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And I know that there, it’s the crowds and traffic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, California’s sky-high housing costs. The median price of a California home -- now $538,640, according to the California Association of Realtors -- is more than double the national median home price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of financial workers Stone recruits could always find work in a less expensive part of the country. They do get a pay bump in California, but their annual salary alone is often not enough to afford a house in urban, coastal Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred thousand dollars here isn't going to go nearly as far as in Kansas or Missouri or any of those states,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently takes an annual household income of $112,930 to afford a median-priced Los Angeles home, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2018releases/1qtr2018hai\">a recent report\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. 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One worker he successfully recruited from the Washington, D.C., area didn't have much time to find a place to live. So Stone scouted apartments for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he toured the apartments using his phone’s Facetime app, “just letting him know a little bit about the areas the apartment was in as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in today’s tight labor market, Proven recruiters said they still find plenty of job seekers living in California who are open to new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recruiting people from out of state is more difficult. In recent years, only 7 percent of Proven’s California placements have been filled with people from out of state. Ingram Losner, the firm’s co-founder, said that number was lower than he expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at it on paper, and you see the cost differential between living in California and living outside of California, you can’t live on the promise of a dream,” Losner said. “And that’s clearly where people decide to remove themselves from the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Proven Recruiting having a tough time luring people to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_CEO_Survey_Booklet_Digital_.pdf\">a 2016 Silicon Valley Leadership Group survey\u003c/a>, local CEOs said the area’s high cost of housing was their number one business challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's something a lot of employers in Southern California struggle with, too. A 2017 University of Southern California survey found that housing costs were concerning to 75 percent of large employers in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if companies were losing workers due to unaffordable housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Plenty of workers still move West each year for a new job in California. But the state’s high cost of housing may be deterring many other job seekers from moving into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business leaders up and down the state say California’s expensive housing makes it challenging to recruit new workers -- and to keep existing employees here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're competing, now, with a low unemployment rate in California, and people have options,” said Mary Leslie, president of the Los Angeles Business Council. In April, the state’s unemployment rate hit a record low of 4.2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the affordable housing, we're not as competitive,” Leslie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job recruiters see California’s housing crisis from both sides. They work with employers feeling pressure to raise wages, and they talk with job seekers scared off by median home prices that top $1 million in parts of the Bay Area, and over $500,000 in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Stone, a Los Angeles recruiter with Proven Recruiting, said plenty of workers are still drawn to sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Living near the beach, having that active lifestyle, being able to see the Hollywood stars every once in a while,” Stone said. “Those are the reasons for the people who aren't from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he should know. Stone is a transplant himself, moving from upstate New York in 2016. He’s able to walk job seekers through the perks of taking a new job in California, and guide them away from the neighborhoods that could lock them into a terrible commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">What $500,000 Buys You Around California\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11669001/what-500000-buys-you-around-california-and-how-it-shapes-where-we-move\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SanJoseHomeMain-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>During a call with a certified public accountant in North Carolina, Stone asked, “Have you been out to L.A. before?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have,” said the candidate, who we’re not naming to protect his job with his current employer. “There’s always downsides to everywhere that you go. And I know that there, it’s the crowds and traffic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, California’s sky-high housing costs. The median price of a California home -- now $538,640, according to the California Association of Realtors -- is more than double the national median home price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of financial workers Stone recruits could always find work in a less expensive part of the country. They do get a pay bump in California, but their annual salary alone is often not enough to afford a house in urban, coastal Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred thousand dollars here isn't going to go nearly as far as in Kansas or Missouri or any of those states,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It currently takes an annual household income of $112,930 to afford a median-priced Los Angeles home, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2018releases/1qtr2018hai\">a recent report\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. Homes in other parts of the state are significantly cheaper -- like the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles -- but in San Francisco, homebuyers need to earn as much as $333,270 to keep up with median monthly home payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11670700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1200x774.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-960x620.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg-520x336.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HousingAffordabilityImg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a candidate does get an offer, Stone sometimes goes outside his job description to help them complete the move. One worker he successfully recruited from the Washington, D.C., area didn't have much time to find a place to live. So Stone scouted apartments for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he toured the apartments using his phone’s Facetime app, “just letting him know a little bit about the areas the apartment was in as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in today’s tight labor market, Proven recruiters said they still find plenty of job seekers living in California who are open to new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recruiting people from out of state is more difficult. In recent years, only 7 percent of Proven’s California placements have been filled with people from out of state. Ingram Losner, the firm’s co-founder, said that number was lower than he expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at it on paper, and you see the cost differential between living in California and living outside of California, you can’t live on the promise of a dream,” Losner said. “And that’s clearly where people decide to remove themselves from the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just Proven Recruiting having a tough time luring people to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_CEO_Survey_Booklet_Digital_.pdf\">a 2016 Silicon Valley Leadership Group survey\u003c/a>, local CEOs said the area’s high cost of housing was their number one business challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's something a lot of employers in Southern California struggle with, too. A 2017 University of Southern California survey found that housing costs were concerning to 75 percent of large employers in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if companies were losing workers due to unaffordable housing. Some weren’t sure, but among those who did answer, 70 percent said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">5 Reasons California's Housing Costs Are So High\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHomeForSale-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>USC public policy professor Raphael Bostic said if housing costs continue to push certain workers out of state, California’s economic growth could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the pressures continue, do they just say this California isn’t the California I thought it was?” Bostic asked. “I don’t think it’s in California’s interest to have more and more people facing that choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of losing workers has even led some employers, like the Los Angeles Unified School District, to develop housing for certain workers who may not have any other affordable options nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco has for years discussed the possibility of building teacher housing within the city, and in April announced the selection of an affordable housing developer to carry out the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech giants like Google and Facebook also have plans to create new housing near their Bay Area headquarters in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys have found some evidence that employers are taking cost of living into account when negotiating hiring packages to lure top-level workers to California. 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"content": "\u003cp>With California’s problems of affordability and congestion, many of us are paying a higher price for an ever-shrinking sliver of California paradise. Even those lucky enough to be able to afford a home often do so at the expense of some of the quintessential perks of life in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downsizing of the California Dream is readily apparent for Jenny Gov. In 2015, she and her boyfriend bought a home in Lakewood, a bedroom community near Long Beach that was once a classic example of the midcentury suburb and all that it offered — including easy access to good jobs, tight-knit community, the beach, the mountains and nearby Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov and her boyfriend moved here seeking many of the same things tens of thousands of buyers before them sought in Lakewood, only today they’re paying a higher price and getting less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time Gov stays within a 10-minute radius of her house, if she even gets that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to drive as little as possible,” she said, pointing out the Target five minutes from home that constitutes her usual night out on the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica so during her off hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica, so during her off-hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \u003ccite>(Meghan McCarty/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a big change from her early life growing up in Los Angeles, when she’d go out to explore music and art, check out hip coffee shops or seek out a meal in one of the many ethnic enclaves of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now her world is much smaller. She’s taken to meal prepping to avoid unnecessary trips to the grocery store, she does workout videos instead of going to the gym and she’s finally giving up the family dentist she’s had for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I'm going to just find a dentist closer to me now,” she said. “It's not that far, but I think because I drive so much, I don't want to drive anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov, like an increasing number of Californians, has an extreme commute to her job. She works in communications at a nonprofit organization about 30 miles away, up the notorious 405 to Santa Monica. On good days it takes an hour and a half each way; on the worst days it’s 2½ hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s literally like a part-time job,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov’s boyfriend has a similarly long commute into Los Angeles. They wish they could live closer in, but homes closer to their jobs were way out of their price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they settled in Lakewood, among the rows of modest little ranch-style houses, repeated in one of 20 or so iterations, interspersed with shopping centers, parks and schools. It’s a landscape that today appears completely unremarkable, but half a century ago embodied a powerful vision of the good life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zfGG1IbwpZg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise of Lakewood was enough of the good things of an everyday life -- a simple house, a yard, infrastructure of schools and churches and shopping centers,” said D.J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With California’s problems of affordability and congestion, many of us are paying a higher price for an ever-shrinking sliver of California paradise. Even those lucky enough to be able to afford a home often do so at the expense of some of the quintessential perks of life in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downsizing of the California Dream is readily apparent for Jenny Gov. In 2015, she and her boyfriend bought a home in Lakewood, a bedroom community near Long Beach that was once a classic example of the midcentury suburb and all that it offered — including easy access to good jobs, tight-knit community, the beach, the mountains and nearby Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov and her boyfriend moved here seeking many of the same things tens of thousands of buyers before them sought in Lakewood, only today they’re paying a higher price and getting less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time Gov stays within a 10-minute radius of her house, if she even gets that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to drive as little as possible,” she said, pointing out the Target five minutes from home that constitutes her usual night out on the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica so during her off hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica, so during her off-hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \u003ccite>(Meghan McCarty/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a big change from her early life growing up in Los Angeles, when she’d go out to explore music and art, check out hip coffee shops or seek out a meal in one of the many ethnic enclaves of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They wish they could live closer in, but homes closer to their jobs were way out of their price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they settled in Lakewood, among the rows of modest little ranch-style houses, repeated in one of 20 or so iterations, interspersed with shopping centers, parks and schools. 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Waldie, an author and former city historian who wrote the book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” about life in Lakewood from the 1950s, when the subdivision exploded out of lima bean fields into a suburb of 70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 homes were built with assembly-line efficiency over a period of three years. They were bought up before they were even completed, mostly by working-class families able to take advantage of generous federal housing financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents commuted to nearby aerospace jobs or the shipyards of Long Beach. Their paychecks afforded them not only a home but -- with the new state-of-the-art freeways -- a world of things to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678781\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. 