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"content": "\u003cp>As Caltrans workers cleared the last remnants of an encampment from beneath a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> overpass on Tuesday, Candice Dixon wondered if she would soon be asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, workers were for the latest operation of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/29/governor-newsom-convenes-statewide-task-force-to-prioritize-and-dismantle-homeless-encampments-and-accelerate-care/\">new task force\u003c/a>, which brings together California’s departments of transportation, law enforcement, health and housing, among others, to remove homeless encampments across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Action for Facilitation on Encampments — or, SAFE — Task Force had just finished clearing the area where Cesar Chavez Street meets Highway 101, marking the seventh such operation along the freeway in the city since the start of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to come tell us to move,” the 44-year-old predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and another friend have, for the past three months, been living in an alcove on the opposite side of the freeway. Fenced in between Cesar Chavez Street, an onramp and a pedestrian crossing, the area is difficult to reach, which had been part of the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as she considered how long she would be able to stay, she weighed her options. “Everywhere you go, or you put up a tent somewhere, you’ve got to be mindful that you know they’re going to come,” Dixon said. “It’s just finding somewhere to stay, that’s the hard part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon had grown accustomed to moving. Under former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999056/sf-promises-to-make-life-uncomfortable-for-people-sleeping-outside\">mayor London Breed\u003c/a>, and then Breed’s successor, Daniel Lurie, the city has been cracking down on encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051236/an-unhoused-san-francisco-resident-navigates-a-new-era-of-street-enforcement\">over the past year\u003c/a>, threatening arrest to those who refuse offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">urged cities\u003c/a> to make it illegal for people to camp outside for more than three nights in a row. And last summer, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">directed state agencies\u003c/a> to clear encampments on state land. The new task force, announced in August, marked his latest effort to reduce unsheltered homelessness by clearing encampments and directing people into services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin described it as an “all of government” approach.[aside postID=news_12054274 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NewsomHousingCM1.jpg']“We’re taking the comprehensive steps that we need to take, not just clearing encampments,” he said, but rather, “a wraparound approach to addressing this issue that is likely one of the biggest challenges in front of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July 2021, Caltrans has removed more than 18,000 encampments along the state rights-of-way, filling nearly 12,000 garbage trucks with unhoused people’s discarded belongings. But Omishakin said the SAFE Taskforce would take a new approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than being primarily led by Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol, Omishakin said leaders from the state’s department of health and housing were also at the table. “All the key agencies are at the table every single day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force will focus first on the state’s 10 largest cities, Omishakin said. Already, the state had secured agreements to allow workers onto city property with San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and was working on another with San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger effort to address homelessness across California that Omishakin said is beginning to pay dividends. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">last count\u003c/a>, more than 187,000 people were homeless on a given night in California, according to federal data, but the rate of growth has been slowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin addresses the press from beside the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of people sleeping outside was nearly unchanged from 2023 to 2024, Omishakin noted, compared to a nearly 7% increase nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation underway Tuesday sought to address the needs of 18 people, said Jay Wierenga, a spokesperson for the state’s Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Of those, 12 agreed to speak with task force staff, he said; five were already in shelter, seven were offered shelter, and one accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wierenga said outreach would continue: “We don’t just stop. This is a continuing effort every day — not only with the state departments — but also the city and the counties that we are working with very closely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they leave, Omishakin said workers will also install large boulders to make it harder for people to reenter the site. The goal, he said, is to ensure that they aren’t “playing that game of whack-a-mole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056152\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Brown (left) and Alton Perdew sit together under the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We clear it, and they come right back,” Omishakin explained. “That’s why this strategy that we’re deploying now is even more important than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon has been offered services before — and accepted them. The shelters didn’t always work out well for her, though, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They steal your stuff. They just do you wrong in there, you know?” she said. “They don’t give us the proper care that we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after being homeless for 18 years and faced with the prospect of moving yet again, Dixon said she’s willing to give shelters another shot. If she’s told to leave, she might ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was never raised like this to be homeless,” she said. “I always had a house to go to. So, it was kind of like adapting to this life, but I’ve been adapting to it for a while now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe outreach workers would help her with the paperwork she needs to complete to get on the list for housing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon thought about what that might look like. “My own place with my bathroom and shower, where I don’t have to worry about people stealing my stuff,” she said. “That would definitely be good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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At \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">last count\u003c/a>, more than 187,000 people were homeless on a given night in California, according to federal data, but the rate of growth has been slowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin addresses the press from beside the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of people sleeping outside was nearly unchanged from 2023 to 2024, Omishakin noted, compared to a nearly 7% increase nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation underway Tuesday sought to address the needs of 18 people, said Jay Wierenga, a spokesperson for the state’s Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Of those, 12 agreed to speak with task force staff, he said; five were already in shelter, seven were offered shelter, and one accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wierenga said outreach would continue: “We don’t just stop. This is a continuing effort every day — not only with the state departments — but also the city and the counties that we are working with very closely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they leave, Omishakin said workers will also install large boulders to make it harder for people to reenter the site. The goal, he said, is to ensure that they aren’t “playing that game of whack-a-mole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056152\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Brown (left) and Alton Perdew sit together under the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We clear it, and they come right back,” Omishakin explained. “That’s why this strategy that we’re deploying now is even more important than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon has been offered services before — and accepted them. The shelters didn’t always work out well for her, though, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They steal your stuff. They just do you wrong in there, you know?” she said. “They don’t give us the proper care that we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after being homeless for 18 years and faced with the prospect of moving yet again, Dixon said she’s willing to give shelters another shot. If she’s told to leave, she might ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was never raised like this to be homeless,” she said. “I always had a house to go to. So, it was kind of like adapting to this life, but I’ve been adapting to it for a while now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe outreach workers would help her with the paperwork she needs to complete to get on the list for housing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon thought about what that might look like. “My own place with my bathroom and shower, where I don’t have to worry about people stealing my stuff,” she said. “That would definitely be good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Wearing a fistful of army rings, Bill Wade pulled his green beret from a shelf crammed with military memorabilia. As he held it in his hands, he read the U.S. Army Special Forces motto on the patch: De Oppresso Liber, in his words, “Hero of the Oppressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade’s time in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vietnam\">Vietnam\u003c/a> is a source of pride, but more than half a century later, the 74-year-old still carries its scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teenager, the army provided him with an escape from an abusive foster father. Later, it gave him structure and purpose. But his 12 years of service also left him with PTSD, a shattered jaw that still aches and a jar of his own teeth, which fell out over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, Wade lived in his truck, doing stints as a bouncer and renting rooms when he could. “It was a weird life,” he said, “a terrible life back then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, six years ago, he landed a small studio apartment in Fremont that he shares with his cat, Libby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a place to live hasn’t relieved his pain, physical or emotional, but it’s put him in a better place to tend those wounds. “Now I have a place to come home to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade’s path from years of instability to this small sanctuary reflects the philosophy guiding California’s homelessness policy, which prioritizes getting people into permanent housing with as few barriers as possible. Or, as Alex Visotzky of the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts it, “The very simple idea that the immediate solution to someone being homeless is a home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wade, a formerly homeless veteran housed through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program, shows his dog tags at his Laguna Commons apartment in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This approach, known as Housing First, has shaped the federal response to homelessness for two decades, and California doubled down in 2016 by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=8255.\">requiring state-funded programs\u003c/a> to follow its principles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Trump administration is trying to scrap it. In late July, the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049734/newsoms-office-blasts-trumps-homelessness-order-as-a-harmful-imitation\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> directing federal agencies to stop funding Housing First programs, calling them a failure and turning a California mandate into a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order is the culmination of a backlash that’s been brewing for years — both in California and across the country — as the number of people on the streets keeps ticking up even as the spending on homelessness grows.[aside postID=news_12049734 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241203-FresnoCampingBan-25-BL_qed.jpg']The debate over Housing First hinges on a clash over both causes and solutions. Is homelessness the result of rampant drug use and untreated mental illness, or of deeper structural forces like sky-high rents, poverty and racism? Should housing be used as a reward for sobriety and treatment, or provided first, as the foundation for recovery? And, perhaps more fundamentally, should housing be a human right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pendulum is swinging back,” said Paul Webster, a California-based fellow with the Cicero Institute, the Texas-based think tank leading the ideological charge against Housing First. “We have to balance the provision of housing with some kind of way to help people get better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the federal pullback will mean in California isn’t clear. Local officials are awaiting guidance on whether and how they’ll be able to tap federal dollars. Jonathan Russell, who runs homelessness services for Alameda County, where Wade lives, called it a “tectonic shift” that has left local agencies caught between contradictory policies. “There’s a lot of unknowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CPD/documents/CoC/CoC-2024-CA_Press.pdf\">main federal homelessness-related grant\u003c/a> totaled $56 million, and nearly 80% of that went to permanent housing. If that funding doesn’t come through this year and he can’t find a way to make it up, Russell said, as many as 1,400 people in Alameda County alone could lose their rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Million-dollar Murray\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wade spent years in and out of homelessness before a fellow vet suggested he turn to the VA for help. He started seeing a psychiatrist and secured a housing voucher through a federal program that specializes in helping homeless veterans. But he still hadn’t found an apartment that would accept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed after a lucky encounter with a DMV worker. He was applying for a new driver’s license with a veteran designation when the woman behind the counter asked for his address. “I don’t live nowhere,” he recalls telling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family photo of William Wade, his ex-wife, and their now deceased child sits on a shelf in Wade’s Laguna Commons apartment in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. William Wade is a formerly homeless veteran housed through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her son happened to be a veteran who’d been in the same position, and she connected Wade with staff at an apartment building in Fremont for people exiting homelessness. Within weeks, Wade said he was able to move into his own studio there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was fantastic,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When proponents of Housing First point to the approach’s success, they often highlight the very program that helped Wade get into housing. Launched in 2008 under the George W. Bush Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing, or HUD-VASH, offers participants housing vouchers with few strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants put about a third of their income toward rent, and the rest is covered by the voucher. Case managers help connect the veterans with optional services like health care, mental health treatment and substance use counseling.