, according to paperwork filed with the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Higaki said the family convened earlier this year. “We realized that it was the time to bring closure to the flower business,” he said. “We prayed that God would provide a buyer for our nursery that would employ more than half our associates, most that have worked with the company for 10-40 years. We also prayed that we could pay off all of the debt owed to our wonderful and loyal vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this vision in our hearts,” he added, “we have been actively marketing our properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higaki said the decision to close was based on a number of factors, but pointed to the cost of labor as the primary driver. The minimum wage in California for employers with at least 26 employees is $12 per hour and is slated to rise to $15 by January 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Labor is our single highest expense category,” he said. “The writing was on the wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Half Moon Bay region was once one of the world’s top flower producers, said San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner Fred Crowder. But beginning in the 1990s, the once thriving industry began to falter. In 1991, to discourage the cultivation of coca plants, used to make cocaine, the U.S. government removed tariffs on Colombian flowers, opening up the market to competition. Then, in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, went into effect, which lowered tariffs and removed trade restrictions between the United States, Canada and Mexico, making it even harder for local producers to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With NAFTA and the dropping of the tariffs on South American flowers, that whole industry just got destroyed,” Crowder said. By 2000, he said, the industry “started to decline. And it has declined ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2001 to 2011, the production value of floral and nursery crops in San Mateo County decreased by 45% when adjusted for inflation, according to a 2015 report by the County Department of Agriculture, the most recent analysis available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowder cited the introduction of online flower vendors and the move away from agriculture and toward tourism on the San Mateo coastline as additional challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The price of land, labor, commodities, everything goes up,” he says. “So you start losing your irrigation supplier, your tractor repair guy, your farm supplies. Now you have to go to Salinas or Watsonville in order to get services to supply your farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Bay City’s closure imminent, Teresa Covarrubias, a gregarious employee who has been with the company since 1994, is on the hunt for another job. But she is sad to leave it behind, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covarrubias said she is “grateful” that the company hired her as a single mom and allowed her to leave work during the day to pick up her three children from school and bring them to appointments. Now, with an uncertain future on the horizon, Covarrubias says she and other workers are feeling tense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent doesn’t wait, bills don’t wait,” she says. “People are stressed. It’s very hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Higaki told employees the operation would wind down, she said, “All the workers dropped their heads when he made the announcement. It was a very sad day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rosa Marriquez picks out some flowers at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Marriquez started working at the company in 1979. After more than 100 years in business the company will be closing, leaving many like Marriquez out of work.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785832\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/SJM-L-FLOWERS-10XX-6.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Marriquez picks out some flowers at Bay City Flower Company in Half Moon Bay on Oct. 29, 2019. Marriquez started working at the company in 1979. After more than 100 years in business the company will be closing, leaving many like Marriquez out of work. \u003ccite>(Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Half Moon Bay is rallying behind the affected workers and recently hosted a job and resource fair, which included leads from local employers and booths staffed by service agencies. But many concede it will be hard for all of them to find agricultural jobs nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because our agriculture has slipped down so much it’s very difficult to find jobs in the areas that they are the most skilled,” Giedt says. “I think a lot of them are going to have to go out there a little bit on a wing and a prayer and learn some new things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covarrubias would like to stay in Half Moon Bay but knows she may have to relocate if she finds work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, though, she’s cautiously optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll move forward,” she says. “I think we will be OK but it will be a slow process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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After some hesitation, he said: “Yeah, I can give you 200.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods and the other Bay Area residents are committing to participate in a program that bridges informal traditional lending practices — called tandas in Mexico or kye in Korea — with the mainstream financial system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"california-dream\" label=\"More Stories From the California Dream Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, which manages the program, guarantees participants zero-interest loans and the chance to build their credit scores, which helps build financial stability. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While MAF’s lending circles were initially focused on low-income Latino immigrants in San Francisco’s Mission District, the program has become a tool to boost credit scores for African Americans, young people and others across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201505_cfpb_data-point-credit-invisibles.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">45 million adults\u003c/a> in the U.S. have no or insufficient credit scores, which often shuts them out of more affordable mortgage, car and business loans and other bank financial products. Those consumers, who are disproportionately black, Latino or low-income, tend to resort to expensive payday lenders to borrow money, which can then eat up their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3 million people in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Riverside and San Diego metropolitan areas have no or insufficient credit scores, according to \u003ca href=\"https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201612_cfpb_credit_invisible_policy_report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">estimates\u003c/a> by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a Catch-22: To get good credit, consumers must first have good credit scores. