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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Melanie Gerber started working as a mortgage loan officer in Riverside seven years ago, she didn't see many first-time buyers hitting up their parents for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she sees it all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have one that just went into escrow yesterday,\" Gerber said. \"They're having money gifted from the family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates about half of her borrowers are now getting money from mom and dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the parents just want them to make it on their own and know they can't do it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's observations are backed up by federal data. If you want to buy a home in California, it increasingly helps to have relatives who can chip in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California Real Estate Is Flush With Family Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KPCC crunched \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/rmra/oe/rpts/sfsnap/sfsnap\">the numbers on more than 600,000 FHA loans\u003c/a>, a type of government-backed mortgage that's common with first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FHA borrowers can use money from relatives for their down payment. In recent years, that kind of family financial help has been on the rise in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2011, about one in four FHA loans in California included down payment money from relatives. Today, it's one in three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Percent of family-assisted down payments for FHA loans, by county\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>County-level data via HUD; current through May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family down payment support is playing an even bigger role in many parts of California, outstripping the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Housing/documents/2017fhaannualreport.pdf\">national rate of 26 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in dozens of California ZIP codes — covering parts of East San Jose, North Hollywood, South Central Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Alpine in eastern San Diego County — at least half of FHA borrowers were getting family members to help with the down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many first-time buyers choose FHA loans for their low down payment options and relaxed credit requirements. FHA loans have been declining as a share of California's overall mortgage market. Still, in 2017 about 15 percent of all homes sold in California had an FHA loan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/surveys/ahs\">a survey\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These loans can help young families get into lower to mid-priced California homes. However, lending limits max out at close to $680,000, making FHA loans unrealistic for California's most expensive markets. Very few people use them to buy homes in areas like San Francisco or L.A.'s Westside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>FHA loans with family down payment assistance by ZIP Code, 2011 - May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/maps/bay.html\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"470px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data via HUD, U.S. Census; ZIP codes with fewer than 50 loans not shown on map\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan officer Gerber gave her son nearly $10,000 to get him into a $365,000 house in Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw the prices going higher and higher. And I knew that if we didn't help him, he would not be able to buy something when he was actually ready to purchase,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's 24-year-old son, Brandon Miller said, \"I could not be in this house without my family's help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller has embraced homeownership. His modest ranch house has a nice front yard where his two massive Great Danes can run around. He enjoys watering the plants and looking for midcentury furniture to highlight the house's 1950s charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living here keeps Miller close to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do everything possible to show that I'm grateful for what they did,\" he said. \"I keep my house nice. I try to improve my house when I can. I want to show that what they invested in is actually going toward something good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller shares the house with a few renters, so he can easily cover his portion of the monthly payments. He said it costs him less than renting an apartment. And he's building equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I definitely feel like I was able to achieve the California Dream, since a lot of people nowadays can't afford houses,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parental Help Takes Many Forms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Median California home prices are now more than double the national average. Student loan debt and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/may/29/californias-high-rent-leaves-many-one-crisis-away-/\">unaffordable rents\u003c/a> can make it hard to save. When parents see their kids struggling under those pressures, of course they want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they're not just gifting down payments to their kids. They're also co-buying houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/mortgage-origination/q1-2018-loan-origination-trends-report/\">quarterly report\u003c/a> from Irvine-based real estate data firm Attom Data Solutions found that 48 percent of houses purchased in San Jose had sales deeds that listed multiple non-married buyers (often an indication that parents are co-buying with their children). The same was true for 38 percent of homes purchased in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are making \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/07/12/57900/socal-so-curious-who-are-the-cash-buyers-in-socal/\">all-cash purchases\u003c/a> for their kids. Family money can be involved in other ways that are harder to detect. Buyers can purchase homes with inheritances or trust fund money, which don't show up in data on FHA loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parental help is happening in many non-FHA loans as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1200x989.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-960x791.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-240x198.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-375x309.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-520x428.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Labor union representative Raphael Leib used a conventional mortgage to buy a $390,000 house on the Eastside of Los Angeles three years ago with his wife, a high school French teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is raising their two young children in the three-bedroom house thanks in part to about $40,000 worth of help from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a gift from both our sets of parents really meant that we could find a place that our family could grow into,\" Leib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leib has seen others also tapping into generational wealth to buy homes in Los Angeles. He doesn't want to see long-term residents priced out of his City Terrace neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago.'\u003ccite>Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is a nice neighborhood. The neighbors have been here a long time. I know them all well. They know me well. It's a close-knit community,\" he said. \"I'd rather not see it be gentrified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Has Wealth to Share?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing experts worry about the rising reliance on family wealth in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have huge wealth inequality and homeownership inequalities by race and ethnicity,\" said UC Berkeley's Carolina Reid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black and Hispanic families today don't have as much wealth to share as white families, said Reid, because past government policies shut them out of homeownership. As recently as the 1960s, the practice of \"redlining\" explicitly denied government-backed home loans to residents in minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid predicts today's wealth gaps will only get worse if first-time buyers increasingly need to have parents who can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago,\" Reid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Green, the director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said families that have owned homes in California for generations have an advantage. Others may need to leave the state if they want to purchase a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like we're feudal now,\" Green said. \"You inherit the manor from your family if you happen to be a landowner. If you're not a landowner, it's really hard to get in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For Some, Family Money Can Be a Leg Up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, money from relatives isn't just benefiting families that have always been homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Dillon, a social worker at a Los Angeles hospital, was raised by a single mom who immigrated to the United States from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's family has always rented. Which is why getting an FHA loan to buy a house in South Los Angeles earlier this year was such a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had balloons in here,\" Dillon said. \"We never see my mom cry. But she actually shed a tear that day. She was just so happy. I think she felt proud of me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1200x919.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-960x735.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dillon shares the house with her mother. She now feels more financially secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not want to be renting my entire life and not establishing any wealth,\" she said. \"For me, it means that we're out of poverty and actually building a future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's savings covered roughly half of the down payment and closing costs on the $450,000 house. But she had another source of help — money passed down to her after her grandmother's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My grandma was the matriarch of our family,\" Dillon said. \"Our family has always had very intelligent, strong and compassionate women. So that, to me, was just her helping us yet again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon said if she kept saving, in a few years she might have been able to afford the down payment on her own. But then again, in a few years, who knows what a house like this will cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I Would Love to Stay in California'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those who don't have relatives in a position to help, owning a house in California can feel unachievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Pavón has been renting in Northeast Los Angeles with her husband Fernando for about six years. The couple has a 15-month-old son. They've considered buying a house. But Pavón said even with their decent incomes, they can't save up enough for a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big factor in our staying where we are is that we don't have assistance from other family,\" said Pavón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've watched prices in their neighborhood skyrocket. A three-bedroom house on their street recently sold for $1 million. Another house in the area — barely bigger than their apartment at 789 square feet — is on the market for $499,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people like myself who can't afford to live in a house like this. And I do wonder who can,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavón said her family could continue to rent in Los Angeles, or they could join her sister-in-law in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would love to stay in Los Angeles,\" she said. \"I would love to stay in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you helped your kids buy a home in California? Did you get help from your parents? Join the conversation on our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\">\u003cem>CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note about data:\u003c/strong> The California Dream collaborative analyzed 89 months of FHA loan data for California, from January 2011 - May 2018. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's observations are backed up by federal data. If you want to buy a home in California, it increasingly helps to have relatives who can chip in.