[aside postID=news_12051236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250626-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg']The program is credited with helping contribute to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.va.gov/137562/veteran-homelessness-reaches-record-low-2023/\">55% drop in homelessness\u003c/a> among veterans nationwide since 2010, even as overall homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">climbed over 20%\u003c/a> during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the story of another veteran that first brought Housing First into the mainstream. Murray Barr was an ex-marine who drank himself to death on the streets of Reno, Nevada. In a 2006 \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/13/million-dollar-murray\">\u003cem>New Yorker \u003c/em>article\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Malcolm Gladwell used Barr’s repeated ER visits and rehab stays to illustrate the high cost of homelessness and to make the case for a more economical approach: permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, journalists, politicians and nonprofits seized on the “Million-Dollar Murray” narrative, galvanizing support for the Housing First strategy with its cost-saving logic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladwell first heard Barr’s story not from a liberal academic or housing advocate, but from Philip Mangano, who Bush appointed to lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His idea was radical: Take the most difficult cases, the nation’s Murray Barrs, and hand them the keys to an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Mangano ushered in the era of Housing First, the typical approach to getting people off the streets was intuitive, not guided by research, according to University of Southern California professor Benjamin Henwood, who studies homelessness policy. In hindsight, it can be seen as a “treatment first” or “housing readiness” strategy that operated like a reward system, providing housing to those who could meet a series of requirements as they graduated from shelter to temporary to more permanent placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A laundry room is featured at the Laguna Commons supportive housing in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Folks had to prove all along the way … that they were ready for housing,” said Vivian Wan, the CEO of Abode Services, which operates the building where Wade lives. “If they did well and followed all the rules and were good tenants in transitional housing, then they got the golden ticket to permanent supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Success required staying sober, getting mental healthcare, drug treatment, making curfew or meeting with a case manager. As a result, chronically unhoused people with substance use or mental health issues often flunked out of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, people started experimenting with a different approach that prioritized housing. New York City-based psychologist Sam Tsemberis was the first to rigorously study the model and coin the term: Housing First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early ’90s, Tsemberis launched a program that targeted people who’d failed out of previous programs and placed them in apartments with no requirement to get clean or enter treatment and no time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were typically very significantly impaired people,” Wan said. “Folks who were really very vulnerable had acute mental health needs across the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years, \u003ca href=\"https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.51.4.487\">88% of the participants were still housed\u003c/a>, compared to 47% of residents in the city’s residential treatment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research showed promising results, too. “The people who you gave housing to actually stayed in that housing, and they stopped going to the emergency room, and they stopped getting arrested, whereas the other folks continue to cycle through all these other institutions,” Henwood said. “That’s what got the attention of the Bush Administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intent, Mangano told Gladwell, was to invest in solutions “that actually end homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evolution and backlash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over time, as Housing First became the country’s homelessness policy north star, the term evolved into a catch-all, blurring what it actually entails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sort of lost a bit of its meaning along the way,” Henwood said. “And I think part of that made it an easy target for where we are today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, there are now \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\">some 400,000 units\u003c/a> of permanent supportive housing nationwide, up 32% in the \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_NatlTerrDC_2014.pdf\">last decade\u003c/a>. In California, the number rose 73% to \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\">around 79,000\u003c/a>. While some programs hew to Tsemberis’ model, with its clear set of standards, many more employ the approach loosely. Today, it’s shorthand for simply providing housing with few preconditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Laguna Commons supportive housing stands on 41152 Fremont Blvd., in Fremont, on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And as permanent supportive housing has become the primary tool for ending homelessness, critics see its limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wade imagines he’ll live in his studio apartment for the rest of his life, the evidence shows permanent supportive housing doesn’t work for everybody. About one in five people will struggle to keep their apartments, Henwood said, noting it’s difficult to predict who that will be. People with serious mental health or drug issues might stay housed, while others who appear stable get evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Eide, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, argues that while certain Housing First programs might be successful, the results don’t often hold up at scale. “At the city level, the evidence was never very compelling,” he said. “That’s a big problem because when the public was told, ‘We know how to end homelessness,’ they were really thinking about at the city level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his view, Housing First has promised too much and delivered too little, making it ripe for attacks. “This is a problem that the advocates created because they were so grandiose in their claims about what Housing First was going to do,” he said.[aside postID=news_12039730 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080924-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEP-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']By the late 2010s, right-leaning think tanks like his were waging an ideological war on Housing First. They’ve argued the model is ineffective and doesn’t address what they believe are often the root causes of homelessness — drug addiction and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those arguments have now found purchase at the highest levels of government. The Cicero Institute pushed many of the ideas in President Trump’s recent executive order, including banning public camping, predicating housing on treatment and forcibly institutionalizing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spigot’s been supporting this housing-centric approach,” Cicero’s Webster said of the billions in federal money invested. “And what are the results that we’ve seen? We’ve seen homelessness go up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defenders of Housing First liken that logic to handing out too few life jackets and then, when those without jackets drown, blaming the devices. The problem isn’t too much spending in their view, but too little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, the nonprofit All Home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991834/slashing-bay-area-homelessness-would-cost-9-5-billion-report-says\">estimates it would cost $9.5 billion\u003c/a> over five years on top of current spending to cut homelessness by just three-quarters. And despite the expansion of permanent supportive housing, they point to a system dogged by scarcity. In California, where more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">187,000 people experience homelessness\u003c/a> on any given night, people can wait years for a spot to open. In the meantime, their condition deteriorates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bike room is featured at the Laguna Commons supportive housing in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know the longer folks are outside and the longer folks don’t have stable housing, the more their needs can get more complex, more difficult to overcome,” Russell said. And research shows that Housing First programs aren’t good at addressing those complex needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those whose needs are less complex, Housing First may indeed get them off the street, but the “Million-Dollar Murray” cost-savings argument breaks down. Research finds that it only holds up for the small subset of unhoused people who cycle between emergency rooms and jails. But for many others who don’t fit that criterion, it may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t hold true once you’re working with families who live in their cars and don’t go to ERs and don’t use all these other emergency services,” Henwood said. “If you give them an apartment and a social worker or a mental health worker, that just costs money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, Russell and Henwood say, is not to throw out Housing First, but to expand the types of offerings that are available to better meet people’s needs. “The real need is actually to diversify the housing types across the continuum,” Russell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that point, Eide and Webster agree. They argue that some people might need more mental health support than housing providers can offer. Others might need sober living facilities so they don’t relapse. And still others might not need much more than a temporary roof over their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rethinking housing first in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beneath all these arguments is a more fundamental disagreement about the nature of housing in this country. For Visotzky of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, solving homelessness means asking big questions that get at the true cause: “Are we doing enough to house poor people in this country? Is our housing market working for the poorest people?” And blaming Housing First is a distraction from the answer — in his view, a resounding no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an idea echoed on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pathwayshousingfirst.org/\">homepage\u003c/a> for Tsemberis’s preeminent Housing First training program, which declares, “Housing is a Human Right.” To critics like Webster, such statements are evidence that the model isn’t just a failed policy but a Trojan Horse for socialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community space for children at the Laguna Commons supportive housing in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The ultimate choice is, do we want to have a conversation about restructuring our entire housing system, such that housing is no longer considered a commodity but a public good?” Webster said. “I’m not interested in that conversation; I don’t think this executive order is interested in the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pete Kasperowicz, press secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, said he has no reason to believe the recent executive order will impact the HUD-VASH program that Wade is in. “Past administrations may have labeled HUD-VASH as a ‘Housing First’ program,” he said in a statement, “but we don’t view it that way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asked whether HUD-VASH has begun or would begin requiring treatment as a condition of enrollment in the program, which Trump’s executive order explicitly demands, Kasperowicz declined to respond.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/ACA10/id/2729557\">enshrine housing as a human right\u003c/a> into the state constitution and build social housing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB309\">haven’t gotten\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB387\">much traction\u003c/a>. But policymakers are reconsidering their approach to homelessness, including Housing First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom and many local leaders have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">leaned into enforcement\u003c/a>, backing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">encampment clearings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">expanded\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963961/newsom-signs-law-expanding-conservatorships-for-those-experiencing-severe-mental-illness-substance-abuse\">conservatorships\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eide, of the Manhattan Institute, sees the state’s shift as part of a larger national turn away from Housing First. “A lot of people, whether they want to say they’re aligned with the president or not, are moving in the same general direction as a lot of the ideas in this executive order,” he said, referring to Trump’s call for tougher enforcement and more treatment mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney of San Francisco is among the Democrats pressing for changes. “Where California’s approach to Housing First has fallen short is that it’s been in some ways inflexible in recognizing that some people do need options,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would allow state funding to be used for drug-free recovery housing. He said California’s 2016 Housing First law was written to prevent providers from imposing conditions like drug tests just to get a bed for the night. But in practice, he argued, it has blocked funding for residents who actually want drug-free environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, right now, we force everyone into environments where drug use is explicitly allowed,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever its pitfalls, Wade is proof of what Housing First can do: keep someone with deep wounds housed and connected to care. Advocates warn discarding the model could unravel that fragile progress for thousands like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053758\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01827_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01827_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01827_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01827_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wade, a formerly homeless veteran housed through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program, pets his cat Libby as he looks out the window at his Laguna Commons apartment in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he was living in his truck, Wade was fighting a deep depression. He was divorced, and his only child had died in her 20s of a brain tumor. “Throughout those years, I was contemplating suicide and got pretty close,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Wade volunteers as a security guard for a nearby church, and he’s made a couple of friends in the building. Still, he struggles. “Sometimes I get down and out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing has not swept away his depression, but he’s less alone. His VA case worker regularly calls to check up on him and make sure he’s seeing his doctor and taking medication. He’s enrolled in an anger management class and goes on group outings to the movies or to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his favorite field trip, they visited stables, and Wade met a horse named Country Candy. He beamed as he recounted brushing her chest. “We had a ball,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, six years ago, he landed a small studio apartment in Fremont that he shares with his cat, Libby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a place to live hasn’t relieved his pain, physical or emotional, but it’s put him in a better place to tend those wounds. “Now I have a place to come home to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade’s path from years of instability to this small sanctuary reflects the philosophy guiding California’s homelessness policy, which prioritizes getting people into permanent housing with as few barriers as possible. Or, as Alex Visotzky of the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts it, “The very simple idea that the immediate solution to someone being homeless is a home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01757_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wade, a formerly homeless veteran housed through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program, shows his dog tags at his Laguna Commons apartment in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This approach, known as Housing First, has shaped the federal response to homelessness for two decades, and California doubled down in 2016 by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=8255.\">requiring state-funded programs\u003c/a> to follow its principles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Trump administration is trying to scrap it. In late July, the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049734/newsoms-office-blasts-trumps-homelessness-order-as-a-harmful-imitation\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> directing federal agencies to stop funding Housing First programs, calling them a failure and turning a California mandate into a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order is the culmination of a backlash that’s been brewing for years — both in California and across the country — as the number of people on the streets keeps ticking up even as the spending on homelessness grows.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The debate over Housing First hinges on a clash over both causes and solutions. Is homelessness the result of rampant drug use and untreated mental illness, or of deeper structural forces like sky-high rents, poverty and racism? Should housing be used as a reward for sobriety and treatment, or provided first, as the foundation for recovery? And, perhaps more fundamentally, should housing be a human right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pendulum is swinging back,” said Paul Webster, a California-based fellow with the Cicero Institute, the Texas-based think tank leading the ideological charge against Housing First. “We have to balance the provision of housing with some kind of way to help people get better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the federal pullback will mean in California isn’t clear. Local officials are awaiting guidance on whether and how they’ll be able to tap federal dollars. Jonathan Russell, who runs homelessness services for Alameda County, where Wade lives, called it a “tectonic shift” that has left local agencies caught between contradictory policies. “There’s a lot of unknowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CPD/documents/CoC/CoC-2024-CA_Press.pdf\">main federal homelessness-related grant\u003c/a> totaled $56 million, and nearly 80% of that went to permanent housing. If that funding doesn’t come through this year and he can’t find a way to make it up, Russell said, as many as 1,400 people in Alameda County alone could lose their rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Million-dollar Murray\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wade spent years in and out of homelessness before a fellow vet suggested he turn to the VA for help. He started seeing a psychiatrist and secured a housing voucher through a federal program that specializes in helping homeless veterans. But he still hadn’t found an apartment that would accept it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That changed after a lucky encounter with a DMV worker. He was applying for a new driver’s license with a veteran designation when the woman behind the counter asked for his address. “I don’t live nowhere,” he recalls telling her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01683_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family photo of William Wade, his ex-wife, and their now deceased child sits on a shelf in Wade’s Laguna Commons apartment in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. William Wade is a formerly homeless veteran housed through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her son happened to be a veteran who’d been in the same position, and she connected Wade with staff at an apartment building in Fremont for people exiting homelessness. Within weeks, Wade said he was able to move into his own studio there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was fantastic,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When proponents of Housing First point to the approach’s success, they often highlight the very program that helped Wade get into housing. Launched in 2008 under the George W. Bush Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing, or HUD-VASH, offers participants housing vouchers with few strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants put about a third of their income toward rent, and the rest is covered by the voucher. Case managers help connect the veterans with optional services like health care, mental health treatment and substance use counseling.