1952 Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-375x443.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-520x614.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California made it possible to really reach out to and touch an awful lot of the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region -- travel to the beaches, to the mountains, to the desert,” said Waldie, whose own family took full advantage of their access to California’s natural splendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the midcentury lanes of Lakewood have scarcely changed since then, what success feels like in today’s California certainly has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a cruel reality of the current economic conditions that some of the ways in which an ordinary working-class suburb like Lakewood made life better aren't available,” said Waldie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those solid middle-class jobs nearby have shipped out. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a long, sad week. Here are some stories you might’ve missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There’s always more to the story\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1200x961.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-960x769.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When KQED’s Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first met Perry Foster\u003c/a>, Foster was living in a tent on San Francisco’s Division Street. His clothes caught Brekke’s eye, and his thoughtfulness and frankness about his situation impressed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that fleeting meeting, Brekke learned that Foster had died on the streets. This is also when he learned that the frank, thoughtful homeless man he talked to for 30 minutes in 2016 had once been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star football player\u003c/a> in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brekke ended up talking to friends and family who knew Foster when he led his high school football team in Grand Rapids to a state championship and starred for two seasons at Eastern Michigan. He learned that he struggled academically and ended up leaving school after two years — making stops in Atlanta, Chicago and Southern California before ending up in San Francisco in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned that Foster was gay, a fact which created distance between Foster and his father. He learned that in his 10 years in San Francisco, Foster was arrested several times, jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he heard the love and admiration that people had for Foster — people who knew him as the star football player and people who knew him as a frank and thoughtful homeless man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s story is one of many KQED told this week as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Homeless Project\u003c/a>, a media collaboration focused on housing affordability, and I highly recommend reading and listening to the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living the queer California Dream\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-960x708.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia A. Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with being an opportunity to party and celebrate our queerness, Pride Month, which just wrapped up, is also an important time to remember the people who struggled to create a more welcoming and accepting world for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia A. Elizondo, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia Flames\u003c/a>, is one of those people. She came to San Francisco’s Tenderloin in the early 1960s, when it was the center of the city’s gay scene. As she puts it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We were jotos, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Moving to San Francisco allowed Felicia to find her true self as a transgender woman, and she is part of the generation who helped pave the way for today’s LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">‘This is the real border’\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_6208-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week long, several KQED reporters have been down at the California-Mexico border, reporting on the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/family-separation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family separation and detention\u003c/a> situation that has infuriated many in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve talked to people trying to cross the border, and they’ve talked to officials about how they’re enforcing the administration’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for one night, they explored the border the same way so many people do: late at night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under the cover of darkness\u003c/a>, with little knowledge of where they were going or what they would find. It’s truly powerful reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who’s ready to vote on some statewide ballot measures?!\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians' November ballots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-960x623.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-375x243.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians’ November ballots. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. 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Voters will also get to decide if California should be split into three different states, if the state should observe daylight saving time year-round and if a 2017 gas tax should be repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measures on lead paint cleanup, local taxes and internet privacy won’t be on the ballot, following last-minute negotiations in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is rent control working and should we have more or less of it?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Painted Ladies in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Painted Ladies in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(soomness/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those statewide measures appearing on the November ballot could remove limits on rent control that have been around for decades. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a long, sad week. Here are some stories you might’ve missed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There’s always more to the story\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1200x961.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-960x769.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/perry-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When KQED’s Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first met Perry Foster\u003c/a>, Foster was living in a tent on San Francisco’s Division Street. His clothes caught Brekke’s eye, and his thoughtfulness and frankness about his situation impressed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that fleeting meeting, Brekke learned that Foster had died on the streets. This is also when he learned that the frank, thoughtful homeless man he talked to for 30 minutes in 2016 had once been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667236/what-happened-to-perry-foster-michigan-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">star football player\u003c/a> in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brekke ended up talking to friends and family who knew Foster when he led his high school football team in Grand Rapids to a state championship and starred for two seasons at Eastern Michigan. He learned that he struggled academically and ended up leaving school after two years — making stops in Atlanta, Chicago and Southern California before ending up in San Francisco in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned that Foster was gay, a fact which created distance between Foster and his father. He learned that in his 10 years in San Francisco, Foster was arrested several times, jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he heard the love and admiration that people had for Foster — people who knew him as the star football player and people who knew him as a frank and thoughtful homeless man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s story is one of many KQED told this week as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Homeless Project\u003c/a>, a media collaboration focused on housing affordability, and I highly recommend reading and listening to the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living the queer California Dream\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-960x708.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756-520x384.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31631_PERDITA_Poland_3944_001-qut-e1530422757756.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia A. Elizondo at a hotel in Chicago in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia A. Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with being an opportunity to party and celebrate our queerness, Pride Month, which just wrapped up, is also an important time to remember the people who struggled to create a more welcoming and accepting world for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felicia A. Elizondo, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676014/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-finding-the-gay-mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia Flames\u003c/a>, is one of those people. She came to San Francisco’s Tenderloin in the early 1960s, when it was the center of the city’s gay scene. As she puts it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We were jotos, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Moving to San Francisco allowed Felicia to find her true self as a transgender woman, and she is part of the generation who helped pave the way for today’s LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">‘This is the real border’\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_6208-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking through the metal fence from the U.S. side into Tecate, Mexico on June 28, 2018, before sunrise. The metal fence does not divide the U.S. and Mexico all the way, barbed wire is used as well. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week long, several KQED reporters have been down at the California-Mexico border, reporting on the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/family-separation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family separation and detention\u003c/a> situation that has infuriated many in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve talked to people trying to cross the border, and they’ve talked to officials about how they’re enforcing the administration’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for one night, they explored the border the same way so many people do: late at night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678321/reporters-notebook-a-night-at-the-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under the cover of darkness\u003c/a>, with little knowledge of where they were going or what they would find. It’s truly powerful reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who’s ready to vote on some statewide ballot measures?!\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians' November ballots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1200x779.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-960x623.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-375x243.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31652_GettyImages-967878464-qut-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There will be 12 statewide measures on Californians’ November ballots. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With four months to go before Election Day, California voters now know what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677374/here-are-the-12-statewide-measures-on-californias-november-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide propositions\u003c/a> they’ll be voting on this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are measures to raise funds for housing and homelessness, as well as to roll back limits on rent control. Voters will also get to decide if California should be split into three different states, if the state should observe daylight saving time year-round and if a 2017 gas tax should be repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measures on lead paint cleanup, local taxes and internet privacy won’t be on the ballot, following last-minute negotiations in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677380/is-rent-control-working-and-should-we-have-more-or-less-of-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is rent control working and should we have more or less of it?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677399\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Painted Ladies in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/25267941258_635ff7d26e_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Painted Ladies in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(soomness/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those statewide measures appearing on the November ballot could remove limits on rent control that have been around for decades. 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"content": "\u003cp>Destiny Shabazz grins as she opens the door to the West Oakland home where she rents a room. But she can’t show me -- a reporter -- inside. Her housemates like their privacy. She’s barely ever here anyway, Destiny explains, mostly just to sleep on an airbed inside a small converted office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s early spring and Destiny’s walking to school. She’s got braces on her teeth and she’s sporting a pair of red sweats. She’s a senior and she’s got a lot on her mind. She’s determined to graduate and attend a four-year college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I’m excited to graduate!” she says. But her feelings are complicated. She searches for an Instagram post that resonates and reads it aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re graduating but you’re scared to enter the real world 'cuz you cheated your way through all four years,\" she reads, and then laughs. “That’s, like, the story of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School hasn’t been easy for her. Neither has life. Destiny is 17. She’s on her own, and that’s not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, at the West Oakland home where she rents a small room for $300 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KALW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unaccompanied youth are the \u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhouseconnection.org/more-homeless-students-2015/\">fastest-growing group of homeless students\u003c/a> in our nation’s schools. Among them are kids who run away from challenges at home, or cross the border into the United States on their own to escape hardship in their native countries. Others, like Destiny, fall through the cracks when their families are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s not an adult. She’s not in foster care. And she’s not emancipated. But she is getting by — in some ways, thriving — thanks in part to some grownups at her school, McClymonds High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a handful of adults on this West Oakland campus are pretty much raising Destiny now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the block Destiny points out the house she grew up in with her grandmother, who was her legal guardian. She sighs heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we lost the house really because my grandmother passed away. But before she passed away we were struggling to pay the rent because it kept going up,” Destiny explains. The rent hikes, she says, kicked in when their elderly African-American landlord died and a series of corporate landlords took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s grandmother received a rental subsidy through the federal program known as Section 8. That could have been passed down to Destiny’s brother when their grandma died in 2016, but “he was only 18 or 19. He couldn’t afford it,” Destiny says. “He’d just got outta high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That brother bounces around now, couch-surfing with friends, essentially homeless. After he and Destiny were evicted, she moved to Pittsburg in the Bay Area for a while to stay with another brother and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out. She says it wasn’t healthy for her there. Finding a place on her own was impossible. So Destiny reached out to a former neighbor, who converted her office into a small room. Now Destiny pays $300 a month to stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandma always taught me you can’t live somewhere for free, that’s not real,” she says. “People don’t just let you stay places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being back in West Oakland feels right, though. Destiny grew up with a ton of kids here. They all call each other \"cousin\" now. She has strong memories of her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That Boys and Girls Club, there,” she notes. “I been going there since I was like 6 or 7.” She smiles, recalling all the field trips and good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, works on scholarship applications at McClymonds High School’s College & Career Center. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Destiny’s been on her own, she’s been working really hard to boost her grades. She’s closing in on a 3.0 GPA. She has no first period this morning, but she’s headed to school early to work on scholarship applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get to McClymonds High, Destiny bumps into Devan McFadden, a staffer from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayconsortium.org/about/staff\">East Bay Consortium\u003c/a> who runs the school’s college and career center with help from a district counselor. She’s excited to see him. She tells him she has just submitted her scholarship application to the East Bay College Fund, a couple of days before the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes!! That’s what I like to hear,” McFadden answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny follows McFadden into the center. It’s one of her main hangouts. One of Destiny’s best friends is here, too, bragging about her. She points out that Destiny just won a Rotary Club speech competition. And that she’s McClymonds' “No. 1 debater.” She even won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.baudl.org/\">Bay Urban Debate League\u003c/a> championship recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before the bell rings, Destiny finally settles down, and asks McFadden for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK, so Devan, I still don’t know what college I should be going to,” she says in a low voice, suddenly deflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s fine,” he assures her. “You have to wait until you get your financial aid packages from them, to make your decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s recent spurt of hard work is paying off. By March, she’d already gotten into 20 schools. Most are historically black colleges, with a couple of backup state schools mixed in. Her financial aid is obviously really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her AP English class today, the college and career staff take over to help. Oakland Unified School District college career readiness specialist Jamia Morton asks Destiny if she’s seen her financial aid offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s worried. She hasn’t received them yet, she explains to Morton, because “they want to know, like, how am I a ward of the state, how am I independent?” The principal and vice principal are working on letters on Destiny’s behalf, as are several district staffers. Morton agrees to meet Destiny the following week to help her call each school and figure out exactly what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, gets a hug from a front office administrator at West Oakland’s McClymonds High School. Destiny has no parent or legal guardian. She’s not in foster care, and she’s not emancipated. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students have to deal with parents breathing down their necks about college applications. Destiny has to motivate herself, but she has an army of adults helping to guide her through. Still, it’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My situation is, like, sticky, because I’m not emancipated,” Destiny explains after class. “I’m not in foster care, nothing,” she says. “So technically I’m like lost in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her grandmother died, Destiny looked into the process of becoming emancipated through the courts. But it takes so long, she realized, she’d almost be 18 by the time she got through it. So she just lives in the gray zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes,” she says, “if I have field trips, just so they won’t say nothing, I just sign my granny’s name. I just be like, ‘Whatever, they not even gonna notice.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing her dead grandmother’s name was tough on her emotionally, Destiny says. But it turns out plenty of people at school did notice that she was struggling. Destiny talks a lot about her Oakland Unified case manager, Miss Stacy. She’s more like a very involved aunt than a school bureaucrat. It was Miss Stacy — OUSD case manager Stacy Daniels — who helped her start collecting a modest government check. Destiny feels lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think, there’s people out there with way worse situations,” she tells me. “What if if you didn’t know what to do? What if Miss Stacy wouldn’t have helped me get my money? What would I have done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time after her grandmother’s death, Destiny says she felt really low. Shut down. She was isolating herself. She realized she needed her community. And she embraced her school life. Here at McClymonds, she’s social and ambitious. She runs track. She’s taking three college-level classes this semester. And she gets a stipend for her leadership roles with the debate team and the school’s Youth and Family Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s also really resilient, considering 18 young people she knew have been killed. Last year, she says, just a week after a friend was shot to death, “two of my friends got murdered the same day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Slain-Oakland-teen-falls-to-gun-violence-he-had-10645875.php\">Travon and Peek a Boo\u003c/a>. That shook me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best friends had graduated from McClymonds, and Destiny said they were like big brothers to her. “That was all within a week,” she said of the three deaths. Their funerals were within a week, too. “Three funerals, three friends. All to gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here at McClymonds, the staff and administrators root for her. In the hall between classes, Brian McGhee, McClymonds High School program manager, says Destiny “speaks her truth” and is “an advocate for youth and students of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees her achieving great things in the political realm, so much so, he says, “when you say [East Bay Congresswoman] Barbara Lee, we say Destiny Shabazz, when we say Rosa Parks, we will say Destiny Shabazz. That’s the level I see her rising to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s not quite there yet though. McGhee calls her “a diamond in the rough ... I mean she got some things, we all got some things we want to work on. And we’re gonna support her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the support,” Destiny says with a grin. “It never stops. Well, maybe in Algebra 2 class but then you know, it comes back right after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algebra 2. That’s one of those things she has to work on. There was no permanent teacher for a chunk of the fall semester. Now it’s Mr. Tivol. And Destiny, well, she finds him condescending. He gets under her skin. The day before I come to school with her, she cussed him out. She was worried about today’s quiz. She apologized in an email. He wrote her back. He encouraged her. Told her not to “sweat it too hard.” But in class, it’s like Destiny can’t stop herself from messing with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finishes her quiz early and takes out her iPad, even though that’s against the rules. When Mr. Tivol asks her to put it away, she refuses. So he calls in Will Blackwell, the school’s restorative practices facilitator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Destiny leaves with him, she throws her quiz in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hallway, Mr. Blackwell talks to her straight. She knows perfectly well that she can’t use the iPad in class, he says. He tells her she doesn’t need to sabotage herself by being so combative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell knows the students really well. That’s his job. When there’s trouble, he tries to bring the feuding sides together, to help them work it out. After they talk for a bit, he suggests a restorative justice advocate sit down with Mr. Tivol. For a group meeting like this, a student would usually bring a parent or some other adult advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right now,” Blackwell tells her, “who do we call?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s yet one more reminder of Destiny’s unusual situation. Destiny tells Blackwell that she’s “grown,” that she can be at the table by herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She can, Blackwell agrees. But he persuades her to seek adult backup. Her uncle can come, she says, him,and “Miss Stacy, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He promises to schedule the sit-down in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that afternoon, Destiny heads to the McClymonds \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/mcclymonds/\">Youth and Family Center\u003c/a>. She spends a huge chunk of her life at this center. It’s staffed by a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/\">Alternatives in Action\u003c/a>. And they show her a different kind of love. Destiny is honest about what happened in math class. It doesn’t go over well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You block your own blessings, you sabotage yourself, right?” Kharyshi Wiginton, then the community programs manager, tells Destiny. “At 17, I need that not to continue to be the story. This is bigger than this moment. In a second you’re not gonna have us. The world is not nice to adults like that. You’re not allowed to just mess up and mess up and mess up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clock is ticking for Destiny, and the staff here is worried for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the students at McClymonds call Wiginton “Miss K.” She buys Destiny dinner just about every evening. Destiny knows Miss K loves her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody know[s] that I have two sides; like, I'm still a teenager,” Destiny says after the chaos dies down. She knows she has been through “things that make me act certain ways, you know, argumentative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining debate last fall has given her a way to channel her sharp tongue in a more productive way, she says, but, “I'm still growing.” It wouldn’t be real if the staff at the center didn’t rail on her for her mistakes, she says, “but they love me, too, you know — hard love, tough love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thanks in part to them, Destiny has big dreams. She plans to return to Oakland and run for mayor in 2022. She has a vision for what her city needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plans are to change Oakland financially, socially and in equitability,” she explains. “I want Oakland to be like a black Wall Street. I want it to be black schools, black businesses, black courts, black teachers. I don’t want to stop the diversity,” she adds. “That’s not possible, but I know that Oakland is changing from Old Oakland to New Oakland, and the plan for New Oakland has nothing to do with black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I check back in with Destiny at the end of the school year. She has chosen Cal State Sacramento, and she’s gotten four scholarships that’ll help with her first year. But she has a ton of catching up to do in Mr. Tivol’s class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Destiny pulls it off. On graduation day, I find her outside the auditorium, wolfing down a hamburger that Miss Stacy just brought her. She’s wearing stylish little shorts under her gown and high-heeled boots made of clear plastic. It’s a big day for her. But she’s had a major setback with her housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel a little overwhelmed right now. I been real struggling,” she says. “I got kicked out of the house that I was at and now I’m moving around house to house for the last two weeks. It’s been hard.” Then she brightens. “But I’m good, because I’m graduating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditorium is packed. When the music starts and the grads take their seats, Destiny is hamming it up with her friends. And once the ceremony gets started, there’s a surprise for her — from the McClymonds High alumni association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only have to hear her name to understand that there are bigger and better things for her,” the association president says in announcing a scholarship winner. “She will attend Sacramento State. ... She also played basketball, ran track, debated and was very active in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he even finishes, the crowd starts screaming Destiny’s name. And she’s up and out of her seat, doing a funky little dance on her way to the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone knows who he’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I might have been calling somebody else,” he tells her with a laugh. Destiny shrugs and responds: “I know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny got a job at McDonald's. She turns 18 in August. It’s kind of scary. But Miss Stacy plans to stick by her, and a few other mentors have promised to make sure she gets through all four years of college with plenty of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/her-own-17-west-oakland-student-blossoms-love-and-support-school#stream/0\">earlier version of this story\u003c/a> aired on KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Destiny Shabazz grins as she opens the door to the West Oakland home where she rents a room. But she can’t show me -- a reporter -- inside. Her housemates like their privacy. She’s barely ever here anyway, Destiny explains, mostly just to sleep on an airbed inside a small converted office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s early spring and Destiny’s walking to school. She’s got braces on her teeth and she’s sporting a pair of red sweats. She’s a senior and she’s got a lot on her mind. She’s determined to graduate and attend a four-year college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I’m excited to graduate!” she says. But her feelings are complicated. She searches for an Instagram post that resonates and reads it aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re graduating but you’re scared to enter the real world 'cuz you cheated your way through all four years,\" she reads, and then laughs. “That’s, like, the story of me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School hasn’t been easy for her. Neither has life. Destiny is 17. She’s on her own, and that’s not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31576_DestinyHomeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, at the West Oakland home where she rents a small room for $300 a month. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KALW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unaccompanied youth are the \u003ca href=\"https://www.schoolhouseconnection.org/more-homeless-students-2015/\">fastest-growing group of homeless students\u003c/a> in our nation’s schools. Among them are kids who run away from challenges at home, or cross the border into the United States on their own to escape hardship in their native countries. Others, like Destiny, fall through the cracks when their families are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s not an adult. She’s not in foster care. And she’s not emancipated. But she is getting by — in some ways, thriving — thanks in part to some grownups at her school, McClymonds High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a handful of adults on this West Oakland campus are pretty much raising Destiny now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the block Destiny points out the house she grew up in with her grandmother, who was her legal guardian. She sighs heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we lost the house really because my grandmother passed away. But before she passed away we were struggling to pay the rent because it kept going up,” Destiny explains. The rent hikes, she says, kicked in when their elderly African-American landlord died and a series of corporate landlords took over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s grandmother received a rental subsidy through the federal program known as Section 8. That could have been passed down to Destiny’s brother when their grandma died in 2016, but “he was only 18 or 19. He couldn’t afford it,” Destiny says. “He’d just got outta high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That brother bounces around now, couch-surfing with friends, essentially homeless. After he and Destiny were evicted, she moved to Pittsburg in the Bay Area for a while to stay with another brother and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out. She says it wasn’t healthy for her there. Finding a place on her own was impossible. So Destiny reached out to a former neighbor, who converted her office into a small room. Now Destiny pays $300 a month to stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandma always taught me you can’t live somewhere for free, that’s not real,” she says. “People don’t just let you stay places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being back in West Oakland feels right, though. Destiny grew up with a ton of kids here. They all call each other \"cousin\" now. She has strong memories of her childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That Boys and Girls Club, there,” she notes. “I been going there since I was like 6 or 7.” She smiles, recalling all the field trips and good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31577_DestinyCollegeCareerCtrCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, works on scholarship applications at McClymonds High School’s College & Career Center. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Destiny’s been on her own, she’s been working really hard to boost her grades. She’s closing in on a 3.0 GPA. She has no first period this morning, but she’s headed to school early to work on scholarship applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we get to McClymonds High, Destiny bumps into Devan McFadden, a staffer from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayconsortium.org/about/staff\">East Bay Consortium\u003c/a> who runs the school’s college and career center with help from a district counselor. She’s excited to see him. She tells him she has just submitted her scholarship application to the East Bay College Fund, a couple of days before the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes!! That’s what I like to hear,” McFadden answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny follows McFadden into the center. It’s one of her main hangouts. One of Destiny’s best friends is here, too, bragging about her. She points out that Destiny just won a Rotary Club speech competition. And that she’s McClymonds' “No. 1 debater.” She even won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.baudl.org/\">Bay Urban Debate League\u003c/a> championship recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before the bell rings, Destiny finally settles down, and asks McFadden for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OK, so Devan, I still don’t know what college I should be going to,” she says in a low voice, suddenly deflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s fine,” he assures her. “You have to wait until you get your financial aid packages from them, to make your decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s recent spurt of hard work is paying off. By March, she’d already gotten into 20 schools. Most are historically black colleges, with a couple of backup state schools mixed in. Her financial aid is obviously really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her AP English class today, the college and career staff take over to help. Oakland Unified School District college career readiness specialist Jamia Morton asks Destiny if she’s seen her financial aid offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destiny’s worried. She hasn’t received them yet, she explains to Morton, because “they want to know, like, how am I a ward of the state, how am I independent?” The principal and vice principal are working on letters on Destiny’s behalf, as are several district staffers. Morton agrees to meet Destiny the following week to help her call each school and figure out exactly what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11677096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31575_DestinyOfficeCAReport-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Shabazz, 17, gets a hug from a front office administrator at West Oakland’s McClymonds High School. Destiny has no parent or legal guardian. She’s not in foster care, and she’s not emancipated. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students have to deal with parents breathing down their necks about college applications. Destiny has to motivate herself, but she has an army of adults helping to guide her through. Still, it’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My situation is, like, sticky, because I’m not emancipated,” Destiny explains after class. “I’m not in foster care, nothing,” she says. “So technically I’m like lost in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her grandmother died, Destiny looked into the process of becoming emancipated through the courts. But it takes so long, she realized, she’d almost be 18 by the time she got through it. So she just lives in the gray zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes,” she says, “if I have field trips, just so they won’t say nothing, I just sign my granny’s name. I just be like, ‘Whatever, they not even gonna notice.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing her dead grandmother’s name was tough on her emotionally, Destiny says. But it turns out plenty of people at school did notice that she was struggling. Destiny talks a lot about her Oakland Unified case manager, Miss Stacy. She’s more like a very involved aunt than a school bureaucrat. It was Miss Stacy — OUSD case manager Stacy Daniels — who helped her start collecting a modest government check. Destiny feels lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think, there’s people out there with way worse situations,” she tells me. “What if if you didn’t know what to do? What if Miss Stacy wouldn’t have helped me get my money? What would I have done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time after her grandmother’s death, Destiny says she felt really low. Shut down. She was isolating herself. She realized she needed her community. And she embraced her school life. Here at McClymonds, she’s social and ambitious. She runs track. She’s taking three college-level classes this semester. And she gets a stipend for her leadership roles with the debate team and the school’s Youth and Family Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s also really resilient, considering 18 young people she knew have been killed. Last year, she says, just a week after a friend was shot to death, “two of my friends got murdered the same day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Slain-Oakland-teen-falls-to-gun-violence-he-had-10645875.php\">Travon and Peek a Boo\u003c/a>. That shook me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best friends had graduated from McClymonds, and Destiny said they were like big brothers to her. “That was all within a week,” she said of the three deaths. Their funerals were within a week, too. “Three funerals, three friends. All to gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here at McClymonds, the staff and administrators root for her. 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And Destiny, well, she finds him condescending. He gets under her skin. The day before I come to school with her, she cussed him out. She was worried about today’s quiz. She apologized in an email. He wrote her back. He encouraged her. Told her not to “sweat it too hard.” But in class, it’s like Destiny can’t stop herself from messing with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finishes her quiz early and takes out her iPad, even though that’s against the rules. When Mr. Tivol asks her to put it away, she refuses. So he calls in Will Blackwell, the school’s restorative practices facilitator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Destiny leaves with him, she throws her quiz in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hallway, Mr. Blackwell talks to her straight. She knows perfectly well that she can’t use the iPad in class, he says. He tells her she doesn’t need to sabotage herself by being so combative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell knows the students really well. That’s his job. When there’s trouble, he tries to bring the feuding sides together, to help them work it out. After they talk for a bit, he suggests a restorative justice advocate sit down with Mr. Tivol. For a group meeting like this, a student would usually bring a parent or some other adult advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All right now,” Blackwell tells her, “who do we call?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s yet one more reminder of Destiny’s unusual situation. Destiny tells Blackwell that she’s “grown,” that she can be at the table by herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She can, Blackwell agrees. But he persuades her to seek adult backup. Her uncle can come, she says, him,and “Miss Stacy, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He promises to schedule the sit-down in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that afternoon, Destiny heads to the McClymonds \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/mcclymonds/\">Youth and Family Center\u003c/a>. She spends a huge chunk of her life at this center. It’s staffed by a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.alternativesinaction.org/\">Alternatives in Action\u003c/a>. And they show her a different kind of love. Destiny is honest about what happened in math class. It doesn’t go over well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You block your own blessings, you sabotage yourself, right?” Kharyshi Wiginton, then the community programs manager, tells Destiny. “At 17, I need that not to continue to be the story. This is bigger than this moment. In a second you’re not gonna have us. The world is not nice to adults like that. You’re not allowed to just mess up and mess up and mess up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clock is ticking for Destiny, and the staff here is worried for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the students at McClymonds call Wiginton “Miss K.” She buys Destiny dinner just about every evening. Destiny knows Miss K loves her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody know[s] that I have two sides; like, I'm still a teenager,” Destiny says after the chaos dies down. 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"content": "\u003cp>California is struggling to confront its homelessness crisis: After big-city mayors up and down the state lobbied hard for more funding, state leaders agreed to spend \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an additional $600 million\u003c/a> to help fight the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Here are some basic numbers to help understand one of the state’s most vexing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>How many Californians are homeless now, and how has that changed over time?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While it’s tough to say precisely how many Californians are experiencing homelessness, the federal Housing and Urban Development Department estimates the number statewide at 130,000 on a given night. That’s 25 percent of the entire nation’s homeless population. Since 2016, California experienced a larger increase in homelessness than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11678211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"1245\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca.jpg 858w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-800x1161.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-827x1200.jpg 827w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-240x348.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-375x544.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/shelters-vs-unsheltered-homeless-in-ca-520x755.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state has more than 1.7 million low-income households spending more than half their income in housing costs,” said Ben Metcalf, the director of the state Department of Housing and Community Development. “When you’re paying that much for housing, with so little left over, even a minor shock can start a cycle of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the highest percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals in the country, at slightly under 70 percent. This means that the vast majority of the state’s homeless population does not utilize temporary living arrangements provided by either charitable organizations or government programs. Rather, they have been found living on the streets, parks or other places not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of shelters is due to a lack of resources, and we don’t really have a plan to end homelessness,” said Christopher Martin, legislative advocate at Housing California. “We don’t have strong programs to end homelessness on the state level. We know the shelters are a part of the solution, but at the end of the day, we know that we need exits for the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11678213\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-800x1105.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-868x1200.jpg 868w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1920x2653.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1180x1631.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-960x1327.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-240x332.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-375x518.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-520x719.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Where are California’s homeless?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Los Angeles County had the highest population of homeless individuals in all of California at roughly 55,000, and was second only to New York for holding the largest population of homeless people in the nation. And while 95 percent of New York’s homeless population was sheltered, only 25 percent of those in Los Angeles were sheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mlevin.carto.com/viz/5de66644-2d9d-4526-b6ac-c97c87416da0/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the positive side, 2018 marked the first time in four years the homelessness count in Los Angeles actually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that this decrease was driven by \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/learning/history-and-takeaways-from-los-angeles-county-s-flexible-house-subsidy-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles’s $40 million Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool\u003c/a>, which provides rental subsidies to local residents experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who are the state’s homeless?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The majority of California’s unsheltered homeless population is chronically homeless, meaning that they have been homeless for a year or more or have experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the highest percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals in the country, at slightly under 70 percent. This means that the vast majority of the state’s homeless population does not utilize temporary living arrangements provided by either charitable organizations or government programs. Rather, they have been found living on the streets, parks or other places not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of shelters is due to a lack of resources, and we don’t really have a plan to end homelessness,” said Christopher Martin, legislative advocate at Housing California. “We don’t have strong programs to end homelessness on the state level. We know the shelters are a part of the solution, but at the end of the day, we know that we need exits for the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11678213\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1020x1409.