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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parking spaces were donated to the program by local churches and businesses that don’t use them at night. Catholic Charities provides portable bathrooms and safety patrol in the parking lots. There’s an added bonus: Social workers know where to reach participants when housing and other opportunities become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes says she still remembers the night the program opened. A teenage girl sprinted by her on the way to the toilet. When Holmes tracked her down later, she learned it was the first time the young woman had been able to use a real bathroom all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just thinking this 16-year-old girl was trying to stay in school and do everything she was trying to do as a 16-year-old, but out of her vehicle with her mom and her dad,” Holmes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the safe parking program is to offer people stability while they work toward getting back into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just trying to stay alive, you’re not going to be able to get to the place where you start thinking about how you get out of homelessness,” Holmes points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki, a 24-year-old homeless woman, who does not want us to use her last name, enrolled in the program in May after run-ins with police, neighbors and a man harassing her from the bushes left her fearful of parking alone on the streets at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always kind of jumping at the slightest bit of noise,” Nikki says. “I just felt really unsafe and paranoid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki had to leave her job at a local Whole Foods, where she’d recently been promoted to a supervisor role, because the lack of sleep and stress of being homeless had grown out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki says the safe parking program has given her back some of the peace of mind she lost when she became homeless nearly a year ago. “This is a spot we call our home right now, and just knowing that we could come here at night without feeling like we’re bothering anybody, it’s definitely a lot less stress,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been grateful to have that safe and “guaranteed” place to return to each night after her waitressing shifts. And since Nikki’s partner joined the program, she no longer has to sleep in her car alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, safe parking programs started by other nonprofits have emerged across the state in cities like Santa Barbara, San Diego and, more recently, Los Angeles. Because participants typically are required to move their cars during the day, there’s less fear from communities that the lots will become homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes says that initially some Santa Rosa locals voiced concerns about people like Nikki parking in lots across the city. But after about three months, according to Holmes, many of these fears were put to rest. “They saw that it wasn’t the big concern or misconception that they had in their mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently Holmes has been contacted by nonprofits in Santa Clara and Marin counties that are thinking about starting their own safe parking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the programs I run, this has probably been the one I’ve gotten the most outside questions about,” Holmes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, Sonoma County has seen a reduction of more than 35 percent reduction in homelessness. Catholic Charities worries that cutting back programs like safe parking will undo some of this progress. Anticipated reductions to federal funding for homeless services has Holmes worried that they are facing yet another round of budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it’s time for communities to band together at the local level to support programs that offer vital help to the state’s homeless population, which numbers close to 120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Catholic Charities is scrambling to find other parking spaces or shelter beds for people like Nikki, who are losing their spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki hopes that she’ll be able to continue being part of the program. “But beggars can’t be choosers,” she says. “We’ll take what’s offered, and they’re really working hard for us getting into a shelter, which I appreciate.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Vanessa and Richard Bulnes got an eviction notice, it felt sadly ironic. The Bulneses were unable to pay the rent because their corporate landlord took three years to remediate high levels of lead in the backyard soil, which caused Vanessa to lose her business -- a family home child care that she had run for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were nights where I would wake up and think, 'We're squatters.' And we felt really bad about that because it was never our intention to not pay rent,\" Vanessa said. \"Because after you lose a house for not paying your mortgage, we knew that’s not the way to go. This was like a second chance. We didn’t want to be at the mercy of somebody saying, 'You gotta get out' again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the latest in a string of injustices that happened to the Bulnes family: first, loan modification fraud, then foreclosure, now the threat of eviction. Their story is emblematic of a bigger problem: the disproportionate loss of African-American and Latino wealth during the foreclosure crisis and the obstacles to build up that wealth again. Between 2007 and 2013, so many African-American and Latino homeowners in Oakland were wiped out by foreclosure that entire neighborhoods were transformed. Many of the homes that were lost ended up in the hands of corporate investors, who then rented them out, sometimes to the same families who had lost their own homes. And that put those families, like the Bulneses, at risk of much more loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/05/StavelyBulnesPart1.mp3\" program=\"KQED News\" title=\"Part 1: From Foreclosure to Eviction: One Family’s Struggle to Recover\" image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/05/26/RS25501MG2276qut.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/05/20170531stavely.mp3\" program=\"KQED News\" title=\"Part 2: From Foreclosure to Eviction: One Family’s Struggle to Recover\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/06/20170601stavely3.mp3\" program=\"KQED News\" title=\"Part 3: From Foreclosure to Eviction: One Family’s Struggle to Recover\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d.jpg\"]\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Richard and Vanessa met at church in Oakland. Richard is Latino and grew up in San Francisco. Vanessa is African-American and grew up in North Carolina. They bought their house on 104th Avenue in East Oakland in 1992, shortly after they got married. It cost $141,500, and Richard’s sister was kind enough to give them the money for a $20,000 down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For them, this house is where they became a family. It's where they brought their third baby, a daughter, home from the hospital. It's where they took prom photos of their kids and all their friends when they were in high school. It was also where Vanessa started her own child care business, planting collard greens in the backyard with the kids in her care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their financial troubles all started one morning in 2008. Richard woke up early, as he likes to, took a shower and began to comb his hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I pride myself on my hair, because so many people are bald-headed now, especially at my age. But I am not,\" said Richard, 68, with a wry smile. \"[But] as I tried to comb my hair, I couldn’t lift up my right arm. I came in the bedroom, woke up my wife and told her, 'I think you need to take me to the hospital.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing a home often begins this way: A family hits a hard spot, a health crisis or a loss of income. At the time of the stroke, Richard was working at Meals on Wheels. The family lost about $2,000 a month in income, about the same amount as their mortgage payment at the time, which had ballooned after they refinanced. They still had Vanessa's income from her child care business, but they decided their best option was to try to modify their loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulneses, though, were caught up in a bigger web. Oakland and other cities across the country are now suing big banks for targeting African-American and Latino homeowners with loans that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511482.2013.771788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had abusive rates\u003c/a>. At the same time, many banks weren't playing fair to help homeowners modify their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed like at every point, when we got to where we thought we were going to get a modification, they needed another piece of paperwork, they needed another bank statement,\" said Vanessa, who is 58. \"There was always something else they needed, and when we gave them that, 'Oh we lost that, could you send something else?