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California Real Estate Is Flush With Family Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KPCC crunched \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/rmra/oe/rpts/sfsnap/sfsnap\">the numbers on more than 600,000 FHA loans\u003c/a>, a type of government-backed mortgage that's common with first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FHA borrowers can use money from relatives for their down payment. In recent years, that kind of family financial help has been on the rise in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2011, about one in four FHA loans in California included down payment money from relatives. Today, it's one in three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Percent of family-assisted down payments for FHA loans, by county\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>County-level data via HUD; current through May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family down payment support is playing an even bigger role in many parts of California, outstripping the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Housing/documents/2017fhaannualreport.pdf\">national rate of 26 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, in dozens of California ZIP codes — covering parts of East San Jose, North Hollywood, South Central Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Alpine in eastern San Diego County — at least half of FHA borrowers were getting family members to help with the down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many first-time buyers choose FHA loans for their low down payment options and relaxed credit requirements. FHA loans have been declining as a share of California's overall mortgage market. Still, in 2017 about 15 percent of all homes sold in California had an FHA loan, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/surveys/ahs\">a survey\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These loans can help young families get into lower to mid-priced California homes. However, lending limits max out at close to $680,000, making FHA loans unrealistic for California's most expensive markets. Very few people use them to buy homes in areas like San Francisco or L.A.'s Westside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>FHA loans with family down payment assistance by ZIP Code, 2011 - May 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://projects.scpr.org/charts/fha-loan-counties/maps/bay.html\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"470px\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data via HUD, U.S. Census; ZIP codes with fewer than 50 loans not shown on map\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan officer Gerber gave her son nearly $10,000 to get him into a $365,000 house in Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw the prices going higher and higher. And I knew that if we didn't help him, he would not be able to buy something when he was actually ready to purchase,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerber's 24-year-old son, Brandon Miller said, \"I could not be in this house without my family's help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller has embraced homeownership. His modest ranch house has a nice front yard where his two massive Great Danes can run around. He enjoys watering the plants and looking for midcentury furniture to highlight the house's 1950s charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living here keeps Miller close to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do everything possible to show that I'm grateful for what they did,\" he said. \"I keep my house nice. I try to improve my house when I can. I want to show that what they invested in is actually going toward something good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller shares the house with a few renters, so he can easily cover his portion of the monthly payments. He said it costs him less than renting an apartment. And he's building equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I definitely feel like I was able to achieve the California Dream, since a lot of people nowadays can't afford houses,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parental Help Takes Many Forms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Median California home prices are now more than double the national average. Student loan debt and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/may/29/californias-high-rent-leaves-many-one-crisis-away-/\">unaffordable rents\u003c/a> can make it hard to save. When parents see their kids struggling under those pressures, of course they want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they're not just gifting down payments to their kids. They're also co-buying houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/mortgage-origination/q1-2018-loan-origination-trends-report/\">quarterly report\u003c/a> from Irvine-based real estate data firm Attom Data Solutions found that 48 percent of houses purchased in San Jose had sales deeds that listed multiple non-married buyers (often an indication that parents are co-buying with their children). The same was true for 38 percent of homes purchased in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents are making \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/07/12/57900/socal-so-curious-who-are-the-cash-buyers-in-socal/\">all-cash purchases\u003c/a> for their kids. Family money can be involved in other ways that are harder to detect. Buyers can purchase homes with inheritances or trust fund money, which don't show up in data on FHA loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parental help is happening in many non-FHA loans as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-800x659.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1200x989.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-1180x972.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-960x791.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-240x198.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-375x309.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Raphael-520x428.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Leib opens the gate to the City Terrace home he shares with his wife and two young children, July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Labor union representative Raphael Leib used a conventional mortgage to buy a $390,000 house on the Eastside of Los Angeles three years ago with his wife, a high school French teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple is raising their two young children in the three-bedroom house thanks in part to about $40,000 worth of help from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a gift from both our sets of parents really meant that we could find a place that our family could grow into,\" Leib said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leib has seen others also tapping into generational wealth to buy homes in Los Angeles. He doesn't want to see long-term residents priced out of his City Terrace neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago.'\u003ccite>Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is a nice neighborhood. The neighbors have been here a long time. I know them all well. They know me well. It's a close-knit community,\" he said. \"I'd rather not see it be gentrified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Has Wealth to Share?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing experts worry about the rising reliance on family wealth in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have huge wealth inequality and homeownership inequalities by race and ethnicity,\" said UC Berkeley's Carolina Reid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many black and Hispanic families today don't have as much wealth to share as white families, said Reid, because past government policies shut them out of homeownership. As recently as the 1960s, the practice of \"redlining\" explicitly denied government-backed home loans to residents in minority neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid predicts today's wealth gaps will only get worse if first-time buyers increasingly need to have parents who can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who has wealth now — and who can bequest that wealth to their children — is a direct consequence of our government lending practices 50 years ago,\" Reid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Green, the director of USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said families that have owned homes in California for generations have an advantage. Others may need to leave the state if they want to purchase a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like we're feudal now,\" Green said. \"You inherit the manor from your family if you happen to be a landowner. If you're not a landowner, it's really hard to get in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For Some, Family Money Can Be a Leg Up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>However, money from relatives isn't just benefiting families that have always been homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Dillon, a social worker at a Los Angeles hospital, was raised by a single mom who immigrated to the United States from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's family has always rented. Which is why getting an FHA loan to buy a house in South Los Angeles earlier this year was such a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had balloons in here,\" Dillon said. \"We never see my mom cry. But she actually shed a tear that day. She was just so happy. I think she felt proud of me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684253\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1200x919.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-960x735.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/JackieDillon-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Dillon stands in front of the South Los Angeles home she purchased earlier this year, July 18, 2018. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dillon shares the house with her mother. She now feels more financially secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not want to be renting my entire life and not establishing any wealth,\" she said. \"For me, it means that we're out of poverty and actually building a future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon's savings covered roughly half of the down payment and closing costs on the $450,000 house. But she had another source of help — money passed down to her after her grandmother's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My grandma was the matriarch of our family,\" Dillon said. \"Our family has always had very intelligent, strong and compassionate women. So that, to me, was just her helping us yet again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon said if she kept saving, in a few years she might have been able to afford the down payment on her own. But then again, in a few years, who knows what a house like this will cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'I Would Love to Stay in California'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those who don't have relatives in a position to help, owning a house in California can feel unachievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Pavón has been renting in Northeast Los Angeles with her husband Fernando for about six years. The couple has a 15-month-old son. They've considered buying a house. But Pavón said even with their decent incomes, they can't save up enough for a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big factor in our staying where we are is that we don't have assistance from other family,\" said Pavón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've watched prices in their neighborhood skyrocket. A three-bedroom house on their street recently sold for $1 million. Another house in the area — barely bigger than their apartment at 789 square feet — is on the market for $499,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people like myself who can't afford to live in a house like this. And I do wonder who can,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavón said her family could continue to rent in Los Angeles, or they could join her sister-in-law in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would love to stay in Los Angeles,\" she said. \"I would love to stay in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you helped your kids buy a home in California? Did you get help from your parents? Join the conversation on our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/cadream/\">\u003cem>CA Dream Facebook group\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note about data:\u003c/strong> The California Dream collaborative analyzed 89 months of FHA loan data for California, from January 2011 - May 2018. 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"content": "\u003cp>We're only halfway through 2018, and more unaccompanied minors from Guatemala have been detained at the U.S. border than the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the number of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors seeking entry into the United States is at a historic 17,649.