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-160x221.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-800x1105.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-868x1200.jpg 868w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1920x2653.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-1180x1631.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-960x1327.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-240x332.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-375x518.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/homelessness-in-5-most-populous-states-520x719.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Where are California’s homeless?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Los Angeles County had the highest population of homeless individuals in all of California at roughly 55,000, and was second only to New York for holding the largest population of homeless people in the nation. And while 95 percent of New York’s homeless population was sheltered, only 25 percent of those in Los Angeles were sheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mlevin.carto.com/viz/5de66644-2d9d-4526-b6ac-c97c87416da0/embed_map\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the positive side, 2018 marked the first time in four years the homelessness count in Los Angeles actually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that this decrease was driven by \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/learning/history-and-takeaways-from-los-angeles-county-s-flexible-house-subsidy-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles’s $40 million Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool\u003c/a>, which provides rental subsidies to local residents experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who are the state’s homeless?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The majority of California’s unsheltered homeless population is chronically homeless, meaning that they have been homeless for a year or more or have experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years. Chronically homeless individuals are marked by serious mental or physical illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California comprises 12 percent of the nation’s population of homeless families with children. From 2016 to 2017, the state experienced one of the largest increases of homeless families in the nation, leaving 1,000 more families on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of homeless families, California also reported the largest number of unaccompanied homeless youth, which includes any individual under the age of 25 who does not live with a family member. Overall, 58 percent of the nation’s unsheltered homeless youth reside in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also home to 29 percent of the nation’s homeless veterans, and two-thirds of them are unsheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The recently signed California state budget includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-state-budget-deal-20180608-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$500 million\u003c/a> in one-time money to help cities address homelessness. The money will be split between local organizations that help the homeless as well as cities with more than 330,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sacramento \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/mayor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Darrell Steinberg\u003c/a> serves as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CABig11/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chairman of the Big 11 Mayors,\u003c/a> a coalition representing the state's largest cities. He said the money will be crucial for programs to fight homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every major California city has seen these dramatic increases [in homelessness],\" he said. \"And while at the local level we are all putting together resources, either through ballot measures, our cities' general fund, [or] our work with our respective counties, the fact of the matter is we need more capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678085/sacramento-mayor-darrell-steinberg-on-his-reforms-to-californias-initiative-system-and-addressing-homelessness-locally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg on His Reforms to California's Initiative System and Addressing Homelessness Locally\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said there's an especially acute need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.shra.org/emergency-housing-and-other-homeless-resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency housing\u003c/a>, the place people stay between leaving the streets and settling into a permanent home. The money can also be used for early intervention and other steps to prevent homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know in Sacramento we are going to put as much focus on those who are not yet homeless but will be if we don't have a robust rental assistance program,\" he said, \"and if we don't intervene at the right time to help them avoid the shelter and ultimately the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg's goal is to get 2,000 people off the streets in Sacramento. The other cities receiving money include San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Fresno, Bakersfield, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim and San Jose. It's estimated there are about 135,000 homeless people living in California.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-e1530171703254.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10883194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died of a heroin overdose on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] couple months back, I got a heads-up: A man I’d interviewed in early 2016 about his experiences living in a tent on San Francisco’s Division Street had died, possibly of a drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man was Perry Foster, a Michigan native who’d lived on the streets or in other extreme circumstances in the city since 2008. His forthrightness and willingness to share his thoughts with a complete stranger made an impression. A few days after we talked, I edited the audio, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a short piece\u003c/a> describing our meeting, and posted it. Perry and I didn’t cross paths again.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to this story on KQED’s The Bay podcast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677840/man-on-the-street-a-story-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man on the Street: A Story of Homelessness in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The alert I got in April didn’t come with a lot of details. But the city’s medical examiner confirmed that a Perry Foster — also known as Parree Foster — was among the recently deceased the office had processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first impulse was to write something quick: Here’s a man we told you about some time back, a man who spoke with some eloquence about homelessness in San Francisco, a man who has now lost his life on the street. He was 48 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was more to Perry’s story than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a previous life, he had been regarded as a football prodigy in his native Michigan. After his death, I heard from several people who, though they hadn’t seen Perry in decades, still spoke in awestruck terms about his talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, as a senior running back and defensive back at Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School, he led his team to a state championship. He played for two years at Eastern Michigan University. He starred there, too, stirring talk of a possible professional career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Foster failed academically. He vanished from football and his old teammates’ lives after that second year in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 672px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster’s entry in the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame directory.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ootball skill was just part of what made Perry stand out, though. Those who knew him as a young man also remember him as a leader, charismatic and generous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave an aura of special talent that people were drawn to,” said Jim Galvin, who coached Foster at Catholic Central. “… For all the accolades he received, and all the honors — two-time All-State, All Area, et cetera — he was the type of guy who would come back after a run and compliment an offensive lineman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault quarterbacked the 1987 Catholic Central team and said Perry “had very, very special gifts both physically and to connect with other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Galvin nor Passinault — or anyone else on the 1987 team — knew before Perry’s death what had become of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passinault, now a physician in Grand Rapids, wrote a eulogy for Perry’s memorial in late April:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Perry Foster\u003c/strong> was everything that we were, embodied in Scuba gloves, form-fitting No. 22 jersey, tightly kept fade, one lone towel giving defenders a hope of grabbing something, anything, that made them feel like they could tackle him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He was fast,\u003c/strong> he was proud, he was confident, he was tough, he was Perry. He never apologized for any of it. He was what we were, but he was just better at it than the rest of us were. He knew it and we knew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nobody has ever\u003c/strong> uttered the words: “Perry was OK.” The phrases were: “Perry is amazing.” “Perry is the best I have ever seen.” “We have to stop Perry.” “Perry is killing us.” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… These words\u003c/strong> would be worthless tripe if not matched with the recognition of the glaring pain and struggle that Perry Foster lived in his life. I cannot for a moment, understand the pain and fear that came with his life on Earth, especially in his last years. I do not know how to reconcile the Perry in my memory, with the Perry in the interview as a homeless man in San Francisco. That is our struggle today. May each of us never forget what true excellence feels like, remember who singularly embodied that excellence, and lead compassionate and purpose-driven lives that embrace what we knew and what we know about our brother, Perry Foster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat happened? Here’s what I can piece together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry was born in 1970. His mother died when he was 3 or 4 years old. His father, Robert Foster, raised him, an older sister and an older brother on his own. He coached Perry and his brother, Bobby, for years in a youth football league. He said he watched Perry grow from a smart, determined but slow player into the defensive and offensive star he became in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d have tackles, he’d have fumble recoveries, he’d have kickoff and punt returns — he’d do it all,” Robert Foster said in an interview. “… He just got better, faster, stronger. And his will to win was always there, but it just took over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foster said he felt something was amiss with Perry as he finished high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think he was doing drugs or something by that time — he was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing because he wasn’t acting right anymore,” Foster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result was that his son lost a scholarship to play football at the University of Michigan. The offer was withdrawn, Robert Foster said, because Perry had gotten into a serious fight at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan said it might reconsider, Foster said, if his son attended the university for a semester on a non-scholarship basis to show he could handle what was required of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, I got to get Perry off the streets. He can’t last a semester,’ ” Foster said. So instead, Perry went to Eastern Michigan, where his older brother, Bobby, was a starting running back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within two years — 1990 — both sons were out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Foster said in answer to questions on Facebook that while he can’t account for what happened to his brother, “Peer pressure led me into a way of life that was fueled by women, drugs, alcohol and partying. I lost myself, didn’t know who I was anymore and I ran out of gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster said he had found it increasingly difficult to reach Perry by this time, recounting an exchange with his son:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Perry, God gave you a talent. You got to use that in the right way to get to where you want to go.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘I made these legs! I did this!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Whoa! Whoa! Let me step back from you because lightning going to strike in a minute.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne other development widened the breach between Robert Foster and his son: Perry came out as gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster, a former tool-and-die maker who went back to school to earn degrees in biblical studies and counseling, said, “I could accept Perry as Perry but not as Perry gay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that he and his son “butted heads” over the issue and that it became something that kept them apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry Foster’s timeline becomes a little hazy at this point. He spent time in Atlanta, where his older sister went to college. He spent time in Chicago and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault, the Grand Rapids Catholic Central quarterback, said he ran into Perry once, maybe 10 years ago, waiting tables in Saugatuck, a town on Lake Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gave him a big, long hug and asked him, ‘How’s it going? What are you up to?’ ” Passinault said. “He just always had a story about why he was where he was and what was waiting for him next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome time in 2008, Perry arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that over the next decade, he was arrested several times (typically on charges related to theft or drugs), jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly. Eventually he started living in a tent on the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to listen to those who encountered him during this journey, the charisma his high school teammates remember was intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maraea Master, who runs a program for homeless at-risk students at City College, got to know Perry during the two years she worked on San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry had this manner about himself where it was like, ‘Yes, I live in this tent,’ but he really kept some sort of elegance to himself. He didn’t allow things to get dictated to him and how he should be looking and how he should be treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said that like many, many others living on the streets, Perry suffered from a wide range of physical ailments, mental illness and substance abuse. Sometimes it was not easy to help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take a long time to put his meds in medi-sets (pill organizers) to make sure he would take them,” Master said. “And then like a week later I would be in someone else’s tent and I’ll see his medicine and I’ll be like, ‘God damn it, this is Perry’s medication! Why is it in here?’ And I’m just like, ‘Agghhh!