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"content": "\u003cp>In her campaign for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris often mentions the record settlement her office negotiated with five of the largest mortgage lenders after the home foreclosure crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal that brought about $20 billion in relief to California won national media attention for Harris. But the mortgage meltdown continues affecting homeowners to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not my home.'\u003ccite>Rosario Frisse\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the home Rosario Frisse rents in a quiet neighborhood in Antioch -- a city about 45 miles east of San Francisco -- there aren't many decorations on her walls. Even though she's been living there for a few years, there are unpacked boxes on her patio outside and more in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not my home,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home she once owned sits about a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Frisse lost the house after her adjustable mortgage was raised to an amount she couldn’t afford. Her husband was working with the bank to modify the loan. At one point a deal looked promising and they were waiting on an offer from the lender, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The offer never came.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the lender foreclosed on Frisse's house and it was sold at auction, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, 632,573 Californians received a foreclosure filing, including a default notice, scheduled foreclosure auction or bank repossession, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtytrac.com/landing/2009-year-end-foreclosure-report.html\">RealtyTrac\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10968406\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Completed_Foreclosures_in_California_by_Year_Completed_foreclosures_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national settlement that was announced in 2012 was supposed to provide some debt relief to homeowners and fix the way banks communicated and worked with people like Frisse, whose homes were in jeopardy of being foreclosed. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Attorney General Harris was crucial to negotiating the national settlement's terms, since California had the country's highest number of foreclosures. She even refused to sign onto an initial deal because it wasn't enough money. But eventually she would settle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harris Was In a No-Win Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Harris played a bad hand relatively well,\" said journalist \u003ca href=\"http://daviddayen.tumblr.com/\">David Dayen\u003c/a>, whose new book, \"Chain of Title,\" examines the mortgage crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayen also followed the national settlement closely and is part of the group of critics who believe the banks should have been prosecuted. There was certainly enough evidence, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was finally a bit of leverage over the financial industry on behalf of homeowners that we did not see at any other point in this crisis, certainly not to this degree,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecuting would take time. Plus, even if Harris wanted to fight the banks, there needed to be a bigger coalition -- not just her, said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266189765'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Californians were losing their homes. In 2012, Harris and 48 other attorneys general settled with five of the largest mortgage lenders, including Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the banks provided about $20 billion in relief to California. The lenders were credited for providing certain types of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $9.2 billion went to short sales. That’s when people still lose their home but the impact is less damaging to the homeowner's credit than a foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around $4.5 billion went to debt relief on the second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best possible type of relief homeowners got was debt relief on the first mortgage -- known as first mortgage principal reduction -- which attempted to bring the value of the loan down to the value of the home. Roughly 33,000 homeowners received an average reduction of $137,280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all the settlement relief that homeowners received to help them stay in their homes, the smallest number got a first mortgage reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely distributed relief, which was given to about 200,000 homeowners, was the $1,500 in restitution that Rosario Frisse got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was like a slap in the face for a lot of us,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10967320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10967320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1581.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Frisse lives in a rental home in Antioch, not far from the home she lost from foreclosure. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Just the Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best things Harris did, according to Dayen, was to appoint UC Irvine professor Katherine Porter to lead the special monitor program. Her job was to hold the lenders accountable over the settlement period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I took calls on day one,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, her office responded to over 5,000 complaints. A website was quickly created for homeowners to check their eligibility in the settlement -- something that wasn't done at the national level. Porter and others also spoke with attorneys and judges who needed help understanding the settlement's terms, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told KQED the media were focused on the billions of dollars in settlement money, but Harris’ real achievement was the reforms she was pushing for simultaneously in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was passed in 2012, the \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/a> meant that all banks and lenders had to obey the new rules, not just the top five lenders in the settlement. The reforms meant there is now a single point of contact to prevent miscommunication. There are restrictions on dual tracking, which prevents foreclosure on homeowners who are in the process of modifying their loans. And homeowners were given the ability to sue lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The servicing standards helped everybody. Every homeowner,\" said Porter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, banks and lenders were making more of an effort to change under the settlement, she said. But when housing counselors were asked how the banks are doing now, four years later, some have said lenders are still violating the reforms that were intended to be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view that's grounds for new prosecution,\" said Dayen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10968547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1419px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10968547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013.\" width=\"1419\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform.jpg 1419w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-400x541.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-800x1082.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-1180x1597.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/7185_transform-960x1299.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference in 2013. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the national settlement, Harris has reached other smaller related agreements with lenders. A spokesman for Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign said she would continue her fight to prevent the risky practices that caused the financial collapse, but he declined to give specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has used her power in other ways. She recently wrote a brief on behalf of a homeowner in a case that went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/kamala-harris-catches-ride-on-populist-wave-in-california-senate-primary/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a>. She also put her shoulder into a law that would cover \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/surviving-spouses-can-have-their-homes-foreclosed-on-if-they-arent-listed-on-the-mortgage\">widows, widowers and other survivors\u003c/a> in the Homeowner Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Settlement Is Hard to Measure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no true accounting of whether the government did enough to help struggling borrowers during the foreclosure crisis\u003cb>,\u003c/b> according to Carolina Reid, a UC Berkeley professor who studies the impacts the foreclosure crisis had on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data exist on who gets loans, and we know that African- American and Latino families \u003ca href=\"http://www.responsiblelending.org/mortgage-lending/research-analysis/Lost-Ground-2011.pdf\">disproportionately got the worst loans\u003c/a>. But we don’t know much about the families who get loan modifications, even those who were helped from the settlement. There’s no race or neighborhood data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been great to look at each of the loan modifications and understand who got them -- and, more importantly, who didn’t,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of mortgage lending to African-American and Latino families has dropped since the recession. Banks are almost too cautious in some cases and not lending to some families who would make great homeowners, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Frisse saw some friends and neighbors keep their homes because of the settlement. It was a celebration when they did, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2009, the year she lost her house, she fought hard on behalf of homeowners. She caravaned with a group called Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization to Washington, D.C., to protest the banks, and she spoke at rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn't help her save her own home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisse said her husband now wants to move back to Missouri, where there's family. She wants to stay in California. But at the same time there are no pictures on her walls. And there are still unpacked boxes that tell her she’s not home yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KQED. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/election-2016\">kqed.org/election2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The thick surgical scars running up and down George Arthur’s arms, chest and neck tell a story of pain, tragedy and incredible survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am programmed to survive,\" George tells me in one of the many conversations we’ve had over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George learned some of his survival skills during a brief stint in the military. But his real test has been on the streets. For the past 25 years or so he’s lived in flophouses, shelters, parks, sometimes on the sidewalk. He's survived drug overdoses, brutal fights and a dramatic suicide attempt that's claimed the lives of more than 1,500 other people: a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265149628\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, military veterans like George made up as much as half the homeless population in some American cities. But in recent years there’s been surprising progress and the number of vets living in shelters and on the streets has dropped by as much as 50 percent. Are there clues here for solving our broader homeless crisis? Maybe. But one thing is clear to me. The push to help vets is radically changing the lives of people like George Arthur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met George for the first time four years ago, not on the streets but behind bars. I was touring a San Francisco jail facility where officers were showing off a special section for incarcerated military veterans, part of a program called COVER. It was something the Sheriff’s Department was proud of -- a relatively peaceful place without a lot of the violence and racial tension endemic to most California lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I entered the cell area, inmates were hanging out in the day room working on an art project. George approached me and in a soft voice said he wanted to talk. He told me he'd been in and out of jail and prison for drugs and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The revolving door,\" he said with a timid smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>George is about 6 feet tall, with short brown hair, a craggy face and deep-set eyes. His body is sinewy and crooked and got me thinking about a statue that’s about to topple over. I noticed he was walking stiffly and seemed to be in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I literally have enough metal on the inside of my skin, holding my bones together, that I shouldn’t be breathing,\" he told me. \"I shouldn’t even be walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked George what he needed most, he said it's obvious: a safe place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you don't have housing -- you know, literally being out on the streets -- it's a lot easier on the streets if you are on dope,\" George said. \"You know, it just is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-400x764.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-1180x2254.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-960x1834.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joel Daniel Phillips)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George was right. After he got out of jail he went back to the streets and back to drugs. It was kind of strange because I kept bumping into George. I’d see him passing by KQED on his way to San Francisco General Hospital. Or in front of Trader Joe's on Bryant Street. Or near my son's school on Nob Hill. Sometimes he was in a daze and didn't recognize me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he started showing up near my house in the Lower Haight. On Sundays he’d grab a free breakfast at a nearby church and sit on a bench to watch the dogs playing in Duboce Park. One morning I found him lounging in the sun with his shirt off, reading a paperback (Plato's \"Republic\"), nibbling on a bagel and smiling at a small white terrier named Pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George recognized me and I joined him on the bench. He talked about trying to get housing at a newly opened facility for homeless vets called Veterans Commons. But there seemed to be obstacles. His mood darkened as he talked about the daily struggles of life on the street, especially the challenge of staying safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Often times I feel as though I'm in combat,\" he said. \"Or in a combat environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was two years ago, about the time George got a new caseworker named Charlie Berman. He's a social worker at Citywide Case Management, a program that provides services to San Francisco's homeless and mentally ill. By the time Berman was assigned the case, George had racked up more than 200 visits to treatment programs and the emergency room. He was belligerent. Sometimes violent. Berman explained to me that George had multiple brain injuries that made it hard to remember people and events and to put things together to make good decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. 'Killing myself, killing the developed me... That’s what I was doing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"George is someone who's been through a lot,\" he said. \"He's a survivor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met George I assumed his injuries happened in combat. But it turns out he was never in combat because his time in the military was very brief. George joined the Marines back in the late 1980s, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps in the military. But he flunked out of basic training due to a shoulder injury and allegations of drug use prior to enlisting. It's a failure that still haunts George today. He was living in Chicago at the time. He got married and had a son who died just a few days after birth. So George came West to escape his grief. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper and deeper into drugs -- weed, meth, cocaine. He got into brutal fights and had a bad motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. \"Killing myself, killing the developed me,\" he says. \"That’s what I was doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeply troubled, George decided to end his life. He remembers hopping the bus to San Francisco’s Presidio -- the former Army base. He drank a bottle of scotch and made his way up to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a copy of the Coast Guard report from that day, March 9, 2008. It describes officers rushing to the center of the bridge to save a man who was hanging by his hands from a railing. That man was George. The officers tried to talk him back but he let go and plunged more than 200 feet into the water. A Coast Guard boat had been alerted and the crew quickly pulled him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again. George's recovery was brutal -- he spent months immobilized in a hospital. His case wasn't picked up by the media. I could find no record of it on the Internet, and other survivors I spoke with have never heard of George. But over the years he’s shared his story with therapists, caseworkers and people he meets on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-400x351.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-1180x1036.