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 33,389 Guatemalan families have been detained at the border. That’s almost a third higher than the entire previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> wanted to get an independent, nuanced understanding of why so many people -- many of them vulnerable children -- are fleeing this Central American country for the United States, some of whom are entering the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for three days, I toured the country from Guatemala City to the mountainous highlands to the Guatemala coast south of Chiapas, Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what I found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Guatemala City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guatemala City is a mismatch of big shopping malls, high-end stores and extreme poverty. It’s common to see shopping centers with modern, shiny glass facades next to tin-roofed bodegas selling hot meals and phone cards. The city is divided into zones, and each zone has its own reputation with locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zona 4 is where the hipsters are -- not quite gentrified, but getting there. There are coffee bars and art stores similar to what one would find in Midtown Sacramento. Zona 11 is the financial district, meaning there are big banks, a Porsche dealership and shopping malls on every block. Zona 10 is the nightlife district -- think dance halls, TGI Fridays and a few small casinos. And Zona 1 is the heart of Guatemala City, home to the oldest neighborhoods and many of the city's social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Refugees and immigrants look through a pile of clothes in Zona 1, Guatemala City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-960x655.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-240x164.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-375x256.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugees and immigrants look through a pile of clothes in Zona 1, Guatemala City. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those service centers is Casa Del Migrante. The center houses “retornados” from the U.S., as well as immigrants fleeing violence in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Many of the families arrive without clothes or other basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the mission is to help migrants find work, regardless of whether they are returning to or leaving Guatemala. The country has a relatively low unemployment rate, around 4 percent, but most jobs pay very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job coordinator Lucrecia Oliva told us that for retornados who come back to Guatemala City after being in the United States, it can take decades to rebuild their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, our society here sees people who have been deported as criminals,” said Oliva. “That they did something bad in the United States and that’s why they’re deported. If they’re not deported but they return with money, with resources, they are seen as heroes. But if they’ve been deported, they’re treated as they did something very bad. And they feel that, because of the way they look, the way they talk, there is a lot of prejudice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11684161 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Del Migrante jobs coordinator Lucrecia Oliva.\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-1200x834.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-960x668.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casa Del Migrante jobs coordinator Lucrecia Oliva. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard for indigenous people to find work in Guatemala City, as there is a deep racism in the city held by some of European descent toward their native compatriots. In fact, according to the United Nations, 79 percent of the indigenous population here lives in “extreme poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Road to Huehuetenango\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a constant flow of old U.S. school buses in and out of Guatemala City. These buses are decorated in neon lights, and named as boats would be in the U.S. -- for example, there’s a bus named “Blanca Estrada” and “Norte Estrada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These buses often don’t stop, even at designated pickup points. Instead, they slow down, and the passengers run and jump on board, throwing their luggage up to a young man who stays perched at the top, roped to a luggage rack. These buses run at all hours, shuttling indigenous passengers from their native homes in and out of Guatemala City. Many head to the Guatemalan highlands. This is where the minority indigenous population lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"A man hangs out the door of a private bus. When he leaves the city, he will ride on the top of the roof, hanging on to an after-market luggage rack that’s been attached.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-960x635.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man hangs out the door of a private bus. When he leaves the city, he will ride on the top of the roof, hanging on to an after-market luggage rack that’s been attached. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The highway to the town of Huehuetenango is a semi‐paved collection of deep potholes on a narrow path. Our rental car shook so much from the road that the front bumper would fall off. I inhaled thick clouds of diesel exhaust from the buses and their rich‐burning engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this road, I saw three bodies on the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One motorcyclist near the town of Mixco was either shot or hit by a car -- regardless, what was once the back of the man’s head had come out of his helmet and spilled out onto the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further north in the town of Chimaltenango, two bodies lay on the ground, their motorcycle 50 yards away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Police in Chimaltenango killed two men on a motorcycle they said were assassins hired by a local drug cartel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-1200x784.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in Chimaltenango killed two men on a motorcycle they said were assassins hired by a local drug cartel. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An officer told us the men worked for drug cartels and were killed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They caught some \u003cem>sicarios\u003c/em>,” he said. “Thank god ... they weren’t able to carry out their mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roads stay backed up for hours after the killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it took nine hours to drive 134 miles to the town of Huehuetenango, the capital of the region where most Guatemalan migrants come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Huehuetenango\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ancient cradle of the Mayan civilization, Huehuetenango is a town of small dwellings, a few pharmaceutical companies and an open sewer that can be smelled from almost any point in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to U.N. statistics, 90 percent of the people here live in absolute poverty. In real terms, what this means is there are few schools, dirt roads, and no water service to most of the 88,000 people in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A 5-year-old girl helps her grandmother wash clothes at Huehuetenango’s municipal wash tub.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-960x637.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 5-year-old girl helps her grandmother wash clothes at Huehuetenango’s municipal wash tub. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day, women meet at a municipal water hole in the center of town near the open sewer, where they wash their family’s clothes. Girls as young as four years old use concrete washboards to scrub the stains out of shirts, while women as old as 80 scoot to the side as men fill up jugs to take clean water to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Road to Champerico\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huehuetenango is isolated from the rest of the country by high mountains and bad roads. To get a sense of life in the valley and the coast, I head toward the beach town of Champerico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the high mountains, I see young indigenous children play soccer in front of small huts with clay roofs. Sometimes traffic stops for goat and sheep herders, who lead their animals to graze the deep green grass that grows on subvertical mountainsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people often stop traffic here by putting a rope up across the roadway. These roped roads are guerrilla tollways. Children swarm the car when the driver stops. To avoid the children, most drivers just go faster, forcing the kids to pull the rope off the road or watch it fly into the air when the car hits it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garbage is piled in lots on the side of mountains or in the valleys. There are no garbage trucks and no landfills, so the locals either burn their trash or dump it on public property. Often the trash is sorted by item in these impromptu dumpsites. There are diaper-pile trash sites, where hundreds of used diapers have been thrown on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683623/months-after-her-dad-was-deported-young-girl-still-alone-in-u-s-shelter\">Months After Her Dad Was Deported, Young Guatemalan Girl Still Alone in U.S. Shelter\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683623/months-after-her-dad-was-deported-young-girl-still-alone-in-u-s-shelter\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FilemonaMain-1180x681.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the windy mountain road turns into a series of straight lines in various valleys and through a host of little hamlets and towns. While each population center is similarly anchored by both a church and municipal hall, there are differences in what the vendors on the side of the road sell to passers-by: bananas, coconuts, leather goods, water, colorful indigenous dresses, baskets, melons and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The traffic typically slows to a crawl in each town, offering creative vendors a captive audience to hawk their wares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic begins to move on the final 30 miles of our journey. The road connecting the town of Retalhuleu to Champerico is smooth and straight, an investment made during a time when Guatemalan officials hoped to turn the beach into a tourist destination. But located as it is south of Chiapas, Mexico -- one of the most drug-worn areas in the world -- Champerico has remained impoverished and crime-ridden.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Champerico\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was night when I checked into a local hotel a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. For a large room with three beds, I pay the equivalent of $35. The rooms are without air conditioning, and it's 95 degrees. The woman looks surprised to see an American, and asks if I’m lost and how long I’ll be staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotel owner tells me to lock the car up at a nearby neighbor’s house. A man walks over and directs me to follow him to his home. I drive slowly behind him as he pedals his bike. A few blocks away, he opens a double-gated car park. I park the car and lock the doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, I can hear the crashing of ocean waves. I head toward them, but the man tells me not to head to the beach at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too dangerous,” he says, without clarifying what he’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ball up the sheets from the other bed, and hold them while I sleep, so they can soak up the sweat that’s pooling up on me, trapped by the ocean’s heat and humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, the driver's side door is unlocked. I check the rest of the car, and see that the fender has been removed and reattached overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t ask the man about it and try to forget I noticed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I leave, I stop by the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, a 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother carry machetes, coconuts and straws in a big red bucket. I buy two coconuts from them, and sit on the beach. The siblings walk around trying to sell the rest of the coconuts. After being rebuffed by the vacationing Mexicans, I watch as brother and sister begin sword-fighting with the machetes, using the coconuts as bombs. Seven-foot waves crash behind them as they run on the black volcanic sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes, the two get bored and ask me to buy more coconuts. They plop down next to me, tired under the hot noon sun. We talk about what they want to be when they grow up. The girl tells me she wants to be a police officer. Her little brother says he wants to be a robber with the cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d catch you,” the girl tells him. “And put you in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d kill you,” the boy says, laughing, pointing his machete at her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sister’s eyes get big with play anger, and she grabs her machete. The two start sword-fighting again, swinging machetes as they run down the beach.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We're only halfway through 2018, and more unaccompanied minors from Guatemala have been detained at the U.S. border than the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the number of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors seeking entry into the United States is at a historic 17,649.