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And it’s not — it’s a beautiful city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe D’Alessandro, CEO of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been hearing so many complaints from tourists and convention-goers that he decided to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the wealthiest major city in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest major country in the world,” D’Alessandro says. “And we can’t live with the situation on the streets we find ourselves with right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing near the Powell Street cable car turnaround, D’Alessandro is careful not to blame anyone, including the homeless themselves. “We’ve just become oblivious to what’s happening in the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that tourism is a $10 billion industry in San Francisco, generating $700 million in tax revenue each year. It can’t be ignored any longer, he says, and he’s pleased that at least all the mayoral candidates are talking about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to be sure that there’s some action and it’s not just talk — that’s there’s really steps being taken,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Alessandro admits conditions on the streets are looking better. In recent weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has moved aggressively to clean up encampments — raising the bar for whatever the next mayor decides to do. But his actions have riled up homeless activists, who plastered street poles with posters condemning him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell is being criticized by homeless activists for cleaning up encampments. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three leading candidates for mayor are all offering similar plans to deal with homelessness — and clean up the streets and sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed supports so-called safe injection sites so that addicts aren’t shooting up out in the open. At a candidates forum, Breed stressed prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the folks who are out there on our streets homeless had a house here in San Francisco before they became homeless,” Breed said. “We have to make sure that we do everything we can to keep people housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Supervisor Jane Kim, considered by many to be the most liberal candidate, the priority should be more services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we have to invest greatly in supportive housing, more shelters, if we’re really going to address this crisis,” Kim said at a candidates forum co-sponsored by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Mark Leno released an 11-page plan that calls for ending homelessness by 2020. One of his campaign slogans is “Shake Up City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city is out of control in terms of homelessness, housing affordability, condition of our streets — and I think City Hall has failed us,” Leno told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he suddenly died in December, Mayor Ed Lee created a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services to coordinate the city’s response to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man in charge of that department, Jeff Kositsky, says things are going in the right direction now — with many encampments cleaned up and more people connected to shelters and services. He just hopes the next mayor — whoever it is — doesn’t disrupt that momentum with too many new initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if we keep pivoting from shiny object to shiny object, or if we keep panicking and just grasping at these … we’re not going to get the job done,” Kositsky said recently at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navigation Centers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting the job done is exactly what voters will expect from the new mayor — whoever it is.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And she says she’d pay more taxes to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter Paul Miller also feels compassion, but he’s weary of confronting the issue everywhere he goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should live in a city where they walk past people on the street who may or may not be shooting up or dead or needing help,” Miller says. “There’s no easy solution to homelessness. There’s a thousand different problems which create a thousand different stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duboce Triangle resident Abraham Ali is less circumspect, and says he has run out of patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanna see results. I wanna see action,” Ali says. “Like when you go to the Muni or BART, they’re all over — laying down, doing drugs in front of you, trash everywhere. And if I was a tourist coming to San Francisco, I’d think the whole city is like that. And it’s not — it’s a beautiful city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe D’Alessandro, CEO of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been hearing so many complaints from tourists and convention-goers that he decided to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the wealthiest major city in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest major country in the world,” D’Alessandro says. “And we can’t live with the situation on the streets we find ourselves with right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing near the Powell Street cable car turnaround, D’Alessandro is careful not to blame anyone, including the homeless themselves. “We’ve just become oblivious to what’s happening in the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that tourism is a $10 billion industry in San Francisco, generating $700 million in tax revenue each year. It can’t be ignored any longer, he says, and he’s pleased that at least all the mayoral candidates are talking about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to be sure that there’s some action and it’s not just talk — that’s there’s really steps being taken,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Alessandro admits conditions on the streets are looking better. In recent weeks, Mayor Mark Farrell has moved aggressively to clean up encampments — raising the bar for whatever the next mayor decides to do. But his actions have riled up homeless activists, who plastered street poles with posters condemning him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Farrell-e1527801805920-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell is being criticized by homeless activists for cleaning up encampments. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three leading candidates for mayor are all offering similar plans to deal with homelessness — and clean up the streets and sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed supports so-called safe injection sites so that addicts aren’t shooting up out in the open. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a wet sidewalk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Michael Cameron approached a middle-aged man snorting a white powder cupped in his hands. Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guys were sitting there snorting coke and smoking dope and didn't want to move,” said Cameron, who grew up in the Tenderloin. “You know, they want time. But we got these babies coming by!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron is one of about two dozen volunteers with Safe Passage, a citizens’ effort that transforms the Tenderloin’s sidewalks into a more kid-friendly environment a couple of hours every schoolday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/06/RomeroSafePassageTenderloin.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" Title=\"Creating a Safe Passage for Kids in San Francisco's Gritty Tenderloin\" program=\"The California Report\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it is also one of the few affordable neighborhoods left in one of the most expensive cities in the nation, and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. It’s an example of the many collaborations people in the program have built over the years to be effective in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">Why Hasn't the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/20171217_113056-e1525128581450-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who don't spend time in the Tenderloin, they only see trash on the ground or people openly shooting up. And yes, we do grapple with that,” said Kate Robinson, who has worked in the area for over a decade. “But it has amazed me, you know, just how much community is here and how amazing the people who live here are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of standing at the same corner for about six years has shown her a different side of the Tenderloin. She points to the time she witnessed a child falling out of a fourth-floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A group of drug dealers caught her and saved her life and nobody would know that story. We were standing there and we saw this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Tenderloin has welcomed working people and, since the 1970s, many immigrant families. The neighborhood has also been an area for vice, said Katie Conry, executive director of the nonprofit Tenderloin Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That looked really different in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. It was more glitzy. The primary underground economy was gambling, but it’s still a vice area in a lot of ways,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-960x583.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-375x228.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-520x316.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe Passage volunteer Michael Cameron takes pride in helping children navigate the Tenderloin. “I love what I do, and I really feel like I make a difference,” said Cameron, 65. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An often misunderstood or ignored neighborhood, the Tenderloin is an area where larger issues collide, such as income inequality and the housing crisis, said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless-point-in-time-count-reports/\">city’s homeless population\u003c/a> -- and services for them -- are concentrated in the Tenderloin and a neighboring area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Tenderloin is this place that’s really empathetic and supportive that didn’t cause all these issues to happen,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco and the state wrestle with those huge problems, Margarita Mena said she’s proud of what she and other residents have accomplished with Safe Passage, which is now part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She will continue volunteering for the program as long as she lives in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you feel good, because you are doing something good for children and for your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration, economic opportunity, and race and ethnicity for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 65 degrees and sunny on a Saturday afternoon in the trendy Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Many families are enjoying walks in Griffith Park, or eating lunch at outdoor cafés. But not Anna and Evan Colby. They’re packing up their apartment in a mad dash to move to Lansing, Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re among many Californians fleeing soaring housing prices, smog and increasingly-frequent wildfires and mudslides. \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265\">Demographers have been noting a trend in out-migration: more people are leaving California than moving here from other states. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colbys will miss walks up to Griffith Park and adventures to places like Yosemite and Joshua Tree. But most of all, they will miss L.A.’s culinary scene. Los Feliz is one of the city’s hip food corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are probably a dozen restaurants in our neighborhood that are walkable, better than anything we’ll find [in Michigan],” Evan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ll also miss their Los Feliz apartment, with its view of downtown L.A. But having a new baby has shifted their priorities. They just can’t squeeze into a one-bedroom anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really once we decided to have a family, at that point it was like, ‘Alright, we’ve had our fun, now it’s time to find a place we can actually afford to live,’ ” Evan adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668684\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna and Evan Colby’s apartment in Los Feliz occupied the upper-left half of the building. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Zillow, the average price for a house in Los Feliz is $1.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts the dream of home ownership out of reach for the Colbys, even though they are both college graduates with full-time jobs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/annajfischer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna is a public policy advocate and research associate with two master’s degrees from the University of Southern California,\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-colby-23414036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evan is a director at a healthcare data firm, with a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many people living in Los Angeles, Evan and Anna are from somewhere else. They grew up in the Midwest, but moved so Anna could attend graduate school at USC seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evan says buying a house in L.A. is “ridiculous,” and “a waste of money.” They also have concerns about L.A.’s notorious smog, especially for their baby. They’ve always had one indoor air purifier, but were forced to get a second one when fires hit the area last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually could see ash coming down one day, and we thought we better get a more powerful [purifier],” Anna recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan filled his Prius to the brim for his cross-country journey to Michigan. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On moving day, Evan stuffs his Prius to the brim with all the belongings that couldn’t fit in the moving truck. Before heading off, he has to fuel up on coffee one last time. He orders an Americano from a café just two blocks from his apartment, one of those hipster shops where they finish off their lattes with artistic designs. Sipping his coffee, he starts getting nostalgic for L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668686\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668686\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30981_Photo3-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan getting caffeinated with an Americano at Bru Coffeebar, one of many cafés and restaurants he and Anna enjoyed during their time in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Just the food in this city is so amazing. The San Gabriel [Mountains] are right there,” Evan says. “Those hikes we used to do every other weekend before the baby. Those are some of the best memories I have of being in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a good run,” he says. “I’m going to miss it for sure. But, I’m going to go buy a house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sound of Evan driving off in his Prius is hardly noticeable as his “California Dream” ends. The Colbys are simply one more California family lost to a land of cheaper living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan during his final moments living in Los Angeles in an almost empty apartment. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I check back in with Anna and Evan a few weeks later as they’re getting settled into their new life in Lansing, Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of weird,” Evan says. “It’s obviously saving us a lot of money, but it’s also like we’re already missing a lot of things from California or from L.A. Access to everything, food, that kind of stuff. Pretty much everything other than the expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile Anna says that there have been positive things: in L.A. they paid more than $2,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, in Lansing they are now in a three-bedroom townhouse for around $1,300. Plus she says she is sleeping better because they have another room for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colbys are among many families who’ve thought about giving up on the California Dream. And now that they have done it, they are having lingering doubts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve looked at each other a couple of times and said, ‘Where are we?’ ” Evan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if we’ll ever know if it’s the right decision,” Anna says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Students spent a semester examining what the California Dream means to Angelenos from different walks of life. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ll also miss their Los Feliz apartment, with its view of downtown L.A. But having a new baby has shifted their priorities. They just can’t squeeze into a one-bedroom anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really once we decided to have a family, at that point it was like, ‘Alright, we’ve had our fun, now it’s time to find a place we can actually afford to live,’ ” Evan adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668684\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30980_Photo2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna and Evan Colby’s apartment in Los Feliz occupied the upper-left half of the building. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Zillow, the average price for a house in Los Feliz is $1.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts the dream of home ownership out of reach for the Colbys, even though they are both college graduates with full-time jobs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/annajfischer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna is a public policy advocate and research associate with two master’s degrees from the University of Southern California,\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-colby-23414036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evan is a director at a healthcare data firm, with a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many people living in Los Angeles, Evan and Anna are from somewhere else. They grew up in the Midwest, but moved so Anna could attend graduate school at USC seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evan says buying a house in L.A. is “ridiculous,” and “a waste of money.” They also have concerns about L.A.’s notorious smog, especially for their baby. They’ve always had one indoor air purifier, but were forced to get a second one when fires hit the area last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually could see ash coming down one day, and we thought we better get a more powerful [purifier],” Anna recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30983_Photo5-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan filled his Prius to the brim for his cross-country journey to Michigan. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On moving day, Evan stuffs his Prius to the brim with all the belongings that couldn’t fit in the moving truck. Before heading off, he has to fuel up on coffee one last time. He orders an Americano from a café just two blocks from his apartment, one of those hipster shops where they finish off their lattes with artistic designs. 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The San Gabriel [Mountains] are right there,” Evan says. “Those hikes we used to do every other weekend before the baby. Those are some of the best memories I have of being in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a good run,” he says. “I’m going to miss it for sure. But, I’m going to go buy a house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sound of Evan driving off in his Prius is hardly noticeable as his “California Dream” ends. The Colbys are simply one more California family lost to a land of cheaper living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30982_Photo4-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan during his final moments living in Los Angeles in an almost empty apartment. \u003ccite>(John Corley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I check back in with Anna and Evan a few weeks later as they’re getting settled into their new life in Lansing, Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of weird,” Evan says. “It’s obviously saving us a lot of money, but it’s also like we’re already missing a lot of things from California or from L.A. Access to everything, food, that kind of stuff. Pretty much everything other than the expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile Anna says that there have been positive things: in L.A. they paid more than $2,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, in Lansing they are now in a three-bedroom townhouse for around $1,300. Plus she says she is sleeping better because they have another room for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colbys are among many families who’ve thought about giving up on the California Dream. And now that they have done it, they are having lingering doubts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve looked at each other a couple of times and said, ‘Where are we?’ ” Evan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if we’ll ever know if it’s the right decision,” Anna says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. 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"content": "\u003cp>The median price of a California single family home is now well over \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">half a million dollars\u003c/a>. That’s more than double what the average house costs in the rest of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put a more nauseating way, you could buy two “average” non-California houses for the price of one California house. Can’t decide between the Cape Cod or the mid-century Craftsmen? Move to the Midwest and buy both!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d forgive Californians, though, for shrugging off words like “average” and “median” to describe the state’s housing situation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our state is nearly 164,000 square miles, with housing markets as distinctly different as Redding and La Jolla. That means $500,000 may sound pricey to those in Barstow, but it’s a bargain for anyone in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a tour of what $500,000 gets you around our state -- and how cost has shaped where we’re moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley: Half a Burned-Out Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Realtor Holly Barr sold this burned-out home for more than $900,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-1180x770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Realtor Holly Barr sold this burned-out home for more than $900,000. \u003ccite>(Matt Levin/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technically, California has seen higher prices before. During the housing boom of the mid 2000s, the median statewide price \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/housingdata\">nearly broke the $600,000 barrier\u003c/a> (and that’s without adjusting for inflation). Many parts of California are still cheaper now than they were a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Silicon Valley is not one of those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median price of a single family home in Santa Clara County -- home of Apple and Google -- hit $1.4 million in March of this year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">data\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. That’s an all-time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region’s housing market has transformed any piece of available land into a veritable gold mine. No matter what sits on top of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agent Holly Barr says she’s never had a listing generate as much attention as the one on Bird Avenue in the San Jose neighborhood of Willow Glen. The house caught fire two years ago during a remodeling job. What was left was a burned-out husk of a California bungalow sitting on 5,800 square feet of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Barr put the property on the market in April for $800,000, the listing made international headlines. It sold for over $900,000 -- in less than a week. The burned down house will be razed and a new property will be built there that will likely sell for far more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t surprised,” said Barr. “It’s not about the house, it’s about the land and location.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also not a surprise that with unliveable wrecks selling for that much, residents are starting to look for other places to live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the California Department of Finance, Santa Clara County lost 17,000 more residents to other parts of the state or country than they gained last year. That’s the second biggest net domestic migration loss of any county in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Los Angeles: A Fixer-Upper, or a House Smaller Than Your Expectations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"A fixer-upper east of downtown Los Angeles is on the market for more than $500,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669018\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fixer-upper east of downtown Los Angeles is on the market for more than $500,000. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jenn Cahill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County saw the largest drop in net domestic migration, losing 58,000 more residents than it brought in. The region tops the list partly because it’s simply so huge. More than 10 million people call it home, which means any population shift in L.A. County is likely to dwarf other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rising cost of housing is also playing a role. The county’s median home price broke the $600,000 barrier late last year. In a region famous for sprawl, prices are getting prohibitively expensive in and around L.A.’s downtown core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles real estate agent Jenn Cahill specializes in neighborhoods east of downtown Los Angeles like Boyle Heights. She says she gets approached by young families with budgets of $500,000 all the time. Which means a lot of her role is adjusting expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You walk into a bedroom, and they immediately think it’s a closet,” says Cahill. “And you’re like, no, no ,no, it’s a bedroom, with a little shoebox closet in the corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cahill says options are limited if you want to stay relatively close to downtown -- you could find a fixer-upper closer to your job, or you could choose to go farther out and commute. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/06/southern-california-commuting-ranked-as-nations-most-stressful/\">study\u003c/a> found that Southern California commutes were the most stressful in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sacramento: A Large Suburban Home That's Luring More and More Californians\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A house in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento priced at nearly $500,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento priced at nearly $500,000. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Veronica Nelson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where are housing refugees from the Bay Area and Los Angeles going? Many are heading to the Sacramento area, where $500,000 still gets you pretty nice digs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento saw the largest population growth of any major city in California last year, breaking 500,000 residents for the first time. Where did they come from? Topping the list were L.A. and Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? A five-bed, three-bath home in Elk Grove, an affluent Sacramento suburb, goes for $490,000. Realtor Veronica Nelson specializes in showing what middle class Bay Area families can get 90 miles East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had teachers, Kaiser employees. They commute [to the Bay],” says Nelson. “Spend a night or two with a relative in the Bay Area, and make the best of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson says she often talks with other Sacramento real estate agents about the influx of residents from costlier parts of the state. She worries that Sacramento is becoming unaffordable to Sacramentans -- and knows some clients that are pushing even farther East.