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But at the southern end, The Village has constructed six one-room wood cabins providing some order to the surrounding chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11677114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/IMG_0810-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An area of the East 12th Street encampment, under the 23rd Street bridge — which is scheduled to be retrofitted. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Village, a city-sanctioned grass-roots project, is aiming to build a total of 40 of these cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day I moved in it was beautiful,” says Leonard Williams, who is 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677548\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11677548 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-800x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-800x679.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1020x866.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1200x1019.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1920x1630.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-1180x1002.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-960x815.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-240x204.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-375x318.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/fortara-520x442.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard Williams recently moved into one of the cabins built by The Village. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams, a former heroin addict, is cradling a tall Colt 45 Malt Liquor. 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He says he’s been on the streets or in prison nearly his whole life. In a way, this cabin is a step up. “I don’t have to worry about rats coming in,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he grew up just a couple of miles from this encampment. His roots are inked across his body — from a “Bay Area” tattoo on his abdomen to an homage to the Raiders spanning his entire back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William is among the more than 85 percent of Oakland’s homeless who are from Alameda County, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/everyone-counts/\">Point-In-Time homeless survey.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now the future of Williams’ small shelter is in question due to the pending bridge construction. At this point he seems resigned to moving again — he’s just hoping the city finds The Village its own site. 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"content": "\u003cp>We all know the refrain: “The rent is too damn high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is more than $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some living in rent-controlled apartments pay \u003cem>way less\u003c/em> than that. That’s because their landlords are limited in how much they can raise rental prices each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s housing crisis continues to roar on, some wonder if expanding rent control could help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how exactly does it work? And is it effective?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where You Can Find Rent Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Right now at least 15 cities in California have some form of rent control. Most of them also have rent control laws that limit when landlords can force tenants to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley have had rent control for decades. But even in those cities, not every home is under rent control because there is this law that limits the reach of rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the mid-’90s, California was going through an affordable housing crisis. To encourage more housing development, two politicians, Democratic Sen. 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This is called vacancy decontrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see apartments all the time, they’re total pieces of crap. And they’re charging like a bazillion dollars, right? But once you get into that apartment, they’re limited in how much more they can raise it. Every time a person moves out they can reset it,” says Matt Levin, a data reporter for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CALmatters\u003c/a> and co-host of the housing podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/category/podcasts/gimme-shelter/\">Gimme Shelter\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11677412 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 25, 2016\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Costa-Hawkins was adopted, some cities had vacancy control, which caps the rent on a unit even after a tenant moves out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, Costa-Hawkins barred certain kinds of housing, like most single-family homes and condos, from being rent-controlled. It also doesn’t allow rent control on buildings built after Feb. 1, 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the cities that already had rent control on the books, Costa-Hawkins froze their construction cutoff dates where they stood. In Oakland nothing built after 1983 can have rent control, Berkeley is 1980, and in San Jose and San Francisco it’s 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So anything new and nice-looking in San Francisco is not going to have rent control on it,” says Levin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11677426 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-960x609.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-520x330.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Studying Rent Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“There is not as much really great research on the effects of rent control as you might think,” Levin says. “One of the best studies that has been done in my opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of people who research this topic, is a \u003ca href=\"http://conference.nber.org/confer//2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf\">Stanford University study.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is by Rebecca Diamond, Tim McQuade and Franklin Qian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diamond says that many arguments for or against rent control are theoretical, but reality doesn’t always match the theory. Diamond, McQuade and Qian got data showing the address changes of San Franciscans over about 18 years, starting in 1994 when rent control expanded to small multifamily housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Benefits?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“We find for the tenants that were living in San Francisco at the time of the law change, [that became covered by rent control,] they benefit dramatically,” says Diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who ended up in rent-controlled apartments at the time of the law change saved $7 billion over 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People over 40 saved the most, and saw three times the benefit of younger people — probably because young people can’t stay put in the same way. They need to leave those rent-controlled apartments because of new jobs, marriages and growing families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Rent control] can create big distortions of forcing people to stay in the ‘wrong’ apartment. You can imagine an old lady living in a four- bedroom apartment because it’s so much cheaper than a one bedroom, and on the flip side you can imagine a young person who has kids staying in a studio because they can’t pay super expensive rent elsewhere,” says Diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Does Not Benefit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Landlords really, really dislike rent control,” says Diamond. “This is a very costly policy for them. It forces them to provide these subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch5>While the price ceiling of rent control limits earnings, rent control cannot impede landlords’ ability to get a “fair market return” on their property. If landlords who own rent controlled properties want to charge tenants more, they need to present reasoning. For example, if the landlord adds a pool and sauna to an apartment building in Berkeley, that landlord could petition the rent board to increase the rent ceiling.\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>With their earnings capped, some landlords decided to leave the rental business altogether by selling or converting their apartments. In 18 years of the study, Diamond found that 15 percent of those newly rent-controlled apartments had been taken off the rental market entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That decreases the supply of rental housing,” Diamond says, creating a new group of people who don’t benefit — other renters. “If supply goes down, prices have to go up for supply to equal demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more people trying to get into fewer apartments, landlords can charge more for those apartments. Diamond’s study found that across the city rent went up by 7 percent and cost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaning newcomers and renters without rent control end up paying more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should We Get Rid of Rent Control?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because our form of rent control can create market distortions and drive costs up for many people, Diamond and her colleagues think it needs to change. They propose that the state find another way to provide cost stability to renters without placing the burden on landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many economists believe rent control should be eliminated, because developers would build more and that new housing would reduce demand and lower prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While rent control may worsen affordability in the long term, some say we are in a crisis and low-income renters need these kinds of protections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area Economic Institute — which is not a bastion of socialism but it is more aligned with the business interests of the Bay Area — did a simulation of all these different types of housing policies and what it would do to San Franciscans,” says Levin. “They found if you did away with rent control, that is the worst thing you could do if you wanted to preserve the affordability of the people currently in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The simulation found that getting rid of rent control would mean more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/solving-the-housing-affordability-crisis-san-francisco/\">16,000 households\u003c/a> would find themselves in unaffordable housing overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates say that rent control is important for preserving diversity in cities by protecting vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Samara of the advocacy group Urban Habitat says this is a civil rights issue and that rent control is a frontline defense against resegregation in the Bay Area. “When you look at where the impact [of displacement] is most heavy, it’s disproportionately on black and brown communities,” says Samara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renters are generally lower-income than homeowners, so rent control targets the appropriate demographic,” says Leslie Gordon of Urban Habitat. “That said, all renters regardless of income are deserving of stable rents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should We Expand Rent Control?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Samara argues that the problem with rent control causing market rate rents to get more expensive isn’t the result of too much rent control, but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a city that passes controls on pollution and then the polluting industries pick up and move to the next city, do you blame the regulation against pollution or do you blame the polluter who’s trying to get around the regulation?” Samara asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11159628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Giselle Penuela, 10, and Alexander Penuela, 6 attend an October 2015 vigil in Redwood City outside the City Council chamber calling for rent control and other renter protections.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giselle Penuela, 10, and Alexander Penuela, 6, attend an October 2015 vigil in Redwood City outside the City Council chamber calling for rent control and other renter protections. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While landlords of rent controlled apartments don’t earn the maximum possible profit, Gordon believes they are making enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a scarcity rent situation landlords can make tons of money simply because they own a property. It’s not because they’re investing in it or providing a better good to their tenants, it’s because they own property in a period where urban land values are rising rapidly,” says Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some groups are working to expand rent control. A measure to overturn Costa-Hawkins will be on the November ballot in 2018. If passed, it opens the door for cities to expand rent control to every single unit, if they elect to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Potential Consequences of Expansion\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Landlords, developers and their representatives are deeply opposed to the expansion of rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Developers already face a number of hurdles when building, like nimbyism, environmental restrictions and the soaring costs of land and labor,” says Tom Bannon, CEO of the California Apartment Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch5>Tenant advocates say just building isn’t enough. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We all know the refrain: “The rent is too damn high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is more than $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some living in rent-controlled apartments pay \u003cem>way less\u003c/em> than that. That’s because their landlords are limited in how much they can raise rental prices each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s housing crisis continues to roar on, some wonder if expanding rent control could help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how exactly does it work? And is it effective?