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 33,389 Guatemalan families have been detained at the border. That’s almost a third higher than the entire previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> wanted to get an independent, nuanced understanding of why so many people -- many of them vulnerable children -- are fleeing this Central American country for the United States, some of whom are entering the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for three days, I toured the country from Guatemala City to the mountainous highlands to the Guatemala coast south of Chiapas, Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what I found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Guatemala City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guatemala City is a mismatch of big shopping malls, high-end stores and extreme poverty. It’s common to see shopping centers with modern, shiny glass facades next to tin-roofed bodegas selling hot meals and phone cards. The city is divided into zones, and each zone has its own reputation with locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zona 4 is where the hipsters are -- not quite gentrified, but getting there. There are coffee bars and art stores similar to what one would find in Midtown Sacramento. Zona 11 is the financial district, meaning there are big banks, a Porsche dealership and shopping malls on every block. Zona 10 is the nightlife district -- think dance halls, TGI Fridays and a few small casinos. And Zona 1 is the heart of Guatemala City, home to the oldest neighborhoods and many of the city's social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Refugees and immigrants look through a pile of clothes in Zona 1, Guatemala City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-1200x819.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-960x655.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-240x164.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-375x256.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ClothingPile-520x355.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugees and immigrants look through a pile of clothes in Zona 1, Guatemala City. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those service centers is Casa Del Migrante. The center houses “retornados” from the U.S., as well as immigrants fleeing violence in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Many of the families arrive without clothes or other basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the mission is to help migrants find work, regardless of whether they are returning to or leaving Guatemala. The country has a relatively low unemployment rate, around 4 percent, but most jobs pay very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job coordinator Lucrecia Oliva told us that for retornados who come back to Guatemala City after being in the United States, it can take decades to rebuild their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, our society here sees people who have been deported as criminals,” said Oliva. “That they did something bad in the United States and that’s why they’re deported. If they’re not deported but they return with money, with resources, they are seen as heroes. But if they’ve been deported, they’re treated as they did something very bad. And they feel that, because of the way they look, the way they talk, there is a lot of prejudice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11684161 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Casa Del Migrante jobs coordinator Lucrecia Oliva.\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-1200x834.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-960x668.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Libda-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casa Del Migrante jobs coordinator Lucrecia Oliva. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard for indigenous people to find work in Guatemala City, as there is a deep racism in the city held by some of European descent toward their native compatriots. In fact, according to the United Nations, 79 percent of the indigenous population here lives in “extreme poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Road to Huehuetenango\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a constant flow of old U.S. school buses in and out of Guatemala City. These buses are decorated in neon lights, and named as boats would be in the U.S. -- for example, there’s a bus named “Blanca Estrada” and “Norte Estrada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These buses often don’t stop, even at designated pickup points. Instead, they slow down, and the passengers run and jump on board, throwing their luggage up to a young man who stays perched at the top, roped to a luggage rack. These buses run at all hours, shuttling indigenous passengers from their native homes in and out of Guatemala City. Many head to the Guatemalan highlands. This is where the minority indigenous population lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"A man hangs out the door of a private bus. When he leaves the city, he will ride on the top of the roof, hanging on to an after-market luggage rack that’s been attached.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-960x635.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GuatemalaBus-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man hangs out the door of a private bus. When he leaves the city, he will ride on the top of the roof, hanging on to an after-market luggage rack that’s been attached. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The highway to the town of Huehuetenango is a semi‐paved collection of deep potholes on a narrow path. Our rental car shook so much from the road that the front bumper would fall off. I inhaled thick clouds of diesel exhaust from the buses and their rich‐burning engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this road, I saw three bodies on the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One motorcyclist near the town of Mixco was either shot or hit by a car -- regardless, what was once the back of the man’s head had come out of his helmet and spilled out onto the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further north in the town of Chimaltenango, two bodies lay on the ground, their motorcycle 50 yards away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Police in Chimaltenango killed two men on a motorcycle they said were assassins hired by a local drug cartel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-1200x784.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/ChiCops-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in Chimaltenango killed two men on a motorcycle they said were assassins hired by a local drug cartel. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An officer told us the men worked for drug cartels and were killed by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They caught some \u003cem>sicarios\u003c/em>,” he said. “Thank god ... they weren’t able to carry out their mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roads stay backed up for hours after the killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it took nine hours to drive 134 miles to the town of Huehuetenango, the capital of the region where most Guatemalan migrants come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Huehuetenango\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ancient cradle of the Mayan civilization, Huehuetenango is a town of small dwellings, a few pharmaceutical companies and an open sewer that can be smelled from almost any point in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to U.N. statistics, 90 percent of the people here live in absolute poverty. In real terms, what this means is there are few schools, dirt roads, and no water service to most of the 88,000 people in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11684169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A 5-year-old girl helps her grandmother wash clothes at Huehuetenango’s municipal wash tub.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-960x637.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/GirlWashing-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 5-year-old girl helps her grandmother wash clothes at Huehuetenango’s municipal wash tub. \u003ccite>(John Sepulvado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day, women meet at a municipal water hole in the center of town near the open sewer, where they wash their family’s clothes. Girls as young as four years old use concrete washboards to scrub the stains out of shirts, while women as old as 80 scoot to the side as men fill up jugs to take clean water to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Road to Champerico\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huehuetenango is isolated from the rest of the country by high mountains and bad roads. To get a sense of life in the valley and the coast, I head toward the beach town of Champerico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the high mountains, I see young indigenous children play soccer in front of small huts with clay roofs. Sometimes traffic stops for goat and sheep herders, who lead their animals to graze the deep green grass that grows on subvertical mountainsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people often stop traffic here by putting a rope up across the roadway. These roped roads are guerrilla tollways. Children swarm the car when the driver stops. To avoid the children, most drivers just go faster, forcing the kids to pull the rope off the road or watch it fly into the air when the car hits it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garbage is piled in lots on the side of mountains or in the valleys. There are no garbage trucks and no landfills, so the locals either burn their trash or dump it on public property. Often the trash is sorted by item in these impromptu dumpsites. There are diaper-pile trash sites, where hundreds of used diapers have been thrown on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683623/months-after-her-dad-was-deported-young-girl-still-alone-in-u-s-shelter\">Months After Her Dad Was Deported, Young Guatemalan Girl Still Alone in U.S. Shelter\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11683623/months-after-her-dad-was-deported-young-girl-still-alone-in-u-s-shelter\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FilemonaMain-1180x681.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the windy mountain road turns into a series of straight lines in various valleys and through a host of little hamlets and towns. While each population center is similarly anchored by both a church and municipal hall, there are differences in what the vendors on the side of the road sell to passers-by: bananas, coconuts, leather goods, water, colorful indigenous dresses, baskets, melons and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The traffic typically slows to a crawl in each town, offering creative vendors a captive audience to hawk their wares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic begins to move on the final 30 miles of our journey. The road connecting the town of Retalhuleu to Champerico is smooth and straight, an investment made during a time when Guatemalan officials hoped to turn the beach into a tourist destination. But located as it is south of Chiapas, Mexico -- one of the most drug-worn areas in the world -- Champerico has remained impoverished and crime-ridden.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Champerico\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was night when I checked into a local hotel a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. For a large room with three beds, I pay the equivalent of $35. The rooms are without air conditioning, and it's 95 degrees. The woman looks surprised to see an American, and asks if I’m lost and how long I’ll be staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotel owner tells me to lock the car up at a nearby neighbor’s house. A man walks over and directs me to follow him to his home. I drive slowly behind him as he pedals his bike. A few blocks away, he opens a double-gated car park. I park the car and lock the doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, I can hear the crashing of ocean waves. I head toward them, but the man tells me not to head to the beach at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too dangerous,” he says, without clarifying what he’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ball up the sheets from the other bed, and hold them while I sleep, so they can soak up the sweat that’s pooling up on me, trapped by the ocean’s heat and humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, the driver's side door is unlocked. I check the rest of the car, and see that the fender has been removed and reattached overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t ask the man about it and try to forget I noticed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I leave, I stop by the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, a 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother carry machetes, coconuts and straws in a big red bucket. I buy two coconuts from them, and sit on the beach. The siblings walk around trying to sell the rest of the coconuts. After being rebuffed by the vacationing Mexicans, I watch as brother and sister begin sword-fighting with the machetes, using the coconuts as bombs. Seven-foot waves crash behind them as they run on the black volcanic sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes, the two get bored and ask me to buy more coconuts. They plop down next to me, tired under the hot noon sun. We talk about what they want to be when they grow up. The girl tells me she wants to be a police officer. Her little brother says he wants to be a robber with the cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d catch you,” the girl tells him. “And put you in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d kill you,” the boy says, laughing, pointing his machete at her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco may become the next U.S. city to ban