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The program is credited with helping contribute to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.va.gov/137562/veteran-homelessness-reaches-record-low-2023/\">55% drop in homelessness\u003c/a> among veterans nationwide since 2010, even as overall homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">climbed over 20%\u003c/a> during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the story of another veteran that first brought Housing First into the mainstream. Murray Barr was an ex-marine who drank himself to death on the streets of Reno, Nevada. In a 2006 \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/13/million-dollar-murray\">\u003cem>New Yorker \u003c/em>article\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Malcolm Gladwell used Barr’s repeated ER visits and rehab stays to illustrate the high cost of homelessness and to make the case for a more economical approach: permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, journalists, politicians and nonprofits seized on the “Million-Dollar Murray” narrative, galvanizing support for the Housing First strategy with its cost-saving logic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladwell first heard Barr’s story not from a liberal academic or housing advocate, but from Philip Mangano, who Bush appointed to lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His idea was radical: Take the most difficult cases, the nation’s Murray Barrs, and hand them the keys to an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Mangano ushered in the era of Housing First, the typical approach to getting people off the streets was intuitive, not guided by research, according to University of Southern California professor Benjamin Henwood, who studies homelessness policy. In hindsight, it can be seen as a “treatment first” or “housing readiness” strategy that operated like a reward system, providing housing to those who could meet a series of requirements as they graduated from shelter to temporary to more permanent placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02019_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A laundry room is featured at the Laguna Commons supportive housing in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Folks had to prove all along the way … that they were ready for housing,” said Vivian Wan, the CEO of Abode Services, which operates the building where Wade lives. “If they did well and followed all the rules and were good tenants in transitional housing, then they got the golden ticket to permanent supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Success required staying sober, getting mental healthcare, drug treatment, making curfew or meeting with a case manager. As a result, chronically unhoused people with substance use or mental health issues often flunked out of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, people started experimenting with a different approach that prioritized housing. New York City-based psychologist Sam Tsemberis was the first to rigorously study the model and coin the term: Housing First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early ’90s, Tsemberis launched a program that targeted people who’d failed out of previous programs and placed them in apartments with no requirement to get clean or enter treatment and no time limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were typically very significantly impaired people,” Wan said. “Folks who were really very vulnerable had acute mental health needs across the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years, \u003ca href=\"https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.51.4.487\">88% of the participants were still housed\u003c/a>, compared to 47% of residents in the city’s residential treatment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research showed promising results, too. “The people who you gave housing to actually stayed in that housing, and they stopped going to the emergency room, and they stopped getting arrested, whereas the other folks continue to cycle through all these other institutions,” Henwood said. “That’s what got the attention of the Bush Administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intent, Mangano told Gladwell, was to invest in solutions “that actually end homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evolution and backlash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over time, as Housing First became the country’s homelessness policy north star, the term evolved into a catch-all, blurring what it actually entails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sort of lost a bit of its meaning along the way,” Henwood said. “And I think part of that made it an easy target for where we are today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, there are now \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\">some 400,000 units\u003c/a> of permanent supportive housing nationwide, up 32% in the \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_NatlTerrDC_2014.pdf\">last decade\u003c/a>. In California, the number rose 73% to \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\">around 79,000\u003c/a>. While some programs hew to Tsemberis’ model, with its clear set of standards, many more employ the approach loosely. Today, it’s shorthand for simply providing housing with few preconditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02179_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Laguna Commons supportive housing stands on 41152 Fremont Blvd., in Fremont, on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And as permanent supportive housing has become the primary tool for ending homelessness, critics see its limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wade imagines he’ll live in his studio apartment for the rest of his life, the evidence shows permanent supportive housing doesn’t work for everybody. About one in five people will struggle to keep their apartments, Henwood said, noting it’s difficult to predict who that will be. People with serious mental health or drug issues might stay housed, while others who appear stable get evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Eide, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, argues that while certain Housing First programs might be successful, the results don’t often hold up at scale. “At the city level, the evidence was never very compelling,” he said. “That’s a big problem because when the public was told, ‘We know how to end homelessness,’ they were really thinking about at the city level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his view, Housing First has promised too much and delivered too little, making it ripe for attacks. “This is a problem that the advocates created because they were so grandiose in their claims about what Housing First was going to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>By the late 2010s, right-leaning think tanks like his were waging an ideological war on Housing First. They’ve argued the model is ineffective and doesn’t address what they believe are often the root causes of homelessness — drug addiction and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those arguments have now found purchase at the highest levels of government. The Cicero Institute pushed many of the ideas in President Trump’s recent executive order, including banning public camping, predicating housing on treatment and forcibly institutionalizing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spigot’s been supporting this housing-centric approach,” Cicero’s Webster said of the billions in federal money invested. “And what are the results that we’ve seen? We’ve seen homelessness go up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defenders of Housing First liken that logic to handing out too few life jackets and then, when those without jackets drown, blaming the devices. The problem isn’t too much spending in their view, but too little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area alone, the nonprofit All Home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991834/slashing-bay-area-homelessness-would-cost-9-5-billion-report-says\">estimates it would cost $9.5 billion\u003c/a> over five years on top of current spending to cut homelessness by just three-quarters. And despite the expansion of permanent supportive housing, they point to a system dogged by scarcity. In California, where more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">187,000 people experience homelessness\u003c/a> on any given night, people can wait years for a spot to open. In the meantime, their condition deteriorates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_02034_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bike room is featured at the Laguna Commons supportive housing in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know the longer folks are outside and the longer folks don’t have stable housing, the more their needs can get more complex, more difficult to overcome,” Russell said. And research shows that Housing First programs aren’t good at addressing those complex needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those whose needs are less complex, Housing First may indeed get them off the street, but the “Million-Dollar Murray” cost-savings argument breaks down. Research finds that it only holds up for the small subset of unhoused people who cycle between emergency rooms and jails. But for many others who don’t fit that criterion, it may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t hold true once you’re working with families who live in their cars and don’t go to ERs and don’t use all these other emergency services,” Henwood said. “If you give them an apartment and a social worker or a mental health worker, that just costs money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, Russell and Henwood say, is not to throw out Housing First, but to expand the types of offerings that are available to better meet people’s needs. “The real need is actually to diversify the housing types across the continuum,” Russell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that point, Eide and Webster agree. They argue that some people might need more mental health support than housing providers can offer. Others might need sober living facilities so they don’t relapse. And still others might not need much more than a temporary roof over their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rethinking housing first in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beneath all these arguments is a more fundamental disagreement about the nature of housing in this country. For Visotzky of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, solving homelessness means asking big questions that get at the true cause: “Are we doing enough to house poor people in this country? Is our housing market working for the poorest people?” And blaming Housing First is a distraction from the answer — in his view, a resounding no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an idea echoed on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pathwayshousingfirst.org/\">homepage\u003c/a> for Tsemberis’s preeminent Housing First training program, which declares, “Housing is a Human Right.” To critics like Webster, such statements are evidence that the model isn’t just a failed policy but a Trojan Horse for socialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-HOUSINGFIRST_01990_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community space for children at the Laguna Commons supportive housing in Fremont on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The ultimate choice is, do we want to have a conversation about restructuring our entire housing system, such that housing is no longer considered a commodity but a public good?” Webster said. “I’m not interested in that conversation; I don’t think this executive order is interested in the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pete Kasperowicz, press secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, said he has no reason to believe the recent executive order will impact the HUD-VASH program that Wade is in. “Past administrations may have labeled HUD-VASH as a ‘Housing First’ program,” he said in a statement, “but we don’t view it that way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asked whether HUD-VASH has begun or would begin requiring treatment as a condition of enrollment in the program, which Trump’s executive order explicitly demands, Kasperowicz declined to respond.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/ACA10/id/2729557\">enshrine housing as a human right\u003c/a> into the state constitution and build social housing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB309\">haven’t gotten\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB387\">much traction\u003c/a>. But policymakers are reconsidering their approach to homelessness, including Housing First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom and many local leaders have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">leaned into enforcement\u003c/a>, backing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">encampment clearings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">expanded\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963961/newsom-signs-law-expanding-conservatorships-for-those-experiencing-severe-mental-illness-substance-abuse\">conservatorships\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eide, of the Manhattan Institute, sees the state’s shift as part of a larger national turn away from Housing First. “A lot of people, whether they want to say they’re aligned with the president or not, are moving in the same general direction as a lot of the ideas in this executive order,” he said, referring to Trump’s call for tougher enforcement and more treatment mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney of San Francisco is among the Democrats pressing for changes. “Where California’s approach to Housing First has fallen short is that it’s been in some ways inflexible in recognizing that some people do need options,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would allow state funding to be used for drug-free recovery housing. He said California’s 2016 Housing First law was written to prevent providers from imposing conditions like drug tests just to get a bed for the night. But in practice, he argued, it has blocked funding for residents who actually want drug-free environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, right now, we force everyone into environments where drug use is explicitly allowed,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever its pitfalls, Wade is proof of what Housing First can do: keep someone with deep wounds housed and connected to care. 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"content": "\u003cp>This summer, Jenn Oakley bought a one-bedroom condo in Emeryville — a milestone that once seemed impossible after more than a decade of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, addiction, recovery and rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her journey is wild, full of sharp turns and near collapses. Before I get to it, know this: When I first \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Who-can-really-afford-rent-in-the-Bay-Area-Beats-15271337.php\">told her story\u003c/a> as a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> columnist, readers sent money. Their generosity gave her the foothold she needed to start climbing back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the truth about touching the bottom: No one climbs out alone. Some land on a safety net. Others crash onto concrete. We pass them every day — in tents, in shacks, at stoplights with cardboard pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s story makes me wonder what else might be possible in the Bay Area, where stability feels impossible for many. Her story illuminates the cruelty of a system that punishes those who lose their housing. Years of homelessness, addiction and structural barriers made Oakley — the most determined unhoused person I’ve reported on — a long shot. She did nearly everything right — sobriety, training, work, service — and still needed luck and the kindness of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tens of thousands drifting street to street and the countless more hanging on by a rent check, the door to stable, permanent housing isn’t just closed — it’s bolted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12054862 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley poses for a portrait inside her moving truck after moving out her belongings from a storage unit en route to her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first met Oakley, she had her face buried in the hood of a beat-up Nissan Altima, which was leaking oil. It was May 2020, outside the Lake Merritt Tuff Sheds, Oakland’s transitional housing for the unhoused. It was the early pandemic, and most of us were going stir-crazy inside. I wanted to talk to the people who didn’t have the luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley told me she’d been homeless for a decade. After moving to Oakland from Tennessee nearly two decades ago, Oakley, a college graduate, sold insurance. Her slide began in 2009, after her father died. Grief pushed her into meth. The spiral was swift and merciless: she lost her housing, her work and nearly herself. Then came the stroke, which left her partially paralyzed in a room at the Value Inn at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Shafter Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I followed her for seven months. In December 2020, she moved into her own room near UC Berkeley — $950 a month for a chance at stability, made possible in part by the generosity of \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> readers. The distance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Bay-Area-has-been-memorable-but-family-s-15780385.php\">between the streets and a bed\u003c/a> with a roof came down to just $3,000.