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where You Can Find Rent Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Right now at least 15 cities in California have some form of rent control. Most of them also have rent control laws that limit when landlords can force tenants to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley have had rent control for decades. But even in those cities, not every home is under rent control because there is this law that limits the reach of rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the mid-’90s, California was going through an affordable housing crisis. To encourage more housing development, two politicians, Democratic Sen. Jim Costa of Fresno and Republican Assemblyman Phil Hawkins of Bellflower, wanted to curb rent control.\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>They drafted\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&division=3.&title=5.&part=4.&chapter=2.7.&article\"> the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act\u003c/a>, and in 1995 it passed by one vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costa-Hawkins shaped rent control across the state in two big ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, it allowed landlords to raise the rent to whatever they want after a tenant moves out of a rent-controlled apartment. This is called vacancy decontrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see apartments all the time, they’re total pieces of crap. And they’re charging like a bazillion dollars, right? But once you get into that apartment, they’re limited in how much more they can raise it. Every time a person moves out they can reset it,” says Matt Levin, a data reporter for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CALmatters\u003c/a> and co-host of the housing podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/category/podcasts/gimme-shelter/\">Gimme Shelter\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677412\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11677412 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/FioreBeardoRents-1920x1920-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 25, 2016\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Costa-Hawkins was adopted, some cities had vacancy control, which caps the rent on a unit even after a tenant moves out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, Costa-Hawkins barred certain kinds of housing, like most single-family homes and condos, from being rent-controlled. It also doesn’t allow rent control on buildings built after Feb. 1, 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the cities that already had rent control on the books, Costa-Hawkins froze their construction cutoff dates where they stood. In Oakland nothing built after 1983 can have rent control, Berkeley is 1980, and in San Jose and San Francisco it’s 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So anything new and nice-looking in San Francisco is not going to have rent control on it,” says Levin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11677426 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-960x609.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/AptForRent-1020x647-520x330.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Studying Rent Control\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“There is not as much really great research on the effects of rent control as you might think,” Levin says. “One of the best studies that has been done in my opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of people who research this topic, is a \u003ca href=\"http://conference.nber.org/confer//2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf\">Stanford University study.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is by Rebecca Diamond, Tim McQuade and Franklin Qian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diamond says that many arguments for or against rent control are theoretical, but reality doesn’t always match the theory. Diamond, McQuade and Qian got data showing the address changes of San Franciscans over about 18 years, starting in 1994 when rent control expanded to small multifamily housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Benefits?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“We find for the tenants that were living in San Francisco at the time of the law change, [that became covered by rent control,] they benefit dramatically,” says Diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who ended up in rent-controlled apartments at the time of the law change saved $7 billion over 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People over 40 saved the most, and saw three times the benefit of younger people — probably because young people can’t stay put in the same way. They need to leave those rent-controlled apartments because of new jobs, marriages and growing families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Rent control] can create big distortions of forcing people to stay in the ‘wrong’ apartment. You can imagine an old lady living in a four- bedroom apartment because it’s so much cheaper than a one bedroom, and on the flip side you can imagine a young person who has kids staying in a studio because they can’t pay super expensive rent elsewhere,” says Diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Does Not Benefit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Landlords really, really dislike rent control,” says Diamond. “This is a very costly policy for them. It forces them to provide these subsidies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch5>While the price ceiling of rent control limits earnings, rent control cannot impede landlords’ ability to get a “fair market return” on their property. If landlords who own rent controlled properties want to charge tenants more, they need to present reasoning. For example, if the landlord adds a pool and sauna to an apartment building in Berkeley, that landlord could petition the rent board to increase the rent ceiling.\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>With their earnings capped, some landlords decided to leave the rental business altogether by selling or converting their apartments. In 18 years of the study, Diamond found that 15 percent of those newly rent-controlled apartments had been taken off the rental market entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That decreases the supply of rental housing,” Diamond says, creating a new group of people who don’t benefit — other renters. “If supply goes down, prices have to go up for supply to equal demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more people trying to get into fewer apartments, landlords can charge more for those apartments. Diamond’s study found that across the city rent went up by 7 percent and cost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaning newcomers and renters without rent control end up paying more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should We Get Rid of Rent Control?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because our form of rent control can create market distortions and drive costs up for many people, Diamond and her colleagues think it needs to change. They propose that the state find another way to provide cost stability to renters without placing the burden on landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many economists believe rent control should be eliminated, because developers would build more and that new housing would reduce demand and lower prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While rent control may worsen affordability in the long term, some say we are in a crisis and low-income renters need these kinds of protections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area Economic Institute — which is not a bastion of socialism but it is more aligned with the business interests of the Bay Area — did a simulation of all these different types of housing policies and what it would do to San Franciscans,” says Levin. “They found if you did away with rent control, that is the worst thing you could do if you wanted to preserve the affordability of the people currently in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The simulation found that getting rid of rent control would mean more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/solving-the-housing-affordability-crisis-san-francisco/\">16,000 households\u003c/a> would find themselves in unaffordable housing overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates say that rent control is important for preserving diversity in cities by protecting vulnerable populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Samara of the advocacy group Urban Habitat says this is a civil rights issue and that rent control is a frontline defense against resegregation in the Bay Area. “When you look at where the impact [of displacement] is most heavy, it’s disproportionately on black and brown communities,” says Samara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renters are generally lower-income than homeowners, so rent control targets the appropriate demographic,” says Leslie Gordon of Urban Habitat. “That said, all renters regardless of income are deserving of stable rents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should We Expand Rent Control?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Samara argues that the problem with rent control causing market rate rents to get more expensive isn’t the result of too much rent control, but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a city that passes controls on pollution and then the polluting industries pick up and move to the next city, do you blame the regulation against pollution or do you blame the polluter who’s trying to get around the regulation?” Samara asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11159628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11159628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Giselle Penuela, 10, and Alexander Penuela, 6 attend an October 2015 vigil in Redwood City outside the City Council chamber calling for rent control and other renter protections.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/rent-control-1920a-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giselle Penuela, 10, and Alexander Penuela, 6, attend an October 2015 vigil in Redwood City outside the City Council chamber calling for rent control and other renter protections. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While landlords of rent controlled apartments don’t earn the maximum possible profit, Gordon believes they are making enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a scarcity rent situation landlords can make tons of money simply because they own a property. It’s not because they’re investing in it or providing a better good to their tenants, it’s because they own property in a period where urban land values are rising rapidly,” says Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some groups are working to expand rent control. A measure to overturn Costa-Hawkins will be on the November ballot in 2018. If passed, it opens the door for cities to expand rent control to every single unit, if they elect to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Potential Consequences of Expansion\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Landlords, developers and their representatives are deeply opposed to the expansion of rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Developers already face a number of hurdles when building, like nimbyism, environmental restrictions and the soaring costs of land and labor,” says Tom Bannon, CEO of the California Apartment Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch5>Tenant advocates say just building isn’t enough. New luxury housing depreciates too slowly to adequately alleviate the housing burden of low-income people. Some say cities should focus on building low-income housing while preserving and protecting affordable housing that already exists.\u003c/h5>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s high costs of building disincentivize developers, and Bannon worries that if rent control expands to new construction, investors might leave the state entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would have a serious reduction in the construction of any new apartments because builders and banks and individuals would not be willing to take the risk,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s housing we really need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to keep up with population growth California needs 180,000 new homes each year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the SF Homeless Project\u003c/a> we’re once again concentrating coverage around housing affordability this June. Here’s a first-person account of what it’s like to be a grad student and live in an RV in the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name is Yesica Prado and I am 26 years old. I moved to the Bay Area four years ago from the South Side of Chicago, but I was born in Mexico City. I came to live at the Berkeley Marina after my second semester of graduate 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 had bounced around the bay, chasing stories while studying at the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \u003c/a>I worked the night shift at Whole Foods in San Francisco, and went to school during the day for a year before deciding to quit the job, the rent and the long commute, and buy an RV last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lost my housing in San Francisco more than a year ago after not keeping up with rent, but I never considered myself homeless. Being on the streets gave me a mission. It helped me stay alert about what really happens in our cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would get shamed at school sometimes for not reading the news, but living from phone charge to phone charge forces compromises. I used the power on my cellphone to navigate the cities, hunting for story sources, food, restrooms and gyms to complete daily tasks and homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today I’m part of a community of four families, including nine children, living out of eight vehicles in a parking lot at the marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As humans, we all want to be directors of our own dream. Our relationships with one another help us grow: financially, physically, spiritually and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have created a network of neighbors, family, friends, comrades. 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Amber leads the discussions, encouraging neighbors to know their rights on the street. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Sweeney, the grandfather in the Bockover family, prepares and eats a ribeye steak from Whole Foods Market. He enjoys the small pleasures of life: good food and dancing. He works with his son-in-law in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31595_Marina_Friends008-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Torres, Prado’s friend, smiles for a portrait inside her RV at the Berkeley Marina. Their daily routine is to make breakfast with their camping stove, hit the gym, shower, commute around the city for food, and linger at coffee shops or libraries to charge up battery packs and electronics for the day. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31596_RS31596_Prado_MarinaFriends010-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr., age 5, plays inside an inflatable ball outside his motorhome at the Hs Lordships parking lot. Paul was the first child in the Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels. He attends pre-kindergarten at the Berkeley Technology Academy. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677600\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31592_RS31592_Marina_Friends028-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian and Jim Hauso prepare hamburgers and hot dogs at a community barbecue on Sunday afternoon at Hs Lordships. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31590_Marina_Friends025.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hs Lordships parking lot is a popular spot to come race and make car doughnuts. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31594_Marina_Friends036edit-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today I’m part of a community of four families, including nine children, living out of eight vehicles in a parking lot at the marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As humans, we all want to be directors of our own dream. Our relationships with one another help us grow: financially, physically, spiritually and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have created a network of neighbors, family, friends, comrades. The Berkeley Marina Friends on Wheels is an example of how poverty is a shared experience in the world, regardless of education, color or nationality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31591_Marina_Friends027-copy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community meetings are held weekly, and neighbors gather to share concerns and issues that happened throughout the week. Amber leads the discussions, encouraging neighbors to know their rights on the street. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677601\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31593_Marina_Friends033.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Sweeney, the grandfather in the Bockover family, prepares and eats a ribeye steak from Whole Foods Market. He enjoys the small pleasures of life: good food and dancing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday June 27 8:30 a.m. to include new comments from the U.S. Navy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen California members of Congress are calling on the U.S. Navy to release information about an apparent request the Trump administration has made that could eventually mean thousands of undocumented immigrants would be housed at the old Concord Naval Weapons Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of Bay Area, Sacramento County and Central Coast House members, all Democrats, sent a letter to the Navy on Tuesday, saying they were \"deeply troubled\" by reports that land owned by the Department of Defense in Contra Costa County would be used to help carry out the administration's zero tolerance immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are understandably concerned that such a drastic proposal is being considered without community input or notification,\" their letter states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek), the former Concord mayor who currently represents the area, sent off his own letter to the Navy as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Administration should abandon this proposal,\" DeSaulnier wrote. \"This proposal is antithetical to the values of our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naval station is unsafe, as it's located next to an Army ammunition and explosives depot, DeSaulnier noted. Environmental cleanup of the area is still underway, and there's no sewage system or power, he stressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rounding people up and forcing them to sleep in tent cities among tens of thousands of others is inhumane and cruel at the most basic levels,\" DeSaulnier wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove), Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto), John Garamendi (D-Fairfield), Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara), Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento), Jerry McNerney (D-Antioch), Jimmy Panetta (D-Salinas), Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo), Eric Swalwell (D-Castro Valley) and Mike Thompson (D-Napa) signed onto a group letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of those members traveled to Texas last weekend to visit facilities run by the federal government at the border that housed children separated from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is nonsense,\" the North Bay congressman said in an interview Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are you guys serious? Are you really thinking about doing this? If so, let us know so we can jump up and down on you and stop it,\" said Garamendi, a member of the House Armed Services Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/5319334/navy-detainment-centers-zerol-tolerance-immigration-family-separation-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time magazine\u003c/a>, citing a draft memo it obtained, reported that the Navy was considering converting the Concord facility into a camp to house 47,000 immigrants detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That story set off \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/23/shocked-and-angry-concord-residents-reject-plans-for-detention-camp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strong opposition\u003c/a> from local leaders and immigration advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Roth, director of Contra Costa County Health Services, issued a \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/healthservices/pdf/Statement-to-proposed-detention-facility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> calling the proposal dangerous and immoral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hours after the Time story broke, military officials would not confirm that the Concord base was being floated as a potential detention location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Department of Defense (DOD) is conducting prudent planning and are looking at all available regions should DHS (Department of Homeland Security) ask for assistance in housing adult illegal immigrants,\" said Johnny Michael, a DOD spokesman, in an email then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time there has been no request from DHS,\" Michael said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Wednesday the Navy inched forward on confirming the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to inform potential senior leader discussion around this topic, Navy planners proactively pulled together a list of options that could be considered,\" said Capt. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a fire burned down her home, Dorothy Nolan began living in an RV. One of the biggest challenges she has found as an RV dweller? Being told to move — constantly — by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just could not park,” Nolan said. “We’d park to even just cook or take our dogs out for a walk. And, ‘What are you doing here? How long are you gonna be here? There’s no camping. Move it; you’ve got an hour.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan recently found a parking lot at the edge of the Berkeley Marina where, so far, no one has ticketed or towed her RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been sleeping for two days,” she said. “After not sleeping for six months, we were dead tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy Nolan smiles for a portrait outside her trailer, which is pulled by another friend with his motor home. Nolan lived in San Pablo, and became homeless after her house burned down. Nolan is a former veterinary technician and lives in the trailer with her seven dogs and boyfriend. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Berkeley-1.pdf\">latest count\u003c/a>, the city of Berkeley has nearly 1,000 homeless people, many living in tented encampments along roads and underpasses. But in the past year, a group of people living in their vehicles — mostly RVs — have been living at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Marina_Home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Marina. \u003c/a> Now the city is considering whether to create a sanctioned area for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parked near Nolan is Berkeley native Paul Schrager, who grew up just off of University Avenue, right up the road from the Berkeley Marina. He’s on disability and can’t work right now. Schrager left the Bay Area for a year, and then moved back to his hometown, closer to a support network of relatives and friends. But rents were so high, he was unable to find a place his family could afford. When he bought the RV for $300, he thought of it as a temporary home while he searched for housing. It’s been three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think we’d be in this thing this long,” Schrager said.\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>Schrager’s 5-year-old attends a public school in Berkeley and often plays outdoors near the bay. Schrager doesn’t want to leave his friends and family in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hard raising a child here in this environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schrager’s RV has electricity now, so his son can watch TV, but it lacks proper facilities. Some of his neighbors pay for gym memberships in order to shower — much easier to afford than local rent. Schrager and his son are able to bathe at his dad’s house nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a bathroom, but we have no shower or bathtub or running water right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr. and his dad fly a kite in a parking lot at the Berkeley Marina, where they are part of a community of people living in vehicles. Paul’s favorite color is “the whole rainbow,” he says, and he enjoys flying colorful kites at the marina. He shares his toys with the other children. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schrager and Nolan are part of a fluctuating group of RV dwellers who have formed a community here over the past year. There are retired seniors, several people on disability, and many working adults: a barista, a security guard and a delivery driver for Amazon, to name a few. One woman earned her master’s degree at UC Berkeley while living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday, there were about 16 live-in vehicles mostly in a row. They are in the parking lot of a marina restaurant that leases the land from the city. The restaurant is shutting down in a few days, and the city does not yet have a plan for what will happen to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, Berkeley doesn’t allow vehicular camping, though the city sometimes looks the other way. The core RV dwellers here have become a tight-knit group. Last April, when the city made everyone leave an area near a local hotel, they voted to all move to a new part of the marina — together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Whitson lived for seven years at an encampment on nearby Albany Bulb park, before it was forcibly disbanded. Now living in a RV in the marina, Whitson still worries that she and her neighbors could be towed or forced to move at any moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still in an unsure place here as far as the legality of our being here. It isn’t technically sanctioned for us to be here,” said Whitson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Whitson rakes weeds off the parking lot at Hs Lordships on the Berkeley Marina. She is getting rid of the spiky weeds hidden in the patches of overgrown grass for the safety of the kids and pets playing in the parking lot. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Whitson has been pushing her neighbors to organize and advocate on their own behalf, including bringing their concerns to people who have the political power to make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve started showing up at City Council meetings. And they’re asking for a longer-term fix — a sanctioned area, like an RV park, with running water and septic tank disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty,” Whitson said at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they are willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities\u003c/strong> is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Amber Whitson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some in the marina have been supportive, but there has also been some pushback. There have been complaints about sanitation and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of why Whitson and others have also been working to establish rules for those seeking to live here, to help maintain order and safety and avoid negative attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in between a row of RVs, Whitson reads from a draft of their proposed community rules of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No street drugs and/or alcohol. No rowdy behavior. 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. noise curfew. All holding tanks must be proper and legal working order,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A van at the marina. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin and City Council members Cheryl Davila and Kate Harrison are trying to find an answer. They are introducing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2018/06_June/City_Council__06-26-2018_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proposal\u003c/a> for the city manager to develop a local vehicle-dweller park. It would have toilets, garbage service, showers and potable water. There would also be access to social services. The city would issue permits, and collect a fee of somewhere between $60 to $150 per month, far less than most RV parks. The local RV-dwelling community could live there without fear of harassment or citation, if they abide by some rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s approved, Arreguin said there would have to be limits to how many people could stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also going to be people that are going to want to come, that are going to want to live there, that either won’t be able to live there because of space or are not going to be able to conform to those rules,” said Arreguin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitson is hopeful the city’s proposal could lead to a longer-term solution for the community, even if it’s not in the marina. For now, she’s helping the community organize so they can stay in the minds — and good graces — of the city.