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reno, Nevada: A Big Home, But Maybe Not as Big as You Think\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"A five bed, three bath house in Reno is listed at $498,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669026\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-520x340.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A five bed, three bath house in Reno is listed at $498,000. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Caren Christen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, Mike Wood said he’d probably get one Californian a week seriously considering buying in Nevada. Now the real estate agent gets one a day, from places like the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reasons are almost always financial,” says Wood. “Their dollar does go further. And our prices have definitely come up over the past five years in large part because of the influx.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the real estate data firm Zillow, the median list price of a single-family home in Reno has jumped from about $300,000 in 2015 to nearly $420,000 today. Part of that run-up has been fueled by the arrival of electric car manufacturer Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means some of Wood’s California clients who expect half a million dollars to get them a mansion in Reno are disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get people that come up and say, ‘that’s ridiculous,’” says Wood. “‘I should be able to buy that home for $400,000, it’s ridiculous how much your prices have gone up.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/pym.v1.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"quiz-half-million-homes\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">\n\tvar pymParent = new pym.Parent('quiz-half-million-homes', 'https://calmatters.org/wp-content/products/interactives/quiz/quiz_half-million-homes.html', {});\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The median price of a California single family home is now well over \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">half a million dollars\u003c/a>. That’s more than double what the average house costs in the rest of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put a more nauseating way, you could buy two “average” non-California houses for the price of one California house. Can’t decide between the Cape Cod or the mid-century Craftsmen? Move to the Midwest and buy both!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d forgive Californians, though, for shrugging off words like “average” and “median” to describe the state’s housing situation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our state is nearly 164,000 square miles, with housing markets as distinctly different as Redding and La Jolla. That means $500,000 may sound pricey to those in Barstow, but it’s a bargain for anyone in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a tour of what $500,000 gets you around our state -- and how cost has shaped where we’re moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley: Half a Burned-Out Home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Realtor Holly Barr sold this burned-out home for more than $900,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-1180x770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/BurnedOutHome-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Realtor Holly Barr sold this burned-out home for more than $900,000. \u003ccite>(Matt Levin/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technically, California has seen higher prices before. During the housing boom of the mid 2000s, the median statewide price \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/housingdata\">nearly broke the $600,000 barrier\u003c/a> (and that’s without adjusting for inflation). Many parts of California are still cheaper now than they were a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Silicon Valley is not one of those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median price of a single family home in Santa Clara County -- home of Apple and Google -- hit $1.4 million in March of this year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">data\u003c/a> from the California Association of Realtors. That’s an all-time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region’s housing market has transformed any piece of available land into a veritable gold mine. No matter what sits on top of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agent Holly Barr says she’s never had a listing generate as much attention as the one on Bird Avenue in the San Jose neighborhood of Willow Glen. The house caught fire two years ago during a remodeling job. What was left was a burned-out husk of a California bungalow sitting on 5,800 square feet of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Barr put the property on the market in April for $800,000, the listing made international headlines. It sold for over $900,000 -- in less than a week. The burned down house will be razed and a new property will be built there that will likely sell for far more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t surprised,” said Barr. “It’s not about the house, it’s about the land and location.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also not a surprise that with unliveable wrecks selling for that much, residents are starting to look for other places to live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the California Department of Finance, Santa Clara County lost 17,000 more residents to other parts of the state or country than they gained last year. That’s the second biggest net domestic migration loss of any county in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Los Angeles: A Fixer-Upper, or a House Smaller Than Your Expectations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"A fixer-upper east of downtown Los Angeles is on the market for more than $500,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669018\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/LAHouse-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fixer-upper east of downtown Los Angeles is on the market for more than $500,000. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jenn Cahill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County saw the largest drop in net domestic migration, losing 58,000 more residents than it brought in. The region tops the list partly because it’s simply so huge. More than 10 million people call it home, which means any population shift in L.A. County is likely to dwarf other parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the rising cost of housing is also playing a role. The county’s median home price broke the $600,000 barrier late last year. In a region famous for sprawl, prices are getting prohibitively expensive in and around L.A.’s downtown core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles real estate agent Jenn Cahill specializes in neighborhoods east of downtown Los Angeles like Boyle Heights. She says she gets approached by young families with budgets of $500,000 all the time. Which means a lot of her role is adjusting expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You walk into a bedroom, and they immediately think it’s a closet,” says Cahill. “And you’re like, no, no ,no, it’s a bedroom, with a little shoebox closet in the corner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cahill says options are limited if you want to stay relatively close to downtown -- you could find a fixer-upper closer to your job, or you could choose to go farther out and commute. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/06/southern-california-commuting-ranked-as-nations-most-stressful/\">study\u003c/a> found that Southern California commutes were the most stressful in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sacramento: A Large Suburban Home That's Luring More and More Californians\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A house in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento priced at nearly $500,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/SacHome.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in the Elk Grove suburb of Sacramento priced at nearly $500,000. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Veronica Nelson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where are housing refugees from the Bay Area and Los Angeles going? Many are heading to the Sacramento area, where $500,000 still gets you pretty nice digs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento saw the largest population growth of any major city in California last year, breaking 500,000 residents for the first time. Where did they come from? Topping the list were L.A. and Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? A five-bed, three-bath home in Elk Grove, an affluent Sacramento suburb, goes for $490,000. Realtor Veronica Nelson specializes in showing what middle class Bay Area families can get 90 miles East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had teachers, Kaiser employees. They commute [to the Bay],” says Nelson. “Spend a night or two with a relative in the Bay Area, and make the best of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson says she often talks with other Sacramento real estate agents about the influx of residents from costlier parts of the state. She worries that Sacramento is becoming unaffordable to Sacramentans -- and knows some clients that are pushing even farther East.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reno, Nevada: A Big Home, But Maybe Not as Big as You Think\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"A five bed, three bath house in Reno is listed at $498,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669026\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome-520x340.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RenoHome.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A five bed, three bath house in Reno is listed at $498,000. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Caren Christen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Five years ago, Mike Wood said he’d probably get one Californian a week seriously considering buying in Nevada. Now the real estate agent gets one a day, from places like the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reasons are almost always financial,” says Wood. “Their dollar does go further. And our prices have definitely come up over the past five years in large part because of the influx.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the real estate data firm Zillow, the median list price of a single-family home in Reno has jumped from about $300,000 in 2015 to nearly $420,000 today. Part of that run-up has been fueled by the arrival of electric car manufacturer Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means some of Wood’s California clients who expect half a million dollars to get them a mansion in Reno are disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get people that come up and say, ‘that’s ridiculous,’” says Wood. “‘I should be able to buy that home for $400,000, it’s ridiculous how much your prices have gone up.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/pym.v1.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"quiz-half-million-homes\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">\n\tvar pymParent = new pym.Parent('quiz-half-million-homes', 'https://calmatters.org/wp-content/products/interactives/quiz/quiz_half-million-homes.html', {});\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very night, some 43,000 people sleep on the streets of Los Angeles County in tents, cars and makeshift structures. So why do thousands of beds run by the biggest homeless agencies go empty at night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPCC\u003c/a> investigation found reports of bedbugs, rats, foul odors, poor lighting, harassment, lax care in medical wards and even a “chicken incubator” in a room where homeless people were sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public documents — including monitoring reports from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), health department inspections, coroner reports, surveys from the Department of Mental Health and police reports — reveal safety and sanitation problems in shelters around the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews conducted at 60 shelters funded by LAHSA last year found more than half — 33 — were not filling all of their beds. Overall, LAHSA-funded shelters had a 78 percent utilization rate, well below the 90 percent required in their contracts. Monitors also found that 25 of those facilities were failing to meet the minimum standards required by their contracts to get people off the streets for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC found that negative monitoring reports, health citations and grievance complaints rarely result in a shelter being shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some shelters raise philanthropic dollars on their own to improve living conditions in their buildings. Those that don’t receive public dollars operate with little to no public accountability at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of accountability for meeting quality and service benchmarks raises questions about what taxpayers are paying for with the hundreds of millions of dollars in Measure H funding now flowing through LAHSA and other public agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who is looking out for the people officials say they are trying to help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about 16,600 shelter beds in L.A. County. They’re almost always run by private nonprofit and faith organizations. Many have contracts with federal, local, and state government agencies that pay for beds for mental health clients, veterans, and other populations they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a patchwork system of oversight. No single public entity is charged with making sure shelters are clean, safe places to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA officials told KPCC the agency has plans to improve shelter quality in L.A. The status quo, however, is not pretty.