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that that was a big problem for folks in the immigrant community,” said José Quiñonez, who founded Mission Asset Fund. “But what we realized was that, well actually, they have this other really rich way of managing their money. It just wasn’t connected to the formal financial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Photo-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Doris Vasquez with Mission Asset Fund explains how a lending circle will work with seven participants on Sept. 17, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785795\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doris Vasquez with Mission Asset Fund explains how a lending circle will work with seven participants on Sept. 17, 2019.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To help people access better credit, Quiñonez adapted an age-old system of friends or relatives pooling resources to give each other loans, and added a system to report those loan repayments to U.S. credit bureaus — that adaptation is considered by some a groundbreaking innovation in microlending. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in MAF’s program sign formal agreements that allow the organization to electronically withdraw a set amount monthly from their bank accounts and rotate who gets the collective pot of money each month. As MAF reports borrower payments, researchers found their credit scores can significantly increase, particularly for those who had no credit scores to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting a $1,000 loan with zero interest is awesome. But the real life changing component to our work is helping people build their credit,” said Quiñonez, who chaired the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s consumer advisory board from 2012 to 2015. “Because a good credit score opens up doors for a world of possibilities for people in the financial marketplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñonez and MAF have helped raise awareness about credit building as a way to help lift people out of poverty, said San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They implemented something that has really changed the landscape, that has allowed people who were pretty much blocked from access to credit and financial services … a way to really enter the financial mainstream and to become financially successful,” Cisneros said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the MacArthur Foundation named Quiñonez a “financial services innovator” and awarded him a fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant,” for creating a pathway to mainstream financial services for people with limited or no financial access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñonez arrived in the U.S. as an undocumented 9-year-old by crawling through drainage tunnel across the border and went on to graduate from Princeton. He said his childhood made him appreciate the value of lending circles for people to support each other. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Quiñonez’s parents died in his native Mexico, he and his five siblings, ages 7 to 15 at the time, joined relatives in San Jose. The siblings ended up living on their own in two-bedroom apartment downtown, going to school on weekdays and working at a flea market on weekends to pay their rent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how we, you know, pooled our money together to survive,” said Quiñonez, one of millions of people who were able to legalize their status thanks to President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 immigration reform. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Participants building credit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jazzel Wood Sr.’s lending circle, participants picked numbers from a bowl passed around by MAF staffers to decide who would get the first loan, about $1,400. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods drew number 5, which disappointed him because he needs the money sooner, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The landlord is talking about evicting me right now, and I got two kids,” said Woods, who works two jobs as a counselor and a facility manager at teen group homes. “I’m just trying to keep up with the bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Photo-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Caner Canik (left), Len Renquillo and Jazzel Woods Sr. listen to a presentation before committing to join a lending circle at Mission Asset Fund in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785796\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caner Canik (left), Len Renquillo and Jazzel Woods Sr. listen to a presentation before committing to join a lending circle at Mission Asset Fund in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he still signed on the loan agreement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, which manages the program, guarantees participants zero-interest loans and the chance to build their credit scores, which helps build financial stability. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While MAF’s lending circles were initially focused on low-income Latino immigrants in San Francisco’s Mission District, the program has become a tool to boost credit scores for African Americans, young people and others across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201505_cfpb_data-point-credit-invisibles.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">45 million adults\u003c/a> in the U.S. have no or insufficient credit scores, which often shuts them out of more affordable mortgage, car and business loans and other bank financial products. Those consumers, who are disproportionately black, Latino or low-income, tend to resort to expensive payday lenders to borrow money, which can then eat up their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3 million people in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Riverside and San Diego metropolitan areas have no or insufficient credit scores, according to \u003ca href=\"https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201612_cfpb_credit_invisible_policy_report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">estimates\u003c/a> by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a Catch-22: To get good credit, consumers must first have good credit scores. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that that was a big problem for folks in the immigrant community,” said José Quiñonez, who founded Mission Asset Fund. “But what we realized was that, well actually, they have this other really rich way of managing their money. It just wasn’t connected to the formal financial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Photo-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Doris Vasquez with Mission Asset Fund explains how a lending circle will work with seven participants on Sept. 17, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785795\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doris Vasquez with Mission Asset Fund explains how a lending circle will work with seven participants on Sept. 17, 2019.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To help people access better credit, Quiñonez adapted an age-old system of friends or relatives pooling resources to give each other loans, and added a system to report those loan repayments to U.S. credit bureaus — that adaptation is considered by some a groundbreaking innovation in microlending. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in MAF’s program sign formal agreements that allow the organization to electronically withdraw a set amount monthly from their bank accounts and rotate who gets the collective pot of money each month. As MAF reports borrower payments, researchers found their credit scores can significantly increase, particularly for those who had no credit scores to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting a $1,000 loan with zero interest is awesome. But the real life changing component to our work is helping people build their credit,” said Quiñonez, who chaired the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s consumer advisory board from 2012 to 2015. “Because a good credit score opens up doors for a world of possibilities for people in the financial marketplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñonez and MAF have helped raise awareness about credit building as a way to help lift people out of poverty, said San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They implemented something that has really changed the landscape, that has allowed people who were pretty much blocked from access to credit and financial services … a way to really enter the financial mainstream and to become financially successful,” Cisneros said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the MacArthur Foundation named Quiñonez a “financial services innovator” and awarded him a fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant,” for creating a pathway to mainstream financial services for people with limited or no financial access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñonez arrived in the U.S. as an undocumented 9-year-old by crawling through drainage tunnel across the border and went on to graduate from Princeton. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a secluded corner of Marywood Drive in Paradise sit two vacant lots, side by side. The empty space used to hold single-family residences surrounded by Ponderosa pines. That was until the November 2018 Camp Fire — California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire — leveled the Butte County town and destroyed more than 13,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, one year later, these lots are being rebuilt by two Paradise natives, Christine and Dave Williams, who bought the properties after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair didn’t lose their own home but are deeply invested in the future of their town, and see these purchases as part of that investment. So far, Dave and Christine have been focused on cleaning the lot by removing dead trees and debris. But they’re planning to build two traditional, single-family homes, reminiscent of what used to be there before the fire, and are already looking at floor plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785402 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png\" alt=\"After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757.png 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just want it the way it used to be,” said Christine Williams. “It’s a beautiful town, a beautiful place to live, a great place to raise families. And we just want to encourage people to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days and weeks after the Camp Fire struck, there were concerns among residents that their town would be bought up by big developers who would rebuild a Paradise not meant for the people who lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a KQED analysis of data from Butte County, including property sales and building permits from the day the fire hit through September 2019, big developers didn’t move in — locals did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found that 71% of people who purchased parcels in the town of Paradise had a Butte County mailing address. The majority of purchases were very local: 38% of buyers have an address in Paradise and 25% in nearby Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not how post-wildfire rebuilding typically plays out. Often, large development companies invest in these areas and purchase multiple properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Locals Are Mainly Purchasing Properties in Paradise\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/tNaNp/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paradise Rebuilds Itself\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/tWSNJ/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Paradise vs. Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After the 2017 Tubbs Fire — which burned about 36,807 acres and destroyed 5,636 structures — out-of-town developers purchased large quantities of real estate in Santa Rosa and the surrounding burn areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen a big emphasis from builders in the greater Bay Area, and some of those are bigger production homebuilders,” said Doug Solwick, a real estate broker in Santa Rosa. “We’ve seen smaller builders that have people from as far away as L.A. and other states, from as far away as Utah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding after a fire can be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming — something that survivors of a fire might not be up for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started talking with [Santa Rosa] homeowners, and we realized that 40% of the people don’t actually rebuild — they just choose to sell,” said developer Greg Owen, whose Fairfield-based company Silvermark Luxury Homes purchased around 100 properties in Santa Rosa neighborhoods burned by the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his company considered purchasing property in Paradise after the fire, but those infrastructure issues dissuaded him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785436 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_0189-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The widespread destruction after the Camp Fire means there's a lot of rebuilding to be done and not enough labor to support it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The widespread destruction after the Camp Fire means there’s a lot of rebuilding to be done and not enough labor to support it. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We went up and surveyed it after the fire, and then about three months later, and realized it was unlike Santa Rosa,” explained Owen. “The infrastructure wasn’t there. The hospitals were gone, most of the homes were on septic systems and they also had a problem getting water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just infrastructure issues that complicate rebuilding. Due to the widespread destruction, Paradise has a lot of rebuilding to be done, and there are not enough construction workers to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Camp Fire, Assistant Town Manager Marc Mattox said Paradise would process 25-35 permits “on a good year.” This year, from February through the end of September, Paradise approved 962 permits, according to data obtained from Paradise officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"camp-fire\" label=\"RELATED COVERAGE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owen said he might consider developing in the Paradise area but not for at least two to three years. That’s in part because, right now, investing in the town seems risky, especially if Paradise doesn’t recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local developers don’t want to wait. They have more confidence that the town will bounce back because they can see it recovering in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo is one of them. He has purchased four parcels in Paradise since the fire, according to data from the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people like myself are here with, sort of, your finger on the pulse,” said Balsamo. “There’s a lot of group meetings, town halls and things going on here. But I think it’s also kind of a feeling. … I believe in Paradise, I want to see it come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Good Investment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But purchasing property in Paradise could also be a good investment: Land values have significantly decreased since the fire hit. In fact, 30% of the properties sold in Paradise after the Camp Fire went for less than their assessed value, according to a KQED analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785422 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo bought 4 lots in Paradise after the Camp Fire and plans to put pre-fab manufactured homes on them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo bought four lots in Paradise after the Camp Fire and plans to put prefab manufactured homes on them. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The median price of parcels sold in Paradise was $57,250, compared to $281,000 countywide, from the start of the Camp Fire in November 2018 through mid-September 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balsamo said he paid less than the assessed value on 75% of the land he bought, and all of the properties he purchased came from people who moved out of the area after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Balsamo argued that low property costs are offset by the high cost of rebuilding in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re not taking into account is that … the soil work alone is costs,” Balsamo explained. “The underground work is costing me more than I’m even buying a lot for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To offset some of those costs, Balsamo is using prefab manufactured homes, which are cheaper and faster to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ongoing Fire Danger\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But there’s always a chance the area could burn again. Almost all of Paradise is designated a very high fire risk zone by Cal Fire, and experts say that one big fire sweeping through doesn’t decrease the likelihood that the area will burn again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christine Williams, Paradise resident\"]“It’s a beautiful town, a beautiful place to live, a great place to raise families. And we just want to encourage people to come back.”[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think just ecologically, in terms of the equation, there’s vegetation upslope — that’s going to burn. Winds are going to blow, embers will fall onto houses, that will happen again,” said Greg Suba, conservation director at the California Native Plant Society. “What may be true, if we do it correctly, is that the catastrophe doesn’t need to happen again. Houses need to be built out of better, more fire-resistant material.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s what developers in Paradise are banking on. In 2008, California implemented stricter building codes requiring fire-resistant siding, roofing and window panes to protect the town from further destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all the difficulties facing the town, Dave Williams said the headache is worth it to make sure families return to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure this is a good place for families to be in,” he said. “I’m not saying we’re going to do it for free, but if we can just do it … I’ll sleep better at night knowing we did our little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a secluded corner of Marywood Drive in Paradise sit two vacant lots, side by side. The empty space used to hold single-family residences surrounded by Ponderosa pines. That was until the November 2018 Camp Fire — California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire — leveled the Butte County town and destroyed more than 13,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, one year later, these lots are being rebuilt by two Paradise natives, Christine and Dave Williams, who bought the properties after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair didn’t lose their own home but are deeply invested in the future of their town, and see these purchases as part of that investment. So far, Dave and Christine have been focused on cleaning the lot by removing dead trees and debris. But they’re planning to build two traditional, single-family homes, reminiscent of what used to be there before the fire, and are already looking at floor plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785402 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png\" alt=\"After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-800x685.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757-160x137.