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said Perry challenged police officers and Public Works employees sent to get him to move about their authority to do so — what some homeless outreach workers would term “a hard case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was vulnerable to the dangers of the streets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678109\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-160x135.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-240x203.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-375x317.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-520x440.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster in pictures posted to Facebook after being dragged from his tent and beaten in September 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last September, he was dragged from his tent and beaten and landed back in the hospital with facial fractures. He posted pictures to Facebook. One of those who responded was his brother, Bobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come home man and stop risking your life out there,” he wrote. “How many times have you been attacked? What’s it going to take before you realize you are so much better than that? You think you’re scared? It’s time for you to honestly assess your situation and make a sound judgment. Do you want to live or die? You are a cat that is running out of lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry dismissed his brother’s concern as “talkshow bullshit. … Shitte (sic) and life happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Perry’s friends, a man named Memphis whom I met outside his tent on South Van Ness Avenue, said Perry was afraid of conditions on the street and had been thinking about returning to Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was actually making plans to go home,” Memphis said. “And I told him he should go home months ago. But he said he needed to do something here first, let go of some things first, and then go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was that thing he needed to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry had talked about wanting to help people on the street, to give them a voice. His father, Robert Foster, said he told his son he needed to attend to his own needs first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, ‘Perry, the best way you can help anybody is to show them how to get out, show ‘em how to do better, by you getting out and doing better and then going back and helping people,'” Foster said. “‘You can’t help ’em where you at, because you in the same condition they in.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said Perry talked about coming home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But he wanted a round-trip ticket,” Foster said. “What you going to do with a round-trip ticket? You want to go back to hell? If you get out of hell, you want to go back?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 11, about a week after he’d been kicked out of an apartment where he’d been crashing with a friend, Perry died. The San Francisco medical examiner’s office has not issued a final cause of death, but Robert Foster said hospital officials told him Perry had died of a heroin overdose. City emergency response reports suggest that he died near Bryant and Division streets, just feet from where I met him two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard the news, Maraea Master, the former Homeless Outreach Team member, agonized over the circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Was Perry alone?” she asked herself. “Where was his help? Did he have anyone that was there visiting him regularly? Did anybody keep any of the things he wrote? Does he have any family anywhere? All of these things came up for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong — there’s a couple of Perrys to me out there. But I feel like his story is really important. … The world is really kind of missing something without him here — that guy who lived in that tent.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-e1530171703254.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10883194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/25168134291_9e9008d5be_o-1-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster lived in early 2016 on Division Street between Harrison and Bryant streets. He was from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was still a legend among high school classmates as the football star who led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship. Foster died of a heroin overdose on April 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> couple months back, I got a heads-up: A man I’d interviewed in early 2016 about his experiences living in a tent on San Francisco’s Division Street had died, possibly of a drug overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man was Perry Foster, a Michigan native who’d lived on the streets or in other extreme circumstances in the city since 2008. His forthrightness and willingness to share his thoughts with a complete stranger made an impression. A few days after we talked, I edited the audio, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10883192/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a short piece\u003c/a> describing our meeting, and posted it. Perry and I didn’t cross paths again.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to this story on KQED’s The Bay podcast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677840/man-on-the-street-a-story-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man on the Street: A Story of Homelessness in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The alert I got in April didn’t come with a lot of details. But the city’s medical examiner confirmed that a Perry Foster — also known as Parree Foster — was among the recently deceased the office had processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first impulse was to write something quick: Here’s a man we told you about some time back, a man who spoke with some eloquence about homelessness in San Francisco, a man who has now lost his life on the street. He was 48 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was more to Perry’s story than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a previous life, he had been regarded as a football prodigy in his native Michigan. After his death, I heard from several people who, though they hadn’t seen Perry in decades, still spoke in awestruck terms about his talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, as a senior running back and defensive back at Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School, he led his team to a state championship. He played for two years at Eastern Michigan University. He starred there, too, stirring talk of a possible professional career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Foster failed academically. He vanished from football and his old teammates’ lives after that second year in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 672px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Foster-Perry059-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster’s entry in the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame directory.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ootball skill was just part of what made Perry stand out, though. Those who knew him as a young man also remember him as a leader, charismatic and generous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave an aura of special talent that people were drawn to,” said Jim Galvin, who coached Foster at Catholic Central. “… For all the accolades he received, and all the honors — two-time All-State, All Area, et cetera — he was the type of guy who would come back after a run and compliment an offensive lineman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault quarterbacked the 1987 Catholic Central team and said Perry “had very, very special gifts both physically and to connect with other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Galvin nor Passinault — or anyone else on the 1987 team — knew before Perry’s death what had become of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passinault, now a physician in Grand Rapids, wrote a eulogy for Perry’s memorial in late April:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Perry Foster\u003c/strong> was everything that we were, embodied in Scuba gloves, form-fitting No. 22 jersey, tightly kept fade, one lone towel giving defenders a hope of grabbing something, anything, that made them feel like they could tackle him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He was fast,\u003c/strong> he was proud, he was confident, he was tough, he was Perry. He never apologized for any of it. He was what we were, but he was just better at it than the rest of us were. He knew it and we knew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nobody has ever\u003c/strong> uttered the words: “Perry was OK.” The phrases were: “Perry is amazing.” “Perry is the best I have ever seen.” “We have to stop Perry.” “Perry is killing us.” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… These words\u003c/strong> would be worthless tripe if not matched with the recognition of the glaring pain and struggle that Perry Foster lived in his life. I cannot for a moment, understand the pain and fear that came with his life on Earth, especially in his last years. I do not know how to reconcile the Perry in my memory, with the Perry in the interview as a homeless man in San Francisco. That is our struggle today. May each of us never forget what true excellence feels like, remember who singularly embodied that excellence, and lead compassionate and purpose-driven lives that embrace what we knew and what we know about our brother, Perry Foster.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hat happened? Here’s what I can piece together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry was born in 1970. His mother died when he was 3 or 4 years old. His father, Robert Foster, raised him, an older sister and an older brother on his own. He coached Perry and his brother, Bobby, for years in a youth football league. He said he watched Perry grow from a smart, determined but slow player into the defensive and offensive star he became in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d have tackles, he’d have fumble recoveries, he’d have kickoff and punt returns — he’d do it all,” Robert Foster said in an interview. “… He just got better, faster, stronger. And his will to win was always there, but it just took over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foster said he felt something was amiss with Perry as he finished high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I think he was doing drugs or something by that time — he was doing something he shouldn’t have been doing because he wasn’t acting right anymore,” Foster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result was that his son lost a scholarship to play football at the University of Michigan. The offer was withdrawn, Robert Foster said, because Perry had gotten into a serious fight at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan said it might reconsider, Foster said, if his son attended the university for a semester on a non-scholarship basis to show he could handle what was required of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, I got to get Perry off the streets. He can’t last a semester,’ ” Foster said. So instead, Perry went to Eastern Michigan, where his older brother, Bobby, was a starting running back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within two years — 1990 — both sons were out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Foster said in answer to questions on Facebook that while he can’t account for what happened to his brother, “Peer pressure led me into a way of life that was fueled by women, drugs, alcohol and partying. I lost myself, didn’t know who I was anymore and I ran out of gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster said he had found it increasingly difficult to reach Perry by this time, recounting an exchange with his son:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Perry, God gave you a talent. You got to use that in the right way to get to where you want to go.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘I made these legs! I did this!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Whoa! Whoa! Let me step back from you because lightning going to strike in a minute.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne other development widened the breach between Robert Foster and his son: Perry came out as gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Foster, a former tool-and-die maker who went back to school to earn degrees in biblical studies and counseling, said, “I could accept Perry as Perry but not as Perry gay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that he and his son “butted heads” over the issue and that it became something that kept them apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry Foster’s timeline becomes a little hazy at this point. He spent time in Atlanta, where his older sister went to college. He spent time in Chicago and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Passinault, the Grand Rapids Catholic Central quarterback, said he ran into Perry once, maybe 10 years ago, waiting tables in Saugatuck, a town on Lake Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gave him a big, long hug and asked him, ‘How’s it going? What are you up to?’ ” Passinault said. “He just always had a story about why he was where he was and what was waiting for him next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ome time in 2008, Perry arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that over the next decade, he was arrested several times (typically on charges related to theft or drugs), jailed, shot, stabbed, placed into transitional housing in Tenderloin hotels at least twice, evicted, beaten and hospitalized repeatedly. Eventually he started living in a tent on the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to listen to those who encountered him during this journey, the charisma his high school teammates remember was intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maraea Master, who runs a program for homeless at-risk students at City College, got to know Perry during the two years she worked on San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perry had this manner about himself where it was like, ‘Yes, I live in this tent,’ but he really kept some sort of elegance to himself. He didn’t allow things to get dictated to him and how he should be looking and how he should be treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said that like many, many others living on the streets, Perry suffered from a wide range of physical ailments, mental illness and substance abuse. Sometimes it was not easy to help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take a long time to put his meds in medi-sets (pill organizers) to make sure he would take them,” Master said. “And then like a week later I would be in someone else’s tent and I’ll see his medicine and I’ll be like, ‘God damn it, this is Perry’s medication! Why is it in here?’ And I’m just like, ‘Agghhh!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Master said Perry challenged police officers and Public Works employees sent to get him to move about their authority to do so — what some homeless outreach workers would term “a hard case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was vulnerable to the dangers of the streets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678109\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678109\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-160x135.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-240x203.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-375x317.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/foster-facebook-520x440.