[aside postID=news_12051236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250626-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg']On May 28, 2025, Oakley became the owner of a waterfront condo in Emeryville. The complex has gyms, jacuzzis and saunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working so much I can’t even enjoy it yet,” Oakley told me, standing in the breakfast nook where she has her work-from-home station. She’s juggling three jobs and nearly 80 hours a week. “In the future, I’m gonna make some changes to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to get rid of the beige carpet. Oakley, who regularly runs five miles a day, still has to hang her running medals, patches and bibs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve kept in touch since meeting five years ago. The more I got to know her, the more I realized: If someone as focused as Oakley can barely grasp an affordable apartment, what hope remains for those on the street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ban homeless encampments\u003c/a> across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RV communities are asphalt villages, stubborn and sprawling, their challenges mounting as more Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">trade driveways for curbsides\u003c/a> and turn vehicles into permanent homes. California’s homeless population is still the largest in the country, with more than 187,000 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">at last count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley relied on her community of friends and graduates from Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, where she is a case manager, for assistance in moving out of her storage unit in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the homelessness crisis continues to swell, reaching a record 38,891 people in 2024 — a 6% jump from the year before, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. The surge is driven by the relentless housing and affordability crunch, compounded by struggles with mental health and substance use. Already stretched shelters and supportive housing programs struggle to keep up with a growing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, the odds of escaping homelessness are grim. But every so often, someone beats them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley, known as Tennessee Jenn on the streets, won the lottery. No, not like the unhoused man who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-lottery-homeless-man-20769219.php\">won a $1 million prize\u003c/a> from a California Lottery scratcher. Oakley won the housing lottery in Emeryville. She’s the first person to become a homeowner through First Home Emeryville, the city’s down payment assistance program for first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your credit’s not good enough, if you don’t have enough money, then you’re out,” she told me as she showed me around her place. “And even if you do get approved, then you gotta find a spot. There’s only 40 condos for sale in Emeryville at any given time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043988 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley carries a box filled with her belongings into a moving truck in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only three were in her price range — and she needed to qualify for a loan. Another buyer made an offer, and she nearly lost the place, but her mortgage broker hustled to close the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sat on her porch one Sunday afternoon last month, Fattie, Oakley’s lab-mastiff mix, nudged my leg, drooling for attention. Until her stroke, Oakley, now 47, had lived and worked in a hotel for three years, she said. The stroke only slowed her down temporarily. As she recovered, she threw herself into learning new trades, determined to build a stable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s leadership and passion for helping others were obvious the first time she met former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.[aside postID=news_12050701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg']“It was a pleasure to stay in touch and see those gifts develop,” Schaaf said. “I’m grateful she stayed in touch with me. So often, as policymakers, we launch a program like Cabin Communities, we only get to evaluate its success with cold aggregated data or, sadly, not at all. To see intimately how Jenn was affected by the city’s actions was a profound gift for me. And I got a friend in the bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living in the cabins, Oakley took automotive tech classes at Chabot College in Hayward. She completed a construction-training program at Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, which helps low-income people enter trades. She trained for two years to be a heavy equipment mechanic, only to be dismissed, she said, by a sexist instructor who questioned her age and mocked her background. Oakley said she was the third woman in 10 years to complete the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s worked security, changed oil at Jiffy Lube in Castro Valley, even fueled airplanes at San Francisco International Airport — until a background check flagged old drug and weapon charges, and she was escorted off the premises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found her occupational calling by leaning into what she knows. She thrived working at Lifelong Medical Care, an organization that helps residents navigate the transition from homelessness into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043998 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley moves her belongings into the bedroom of her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these people had been homeless, now they’re trying to figure out how to live inside,” she told me. “They’ve got disabilities, addiction, violence — but I loved it. And they loved me. I was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now the lead case manager at Rising Sun, helping others move out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was homeless for 10 years. I was on drugs for 30. I can tell them all that stuff, and it gives me instant credibility,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her compassion isn’t limited to her job description. She also looks after a man she met while homeless — a man who had a stroke and cannot speak. She helped him secure an apartment in Brooklyn Basin and still checks in, making sure he has meals, medication and the support he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043997 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley has championed advocacy for equal access to housing and opportunities in the East Bay and plans to write a book about her journey from homelessness to home ownership. Photographed on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were friends, but we weren’t that close. He’s older, and I saw him, and I had instant survivor’s guilt,” Oakley said. “I mean, my stroke — I came back. I started taking care of him and doing his case work, doing all this stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the weekends, she surveys unhoused people across East Oakland, where encampments have been pushed. She navigates streets to connect with people who would otherwise disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re scattered. It’s a whole different climate than it was five years ago. Ever since Grants Pass passed, everything has changed,” she said, referring to the Supreme Court decision that gives cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">more power to regulate\u003c/a> encampments on sidewalks and public property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a long way from the street to where she lives now, in a complex with Bay Bridge views and three swimming pools. We watched as neighbors shuffled past in robes, heading to swim or sunbathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, wait,” Oakley said, shaking her head, “this is where I live now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s story makes me wonder what else might be possible in the Bay Area, where stability feels impossible for many. Her story illuminates the cruelty of a system that punishes those who lose their housing. Years of homelessness, addiction and structural barriers made Oakley — the most determined unhoused person I’ve reported on — a long shot. She did nearly everything right — sobriety, training, work, service — and still needed luck and the kindness of strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tens of thousands drifting street to street and the countless more hanging on by a rent check, the door to stable, permanent housing isn’t just closed — it’s bolted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12054862 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Jenn-Oakley_homelessnesshomeownership_MO32_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley poses for a portrait inside her moving truck after moving out her belongings from a storage unit en route to her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first met Oakley, she had her face buried in the hood of a beat-up Nissan Altima, which was leaking oil. It was May 2020, outside the Lake Merritt Tuff Sheds, Oakland’s transitional housing for the unhoused. It was the early pandemic, and most of us were going stir-crazy inside. I wanted to talk to the people who didn’t have the luxury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley told me she’d been homeless for a decade. After moving to Oakland from Tennessee nearly two decades ago, Oakley, a college graduate, sold insurance. Her slide began in 2009, after her father died. Grief pushed her into meth. The spiral was swift and merciless: she lost her housing, her work and nearly herself. Then came the stroke, which left her partially paralyzed in a room at the Value Inn at the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and Shafter Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I followed her for seven months. In December 2020, she moved into her own room near UC Berkeley — $950 a month for a chance at stability, made possible in part by the generosity of \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> readers. The distance \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Bay-Area-has-been-memorable-but-family-s-15780385.php\">between the streets and a bed\u003c/a> with a roof came down to just $3,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On May 28, 2025, Oakley became the owner of a waterfront condo in Emeryville. The complex has gyms, jacuzzis and saunas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working so much I can’t even enjoy it yet,” Oakley told me, standing in the breakfast nook where she has her work-from-home station. She’s juggling three jobs and nearly 80 hours a week. “In the future, I’m gonna make some changes to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to get rid of the beige carpet. Oakley, who regularly runs five miles a day, still has to hang her running medals, patches and bibs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve kept in touch since meeting five years ago. The more I got to know her, the more I realized: If someone as focused as Oakley can barely grasp an affordable apartment, what hope remains for those on the street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ban homeless encampments\u003c/a> across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RV communities are asphalt villages, stubborn and sprawling, their challenges mounting as more Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">trade driveways for curbsides\u003c/a> and turn vehicles into permanent homes. California’s homeless population is still the largest in the country, with more than 187,000 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">at last count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043991 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley relied on her community of friends and graduates from Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, where she is a case manager, for assistance in moving out of her storage unit in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the homelessness crisis continues to swell, reaching a record 38,891 people in 2024 — a 6% jump from the year before, according to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. The surge is driven by the relentless housing and affordability crunch, compounded by struggles with mental health and substance use. Already stretched shelters and supportive housing programs struggle to keep up with a growing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most, the odds of escaping homelessness are grim. But every so often, someone beats them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley, known as Tennessee Jenn on the streets, won the lottery. No, not like the unhoused man who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-lottery-homeless-man-20769219.php\">won a $1 million prize\u003c/a> from a California Lottery scratcher. Oakley won the housing lottery in Emeryville. She’s the first person to become a homeowner through First Home Emeryville, the city’s down payment assistance program for first-time buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your credit’s not good enough, if you don’t have enough money, then you’re out,” she told me as she showed me around her place. “And even if you do get approved, then you gotta find a spot. There’s only 40 condos for sale in Emeryville at any given time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043988\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043988 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley carries a box filled with her belongings into a moving truck in Emeryville on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Only three were in her price range — and she needed to qualify for a loan. Another buyer made an offer, and she nearly lost the place, but her mortgage broker hustled to close the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sat on her porch one Sunday afternoon last month, Fattie, Oakley’s lab-mastiff mix, nudged my leg, drooling for attention. Until her stroke, Oakley, now 47, had lived and worked in a hotel for three years, she said. The stroke only slowed her down temporarily. As she recovered, she threw herself into learning new trades, determined to build a stable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley’s leadership and passion for helping others were obvious the first time she met former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was a pleasure to stay in touch and see those gifts develop,” Schaaf said. “I’m grateful she stayed in touch with me. So often, as policymakers, we launch a program like Cabin Communities, we only get to evaluate its success with cold aggregated data or, sadly, not at all. To see intimately how Jenn was affected by the city’s actions was a profound gift for me. And I got a friend in the bargain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living in the cabins, Oakley took automotive tech classes at Chabot College in Hayward. She completed a construction-training program at Rising Sun Center for Opportunity, which helps low-income people enter trades. She trained for two years to be a heavy equipment mechanic, only to be dismissed, she said, by a sexist instructor who questioned her age and mocked her background. Oakley said she was the third woman in 10 years to complete the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s worked security, changed oil at Jiffy Lube in Castro Valley, even fueled airplanes at San Francisco International Airport — until a background check flagged old drug and weapon charges, and she was escorted off the premises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found her occupational calling by leaning into what she knows. She thrived working at Lifelong Medical Care, an organization that helps residents navigate the transition from homelessness into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043998 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO42-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley moves her belongings into the bedroom of her first-ever owned home in the East Bay on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All these people had been homeless, now they’re trying to figure out how to live inside,” she told me. “They’ve got disabilities, addiction, violence — but I loved it. And they loved me. I was good at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now the lead case manager at Rising Sun, helping others move out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was homeless for 10 years. I was on drugs for 30. I can tell them all that stuff, and it gives me instant credibility,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her compassion isn’t limited to her job description. She also looks after a man she met while homeless — a man who had a stroke and cannot speak. She helped him secure an apartment in Brooklyn Basin and still checks in, making sure he has meals, medication and the support he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043997 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/JENN-OAKLEY_HOMELESSNESSHOMEOWNERSHIP_MO39-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenn Oakley has championed advocacy for equal access to housing and opportunities in the East Bay and plans to write a book about her journey from homelessness to home ownership. Photographed on June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were friends, but we weren’t that close. He’s older, and I saw him, and I had instant survivor’s guilt,” Oakley said. “I mean, my stroke — I came back. I started taking care of him and doing his case work, doing all this stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the weekends, she surveys unhoused people across East Oakland, where encampments have been pushed. She navigates streets to connect with people who would otherwise disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re scattered. It’s a whole different climate than it was five years ago. Ever since Grants Pass passed, everything has changed,” she said, referring to the Supreme Court decision that gives cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">more power to regulate\u003c/a> encampments on sidewalks and public property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a long way from the street to where she lives now, in a complex with Bay Bridge views and three swimming pools. We watched as neighbors shuffled past in robes, heading to swim or sunbathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like, wait,” Oakley said, shaking her head, “this is where I live now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mohammed Haidar Khaled, 9, is aware that he won’t be a child forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Tenderloin neighborhood is Khaled’s home, where he was born and raised. But he knows that change is imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle school is a school year away, which means he’ll go to school outside his neighborhood. And the Tenderloin has always been the center of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This represents [my] childhood,” Khaled said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045492 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selfie Khaled made as part of the KQED / 826 Valencia project.