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-06-at-3.53.52-PM-e1573084598757.png 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the fire, residents posted their concerns on Facebook that the town would be bought up by out-of-town developers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just want it the way it used to be,” said Christine Williams. “It’s a beautiful town, a beautiful place to live, a great place to raise families. And we just want to encourage people to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days and weeks after the Camp Fire struck, there were concerns among residents that their town would be bought up by big developers who would rebuild a Paradise not meant for the people who lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a KQED analysis of data from Butte County, including property sales and building permits from the day the fire hit through September 2019, big developers didn’t move in — locals did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found that 71% of people who purchased parcels in the town of Paradise had a Butte County mailing address. The majority of purchases were very local: 38% of buyers have an address in Paradise and 25% in nearby Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not how post-wildfire rebuilding typically plays out. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owen said he might consider developing in the Paradise area but not for at least two to three years. That’s in part because, right now, investing in the town seems risky, especially if Paradise doesn’t recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local developers don’t want to wait. They have more confidence that the town will bounce back because they can see it recovering in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo is one of them. He has purchased four parcels in Paradise since the fire, according to data from the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people like myself are here with, sort of, your finger on the pulse,” said Balsamo. “There’s a lot of group meetings, town halls and things going on here. But I think it’s also kind of a feeling. … I believe in Paradise, I want to see it come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Good Investment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But purchasing property in Paradise could also be a good investment: Land values have significantly decreased since the fire hit. In fact, 30% of the properties sold in Paradise after the Camp Fire went for less than their assessed value, according to a KQED analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11785422 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo bought 4 lots in Paradise after the Camp Fire and plans to put pre-fab manufactured homes on them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40162_IMG_2766_v2-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chico-based developer Luigi Balsamo bought four lots in Paradise after the Camp Fire and plans to put prefab manufactured homes on them. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The median price of parcels sold in Paradise was $57,250, compared to $281,000 countywide, from the start of the Camp Fire in November 2018 through mid-September 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balsamo said he paid less than the assessed value on 75% of the land he bought, and all of the properties he purchased came from people who moved out of the area after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Balsamo argued that low property costs are offset by the high cost of rebuilding in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re not taking into account is that … the soil work alone is costs,” Balsamo explained. “The underground work is costing me more than I’m even buying a lot for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To offset some of those costs, Balsamo is using prefab manufactured homes, which are cheaper and faster to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ongoing Fire Danger\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But there’s always a chance the area could burn again. Almost all of Paradise is designated a very high fire risk zone by Cal Fire, and experts say that one big fire sweeping through doesn’t decrease the likelihood that the area will burn again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Larry Pace is giving a tour of a construction site … kind of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s near the entrance of a 258,000-square-foot factory in Vallejo. The Navy \u003ca href=\"https://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/brac_bases/california/former_shipyard_mare_island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">built submarines here\u003c/a> during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture one of those gigantic General Motors plants in Detroit, where a car is put together in an assembly line. Instead of a Buick and a conveyor belt, construction workers in hard hats and goggles are assembling a 156-unit apartment building for a development near Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They build one floor approximately every two and a half hours,” said Pace, standing astride Station 1, where construction workers piece together the bottom floors of two adjoining apartments. “It’s fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Larry Pace, co-founder of Factory OS\"]‘We have become very proficient at what we do, and it will revolutionize the construction industry from what we’ve seen in the past. It already has.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pace is the co-founder of Factory OS, a modular housing manufacturer that opened this plant last year. It’s one of several companies in California and across the country trying to reinvigorate factory-made housing as a solution to the state’s housing affordability woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further inside the massive Vallejo plant, there’s a station for cabinets, a station for roofing and a station for plumbing and electrical wiring. Station 33 looks like a furniture showroom not quite ready for the floor — washer, dryer and microwave included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there the apartment pieces are wrapped and trucked to the construction site, where they’re assembled in a matter of days, not months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It literally becomes a plug-and-play,” said Pace. “We have become very proficient at what we do, and it will revolutionize the construction industry from what we’ve seen in the past. It already has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_0417-e1571865870228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the 258,000 square foot Factory OS plant in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Matt Levin/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason California rents are so astronomical — the state now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2019/03/zumper-national-rent-report-april-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five of the top 10 priciest rental markets\u003c/a> in the country, according to real estate data firm Zumper — is because it’s really expensive to build new apartments here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While estimates of average construction costs vary, \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/offsite-construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> found that it takes $315,000 in labor and materials to build a 900-square-foot apartment in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/14/gov-newsoms-ambitious-housing-goals-threatened-by-construction-worker-shortage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A shortage of skilled contractors\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article234699897.