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-960x843.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shaun Robert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One day about a year ago an artist named Joel Daniel Phillips was taking photographs at Sixth and Mission streets, images he uses to create iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. He met George and they ended up talking for nearly an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me the basic synopsis of his story and I was totally astounded,\" Phillips said. \"There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to. People that we walk by and refuse to make eye contact with, even. There are so many stories that aren't told that are just as compelling or even more compelling because they're overlooked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips snapped a couple of photos and from those images drew a portrait of George that's part of a larger series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, George didn’t know about the growing push to get veterans off the streets, the billions of dollars the Obama administration was pumping into housing and support programs. In San Francisco, officials created a registry to prioritize the most urgent cases. But when it came to getting George housing, some people thought he wasn't ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't sober and since he barely served in the military he didn't qualify for most VA benefits. But George made it onto the veterans' registry anyway. And after being homeless for nearly 25 years, he got his own apartment at Veterans Commons a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Alexander Cwalinski/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Charlie Berman helped George move in, he recalls it was deeply emotional for both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"George has such a pattern in his life of things not working out that for him actually to get what he wants, what he hoped for, is a big deal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George now had a place to live in one of America's most expensive cities. But Berman is the first to admit that arriving from the streets to a new apartment is a major challenge. I saw that close-up when I joined him on a check-in visit a few weeks after George got his new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we entered the studio apartment, George was in a fog and told us he was stoned. Clothes, paper and food were scattered around the room. We sat at a small kitchen table and chatted, and then Berman helped George pick things up. By the time we left, George was feeling better. Berman noted the obvious: Housing is not a cure-all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are these very tangible benefits for George that we can see,\" he told me. \"He's not going to the hospital as much. He's making our appointments for the first time ever on time. It’s amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And at the same time George continues to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something that I've talked to him about is certain behaviors like saving things you find on the ground. Or being aggressive and fighting with people as a way to defend yourself are really functional and make a lot of sense when you're living on the street, but just don't translate well into being housed,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing resources on long-term homeless vets like George is paying off around California. Since 2011, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno and San Francisco have all seen steady declines in the number of military veterans living on the streets or in shelters by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans in the last five years, compared to other homeless subpopulations, have received a great deal of resources,” said Leon Winston, chief operating officer at Swords to Plowshares, the group that operates the Veterans Commons facility, just south of Market Street. \"It’s been a bit of an embarrassment of riches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\" width=\"800\" height=\"825\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-400x412.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-1180x1216.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-960x990.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Charlie Berman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a coda to this story, I gathered recently at the offices of Citywide Case Management with George Arthur, Charlie Berman and Joel Daniel Phillips. Phillips brought along his portrait of George, mounted in a heavy frame. In the drawing, George is dressed in a T-shirt, sweatshirt and surf shorts, and is staring straight at the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s kind of my look,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George was seeing the portrait for the first time and took a very close look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me wonder what it is that is in his/my mind. It’s really expressive work. There's no question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he liked it. But he had a concern -- what was he to do with the drawing? It was too large to carry around on the streets. I reminded George that he now has an apartment \u003cem>with walls\u003c/em>. He could hang the portrait there. And that’s what he did, and that’s where it is today. At George’s place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: To receive VA health care benefits, recent veterans must have served 24 continuous months or the full period for which they were called to active duty, although there are exceptions. However, as part of the VA’s homeless program, a person can be considered a veteran eligible for certain benefits regardless of the length of active service.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The thick surgical scars running up and down George Arthur’s arms, chest and neck tell a story of pain, tragedy and incredible survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am programmed to survive,\" George tells me in one of the many conversations we’ve had over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George learned some of his survival skills during a brief stint in the military. But his real test has been on the streets. For the past 25 years or so he’s lived in flophouses, shelters, parks, sometimes on the sidewalk. He's survived drug overdoses, brutal fights and a dramatic suicide attempt that's claimed the lives of more than 1,500 other people: a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265149628&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265149628'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, military veterans like George made up as much as half the homeless population in some American cities. But in recent years there’s been surprising progress and the number of vets living in shelters and on the streets has dropped by as much as 50 percent. Are there clues here for solving our broader homeless crisis? Maybe. But one thing is clear to me. The push to help vets is radically changing the lives of people like George Arthur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met George for the first time four years ago, not on the streets but behind bars. I was touring a San Francisco jail facility where officers were showing off a special section for incarcerated military veterans, part of a program called COVER. It was something the Sheriff’s Department was proud of -- a relatively peaceful place without a lot of the violence and racial tension endemic to most California lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I entered the cell area, inmates were hanging out in the day room working on an art project. George approached me and in a soft voice said he wanted to talk. He told me he'd been in and out of jail and prison for drugs and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The revolving door,\" he said with a timid smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>George is about 6 feet tall, with short brown hair, a craggy face and deep-set eyes. His body is sinewy and crooked and got me thinking about a statue that’s about to topple over. I noticed he was walking stiffly and seemed to be in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I literally have enough metal on the inside of my skin, holding my bones together, that I shouldn’t be breathing,\" he told me. \"I shouldn’t even be walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked George what he needed most, he said it's obvious: a safe place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you don't have housing -- you know, literally being out on the streets -- it's a lot easier on the streets if you are on dope,\" George said. \"You know, it just is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-400x764.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-1180x2254.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-960x1834.