plastic straws. The city’s Board of Supervisors approved the ban on a preliminary basis last week and the final decision is on its agenda Tuesday. That has shops that sell boba, or bubble tea — a drink that has to be sucked through a straw — concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubble tea is typically served in a big plastic cup over ice. It has balls of tapioca at the bottom the size of small marbles. You use a wide straw to suck up the tapioca, or boba, from the bottom of the cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For boba fans, the straw is an integral part of the experience. “Boba is just, in general, an expression, right?” says Alvin Yu, co-owner of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.steepsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steep Creamery and Tea\u003c/a>. “You have not just tapioca pearls, but you also have aloe jelly, you have these herbal jellies that we make ourselves. And it all requires a straw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Yelp, more than 200 shops sell bubble tea in San Francisco. All of them will have to change their business practices if the city bans plastic straws to help reduce litter and landfill and combat the amount of single-use plastics that end up polluting the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size and shape of plastic straws makes them particularly problematic for the city’s composting and recycling centers, says San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/supervisor-tang-district-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katy Tang\u003c/a>, who spearheaded the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re being sorted in the sorting machines, [the straws] just fall through the cracks and so they don’t actually get composted — even if they are supposedly made of compostable material,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why San Francisco’s plastic straw ban goes a step further than similar prohibitions passed by other U.S. cities: Not even plastic that’s compostable is allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu says he was lucky. His shop was able to beat the rush and order paper straws in advance of the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other boba shops haven’t been so fortunate. Only a few companies manufacture super-sized paper straws big enough for bubble tea. They’re all reporting huge orders and delays lasting up to \u003cem>four months\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But paper is not a perfect fix, says Yu. “Part of the experience of drinking boba is poking a sharp end of a straw through the plastic seal of a cup. And that’s something we wanted to emulate,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the paper straws Yu ordered aren’t cut with a point on the end. So he and his staff have to cut them all by hand. The paper straws are also expensive — about 10 times more than plastic straws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about drinking bubble tea without a straw? “It’d be really hard,” says boba fan Julie Abad, a customer at Yu’s shop drinking a plain black tea with tapioca and lychee jelly at the bottom. “I think I’d have to pour it into a cup and use a spoon or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like customer Kehlani Penland, just dismissed the idea outright. “Nobody wants to do that when you’re walking and it’s cold outside. You know, you just want to sip it with a straw!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Steep Creamery and Tea is offering the paper straws for free. But Yu says that over time, he will have to raise prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some environmentally conscious boba consumers, like 10-year-old Alice Asoyan, say all this effort is worth it. “Our world is in big danger right now because of plastic, so paper is probably better,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes again on Tuesday, it goes to Mayor London Breed for her signature. She has previously come out in favor of the ban. Businesses will then have until July 2019 to trade in their plastic straws for paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boba lovers can also choose to do what Supervisor Tang suggests: Carry a metal straw just for bubble tea.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As newly minted college students get ready to start classes next month, some will find their school’s estimates for costs are way off. If students relied on what colleges report, they’d expect to pay nearly the same amount for food and off-campus housing at \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calstate.edu/attend/paying-for-college/Pages/campus-costs-of-attendance.aspx\">Fresno State\u003c/a> as at \u003ca href=\"http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/budget.htm\">UCLA\u003c/a>, even though the two areas have dramatically different housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There doesn't seem to be an overall rhyme or reason as to how colleges set these allowances,” said Seton Hall University professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.shu.edu/profiles/robertkelchen.cfm\">Robert Kelchen\u003c/a>, who studied college budget estimates nationally. “It was happening basically everywhere, and the concern was greatest in areas with very high living costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad estimates can throw off not only students’ budgeting, but also their financial aid packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any college that gets federal financial aid has to come up with a basic cost of attendance estimate, but schools have a lot of leeway in how they make that calculation. 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But working a lot more means that it's hard to go to college full time and it may be hard to do well in school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even within the same city, estimates can vary: \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstatela.edu/financialaid/2018-2019-cost-attendance\">Cal State Los Angeles' estimate\u003c/a> for non-tuition costs is $19,454; \u003ca href=\"http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/budget.htm\">UCLA’s\u003c/a> is $17,802.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley and Berkeley City College are less than half a mile apart. But \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/4619330/Student-Cost-of-Attendance.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWZKW64MXJ5HXBOA&Expires=1532652435&Signature=mHyoSKPbWEL9Nse74Wwni3rQL4Q%3D\">City College estimates\u003c/a> students spend about $4,800 more every school year on non-tuition costs than \u003ca href=\"https://financialaid.berkeley.edu/cost-attendance\">UC Berkeley estimates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really unclear why UC Berkeley students would need so much less, would be spending so much less,” Cochrane says. “I mean in many cases these students are actually roommates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC’s estimates are based on its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/services/survey-services/UCOAS.html\">student surveys\u003c/a>, done every three years. 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But working a lot more means that it's hard to go to college full time and it may be hard to do well in school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even within the same city, estimates can vary: \u003ca href=\"http://www.calstatela.edu/financialaid/2018-2019-cost-attendance\">Cal State Los Angeles' estimate\u003c/a> for non-tuition costs is $19,454; \u003ca href=\"http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/budget.htm\">UCLA’s\u003c/a> is $17,802.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley and Berkeley City College are less than half a mile apart. But \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/4619330/Student-Cost-of-Attendance.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWZKW64MXJ5HXBOA&Expires=1532652435&Signature=mHyoSKPbWEL9Nse74Wwni3rQL4Q%3D\">City College estimates\u003c/a> students spend about $4,800 more every school year on non-tuition costs than \u003ca href=\"https://financialaid.berkeley.edu/cost-attendance\">UC Berkeley estimates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really unclear why UC Berkeley students would need so much less, would be spending so much less,” Cochrane says. “I mean in many cases these students are actually roommates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC’s estimates are based on its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/services/survey-services/UCOAS.html\">student surveys\u003c/a>, done every three years. Some parts of the Berkeley City College budget appear to use the statewide estimate provided by the Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the discrepancy, a UC spokesperson pointed to the fact that UC’s data are newer. The Student Aid Commission’s estimate is based on a survey last conducted more than a decade ago. And while it’s been adjusted annually for inflation, commission administrators raise concerns that the estimate is actually too low because of its age. They’re in the process of conducting a new survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673311/housing-costs-more-than-tuition-are-crushing-californias-low-income-college-students\">Housing Costs — More Than Tuition — Are Crushing California's Low-Income College Students\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673311/housing-costs-more-than-tuition-are-crushing-californias-low-income-college-students\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/SadiaKahn-1180x1006.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rental-price-data/\">Recent Apartment List data\u003c/a> put the average cost of a one-bedroom apartment in Berkeley at $2,113 a month. To live on the off-campus housing budget UC Berkeley provides, two students would have to share that apartment and wouldn’t have money left over for utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cochrane and Kelchen agree that coming up with estimates is complicated, and it’s hard to know what’s accurate, but both see an incentive to make prices look lower than they are: For schools that provide generous grant aid, raising the price tag would mean shelling out a lot more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they lowball costs, not only does that spare their own institutional aid budgets,” Cochrane said, “but it also makes them look better in the eyes of students and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators have been looking for fixes. They introduced at least three bills in the last couple years that took on the issue. Last year, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:50 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>The Ferguson Fire burning near Yosemite National Park has now grown to 45,911 acres as of this morning and is 29% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:36 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Now in its 14th day, the Ferguson Fire grew by 1,723 acres overnight to a total of 43,299 acres and is 27 percent contained, according to a report by Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/CASNF/2018-07-14-1535-FERGUSON-FIRE/related_files/pict20180626-090351-0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released this morning.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the U.S. Forest Service, Cal Fire and Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office will present an overview of the current situation at two upcoming community meetings. The first is at the Mariposa Fairgrounds in Mariposa today at 6 p.m. and the second is at the Tenaya Elementary School in Groveland tomorrow at 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:05 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> A massive wildfire that's forced Yosemite National Park officials to shut down Yosemite Valley grew by more than 3,000 acres on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire\u003c/a>, burning in the Sierra and Stanislaus national forests, has now scorched 41,576 acres of dry brush and timber along rough terrain, according to Cal Fire. As of Wednesday evening, the blaze is 26 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say hot and dry conditions fueled the wildfire during the day, forcing local officials to issue multiple new evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite officials closed off Yosemite Valley and the Wawona area of the park to all visitors on Wednesday afternoon. Officials say firefighters were able to improve containment lines around the Wawona Campground during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park Superintendent Michael Reynolds on Wednesday issued \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/CASNF/2018-07-14-1535-FERGUSON-FIRE/related_files/pict20180625-195803-0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fire restrictions\u003c/a> until further notice due to high fire danger within the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of structures threatened by the fire grew by more than 1,700 to 5,236 on Wednesday. Fire officials say the blaze has destroyed one structure that wasn't a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,600 personnel are battling the wildfire with 241 engines, 47 water tenders, 18 helicopters and 63 dozers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One firefighter has been killed and seven have been injured fighting the blaze. The fallen firefighter — 36-year-old Braden Varney — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680746/cal-osha-launches-investigation-into-firefighter-death-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed on July 14\u003c/a> after his bulldozer overturned in a steep ravine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Difficult conditions are expected to continue for firefighters on Thursday, with temperatures likely reaching into the triple digits again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 2:20 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>A large portion of Yosemite National Park — including Yosemite Valley — was officially closed to visitors on Wednesday due to the massive \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire\u003c/a> burning just miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokesman Scott Gediman said Yosemite Valley — by far the most popular area in the park, known for its sweeping views of cascading waterfalls and massive rock formations — was closed mainly because of poor air quality due to smoke from the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials shut down the Wawona area, near the southern end of the park, in order to house firefighting operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say a significant shift in wind patterns Tuesday night caused an increase in fire activity along the fire's southern end, forcing local authorities to issue multiple new mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vast majority of disappointed visitors have taken the evacuation orders seriously and left the closed portions of the park before noon, Gediman said there's a chance some backcountry campers don't even know that parts of Yosemite are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do have folks that are out on the hiking trails,\" he said. \"And there is a possibility that if folks have been out for a week or so, they may not even know what's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman said park officials will not be sending rangers out to look for campers who may not be aware of the evacuations, but they are notifying visitors who haven't yet started their backcountry trips that there are significant closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials expect the evacuations to have a significant impact on park revenue, with losses from entrance fees, campground reservations and concessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only are we a big economic driver here in the park, but a lot of the surround communities rely heavily on park visitation,\" Gediman said. \"We're working closely with the tourism bureaus and chambers of commerce to mitigate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman couldn't offer an exact figure for how much money would be lost, but he did say the fact that the evacuations come at the peak of tourist season is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Ferguson Fire hangs over the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, Yosemite National Park, on July 21, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Ferguson Fire hangs over the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, Yosemite National Park, on July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"On a typical summer day like today, we'd have over 300 campsites full of campers,\" he said. \"We'd have all the hotels and lodges full, restaurants, tours, ranger walks. So given the fact that none of that's happening is both an economic impact and an impact to the visitors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ferguson Fire, currently burning in the Sierra and Stanislaus national forests, has scorched through 38,522 acres — or just over 60 square miles — of dry brush and timber along steep terrain. As of early Wednesday afternoon, the blaze is 25 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to fire officials, the wildfire is burning 1.5-2 miles from Yosemite's western boundary. Firefighters are doing some controlled burns closer to the park in order to prevent the fire from spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen said crews plan to begin controlled burning operations within the park boundaries at some point soon. As part of the process, Mackensen said, firefighters are working closely with wildlife experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More of KQED's Coverage of the Ferguson Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681900/deadly-wildfire-inches-closer-to-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire Continues to Grow Near Yosemite as Firefighters Mourn Fallen Comrade\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680988/wildfire-smoke-continues-to-impact-health-travel-in-and-around-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildfire Smoke Continues to Impact Health, Travel in and Around Yosemite\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They're actually out there with our guys,\" he said. \"When we're cutting line with the bulldozers, they're out in front of the bulldozers looking for signs, looking for species, flagging those things. And we adjust our lines in our operations in order to protect those cultural heritages and endangered species and so forth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials expect temperatures to reach into the triple digits Wednesday and Thursday, making conditions extremely difficult for firefighters working on the front line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is potential today, with the weather conditions, for some significant fire spread,\" Mackensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One firefighter has been killed and seven have been injured fighting the blaze. The fallen firefighter — 36-year-old Braden Varney — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680746/cal-osha-launches-investigation-into-firefighter-death-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed on July 14\u003c/a> after his bulldozer overturned in a steep ravine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed one structure that wasn't a home. 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Fire officials say the blaze has destroyed one structure that wasn't a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,600 personnel are battling the wildfire with 241 engines, 47 water tenders, 18 helicopters and 63 dozers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One firefighter has been killed and seven have been injured fighting the blaze. The fallen firefighter — 36-year-old Braden Varney — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680746/cal-osha-launches-investigation-into-firefighter-death-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed on July 14\u003c/a> after his bulldozer overturned in a steep ravine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Difficult conditions are expected to continue for firefighters on Thursday, with temperatures likely reaching into the triple digits again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 2:20 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>A large portion of Yosemite National Park — including Yosemite Valley — was officially closed to visitors on Wednesday due to the massive \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5927/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire\u003c/a> burning just miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokesman Scott Gediman said Yosemite Valley — by far the most popular area in the park, known for its sweeping views of cascading waterfalls and massive rock formations — was closed mainly because of poor air quality due to smoke from the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials shut down the Wawona area, near the southern end of the park, in order to house firefighting operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials say a significant shift in wind patterns Tuesday night caused an increase in fire activity along the fire's southern end, forcing local authorities to issue multiple new mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vast majority of disappointed visitors have taken the evacuation orders seriously and left the closed portions of the park before noon, Gediman said there's a chance some backcountry campers don't even know that parts of Yosemite are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do have folks that are out on the hiking trails,\" he said. \"And there is a possibility that if folks have been out for a week or so, they may not even know what's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman said park officials will not be sending rangers out to look for campers who may not be aware of the evacuations, but they are notifying visitors who haven't yet started their backcountry trips that there are significant closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials expect the evacuations to have a significant impact on park revenue, with losses from entrance fees, campground reservations and concessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only are we a big economic driver here in the park, but a lot of the surround communities rely heavily on park visitation,\" Gediman said. \"We're working closely with the tourism bureaus and chambers of commerce to mitigate it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gediman couldn't offer an exact figure for how much money would be lost, but he did say the fact that the evacuations come at the peak of tourist season is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Ferguson Fire hangs over the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, Yosemite National Park, on July 21, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SmokyLodge-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Ferguson Fire hangs over the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal, Yosemite National Park, on July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"On a typical summer day like today, we'd have over 300 campsites full of campers,\" he said. \"We'd have all the hotels and lodges full, restaurants, tours, ranger walks. So given the fact that none of that's happening is both an economic impact and an impact to the visitors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ferguson Fire, currently burning in the Sierra and Stanislaus national forests, has scorched through 38,522 acres — or just over 60 square miles — of dry brush and timber along steep terrain. As of early Wednesday afternoon, the blaze is 25 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to fire officials, the wildfire is burning 1.5-2 miles from Yosemite's western boundary. Firefighters are doing some controlled burns closer to the park in order to prevent the fire from spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen said crews plan to begin controlled burning operations within the park boundaries at some point soon. As part of the process, Mackensen said, firefighters are working closely with wildlife experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More of KQED's Coverage of the Ferguson Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681900/deadly-wildfire-inches-closer-to-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferguson Fire Continues to Grow Near Yosemite as Firefighters Mourn Fallen Comrade\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680988/wildfire-smoke-continues-to-impact-health-travel-in-and-around-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildfire Smoke Continues to Impact Health, Travel in and Around Yosemite\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"They're actually out there with our guys,\" he said. \"When we're cutting line with the bulldozers, they're out in front of the bulldozers looking for signs, looking for species, flagging those things. And we adjust our lines in our operations in order to protect those cultural heritages and endangered species and so forth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials expect temperatures to reach into the triple digits Wednesday and Thursday, making conditions extremely difficult for firefighters working on the front line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is potential today, with the weather conditions, for some significant fire spread,\" Mackensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One firefighter has been killed and seven have been injured fighting the blaze. The fallen firefighter — 36-year-old Braden Varney — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680746/cal-osha-launches-investigation-into-firefighter-death-near-yosemite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed on July 14\u003c/a> after his bulldozer overturned in a steep ravine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She held out hope that lawmakers in the state capitol would be able to avoid an all-or-nothing ballot battle, and instead reform the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that repeal is on the ballot, Wicks is not taking a position on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'll see what the voters decide in November,\" she said in response to questions about her stance on Proposition 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I get this job and I go to Sacramento I will work to ensure that our renters in this district have the protections they need to be supported,\" Wicks added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an election in which Democrats are hoping to turn out voters to flip Congressional seats and keep the statehouse blue, rent control could be a magnet to get liberals to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"There's a lot of interest from activists in the party to see Proposition 10 pass,\" said David Campos, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party. \"That energy will be used to help Gavin Newsom get elected governor, it will be used to make sure that we take back the House of Representatives.