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa strokes Richard Bulnes' hair as he declares that he is still in love with her after 29 years. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Vanessa describes sounds really familiar to Maeve Elise Brown, director of the statewide organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.heraca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing and Economic Rights Advocates\u003c/a>. In 2009, President Barack Obama had introduced the Home Affordable Modification Program to help struggling homeowners modify their loans, but homeowner advocates, researchers and news organizations like ProPublica found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-a-revealing-look-at-the-mortgage-mod-meltdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banks often broke the rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mortgage servicers were telling people to turn in paperwork over and over and over again. They weren’t looking at it, they would shred it. They would deny people instantly,\" Brown said. \"Not everyone qualified, but a whole bunch of people could, but were prevented from accessing that relief by the mortgage servicing companies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino and African-American neighborhoods, like the Bulneses', were hit the hardest by the foreclosure crisis. These are the same neighborhoods that were \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlined\u003c/a> decades ago, with residents denied mortgages simply because of where they lived. Across the country, African-American and Latino neighborhoods lost three to four times more homes than white neighborhoods during the recent mortgage crisis, according to \u003ca href=\"http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/05/home-foreclosures-fueled-racial-segregation-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell University research\u003c/a>. On the Bulneses' six-block street alone, at least 35 properties were foreclosed between January 2006 and December 2012, according to the website \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PropertyRadar\u003c/a>, which tracks foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484036\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bulnes chokes up on stage after talking with Bishop J.W. Macklin about his hospital visits. Vanessa Bulnes comforts him at the Sunday morning service at Glad Tidings Church in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our neighbors right next to us, they both work for AC Transit, and we saw them lose their house. So we started praying harder. Then we saw the neighbor next door to us on the other side lose their house,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreclosure seemed almost like a virus that Vanessa and Richard Bulnes could catch. They decided to pay an attorney to help them. Other companies began circling them. Vanessa called them vultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would get all kinds of letters in the mail saying, 'Call this number,' and you’d call that number, and they’d say, 'Are you behind on your mortgage?', and we’d say, 'No,' and they'd say, 'We can help you. The first thing you do is stop paying your mortgage,' \" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was skeptical. But one letter from \"The Gordon Law Firm\" had a logo that looked like it was from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. On this firm’s advice they stopped paying their mortgage. But the firm was lying. They weren’t HUD, and they couldn’t modify Vanessa and Richard’s loan. Years later, through a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cfpbconsumerprotection-gordon.org/Home/Faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, the Bulneses won $3,500 back, but that’s just a fraction of the wealth they lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2012, the foreclosure was final. The house Vanessa and Richard owned on 104th Avenue was no longer theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cried like a baby,\" said Richard, remembering when he and his wife lost their home to foreclosure. \"A grown man, crying like a baby. We had lived here 21 years. I raised three kids here. So, this is what we knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa knew they had to find a place by Christmas, so her daughter would have a place to come home to during winter break from her freshman year at college, and so the kids at her day care could transition easily while school was out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife, because she’s so practical, she said, 'Babe, you gotta wipe the tears out of your eyes,' \" Richard remembered. \"I said, 'Man, I ain’t finished crying yet.' She said, 'Well, whether you’re finished or not, we got to find another house.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families who lost their homes were forced out of Oakland, but Vanessa and Richard Bulnes were able to find a new place to rent. What they didn't know is that they were now at risk of losing a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renting from a Wall Street Landlord\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa and Richard were paying more to rent their new house than they had been paying on their mortgage before their first home was lost to foreclosure, but in many ways, the rental was perfect. It only had one level, so Richard didn’t have too many steps to climb, which was hard after his stroke. And the house was spacious, with lots of room for Vanessa's day care, Tender Arms Family Child Care. She had a contract with Head Start to care for low-income children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa wanted to plant greens with the kids in the backyard as she had at her old home, so in the fall she called a group to come out and test the soil. That’s when she ran into a big problem: The level of lead in the soil was 1,350 parts per million, right in the area that the kids used for the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes sit on the couch of their rental home looking through an old photo album reminiscing about the past. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amount of lead in the Bulneses' backyard was more than three times the amount the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/lead/hazard-standards-lead-paint-dust-and-soil-tsca-section-403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> considers a hazard in play areas, and almost 17 times the amount California's \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/risk/soils091709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment\u003c/a> considers a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vanessa got the lead results back, she called Head Start immediately, and they came out and put a temporary rubber cover on part of the patio. But they emphasized a permanent solution had to be found if she wanted to keep her contract. Alameda County has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/programs/leadfunding.htm#financial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial assistance program\u003c/a> to help low-income residents remove or fix lead problems, with priority for family child care providers like Vanessa. If Vanessa still lived in a home she owned, she would have had it done right away. But now, she was renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because we’re not the owners, we couldn’t apply to have the work done. We needed the owners to give us consent, and that’s where we didn’t get any cooperation with the property owner,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the Bulneses' new home wasn’t just any landlord. It was a corporation: Waypoint Homes. It merged in 2016 with another top real estate investor, Colony American Homes, to become \u003ca href=\"http://colonystarwood.