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a fire burned down her home, Dorothy Nolan began living in an RV. One of the biggest challenges she has found as an RV dweller? Being told to move — constantly — by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just could not park,” Nolan said. “We’d park to even just cook or take our dogs out for a walk. And, ‘What are you doing here? How long are you gonna be here? There’s no camping. Move it; you’ve got an hour.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan recently found a parking lot at the edge of the Berkeley Marina where, so far, no one has ticketed or towed her RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been sleeping for two days,” she said. “After not sleeping for six months, we were dead tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothy Nolan smiles for a portrait outside her trailer, which is pulled by another friend with his motor home. Nolan lived in San Pablo, and became homeless after her house burned down. Nolan is a former veterinary technician and lives in the trailer with her seven dogs and boyfriend. \u003ccite>(Christian Torres/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the \u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017HIRDReport-Berkeley-1.pdf\">latest count\u003c/a>, the city of Berkeley has nearly 1,000 homeless people, many living in tented encampments along roads and underpasses. But in the past year, a group of people living in their vehicles — mostly RVs — have been living at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Marina_Home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Marina. \u003c/a> Now the city is considering whether to create a sanctioned area for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parked near Nolan is Berkeley native Paul Schrager, who grew up just off of University Avenue, right up the road from the Berkeley Marina. He’s on disability and can’t work right now. Schrager left the Bay Area for a year, and then moved back to his hometown, closer to a support network of relatives and friends. But rents were so high, he was unable to find a place his family could afford. When he bought the RV for $300, he thought of it as a temporary home while he searched for housing. It’s been three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think we’d be in this thing this long,” Schrager said.\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>Schrager’s 5-year-old attends a public school in Berkeley and often plays outdoors near the bay. Schrager doesn’t want to leave his friends and family in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hard raising a child here in this environment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schrager’s RV has electricity now, so his son can watch TV, but it lacks proper facilities. Some of his neighbors pay for gym memberships in order to shower — much easier to afford than local rent. Schrager and his son are able to bathe at his dad’s house nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a bathroom, but we have no shower or bathtub or running water right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends015-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Schrager Jr. and his dad fly a kite in a parking lot at the Berkeley Marina, where they are part of a community of people living in vehicles. Paul’s favorite color is “the whole rainbow,” he says, and he enjoys flying colorful kites at the marina. He shares his toys with the other children. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schrager and Nolan are part of a fluctuating group of RV dwellers who have formed a community here over the past year. There are retired seniors, several people on disability, and many working adults: a barista, a security guard and a delivery driver for Amazon, to name a few. One woman earned her master’s degree at UC Berkeley while living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday, there were about 16 live-in vehicles mostly in a row. They are in the parking lot of a marina restaurant that leases the land from the city. The restaurant is shutting down in a few days, and the city does not yet have a plan for what will happen to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, Berkeley doesn’t allow vehicular camping, though the city sometimes looks the other way. The core RV dwellers here have become a tight-knit group. Last April, when the city made everyone leave an area near a local hotel, they voted to all move to a new part of the marina — together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amber Whitson lived for seven years at an encampment on nearby Albany Bulb park, before it was forcibly disbanded. Now living in a RV in the marina, Whitson still worries that she and her neighbors could be towed or forced to move at any moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still in an unsure place here as far as the legality of our being here. It isn’t technically sanctioned for us to be here,” said Whitson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677221\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends022-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Whitson rakes weeds off the parking lot at Hs Lordships on the Berkeley Marina. She is getting rid of the spiky weeds hidden in the patches of overgrown grass for the safety of the kids and pets playing in the parking lot. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So Whitson has been pushing her neighbors to organize and advocate on their own behalf, including bringing their concerns to people who have the political power to make changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve started showing up at City Council meetings. And they’re asking for a longer-term fix — a sanctioned area, like an RV park, with running water and septic tank disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty,” Whitson said at a recent City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they are willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>All that we ask for in order to ensure that we have the most basic human amenities\u003c/strong> is a parking lot with a single shower and a porta-potty.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Amber Whitson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some in the marina have been supportive, but there has also been some pushback. There have been complaints about sanitation and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of why Whitson and others have also been working to establish rules for those seeking to live here, to help maintain order and safety and avoid negative attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in between a row of RVs, Whitson reads from a draft of their proposed community rules of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No street drugs and/or alcohol. No rowdy behavior. 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. noise curfew. All holding tanks must be proper and legal working order,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11677222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Marina_Friends029-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A van at the marina. \u003ccite>(Yesica Prado/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin and City Council members Cheryl Davila and Kate Harrison are trying to find an answer. They are introducing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2018/06_June/City_Council__06-26-2018_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proposal\u003c/a> for the city manager to develop a local vehicle-dweller park. It would have toilets, garbage service, showers and potable water. There would also be access to social services. The city would issue permits, and collect a fee of somewhere between $60 to $150 per month, far less than most RV parks. The local RV-dwelling community could live there without fear of harassment or citation, if they abide by some rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s approved, Arreguin said there would have to be limits to how many people could stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also going to be people that are going to want to come, that are going to want to live there, that either won’t be able to live there because of space or are not going to be able to conform to those rules,” said Arreguin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gregory Andrews, 60, sleeps in his Chevy Malibu just outside a health clinic on the west side of Los Angeles. In the morning, he lines up there for a free shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Besides trying to find something healthy to eat, the next most important thing is to take a shower,” Andrews said. “It keeps your self-esteem up.”\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>Not many health clinics offer showers, but Saban Community Clinic, where Andrews goes, has been doing it for about three decades. The clinic serves an urgent need, given L.A. County’s growing homeless population, which is up almost 50 percent in the past six years to roughly 53,000, though it dipped slightly this year, according to the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=410-2018-homeless-count-results\">homeless count.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen people line up at the Saban clinic each weekday morning, waiting for the showers. They come with backpacks, shopping carts and folded-up tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinic staff also help them find temporary lodging and get health insurance, as they did for Andrews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just told me at the front desk, ‘Do you know you qualify for Medi-Cal?’ ” Andrews said. “I went upstairs, talked to one person, and within 30 days I had Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Henderson has been homeless for more than a decade. He uses the showers and has been cared for by the dentist at Saban Community Clinic but says he’s reluctant to see the doctor. His basketball injuries are nothing “ibuprofen can’t take care of,” he says. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Bloom packs up his tent after spending the night just outside the Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles. Bloom takes showers at the clinic on weekday mornings and meets with doctors and mental health counselors there. \u003ccite>( Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saban’s free showers are a gateway to other services it offers homeless people, who sometimes resist seeking medical care, said Adam Friedman, the clinic’s chief marketing officer. About a third of the people who take showers at Saban also see doctors there. Some of the patients have untreated mental illnesses and chronic diseases. Others have injuries from living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole goal is to build trust so … they will be open to seeing a therapist, going to the dentist, getting their medical needs taken care of,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Henderson, a 46-year-old who has been homeless for more than a decade, said finding a shower on this relatively affluent side of town wasn’t easy. It is easier to find one in downtown L.A. or other parts of the city, he said. “In other areas, like the beach, there’s not only a shelter shower but … also the showers on the sand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he was glad to find the showers at Saban and to see the dentist upstairs. But he generally avoids the doctor. “I’m reluctant,” he said. “If I’m in pain I’ll go see the doctor, but normally the pains that I have are from basketball injuries so I know how to deal with those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews, who stands over 6 feet tall and walks with a cane — started seeing the doctor and the dentist soon after going to Saban for a shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Andrews takes showers at the clinic and has seen doctors and dentists there. The clinic also helped him get temporary shelter and health insurance. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedman said that with the growth of the homeless population, he expects even more people will need a place to shower. The clinic also offers showers at its Hollywood location three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those who don’t seek medical care, showering itself has health benefits, such as keeping wounds clean and avoiding infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At precisely 7:30 a.m., the doors open. Caseworker Chenelle Groomes greets people by name and hands out towels and soap. If anyone needs socks or underwear, she has a closet filled with donations. Groomes keeps track of who is next with a sign-up sheet and a clipboard. And she helps schedule same-day medical appointments for those who want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the clinic hand out towels to participants. Soap and shampoo are also available. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the regulars said they take showers at the clinic because they don’t want to look homeless. Kevin Bloom, 30, said he wouldn’t know what to do without the showers. He sleeps in a tent near the front door of the Saban clinic, and he also sees doctors and mental health counselors there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait their turn in the shower, participants pass the time reading books or looking at their phones. A few close their eyes. Sometimes, arguments break out, and there’s rarely a dull moment for Groomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep her busy,” Andrews said. “She keeps us out of trouble. Some of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking a shower is just a good way to start the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A nice warm shower? Makes anybody feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\">\u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (KHN), which publishes \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\">\u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an editorially independent service of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">\u003cem>California Health Care Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gregory Andrews, 60, sleeps in his Chevy Malibu just outside a health clinic on the west side of Los Angeles. In the morning, he lines up there for a free shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Besides trying to find something healthy to eat, the next most important thing is to take a shower,” Andrews said. “It keeps your self-esteem up.”