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I took these pictures to remember stuff and myself and how young I was, and when I took this and how creative I was, so I can come back to it [when I’m] older and I can see what photos I took, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, that was me when I took it a long time ago.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Khaled’s perception of his beloved neighborhood is different from what the headlines about the Tenderloin say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, news about the Tenderloin focuses on harsher realities — homelessness and open-air drug markets in the neighborhood. However, the Tenderloin is also home to approximately 3,500 children, according to the 2022 Census report.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children of the Tenderloin’s perspective is one that is not often heard and less often seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045503 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a disposable camera in hand, Khaled took his camera to school, parks, home and other parts of his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Khaled wasn’t the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to present the perspective of a community that doesn’t frequently get a spotlight, KQED collaborated with 826 Valencia, Tenderloin Center, a nonprofit embedded in the neighborhood that focuses on helping kids build up their writing skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of two after-school programs partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.826valencia.org/\">826 Valencia\u003c/a>, a cohort of 28 students from grades two to fifth were invited to participate in a project that asked them to document their lives in the Tenderloin. Each was provided a disposable camera for a week in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045494 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mohammed Haidar Khaled)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All the memories of my childhood. I was born here, the exact same spot. This is the best because there’s a lot of Muslim people over here. There’s a lot of people from my country,” Khaled said. “Allah, I’m happy to be born in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See a selection of the students’ photos below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045505 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045504 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045477 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rayan Karim)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046324 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Vianney Campos)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1573px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046230 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1573\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-scaled.jpg 1573w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-160x260.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-944x1536.jpg 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-1258x2048.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1573px) 100vw, 1573px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Miguel Parra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045451 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kathy Sosa Sam)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2493px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046316 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2493\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1.jpg 2493w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2493px) 100vw, 2493px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kathy Sosa Sam)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045450 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kathy Sosa Sam)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1932px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046233 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1932\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED.jpg 1932w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED-1583x2048.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1932px) 100vw, 1932px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Reema Alawdi)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045473 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Reema Alawdi)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mohammed Haidar Khaled; Jhaydelin Castanon Juarez)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045502 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047150 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rayan Karim)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047149 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001280008_7A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001280008_7A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001280008_7A-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001280008_7A-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jhaydelin Castanon 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Fungula)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045498 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-52-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-52-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-52-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-52-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mohammed Haidar Khaled)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047152 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000041270011_11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000041270011_11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000041270011_11-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000041270011_11-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Zi’Anna Jones)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046320 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-DIPTYCH-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"829\" 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src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-34-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-34-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jenna Paul-Gin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045454 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-08-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-08-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Vianney Campos)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>*Correction: This story was updated to more accurately reflect the number of youths living in the Tenderloin.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cami Dominguez is currently a \u003ca href=\"https://fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/2025-cohort-of-fellows-and-newsrooms/\">California Local News Fellow\u003c/a> with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpublicpress.org/\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mohammed Haidar Khaled, 9, is aware that he won’t be a child forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Tenderloin neighborhood is Khaled’s home, where he was born and raised. But he knows that change is imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middle school is a school year away, which means he’ll go to school outside his neighborhood. And the Tenderloin has always been the center of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This represents [my] childhood,” Khaled said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045492 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-46-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selfie Khaled made as part of the KQED / 826 Valencia project.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I took these pictures to remember stuff and myself and how young I was, and when I took this and how creative I was, so I can come back to it [when I’m] older and I can see what photos I took, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, that was me when I took it a long time ago.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Khaled’s perception of his beloved neighborhood is different from what the headlines about the Tenderloin say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, news about the Tenderloin focuses on harsher realities — homelessness and open-air drug markets in the neighborhood. However, the Tenderloin is also home to approximately 3,500 children, according to the 2022 Census report.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children of the Tenderloin’s perspective is one that is not often heard and less often seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045503 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-57-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a disposable camera in hand, Khaled took his camera to school, parks, home and other parts of his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Khaled wasn’t the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to present the perspective of a community that doesn’t frequently get a spotlight, KQED collaborated with 826 Valencia, Tenderloin Center, a nonprofit embedded in the neighborhood that focuses on helping kids build up their writing skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of two after-school programs partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.826valencia.org/\">826 Valencia\u003c/a>, a cohort of 28 students from grades two to fifth were invited to participate in a project that asked them to document their lives in the Tenderloin. Each was provided a disposable camera for a week in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045494 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-48-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mohammed Haidar Khaled)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All the memories of my childhood. I was born here, the exact same spot. This is the best because there’s a lot of Muslim people over here. There’s a lot of people from my country,” Khaled said. “Allah, I’m happy to be born in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See a selection of the students’ photos below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045505 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-59-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045504 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-58-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045477 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-31-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Rayan Karim)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046324 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-12-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Vianney Campos)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1573px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046230 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1573\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-scaled.jpg 1573w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-160x260.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-944x1536.jpg 944w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-2-KQED-1258x2048.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1573px) 100vw, 1573px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Miguel Parra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045451 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-05-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kathy Sosa Sam)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2493px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046316 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2493\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1.jpg 2493w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/TENDERLOIN-DISPOSABLES-Quad-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2493px) 100vw, 2493px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kathy Sosa Sam)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045450 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-04-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kathy Sosa Sam)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1932px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046233 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1932\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED.jpg 1932w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/KQED-Student-Photo-Writing-dragged-KQED-1583x2048.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1932px) 100vw, 1932px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Reema Alawdi)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045473 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-27-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Reema Alawdi)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-DIPTYCH-6-KQED-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mohammed Haidar Khaled; Jhaydelin Castanon Juarez)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045502 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250620-TENDERLOIN-INSTANT-CAMERAS-56-KQED-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Salah Boursse)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047150 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/000001290009_8-KQED-160x106.jpg 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"content": "\u003cp>Amber McZeal had just wrapped up her first summer semester back at Southern University of New Orleans in August 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then the big tropical storm came, which was crazy, massive,” she said. “And then Katrina hit Aug. 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina\">Category 3\u003c/a> storm — with 120 mph winds and a surge over 12 feet tall in some areas — decimating New Orleans and other coastal towns along the Mississippi shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath, 1,833 people died and survivors were left stranded on rooftops as the federal government was slow to respond. Thousands of people — mostly poor and Black — were displaced in one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, some who were evacuated and relocated to other parts of the country, including the Bay Area, reflect on how Katrina changed their lives and how they remain rooted to a place that, for them, is more than geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of her neighbors, McZeal, who now lives in Oakland, initially planned to ride out Katrina, which made landfall two days before her 22nd birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad I didn’t, because my apartment got 8 feet of water at the bottom and then mold from the roof,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber McZeal sits on the porch at DeFremery Park in Oakland on Aug. 28, 2025. She evacuated to the Bay Area from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McZeal evacuated to Mississippi with friends and later returned to a ravaged New Orleans. She ultimately decided to leave Louisiana — where she said her ancestors have lived since the 1700s — after suffering a respiratory tract infection and growing weary of battling the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she accepted the government’s offer to pay for a hotel room outside of New Orleans in early 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a forced exile, if you will, or forced displacement,” McZeal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She landed in Emeryville, where a friend had a spare hotel room. She joined organizers pressing the U.S. government to follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights\">United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u003c/a>, which they interpreted to mean that New Orleanians should be able to return to their homes there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many never did — not by choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>National disaster prompts local relief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nell Myhand, then a Bay Area volunteer with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://globalwomenstrike.net/\">Global Women’s Strike\u003c/a>, worked to support Katrina evacuees, many of whom were low-income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our question was not, what kind of charity can we provide for them, but how can we call attention to the violence that is happening to them at the hands of the government?” Myhand said. “In some countries, in natural disasters, they respond to them by moving people out of the danger as close as possible to where they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the case of Katrina, the U.S. government decided to disperse people from Louisiana, throughout the country, far away from their homes, from their families, sometimes in places where they had never been before and didn’t have connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historic marker honors volunteers outside Waveland’s Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, in a town that was hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina, on Aug. 4, 2025, in Waveland, Mississippi. Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today’s dollars. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Myhand said many people were placed in hotel rooms without kitchens or transportation, leaving volunteers scrambling to meet basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no central place where we could say, ‘Where are the evacuees who came to the Bay Area?’ There was no coordination that helped us get ready for the folks who were coming here,” Myhand said. “There was really no reason that they had to come here in the first place, except that they were being displaced from that very vital location, that geography.”[aside postID=forum_2010101911063 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/08/clint-smith-katrina.png']About 1,700 people relocated to California after Katrina. A 2008 Bureau of Labor Statistics \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art3full.pdf\">report\u003c/a> found that only up to 3% of evacuees came to California and stayed a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chet Hewitt, the head of Alameda County’s Social Services Agency at the time, said of the 1,700 people who came to the Bay Area, 1,100 were in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet their needs, the county set up a “one-stop center” in Hayward, where retired social workers helped 400 families apply for housing assistance, food stamps, school enrollment, replacement medications and new IDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kind of public, private, faith and nonprofit partnerships were essential,” Hewitt said. “The government has a critical role to play — particularly in long-term assistance — but the more rapid response was often of a more communal nature, with the faith community and nonprofits stepping up. We were building a system to respond, not relying on any one segment to do all of the work alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Bay Area becomes home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the last 20 years, McZeal built her life in Oakland, earning degrees in psychology and a doctorate in trauma and sound therapy. She said \u003ca href=\"https://decolonizingthepsyche.com/\">her work is deeply shaped\u003c/a> by the traumas she endured after Katrina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a gem in my heart. New Orleans made me. It ushered me into all of the things that I eventually turned into a job, a vocation, a career path,” McZeal said. “I work in cultural transformation now, and I can, for sure, say it’s directly tied to my experience living through Katrina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has thought about moving back to Louisiana, as other evacuees in the Bay Area have, but she said she’s happy where she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054188\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Smolkin and his wife, Luisa Hernandez, sit in their Half Moon Bay home on Aug. 27, 2025, in a room soon to become a nursery as they prepare for their first child. Smolkin and his family evacuated from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and later resettled in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one day when I’m old, I’ll settle, because I don’t even want to live in the heat,” she said, laughing. “You know the Bay grows on you. That 61-degree weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Smolkin also found himself resettled in the Bay Area. He arrived with his parents and grandparents to stay with his uncle after floodwaters engulfed their New Orleans home just days after his 17th birthday. Smolkin’s parents decided he should stay with family in Palo Alto to finish high school, while they returned to salvage what they could.[aside postID=arts_13980557 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250811-POOSIE-HURRICANE-KATRINA-MD-01-KQED.jpg']“Never, in my wildest dreams, did I think that I would end up becoming a Californian,” Smolkin said. “One of the things that I’ve struggled with is I wasn’t there in those couple of months where my parents literally were gutting our house down to the studs, and there was part of me that felt like I was missing out on being part of that recovery effort for my family, but also being there in New Orleans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents later rejoined him in the Bay, and he participated in the relief efforts while attending James Madison University in Virginia, where he and his peers \u003ca href=\"https://www.jmu.edu/news/2015/11/20-katrina-mm-oct15.shtml\">routinely traveled into Katrina-ravaged areas\u003c/a> to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smolkin now lives in Half Moon Bay, where he volunteers with \u003ca href=\"https://coastsidehope.org/\">Coastside Hope\u003c/a>, helping people with food insecurity, immigration and other needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to wait until there is something truly bad that happens to jump in, but rather recognizing there are these ongoing, omnipresent needs in the community. We should all be reaching out and helping in our communities in some way,” he said. “That’s part of what really stuck with me from Katrina, that there’s so much value in having strongly built safety nets and coordinated programs to support people when they’re truly in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054190\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mementos from New Orleans sit on a shelf in Dan Smolkin’s home in Half Moon Bay on Aug. 27, 2025. He and his family evacuated from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and resettled in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At home, Smolkin and his wife have a room ready for their first child, a boy due in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes Louisiana will remain a part of his son’s life, starting with the family’s annual crawfish boil at his uncle’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, New Orleans isn’t just a place, but it’s an identity, and something that I hope to be able to impart on my kid,” Smolkin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Thousands of people — mostly poor and Black — were displaced in one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, some who were evacuated and relocated to other parts of the country, including the Bay Area, reflect on how Katrina changed their lives and how they remain rooted to a place that, for them, is more than geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of her neighbors, McZeal, who now lives in Oakland, initially planned to ride out Katrina, which made landfall two days before her 22nd birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad I didn’t, because my apartment got 8 feet of water at the bottom and then mold from the roof,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber McZeal sits on the porch at DeFremery Park in Oakland on Aug. 28, 2025. 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She joined organizers pressing the U.S. government to follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights\">United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u003c/a>, which they interpreted to mean that New Orleanians should be able to return to their homes there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many never did — not by choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>National disaster prompts local relief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nell Myhand, then a Bay Area volunteer with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://globalwomenstrike.net/\">Global Women’s Strike\u003c/a>, worked to support Katrina evacuees, many of whom were low-income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our question was not, what kind of charity can we provide for them, but how can we call attention to the violence that is happening to them at the hands of the government?” Myhand said. “In some countries, in natural disasters, they respond to them by moving people out of the danger as close as possible to where they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the case of Katrina, the U.S. government decided to disperse people from Louisiana, throughout the country, far away from their homes, from their families, sometimes in places where they had never been before and didn’t have connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historic marker honors volunteers outside Waveland’s Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, in a town that was hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina, on Aug. 4, 2025, in Waveland, Mississippi. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters originally published \u003c/a>this story. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> launched a new homeless response task force on Friday, marking the latest escalation in his ongoing campaign to eradicate encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office expects to deploy the team within the next month to camps in California’s 10 largest cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento, San Jose, Long Beach, Anaheim, Bakersfield and Fresno. It will address encampments on state property, such as along highway medians or on and off ramps, and under overpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news comes as Newsom in recent months has pushed for more enforcement against all encampments that line city streets and sidewalks, dot public parks and wind along waterways throughout the state. In May, he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/05/newsom-encampment-sweep-ordinance/\">urged cities\u003c/a> to make it illegal to camp in one place for more than three nights in a row. Last year, he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/07/newsom-homeless-encampments-order/\">ordered\u003c/a> state agencies to ramp up encampment clearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has put in place a strong, comprehensive strategy for fighting the national homelessness and housing crises — and is outperforming the nation as a result in turning this issue around,” Newsom said in a statement. “No one should live in a dangerous or unsanitary encampment, and we will continue our ongoing work to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the State Action for Facilitation on Encampments Task Force, Newsom’s new team will include representatives from six different state agencies and departments, each with a different role to play in removing an encampment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Highway Patrol will be responsible for providing public safety support during a removal, and later for monitoring the area to prevent the encampment from returning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Emergency Services will oversee logistics and procurement of resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Housing and Community Development will be in charge of providing housing and supportive services for the people living in encampments.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Interagency Council on Homelessness will guide local governments on how to help those people.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Health and Human Services will support local governments’ efforts to provide health care to people in encampments.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Caltrans will do the actual work of clearing encampments.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It’s too soon to tell exactly how this new directive will change the state’s response to homeless encampments, said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow for \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/\">the National Alliance to End Homelessness\u003c/a>. The language in the news release sent out by Newsom’s office had few specific details about how the task force will function. Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the only proven way to resolve an encampment is to move people into housing and connect them with the other services they need, Visotzky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom makes an announcement on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in San Mateo, California. Hammered by mounting pressure to address the growing homelessness crisis in the state, Newsom said his administration would make $3.3 billion available ahead of schedule for counties and private developers to start building more behavioral health treatment centers as part of his efforts to fund housing and drug use programs. \u003ccite>(Haven Daley/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that the task force will make sure we’re understanding the needs of residents of those encampments,” he said, “and what barriers they’re facing to getting back into housing, if we’re going to see results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass applauded the new task force on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeless encampments, debris and graffiti located on highways and freeways are under state jurisdiction,” she said in a statement. “I am glad that the Governor is continuing action to collaborate with local efforts. Los Angeles has bucked nationwide trends of increasing homelessness and Governor Newsom’s announcement of a task force today will help keep that momentum.”[aside postID=news_12054039 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2230198852-2000x1377.jpg']A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/06/california-homeless-camps-grants-pass-ruling/\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> gave cities and counties more freedom to ticket or arrest people for camping in public, even if there are no shelter beds available. Since then, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/06/homelessness-enforcement-data/\">homelessness-related tickets and arrests\u003c/a> have soared in some California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s administration is cracking down on encampments at the federal level. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/07/trump-homelessness-executive-order/\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> this summer pushing cities and states to use law enforcement to get people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts and advocates in the homelessness sector have pointed out the similarities between Trump and Newsom’s approaches to clearing encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Friday, Newsom’s administration tried to distance its policies from that of the president, stating in a news release:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unlike the haphazard strategies employed by the Trump Administration, California’s SAFE Task Force brings together each of the tools created by Governor Newsom to clear encampments and connect people with the care they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/08/newsom-homeless-encampments-task-force/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has put in place a strong, comprehensive strategy for fighting the national homelessness and housing crises — and is outperforming the nation as a result in turning this issue around,” Newsom said in a statement. “No one should live in a dangerous or unsanitary encampment, and we will continue our ongoing work to ensure that everyone has a safe place to call home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the State Action for Facilitation on Encampments Task Force, Newsom’s new team will include representatives from six different state agencies and departments, each with a different role to play in removing an encampment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California Highway Patrol will be responsible for providing public safety support during a removal, and later for monitoring the area to prevent the encampment from returning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Emergency Services will oversee logistics and procurement of resources.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Housing and Community Development will be in charge of providing housing and supportive services for the people living in encampments.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Interagency Council on Homelessness will guide local governments on how to help those people.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Health and Human Services will support local governments’ efforts to provide health care to people in encampments.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Caltrans will do the actual work of clearing encampments.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It’s too soon to tell exactly how this new directive will change the state’s response to homeless encampments, said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow for \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/\">the National Alliance to End Homelessness\u003c/a>. The language in the news release sent out by Newsom’s office had few specific details about how the task force will function. Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the only proven way to resolve an encampment is to move people into housing and connect them with the other services they need, Visotzky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24135825405021-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom makes an announcement on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in San Mateo, California. Hammered by mounting pressure to address the growing homelessness crisis in the state, Newsom said his administration would make $3.3 billion available ahead of schedule for counties and private developers to start building more behavioral health treatment centers as part of his efforts to fund housing and drug use programs. \u003ccite>(Haven Daley/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that the task force will make sure we’re understanding the needs of residents of those encampments,” he said, “and what barriers they’re facing to getting back into housing, if we’re going to see results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass applauded the new task force on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeless encampments, debris and graffiti located on highways and freeways are under state jurisdiction,” she said in a statement. “I am glad that the Governor is continuing action to collaborate with local efforts. Los Angeles has bucked nationwide trends of increasing homelessness and Governor Newsom’s announcement of a task force today will help keep that momentum.