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rats, Roaches, Bedbugs, Mold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Craig Aslin tried the whole homeless shelter thing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he tried The House of Hope, a boarding home in Jefferson Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucked,” he said. “I got [eaten] up with bedbugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Aslin left and ended up in a tent on a hilly median off Franklin and Vine in Hollywood. Why? He says his tent is cleaner, he doesn’t have to deal with people he doesn’t like, and he can come and go as he pleases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live better now than I did then, I mean for real,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Aslin is originally from Virginia. He was staying in a tent in Hollywood on Friday, March 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Aslin is originally from Virginia. He was staying in a tent in Hollywood on Friday, March 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2017 public health inspection of The House of Hope, the shelter Aslin left, did not find bed bugs. It did find 17 other health code violations, including evidence of rats, roaches, suspected mold and issues with waste storage and disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health department said it does follow-up inspections and sends compliance letters to shelters. It does not, however, shut shelters down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If compliance is not met, enforcement proceeds to the city or district attorney requesting a criminal complaint,” the public affairs department said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House of Hope is one of many emergency housing options in the county that does not rely on government dollars; that means it’s operating with very little in the way of oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in shelters that do receive public dollars, complaints of unsanitary conditions, vermin and pests are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter run by Volunteers of America on Skid Row, LAHSA monitors found “water leaking from the walls and underneath the toilets” in the bathroom, toilets that were “not secured,” and a broken, leaking faucet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another VOA shelter in South L.A. was found to have visible damage on floors and the walls and ceilings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One center also did not have grievance forms for clients to complain about its conditions — a requirement of its contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Ward, executive director of external affairs at the VOA-Greater Los Angeles said the organization has made improvements after having recently taken over the shelter space from another organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We house close to 400 people between the two shelters,” he said. “As you can imagine with such high traffic numbers, maintenance and cleaning was and is a resource-intense undertaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-800x431.jpg\" alt=\"Tents are pitched near an offramp in Hollywood in March. Residents there said they prefer living outside to using a homeless shelter where couples will have to be separated and strict scheduling is enforced.\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-800x431.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-240x129.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-375x202.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-520x280.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are pitched near an offramp in Hollywood in March. Residents there said they prefer living outside to using a homeless shelter where couples will have to be separated and strict scheduling is enforced. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanitation, he said, has improved in the past year. And new funds from Measure H have helped the organization make changes in its shelters, including staying open 24 hours a day and offering more services on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Russ Hotel in Downtown L.A., a Department of Mental Health client reported bathrooms that were “trashed daily” with toilets that “don’t flush.” Another client reported cockroaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A client at the Testimonial Community Love Center in South L.A. complained of cockroaches in August 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an L.A. Family Housing Shelter, LAHSA monitors found “unacceptable conditions” and “a lack of supervision over rooms.” In one Boyle Heights shelter, monitors found the “walls were covered with Crayola and/or marker writing” and a chicken incubator. Another room was “extremely dirty.” A third had “foul odors” coming from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Family Housing has since cleared those complaints with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, who works on homeless issues for the American Civil Liberties Union, said she’s heard complaints of homeless people getting sick in shelters with body lice, head lice and other communicable diseases like MRSA, an infection that is resistant to treatment with many antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mold in the bathrooms, blood on the walls, just a variety of issues that are really unacceptable,” she said. “People with disabilities may try to use shelters and very quickly decide they’re unable to manage their mental health conditions in those shelter spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Dangerous as Heck’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lorenna Taylor went to Samoshel, a Santa Monica shelter that resembles a large tent, in 2016 after having neck surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately, she said, another client harassed her. The woman, Taylor said, would follow her to the bathroom and started telling other people in the shelter Taylor was actually a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would have left, but I could barely walk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She complained to staff, but “they told me, you need to be the bigger person,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, there was a physical altercation between the two of them outside of the shelter. Neither woman was convicted of a crime in a subsequent court case. But Taylor said the entire experience left her with trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no safety,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"Pepper Pilar talks about experiencing homelessness and spending time in a shelter on Friday, March 16, 2018. Pilar ended up homeless after a series of hardships and a relationship that ended left no other options.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-520x360.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pepper Pilar talks about experiencing homelessness and spending time in a shelter on Friday, March 16, 2018. Pilar ended up homeless after a series of hardships and a relationship that ended left no other options. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Living in close quarters can breed conflict, said John Maceri of The People Concern, which runs Samoshel. He said his staff intervened multiple times in Taylor’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless people told KPCC they were victims of theft, harassment and even assault by other clients in shelters, and that staff were either indifferent to or untrained to handle the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelters are dangerous as heck,” said Pepper Pilar, who rides a bike covered with Dr. Pepper stickers around Hollywood. “At least out here I have friends to watch my back. In there, they [will steal] your stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Police Department records show that some shelters are visited frequently by officers. A VOA shelter on Broadway in South L.A. had 138 LAPD visits between Jan. 1, 2017 and the end of April 2018. Another VOA shelter had 197 visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The LAPD visits are largely due to client crisis situations as well as calls from shelter staff when client safety is compromised,” said Ward of VOA. “Some would argue that is better that people experience trauma at a staffed facility than on the streets where the outcome is less predictable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘No One Noticed’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Safety and violence are just one concern about quality of care. Former shelter residents also told KPCC they didn’t have faith in medical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andria McFerson, a former Samoshel resident, said that clients in the “medical ward” — where people with severe medical needs are housed in proximity to a staff nurse — are not checked on regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend died there and no one noticed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend was Charles Waldron, a Vietnam War veteran. An L.A. Coroner’s report found that he died of a heart attack at the shelter on Jan. 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667527/the-only-california-city-to-solve-veteran-homelessness-is-on-a-mission-to-go-bigger\">The Only California City to Solve Veteran Homelessness Is on a Mission to Go Bigger\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667527/the-only-california-city-to-solve-veteran-homelessness-is-on-a-mission-to-go-bigger\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/206887-full-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Waldron was staying in the medical ward, a room with six metal twin-sized beds. He’d been at the shelter about seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff saw decedent on 1/23/2016 around midnight in the common area of the shelter,” the report said. At noon the next day, “staff discovered the decedent unresponsive and dialed 911.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paramedics, who found Waldron with red foam coming out of his mouth, beyond resuscitation, pronounced him dead 11 minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maceri of The People Concern said it’s not unusual for clients to skip a meal. He said Waldron’s medical needs were not severe enough where he needed to be checked by medical professionals daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There would not have been a medical reason to force Mr. Waldron to wake up from what staff assumed was him sleeping in after being up late the night before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4454509-Waldron.html#document/p1/a422371\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coroner’s report\u003c/a> described his corpse as in the stage of “early decomposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Recourse and Fears of Retaliation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other homeless people said shelters didn’t work out for them because they were told to leave, often after running into problems. And they said they had no recourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbin Nugent was kicked out of Samoshel in March after not showing up at the shelter for 68 of the 170 days she was a client. If she wasn’t going to use her bed, the program told her, they’d need it for someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem: her boyfriend, with whom she’s four months pregnant with twins, was also homeless. He’d just graduated from a drug rehab program and was back on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t with him at night, I think he would mess up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Robbin Nugent was asked to leave a Santa Monica shelter for not utilizing her bed enough, so she packed her belongings into a rolling trash can. Nugent is pregnant with twins.\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-960x707.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-375x276.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-520x383.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robbin Nugent was asked to leave a Santa Monica shelter for not utilizing her bed enough, so she packed her belongings into a rolling trash can. Nugent is pregnant with twins. \u003ccite>(RINA PALTA/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So she left the shelter to stay with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, ‘What’s it going to take to get you back into the program?’ And I was like, ‘Get him off the street!’” Nugent said. “It’s my babies’ dad. If he messes up, then all things go to hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Samoshel told her they didn’t have room for him and didn’t offer any referrals to shelters that might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nugent, still pregnant, and her boyfriend are now staying in a tent in an alley behind a Santa Monica restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maceri said clients are expected to use their beds the majority of nights they’re in the program and that shelter “staff spent nearly six months attempting to work with Ms. Nugent to help her be more comfortable in the shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to kick someone out of a shelter should be subject to outside review, said Olga Zurawska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zurawska, a filmmaker who found herself homeless several years ago, said she herself was kicked out of Turning Point, a Santa Monica shelter, in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now an activist for the rights of homeless people, she said she was targeted for speaking up about shelter quality issues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People Concern, which runs the shelter, said it helped place her in permanent housing and that her allegations are untrue and have been thoroughly investigated by multiple agencies, which found them to have no merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zurawska said behind the dispute about her stay at Turning Point is a bigger issue: there wasn’t an outside body to step in and provide a neutral assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11662564/californias-housing-crisis-working-but-on-the-brink-of-homelessness\">California’s Housing Crisis: Working But on the Brink of Homelessness\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11662564/californias-housing-crisis-working-but-on-the-brink-of-homelessness\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/siegler-two-9df2c90bfc797a208badf4e4cc348fffba31700e-1-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It goes to the patchwork nature of oversight in an industry — homeless services — that is growing rapidly. Because the shelter she stayed in didn’t receive LAHSA funding, the grievance she filed with the agency bounced back. Turning Point did receive Department of Mental Health funding, but Zurawska was not a mental health client. That meant she did not have recourse with that agency. Eventually she complained to the city of Santa Monica, which helps fund Turning Point, but she said that was a dead end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alisa Orduña, Santa Monica’s senior adviser on homelessness, said complaints about the shelters it funds are taken seriously. But first clients are required to exhaust whatever internal complaint system the shelter has before turning to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zurawska said the grievance process was confusing and hard to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This population has no rights and no voice, really, and somebody has to do something about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrow of the ACLU agrees that clients need an accessible, visible, neutral third party to appeal to if shelters are going to be more effective going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff really have too much power over clients and clients really have no recourse when staff treat them in a denigrating or disrespectful manner other than to submit a complaint to the very organization that’s mistreating them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, LAHSA, which administers the majority of homeless service contracts in the county, does not have a uniform policy on when it is appropriate to terminate a client from a program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency does review each shelter’s policy, if it funds the shelter, said Chris Callandrillo, director of procurement and performance management. It does not have reliable data on how many people are kicked out of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shelters Do Improve, When They Want To\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A startling claim was buried deep inside a client satisfaction report filed on Jan. 5, 2018 by a Department of Mental Health client. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The client gave the shelter run by the nonprofit L.A. Family Housing largely high marks when asked whether to agree or disagree with statements like, “I have generally positive interactions with staff” and “I receive toiletries when I need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the comments section, the client wrote: “Someone got stabbed in their room. This place feels like a jail with an open door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, the president of L.A. Family Housing, confirmed the stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an incredibly sad — and scary — but sad day here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a learning opportunity. The shelter switched security companies — bags were already searched and people searched with a wand on entry, but a knife had gotten in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also revamped its procedures for checking clients, from “every person, every day,” to “every room, every day” — meaning staff members now need to enter every room on the property on a daily basis to check on clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also allowed us to see things that were getting in that shouldn’t have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of those changes were required by the myriad agencies that monitor L.A. Family Housing: the Veterans Administration, LAHSA, the L.A. County Department of Mental Health, L.A. County Department of Health Services, several individual cities and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other shelters may also want to improve, she said, but might not have the expertise or resources to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not say that any of our colleagues don’t care,” she said. “I think when you have really limited resources, there are places you cut back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klasky-Gamer said auditors visit the shelters roughly three times a week, generally performing one of three types of check: financial audits, programmatic audits and physical audits. There’s so much monitoring that the space-crunched agency even has a room dedicated to files in its main campus building in North Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she wishes one agency was tasked with taking the lead on auditing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t begrudge oversight,” she said. “These are public dollars and this is a public benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some major issues are not addressed, however, in all the monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA reports do not directly address safety issues beyond emergency evacuation plans, fire extinguishers and cleanliness. The agency said it requires shelters to report incidents of violence and then passes that information to whatever entity — like the city or county or federal government — that funds the shelter’s contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Ward of the VOA said the decentralized system for regulating shelters can be frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may suffer from not only a lack of a uniform set of standards, but differing levels of accountability and, in some instances, a lack of direction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco have “cabinet level” officers dedicated to addressing homelessness, he said, which helps them organize and build a common mission and set of best practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. has nothing comparable. There’s more coordination than ever before in L.A., but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still must build a common vision with 15 council districts, a mayor and five county supervisors,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callandrillo said such a system would be hard to reproduce in decentralized Los Angeles, with its numerous municipalities, multiple funding sources for shelters and wide geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the small city of San Francisco, it’s doable,” he said. “Within a region like L.A. County, which is 400 square miles, it’s just not a manageable model. And to do it regionally, like we do other services, would probably cost a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what it takes for a shelter to lose its contract with LAHSA, which works with dozens of agencies. Callandrillo said that it’s happened three times in the past four years. Even as thousands of beds sit empty, the overall number of available beds is too small to risk losing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Myles, 61, used to be a nurse before becoming homeless. She tried living in shelters, she said, but her belongings were stolen and she didn't like being around fights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668711\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-520x352.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Myles, 61, used to be a nurse before becoming homeless. She tried living in shelters, she said, but her belongings were stolen and she didn’t like being around fights. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically a shelter provider owns the site or holds the lease for a site, so if we’re cancelling a contract, often we’re cancelling the availability of shelter beds in an environment where we have very few shelter beds,” he said. “We try to work with our providers to not have to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callandrillo said the problem of unused beds is “systemic,” and less about an individual shelter than how people get and find beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not for lack of need,” he said. “One of the main issues is connecting people to available shelter beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person might walk into a shelter in Santa Monica that’s full, while across town, there’s an available bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA is working on a way to better track available beds so that providers can immediately direct clients to them, Callandrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said LAHSA has posted a position to create that system, but has not hired for it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As these conditions persist, the push is on to rapidly expand L.A.’s shelter system to accommodate a growing population of homeless people — all amidst a housing market that makes the region’s larger goal of finding everyone a long-term, affordable place to live more challenging by the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County and the city of L.A. — through Proposition HHH and a new developer fee for affordable housing — are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the construction of permanent housing. Providers, however, are still struggling to find enough spots for clients, and construction will take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed funneling $20 million in city funds into creating “temporary” homeless shelters in each of the city’s 15 council districts. A neighborhood that accepts a shelter, in turn, has been promised additional sanitation resources and police attention to ensure that it stays free of encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every homeless Angeleno needs a safe, clean, place to sleep at night,” Anna Bahr, the mayor’s deputy press secretary, said. “Each new site will have unprecedented service delivery: 24/7 security, mental health professionals, employment specialists, and anti-addiction experts. The mayor’s office will be monitoring each site closely, to ensure they remain safe and clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County is also poised to shift more funds from Measure H, a new quarter-cent sales tax for homeless services, into interim housing like shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA has recently upped the rate it pays shelters to improve quality. That money is intended to fund more robust services and amenities on site — what the industry calls “bridge housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a key change if the goal remains finding permanent housing and jobs for as many of the region’s homeless people as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move appears to have merit. LAHSA figures show that for the past year, about 39 percent of those in bridge housing have moved on to permanent homes. For those in traditional shelters, the number was 17 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 clients were in bridge housing during that period, while 12,000 lived in standard shelters. In all, close to 60,000 people lack permanent housing in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Garrow says the goal of getting people back on their feet and into permanent housing is not easy. That makes conditions in shelters that much more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise is that they’re temporary, but so often it’s a broken promise,” Garrow said. “We have to ensure that shelters are humane and held to the highest possible standards because people will be living in them for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Derosier contributed to this report. This story was made possible with help from the Fund for Investigative Reporting. Support was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is supporting an investigative reporting collaboration among KPCC, WNYC in New York, WABE in Atlanta, KCUR in Kansas City and APM Reports.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some shelters raise philanthropic dollars on their own to improve living conditions in their buildings. Those that don’t receive public dollars operate with little to no public accountability at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of accountability for meeting quality and service benchmarks raises questions about what taxpayers are paying for with the hundreds of millions of dollars in Measure H funding now flowing through LAHSA and other public agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who is looking out for the people officials say they are trying to help?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are about 16,600 shelter beds in L.A. County. They’re almost always run by private nonprofit and faith organizations. Many have contracts with federal, local, and state government agencies that pay for beds for mental health clients, veterans, and other populations they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a patchwork system of oversight. No single public entity is charged with making sure shelters are clean, safe places to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA officials told KPCC the agency has plans to improve shelter quality in L.A. The status quo, however, is not pretty.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rats, Roaches, Bedbugs, Mold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Craig Aslin tried the whole homeless shelter thing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he tried The House of Hope, a boarding home in Jefferson Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucked,” he said. “I got [eaten] up with bedbugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Aslin left and ended up in a tent on a hilly median off Franklin and Vine in Hollywood. Why? He says his tent is cleaner, he doesn’t have to deal with people he doesn’t like, and he can come and go as he pleases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live better now than I did then, I mean for real,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Aslin is originally from Virginia. He was staying in a tent in Hollywood on Friday, March 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CraigAslin.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Aslin is originally from Virginia. He was staying in a tent in Hollywood on Friday, March 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2017 public health inspection of The House of Hope, the shelter Aslin left, did not find bed bugs. It did find 17 other health code violations, including evidence of rats, roaches, suspected mold and issues with waste storage and disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health department said it does follow-up inspections and sends compliance letters to shelters. It does not, however, shut shelters down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If compliance is not met, enforcement proceeds to the city or district attorney requesting a criminal complaint,” the public affairs department said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House of Hope is one of many emergency housing options in the county that does not rely on government dollars; that means it’s operating with very little in the way of oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in shelters that do receive public dollars, complaints of unsanitary conditions, vermin and pests are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter run by Volunteers of America on Skid Row, LAHSA monitors found “water leaking from the walls and underneath the toilets” in the bathroom, toilets that were “not secured,” and a broken, leaking faucet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another VOA shelter in South L.A. was found to have visible damage on floors and the walls and ceilings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One center also did not have grievance forms for clients to complain about its conditions — a requirement of its contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Ward, executive director of external affairs at the VOA-Greater Los Angeles said the organization has made improvements after having recently taken over the shelter space from another organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We house close to 400 people between the two shelters,” he said. “As you can imagine with such high traffic numbers, maintenance and cleaning was and is a resource-intense undertaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-800x431.jpg\" alt=\"Tents are pitched near an offramp in Hollywood in March. Residents there said they prefer living outside to using a homeless shelter where couples will have to be separated and strict scheduling is enforced.