\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>Not many health clinics offer showers, but Saban Community Clinic, where Andrews goes, has been doing it for about three decades. The clinic serves an urgent need, given L.A. County’s growing homeless population, which is up almost 50 percent in the past six years to roughly 53,000, though it dipped slightly this year, according to the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=410-2018-homeless-count-results\">homeless count.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen people line up at the Saban clinic each weekday morning, waiting for the showers. They come with backpacks, shopping carts and folded-up tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinic staff also help them find temporary lodging and get health insurance, as they did for Andrews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just told me at the front desk, ‘Do you know you qualify for Medi-Cal?’ ” Andrews said. “I went upstairs, talked to one person, and within 30 days I had Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower2-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Henderson has been homeless for more than a decade. He uses the showers and has been cared for by the dentist at Saban Community Clinic but says he’s reluctant to see the doctor. His basketball injuries are nothing “ibuprofen can’t take care of,” he says. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower1-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Bloom packs up his tent after spending the night just outside the Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles. Bloom takes showers at the clinic on weekday mornings and meets with doctors and mental health counselors there. \u003ccite>( Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saban’s free showers are a gateway to other services it offers homeless people, who sometimes resist seeking medical care, said Adam Friedman, the clinic’s chief marketing officer. About a third of the people who take showers at Saban also see doctors there. Some of the patients have untreated mental illnesses and chronic diseases. Others have injuries from living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole goal is to build trust so … they will be open to seeing a therapist, going to the dentist, getting their medical needs taken care of,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Henderson, a 46-year-old who has been homeless for more than a decade, said finding a shower on this relatively affluent side of town wasn’t easy. It is easier to find one in downtown L.A. or other parts of the city, he said. “In other areas, like the beach, there’s not only a shelter shower but … also the showers on the sand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said he was glad to find the showers at Saban and to see the dentist upstairs. But he generally avoids the doctor. “I’m reluctant,” he said. “If I’m in pain I’ll go see the doctor, but normally the pains that I have are from basketball injuries so I know how to deal with those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews, who stands over 6 feet tall and walks with a cane — started seeing the doctor and the dentist soon after going to Saban for a shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower7-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Andrews takes showers at the clinic and has seen doctors and dentists there. The clinic also helped him get temporary shelter and health insurance. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedman said that with the growth of the homeless population, he expects even more people will need a place to shower. The clinic also offers showers at its Hollywood location three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those who don’t seek medical care, showering itself has health benefits, such as keeping wounds clean and avoiding infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At precisely 7:30 a.m., the doors open. Caseworker Chenelle Groomes greets people by name and hands out towels and soap. If anyone needs socks or underwear, she has a closet filled with donations. Groomes keeps track of who is next with a sign-up sheet and a clipboard. And she helps schedule same-day medical appointments for those who want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11676521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5.jpg 4608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Shower5-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the clinic hand out towels to participants. Soap and shampoo are also available. \u003ccite>(Anna Gorman/Kaiser Health News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the regulars said they take showers at the clinic because they don’t want to look homeless. Kevin Bloom, 30, said he wouldn’t know what to do without the showers. He sleeps in a tent near the front door of the Saban clinic, and he also sees doctors and mental health counselors there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait their turn in the shower, participants pass the time reading books or looking at their phones. A few close their eyes. Sometimes, arguments break out, and there’s rarely a dull moment for Groomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep her busy,” Andrews said. “She keeps us out of trouble. Some of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking a shower is just a good way to start the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A nice warm shower? Makes anybody feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\">\u003cem>Kaiser Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> (KHN), which publishes \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/\">\u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an editorially independent service of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">\u003cem>California Health Care Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Toy cars are scattered across the floor in Marie Camacho’s small one-bedroom apartment in Sacramento. Photos of her 4-year-old boy, Julian, line the walls. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 32-year-old single mom juggles two part-time jobs, but she can’t stand to be away from her son. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He likes being around his mom,” said Camacho. “And I’m the only one. ... I’m mom and dad. So, it makes it even worse.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho’s California dream — of raising Julian in a safe, affordable home with family, school and her church nearby — is getting tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her rent is going up — way up — from about $600 a month to more than $1,000 a month. She can’t afford that jump. And her landlord is not giving her the chance. Instead, she received a 60-day eviction notice, filling her with fear about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploding rents like Camacho’s affect millions in California, where renters make up nearly half of all households. They make it tougher to sock away money to someday realize the dream of homeownership. And they displace those without the income to keep up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rents have increased, so have calls to strengthen rent control laws across the state. Voters this fall will have the chance to weigh in on a potential first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rent control measure backed by tenant advocates qualified last week for the statewide November ballot. If approved, it would repeal the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which blocks rent controls on units built after 1995. 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They argue that rent control creates the perverse, unintended consequence of making rental housing scarcer and increasing rents for all but a select few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a boon to the people that get it,” said Christopher Palmer, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has studied rent control. “That comes at the cost of landlords and potentially at the cost of other tenants in the city that are paying higher rents or that are having scarcer housing. Or even future tenants that are going to get into a unit someday at some very high rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened in San Francisco, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2017 study\u003c/a> by economists at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The report found landlords in that city converted rent-controlled apartments to condominiums and even knocked down and rebuilt entire buildings to escape restrictions after San Francisco expanded its rent control in 1994. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions taken in San Francisco are “particularly worrisome from an affordability point of view,” said Rebecca Diamond, one of the study’s authors. “Because not only does this decrease the supply of rentals as a whole in the city, which we find it does; but it replaces it with high-end condos and high-end new construction, which really caters to high-income households’ tastes and likely fueled gentrification in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Diamond’s research, tenants with a rent-controlled apartment saved anywhere from about $2,300 to $6,600 every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/capradio.dailygraphics.production/dailygraphics/graphics/rent-control-20180615/child.html\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That savings can make a huge difference in a state where rent has climbed steadily as a share of income. From 1960 to 2013, the percentage of family income needed for rent in California nearly doubled from about 20 percent to 37 percent, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The cost was even higher for young renters, age 18 to 30, who paid 44 percent of their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the savings experienced by some also comes at a cost. In San Francisco, the city lost 5 percent of its rental housing after rent control expanded. Overall rents ticked up 5 percent, according to the Stanford study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent control is government regulation,” said Jim Lofgren, a senior vice president with the California Apartment Association, which represents thousands of apartment owners statewide and is a leading opponent of the November ballot measure. “It interferes with the market, and it results in shortages of housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A political choice’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean Preston is executive director of Tenants Together, a statewide advocacy organization, which supports the ballot measure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the Stanford study is wrong to place the blame on rent control, particularly when city leaders could have outlawed condo conversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a political choice, not an intellectual or academic one,” said Preston. “And that’s one of the biggest flaws of that study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts have a more nuanced view. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miriam Zuk, a housing researcher at UC Berkeley, said moderate forms of rent control — such as the existing law in California, which does not apply to new apartments — do not slow down new construction, contrary to claims by some landlords and developers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RENT4.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676604\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking at overall housing production from 2007 to 2013, Zuk wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> that the six cities with rent controls in the San Francisco Bay Area actually produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more housing units\u003c/a> per capita than cities in the region without rent control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Zuk said those findings are not the result of a rigorous study and did not control for other factors that influence housing production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More comprehensive studies, however, found no evidence that moderate forms of rent control slow new construction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Galante, a UC Berkeley professor of affordable housing, said it’s difficult to assess whether rent control slows growth because there aren’t many cities where the policy applies to new housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if that were to change,” Galante added, “and rent control were to apply to new construction, I certainly could see that without any limitations, that would cause a serious concern for investors and developers. Investors can invest anywhere. It’s a global pool of money. And so they’re not going to invest in places where they don’t feel they can get an adequate return on their investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘What am I going to do?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Sacramento, Marie Camacho received an extension this spring to stay at her apartment with her son until she addresses several medical ailments. After that period, she’ll receive another 60-day notice asking her to leave, fueling more uncertainty, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always in the back of my mind: What am I going to do?” Marie added. “I don’t want to be homeless.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t think she can afford another apartment, and instead plans to search for a room to rent in a house. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Marie said she’s participated in protests at the state Capitol calling for more renter protections. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploding rents like Camacho’s affect millions in California, where renters make up nearly half of all households. They make it tougher to sock away money to someday realize the dream of homeownership. And they displace those without the income to keep up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rents have increased, so have calls to strengthen rent control laws across the state. Voters this fall will have the chance to weigh in on a potential first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rent control measure backed by tenant advocates qualified last week for the statewide November ballot. If approved, it would repeal the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which blocks rent controls on units built after 1995. The law also stops cities from placing rent caps on condominiums and single family homes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repealing the law would allow cities to craft their own, potentially stronger rent control rules. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://capradio.carto.com/builder/6ea83fc1-9b29-4be9-8e5b-c5e865e919a3/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unintended consequences\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while expanding rent control might be good for people like Camacho, it’s not necessarily good for the majority of renters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or for future renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the argument made by landlords and most economists. They argue that rent control creates the perverse, unintended consequence of making rental housing scarcer and increasing rents for all but a select few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a boon to the people that get it,” said Christopher Palmer, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has studied rent control. “That comes at the cost of landlords and potentially at the cost of other tenants in the city that are paying higher rents or that are having scarcer housing. Or even future tenants that are going to get into a unit someday at some very high rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened in San Francisco, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade_Qian.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 2017 study\u003c/a> by economists at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The report found landlords in that city converted rent-controlled apartments to condominiums and even knocked down and rebuilt entire buildings to escape restrictions after San Francisco expanded its rent control in 1994. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions taken in San Francisco are “particularly worrisome from an affordability point of view,” said Rebecca Diamond, one of the study’s authors. “Because not only does this decrease the supply of rentals as a whole in the city, which we find it does; but it replaces it with high-end condos and high-end new construction, which really caters to high-income households’ tastes and likely fueled gentrification in this city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Diamond’s research, tenants with a rent-controlled apartment saved anywhere from about $2,300 to $6,600 every year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/capradio.dailygraphics.production/dailygraphics/graphics/rent-control-20180615/child.html\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That savings can make a huge difference in a state where rent has climbed steadily as a share of income. From 1960 to 2013, the percentage of family income needed for rent in California nearly doubled from about 20 percent to 37 percent, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The cost was even higher for young renters, age 18 to 30, who paid 44 percent of their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the savings experienced by some also comes at a cost. In San Francisco, the city lost 5 percent of its rental housing after rent control expanded. Overall rents ticked up 5 percent, according to the Stanford study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent control is government regulation,” said Jim Lofgren, a senior vice president with the California Apartment Association, which represents thousands of apartment owners statewide and is a leading opponent of the November ballot measure. “It interferes with the market, and it results in shortages of housing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A political choice’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean Preston is executive director of Tenants Together, a statewide advocacy organization, which supports the ballot measure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the Stanford study is wrong to place the blame on rent control, particularly when city leaders could have outlawed condo conversions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a political choice, not an intellectual or academic one,” said Preston. “And that’s one of the biggest flaws of that study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other experts have a more nuanced view. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miriam Zuk, a housing researcher at UC Berkeley, said moderate forms of rent control — such as the existing law in California, which does not apply to new apartments — do not slow down new construction, contrary to claims by some landlords and developers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RENT4.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"New condos are a common sight in Sacramento, where rents grew faster than anywhere in the country in 2017, according to the real estate site Apartment List. 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Rents also went up rapidly in cities across the state. \u003ccite>(Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking at overall housing production from 2007 to 2013, Zuk wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> that the six cities with rent controls in the San Francisco Bay Area actually produced \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more housing units\u003c/a> per capita than cities in the region without rent control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Zuk said those findings are not the result of a rigorous study and did not control for other factors that influence housing production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More comprehensive studies, however, found no evidence that moderate forms of rent control slow new construction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Galante, a UC Berkeley professor of affordable housing, said it’s difficult to assess whether rent control slows growth because there aren’t many cities where the policy applies to new housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if that were to change,” Galante added, “and rent control were to apply to new construction, I certainly could see that without any limitations, that would cause a serious concern for investors and developers. Investors can invest anywhere. It’s a global pool of money. And so they’re not going to invest in places where they don’t feel they can get an adequate return on their investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘What am I going to do?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Sacramento, Marie Camacho received an extension this spring to stay at her apartment with her son until she addresses several medical ailments. After that period, she’ll receive another 60-day notice asking her to leave, fueling more uncertainty, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always in the back of my mind: What am I going to do?” Marie added. “I don’t want to be homeless.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t think she can afford another apartment, and instead plans to search for a room to rent in a house. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Marie said she’s participated in protests at the state Capitol calling for more renter protections. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Housing Finance Agency was created in 1975 during Gov. Jerry Brown’s first term, the mission was simple: help low- and moderate-income families buy their first home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 years later, amid \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CAHOWN\">near-record low homeownership rates\u003c/a>, that goal is getting harder and harder to attain. So much so that the agency, known as CalHFA, has quite literally redefined what it means to be “moderate income” in California — and its definition of “moderate” may be different from yours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal year 2016, only 124 households making over $100,000 obtained a loan through CalHFA, accounting for only 3 percent of the mortgages offered by the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first 11 months of fiscal year 2018, nearly 1,000 households making over that amount obtained a loan — accounting for 14 percent of CalHFA’s mortgages. Those that earn over $85,000 now comprise 30 percent of CalHFA borrowers, according to exclusive data provided by the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escalating housing costs are a likely culprit. The median price of a California home has jumped 21 percent over the last three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">reaching $580,000 in April\u003c/a>, according to the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s harder for lower-income Californians to buy a house — even with down payment assistance. It also means more and more California households making six figures don’t have the savings they need for a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know that supply is fewer, and that incomes haven’t kept pace with prices, how do we continue to help out the low-to-moderate space?” said Tia Boatman Patterson, executive director with CalHFA. “One of the ways you do it is to help more people by broadening our income targets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalHFA officials stress that the overall number of loans CalHFA has provided to lower-income Californians has increased over the same time span — the number of households making under $70,000 and receiving a CalHFA home loan has grown more than 50 percent since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/eddaf56f-0a16-440b-aa2a-2e47e02c6dad?src=embed\" title=\"CalHFA graphic 1\" width=\"550\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"alignright\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nAnd even if six-figure households are a faster-growing part of the population the agency serves, Boatman Patterson says higher-income homebuyers are in no way taking away opportunities from lower-income ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the increasing appetite for down payment help from higher-income households raises questions about how feasible it is to make homeownership a cornerstone of building wealth for those on the lower end of the income ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, we have and still do advocate for homeownership as a powerful tool to build intergenerational wealth and close the racial wealth gap,” said Vedika Ahuja, a program manager at the Greenlining Institute, a policy group that pushes for increasing homeownership among low-income families and communities of color. “And increasingly in California, in high-price markets, that’s becoming a less and less viable tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where $200,000 a year is middle class \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new rules adopted \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/bulletins/2018/2018-05.pdf\">earlier this year\u003c/a>, CalHFA has expanded the pool of people available for down payment assistance, closing cost assistance and other programs intended to make homeownership accessible for Californians who otherwise couldn’t afford it. The decision to increase income limits for first-time homebuyers was approved unanimously by the CalHFA board of directors at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhfa.ca.gov/about/events/board-meetings/books/2017/2017-12-12/20171212-package.pdf\">recommendation of its staff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new income limits for the CalHFA programs exceed six figures in every California county, but the eligibility cutoffs are especially high in parts of the state where housing prices are most astronomical. In San Francisco, a single-person household can make up to $228,300 and be eligible. In San Diego and Sacramento counties, the cutoff is over $150,000. That means state legislators in Sacramento — with salaries just over $100,000 — would qualify for help buying a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, the cutoff doesn’t change based on the size of a household. An engineer making $100,000 would be eligible for the same programs as a single mother of six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would the public policy reason be that I would treat a single person differently than an eight-person household when they’re trying to buy a house?” said Boatman Patterson. She argues that higher-income individuals with savings and better credit profiles would get cheaper mortgages outside the CalHFA program, so the programs won’t be subject to abuse by people who don’t need them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalHFA is a self-supporting, independent housing agency that funds itself by selling its mortgages to third-party investors, who package the federally backed debt together in a bundle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before switching to that financing model, CalHFA was prohibited by federal rules from relaxing its income restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Saving for a down payment isn’t as easy as it used to be \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento loan adviser Tanisha Broadway has seen firsthand a shift in the type of client needing help buying a first home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in our markets is people make really good money, they just can’t afford to put any money down,” said Broadway, who counsels homebuyers on CalHFA products like down payment and closing cost assistance. “Everything is expensive and people are living check to check a lot of times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadway said that while high rents make it difficult to save enough for even a 3.5 percent down payment — the down payment often required for CalHFA loans — the closing costs can push a home even further out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most popular CalHFA product is a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspiring homeowners can also qualify for low- or zero-interest loan to finance down payments and closing costs. Those loans don’t require a monthly payment — they are only payable when the homeowner sells or refinances the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The down payment and closing cost assistance programs can add up to a good amount of money. Broadway said she recently had a client receive almost $30,000 in help for a nearly $400,000 home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A $152,000/year for someone is definitely by no means low income,” said Broadway, referring to the program’s new income-cap for Sacramento. “But for people who make good money, they just can’t save money, this is the best product for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Broadway works in an area where CalHFA’s loans are increasingly popular. Sacramento County alone accounted for 14 percent of the program’s total loan volume last fiscal year. The bulk of homebuyers CalHFA helps are in the Central Valley and Inland Empire. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even after CalHFA raised income limits, many parts of the state simply cost too much to attract new homebuyers. Despite the $220,000 income limit, no resident of San Francisco has utilized the program this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has a limit on the sales price of a home one of its mortgages can be used for — $700,000. The median price of a home in San Francisco? $1.