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> officials are touting an affordable housing project that is finally breaking ground in Potrero Hill after being in development for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is underway at 300 De Haro St., which was one of the first privately funded mixed-income housing projects in San Francisco to make use of Senate Bill 35 in streamlining its approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this measure, which was introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener and signed into law in 2017, developments that allocate 10% of units to households making at or below 50% of the area’s average median income are guaranteed streamlined approval. Projects that qualify under the law are exempt from certain steps, like conducting a full environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The De Haro site was originally marked five years ago for a mixed-income development, projected to be an 11-story building with over 400 furnished and unfurnished units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the project was originally proposed to be a mixed-income building, financial constraints emerged amid a rocky housing market, said Mark MacDonald, the CEO of DM Development, a San Francisco-based firm specializing in mixed-use development and one of the community partners spearheading the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053433\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-4-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-4-1536x838.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the 300 De Haro affordable housing development. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of DM Development)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We ended up pivoting the project from a mixed-income project to a 100% affordable housing project,” MacDonald said. “Using low-income housing tax credit financing as a way to kind of get around the challenges that the market rate developments have had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents who qualify to live in the building, according to MacDonald, have annual income wages between 30% and 70% of the area’s median income, “which would range from about $50,000 to $100,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the project leveraged SB 35 for a streamlined process, its groundbreaking has been years in the making.[aside postID=news_12052050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00029_TV-KQED-1.jpg']MacDonald pointed to the capital markets in San Francisco slowing down post-pandemic, as well as skyrocketing interest rates and decreased investor interest, which is “why you don’t really see any cranes in the sky in San Francisco now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounded with extended dialogue among the neighborhood and community, the permitting phase and entitlement process were lengthy, he said. But without SB 35, it would have taken even longer to get to groundbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald acknowledged that 300 De Haro became a point of contention among Potrero Hill residents upon its proposal, especially because a few small businesses like Cafe Da Fonk and Torraku Ramen, both situated at the development’s address, were given notice to vacate before groundbreaking began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the building will have 6,000 square feet of space for retailers, but he did not specify which would operate there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We even invited some of our existing [retail] tenants at 300 De Haro back into the building should they choose to come,” he said. “We would welcome them with open arms if they do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Action Coalition’s Executive Director Corey Smith said the community partners, which include his group, incorporated neighbors’ concerns and feedback into the process, but it’s difficult “to convince everybody that building housing is a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3-1536x868.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the 300 De Haro St. affordable housing development. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of DM Development)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When this project first got introduced, there were a number of neighbors who were very upset with it,” Smith said. But, he said, it’s important to emphasize that the project entails “more residents in the neighborhood, that’s good for small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to MacDonald and the development’s \u003ca href=\"https://300deharostreet.com/\">website\u003c/a>, the building will have a fitness center, a rooftop lounge, a coworking space, and a 7,000-square-foot yard for “green space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said construction is projected to be complete by the summer of 2027, and that the development is already accepting names for its interest list on the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he hopes this project will inspire more builders and development firms to invest in San Francisco and its long-term economic sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project won’t solve all the problems,” he said. “But if we have a lot more projects like it, we will get closer to a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>MacDonald pointed to the capital markets in San Francisco slowing down post-pandemic, as well as skyrocketing interest rates and decreased investor interest, which is “why you don’t really see any cranes in the sky in San Francisco now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounded with extended dialogue among the neighborhood and community, the permitting phase and entitlement process were lengthy, he said. But without SB 35, it would have taken even longer to get to groundbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald acknowledged that 300 De Haro became a point of contention among Potrero Hill residents upon its proposal, especially because a few small businesses like Cafe Da Fonk and Torraku Ramen, both situated at the development’s address, were given notice to vacate before groundbreaking began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the building will have 6,000 square feet of space for retailers, but he did not specify which would operate there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We even invited some of our existing [retail] tenants at 300 De Haro back into the building should they choose to come,” he said. “We would welcome them with open arms if they do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Action Coalition’s Executive Director Corey Smith said the community partners, which include his group, incorporated neighbors’ concerns and feedback into the process, but it’s difficult “to convince everybody that building housing is a good idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/300-De-Haro-Housing-Opportunity-Overview-3-1536x868.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the 300 De Haro St. affordable housing development. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of DM Development)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When this project first got introduced, there were a number of neighbors who were very upset with it,” Smith said. But, he said, it’s important to emphasize that the project entails “more residents in the neighborhood, that’s good for small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to MacDonald and the development’s \u003ca href=\"https://300deharostreet.com/\">website\u003c/a>, the building will have a fitness center, a rooftop lounge, a coworking space, and a 7,000-square-foot yard for “green space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said construction is projected to be complete by the summer of 2027, and that the development is already accepting names for its interest list on the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he hopes this project will inspire more builders and development firms to invest in San Francisco and its long-term economic sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project won’t solve all the problems,” he said. “But if we have a lot more projects like it, we will get closer to a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:21 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Bob Hughes had been eyeing a corner lot just down the street from his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> office, where he runs a building firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single-family property at Lantz and Foxworthy avenues — shrouded by trees and sitting on just under 12,000 square feet in a quiet residential neighborhood near Cambrian Park — seemed ripe for development. So when he got the opportunity to purchase it, Hughes immediately began thinking about how to split the lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original house here was just covered with foliage all across the front — large trees and plants,” he said. “You couldn’t even see the house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly three years later, Hughes is a few weeks away from becoming the second developer in the state to successfully take advantage of a new law that allows homeowners to sell ADUs as condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first, on Josefa Street near San José’s downtown by developer AlphaX RE Capital, got its official certification from the city in a public ceremony on Thursday. Standing in front of a white backyard cottage with a sloping roof, Mayor Matt Mahan said the home represented “history in the making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ADUs are affordable by design and growing in popularity across the state. And now, they can offer the most accessible form of homeownership, as well,” he said. “We are offering a proof of concept for California and hope that other cities follow San José’s lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1033\">AB 1033\u003c/a> by former San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting, went into effect in 2024 and allows cities to opt into the new rules. San José became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjmayormatt.com/news-room/san-jose-becomes-first-city-in-california-to-implement-new-ordinance-that-opens-the-door-to-affordable-home-ownership\">first city\u003c/a> last year to adopt them. Since then, at least a handful of other cities have followed, including \u003ca href=\"https://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=15&ID=1421&Inline=True\">Santa Monica\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=2405&doctype=2\">Santa Cruz,\u003c/a> San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidesandiego.org/city-council-adopts-reforms-accessory-dwelling-unit-program\">San Diego\u003c/a>. Berkeley planning officials expect to \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/05/21/adus-in-berkeley-may-soon-be-sold-as-condos-under-newly-adopted-state-policy\">put forward an ordinance\u003c/a> in September to allow condo sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052160 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Hughes, a long-time developer from the South Bay, stands outside of a condominium for sale in San José on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The goal, supporters say, is to encourage more affordable ownership opportunities in a state where just \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/haitraditional/\">15% of households\u003c/a> could reasonably afford to purchase the median-priced single-family home, according to the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Perez, board chair of the Casita Coalition, which championed the law, lauded California for making significant strides in permitting new ADUs — with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">30,000 permitted last year\u003c/a>, representing a quarter of California’s projected housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early iterations of the law had prohibited selling them as condos, with some exceptions. Two surveys, from UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aducalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Implementing-the-Backyard-Revolution.pdf\">Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://southbaycities.org/south-bay-cities-council-of-governments-survey-indicates-low-percentage-of-accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-south-bay-rental-market-affordable/\">South Bay Cities Council of Government\u003c/a>, found that about 65% of ADUs are offered as long-term rentals, either on the private market or to family and friends for free.[aside postID=news_12045685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-03-BL-KQED.jpg']“ADUs weren’t moving the needle on homeownership as much as we would like,” Perez said. “ADU condos open up that door of possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, city officials in Santa Monica and Santa Cruz, which adopted their versions of the law in October and January, respectively, said they had not yet received any applications. In San José, just two developers have filed applications to convert ADUs to condos — though, on Thursday, AlphaX committed to completing dozens more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paucity of enthusiasm — either from other cities looking to implement it or other property owners hoping to take advantage of it — isn’t entirely surprising, several observers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For owners with mortgages, the conversion not only requires securing lenders’ approval but also potentially devaluing the existing home, since condos are typically valued less, said Martina Davis, a planning division manager for the city of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a big mortgage, your bank might not be OK with that,” Davis said. “Or you may look at it and say, ‘Wait, hold on, I need to retain the full value of the house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anecdotally, Davis said most of the interest in converting ADUs to condos in San José has come from developers for whom those obstacles may not apply. Though Hughes said the newness of the law, along with some of its provisions, has presented its own challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kitchen at 2985 Lantz Ave. in San José on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike traditional condos, the law requires the ADU to receive a certificate of occupancy before undergoing condominium mapping — a process that’s taken Hughes about six months of precious time sitting on two vacant homes. And after San José officials certify the units as condos, they’ll need approval from the county, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got a lot of money tied up here,” he said. “I want to hurry this along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For AlphaX, the decision to use the law was more of an experiment to test whether it could work. The company had already purchased the lot and had renters living in both the main home and ADU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not afraid to be the pioneer,” said Jia Li, the company’s chief asset manager. “If you solve this problem, or we explore the options, then there’s all these other opportunities that could come.”[aside postID=news_11980785 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SanJose-KSM-6_qut-1020x680.jpg']But Jane Lin, chief investment officer for AlphaX, said it’s a model they think has promise. “At the end of the day, it’s just providing more housing. It’s one possible solution to help create more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her company on Thursday said it hoped to complete another 85 ADU condos over the next year, which could be built for existing homeowners on lots they already own, or on lots the company purchases. Once it secures the land, Lin said, “ADUs go up fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Seattle, about 60% of all ADUs were sold as condos in 2024, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://seattlecitygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/1111d274c85e4ca48af719da4b26fe9f\">city dashboard\u003c/a>. Nick Welch, a senior planner at Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development, said those figures may be even higher this year because the share of ADU condos has been rising, indicating strong demand for more affordable homeownership options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/OPCD/OngoingInitiatives/EncouragingBackyardCottages/OPCD-ADU-Report-2023.pdf\">city report\u003c/a> analyzing data from 2023, the median ADU sold at about 60% of the price of the associated main home and about half as much as a new, detached home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plenty of people want to buy homes and are priced out of the market,” Welch said. “ADUs — just by virtue of being smaller and having a smaller lot area — are obviously sold for less than a new 4,000 square-foot single-family home. And so there’s plenty of demand for that type of ownership housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Perez sees scenarios where existing homeowners could also benefit from converting their home and backyard cottage into condominiums. The law makes it possible to access their home’s equity, without taking on additional debt, he said. “They can sell off the ADU and with the proceeds, pay off what was left of that mortgage and be mortgage-free, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main home property associated with the condominium for sale at 2985 Lantz Ave., in San José, on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or, they can sell to a family member. “For families that are seeing displacement, the ability to create an entry point in the backyard that’s more affordable than the homes they can’t afford is also a way that people are able to stay in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes said he already has a buyer for the ADU he built in San José. The three-bedroom, two-bath, nearly 1,200 square-foot home will go for just under $1.6 million, as soon as the condominium map is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary home, with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and nearly 2,900 square feet, is listed for more than $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While certainly not cheap, Hughes said, “No place in San José is, though. I mean, realistically, they are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes had the advantage of starting with a relatively big lot, which allowed him to build two units with separate entrances and utilities, making them more akin to single-family homes than condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unique because it’s on the corner, and the lot was big enough that I could build a 1,200 square-foot ADU,” Hughes said, noting that most lots will be smaller and have shared utilities. “It’s going to be down in a lower price range just by the size. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nearly three years later, Hughes is a few weeks away from becoming the second developer in the state to successfully take advantage of a new law that allows homeowners to sell ADUs as condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first, on Josefa Street near San José’s downtown by developer AlphaX RE Capital, got its official certification from the city in a public ceremony on Thursday. Standing in front of a white backyard cottage with a sloping roof, Mayor Matt Mahan said the home represented “history in the making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ADUs are affordable by design and growing in popularity across the state. And now, they can offer the most accessible form of homeownership, as well,” he said. “We are offering a proof of concept for California and hope that other cities follow San José’s lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1033\">AB 1033\u003c/a> by former San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting, went into effect in 2024 and allows cities to opt into the new rules. San José became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjmayormatt.com/news-room/san-jose-becomes-first-city-in-california-to-implement-new-ordinance-that-opens-the-door-to-affordable-home-ownership\">first city\u003c/a> last year to adopt them. Since then, at least a handful of other cities have followed, including \u003ca href=\"https://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=15&ID=1421&Inline=True\">Santa Monica\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=2405&doctype=2\">Santa Cruz,\u003c/a> San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidesandiego.org/city-council-adopts-reforms-accessory-dwelling-unit-program\">San Diego\u003c/a>. Berkeley planning officials expect to \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/05/21/adus-in-berkeley-may-soon-be-sold-as-condos-under-newly-adopted-state-policy\">put forward an ordinance\u003c/a> in September to allow condo sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052160 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00238_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Hughes, a long-time developer from the South Bay, stands outside of a condominium for sale in San José on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The goal, supporters say, is to encourage more affordable ownership opportunities in a state where just \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/haitraditional/\">15% of households\u003c/a> could reasonably afford to purchase the median-priced single-family home, according to the California Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Perez, board chair of the Casita Coalition, which championed the law, lauded California for making significant strides in permitting new ADUs — with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">30,000 permitted last year\u003c/a>, representing a quarter of California’s projected housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early iterations of the law had prohibited selling them as condos, with some exceptions. Two surveys, from UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aducalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Implementing-the-Backyard-Revolution.pdf\">Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://southbaycities.org/south-bay-cities-council-of-governments-survey-indicates-low-percentage-of-accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-south-bay-rental-market-affordable/\">South Bay Cities Council of Government\u003c/a>, found that about 65% of ADUs are offered as long-term rentals, either on the private market or to family and friends for free.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“ADUs weren’t moving the needle on homeownership as much as we would like,” Perez said. “ADU condos open up that door of possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, city officials in Santa Monica and Santa Cruz, which adopted their versions of the law in October and January, respectively, said they had not yet received any applications. In San José, just two developers have filed applications to convert ADUs to condos — though, on Thursday, AlphaX committed to completing dozens more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paucity of enthusiasm — either from other cities looking to implement it or other property owners hoping to take advantage of it — isn’t entirely surprising, several observers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For owners with mortgages, the conversion not only requires securing lenders’ approval but also potentially devaluing the existing home, since condos are typically valued less, said Martina Davis, a planning division manager for the city of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a big mortgage, your bank might not be OK with that,” Davis said. “Or you may look at it and say, ‘Wait, hold on, I need to retain the full value of the house.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anecdotally, Davis said most of the interest in converting ADUs to condos in San José has come from developers for whom those obstacles may not apply. Though Hughes said the newness of the law, along with some of its provisions, has presented its own challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00141_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kitchen at 2985 Lantz Ave. in San José on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike traditional condos, the law requires the ADU to receive a certificate of occupancy before undergoing condominium mapping — a process that’s taken Hughes about six months of precious time sitting on two vacant homes. And after San José officials certify the units as condos, they’ll need approval from the county, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got a lot of money tied up here,” he said. “I want to hurry this along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For AlphaX, the decision to use the law was more of an experiment to test whether it could work. The company had already purchased the lot and had renters living in both the main home and ADU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not afraid to be the pioneer,” said Jia Li, the company’s chief asset manager. “If you solve this problem, or we explore the options, then there’s all these other opportunities that could come.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Jane Lin, chief investment officer for AlphaX, said it’s a model they think has promise. “At the end of the day, it’s just providing more housing. It’s one possible solution to help create more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her company on Thursday said it hoped to complete another 85 ADU condos over the next year, which could be built for existing homeowners on lots they already own, or on lots the company purchases. Once it secures the land, Lin said, “ADUs go up fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Seattle, about 60% of all ADUs were sold as condos in 2024, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://seattlecitygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/1111d274c85e4ca48af719da4b26fe9f\">city dashboard\u003c/a>. Nick Welch, a senior planner at Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development, said those figures may be even higher this year because the share of ADU condos has been rising, indicating strong demand for more affordable homeownership options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/OPCD/OngoingInitiatives/EncouragingBackyardCottages/OPCD-ADU-Report-2023.pdf\">city report\u003c/a> analyzing data from 2023, the median ADU sold at about 60% of the price of the associated main home and about half as much as a new, detached home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plenty of people want to buy homes and are priced out of the market,” Welch said. “ADUs — just by virtue of being smaller and having a smaller lot area — are obviously sold for less than a new 4,000 square-foot single-family home. And so there’s plenty of demand for that type of ownership housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Perez sees scenarios where existing homeowners could also benefit from converting their home and backyard cottage into condominiums. The law makes it possible to access their home’s equity, without taking on additional debt, he said. “They can sell off the ADU and with the proceeds, pay off what was left of that mortgage and be mortgage-free, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-ADUSASCONDOS_00044_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main home property associated with the condominium for sale at 2985 Lantz Ave., in San José, on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or, they can sell to a family member. “For families that are seeing displacement, the ability to create an entry point in the backyard that’s more affordable than the homes they can’t afford is also a way that people are able to stay in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes said he already has a buyer for the ADU he built in San José. The three-bedroom, two-bath, nearly 1,200 square-foot home will go for just under $1.6 million, as soon as the condominium map is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary home, with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and nearly 2,900 square feet, is listed for more than $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While certainly not cheap, Hughes said, “No place in San José is, though. I mean, realistically, they are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughes had the advantage of starting with a relatively big lot, which allowed him to build two units with separate entrances and utilities, making them more akin to single-family homes than condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unique because it’s on the corner, and the lot was big enough that I could build a 1,200 square-foot ADU,” Hughes said, noting that most lots will be smaller and have shared utilities. “It’s going to be down in a lower price range just by the size. So, therefore, it is creating that affordable home for somebody to go in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More typical is the lot on Josefa Street, where AlphaX is recording the city’s first ADU-condominium-conversion map. The main home takes over most of the lot, with the ADU at the rear of the property. The two homes share a long driveway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said she wasn’t sure whether the company would ultimately sell the units as condos or continue to rent them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the beginning,” she said. “So that’s why we’re all very happy and very excited to try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than six months after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026682/how-we-rebuild-la-recovers-from-wildfire\">Eaton and Palisades wildfires\u003c/a> razed nearly 13,000 homes and apartments near Los Angeles, property owners are beginning the arduous process of rebuilding. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047275/6-months-after-januarys-fires-recovery-is-just-beginning-for-many\">As they do\u003c/a>, state Senator Aisha Wahab wants to make sure renters aren’t left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the January fires swept in, tenants in many of the apartment buildings had certain protections, including rent control and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005034/this-bay-area-county-approved-sweeping-protections-for-disaster-affected-tenants\">limitations\u003c/a> on when a landlord could evict them. But, under existing law, the apartments will lose those protections once rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state legislature is not doing enough to focus on the issues that renters face,” the Fremont Democrat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab’s bill, SB 522, aims to close a loophole in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034212/california-lawmakers-push-lower-rent-cap-expand-protections-property-owners-worried\">Tenant Protection Act\u003c/a> of 2019, which expires in 2030. The law limits annual rent increases and restricts evictions to only “just-cause” cases, including not paying the rent, violating the lease or withdrawing the unit from the rental market. The law applies on a rolling basis to most multifamily properties built more than 15 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 522 would extend those protections to homes destroyed in a wildfire, flood or other natural disaster, rather than waiting another 15 years for the clock to restart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed legislation has been contentious since it was introduced — condemned by rental property owners for going too far and criticized by tenants for not going far enough. The bill is expected to head to the Assembly floor in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings are destroyed along Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Property owner interest groups say it sends “the wrong message to a landlord.” Debra Carlton, executive vice president for state government affairs at the California Apartment Association, said any regulation on new development could deter a property owner from entering or returning to the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“State law says that, even in a new construction, you have a 15-year exemption before you fall under regulations such as just cause,” Carlton said. “So this is treating [the rebuilt units] differently, as if they’re not new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab argued there is no concrete evidence that protections in her bill deter developers from rebuilding homes. Researchers from the University of Minnesota \u003ca href=\"https://www.cura.umn.edu/sites/cura.umn.edu/files/2025-03/final_the-good-case-for-_good-cause-v2.pdf\">published a study in March\u003c/a> that examined permitting activity before and after California’s Tenant Protection Act passed into law, among similar state policies in Oregon and New Hampshire. It found that permits for new construction in counties across those states did not decline, controlling for counties in neighboring states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But SB 522 is still shaking off the controversy it brought when it was first introduced.[aside postID=news_12034212 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/024_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']Wahab’s bill previously included language that required rent-controlled units to remain that way, even after getting rebuilt. That version received strong criticism from various apartment associations, realtor groups and building trades, which argued the bill, if passed into law, would make rebuilding too expensive for rental property owners already reeling from losing their homes and dealing with insurance claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Financing of replacement properties becomes extremely difficult if property owners do not have the ability to recover rebuilding costs through market-rate rents,” Dan Yukelson, executive director of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, wrote in an email to KQED. “Property owners will struggle to secure financing, delaying or preventing reconstruction altogether because rental income and cost recovery will be severely limited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Wahab’s staff, those terms were removed before the bill’s first hearing in April, despite the language still remaining in legislative digests because of a technical error to be corrected in the coming weeks. But Wahab admitted that by omitting rent control from her bill, it made it more politically palatable, especially for her colleagues in the legislature who are landlords themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was largely a way to thread the needle and to provide stability for evictions — for unnecessary evictions when somebody has already faced a crisis of losing their entire home in a fire,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25016124878838-scaled-e1737665727227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents embrace in front of a fire-ravaged property after the Palisades Fire swept through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ rights groups still largely support the bill — arguing that some protections are better than none — but they’re disappointed it’s now been watered down. Alfred Twu, secretary for the California Democratic Renters Council, said, “SB 522 is weaker without the rent cap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, said Joey Flegel-Mishlove with East Bay Housing Organizations, just cause eviction protections should be coupled with other policies that support renters, such as rent caps and anti-harassment protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing advocacy group endorsed SB 522 when it was first introduced. “Rent stabilization is undermined when landlords can evict tenants without cause and set rents for new tenants at an uncontrolled level. Just Cause protections are undermined when landlords can carry out de facto evictions by raising rents to levels tenants cannot afford, forcing them to move out.”[aside postID=news_11934624 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1244095544-1020x619.jpg']Still, any renter protections that keep people housed, especially after a natural disaster, can provide relief to tenants, he added, “even if we aim to do more in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Geduldig benefited from similar protections when she lost her apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District to a fire in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 8:30 a.m., she said she heard a crackling sound. She went to her window and saw a little fire in the brush next door. Geduldig and 14 neighbors exited the building, figuring the fire would be put out shortly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought we were just going to be displaced for a year,” she said. Instead, it took more than three years to complete reconstruction on the severely damaged building. By then, she said, “There were five of us, I believe, who moved back in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was able to return because her landlord was required to keep it rent-controlled, even after it was rebuilt. Though Geduldig would not have been covered under SB 522, even if it had been in place then, she said the bill would be more effective if it included rent control. If she had to return to her old apartment at a new, market-rate price, she wouldn’t have been able to afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t have been able to move back into the building, and I likely wouldn’t have been able to live in San Francisco,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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