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Proposition 10 campaign will need to solidify more Democratic support over the coming months, as they face a \"No on 10\" campaign that will likely have more funding than supporters of the measure \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the unified backing of state Republicans, who generally oppose rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"Yes\" campaign could try to rally Democrats in opposition to its biggest financial opponent, Orange County developer Michael Hayde, who has already spent $3.7 million against Prop. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayde is a longtime Republican donor who gave $12,500 to Donald Trump in the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after the party's vote to endorse Proposition 10, party chair Eric Bauman chose to focus on Hayde, and not any policy divisions within the Democratic ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The questions surrounding contributions from Trump supporter Michael K. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]K[/dropcap]hisrow Jan has $800 in the bank. Rent is $1,850, and was due four days ago. He’s late with his payment, again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jan gets ready for work — driving an Uber in San Francisco for the next 12 hours — his 4-year-old daughter, Shukula, barricades the front door of their two-bedroom apartment in Antioch, a far-flung Bay Area suburb east of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to work. Need to make some money,” Jan, 34, playfully tells his daughter. “No, you cannot,” replies Shukula, an impish smile spreading across her face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look buddy,” says Jan. “I got to go, get some money, and buy you a dress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That satisfies Shukula. She and the rest of Jan’s family — 9-year-old Sameera, 5-year old Mirwais and 9-month-old Wais, carried by his mother — follow Jan out to his car. He’ll be back at 2 or 3 a.m., long after his kids have fallen asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jan and his family fled Afghanistan in 2015, he knew adjusting to a new life in California wasn’t going to be easy. His wife speaks very little English, and even after working as an interpreter with U.S. troops, his job prospects were limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he never dreamed California was going to be this expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s skyrocketing housing costs have created a harsh new reality for refugees on the ground, many of which are going to extraordinary lengths just to afford rent. The cost of living has increased so much in recent years that refugee resettlement agencies working in California are rethinking their strategies for relocating clients — and whether the state is a good fit for some refugees in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard a lot about California out there in Afghanistan,” says Jan, who embedded with American soldiers from the Bay Area and other parts of the state. “They were saying California is nice. But trust me, I didn’t know anything about the rent and all these bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Khisrow Jan, a refugee from Afghanistan, lives in a cramped apartment in Antioch with his wife and their four children. He drives an Uber more than 70 hours a week to make ends meet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-1200x856.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-1180x842.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-960x685.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-520x371.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khisrow Jan, a refugee from Afghanistan, lives in a cramped apartment in Antioch with his wife and their four children. He drives an Uber more than 70 hours a week to make ends meet. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California has long been a landing spot for refugees like Jan. Waves of Vietnamese, Iranian, Central American and other immigrants have resettled here over the past few decades, escaping persecution and turmoil in their home countries. More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/arrivals_by_county_and_year_since_1975.pdf?ver=2018-05-23-154958-877\">700,000 refugees\u003c/a> have come to California since the mid-1970s, including more than 30,000 in the last five years, according to state statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That history is partly why so many Californians pride themselves on their welcoming attitude toward newcomers displaced from their native countries. While refugee arrivals dipped dramatically last year under new Trump administration policies, the state’s progressive political leadership has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-state-senate-passes-1485824122-htmlstory.html\">repeatedly branded\u003c/a> California as the refugee-friendly antidote to Trump, challenging the president’s actions to reduce refugee admissions and passing a “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians’ welcoming attitude only goes so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really hard place to come, just because of the cost of living, especially the cost of housing,\" says Avi Rose, executive director of Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, the nonprofit that assisted Jan.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California.'\u003ccite>Khisrow Jan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most refugee resettlement agencies no longer place families in San Francisco because of the city’s high housing costs. In San Diego, long a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/san-diego-welcomes-refugees-california-county/\">leading destination for refugees\u003c/a>, one resettlement agency was \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/23/federal-monitors-warned-san-diego-refugee-nonprofi/\">accused\u003c/a> of placing families in apartments that did not have enough sleeping space and advising refugees to lie to landlords about the number of people in their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay resettled 183 refugees in the Bay Area, the vast majority coming from Afghanistan. Rose says his agency is moving more and more of those clients inland, away from pricier coastal cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may mean cheaper rents, but it also means refugees may be farther from communities that share their language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s particularly a problem with women, because the women are home usually with the kids,” says Rose. “They’re more likely to be isolated, less likely to be picking up English. It’s hard anyway, but it’s harder if you’re isolated geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason Jan stays in the Bay Area, despite the high price tag. His brother lives close by, and there are other Afghani families in his apartment complex. That makes things easier on his wife, who doesn’t speak English very well and does not have a driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California,” says Jan. “Over here, it’s too much rent. But I’m used to it now, I can’t move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Urinating in a Bottle to Save Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s the Fourth of July, and Jan is dressed for the occasion. He has a polo shirt with a small American flag embroidered on the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patriotism of the vehicle he drives for Uber is less subtle. It has a bald eagle decal on the top of the windshield. Another decal with the motto of one of the military units Jan worked with in Afghanistan is tacked on the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">Is California's Expensive Housing Scaring Away Job Seekers?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RecruiteratDesk-1180x835.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Beneath his car seat is a large plastic bottle. Jan doesn’t have much time for bathroom breaks during his Uber rides. It’s especially difficult to find a free restroom in San Francisco, where restaurants and gas stations typically allow access only to paying customers because of the city’s large homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jan will often pee in the bottle, typically in the back seat of his car, which has tinted windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he worked with American troops and says he saw live combat, Jan is not eligible for veterans’ benefits. Neither are any of the other roughly 10,000 holders of “special immigrant visas” in California, a program designed for Iraqis and Afghanis who worked with the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is frequently not safe for natives who worked with American forces to remain in their home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little Support From Government, and Nothing Coming Anytime Soon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Special immigrant visa-holders and other refugees don’t get much in the way of government support. The federal government provides a little more than $1,000 in one-time cash assistance for each refugee family member, regardless of where that family is resettling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So an Afghani family resettling in California gets the same amount per person as another family that relocates in Idaho or Texas, which have significantly cheaper costs of living. That cash assistance is supposed to pay for a security deposit and three months of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees are also eligible for safety net programs like food stamps, welfare and free health insurance for the poor. Jan’s family is on Medi-Cal, the state’s low-income health insurance program. He says the family used to be on food stamps, but in the month his eligibility was recertified his income exceeded the program’s limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"Khisrow Jan’s youngest child, Wais, crawls on his parents’ bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khisrow Jan’s youngest child, Wais, crawls on his parents’ bed. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit resettlement agencies provide important support in the way of English classes, locating refugee-friendly landlords and helping navigate school and government bureaucracies. But they typically don’t provide much in the way of direct cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a crisis for everyone in California frankly — seniors, veterans, folks who are disabled,” says Kevin McCarty, a Democratic state legislator from Sacramento who says the federal refugee benefits are probably insufficient. “But it’s especially hard when these refugee families are trying to make a go of it in their first few months here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty has led the charge in the state Legislature to provide more state government support for refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, his “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package included additional funding for school districts with high refugee populations and automatic in-state tuition at state community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the package contained no help for housing. A housing resource guide produced by the state’s Refugee Programs Bureau \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/refugeeprogram/res/pdf/Housing/Housing_Resources_Guide.pdf\">suggests new arrivals\u003c/a> explore single-room occupancy and shelter housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682453/worst-poverty-in-california-not-where-you-might-expect-it\">Worst Poverty in California? Not Where You Might Think\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682453/worst-poverty-in-california-not-where-you-might-expect-it\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SantaCruzBeach-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people in California hurting for housing, I think we need to work on housing for everybody,” says McCarty. “I don’t see in the immediate future additional dollars for housing allotment for refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Happy to Be Out of Danger, but a Tough Road Ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jan admits that every now and then, he wonders whether he made the right decision to leave Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was never safe for him and his family. But after working with American troops for five years, he landed a pretty good job with a private security company in his homeland, where he could work from home a good amount. He had a large house, much larger than the two-bedroom, one-bathroom place in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he thinks about the real reason he says he decided to leave Afghanistan — what happened to his newborn daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jan’s 1-month-old daughter started having trouble breathing, Jan and his wife took her to a public hospital in Kabul. Jan soon became convinced his daughter was receiving poor treatment because the hospital staff knew he had worked with American forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say to the doctor, ‘Can you please tell me what’s going on with her?” says Jan. “And he was like, ‘Oh, she will be good, no problem.’ And then he would just walk away from me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan said he had to bribe nurses to give his daughter medical care. After 20 days in the hospital, he got a call from his wife. His daughter had passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As soon as I saw that I was like, 'I’m not staying in this country anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Shukula, Sameera and Mirwais Jan (left to right) in the bedroom they share. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1200x823.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shukula, Sameera and Mirwais Jan (left to right) in the bedroom they share. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he drives his Uber around San Francisco on July 4, he picks up two passengers by the ferry terminal. They’re Iranian refugees who recently moved to Texas, fleeing religious persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re here on vacation, and start chatting in Farsi with Jan, one of the four languages he speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In English, they answer questions about how cheap the cost of living is in San Antonio. Jan says it’s not the first time he’s picked up fellow refugees vacationing from out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that weekend, he decides not to take another day off the rest of the month. He can’t afford another penalty for paying his rent late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The cost of living has increased so much in recent years that refugee resettlement agencies working in California are rethinking their strategies for relocating clients — and whether the state is a good fit for some refugees in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard a lot about California out there in Afghanistan,” says Jan, who embedded with American soldiers from the Bay Area and other parts of the state. “They were saying California is nice. But trust me, I didn’t know anything about the rent and all these bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/FamilyDinner-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Khisrow Jan, a refugee from Afghanistan, lives in a cramped apartment in Antioch with his wife and their four children. 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He drives an Uber more than 70 hours a week to make ends meet. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California has long been a landing spot for refugees like Jan. Waves of Vietnamese, Iranian, Central American and other immigrants have resettled here over the past few decades, escaping persecution and turmoil in their home countries. More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/arrivals_by_county_and_year_since_1975.pdf?ver=2018-05-23-154958-877\">700,000 refugees\u003c/a> have come to California since the mid-1970s, including more than 30,000 in the last five years, according to state statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That history is partly why so many Californians pride themselves on their welcoming attitude toward newcomers displaced from their native countries. While refugee arrivals dipped dramatically last year under new Trump administration policies, the state’s progressive political leadership has \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-state-senate-passes-1485824122-htmlstory.html\">repeatedly branded\u003c/a> California as the refugee-friendly antidote to Trump, challenging the president’s actions to reduce refugee admissions and passing a “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians’ welcoming attitude only goes so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really hard place to come, just because of the cost of living, especially the cost of housing,\" says Avi Rose, executive director of Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, the nonprofit that assisted Jan.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California.'\u003ccite>Khisrow Jan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most refugee resettlement agencies no longer place families in San Francisco because of the city’s high housing costs. In San Diego, long a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/san-diego-welcomes-refugees-california-county/\">leading destination for refugees\u003c/a>, one resettlement agency was \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/23/federal-monitors-warned-san-diego-refugee-nonprofi/\">accused\u003c/a> of placing families in apartments that did not have enough sleeping space and advising refugees to lie to landlords about the number of people in their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay resettled 183 refugees in the Bay Area, the vast majority coming from Afghanistan. Rose says his agency is moving more and more of those clients inland, away from pricier coastal cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may mean cheaper rents, but it also means refugees may be farther from communities that share their language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s particularly a problem with women, because the women are home usually with the kids,” says Rose. “They’re more likely to be isolated, less likely to be picking up English. It’s hard anyway, but it’s harder if you’re isolated geographically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason Jan stays in the Bay Area, despite the high price tag. His brother lives close by, and there are other Afghani families in his apartment complex. That makes things easier on his wife, who doesn’t speak English very well and does not have a driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I [had to ] do it over, I wouldn’t come to California,” says Jan. “Over here, it’s too much rent. But I’m used to it now, I can’t move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Urinating in a Bottle to Save Money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s the Fourth of July, and Jan is dressed for the occasion. He has a polo shirt with a small American flag embroidered on the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The patriotism of the vehicle he drives for Uber is less subtle. It has a bald eagle decal on the top of the windshield. Another decal with the motto of one of the military units Jan worked with in Afghanistan is tacked on the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">Is California's Expensive Housing Scaring Away Job Seekers?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670533/is-californias-expensive-housing-scaring-away-job-seekers\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RecruiteratDesk-1180x835.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Beneath his car seat is a large plastic bottle. Jan doesn’t have much time for bathroom breaks during his Uber rides. It’s especially difficult to find a free restroom in San Francisco, where restaurants and gas stations typically allow access only to paying customers because of the city’s large homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Jan will often pee in the bottle, typically in the back seat of his car, which has tinted windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he worked with American troops and says he saw live combat, Jan is not eligible for veterans’ benefits. Neither are any of the other roughly 10,000 holders of “special immigrant visas” in California, a program designed for Iraqis and Afghanis who worked with the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is frequently not safe for natives who worked with American forces to remain in their home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little Support From Government, and Nothing Coming Anytime Soon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Special immigrant visa-holders and other refugees don’t get much in the way of government support. The federal government provides a little more than $1,000 in one-time cash assistance for each refugee family member, regardless of where that family is resettling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So an Afghani family resettling in California gets the same amount per person as another family that relocates in Idaho or Texas, which have significantly cheaper costs of living. That cash assistance is supposed to pay for a security deposit and three months of rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees are also eligible for safety net programs like food stamps, welfare and free health insurance for the poor. Jan’s family is on Medi-Cal, the state’s low-income health insurance program. He says the family used to be on food stamps, but in the month his eligibility was recertified his income exceeded the program’s limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"Khisrow Jan’s youngest child, Wais, crawls on his parents’ bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RefugeeAndBaby-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khisrow Jan’s youngest child, Wais, crawls on his parents’ bed. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit resettlement agencies provide important support in the way of English classes, locating refugee-friendly landlords and helping navigate school and government bureaucracies. But they typically don’t provide much in the way of direct cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a crisis for everyone in California frankly — seniors, veterans, folks who are disabled,” says Kevin McCarty, a Democratic state legislator from Sacramento who says the federal refugee benefits are probably insufficient. “But it’s especially hard when these refugee families are trying to make a go of it in their first few months here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty has led the charge in the state Legislature to provide more state government support for refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, his “California Welcomes Refugees” legislative package included additional funding for school districts with high refugee populations and automatic in-state tuition at state community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the package contained no help for housing. A housing resource guide produced by the state’s Refugee Programs Bureau \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/refugeeprogram/res/pdf/Housing/Housing_Resources_Guide.pdf\">suggests new arrivals\u003c/a> explore single-room occupancy and shelter housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682453/worst-poverty-in-california-not-where-you-might-expect-it\">Worst Poverty in California? Not Where You Might Think\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682453/worst-poverty-in-california-not-where-you-might-expect-it\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/SantaCruzBeach-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people in California hurting for housing, I think we need to work on housing for everybody,” says McCarty. “I don’t see in the immediate future additional dollars for housing allotment for refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Happy to Be Out of Danger, but a Tough Road Ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jan admits that every now and then, he wonders whether he made the right decision to leave Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was never safe for him and his family. But after working with American troops for five years, he landed a pretty good job with a private security company in his homeland, where he could work from home a good amount. He had a large house, much larger than the two-bedroom, one-bathroom place in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he thinks about the real reason he says he decided to leave Afghanistan — what happened to his newborn daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jan’s 1-month-old daughter started having trouble breathing, Jan and his wife took her to a public hospital in Kabul. Jan soon became convinced his daughter was receiving poor treatment because the hospital staff knew he had worked with American forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say to the doctor, ‘Can you please tell me what’s going on with her?” says Jan. “And he was like, ‘Oh, she will be good, no problem.’ And then he would just walk away from me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan said he had to bribe nurses to give his daughter medical care. After 20 days in the hospital, he got a call from his wife. His daughter had passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As soon as I saw that I was like, 'I’m not staying in this country anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11682671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11682671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Shukula, Sameera and Mirwais Jan (left to right) in the bedroom they share. \" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1200x823.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-960x659.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-375x257.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/JanKids-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shukula, Sameera and Mirwais Jan (left to right) in the bedroom they share. \u003ccite>(Robbie Short/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he drives his Uber around San Francisco on July 4, he picks up two passengers by the ferry terminal. They’re Iranian refugees who recently moved to Texas, fleeing religious persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re here on vacation, and start chatting in Farsi with Jan, one of the four languages he speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In English, they answer questions about how cheap the cost of living is in San Antonio. Jan says it’s not the first time he’s picked up fellow refugees vacationing from out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that weekend, he decides not to take another day off the rest of the month. He can’t afford another penalty for paying his rent late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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