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the James Irvine Foundation.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Housing Finance Agency was created in 1975 during Gov. Jerry Brown’s first term, the mission was simple: help low- and moderate-income families buy their first home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 years later, amid \u003ca href=\"https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CAHOWN\">near-record low homeownership rates\u003c/a>, that goal is getting harder and harder to attain. So much so that the agency, known as CalHFA, has quite literally redefined what it means to be “moderate income” in California — and its definition of “moderate” may be different from yours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal year 2016, only 124 households making over $100,000 obtained a loan through CalHFA, accounting for only 3 percent of the mortgages offered by the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first 11 months of fiscal year 2018, nearly 1,000 households making over that amount obtained a loan — accounting for 14 percent of CalHFA’s mortgages. Those that earn over $85,000 now comprise 30 percent of CalHFA borrowers, according to exclusive data provided by the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escalating housing costs are a likely culprit. The median price of a California home has jumped 21 percent over the last three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">reaching $580,000 in April\u003c/a>, according to the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s harder for lower-income Californians to buy a house — even with down payment assistance. It also means more and more California households making six figures don’t have the savings they need for a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know that supply is fewer, and that incomes haven’t kept pace with prices, how do we continue to help out the low-to-moderate space?” said Tia Boatman Patterson, executive director with CalHFA. “One of the ways you do it is to help more people by broadening our income targets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalHFA officials stress that the overall number of loans CalHFA has provided to lower-income Californians has increased over the same time span — the number of households making under $70,000 and receiving a CalHFA home loan has grown more than 50 percent since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/eddaf56f-0a16-440b-aa2a-2e47e02c6dad?src=embed\" title=\"CalHFA graphic 1\" width=\"550\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"alignright\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nAnd even if six-figure households are a faster-growing part of the population the agency serves, Boatman Patterson says higher-income homebuyers are in no way taking away opportunities from lower-income ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the increasing appetite for down payment help from higher-income households raises questions about how feasible it is to make homeownership a cornerstone of building wealth for those on the lower end of the income ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, we have and still do advocate for homeownership as a powerful tool to build intergenerational wealth and close the racial wealth gap,” said Vedika Ahuja, a program manager at the Greenlining Institute, a policy group that pushes for increasing homeownership among low-income families and communities of color. “And increasingly in California, in high-price markets, that’s becoming a less and less viable tool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where $200,000 a year is middle class \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new rules adopted \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/bulletins/2018/2018-05.pdf\">earlier this year\u003c/a>, CalHFA has expanded the pool of people available for down payment assistance, closing cost assistance and other programs intended to make homeownership accessible for Californians who otherwise couldn’t afford it. The decision to increase income limits for first-time homebuyers was approved unanimously by the CalHFA board of directors at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhfa.ca.gov/about/events/board-meetings/books/2017/2017-12-12/20171212-package.pdf\">recommendation of its staff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new income limits for the CalHFA programs exceed six figures in every California county, but the eligibility cutoffs are especially high in parts of the state where housing prices are most astronomical. In San Francisco, a single-person household can make up to $228,300 and be eligible. In San Diego and Sacramento counties, the cutoff is over $150,000. That means state legislators in Sacramento — with salaries just over $100,000 — would qualify for help buying a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, the cutoff doesn’t change based on the size of a household. An engineer making $100,000 would be eligible for the same programs as a single mother of six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would the public policy reason be that I would treat a single person differently than an eight-person household when they’re trying to buy a house?” said Boatman Patterson. She argues that higher-income individuals with savings and better credit profiles would get cheaper mortgages outside the CalHFA program, so the programs won’t be subject to abuse by people who don’t need them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalHFA is a self-supporting, independent housing agency that funds itself by selling its mortgages to third-party investors, who package the federally backed debt together in a bundle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before switching to that financing model, CalHFA was prohibited by federal rules from relaxing its income restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Saving for a down payment isn’t as easy as it used to be \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento loan adviser Tanisha Broadway has seen firsthand a shift in the type of client needing help buying a first home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s happening in our markets is people make really good money, they just can’t afford to put any money down,” said Broadway, who counsels homebuyers on CalHFA products like down payment and closing cost assistance. “Everything is expensive and people are living check to check a lot of times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadway said that while high rents make it difficult to save enough for even a 3.5 percent down payment — the down payment often required for CalHFA loans — the closing costs can push a home even further out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most popular CalHFA product is a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspiring homeowners can also qualify for low- or zero-interest loan to finance down payments and closing costs. Those loans don’t require a monthly payment — they are only payable when the homeowner sells or refinances the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The down payment and closing cost assistance programs can add up to a good amount of money. Broadway said she recently had a client receive almost $30,000 in help for a nearly $400,000 home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A $152,000/year for someone is definitely by no means low income,” said Broadway, referring to the program’s new income-cap for Sacramento. “But for people who make good money, they just can’t save money, this is the best product for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Broadway works in an area where CalHFA’s loans are increasingly popular. Sacramento County alone accounted for 14 percent of the program’s total loan volume last fiscal year. The bulk of homebuyers CalHFA helps are in the Central Valley and Inland Empire. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even after CalHFA raised income limits, many parts of the state simply cost too much to attract new homebuyers. Despite the $220,000 income limit, no resident of San Francisco has utilized the program this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has a limit on the sales price of a home one of its mortgages can be used for — $700,000. The median price of a home in San Francisco? $1.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It’s become almost a summer tradition in the California Capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As basketball season hits its final buzzer and baseball season gets into full swing, it’s also peak deal-making season for legislators rushing toward their August adjournment. Now is when professional sports teams hoping to build new stadiums staff up with Sacramento lobbyists, typically seeking to speed up construction of their new digs by persuading lawmakers to grant them exceptions from state environmental rules.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lawmakers are considering two such proposals this summer — one to help the Los Angeles Clippers build an arena in Inglewood, another to help the Oakland A’s construct a stadium in Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">They’re the latest in a long string of legislation to assist professional sports teams. In the last decade, lawmakers passed bills that fast-tracked new venues for the Sacramento Kings,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Golden State Warriors and San Francisco 49ers. They also approved bills meant to help build new football stadiums in Los Angeles and San Diego that never came to pass.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NgXtnAj5E&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The proposals routinely stir up debate over California’s environmental laws and whether to grant special deals for wealthy sports franchises. Making the debate even more poignant now: A lag in home construction has contributed to skyrocketing rents and increasing homelessness. Though lawmakers have\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-legislature-final-bills-governor-brown/%23The-Housing-Crisis\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">taken steps\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to speed up projects that include homes for low-income residents, they have not granted housing developments the same favored treatment they’ve given sports teams.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“It’s bad to have two systems of law — one for rich people and one for everybody else. And that’s what we’re seeing,” said David Pettit, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group that fought a bill last year to waive some environmental rules for a new Clippers arena.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">At the heart of the debate is the California Environmental Quality Act, a nearly 50-year-old law that some see as a sacrosanct protection and others as an excuse for lawsuits that drag on so long they doom ambitious projects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">With environmentalists staunchly against loosening its requirements, Democrats who control the Legislature have resisted making sweeping changes to the act. Instead, they’ve approved a series of one-off arrangements to help individual teams by: expanding the use of eminent domain to acquire land, making it harder for courts to delay construction, or limiting the length of time for resolving environmental lawsuits. They even passed a law in 2011 entitling big projects to expedite environmental lawsuits under certain conditions, but teams continue to seek special deals for broader relief.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lawmakers don’t always approve them. Last year they shot down the Clippers’ request — but it was unusual because moneyed interests were lobbying on both sides. Owners of the Forum, a nearby concert arena, lobbied hard against the Clippers. The dueling interests combined spent more than $1 million lobbying on the bill, and owners of the Forum aired commercials attacking the state senator who carried it. A few months after Forum owners killed the bill, they showered legislators with $45,000 in campaign contributions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Los Angeles Democrat carrying this year’s version of the Clippers bill, said she expects another tense fight. The Clippers want to build their arena about a mile from the Forum, creating competition for big events.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“With so much money on the line,”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>she said, “I can only suspect that they’re going to pull out the stops to defeat this.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Opponents of the Clippers arena point out that the team’s proposal would impact much more than construction of the arena alone, which would cover just one-sixth of the land for the entire development project. They say it could allow stores, offices or homes to be built on the site without the normal environmental review — even if an arena is never constructed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Kamlager-Dove and other supporters of big sports projects cast them as economic boosts to their communities, bringing construction jobs during the building phase and concessions jobs afterward. These benefits can be lost or delayed, they say, by environmental litigation. The Clippers and A’s bills this year would limit the timeline for environmental lawsuits to nine months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles Clippers \u003ccite>(David Jones/Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">That’s a critical perk for developing a new Oakland A’s stadium with surrounding shops and homes, said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, an Alameda Democrat carrying the bill for his hometown team.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“They can’t allow the project to be delayed forever. They need some certainty,” he said. “This is not something to benefit rich and powerful folks. It’s to benefit a community that needs housing, that needs good jobs.