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colony Starwood Homes\u003c/a>. Co-chairman of the board, Thomas Barrack, is a billionaire who helped raise $35 million for President Trump’s campaign and chaired his inaugural committee. The company owns more than 30,000 single-family homes across the country and close to 4,000 in California. On the company website, Colony Starwood boasts, \"We recognized the unique opportunity created by the housing crisis and acted upon it in a bold way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Strategies Council found that in Oakland, 42 percent of foreclosed homes between 2007 and 2011 were \u003ca href=\"http://community-wealth.org/content/who-owns-your-neighborhood-role-investors-post-foreclosure-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">snapped up by corporate investors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, corporate takeover of homes happened mostly in low-income neighborhoods, essentially shifting ownership from the hands of largely Latino and African-American residents to the hands of Wall Street corporations. Latino and African-American buyers are still largely locked out of home loans in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://greenlining.org/issues/2016/new-report-finds-racial-disparities-possible-redlining-in-oakland-mortgage-lending/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One report\u003c/a> found that in 2013, the top 12 lenders financed only four homes for African-American buyers and only seven for Latino buyers, compared with 40 for white buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did investors snap up homes. They also decided to keep them and make money off them by renting them out. Since single-family homes are exempt from limits on rent increases under California's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, for the most part, property owners could charge higher rents for them. It was a new moneymaking venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484040\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes had lead in the backyard of their new rental house. In order to have a day care out of their home they placed this turf down, but they needed the property owner to do more in order to keep their business. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 survey conducted by the group Tenants Together found that 40 percent of Californians renting from the top three Wall Street real estate investors reported that these landlords \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenantstogether.org/updates/report-released-tenant-experience-renting-wall-street-landlords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weren’t repairing or maintaining\u003c/a> homes as they should. The three companies included both Waypoint Homes and Colony American Homes. Now, Vanessa Bulnes had to rely on them to get the lead fixed, so she could keep her contract with Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I’m on the phone, my husband and I, we’re calling Waypoint, and emails and everything like that,\" Vanessa said. \"Here we are, the clock is ticking. I’m like OK, I’m taking pictures, this is the area, this is how big it is, this is what we need you to have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa first contacted Waypoint in 2013, when the lead was found. But she says property managers came and went, and each time she had to start the process again. In June 2016, almost three years after the lead had been found, Head Start told Vanessa they couldn’t renew for the next school year if the lead wasn’t fixed by September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I’m like, 'OK, this is affecting my income.' I give all these red flags about what’s going to happen if nothing is done. Still no urgency on their part,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one email in August 2016, a regional manager for Waypoint Homes wrote, \"Unfortunately, we are not in a position to work with this program at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until November that someone from Waypoint Homes finally came to walk through the property with an Alameda County representative. When questioned why it took the company so long to fix the lead problem, a spokesperson did not respond, instead stating that the company finished the work on Nov. 28, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, three years after Vanessa's initial request, it was too late. The school year had already begun, and Head Start had canceled her contract. The family’s main source of income, which had gotten them through the stroke and the foreclosure, was gone. They had to apply for assistance for food, and Vanessa had to change her health insurance from Covered California to Medi-Cal. They began to fall behind on their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before they started working on the lead remediation, Colony Starwood Homes had already begun trying to evict the Bulneses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take a protest at the headquarters of Thomas Barrack's real estate investment company Colony NorthStar in Los Angeles, organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acceaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, legal help, and financial support from their church for the Bulneses to finally get their corporate landlord to back off. In January, Colony Starwood Homes agreed to cancel the eviction, plus four months of back rent. Vanessa now has a job at an outside day care and is trying to make due off her hourly salary of $17. She says that amounts to about a third of what she brought in when she had her own child care business at home. She can pay the rent, but she says she's behind on other bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Bulnes hangs a \"Welcome\" sign on the door of their rental house. It's the same sign she used to have up when the children arrived for day care. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their precarious situation could now affect their children's financial future. When you don't own a home and are one step away from eviction, you're a lot farther behind people who can help their children with a down payment or pay for college. In fact, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/in-the-balance/issue12-2015/why-didnt-higher-education-protect-hispanic-and-black-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data showing that black college graduates \u003c/a>have lost wealth over the past generation, while white college graduates’ wealth has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulnes family's youngest daughter is about to graduate from a historically black college in Texas. Vanessa says her daughter has had to call on other relatives and friends from church to help out when she needs money at school. Still, she says, there are other lessons she's passing on to her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When she has a day that’s trying and she thinks she can't make it, she’ll text me, and she’s like, 'Mom, this is so hard,' and she’s really down and sorry for herself. I’m like, 'But think about your mom, what you’ve seen me go through, what you’ve seen us go through. You came from me,' \" Vanessa said. \"Those are the kinds of things we’re passing on to our kids. It may not be money. It may not be a house. But there’s so much more that we want to pass on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that is financial advice, learned the hard way. And then there's this: Vanessa is now an active community organizer, helping other Oaklanders try to fight off their landlords and stay in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their financial troubles all started one morning in 2008. Richard woke up early, as he likes to, took a shower and began to comb his hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I pride myself on my hair, because so many people are bald-headed now, especially at my age. But I am not,\" said Richard, 68, with a wry smile. \"[But] as I tried to comb my hair, I couldn’t lift up my right arm. I came in the bedroom, woke up my wife and told her, 'I think you need to take me to the hospital.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing a home often begins this way: A family hits a hard spot, a health crisis or a loss of income. At the time of the stroke, Richard was working at Meals on Wheels. The family lost about $2,000 a month in income, about the same amount as their mortgage payment at the time, which had ballooned after they refinanced. They still had Vanessa's income from her child care business, but they decided their best option was to try to modify their loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulneses, though, were caught up in a bigger web. Oakland and other cities across the country are now suing big banks for targeting African-American and Latino homeowners with loans that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511482.2013.771788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had abusive rates\u003c/a>. At the same time, many banks weren't playing fair to help homeowners modify their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed like at every point, when we got to where we thought we were going to get a modification, they needed another piece of paperwork, they needed another bank statement,\" said Vanessa, who is 58. \"There was always something else they needed, and when we gave them that, 'Oh we lost that, could you send something else?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920b-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa strokes Richard Bulnes' hair as he declares that he is still in love with her after 29 years. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Vanessa describes sounds really familiar to Maeve Elise Brown, director of the statewide organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.heraca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing and Economic Rights Advocates\u003c/a>. In 2009, President Barack Obama had introduced the Home Affordable Modification Program to help struggling homeowners modify their loans, but homeowner advocates, researchers and news organizations like ProPublica found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-a-revealing-look-at-the-mortgage-mod-meltdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banks often broke the rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mortgage servicers were telling people to turn in paperwork over and over and over again. They weren’t looking at it, they would shred it. They would deny people instantly,\" Brown said. \"Not everyone qualified, but a whole bunch of people could, but were prevented from accessing that relief by the mortgage servicing companies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino and African-American neighborhoods, like the Bulneses', were hit the hardest by the foreclosure crisis. These are the same neighborhoods that were \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlined\u003c/a> decades ago, with residents denied mortgages simply because of where they lived. Across the country, African-American and Latino neighborhoods lost three to four times more homes than white neighborhoods during the recent mortgage crisis, according to \u003ca href=\"http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/05/home-foreclosures-fueled-racial-segregation-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell University research\u003c/a>. On the Bulneses' six-block street alone, at least 35 properties were foreclosed between January 2006 and December 2012, according to the website \u003ca href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PropertyRadar\u003c/a>, which tracks foreclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484036\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920c-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bulnes chokes up on stage after talking with Bishop J.W. Macklin about his hospital visits. Vanessa Bulnes comforts him at the Sunday morning service at Glad Tidings Church in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Our neighbors right next to us, they both work for AC Transit, and we saw them lose their house. So we started praying harder. Then we saw the neighbor next door to us on the other side lose their house,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreclosure seemed almost like a virus that Vanessa and Richard Bulnes could catch. They decided to pay an attorney to help them. Other companies began circling them. Vanessa called them vultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would get all kinds of letters in the mail saying, 'Call this number,' and you’d call that number, and they’d say, 'Are you behind on your mortgage?', and we’d say, 'No,' and they'd say, 'We can help you. The first thing you do is stop paying your mortgage,' \" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was skeptical. But one letter from \"The Gordon Law Firm\" had a logo that looked like it was from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. On this firm’s advice they stopped paying their mortgage. But the firm was lying. They weren’t HUD, and they couldn’t modify Vanessa and Richard’s loan. Years later, through a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cfpbconsumerprotection-gordon.org/Home/Faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, the Bulneses won $3,500 back, but that’s just a fraction of the wealth they lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2012, the foreclosure was final. The house Vanessa and Richard owned on 104th Avenue was no longer theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cried like a baby,\" said Richard, remembering when he and his wife lost their home to foreclosure. \"A grown man, crying like a baby. We had lived here 21 years. I raised three kids here. So, this is what we knew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa knew they had to find a place by Christmas, so her daughter would have a place to come home to during winter break from her freshman year at college, and so the kids at her day care could transition easily while school was out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife, because she’s so practical, she said, 'Babe, you gotta wipe the tears out of your eyes,' \" Richard remembered. \"I said, 'Man, I ain’t finished crying yet.' She said, 'Well, whether you’re finished or not, we got to find another house.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families who lost their homes were forced out of Oakland, but Vanessa and Richard Bulnes were able to find a new place to rent. What they didn't know is that they were now at risk of losing a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renting from a Wall Street Landlord\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa and Richard were paying more to rent their new house than they had been paying on their mortgage before their first home was lost to foreclosure, but in many ways, the rental was perfect. It only had one level, so Richard didn’t have too many steps to climb, which was hard after his stroke. And the house was spacious, with lots of room for Vanessa's day care, Tender Arms Family Child Care. She had a contract with Head Start to care for low-income children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa wanted to plant greens with the kids in the backyard as she had at her old home, so in the fall she called a group to come out and test the soil. That’s when she ran into a big problem: The level of lead in the soil was 1,350 parts per million, right in the area that the kids used for the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920d-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes sit on the couch of their rental home looking through an old photo album reminiscing about the past. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amount of lead in the Bulneses' backyard was more than three times the amount the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/lead/hazard-standards-lead-paint-dust-and-soil-tsca-section-403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> considers a hazard in play areas, and almost 17 times the amount California's \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/risk/soils091709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment\u003c/a> considers a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vanessa got the lead results back, she called Head Start immediately, and they came out and put a temporary rubber cover on part of the patio. But they emphasized a permanent solution had to be found if she wanted to keep her contract. Alameda County has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.achhd.org/programs/leadfunding.htm#financial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial assistance program\u003c/a> to help low-income residents remove or fix lead problems, with priority for family child care providers like Vanessa. If Vanessa still lived in a home she owned, she would have had it done right away. But now, she was renting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because we’re not the owners, we couldn’t apply to have the work done. We needed the owners to give us consent, and that’s where we didn’t get any cooperation with the property owner,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the Bulneses' new home wasn’t just any landlord. It was a corporation: Waypoint Homes. It merged in 2016 with another top real estate investor, Colony American Homes, to become \u003ca href=\"http://colonystarwood.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colony Starwood Homes\u003c/a>. Co-chairman of the board, Thomas Barrack, is a billionaire who helped raise $35 million for President Trump’s campaign and chaired his inaugural committee. The company owns more than 30,000 single-family homes across the country and close to 4,000 in California. On the company website, Colony Starwood boasts, \"We recognized the unique opportunity created by the housing crisis and acted upon it in a bold way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Strategies Council found that in Oakland, 42 percent of foreclosed homes between 2007 and 2011 were \u003ca href=\"http://community-wealth.org/content/who-owns-your-neighborhood-role-investors-post-foreclosure-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">snapped up by corporate investors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, corporate takeover of homes happened mostly in low-income neighborhoods, essentially shifting ownership from the hands of largely Latino and African-American residents to the hands of Wall Street corporations. Latino and African-American buyers are still largely locked out of home loans in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://greenlining.org/issues/2016/new-report-finds-racial-disparities-possible-redlining-in-oakland-mortgage-lending/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One report\u003c/a> found that in 2013, the top 12 lenders financed only four homes for African-American buyers and only seven for Latino buyers, compared with 40 for white buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did investors snap up homes. They also decided to keep them and make money off them by renting them out. Since single-family homes are exempt from limits on rent increases under California's Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, for the most part, property owners could charge higher rents for them. It was a new moneymaking venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484040\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/bulneses-1920e-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Richard Bulnes had lead in the backyard of their new rental house. In order to have a day care out of their home they placed this turf down, but they needed the property owner to do more in order to keep their business. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2015 survey conducted by the group Tenants Together found that 40 percent of Californians renting from the top three Wall Street real estate investors reported that these landlords \u003ca href=\"http://www.tenantstogether.org/updates/report-released-tenant-experience-renting-wall-street-landlords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weren’t repairing or maintaining\u003c/a> homes as they should. The three companies included both Waypoint Homes and Colony American Homes. Now, Vanessa Bulnes had to rely on them to get the lead fixed, so she could keep her contract with Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I’m on the phone, my husband and I, we’re calling Waypoint, and emails and everything like that,\" Vanessa said. \"Here we are, the clock is ticking. I’m like OK, I’m taking pictures, this is the area, this is how big it is, this is what we need you to have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa first contacted Waypoint in 2013, when the lead was found. But she says property managers came and went, and each time she had to start the process again. In June 2016, almost three years after the lead had been found, Head Start told Vanessa they couldn’t renew for the next school year if the lead wasn’t fixed by September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I’m like, 'OK, this is affecting my income.' I give all these red flags about what’s going to happen if nothing is done. Still no urgency on their part,\" Vanessa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one email in August 2016, a regional manager for Waypoint Homes wrote, \"Unfortunately, we are not in a position to work with this program at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until November that someone from Waypoint Homes finally came to walk through the property with an Alameda County representative. When questioned why it took the company so long to fix the lead problem, a spokesperson did not respond, instead stating that the company finished the work on Nov. 28, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, three years after Vanessa's initial request, it was too late. The school year had already begun, and Head Start had canceled her contract. The family’s main source of income, which had gotten them through the stroke and the foreclosure, was gone. They had to apply for assistance for food, and Vanessa had to change her health insurance from Covered California to Medi-Cal. They began to fall behind on their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before they started working on the lead remediation, Colony Starwood Homes had already begun trying to evict the Bulneses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take a protest at the headquarters of Thomas Barrack's real estate investment company Colony NorthStar in Los Angeles, organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acceaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, legal help, and financial support from their church for the Bulneses to finally get their corporate landlord to back off. In January, Colony Starwood Homes agreed to cancel the eviction, plus four months of back rent. Vanessa now has a job at an outside day care and is trying to make due off her hourly salary of $17. She says that amounts to about a third of what she brought in when she had her own child care business at home. She can pay the rent, but she says she's behind on other bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11484035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11484035\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/welcome-1920a-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Bulnes hangs a \"Welcome\" sign on the door of their rental house. It's the same sign she used to have up when the children arrived for day care. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their precarious situation could now affect their children's financial future. When you don't own a home and are one step away from eviction, you're a lot farther behind people who can help their children with a down payment or pay for college. In fact, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/in-the-balance/issue12-2015/why-didnt-higher-education-protect-hispanic-and-black-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data showing that black college graduates \u003c/a>have lost wealth over the past generation, while white college graduates’ wealth has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bulnes family's youngest daughter is about to graduate from a historically black college in Texas. Vanessa says her daughter has had to call on other relatives and friends from church to help out when she needs money at school. Still, she says, there are other lessons she's passing on to her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When she has a day that’s trying and she thinks she can't make it, she’ll text me, and she’s like, 'Mom, this is so hard,' and she’s really down and sorry for herself. I’m like, 'But think about your mom, what you’ve seen me go through, what you’ve seen us go through. You came from me,' \" Vanessa said. \"Those are the kinds of things we’re passing on to our kids. It may not be money. It may not be a house. But there’s so much more that we want to pass on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Desiree Martinez is busy in her kitchen preparing for her day helping Fresno’s homeless. One task: checking the local weather forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ow! Triple digits all week!” she exclaims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that this day will be a hot one, she pulls case after case of bottled water from her refrigerator, then stacks them in her vehicle outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is really important,” she says. “The worst feeling in the world is having somebody come up to your car and ask for a bottle of water ’cause they’re sweating to death and you don’t have no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez at home making burritos to hand out to the homeless \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On days when it’s this hot, Martinez spends hours driving around Fresno handing out bottled water to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing it for so long that I kinda get a feel for how many people are going to be at each place,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s homeless used to be a lot more visible when they lived in large encampments. Fresno had a lot of these semi-permanent shantytowns located beneath the overpasses. In some areas the tent cities grew so large they filled up sidewalks and spilled into the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things have changed. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/26/226497851/fresno-officials-dismantle-homeless-encampments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2011 and 2013 the city cleared out these encampments\u003c/a> and has mostly kept them from cropping up again. Officials say 150 people got help finding housing, but hundreds of people are still without permanent shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez knows where to find them — she used to be homeless herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.’\u003ccite>Desiree Martinez, volunteer helping the homeless\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After driving around in her beat-up SUV for a few minutes, scanning the streets, she turns onto a side road and pulls up to a makeshift tent of tarps and blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, you guys!” she yells as she steps out of the vehicle. “You want some waters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Morgan stays here with her husband and her adult daughter. She’s 57 and has been living on the streets off and on for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How you doing?” Martinez asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I got sunburned real bad,” Morgan says. “I got blisters. It itches like crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan turns to show her. Her back is raw and the skin is peeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street there’s a lush lawn in the shade of big trees. But Morgan’s family doesn’t dare venture over. “We can’t be on that side because that’s state property,” Morgan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vietnam veteran William Gilligan fills a cup with water for his Chihuahua, Booty Call. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless here say life’s gotten harder since the city’s crackdown on tent cities. They have to keep on the move to avoid getting in trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article97467837.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now that the big encampments are gone, the county has focused on quashing small camps\u003c/a> — often in more rural parts of the county — as they pop up. The county’s already spent over $100,000 clearing encampments this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s next stop is a nearby park. People aren’t allowed to sleep here, and they worry their shopping carts will be impounded by police if they hang out too long. Still, it’s one of the few places the homeless can get out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has been doing this kind of outreach to the homeless so long that everyone recognizes her SUV. As she unloads water, people wander up from around the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who goes by Chuy is one of them. She used to live in one of the big encampments. Now she says she moves around the city, finding ways to dodge police scrutiny. “I stay everywhere,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”1zTdIt5vhtolx0j1ePx1cOWTFztni3GC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment she’s got a good thing going. “An abando — an abandoned house, kinda like on the side, incognito,” she says. “The owner of the house came and caught us in the backyard, but he’s letting us stay while they remodel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials say the homeless population has been cut in half to about 1,500 on any given day. That number is for both Fresno and Madera counties. Officials say it’s because they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://fresnofirststepshome.org/the-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added more housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article19534665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">streamlined services\u003c/a>. But advocates for the homeless suspect the people living on the streets are just harder to find now that they are working to stay out of sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes people like Martinez, who know where to look and have earned trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sends the homeless men and women she finds in in the park away with their arms full of supplies — water bottles, tampons, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste and foil-wrapped burritos handmade by Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll see you tomorrow, I’m gonna bring water and clothes,” Martinez says as she gets back in the SUV. “Love you guys!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11548117 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez with Jershonda Mayberry and other “street family” at a Fresno park \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez has dedicated herself full time to helping the homeless in the city of Fresno. She says the work helps her deal with painful parts of her own past — the very things that led to her homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s a totally different group of people, all different races and cultures and we all have similar stories — about domestic abuse, or family violence, or abuse in the home at young ages,” she says. “By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez spends most days handing out water and food. But she also launched a social media campaign and collects donations. She successfully applied for nonprofit status, and she has big plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11548119 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Martinez1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez shows off the home she’s creating where she’ll provide a safe space for homeless people to get back on their feet. She’s calling it a “sanctuary space” and is collecting donations to support the effort. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She partnered with a local philanthropist to create what Martinez calls a “sanctuary.” A private home where she’ll care for a few people at a time, helping them get into permanent housing. She’ll drive them to appointments and help them navigate the state programs in place to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important for Martinez is for it to feel like home. “Something that just inspires you to say, ‘OK, I want to get better,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually she’s hoping to expand so she can reach more people.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been doing it for so long that I kinda get a feel for how many people are going to be at each place,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s homeless used to be a lot more visible when they lived in large encampments. Fresno had a lot of these semi-permanent shantytowns located beneath the overpasses. In some areas the tent cities grew so large they filled up sidewalks and spilled into the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things have changed. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/09/26/226497851/fresno-officials-dismantle-homeless-encampments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2011 and 2013 the city cleared out these encampments\u003c/a> and has mostly kept them from cropping up again. Officials say 150 people got help finding housing, but hundreds of people are still without permanent shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez knows where to find them — she used to be homeless herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.’\u003ccite>Desiree Martinez, volunteer helping the homeless\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After driving around in her beat-up SUV for a few minutes, scanning the streets, she turns onto a side road and pulls up to a makeshift tent of tarps and blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, you guys!” she yells as she steps out of the vehicle. “You want some waters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Morgan stays here with her husband and her adult daughter. She’s 57 and has been living on the streets off and on for about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How you doing?” Martinez asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I got sunburned real bad,” Morgan says. “I got blisters. It itches like crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan turns to show her. Her back is raw and the skin is peeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street there’s a lush lawn in the shade of big trees. But Morgan’s family doesn’t dare venture over. “We can’t be on that side because that’s state property,” Morgan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vietnam veteran William Gilligan fills a cup with water for his Chihuahua, Booty Call. \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless here say life’s gotten harder since the city’s crackdown on tent cities. They have to keep on the move to avoid getting in trouble with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article97467837.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now that the big encampments are gone, the county has focused on quashing small camps\u003c/a> — often in more rural parts of the county — as they pop up. The county’s already spent over $100,000 clearing encampments this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s next stop is a nearby park. People aren’t allowed to sleep here, and they worry their shopping carts will be impounded by police if they hang out too long. Still, it’s one of the few places the homeless can get out of the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has been doing this kind of outreach to the homeless so long that everyone recognizes her SUV. As she unloads water, people wander up from around the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who goes by Chuy is one of them. She used to live in one of the big encampments. Now she says she moves around the city, finding ways to dodge police scrutiny. “I stay everywhere,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment she’s got a good thing going. “An abando — an abandoned house, kinda like on the side, incognito,” she says. “The owner of the house came and caught us in the backyard, but he’s letting us stay while they remodel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials say the homeless population has been cut in half to about 1,500 on any given day. That number is for both Fresno and Madera counties. Officials say it’s because they’ve \u003ca href=\"https://fresnofirststepshome.org/the-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added more housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article19534665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">streamlined services\u003c/a>. But advocates for the homeless suspect the people living on the streets are just harder to find now that they are working to stay out of sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes people like Martinez, who know where to look and have earned trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sends the homeless men and women she finds in in the park away with their arms full of supplies — water bottles, tampons, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste and foil-wrapped burritos handmade by Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll see you tomorrow, I’m gonna bring water and clothes,” Martinez says as she gets back in the SUV. “Love you guys!