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joel Daniel Phillips)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George was right. After he got out of jail he went back to the streets and back to drugs. It was kind of strange because I kept bumping into George. I’d see him passing by KQED on his way to San Francisco General Hospital. Or in front of Trader Joe's on Bryant Street. Or near my son's school on Nob Hill. Sometimes he was in a daze and didn't recognize me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he started showing up near my house in the Lower Haight. On Sundays he’d grab a free breakfast at a nearby church and sit on a bench to watch the dogs playing in Duboce Park. One morning I found him lounging in the sun with his shirt off, reading a paperback (Plato's \"Republic\"), nibbling on a bagel and smiling at a small white terrier named Pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George recognized me and I joined him on the bench. He talked about trying to get housing at a newly opened facility for homeless vets called Veterans Commons. But there seemed to be obstacles. His mood darkened as he talked about the daily struggles of life on the street, especially the challenge of staying safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Often times I feel as though I'm in combat,\" he said. \"Or in a combat environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was two years ago, about the time George got a new caseworker named Charlie Berman. He's a social worker at Citywide Case Management, a program that provides services to San Francisco's homeless and mentally ill. By the time Berman was assigned the case, George had racked up more than 200 visits to treatment programs and the emergency room. He was belligerent. Sometimes violent. Berman explained to me that George had multiple brain injuries that made it hard to remember people and events and to put things together to make good decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. 'Killing myself, killing the developed me... That’s what I was doing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"George is someone who's been through a lot,\" he said. \"He's a survivor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met George I assumed his injuries happened in combat. But it turns out he was never in combat because his time in the military was very brief. George joined the Marines back in the late 1980s, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps in the military. But he flunked out of basic training due to a shoulder injury and allegations of drug use prior to enlisting. It's a failure that still haunts George today. He was living in Chicago at the time. He got married and had a son who died just a few days after birth. So George came West to escape his grief. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper and deeper into drugs -- weed, meth, cocaine. He got into brutal fights and had a bad motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. \"Killing myself, killing the developed me,\" he says. \"That’s what I was doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeply troubled, George decided to end his life. He remembers hopping the bus to San Francisco’s Presidio -- the former Army base. He drank a bottle of scotch and made his way up to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a copy of the Coast Guard report from that day, March 9, 2008. It describes officers rushing to the center of the bridge to save a man who was hanging by his hands from a railing. That man was George. The officers tried to talk him back but he let go and plunged more than 200 feet into the water. A Coast Guard boat had been alerted and the crew quickly pulled him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again. George's recovery was brutal -- he spent months immobilized in a hospital. His case wasn't picked up by the media. I could find no record of it on the Internet, and other survivors I spoke with have never heard of George. But over the years he’s shared his story with therapists, caseworkers and people he meets on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-400x351.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-1180x1036.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-960x843.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shaun Robert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One day about a year ago an artist named Joel Daniel Phillips was taking photographs at Sixth and Mission streets, images he uses to create iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. He met George and they ended up talking for nearly an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me the basic synopsis of his story and I was totally astounded,\" Phillips said. \"There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to. People that we walk by and refuse to make eye contact with, even. There are so many stories that aren't told that are just as compelling or even more compelling because they're overlooked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips snapped a couple of photos and from those images drew a portrait of George that's part of a larger series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, George didn’t know about the growing push to get veterans off the streets, the billions of dollars the Obama administration was pumping into housing and support programs. In San Francisco, officials created a registry to prioritize the most urgent cases. But when it came to getting George housing, some people thought he wasn't ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't sober and since he barely served in the military he didn't qualify for most VA benefits. But George made it onto the veterans' registry anyway. And after being homeless for nearly 25 years, he got his own apartment at Veterans Commons a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Alexander Cwalinski/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Charlie Berman helped George move in, he recalls it was deeply emotional for both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"George has such a pattern in his life of things not working out that for him actually to get what he wants, what he hoped for, is a big deal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George now had a place to live in one of America's most expensive cities. But Berman is the first to admit that arriving from the streets to a new apartment is a major challenge. I saw that close-up when I joined him on a check-in visit a few weeks after George got his new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we entered the studio apartment, George was in a fog and told us he was stoned. Clothes, paper and food were scattered around the room. We sat at a small kitchen table and chatted, and then Berman helped George pick things up. By the time we left, George was feeling better. Berman noted the obvious: Housing is not a cure-all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are these very tangible benefits for George that we can see,\" he told me. \"He's not going to the hospital as much. He's making our appointments for the first time ever on time. It’s amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And at the same time George continues to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something that I've talked to him about is certain behaviors like saving things you find on the ground. Or being aggressive and fighting with people as a way to defend yourself are really functional and make a lot of sense when you're living on the street, but just don't translate well into being housed,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing resources on long-term homeless vets like George is paying off around California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Los Angeles County supervisors moved a step closer on Tuesday to placing a so-called \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/bos/supdocs/103824.pdf\">millionaire’s tax \u003c/a>on the November ballot. The .5 percent levy on residents earning over $1 million a year could bring in more than $250 million a year in revenue, according to the county’s own calculations. The money would be used to expand services for the county’s roughly 47,000 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s nothing new for a county or local municipality to impose a sales or tourism tax to help pay for day-to-day operating costs. But trying to impose a personal income tax to help finance a specific need is nothing if not unusual. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For one, L.A. doesn’t have the authority to do it on its own. What Tuesday’s narrow 3-2 vote does is clear the way for the county to seek a state amendment allowing California counties to impose such a tax. So, before L.A. County can impose the tax, it needs the backing of the state Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has already signaled a willingness to help combat surges of homelessness in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Bay Area and other parts of California. Last week he backed a massive $2 billion bond effort focused on housing the state’s mentally ill homeless residents. The bonds would be repaid over time with revenue from \u003ca href=\"http://prop63.org/\">Proposition 63\u003c/a>, the state’s own \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-millionaires-tax-20160510-story.html\">“millionaire’s tax”\u003c/a> approved by voters in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now it’s time for us to seek every conceivable way possible to fund rent subsidies, rapid rehousing, the whole range of services that are needed for those who are suffering,” says L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who co-authored the county’s tax proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Up at the summit of Yerba Buena Island, at the top of a lone tower, sits the Signal Room. It’s a treasure hidden in plain sight that boasts incredible views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built in 1944, the tower was originally used for signal operations by the Navy. Since January of last year, the signal tower \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/20/welcome-to-the-signal-room-secret-venue-for-san-franciscos-arts-underground\">has housed a secret speakeasy and cabaret\u003c/a> run by Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez. Next month the tower is scheduled to be demolished to make way for open space known, fittingly enough, as Hilltop Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to stop them from tearing it down,\" says Ashton-Gonzalez. \"The Signal Room made me fall back in love with the Bay Area again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s built a small community around the tower, organizing secret performances and concerts. Amid a tech boom that has displaced many artists, some saw this speakeasy as evidence that counterculture can still thrive in the Bay Area. That said, Ashton-Gonzalez wasn’t the first to use the tower as a drinking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10957412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"The bar up in the Signal Room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar up in the Signal Room. (Skye McKee)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the tower was retired from signal operations, it was turned into an officers' club. For years, the place was known as the Tower Club, a place where military personnel would go to drink and be merry. The bar shut down after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the building was condemned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although planning for Hilltop Park has been underway since 2005, Ashton-Gonzalez found out about the fate planned for the signal tower only last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957406 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg\" alt=\"A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\" width=\"800\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-400x166.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1920x796.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1180x489.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-960x398.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I actually felt energized by history, honestly. They used to call it ‘the tower that talks,' \" Ashton-Gonzalez says. \"... I felt I needed to double down and bring as many people up to the Signal Room as I could, to share it with as many people as possible. I wanted this little cabaret to stand for something bigger for San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Ashton-Gonzalez looked into using environmental law to save the tower, claiming historical significance. But the argument for historical preservation became more difficult when it was revealed that the tower was younger than he previously believed. He didn’t realize that a tower built in 1917 was replaced by a remarkably similar one in 1944. But Ashton-Gonzalez is still trying to find ways to save the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1IYO4j18jrlBfpIzaO1VbO5sRbUvGZGp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Beck, director of the city's Treasure Island Development Authority, says he can't recommend saving the tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The merit of the building lies in being able to go up into the tower,\" he says. \"But, if you want it to be publicly accessible, then you’d have to install an elevator. That would be a significant structural investment. You’d end up with little space for the actual observation deck and it would hinder the views. It wouldn’t be the space that it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck adds he can't endorse Ashton-Gonzalez's transformation of the tower into the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s signs posted on the structure advising against trespassing,\" Beck said. \"[Ashton-Gonzalez’s] use has been a trespass. He’s taken the facility for a private use and it’s not a replicable or sustainable use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957409 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"“Sailors Signaling Other Sailors” a performance by Torreya Cummings held in the Signal Room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-1180x788.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Sailors Signaling Other Sailors,' a performance by Torreya Cummings held in the Signal Room. \u003ccite>(Yesenia Lara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kheay Loke, the senior development manager at Wilson Meany, the co-developer with Lennar and Stockbridge on the hilltop project, says the open space at the island's summit is designed to provide better public access to the site's special views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a really nice series of parks with trails connecting them, Loke says. \"So people can enjoy the great view of the bay and surrounding hills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957411 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"The view from the Signal Room, facing west towards the Golden Gate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the Signal Room, facing west toward the Golden Gate. \u003ccite>(Skye McKee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Hilltop Park project has a budget of $4 million and is set to be completed sometime in 2018. Downhill from the park, developers plan to build 200 to 300 townhouses. To make way for the homes and parks, about 60 existing units are slated for demolition beginning next month. There is no set demolition date for the Signal Room, but Loke doesn’t believe plans will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Saving the tower isn’t compatible with the current plan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loke knows about Ashton-Gonzalez, but isn't thrilled by what he's been doing at the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m aware that someone has been trying to save the building,\" he says. \"It’s been a nuisance and annoyance. He has never officially contacted, but we do try to listen to the opinions out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s met employees of one developer, Lennar, at social events and hopes these informal connections will help rescue the tower. He won’t disclose names, but he says he’s also brought a number of San Francisco city officials up into the tower in hopes of saving it. However, these efforts have been cut short after the developers installed gates and padlocks around the entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957407 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"Paul Hayes\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An art installation in the Signal Room by Paul Hayes. \u003ccite>(Paul Hayes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those officials have been members of the city's Arts Commission, Ashton-Gonzalez says. He hopes to turn the building into an architectural sculpture if it can’t be maintained as a publicly accessible building. Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s talked to a local artist, \u003ca href=\"http://www.metaphorm.org/\">Brian Goggin\u003c/a>, about turning it into an installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arts Commission declined comment on the tower. Although there are plans to build \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/21/city-plans-to-transform-treasure-island-with-50-million-for-public-art/\">sculpture gardens \u003c/a>elsewhere on Yerba Buena Island, it looks as if the tower will be gone long before sculptures and artists are selected.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although planning for Hilltop Park has been underway since 2005, Ashton-Gonzalez found out about the fate planned for the signal tower only last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957406 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg\" alt=\"A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\" width=\"800\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-400x166.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1920x796.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1180x489.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-960x398.