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Foster in pictures posted to Facebook after being dragged from his tent and beaten in September 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last September, he was dragged from his tent and beaten and landed back in the hospital with facial fractures. He posted pictures to Facebook. One of those who responded was his brother, Bobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come home man and stop risking your life out there,” he wrote. “How many times have you been attacked? What’s it going to take before you realize you are so much better than that? You think you’re scared? It’s time for you to honestly assess your situation and make a sound judgment. Do you want to live or die? You are a cat that is running out of lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry dismissed his brother’s concern as “talkshow bullshit. … Shitte (sic) and life happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Perry’s friends, a man named Memphis whom I met outside his tent on South Van Ness Avenue, said Perry was afraid of conditions on the street and had been thinking about returning to Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was actually making plans to go home,” Memphis said. “And I told him he should go home months ago. But he said he needed to do something here first, let go of some things first, and then go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was that thing he needed to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry had talked about wanting to help people on the street, to give them a voice. His father, Robert Foster, said he told his son he needed to attend to his own needs first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him, ‘Perry, the best way you can help anybody is to show them how to get out, show ‘em how to do better, by you getting out and doing better and then going back and helping people,'” Foster said. “‘You can’t help ’em where you at, because you in the same condition they in.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said Perry talked about coming home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But he wanted a round-trip ticket,” Foster said. “What you going to do with a round-trip ticket? You want to go back to hell? 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"content": "\u003cp>The number of candidates has shrunk from 12 to two, but don't expect the race for state Assembly in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ad15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15th District\u003c/a> to slow down in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666555/buffy-wicks-makes-pitch-to-assembly-voters-one-living-room-at-a-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffy Wicks\u003c/a>, a former adviser to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, finished far ahead of the field in the June primary. Her general election opponent, Richmond Councilwoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655062/jovanka-beckles-hopes-to-take-corporate-money-free-message-to-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jovanka Beckles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674969/buffy-wicks-and-jovanka-beckles-to-face-off-in-general-election-for-east-bay-assembly-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secured a spot in the top two\u003c/a> after more than a week of vote-counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Two Candidates\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655062/jovanka-beckles-hopes-to-take-corporate-money-free-message-to-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jovanka Beckles Hopes to Take 'Corporate Money Free' Message to State Assembly\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666555/buffy-wicks-makes-pitch-to-assembly-voters-one-living-room-at-a-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffy Wicks Makes Pitch to Assembly Voters, One Living Room at a Time\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the two Democrats have just over four months to make their case to voters in the district that stretches from North Oakland to Hercules. The winner will take the seat now held by Democrat Tony Thurmond, who is running for superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some things worth watching as the race for the Bay Area's only open state legislative seat hurtles toward November.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Obama/Clinton vs. Sanders?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Wicks and Beckles have ties to the most recognizable names in Democratic Party politics. Wicks ran statewide campaigns for both Obama and Clinton, while Beckles is backed by Our Revolution, the group formed out of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will these national players get involved with endorsements or even ads in a local Assembly race? Don't rule it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks was not only an early staffer on Obama's 2008 campaign, she also worked inside the White House to push for the passage of the Affordable Care Act. And Sanders has come to the district to endorse Beckles before (in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1322&v=-FQ6n49AWpY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 run\u003c/a> for City Council) and in recent years has endorsed other progressive candidates for the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither candidate seems anxious to make this race a proxy war in the interminable Clinton vs. Sanders debate, and it's not clear who would be advantaged by that dynamic. In the 2016 Democratic primary, Clinton edged Sanders in Assembly District 15 by less than 1 percentage point, 50.2 to 49.4.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Focus on Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the crowded primary, the 12 candidates prioritized voter outreach and turnout over drawing policy differences with the other contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will likely change with the field down to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With skyrocketing rents and home prices in the Bay Area, it's no surprise that both campaigns are focused on housing. Neither candidate voiced complete support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657578/what-to-know-about-the-housing-bill-that-has-people-freaking-out-from-marin-to-compton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 827\u003c/a>, which would have forced cities to allow more dense developments around transit, but Wicks was more supportive than Beckles of the idea of giving the state more control over zoning in order to spur construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over rent control is more likely to be on voters' minds this summer, with a measure to repeal the state ban on expanding rent stabilization on the November ballot. Beckles supports that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/exploring-the-promise-and-unintended-consequences-of-rent-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measure to repeal\u003c/a> the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, while Wicks prefers reforms to the law, including the idea of stabilizing rents on units when they reach a certain age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are also divided on how to regulate charter schools, a lightning-rod issue in Oakland. Beckles has advocated for a statewide moratorium on new charter schools. Wicks supports efforts to make charter school organizations more transparent, but says the process of approving charter applications should be left to local school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can Beckles Compete with Wicks' Fundraising?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wicks' tremendous fundraising helped her gain name identification in a primary field where six of her opponents had already appeared on a local ballot before. By raising more than $650,000 in the primary, Wicks was able to get her name out through mailers, television ads and phone banking, buttressing a busy schedule of canvassing and house parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckles raised less than all the other leading candidates in the primary, relying mostly on small donations. To be competitive in the general election, she will have to continue to dominate local fundraising: An analysis of primary donations finds 72 percent of contributions to Beckles came from ZIP codes within the district, compared to just 13 percent of donations to Wicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Will the Outside Spending Come From?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to leading the field in campaign fundraising, Wicks was the biggest beneficiary of independent expenditure spending in the primary. By law, these groups (also known as Super PACs) are not allowed to coordinate with campaigns or directly give money to candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest independent supporter of Wicks was the group Govern for California, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@DavidGCrane/a-pro-citizen-2018-agenda-for-california-59b354f3d019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which advocates for\u003c/a> issues including pension reform, changes to teacher tenure rules and increasing the state's housing supply. The former two positions have drawn the ire of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/04/27/opinion-who-is-trying-to-buy-the-california-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wicks' opponents\u003c/a>, and led her to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@buffywicks/setting-the-record-straight-b8e53416c55a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defend her record\u003c/a> on education policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consultants often say that the first rule of independent expenditure campaigns is \"do no harm\" to the candidate or cause you're trying to help. It's possible that support from Govern for California could become a liability for Wicks if their campaign continues to be a lightning rod for her opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen if any outside spending (particularly from labor unions) coalesces around Beckles. She did not have any registered Super PAC support during the primary, although an outside group called Blue America PAC paid for a Facebook ad that promoted Beckles and criticized Wicks. The ad was removed by Facebook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/politicalcontentads/?active_status=all&q=blue%20america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not meeting\u003c/a> the platform's \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/ads-with-political-content/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new reporting requirements\u003c/a> for political content.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Winning Over Primary Opponents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It's no surprise that a primary packed with 12 candidates led to a split among many interest groups and officeholders involved in East Bay politics. It will be vital for Beckles to consolidate the support of both organized labor, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668675/organized-labor-split-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fractured in the primary\u003c/a>, and the candidates who positioned themselves to the left of Wicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also undecided are the two Congress members representing most of the district, Barbara Lee and Mark DeSaulnier, who are both currently weighing which candidate they'll support in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More important for Beckles and Wicks is winning over the voters who chose one of the 10 other candidates in June -- and the potential November voters who didn't turn out for the primary.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The number of candidates has shrunk from 12 to two, but don't expect the race for state Assembly in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ad15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15th District\u003c/a> to slow down in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666555/buffy-wicks-makes-pitch-to-assembly-voters-one-living-room-at-a-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffy Wicks\u003c/a>, a former adviser to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, finished far ahead of the field in the June primary. Her general election opponent, Richmond Councilwoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655062/jovanka-beckles-hopes-to-take-corporate-money-free-message-to-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jovanka Beckles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674969/buffy-wicks-and-jovanka-beckles-to-face-off-in-general-election-for-east-bay-assembly-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secured a spot in the top two\u003c/a> after more than a week of vote-counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Two Candidates\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655062/jovanka-beckles-hopes-to-take-corporate-money-free-message-to-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jovanka Beckles Hopes to Take 'Corporate Money Free' Message to State Assembly\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666555/buffy-wicks-makes-pitch-to-assembly-voters-one-living-room-at-a-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffy Wicks Makes Pitch to Assembly Voters, One Living Room at a Time\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the two Democrats have just over four months to make their case to voters in the district that stretches from North Oakland to Hercules. The winner will take the seat now held by Democrat Tony Thurmond, who is running for superintendent of public instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some things worth watching as the race for the Bay Area's only open state legislative seat hurtles toward November.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Obama/Clinton vs. Sanders?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Wicks and Beckles have ties to the most recognizable names in Democratic Party politics. Wicks ran statewide campaigns for both Obama and Clinton, while Beckles is backed by Our Revolution, the group formed out of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will these national players get involved with endorsements or even ads in a local Assembly race? Don't rule it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks was not only an early staffer on Obama's 2008 campaign, she also worked inside the White House to push for the passage of the Affordable Care Act. And Sanders has come to the district to endorse Beckles before (in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1322&v=-FQ6n49AWpY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 run\u003c/a> for City Council) and in recent years has endorsed other progressive candidates for the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither candidate seems anxious to make this race a proxy war in the interminable Clinton vs. Sanders debate, and it's not clear who would be advantaged by that dynamic. In the 2016 Democratic primary, Clinton edged Sanders in Assembly District 15 by less than 1 percentage point, 50.2 to 49.4.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Focus on Housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the crowded primary, the 12 candidates prioritized voter outreach and turnout over drawing policy differences with the other contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will likely change with the field down to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With skyrocketing rents and home prices in the Bay Area, it's no surprise that both campaigns are focused on housing. Neither candidate voiced complete support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657578/what-to-know-about-the-housing-bill-that-has-people-freaking-out-from-marin-to-compton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 827\u003c/a>, which would have forced cities to allow more dense developments around transit, but Wicks was more supportive than Beckles of the idea of giving the state more control over zoning in order to spur construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over rent control is more likely to be on voters' minds this summer, with a measure to repeal the state ban on expanding rent stabilization on the November ballot. Beckles supports that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/exploring-the-promise-and-unintended-consequences-of-rent-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measure to repeal\u003c/a> the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, while Wicks prefers reforms to the law, including the idea of stabilizing rents on units when they reach a certain age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are also divided on how to regulate charter schools, a lightning-rod issue in Oakland. Beckles has advocated for a statewide moratorium on new charter schools. Wicks supports efforts to make charter school organizations more transparent, but says the process of approving charter applications should be left to local school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can Beckles Compete with Wicks' Fundraising?