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11548117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11548117 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/H2O_FRESNO-4-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Martinez with Jershonda Mayberry and other “street family” at a Fresno park \u003ccite>(Sean Havey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez has dedicated herself full time to helping the homeless in the city of Fresno. She says the work helps her deal with painful parts of her own past — the very things that led to her homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s a totally different group of people, all different races and cultures and we all have similar stories — about domestic abuse, or family violence, or abuse in the home at young ages,” she says. “By us just sitting around accepting each other and not judging each other, it was empowering me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez spends most days handing out water and food. But she also launched a social media campaign and collects donations. 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She’s calling it a “sanctuary space” and is collecting donations to support the effort. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She partnered with a local philanthropist to create what Martinez calls a “sanctuary.” A private home where she’ll care for a few people at a time, helping them get into permanent housing. She’ll drive them to appointments and help them navigate the state programs in place to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important for Martinez is for it to feel like home. “Something that just inspires you to say, ‘OK, I want to get better,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Standing in his new apartment, on the top of a two-level building in Oakland, Daniel Yapo admits his journey from homelessness to housing took a lot of help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yapo spent years bouncing between temporary homes and jail, even spending time living on a roof in nearby Hayward. Service providers helped him find a place of his own, navigate treatment for mental illness and handle the tasks that come with independent living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever problem I had, whether it be courts, or my license, or anything that I had a problem with, they assigned somebody to help me with that,” Yapo said. “They just keep on helping me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We really think that housing is health care.’\u003ccite>Maria X. Martinez, Whole Person Care\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A new program \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/12/23/california-hopes-3-billion-experiment-will-improve-health-of-neediest/\">launching\u003c/a> around the state this summer aims to help more Medi-Cal recipients like Yapo by using federal health dollars to pay for supportive housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Pages/WholePersonCarePilots.aspx\">Whole Person Care\u003c/a> program represents a breakthrough in using health care money for housing services, which the federal government had long been wary of doing. The five-year pilot program allows local governments to pay for support services, but not actual rental costs, through a matching grant from Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are now hoping to take the program a step further, and fund rental assistance for vulnerable Medi-Cal recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really think that housing is health care,” said Maria X. Martinez, who is running the Whole Person Care pilot in San Francisco. “There’s a small number of homeless folks who are not only very poor, they’re very sick, either from living on the streets for so long or maybe their illness precipitated their homelessness.”\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”OJIO66ohKoFH8HlklOnc7mRoHCaUe7dk”]\u003cbr>\nThe program could save taxpayers money by treating people early on, so they won’t end up requiring expensive emergency room care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties and cities are planning to use the $1.5 billion of matching funds in a variety of ways — from creating a tool to evaluate the health of residents on the street and share that data among service providers, to boosting services to help the homeless find and stay in housing, In Alameda County, the grant will bring the total supportive housing slots in the county from 2,000 to 3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means that the newly housed homeless like Daniel Yapo can get help from local providers such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.abodeservices.org/\">Abode Services\u003c/a> that extend beyond traditional medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they enveloped me and took care of me,” Yapo says. “They took me to a lot of activities that I might of missed when I was a child. Simple things like movies, beach, plays, creative writing classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter seems to have paid dividends for Yapo, who eagerly recited a poem he wrote entitled “Careful What You Wish For” about his journey out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Yapo-Poem.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Daniel-Yapo-800x600.jpg\" Title=\"Daniel Yapo Reads ‘Careful What You Wish For’\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Services around supportive housing aren’t new, but the idea of paying for them with health care dollars had traditionally been rejected by the federal government. That changed when the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved California’s waiver to create the program in 2015. Other states, including New York and Washington, are taking a similar approach with federal waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is considered a social determinant. It’s not really health related,” said Sharon Rapport, associate director for California policy with the Corporation for Supportive Housing. “But it is health related in that when somebody is homeless, they are going to experience health conditions, even if they were healthy before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rapport said that state health officials were unable to convince the Obama administration to use Medicaid dollars to actually pay the rent of homeless Medi-Cal recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government was really nervous about doing that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, participants in Whole Person Care will have to rely on a variety of categorical funding sources to pay rent, from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, to state sources like the Mental Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a doughnut,” said Dr. Kathleen Clanon, who is leading the Whole Person Care pilot in Alameda County, adding there’s a need to fill the “hole in the middle of our doughnut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11540913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11540913 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25439_20170515_StateCapitol_Assemblymember_DavidChiu_credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asm. David Chiu (D-San Francisco) is hoping to fund rental assistance for homeless Californians on Medi-Cal. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The effort to fill the funding doughnut has been adopted in the state Legislature by Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco). His \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB74\">Assembly Bill 74\u003c/a> would use general fund money to pay for rental assistance for Whole Person Care recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An identical bill passed the Legislature last year, but was \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_2821_Veto_Message.pdf\">vetoed\u003c/a> by Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Late last fall, KQED reporters profiled three college students navigating class, work and finances. Also on their to-do list? Finding a place to sleep at night. These students were all homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For them, not having a home meant crashing on friends’ couches, sleeping in cars, working overnight jobs or staying in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To hear, read and see more about their lives six months ago, you can \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/homelessu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find their stories here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s happened since then? We caught up with all three students and found that for each of them, things have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/06/TCRMag20170630.