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump’s trade policies\u003c/a> have contributed to rising “hard costs” for homebuilders, who argue that the more expensive it is to build, the more new developments skew away from middle-class housing and toward luxury condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pace has worked in the construction industry for 40 years. He used to do what’s called “stick” construction — the conventional method, where you prep the foundation, and then wait for the carpenters, and then the plumbers, and then the electricians. A rainy week can set you back thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"modular-housing\" label=\"More on modular hosuing\"]With so-called modular housing, units can be assembled offsite while the foundation is being prepared, no matter the weather. Pace says that and other efficiencies will translate into three- to five-story apartment buildings completed 40% quicker and 20% cheaper than the average project constructed the old-fashioned way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Pace who believes modular housing is the future. Large corporations such as Citibank have poured millions into Factory OS. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisnow.com/oakland/news/multifamily/modular-firm-rad-urban-secures-28m-in-financing-to-grow-company-93500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other pre-fab housing companies\u003c/a> have sprouted in recent years, attracting tech-savvy investors with the lure of innovating an industry that builds housing mostly in the same way it did decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the dream of mass-produced, factory-built housing has been around for over a century, with a pretty checkered history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went in this dragging my heels,” said Pace. “I had heard all the war stories of failed modular experiences in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Nixon Tried to Build Houses in Factories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Manufactured, modular, or pre-fab housing has always played at the margins of the American construction industry. Arguably the most successful example dates back to the early 20th century when the retail giant Sears offered single-family homes through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.curbed.com/2018/10/16/17984616/sears-catalog-home-kit-mail-order-prefab-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mail-order catalog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After prohibitively high transportation costs caused Sears to pull the plug in 1940, the term “manufactured housing” gradually became associated with the lower rung of the housing market: mobile homes and shoddy factory-built dwellings with poor craftsmanship and small profit margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last century of experiments hasn’t yielded a whole lot of good results,” said Alex Anderson, associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington. “There’s been all kinds of interesting experiments, but not a whole lot of economic successes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the siren song of mass-produced housing continued to lure private capital and public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhsYm1b4DY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, President Richard Nixon was confronting housing challenges that might sound eerily familiar to 21st century Californians: Population growth was outstripping new home construction, and rents and home prices were escalating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney — future GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s father — launched “Project Breakthrough” in 1969, aiming to solve the country’s housing shortage by jumpstarting the pre-fab industry with a little help from Uncle Sam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress poured $190 million in inflation-adjusted dollars to coax major blue-chip manufacturers such as Alcoa and Boeing into participating. HUD identified nine sites across the country, including one in Sacramento, on which both single family and multifamily pre-fabricated housing could be assembled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Uninspiring Results\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Operation Breakthrough was really a big and pretty expensive failure and really quite an embarrassment for the Nixon administration,” said Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the housing ended up being uninhabitable after a few years, adding to the public perception that factory-built housing was at best shabby, and at worst dangerous. Congress pulled the plug shortly after the prototype sites were completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technology deployed by Factory OS and other modern pre-fab companies is leaps and bounds ahead of what Operation Breakthrough was working with in the early 1970s. But Anderson says many of the issues that confounded the Nixon administration still haunt the industry today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized construction labor opposed Operation Breakthrough, fearing lower wages and reduced hours. Factory OS, while employing members of a regional carpenters union, has faced similar hostility from other building unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operation Breakthrough also failed to achieve the economies of scale the federal government dreamed would materialize. Anderson says the finances of mass-produced housing work only if it is truly mass-produced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Goldbach, project manager Factory OS's West Oakland project\"]‘I think what’s different about this is we can make a whole building erect in 10 days.’