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I actually felt energized by history, honestly. They used to call it ‘the tower that talks,' \" Ashton-Gonzalez says. \"... I felt I needed to double down and bring as many people up to the Signal Room as I could, to share it with as many people as possible. I wanted this little cabaret to stand for something bigger for San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Ashton-Gonzalez looked into using environmental law to save the tower, claiming historical significance. But the argument for historical preservation became more difficult when it was revealed that the tower was younger than he previously believed. He didn’t realize that a tower built in 1917 was replaced by a remarkably similar one in 1944. But Ashton-Gonzalez is still trying to find ways to save the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Beck, director of the city's Treasure Island Development Authority, says he can't recommend saving the tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The merit of the building lies in being able to go up into the tower,\" he says. \"But, if you want it to be publicly accessible, then you’d have to install an elevator. That would be a significant structural investment. You’d end up with little space for the actual observation deck and it would hinder the views. It wouldn’t be the space that it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck adds he can't endorse Ashton-Gonzalez's transformation of the tower into the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s signs posted on the structure advising against trespassing,\" Beck said. \"[Ashton-Gonzalez’s] use has been a trespass. 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Downhill from the park, developers plan to build 200 to 300 townhouses. To make way for the homes and parks, about 60 existing units are slated for demolition beginning next month. There is no set demolition date for the Signal Room, but Loke doesn’t believe plans will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Saving the tower isn’t compatible with the current plan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loke knows about Ashton-Gonzalez, but isn't thrilled by what he's been doing at the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m aware that someone has been trying to save the building,\" he says. \"It’s been a nuisance and annoyance. He has never officially contacted, but we do try to listen to the opinions out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s met employees of one developer, Lennar, at social events and hopes these informal connections will help rescue the tower. He won’t disclose names, but he says he’s also brought a number of San Francisco city officials up into the tower in hopes of saving it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every year Californians buy about 22 billion beverages in aluminum, glass and plastic containers. Every one of those containers can be redeemed for a few cents each. That means trash can be turned into cash, providing a lifeline for a subculture of marginalized recyclers — the unemployed and underemployed, the elderly, the mentally and physically disabled, former criminals, drug addicts and prostitutes — who, through recycling, earn money and reclaim the pride that comes with having a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new documentary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/dogtown-redemption/\">\"Dogtown Redemption,\"\u003c/a> tells the stories of some of the people who make their living off our nation’s vast river of trash. The film focuses on three central characters living in Oakland, following them over seven years, to give insight into the lives of America’s unseen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10953647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Landon-Goodwin_dogtown_redemption-press-04-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Landon Goodwin, a former minister who ends up on the streets of Dogtown surviving as a street recycler.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Landon-Goodwin_dogtown_redemption-press-04.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Landon-Goodwin_dogtown_redemption-press-04-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Landon-Goodwin_dogtown_redemption-press-04-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Landon-Goodwin_dogtown_redemption-press-04-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Landon-Goodwin_dogtown_redemption-press-04-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landon Goodwin, a former minister who ended up on the streets of Dogtown surviving as a street recycler. \u003ccite>(Chihiro Wimbush/ Courtesy of ITVS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Landon Goodwin, a former minister who has struggled with his own fall from grace. He found himself living on the streets of West Oakland and relying on income made from recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the recyclers, Goodwin is known as “the preacher.” He’s their minister. A gentle, stylish man, he has a warm, generous and gracious smile that conceals his hard times. As he puts it, living on the streets is like being “in my valley of weeping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film, which was produced by \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/\">ITVS\u003c/a> and will air on \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/watch-video/\">PBS\u003c/a> next week, chronicles Goodwin’s long climb out of that valley, which began after two vicious back-to-back attacks left him feeling unsafe on the streets and in the shack that he used to call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landon eventually leaves West Oakland for some tough love: his cousin’s drug rehabilitation center. The film tracks Landon as he leaves behind his friends and community — the recyclers — to return to his position as preacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can he serve as the bridge reconnecting the recyclers back to the worlds, the churches, the professions, families and futures they have lost?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10953865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/dogtown_redemption-press-01-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Witt (right), the Olympic champion of recycling, hauls a shopping cart with his girlfriend, Heather Holloman (left), on top. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/dogtown_redemption-press-01.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/dogtown_redemption-press-01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/dogtown_redemption-press-01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/dogtown_redemption-press-01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/dogtown_redemption-press-01-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Witt (right), the Olympic champion of recycling, hauls a shopping cart with his girlfriend, Heather Holloman (left), on top. \u003ccite>(Chihiro Wimbush/ Courtesy of ITVS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Dogtown Redemption\" follows Goodwin and the other recyclers through the prism of a single recycling center: Alliance Metals in the Dogtown neighborhood of West Oakland. With annual sales in the millions, Alliance is an anomaly in an otherwise depressed neighborhood that has witnessed the steady flight, erosion and collapse of American industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of new developments in West Oakland view Alliance Metals as noisy, smelly and dirty — a giant garbage can that attracts scavengers, drug dealers and criminals. The rattle of the shopping carts, missing garbage cans, litter on the streets, public defecation, theft, crime and trespassing are offered as evidence that the recyclers are a blight upon the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of fighting, Alliance Metals is now slated to close in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amir Soltani, the film's director, was recently on \u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ronnie Johnson, 49, doesn’t know what she will do if she is evicted from her rent-controlled loft in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. She's thinking about moving in with her parents in Washington state or trying to start over in a new city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Johnson, along with the 22 other residential tenants in her building, received an Ellis Act eviction notice from her landlord, known as 1049 Market St. LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Someone's trying to throw you out of your house, in a place where there are no other houses for you.'\u003ccite>Tony Breaux,\u003cbr>\nResident of 1049 Market St.