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/06/30/BrittanyCrop2.jpg\" Title=\"These Students Were Homeless 6 Months Ago. 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Below are images of her life over this time, changed dramatically by an outpouring of support from some of our listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>November 2016\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2016, Brittany was homeless. She’d spend her time on public transit, at school or work if she had a job, with friends or family members, or at a Storage Mart where she rented a unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click on the below photos and read the captions to learn more about her life back then:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"large\" type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11535960,11535957,11535961,11539317,11539261,11539534\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>December 2016\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After hiding the fact that she was homeless for months, Brittany’s story \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/08/homelessu-a-college-students-life-without-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aired on KQED in December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately, there was a huge response. Old foster families reached out to have Brittany over for a meal, teachers thanked her for sharing her story and KQED audience members created streams of support. One listener created a fundraising website, which raised over $5,000 for Brittany, and a generous family from Oakland offered to help find an apartment for Brittany. Their plan was to pay the rent for at least a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two weeks after Brittany’s story aired, she got the keys to her new studio apartment, just a short walk from Laney College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photos below were taken the day she moved into her apartment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"large\" type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11536417,11536420,11539619,11539542,11536418\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>May 2017\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With the foundation of an apartment and donations and emotional support from strangers, family and friends, Brittany took on a load of three courses at Laney College in the spring semester. She’s found she loves being a student, loves working on her English and math skills and grappling with new concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that Brittany has a space of her own, she’s been able to better get to know herself, and be a more typical young adult in her 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”k96GHcQ7jrtHLSae1Sju1G5qVINcA0P6″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s opening herself up to new experiences like meditation, and enjoying the things she was too exhausted to do before, like going out dancing with friends. Having an apartment has also created the mental space for Brittany to begin processing the challenges of her childhood and her time without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still big questions in Brittany’s life. How long will it take to finish school? Will the degree be all Brittany hopes for? What about housing? Brittany isn’t actually sure how long the family from Oakland is planning to pay her rent. 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Now she’s on academic probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tough pill to swallow,” Ebony says. “You feel like you can handle so much. But at the end of the day, it’s not enough. Whatever is in you is not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not all bad news for Ebony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11211331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11211331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23167_161201_EbonyOrtega_bhs02-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ebony Ortega, a college student at San Francisco State University experiencing housing insecurity, studies on her computer during her work breaks. 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This time next year, she hopes to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>James de la Nueve\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last December, James was attending Santa Monica College, trying to restart his life after getting kicked out of his last school. That’s not his real name. He came up with a new name to signal his new beginning, a new James. And he was determined to get it right this time, despite being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Qt7y7wnSQePpnR1tAEFt7OHBET73Ycfz”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day is a constant reminder like the world is just hammering at you. You don’t have a place to stay,” he said. “It’s like you’re in class and it’s the only thing you’re thinking about. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11535095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-800x960.jpg\" alt=\"Life on the Hook by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-800x960.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-160x192.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-1020x1224.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-1180x1416.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-960x1152.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-240x288.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-375x450.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/anchor-outs_intro-520x624.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seeing an old 1970s trailer floating on a barge (“barge” is being generous) on the water off Sausalito a few years back, I became curious about anchor-outs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anchor-outs” are what they call boats that drop anchor outside formal marinas and stay awhile, often indefinitely. People have lived this way for decades. It can be a cheap way to live, but nearly everyone I spoke with said “it’s a hard life.” Almost all said those exact words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The floating homes can range from very nice sailboats to barely floating tubs covered in tarps. The biennial Marin County homeless count in 2015 found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/sites/default/files/files/servicepages/2015_06/marincounty_homelessreport_2015_final-6.23review.pdf\">14 percent of the homeless population live on boats\u003c/a>. Most of the people I spoke with don’t consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/06/2017-06-30c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/LifeOnHoodFeatured.jpg\" Title=\"Life on the Hook: Sausalito's Floating 'Homeless'\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many anchor-outs are tidy little sailboats, some are dilapidated boats that break loose from their anchor chains or sink. I saw one unattended boat taking on water and beginning to sink when I was out on the bay. There are stories of health hazards, drugs and violence, but there are also stories of compassion, beauty and independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the waterfront, there is talk of a crackdown on anchor-outs after the Sausalito City Council enacted rules limiting anchored boats to 72 hours in one place, or face being impounded. The council also recently approved two new hires for “waterfront enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the people I recently met on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11535157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy’s life story could fill volumes. He was a 3-year-old in London during the Blitz, lived in Cameroon on his parents’ banana plantation and has worked on boats for most of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11537247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"John Surviving by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John says his boat — the Suisun — has been sunk three times and restored twice. 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The council also recently approved two new hires for “waterfront enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the people I recently met on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11535157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/jeremy02-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy’s life story could fill volumes. He was a 3-year-old in London during the Blitz, lived in Cameroon on his parents’ banana plantation and has worked on boats for most of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11537247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"John Surviving by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-375x469.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/john03-1-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John says his boat — the Suisun — has been sunk three times and restored twice. 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