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wicks' tremendous fundraising helped her gain name identification in a primary field where six of her opponents had already appeared on a local ballot before. By raising more than $650,000 in the primary, Wicks was able to get her name out through mailers, television ads and phone banking, buttressing a busy schedule of canvassing and house parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckles raised less than all the other leading candidates in the primary, relying mostly on small donations. To be competitive in the general election, she will have to continue to dominate local fundraising: An analysis of primary donations finds 72 percent of contributions to Beckles came from ZIP codes within the district, compared to just 13 percent of donations to Wicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Will the Outside Spending Come From?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to leading the field in campaign fundraising, Wicks was the biggest beneficiary of independent expenditure spending in the primary. By law, these groups (also known as Super PACs) are not allowed to coordinate with campaigns or directly give money to candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest independent supporter of Wicks was the group Govern for California, \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@DavidGCrane/a-pro-citizen-2018-agenda-for-california-59b354f3d019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which advocates for\u003c/a> issues including pension reform, changes to teacher tenure rules and increasing the state's housing supply. The former two positions have drawn the ire of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/04/27/opinion-who-is-trying-to-buy-the-california-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wicks' opponents\u003c/a>, and led her to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@buffywicks/setting-the-record-straight-b8e53416c55a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defend her record\u003c/a> on education policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consultants often say that the first rule of independent expenditure campaigns is \"do no harm\" to the candidate or cause you're trying to help. It's possible that support from Govern for California could become a liability for Wicks if their campaign continues to be a lightning rod for her opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains to be seen if any outside spending (particularly from labor unions) coalesces around Beckles. She did not have any registered Super PAC support during the primary, although an outside group called Blue America PAC paid for a Facebook ad that promoted Beckles and criticized Wicks. The ad was removed by Facebook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/politicalcontentads/?active_status=all&q=blue%20america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not meeting\u003c/a> the platform's \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/ads-with-political-content/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new reporting requirements\u003c/a> for political content.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Winning Over Primary Opponents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It's no surprise that a primary packed with 12 candidates led to a split among many interest groups and officeholders involved in East Bay politics. It will be vital for Beckles to consolidate the support of both organized labor, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668675/organized-labor-split-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fractured in the primary\u003c/a>, and the candidates who positioned themselves to the left of Wicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also undecided are the two Congress members representing most of the district, Barbara Lee and Mark DeSaulnier, who are both currently weighing which candidate they'll support in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>They look like tool sheds, but in two spots in Oakland, they’re serving as temporary homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has been experimenting with using Tuff Sheds as transitional housing for people who’ve been living in tents on the streets. Joe DeVries, assistant to Oakland’s city administrator, prefers to call the sheds “cabins.” People began moving into the first cabin community in Oakland, between Castro and Brush streets, in the first days of 2018, after what DeVries says was some pretty heated discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It was not as readily accepted at first because no one knew what we were doing,” DeVries says. But since then, he says the place has served at least 57 homeless people and gotten more than 20 into more stable housing. DeVries says one participant recently moved into a transitional housing center and told him, “I’m ready for walls. I don’t want to go back to living in a tent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second cabin community is now about a month old. Twenty cabins were built under Interstate 980, where one of Oakland’s largest and most dangerous homeless encampments had grown. The cabins are insulated, with double-pane windows, to keep out cold, heat and noise from nearby BART tracks. Priority was given to people who had been camping out in the area the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident, who would identify himself only as “Jermaine,” lived on the streets in the area for four years. During that time, he says he was never ready to enter a program, never ready for walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t ready for the drug programs. I just wasn’t ready,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677932\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31639_Tuf-Sheds-From-The-Outside-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland’s Tuff Shed homeless community, at 27th Street and Northgate Avenue, beneath Interstate 980 and BART tracks. \u003ccite>(Erika Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he says three weeks of living in the community changed his outlook. When he recently became very ill, his fellow residents urged him to seek medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was sick, very sick. I didn’t realize how many people still loved me,” Jermaine says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, is he finally “ready for walls”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still arguing with my god about it, so to speak,” Jermaine says. “But he’ll let me know something when he’s finished playing with me. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Los Angeles has been addressing the homelessness crisis by approving new shelters and turning old motels into temporary shelters. It appears to be having modest success. This year’s homeless count showed a 3 percent decline in the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To get the homeless off the streets more quickly, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has launched a $20 million campaign called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lamayor.org/emergency-temporary-housing-homeless-angelenos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bridge Home\u003c/a>” to put new shelters in each of the 15 council districts. The first would be placed in a city-owned parking lot in Koreatown. But resistance there has taken the form of demonstrations, marches and a petition that has received thousands of signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw1-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"Jake Jeong, an attorney and community leader in Koreatown, leads the crowd in a call and response demanding a public hearing on the proposed temporary homeless shelter at 7th and Vermont.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Jeong, an attorney and community leader in Koreatown, leads the crowd in a call and response demanding a public hearing on the proposed temporary homeless shelter at Seventh and Vermont. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials say this site was selected based on data of homeless encampments in Koreatown. They estimate there are about 400 homeless people living in the neighborhood. The facility will have 65 beds and will be open for a maximum of three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Council was expected to vote Friday on the emergency shelter without a public hearing. But after hearing demands from upset community members, Council President Herb Wesson agreed to restart the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wesson has agreed to look at least one alternative site for the Koreatown shelter, in addition to the disputed site. In a \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/x_lWCNk8PyfWVLni4nKFK?domain=herbwesson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> released Thursday morning, Wesson said he would review different sites and hold community meetings in Koreatown before the City Council takes final action on a temporary housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the justification for not having [a] public hearing? We want to help. We want to be part of this decision-making procedure. That’s all we want,” said Jake Jeong, an attorney and Koreatown community leader, before Wesson changed his approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed shelter is bringing up some deep-seated anxieties within the Korean-American community that the city is not listening to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe people think we are selfish [because] we [are] against the homeless shelter. We are not selfish. We’re just asking, they have to respect us, OK? We work hard, we pay taxes and they are not hearing us. They are not respecting us. That’s not fair,” said one protester, Karen Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw2-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"“After 1992 when this community was burned to the ground, it was built up by the blood, sweat and tears of Korean Americans. And it’s just finally been revitalized and has actually been improving for the past couple of decades,” said protester Emmanuel Han.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“After 1992 when this community was burned to the ground, it was built up by the blood, sweat and tears of Korean-Americans. And it’s just finally been revitalized and has actually been improving for the past couple of decades,” protester Emmanuel Han said. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents also expressed concerns about homeless people bringing drugs and crime to the area. Officials counter that the housing will have 24/7 police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another issue. There are about five schools within a mile of the proposed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester, Myung Jin, wore a shirt with the logo from her son’s school, just a short walk away. Her son is 13 and autistic, and she worries for his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a belief among Korean-Americans that homelessness is not their community’s problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to L.A. homeless statistics, Los Angeles County is 14 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, but that group makes up just 1 percent of the homeless population. No other group — white, black or Latino — can compare with that ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joon Bang, head of the Korean American Coalition of Los Angeles, says a growing number of Korean-American seniors are experiencing homelessness. They are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_htWWqFusA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">often hidden\u003c/a>, sleeping in church pews or at 24-hour spas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw3-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"Jason Yeo and Angela Joo both say that homeless services and housing should be concentrated in downtown LA, rather than in neighborhoods like Koreatown.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Yeo and Angela Joo both say that homeless services and housing should be concentrated in downtown L.A., rather than in neighborhoods like Koreatown. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raymond Kim, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/No-Shelter-on-682Vermont-624282231257969/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Facebook page\u003c/a> that opposes the Koreatown shelter, raised the issue of support structures created by families and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in Koreatown has a friend or a family that’s been in terrible condition,” Kim said. “They’ve been down on their luck and they’ve housed them. I’ve done that. Everybody here has housed a family member or a friend. We put in our fair share of taking care of people. There would be way more homeless if we didn’t take care of our friends and our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent protest, some residents also held signs reading “No hearing, no tent.” There is some concern that the tent itself is a problem, while a permanent structure would blend into the neighborhood better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not clear what the temporary facility will look like. \u003ca href=\"https://herbwesson.com/initiatives/temporary-homeless-housing-facility/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One rendering\u003c/a> on the website for Wesson shows a big tent. 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That’s not fair,” said one protester, Karen Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw2-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"“After 1992 when this community was burned to the ground, it was built up by the blood, sweat and tears of Korean Americans. And it’s just finally been revitalized and has actually been improving for the past couple of decades,” said protester Emmanuel Han.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“After 1992 when this community was burned to the ground, it was built up by the blood, sweat and tears of Korean-Americans. And it’s just finally been revitalized and has actually been improving for the past couple of decades,” protester Emmanuel Han said. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents also expressed concerns about homeless people bringing drugs and crime to the area. Officials counter that the housing will have 24/7 police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another issue. There are about five schools within a mile of the proposed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester, Myung Jin, wore a shirt with the logo from her son’s school, just a short walk away. Her son is 13 and autistic, and she worries for his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a belief among Korean-Americans that homelessness is not their community’s problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to L.A. homeless statistics, Los Angeles County is 14 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, but that group makes up just 1 percent of the homeless population. No other group — white, black or Latino — can compare with that ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joon Bang, head of the Korean American Coalition of Los Angeles, says a growing number of Korean-American seniors are experiencing homelessness. They are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_htWWqFusA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">often hidden\u003c/a>, sleeping in church pews or at 24-hour spas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw3-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"Jason Yeo and Angela Joo both say that homeless services and housing should be concentrated in downtown LA, rather than in neighborhoods like Koreatown.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Yeo and Angela Joo both say that homeless services and housing should be concentrated in downtown L.A., rather than in neighborhoods like Koreatown. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raymond Kim, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/No-Shelter-on-682Vermont-624282231257969/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Facebook page\u003c/a> that opposes the Koreatown shelter, raised the issue of support structures created by families and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in Koreatown has a friend or a family that’s been in terrible condition,” Kim said. “They’ve been down on their luck and they’ve housed them. 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