[/pullquote]“You need to produce a lot of units in order for the savings to accrue,” said Anderon. “Because setting up a factory is not cheap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factory OS isn’t profitable yet, but co-founding partner Rick Holliday predicts the company to turn the corner in the next two years. He says the company has $200 million in projects in the pipeline, including orders from Google for workforce housing and from nonprofit developers for housing for people who are now homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like to pretend we’ve made it because we’re only a two-year-old company,” said Holliday. “But I can tell you with absolute clarity that we’ve started a company that’s an industry leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem with Operation Breakthrough was the federal government’s focus on building single family homes. Proponents of modern modular housing can take solace in one positive development from the initiative — still standing in east Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Sarthou, a 60-year-old resident of the Greenfair Apartments, had no idea the nine-story apartment building she calls home was built in a factory and erected in 23 days. The complex now serves as subsidized housing for low-income seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good restaurants are around, it’s very safe inside,” said Sarthou, who said she has no complaints about the apartment. “It’s cozy and we’re happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11782120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/IMG_0442-e1571867388135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Factory OS construction workers assemble an apartment building piece by piece inside a factory in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Matt Levin/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Building in 10 Days\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the Greenfair Apartments are still functional, aesthetically they’re reminiscent of those towering public housing projects synonymous with 20th century low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factory OS only constructs mid-rise apartment buildings no taller than seven stories. It isn’t in the single-family home market, which means economies of scale should be easier to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And its first project in West Oakland will look pretty indistinguishable from other apartment buildings nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s different about this is we can make a whole building erect in 10 days,” said Jessica Goldbach, project manager at the West Oakland project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days is how long it took cranes to stack the 110 units at the “The Union” project last month. She says it’s about time the construction industry embraced technological changes that have transformed other parts of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"affordable-housing\" label=\"More on affordable housing\"]“Why are we still looking at paper drawings?” said Goldbach. “I just think unfortunately building and the way that we build is so far behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldbach’s crew is doing touch up work on “The Union” now, connecting modular units together, adding insulation. The project should open its doors early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Factory OS has projects in its pipeline that will serve lower-income households — including permanent supportive housing for homeless people — the Union project isn’t one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A two-bedroom unit will rent for $3,700. That’s comparable to other new market-rate housing opening up in the region, and certainly isn’t a bargain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until the market really changes and the producers are producing more units and there are more producers of those units, there won’t be really enough competition for consumers to recoup those savings,” said Anderson, the University of Washington professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holliday, whose development company separate from Factory OS will own and dictate rents in the new building, says the expensive price tag was necessary to satisfy investors in the new development. 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In his hometown of San Juan Atitan, Guatemala, he’d been surrounded by poverty and faced discrimination as an indigenous person who speaks Mam, a Mayan language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11785525 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Sales when he first arrived in California at age 19.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Sales when he first arrived in California at age 19. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Henry Sales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, with increased numbers of Mam-speaking Guatemalans immigrating to the U.S., he puts his language abilities to work as a court interpreter for immigration courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763374/do-you-speak-mam-growth-of-oaklands-guatemalan-community-sparks-interest-in-indigenous-language\">teaches Mam at Laney College\u003c/a>, another reflection of the changing face of immigration in California. He hopes to share his culture more widely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, for the next five years, hopefully I can fulfill this vision that I have to create a space, more like a culture center, where people will come and learn about my culture, the Mayan culture, and also indigenous culture,” said Sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet a New California Politician Shaping Local Government\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"The New Californian Politician\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_YemphUQCLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 22 years old, recent UC Berkeley graduate Rigel Robinson is the youngest person to be elected to the Berkeley City Council. He represents District 7, which includes his alma mater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson's 2018 campaign was staffed by UC Berkeley students and promoted a platform of affordable housing, decriminalizing homelessness and combating climate change. He hopes to accomplish a lot in his first term, embracing Berkeley’s tradition of bold policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is looking to be one of the first cities in the country to really reexamine its zoning map and think about how exclusionary zoning has affected what we can and can't build in different places,” Robinson said. “We need to get a little more creative with the space that we have to make sure that everyone that wants to call California home really can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11783608 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-800x600.png\" alt=\"Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson visits Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1020x765.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1200x900.