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The courts have argued that limiting the time to review environmental lawsuits unfairly puts those cases at the top of the heap, denying ordinary Californians equal access to justice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">“A case involving elder abuse or asbestos litigation involving dying plaintiffs would move back in the line. A personal injury action involving a severely brain damaged child, whose parents are simply seeking to get their recovery to take care of that child, would move back in line. And there are not lobbying groups that come to this Legislature to represent those interests,” Dan Pone, a lobbyist for the Judicial Council, said at a hearing earlier this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lawmakers approved the nine-month limit for the Kings and Warriors arenas, but this year rejected applying it after challenges over\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB948\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">community plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a> and construction of\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1340\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">new housing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">And yet they approved a\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1826\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">bill\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as part of the state budget that would place the nine-month limit on environmental lawsuits over a project close to home: a $1.2 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-lawmakers-call-in-a-1-2-billion-12988067.php\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">re-make\u003c/span>\u003c/a> of their Capitol offices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">It’s become almost a summer tradition in the California Capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As basketball season hits its final buzzer and baseball season gets into full swing, it’s also peak deal-making season for legislators rushing toward their August adjournment. Now is when professional sports teams hoping to build new stadiums staff up with Sacramento lobbyists, typically seeking to speed up construction of their new digs by persuading lawmakers to grant them exceptions from state environmental rules.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lawmakers are considering two such proposals this summer — one to help the Los Angeles Clippers build an arena in Inglewood, another to help the Oakland A’s construct a stadium in Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">They’re the latest in a long string of legislation to assist professional sports teams. In the last decade, lawmakers passed bills that fast-tracked new venues for the Sacramento Kings,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Golden State Warriors and San Francisco 49ers. They also approved bills meant to help build new football stadiums in Los Angeles and San Diego that never came to pass.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-6NgXtnAj5E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-6NgXtnAj5E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The proposals routinely stir up debate over California’s environmental laws and whether to grant special deals for wealthy sports franchises. Making the debate even more poignant now: A lag in home construction has contributed to skyrocketing rents and increasing homelessness. Though lawmakers have\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-legislature-final-bills-governor-brown/%23The-Housing-Crisis\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">taken steps\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to speed up projects that include homes for low-income residents, they have not granted housing developments the same favored treatment they’ve given sports teams.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Instead, they’ve approved a series of one-off arrangements to help individual teams by: expanding the use of eminent domain to acquire land, making it harder for courts to delay construction, or limiting the length of time for resolving environmental lawsuits. They even passed a law in 2011 entitling big projects to expedite environmental lawsuits under certain conditions, but teams continue to seek special deals for broader relief.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lawmakers don’t always approve them. Last year they shot down the Clippers’ request — but it was unusual because moneyed interests were lobbying on both sides. Owners of the Forum, a nearby concert arena, lobbied hard against the Clippers. The dueling interests combined spent more than $1 million lobbying on the bill, and owners of the Forum aired commercials attacking the state senator who carried it. A few months after Forum owners killed the bill, they showered legislators with $45,000 in campaign contributions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Los Angeles Democrat carrying this year’s version of the Clippers bill, said she expects another tense fight. The Clippers want to build their arena about a mile from the Forum, creating competition for big events.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“With so much money on the line,”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>she said, “I can only suspect that they’re going to pull out the stops to defeat this.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Opponents of the Clippers arena point out that the team’s proposal would impact much more than construction of the arena alone, which would cover just one-sixth of the land for the entire development project. They say it could allow stores, offices or homes to be built on the site without the normal environmental review — even if an arena is never constructed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Kamlager-Dove and other supporters of big sports projects cast them as economic boosts to their communities, bringing construction jobs during the building phase and concessions jobs afterward. These benefits can be lost or delayed, they say, by environmental litigation. The Clippers and A’s bills this year would limit the timeline for environmental lawsuits to nine months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/LA_Clippers-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles Clippers \u003ccite>(David Jones/Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">That’s a critical perk for developing a new Oakland A’s stadium with surrounding shops and homes, said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, an Alameda Democrat carrying the bill for his hometown team.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“They can’t allow the project to be delayed forever. They need some certainty,” he said. “This is not something to benefit rich and powerful folks. It’s to benefit a community that needs housing, that needs good jobs.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The courts have argued that limiting the time to review environmental lawsuits unfairly puts those cases at the top of the heap, denying ordinary Californians equal access to justice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">“A case involving elder abuse or asbestos litigation involving dying plaintiffs would move back in the line. A personal injury action involving a severely brain damaged child, whose parents are simply seeking to get their recovery to take care of that child, would move back in line. And there are not lobbying groups that come to this Legislature to represent those interests,” Dan Pone, a lobbyist for the Judicial Council, said at a hearing earlier this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Lawmakers approved the nine-month limit for the Kings and Warriors arenas, but this year rejected applying it after challenges over\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB948\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">community plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a> and construction of\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1340\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">new housing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">And yet they approved a\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1826\"> \u003cspan class=\"s2\">bill\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as part of the state budget that would place the nine-month limit on environmental lawsuits over a project close to home: a $1.2 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-lawmakers-call-in-a-1-2-billion-12988067.php\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">re-make\u003c/span>\u003c/a> of their Capitol offices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Sen. Steve Glazer of Orinda, who carried the bill to expedite court review of environmental lawsuits over housing that was shot down by fellow Democrats, called out the irony in a hearing this week:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“And now we have here… this expedited process not for billionaires and their stadium projects, but for us, the politicians, and our own building. So where does that help us on our issues of affordable housing, when we’re going to provide that fast-track for us but not for everybody else, except for the wealthiest and the most powerful?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a> is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-quarter of homeless people in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2017-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live in California\u003c/a>, despite Californians making up only 12 percent of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is homelessness more common on the West Coast but it is also more visible, because a higher proportion of homeless people are unsheltered. In the U.S., 24 percent of homeless people sleep outside, in vehicles or somewhere else not meant for human habitation. But that varies greatly from place to place: In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2017-112/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">68 percent of homeless people are unsheltered\u003c/a>, compared to just 5 percent in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the West Coast may be shocked to find the tents that line cities from San Diego to Seattle. Like a modern-day “Grapes of Wrath,” the tents are a stark reminder of the suffering of the thousands living outside, homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s to blame for such high numbers of unsheltered homeless on the West Coast? The reason isn’t drug use, mental health problems or weather. Rather, it is due to the extreme shortage of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Life unsheltered\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a physician and researcher who provides medical care for people experiencing homelessness, I have seen firsthand how devastating homelessness is to health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being unsheltered is terrifying, humiliating and isolating. \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdy063/4958210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People living without shelter\u003c/a> lack access to toilet facilities, sinks and showers. They have no way to store or prepare food and no protection from the elements. Hunger is common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sleeping in makeshift beds or on the ground, they get little sleep. They must contend with having their possessions stolen. They face frequent forced moves, which disrupt relationships and make it difficult for family, friends or service providers to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are unsheltered are at high risk of physical and sexual abuse. If they struggle with substance use disorders, their use of drugs and alcohol occurs in public, leaving them open to arrest. There are no places to refrigerate or store medicines, no place to receive mailed appointment reminders or a visit from a visiting nurse, no place to dress a wound or plug in medical equipment like oxygen. Without access to hygiene facilities, they are at high risk for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1714134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communicable diseases\u003c/a> like hepatitis A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unaffordable housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some assume that homelessness is so common on the West Coast because people move here when they become homeless, but data do not support this. Most people \u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10900-013-9664-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experience homelessness\u003c/a> close to where they lost their housing. \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My team’s research\u003c/a> in Oakland found that 81 percent of older adults who are homeless became homeless in the Bay Area. Only 10 percent had lost their housing outside of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the high rate of homelessness can be attributed to the lack of affordable housing in these regions. The West Coast suffers from rising costs of rental housing, stagnant incomes for low-wage workers and a decline in federal support for affordable housing. For example, California has gained 900,000 renter households since 2005, but \u003ca href=\"https://1p08d91kd0c03rlxhmhtydpr-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CHPC-State-Housing-Need-Report-2018-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost $1.7 billion in state and federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely low-income households – defined as those with income less than 30 percent of the area median income – are at the highest risk of homelessness. Nationally, there are only 35 units available for every 100 extremely low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the West, \u003ca href=\"http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Gap-Report_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these shortages\u003c/a> are more severe: Nevada has 15 units available for every 100 extremely low-income households; California has 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, for the first time in 13 years, Los Angeles opened its wait list for housing choice vouchers. These vouchers allow households to pay 30 percent of their income in rent, with the rest paid by the government. There were \u003ca href=\"http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/06_harvard_jchs_americas_rental_housing_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">600,000 applicants for just 20,000 spots\u003c/a> on the list, highlighting the enormous unmet need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who pays for homeless services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why are people on the West Coast so much more likely to be unsheltered than homeless people in other parts of the country? It reflects \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2017-112/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">differing government priorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City, where there is a legal right to shelter, spends approximately $17,000 per homeless person per year on homeless services. Massachusetts spends approximately $14,000 per year. 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