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The eviction — one of the largest Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco since the law was enacted in 1985 — comes after several years of legal battles between the tenants of 1049 Market St. and their landlord. This kind of eviction, officially called an Ellis Act withdrawal, permits building owners to evict residential tenants in order to remove their units from the residential market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, 1049 Market St. LLC intends to rent all of the building’s 86 units as commercial office space. But some of the building’s residential tenants say they won’t leave without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building's Complicated History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though dozens of Ellis Act evictions occur each year in San Francisco, 1049 Market St. is a unique situation and the zoning of the building has been disputed for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, the top floor of the six-floor building was permitted for live-work lofts, a type of commercial zoning specifically for tenants who operate a business out of their residence. The first through fifth floors of the building are permitted exclusively for commercial use and were never approved for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952794 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still03-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, many of the units on those floors have been rented to residential tenants since the 1990s. Many of the units have lofted beds and small kitchenettes, and most tenants share communal bathrooms on each floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the landlord issued eviction notices to 39 units on those first five floors, citing plans to demolish the residential units and rebuild the spaces for commercial use. Those tenants have been in legal gridlock with the landlord ever since, and final decisions about the legality of the eviction are still pending in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven sixth-floor units were spared eviction notices because of their live-work zoning. Johnson and her neighbor, Tony Breaux, are the only residential tenants remaining on the sixth floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As other sixth-floor tenants have moved out, the landlord has begun renovating the empty units and renting them to businesses. Currently, unit 602 is rented by PritchardPeck Lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Johnson and Breaux were not involved in the 2013 eviction, they have sparred separately with the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Breaux filed a petition with the San Francisco Rent Board against John Gall, one of the owners of 1049 Market St. LLC, after his monthly rent was increased by nearly 13 percent, from $970 to $1,095.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board ruled in Breaux’s favor, stating that no certificate of occupancy had ever been issued for the sixth floor of the building, making his unit illegal and subject to rent control laws. Gall presented a certificate of occupancy to the court in his appeal in 2014, indicating the certificate should be backdated to 1991 — when the units first became live-work lofts. That case is still in litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparing for Eviction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who operates her own personal training business and has been in the building since 2005, plans to fight the eviction but has already started packing up her apartment. She says she doesn’t plan to leave on her June 23 eviction date, but she wants to be prepared either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is a live-work loft situation, can you even Ellis Act?” Johnson asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Zacks, the landlord’s attorney, concedes there is some ambiguity around live-work units. But he says he believes his client is complying with the Ellis Act, since Johnson and Breaux’s units are residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks said if the sixth-floor tenants fight the eviction by citing their live-work commercial zoning, it would then open the tenants up to even more legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are commercial month-to-month tenants, they are not subject to rent control,” Zacks said. “They can be evicted with 30 days' notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Collier, the tenants’ attorney, did not comment on the live-work status of the sixth-floor units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaux, who will turn 79 this year, must vacate his unit next February because of an Ellis Act clause that extends the eviction period for seniors and people with disabilities. He's lived in the loft, decorated with massive wood carvings and an assortment of potted and hanging plants, since 2003. Though he is retired, he still works as a sculptor and musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952799 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Breaux has lived in his loft apartment since 2004.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Breaux must vacate his loft unit next February. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I won’t go,” Breaux said. “We’ll fight this down to the bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction, he says, is like a death sentence. He says it would be nearly impossible to find another rental unit in the city for his current $970 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks says his client intends to pay the tenants of all 23 units relocation fees, in compliance with San Francisco law. The required relocation payment is $5,555 per person, with an additional $3,703 for each elderly or disabled tenant and each household with a minor child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2016/04/zumper-national-rent-report-april-2016/\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,590. The $5,555 relocation payment would cover less than two months of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warehousing People in Illegal Units\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks places the blame for the situation at 1049 Market St. squarely on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city, cracking down on various code violations in the building, told his client they would either have to bring the building up to code for residential units or convert all residential units back to office space. The cost of bringing the building up to code, according to Zacks, would be too much for his client to reasonably spend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks said the city is relying on landlords to maintain below-market-rate units, while the city itself has not done nearly enough to address the regional housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to find folks like this housing where the burden is not on my clients to provide it,” Zacks said. “Is [the housing crisis] really that bad that we will warehouse people in illegal units?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breaux and Johnson have both been in their units for more than 10 years and consider 1049 Market St. their home. Despite the units not being up to residential code, they say the units meet all of their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is criminal what's going on here,\" Breaux said. \"It's the destruction of people's lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The first through fifth floors of the building are permitted exclusively for commercial use and were never approved for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952794 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still03-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, many of the units on those floors have been rented to residential tenants since the 1990s. Many of the units have lofted beds and small kitchenettes, and most tenants share communal bathrooms on each floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the landlord issued eviction notices to 39 units on those first five floors, citing plans to demolish the residential units and rebuild the spaces for commercial use. Those tenants have been in legal gridlock with the landlord ever since, and final decisions about the legality of the eviction are still pending in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven sixth-floor units were spared eviction notices because of their live-work zoning. Johnson and her neighbor, Tony Breaux, are the only residential tenants remaining on the sixth floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As other sixth-floor tenants have moved out, the landlord has begun renovating the empty units and renting them to businesses. Currently, unit 602 is rented by PritchardPeck Lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Johnson and Breaux were not involved in the 2013 eviction, they have sparred separately with the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Breaux filed a petition with the San Francisco Rent Board against John Gall, one of the owners of 1049 Market St. LLC, after his monthly rent was increased by nearly 13 percent, from $970 to $1,095.