\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-800x431.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-240x129.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-375x202.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents-520x280.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/OfframpTents.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are pitched near an offramp in Hollywood in March. Residents there said they prefer living outside to using a homeless shelter where couples will have to be separated and strict scheduling is enforced. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanitation, he said, has improved in the past year. And new funds from Measure H have helped the organization make changes in its shelters, including staying open 24 hours a day and offering more services on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Russ Hotel in Downtown L.A., a Department of Mental Health client reported bathrooms that were “trashed daily” with toilets that “don’t flush.” Another client reported cockroaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A client at the Testimonial Community Love Center in South L.A. complained of cockroaches in August 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an L.A. Family Housing Shelter, LAHSA monitors found “unacceptable conditions” and “a lack of supervision over rooms.” In one Boyle Heights shelter, monitors found the “walls were covered with Crayola and/or marker writing” and a chicken incubator. Another room was “extremely dirty.” A third had “foul odors” coming from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Family Housing has since cleared those complaints with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, who works on homeless issues for the American Civil Liberties Union, said she’s heard complaints of homeless people getting sick in shelters with body lice, head lice and other communicable diseases like MRSA, an infection that is resistant to treatment with many antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mold in the bathrooms, blood on the walls, just a variety of issues that are really unacceptable,” she said. “People with disabilities may try to use shelters and very quickly decide they’re unable to manage their mental health conditions in those shelter spaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Dangerous as Heck’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lorenna Taylor went to Samoshel, a Santa Monica shelter that resembles a large tent, in 2016 after having neck surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately, she said, another client harassed her. The woman, Taylor said, would follow her to the bathroom and started telling other people in the shelter Taylor was actually a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would have left, but I could barely walk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She complained to staff, but “they told me, you need to be the bigger person,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, there was a physical altercation between the two of them outside of the shelter. Neither woman was convicted of a crime in a subsequent court case. But Taylor said the entire experience left her with trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no safety,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"Pepper Pilar talks about experiencing homelessness and spending time in a shelter on Friday, March 16, 2018. Pilar ended up homeless after a series of hardships and a relationship that ended left no other options.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper-520x360.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Pepper.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pepper Pilar talks about experiencing homelessness and spending time in a shelter on Friday, March 16, 2018. Pilar ended up homeless after a series of hardships and a relationship that ended left no other options. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Living in close quarters can breed conflict, said John Maceri of The People Concern, which runs Samoshel. He said his staff intervened multiple times in Taylor’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless people told KPCC they were victims of theft, harassment and even assault by other clients in shelters, and that staff were either indifferent to or untrained to handle the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelters are dangerous as heck,” said Pepper Pilar, who rides a bike covered with Dr. Pepper stickers around Hollywood. “At least out here I have friends to watch my back. In there, they [will steal] your stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Police Department records show that some shelters are visited frequently by officers. A VOA shelter on Broadway in South L.A. had 138 LAPD visits between Jan. 1, 2017 and the end of April 2018. Another VOA shelter had 197 visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The LAPD visits are largely due to client crisis situations as well as calls from shelter staff when client safety is compromised,” said Ward of VOA. “Some would argue that is better that people experience trauma at a staffed facility than on the streets where the outcome is less predictable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘No One Noticed’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Safety and violence are just one concern about quality of care. Former shelter residents also told KPCC they didn’t have faith in medical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andria McFerson, a former Samoshel resident, said that clients in the “medical ward” — where people with severe medical needs are housed in proximity to a staff nurse — are not checked on regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend died there and no one noticed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend was Charles Waldron, a Vietnam War veteran. An L.A. Coroner’s report found that he died of a heart attack at the shelter on Jan. 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667527/the-only-california-city-to-solve-veteran-homelessness-is-on-a-mission-to-go-bigger\">The Only California City to Solve Veteran Homelessness Is on a Mission to Go Bigger\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11667527/the-only-california-city-to-solve-veteran-homelessness-is-on-a-mission-to-go-bigger\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/206887-full-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Waldron was staying in the medical ward, a room with six metal twin-sized beds. He’d been at the shelter about seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff saw decedent on 1/23/2016 around midnight in the common area of the shelter,” the report said. At noon the next day, “staff discovered the decedent unresponsive and dialed 911.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paramedics, who found Waldron with red foam coming out of his mouth, beyond resuscitation, pronounced him dead 11 minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maceri of The People Concern said it’s not unusual for clients to skip a meal. He said Waldron’s medical needs were not severe enough where he needed to be checked by medical professionals daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There would not have been a medical reason to force Mr. Waldron to wake up from what staff assumed was him sleeping in after being up late the night before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4454509-Waldron.html#document/p1/a422371\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coroner’s report\u003c/a> described his corpse as in the stage of “early decomposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Recourse and Fears of Retaliation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other homeless people said shelters didn’t work out for them because they were told to leave, often after running into problems. And they said they had no recourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbin Nugent was kicked out of Samoshel in March after not showing up at the shelter for 68 of the 170 days she was a client. If she wasn’t going to use her bed, the program told her, they’d need it for someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem: her boyfriend, with whom she’s four months pregnant with twins, was also homeless. He’d just graduated from a drug rehab program and was back on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t with him at night, I think he would mess up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Robbin Nugent was asked to leave a Santa Monica shelter for not utilizing her bed enough, so she packed her belongings into a rolling trash can. Nugent is pregnant with twins.\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-960x707.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-375x276.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes-520x383.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HomelessBikes.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robbin Nugent was asked to leave a Santa Monica shelter for not utilizing her bed enough, so she packed her belongings into a rolling trash can. Nugent is pregnant with twins. \u003ccite>(RINA PALTA/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So she left the shelter to stay with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, ‘What’s it going to take to get you back into the program?’ And I was like, ‘Get him off the street!’” Nugent said. “It’s my babies’ dad. If he messes up, then all things go to hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Samoshel told her they didn’t have room for him and didn’t offer any referrals to shelters that might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nugent, still pregnant, and her boyfriend are now staying in a tent in an alley behind a Santa Monica restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maceri said clients are expected to use their beds the majority of nights they’re in the program and that shelter “staff spent nearly six months attempting to work with Ms. Nugent to help her be more comfortable in the shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to kick someone out of a shelter should be subject to outside review, said Olga Zurawska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zurawska, a filmmaker who found herself homeless several years ago, said she herself was kicked out of Turning Point, a Santa Monica shelter, in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now an activist for the rights of homeless people, she said she was targeted for speaking up about shelter quality issues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People Concern, which runs the shelter, said it helped place her in permanent housing and that her allegations are untrue and have been thoroughly investigated by multiple agencies, which found them to have no merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zurawska said behind the dispute about her stay at Turning Point is a bigger issue: there wasn’t an outside body to step in and provide a neutral assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11662564/californias-housing-crisis-working-but-on-the-brink-of-homelessness\">California’s Housing Crisis: Working But on the Brink of Homelessness\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11662564/californias-housing-crisis-working-but-on-the-brink-of-homelessness\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/siegler-two-9df2c90bfc797a208badf4e4cc348fffba31700e-1-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It goes to the patchwork nature of oversight in an industry — homeless services — that is growing rapidly. Because the shelter she stayed in didn’t receive LAHSA funding, the grievance she filed with the agency bounced back. Turning Point did receive Department of Mental Health funding, but Zurawska was not a mental health client. That meant she did not have recourse with that agency. Eventually she complained to the city of Santa Monica, which helps fund Turning Point, but she said that was a dead end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alisa Orduña, Santa Monica’s senior adviser on homelessness, said complaints about the shelters it funds are taken seriously. But first clients are required to exhaust whatever internal complaint system the shelter has before turning to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zurawska said the grievance process was confusing and hard to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This population has no rights and no voice, really, and somebody has to do something about it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrow of the ACLU agrees that clients need an accessible, visible, neutral third party to appeal to if shelters are going to be more effective going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff really have too much power over clients and clients really have no recourse when staff treat them in a denigrating or disrespectful manner other than to submit a complaint to the very organization that’s mistreating them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, LAHSA, which administers the majority of homeless service contracts in the county, does not have a uniform policy on when it is appropriate to terminate a client from a program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency does review each shelter’s policy, if it funds the shelter, said Chris Callandrillo, director of procurement and performance management. It does not have reliable data on how many people are kicked out of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shelters Do Improve, When They Want To\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A startling claim was buried deep inside a client satisfaction report filed on Jan. 5, 2018 by a Department of Mental Health client. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The client gave the shelter run by the nonprofit L.A. Family Housing largely high marks when asked whether to agree or disagree with statements like, “I have generally positive interactions with staff” and “I receive toiletries when I need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the comments section, the client wrote: “Someone got stabbed in their room. This place feels like a jail with an open door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, the president of L.A. Family Housing, confirmed the stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an incredibly sad — and scary — but sad day here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a learning opportunity. The shelter switched security companies — bags were already searched and people searched with a wand on entry, but a knife had gotten in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also revamped its procedures for checking clients, from “every person, every day,” to “every room, every day” — meaning staff members now need to enter every room on the property on a daily basis to check on clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also allowed us to see things that were getting in that shouldn’t have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of those changes were required by the myriad agencies that monitor L.A. Family Housing: the Veterans Administration, LAHSA, the L.A. County Department of Mental Health, L.A. County Department of Health Services, several individual cities and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other shelters may also want to improve, she said, but might not have the expertise or resources to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not say that any of our colleagues don’t care,” she said. “I think when you have really limited resources, there are places you cut back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klasky-Gamer said auditors visit the shelters roughly three times a week, generally performing one of three types of check: financial audits, programmatic audits and physical audits. There’s so much monitoring that the space-crunched agency even has a room dedicated to files in its main campus building in North Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she wishes one agency was tasked with taking the lead on auditing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t begrudge oversight,” she said. “These are public dollars and this is a public benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some major issues are not addressed, however, in all the monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA reports do not directly address safety issues beyond emergency evacuation plans, fire extinguishers and cleanliness. The agency said it requires shelters to report incidents of violence and then passes that information to whatever entity — like the city or county or federal government — that funds the shelter’s contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Ward of the VOA said the decentralized system for regulating shelters can be frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may suffer from not only a lack of a uniform set of standards, but differing levels of accountability and, in some instances, a lack of direction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco have “cabinet level” officers dedicated to addressing homelessness, he said, which helps them organize and build a common mission and set of best practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. has nothing comparable. There’s more coordination than ever before in L.A., but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still must build a common vision with 15 council districts, a mayor and five county supervisors,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callandrillo said such a system would be hard to reproduce in decentralized Los Angeles, with its numerous municipalities, multiple funding sources for shelters and wide geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the small city of San Francisco, it’s doable,” he said. “Within a region like L.A. County, which is 400 square miles, it’s just not a manageable model. And to do it regionally, like we do other services, would probably cost a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what it takes for a shelter to lose its contract with LAHSA, which works with dozens of agencies. Callandrillo said that it’s happened three times in the past four years. Even as thousands of beds sit empty, the overall number of available beds is too small to risk losing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Myles, 61, used to be a nurse before becoming homeless. She tried living in shelters, she said, but her belongings were stolen and she didn't like being around fights.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668711\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles-520x352.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/AliceMyles.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Myles, 61, used to be a nurse before becoming homeless. She tried living in shelters, she said, but her belongings were stolen and she didn’t like being around fights. \u003ccite>(SUSANICA TAM/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Typically a shelter provider owns the site or holds the lease for a site, so if we’re cancelling a contract, often we’re cancelling the availability of shelter beds in an environment where we have very few shelter beds,” he said. “We try to work with our providers to not have to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callandrillo said the problem of unused beds is “systemic,” and less about an individual shelter than how people get and find beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not for lack of need,” he said. “One of the main issues is connecting people to available shelter beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A person might walk into a shelter in Santa Monica that’s full, while across town, there’s an available bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA is working on a way to better track available beds so that providers can immediately direct clients to them, Callandrillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said LAHSA has posted a position to create that system, but has not hired for it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As these conditions persist, the push is on to rapidly expand L.A.’s shelter system to accommodate a growing population of homeless people — all amidst a housing market that makes the region’s larger goal of finding everyone a long-term, affordable place to live more challenging by the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County and the city of L.A. — through Proposition HHH and a new developer fee for affordable housing — are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the construction of permanent housing. Providers, however, are still struggling to find enough spots for clients, and construction will take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed funneling $20 million in city funds into creating “temporary” homeless shelters in each of the city’s 15 council districts. A neighborhood that accepts a shelter, in turn, has been promised additional sanitation resources and police attention to ensure that it stays free of encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every homeless Angeleno needs a safe, clean, place to sleep at night,” Anna Bahr, the mayor’s deputy press secretary, said. “Each new site will have unprecedented service delivery: 24/7 security, mental health professionals, employment specialists, and anti-addiction experts. The mayor’s office will be monitoring each site closely, to ensure they remain safe and clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County is also poised to shift more funds from Measure H, a new quarter-cent sales tax for homeless services, into interim housing like shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA has recently upped the rate it pays shelters to improve quality. That money is intended to fund more robust services and amenities on site — what the industry calls “bridge housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a key change if the goal remains finding permanent housing and jobs for as many of the region’s homeless people as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move appears to have merit. LAHSA figures show that for the past year, about 39 percent of those in bridge housing have moved on to permanent homes. For those in traditional shelters, the number was 17 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 clients were in bridge housing during that period, while 12,000 lived in standard shelters. In all, close to 60,000 people lack permanent housing in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Garrow says the goal of getting people back on their feet and into permanent housing is not easy. That makes conditions in shelters that much more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise is that they’re temporary, but so often it’s a broken promise,” Garrow said. “We have to ensure that shelters are humane and held to the highest possible standards because people will be living in them for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>His name is Cameron High. Says so on his driver’s license, and on his cannabis card. And he has the counterculture aura down pat: dreadlocks, the soft yeah-dude voice and bright conspiratorial smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what he was flashing a few months ago, kicking back on a thin strip of lawn outside a Starbucks on the outskirts of Anaheim. His drug of choice had been Xanax, he said, and since coming here from Georgia just two years ago to kick the habit, the 22-year-old has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call it the sober-living dance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At many of these group homes, he said, there’s no sober in sober living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re more like party houses, rife with the drugs and alcohol use they’re supposed to prevent — temptations that may have contributed to High’s problem: He was arraigned in a Santa Ana courtroom in April on felony drug charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the homes in question, privately owned and in nice residential areas, are unlicensed, unsupervised and nearly impossible to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Group-Homes/California-Land-Use-Laws-Related-to-Recovery-Facil\">regulate\u003c/a>. When residents’ or their parents’ cash or insurance money dries up, they’re dropped off in town and join the ranks of the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_SoberLivingReport_2016.pdf\">all over the state\u003c/a>, with the largest concentration of sober-living homes in Orange County. California lawmakers are considering ways to monitor them, with five proposals that would establish new guidelines for how they are run and impose fines on some practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes don’t provide drug-rehabilitation programs. They’re meant to offer a supportive environment for like-minded peers recovering from addiction, sometimes in conjunction with a 12-step program. Local officials and patient advocates note that many of these places, like many licensed homes, do good work. But not all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.’\u003ccite>Cameron High, former sobriety home resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A homeowner can make $10,000 a month or more by charging rent for typically six or so people, often through health insurance payments. They may find a supply of residents through “\u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/examining-concerns-patient-brokering-addiction-treatment-fraud/\">patient brokers\u003c/a>,” middlemen around the country who advertise to recruit drug-using, troubled youngsters looking for a change of scene in sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those brokers can “sell” a block of patients to a recovery facility. Licensed venues often have financial relationships with unlicensed ones, and patients are sometimes shifted between them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High was one of those recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Georgia, he was dealing pills and in constant trouble with his parents and the law. Over the past two years, he has leapfrogged from Huntington Beach to Laguna Beach to Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local chambers of commerce have named this area the Orange Coast. But with the proliferation of sober-living homes here in the past decade came another name: Rehab Riviera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is home to 1,028 licensed drug-rehabilitation facilities, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/Residential_and_Outpatient_Licensed_and_or_Certified_Facilities_List_092016.pdf\">state officials\u003c/a>, and some estimates peg the number of unlicensed sober-living homes at about \u003ca href=\"https://malibucity.