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1832x1374.png 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1376x1032.png 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1044x783.png 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-632x474.png 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-536x402.png 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1.png 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson visits Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Jacqueline Omania)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley student Varsha Sarveshwar served as Robinson’s campaign manager because she’s passionate about civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was a real turning point for our city,” Sarveshwar said, “in terms of legitimizing and recognizing students and young people as a force in politics — not a group of people to be ignored as people who don't vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet a New Farmer Pursuing Her Dreams in the Golden State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"The New California Farmer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/U-kUQ4GAUr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Coronado didn’t think she’d become a farmer. 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She has just planted her first crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11781712 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tara Coronado (L) crafted a business plan for Beaver Vineyards while at the California Farm Academy program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Coronado (L) crafted a business plan for Beaver Vineyards while at the California Farm Academy program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Farm Academy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coronado, 28, is part of a new generation of farmers — many of whom have little background in farming. 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In his hometown of San Juan Atitan, Guatemala, he’d been surrounded by poverty and faced discrimination as an indigenous person who speaks Mam, a Mayan language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11785525 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Sales when he first arrived in California at age 19.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Henry_young_landscape-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Sales when he first arrived in California at age 19. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Henry Sales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, with increased numbers of Mam-speaking Guatemalans immigrating to the U.S., he puts his language abilities to work as a court interpreter for immigration courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763374/do-you-speak-mam-growth-of-oaklands-guatemalan-community-sparks-interest-in-indigenous-language\">teaches Mam at Laney College\u003c/a>, another reflection of the changing face of immigration in California. He hopes to share his culture more widely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, for the next five years, hopefully I can fulfill this vision that I have to create a space, more like a culture center, where people will come and learn about my culture, the Mayan culture, and also indigenous culture,” said Sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet a New California Politician Shaping Local Government\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"The New Californian Politician\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_YemphUQCLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 22 years old, recent UC Berkeley graduate Rigel Robinson is the youngest person to be elected to the Berkeley City Council. He represents District 7, which includes his alma mater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson's 2018 campaign was staffed by UC Berkeley students and promoted a platform of affordable housing, decriminalizing homelessness and combating climate change. He hopes to accomplish a lot in his first term, embracing Berkeley’s tradition of bold policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is looking to be one of the first cities in the country to really reexamine its zoning map and think about how exclusionary zoning has affected what we can and can't build in different places,” Robinson said. “We need to get a little more creative with the space that we have to make sure that everyone that wants to call California home really can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11783608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11783608 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-800x600.png\" alt=\"Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson visits Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1020x765.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1200x900.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1832x1374.png 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1376x1032.png 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-1044x783.png 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-632x474.png 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1-536x402.png 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Rigel-Robinson-Oxford-Elementary-1.png 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson visits Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Jacqueline Omania)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley student Varsha Sarveshwar served as Robinson’s campaign manager because she’s passionate about civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was a real turning point for our city,” Sarveshwar said, “in terms of legitimizing and recognizing students and young people as a force in politics — not a group of people to be ignored as people who don't vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet a New Farmer Pursuing Her Dreams in the Golden State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"The New California Farmer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/U-kUQ4GAUr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Coronado didn’t think she’d become a farmer. In fact, her parents, who grow corn on the Sacramento River Delta, discouraged her from following in their footsteps. But after attending college, Coronado found herself being pulled back to the land. She enrolled in the Center for Land-Based Learning’s California Farm Academy, where she came away with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713330/want-to-become-a-farmer-in-california-get-a-mentor\">a business plan\u003c/a> for her own enterprise, Beaver Vineyards. She has just planted her first crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11781712 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tara Coronado (L) crafted a business plan for Beaver Vineyards while at the California Farm Academy program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/NewFarmer_Tara-CFA.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Coronado (L) crafted a business plan for Beaver Vineyards while at the California Farm Academy program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Farm Academy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coronado, 28, is part of a new generation of farmers — many of whom have little background in farming. 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