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board ruled in Breaux’s favor, stating that no certificate of occupancy had ever been issued for the sixth floor of the building, making his unit illegal and subject to rent control laws. Gall presented a certificate of occupancy to the court in his appeal in 2014, indicating the certificate should be backdated to 1991 — when the units first became live-work lofts. That case is still in litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparing for Eviction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who operates her own personal training business and has been in the building since 2005, plans to fight the eviction but has already started packing up her apartment. She says she doesn’t plan to leave on her June 23 eviction date, but she wants to be prepared either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is a live-work loft situation, can you even Ellis Act?” Johnson asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Zacks, the landlord’s attorney, concedes there is some ambiguity around live-work units. But he says he believes his client is complying with the Ellis Act, since Johnson and Breaux’s units are residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks said if the sixth-floor tenants fight the eviction by citing their live-work commercial zoning, it would then open the tenants up to even more legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are commercial month-to-month tenants, they are not subject to rent control,” Zacks said. “They can be evicted with 30 days' notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Collier, the tenants’ attorney, did not comment on the live-work status of the sixth-floor units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaux, who will turn 79 this year, must vacate his unit next February because of an Ellis Act clause that extends the eviction period for seniors and people with disabilities. He's lived in the loft, decorated with massive wood carvings and an assortment of potted and hanging plants, since 2003. Though he is retired, he still works as a sculptor and musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952799 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Breaux has lived in his loft apartment since 2004.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Breaux must vacate his loft unit next February. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I won’t go,” Breaux said. “We’ll fight this down to the bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction, he says, is like a death sentence. He says it would be nearly impossible to find another rental unit in the city for his current $970 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks says his client intends to pay the tenants of all 23 units relocation fees, in compliance with San Francisco law. The required relocation payment is $5,555 per person, with an additional $3,703 for each elderly or disabled tenant and each household with a minor child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2016/04/zumper-national-rent-report-april-2016/\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,590. The $5,555 relocation payment would cover less than two months of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warehousing People in Illegal Units\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks places the blame for the situation at 1049 Market St. squarely on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city, cracking down on various code violations in the building, told his client they would either have to bring the building up to code for residential units or convert all residential units back to office space. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is on a campaign to show that the city’s latest tools to combat homeless — its Navigation Centers — are producing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, Lee has popped up for photo ops at these new shelters and the supportive housing units that go along with them. Behind the scenes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=904\">the city's homeless czar, Sam Dodge\u003c/a>, has been gathering data to build the case another way -- with numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dodge at the old Civic Center Hotel on 12th Street at Market. He showed me a small room he thinks will save many people's lives. It was nothing special -- just a well-used hotel room with a new coat of paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This hotel has been converted into the city’s second Navigation Center. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">The first is near the 16th Street BART Station\u003c/a> in the Mission, and the city is currently planning a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these new shelters the homeless can come for a few months to sign up for benefits and get on a path to housing. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/24/navigating-a-path-from-homelessness-to-housing-in-san-francisco\">The city is buying up other old hotels\u003c/a> to accommodate the homeless coming out of these shelters. “Absent this kind of intensive intervention,” Dodge says, “they are going to die on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Absent this kind of intensive intervention, they are going to die on the street.' \u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homeless czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high for Dodge, who last October became the director of the city's Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement. The city is spending $241 million a year on homelessness, and Mayor Lee is counting on Dodge to make the Navigation Centers successful and to show voters the city can tackle an issue that has plagued it for decades. Everyone, Dodge says, is watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an open experiment that a lot of the city has been following in the past year,\" he says. In order to prove the experiment is working, Dodge is gathering hard data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it is tracking what happens to every person passing through a Navigation Center. Dodge says 80 percent or so of the clients, about 430 people, have moved into housing or in with family. He says that success rate has helped him convince the city to expand the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a way to really tell the story about how we can use supportive housing to solve the homeless crisis,” Dodge says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is convinced. There are still thousands of homeless people in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/s-f-clearing-homeless-holdouts-from-division-street-neighborhood\">Tent encampments are swelling\u003c/a> beneath the freeways. Critics say the Navigation Centers take too long to get people into housing and cost too much to set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make his case, Dodge has to pull out a calculator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I end up having to make economic arguments,” he says. “They resonate more than the moral or ethical arguments.” This, he says, is just the sad reality of living in our neoliberal society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Dodge’s reluctant economic pitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $241 million the city spends on homelessness is only 3 percent of the whole budget, he says, not that much for what he considers to be the city’s biggest issue. Housing, Dodge says, is the cheapest way to deal with the problem. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is on a campaign to show that the city’s latest tools to combat homeless — its Navigation Centers — are producing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, Lee has popped up for photo ops at these new shelters and the supportive housing units that go along with them. Behind the scenes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=904\">the city's homeless czar, Sam Dodge\u003c/a>, has been gathering data to build the case another way -- with numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dodge at the old Civic Center Hotel on 12th Street at Market. He showed me a small room he thinks will save many people's lives. It was nothing special -- just a well-used hotel room with a new coat of paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This hotel has been converted into the city’s second Navigation Center. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">The first is near the 16th Street BART Station\u003c/a> in the Mission, and the city is currently planning a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these new shelters the homeless can come for a few months to sign up for benefits and get on a path to housing. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/24/navigating-a-path-from-homelessness-to-housing-in-san-francisco\">The city is buying up other old hotels\u003c/a> to accommodate the homeless coming out of these shelters. “Absent this kind of intensive intervention,” Dodge says, “they are going to die on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Absent this kind of intensive intervention, they are going to die on the street.' \u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homeless czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high for Dodge, who last October became the director of the city's Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement. The city is spending $241 million a year on homelessness, and Mayor Lee is counting on Dodge to make the Navigation Centers successful and to show voters the city can tackle an issue that has plagued it for decades. Everyone, Dodge says, is watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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