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/2829?fileID=3471\">2,000 more\u003c/a>. Roughly 15 percent of those facilities call Orange County home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small beachside community of Costa Mesa alone (population about 113,000) has an estimated 160 sober-living homes and rehab facilities, half of them unlicensed, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.costamesaca.gov/index.aspx?page=2116\">city officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a huge problem for Costa Mesa, as it is for other cities, some of which have had limited success in curtailing the spread of such homes with zoning ordinances, mostly \u003ca href=\"http://192.168.1.1:8181/http:/www.costamesaca.gov/ftp/council/agenda/2017/2017-07-18/CC-5-Attach-2.pdf\">restricting\u003c/a> the concentration of them in certain areas. There are still complaints from neighbors about noise, secondhand smoke, too many cars. But the bigger issue is residents turned out to the streets, a practice called curbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a big challenge for a small city,” said Rick Francis, a former city administrator in Costa Mesa who recently switched to a quieter job as assistant airport director at the John Wayne Airport. He calls curbing the number-one cause of homelessness in Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You suddenly have a lot of young, drug-addicted people living on the street. That’s a problem for police, for hospitals, for social services,” adding as many as 200 newly homeless a year just in Costa Mesa, he said. “They end up using up a lot of city resources,” he said. “We don’t have the social-service infrastructure to handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis cautioned that “this is not happening in all of the unlicensed sober-living homes. Many of them do great work and are invested in good patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills now making their way through the Legislature would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Allow the state Department of Health Care Services to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB992\">revoke\u003c/a> the license of a recovery facility for abuses by an unlicensed recovery facility associated with it, and would establish voluntary registration for unlicensed sober-living homes\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Direct the state’s Department of Health Care Services to develop \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1317\">guidelines\u003c/a> for handling unlicensed homes, particularly how to substantiate and investigate complaints\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Establish \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1268\">fines\u003c/a> for patient brokering, the recruiting and “selling” of patients to recovery facilities\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1228\">Prohibit\u003c/a> licensed facilities from making money through patient referrals\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Establish a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB572\">pilot program\u003c/a> to place the headquarters of a state health inspector in the city of Costa Mesa to investigate complaints about facilities in the surrounding area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In addition, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas recently launched a task force on sober-living homes and has vowed to crack down on them. And U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, a Pasadena Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4684\">bill\u003c/a> in Congress that would direct the federal Department of Health and Human Services to develop best-practices guidelines for recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sober-living homes are protected by the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1\">Fair Housing Act\u003c/a>. That law protects the right of individuals with disabilities to live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of concern with the group homes that are unlicensed, but they’re protected by the Fair Housing Act,” said state Sen. Ed Hernandez, an Azusa Democrat and author of the revocation proposal. “A drug dependency is considered a disability. … So there are limitations on what we can do in the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s as it should be, according to Sherry Daley, governmental affairs director for the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals, a trade group representing recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These homes are not licensed, and they shouldn’t be licensed,” Daley said. “They’re where people live and come together in a communal living arrangement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-in-my-back-yard sentiment from municipalities is understandable but unwarranted, she said. The homes are legal and here to stay, she said, so cities should work with them rather than against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just comes down to how do you achieve sober-living homes living with the community in harmony,” Daley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron High said he had to travel pretty far inland to find a sober-living home that really was sober, one in Anaheim where the residents are older and a little more serious about giving up drugs. For this reason, his drug use and attraction to the easy, big-money payoff for dealing them have grown during his time in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here it’s crazy,” High said. “Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thinking, I may have to go somewhere else,” he continued, “… because around here, there’s just too much stuff around, and too many people I know who pull at you, you know? So yeah, maybe it’s time … and that means getting out of Orange County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could take a while. At this writing, High remains in jail on charges of possessing drugs with intent to sell. He has pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the homes in question, privately owned and in nice residential areas, are unlicensed, unsupervised and nearly impossible to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Group-Homes/California-Land-Use-Laws-Related-to-Recovery-Facil\">regulate\u003c/a>. When residents’ or their parents’ cash or insurance money dries up, they’re dropped off in town and join the ranks of the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a problem \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_SoberLivingReport_2016.pdf\">all over the state\u003c/a>, with the largest concentration of sober-living homes in Orange County. California lawmakers are considering ways to monitor them, with five proposals that would establish new guidelines for how they are run and impose fines on some practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homes don’t provide drug-rehabilitation programs. They’re meant to offer a supportive environment for like-minded peers recovering from addiction, sometimes in conjunction with a 12-step program. Local officials and patient advocates note that many of these places, like many licensed homes, do good work. But not all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.’\u003ccite>Cameron High, former sobriety home resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A homeowner can make $10,000 a month or more by charging rent for typically six or so people, often through health insurance payments. They may find a supply of residents through “\u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/examining-concerns-patient-brokering-addiction-treatment-fraud/\">patient brokers\u003c/a>,” middlemen around the country who advertise to recruit drug-using, troubled youngsters looking for a change of scene in sunny California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those brokers can “sell” a block of patients to a recovery facility. Licensed venues often have financial relationships with unlicensed ones, and patients are sometimes shifted between them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High was one of those recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Georgia, he was dealing pills and in constant trouble with his parents and the law. Over the past two years, he has leapfrogged from Huntington Beach to Laguna Beach to Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local chambers of commerce have named this area the Orange Coast. But with the proliferation of sober-living homes here in the past decade came another name: Rehab Riviera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/CameronHigh-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming to California from Georgia just two years ago to kick his drug habits, 22-year-old Cameron High has stayed in 10 different sober-living homes in half a dozen cities. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is home to 1,028 licensed drug-rehabilitation facilities, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/Residential_and_Outpatient_Licensed_and_or_Certified_Facilities_List_092016.pdf\">state officials\u003c/a>, and some estimates peg the number of unlicensed sober-living homes at about \u003ca href=\"https://malibucity.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/2829?fileID=3471\">2,000 more\u003c/a>. Roughly 15 percent of those facilities call Orange County home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small beachside community of Costa Mesa alone (population about 113,000) has an estimated 160 sober-living homes and rehab facilities, half of them unlicensed, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.costamesaca.gov/index.aspx?page=2116\">city officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a huge problem for Costa Mesa, as it is for other cities, some of which have had limited success in curtailing the spread of such homes with zoning ordinances, mostly \u003ca href=\"http://192.168.1.1:8181/http:/www.costamesaca.gov/ftp/council/agenda/2017/2017-07-18/CC-5-Attach-2.pdf\">restricting\u003c/a> the concentration of them in certain areas. There are still complaints from neighbors about noise, secondhand smoke, too many cars. But the bigger issue is residents turned out to the streets, a practice called curbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a big challenge for a small city,” said Rick Francis, a former city administrator in Costa Mesa who recently switched to a quieter job as assistant airport director at the John Wayne Airport. He calls curbing the number-one cause of homelessness in Costa Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You suddenly have a lot of young, drug-addicted people living on the street. That’s a problem for police, for hospitals, for social services,” adding as many as 200 newly homeless a year just in Costa Mesa, he said. “They end up using up a lot of city resources,” he said. “We don’t have the social-service infrastructure to handle that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis cautioned that “this is not happening in all of the unlicensed sober-living homes. Many of them do great work and are invested in good patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills now making their way through the Legislature would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Allow the state Department of Health Care Services to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB992\">revoke\u003c/a> the license of a recovery facility for abuses by an unlicensed recovery facility associated with it, and would establish voluntary registration for unlicensed sober-living homes\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Direct the state’s Department of Health Care Services to develop \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1317\">guidelines\u003c/a> for handling unlicensed homes, particularly how to substantiate and investigate complaints\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Establish \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1268\">fines\u003c/a> for patient brokering, the recruiting and “selling” of patients to recovery facilities\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1228\">Prohibit\u003c/a> licensed facilities from making money through patient referrals\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Establish a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB572\">pilot program\u003c/a> to place the headquarters of a state health inspector in the city of Costa Mesa to investigate complaints about facilities in the surrounding area\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In addition, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas recently launched a task force on sober-living homes and has vowed to crack down on them. And U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, a Pasadena Democrat, has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4684\">bill\u003c/a> in Congress that would direct the federal Department of Health and Human Services to develop best-practices guidelines for recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sober-living homes are protected by the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1\">Fair Housing Act\u003c/a>. That law protects the right of individuals with disabilities to live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of concern with the group homes that are unlicensed, but they’re protected by the Fair Housing Act,” said state Sen. Ed Hernandez, an Azusa Democrat and author of the revocation proposal. “A drug dependency is considered a disability. … So there are limitations on what we can do in the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s as it should be, according to Sherry Daley, governmental affairs director for the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals, a trade group representing recovery facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These homes are not licensed, and they shouldn’t be licensed,” Daley said. “They’re where people live and come together in a communal living arrangement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-in-my-back-yard sentiment from municipalities is understandable but unwarranted, she said. The homes are legal and here to stay, she said, so cities should work with them rather than against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just comes down to how do you achieve sober-living homes living with the community in harmony,” Daley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron High said he had to travel pretty far inland to find a sober-living home that really was sober, one in Anaheim where the residents are older and a little more serious about giving up drugs. For this reason, his drug use and attraction to the easy, big-money payoff for dealing them have grown during his time in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here it’s crazy,” High said. “Orange County looks like it’s all nice, but behind the scenes, it’s bad. I never even saw heroin and meth until I came out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thinking, I may have to go somewhere else,” he continued, “… because around here, there’s just too much stuff around, and too many people I know who pull at you, you know? 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"content": "\u003cp>Army veteran Bill Bruick spent his last night homeless lying on a tiny patch of dirt, now festooned with a pink flowering shrub behind a Food 4 Less grocery store in Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were no bushes,” Bruick said, pointing to the exact spot still remembering the lump in the ground. “I slept right here. I liked it because nobody could really see me back here. Nobody ever parked back here. I got lucky, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night in 2013 capped 10 years of living outside a shopping center for the 51-year-old Bruick, who resembles a young Charlton Heston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are around \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/pit_count.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40,000 homeless veterans in the United States\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 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