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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 5:15 p.m. June 26 \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Californians widely demanding action on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/homelessness\">homelessness\u003c/a>, the budget state lawmakers are close to passing for the next fiscal year includes no new funding for one of the state’s largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/homeless-housing-assistance-and-prevention-grant-program\">homelessness services programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">$12 billion shortfall\u003c/a>, the current budget guts the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention grant program, though it does earmark an additional $500 million for the program in the following budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said the future funding is “contingent on stronger accountability measures.” And she noted that while the state has so far awarded more than $3 billion to the program, only $1.9 billion has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011525/newsom-announces-830-million-in-homelessness-spending-with-strings\">Gov. Gavin Newsom urged local governments\u003c/a> across the state to crack down on homeless encampments following a Supreme Court ruling expanding cities’ ability to fine and jail people living outside, even if no shelter is available. And last month, he reiterated that call, urging cities and counties to do more to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">clear encampments from streets and sidewalks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come as cities and municipalities try to build and preserve shelters and housing for those living on city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, addressing homelessness is primarily a local issue,” Tara Gallegos, deputy director of communications for Gov. Gavin Newsom, said in a statement to KQED, responding to questions from cities about the elimination of HHAP funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2024–25 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, California, on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement Wednesday, Carolyn Coleman, CEO and executive director for the League of California Cities, and Graham Knaus, CEO of the California State Association of Counties decried the budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Investing no new money this year and only half as much for next year will stop progress in its tracks,” they wrote. “More tents will pop up alongside highways, train tracks and rivers and more families will struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its inception six years ago, the HHAP program has provided funding to support constructing permanent housing, improving shelters and \u003ca href=\"https://hacsj.org/2021/04/15/landlord-incentives-for-homeless-veterans-program/\">incentivizing landlords\u003c/a> to rent to people experiencing homelessness, among other services. Carolyn Coleman, CEO and executive director for the League of California Cities, said the program has become an important tool for cities because its funding can support a variety of services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why HHAP has been so effective is because it has some flexibility that can be tailored to fit the local circumstances,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor, said his county has used the grant funding for a number of projects — most recently to partner with the city of Watsonville and open a \u003ca href=\"https://pajaronian.com/tiny-village-project-moves-forward-after-second-appeal-denied/\">navigation center\u003c/a> there, which would provide people experiencing homelessness room and board while they get help from case workers connecting them with public benefits and healthcare. The center is scheduled to open later this year, but Alejo said the project could be at risk if funding dries up.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']“We had to build working relationships, we had to build trust, but having the resources helped us to help that collaboration transition … into shelters and permanent supportive housing,” he said. “If the legislature continues not having a single dollar for the next round of homelessness funding through HHAP, all these projects and all this collaboration will definitely be at risk in the coming months ahead of us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/hhap-data-dashboard-and-downloads\">state data\u003c/a>, local governments received more than $600 million during the first round of HHAP funding in 2019. Most of those dollars went toward opening navigation centers and operating costs for new and existing housing and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the fifth and latest cycle of funding, the state awarded almost $870 million, though only half of that money has been earmarked for specific uses and a little more than a tenth has been spent already. The sixth cycle, which was budgeted last year, includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/calich/hhap-6-nofa.pdf\">$760 million\u003c/a> and is expected to be awarded to cities later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">federal data\u003c/a>, California is home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, but earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced\u003c/a> the state had dramatically slowed the increase in people living on the streets to 3% last year — far lower than the national increase of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edie Irons, a spokesperson for the homelessness policy organization, All Home, said those numbers aren’t cause for celebration but they do demonstrate the state’s investments are beginning to work. For the first year since 2018, the number of people sleeping outside, as opposed to in a shelter, held relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">steady\u003c/a> between 2023 and 2024, increasing less than half a percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants local governments to use the money that has been doled out before the state sets aside additional funds. So far, the state has awarded more than $3 billion to the program, with only $1.9 billion spent so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of an encampment on Alameda Avenue in Oakland is cleared on March 4, 2025. A shipping container barrier now surrounds the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Governor expects local governments to use the unprecedented funding already provided to them — including the billions in funding that has been allocated to locals but not yet spent — to get people off the streets and connected to the help they need,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced that California had dramatically slowed\u003c/a> the growth of homelessness to a statewide increase of 3%. While the state is still home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\"> federal data\u003c/a>, its rate is far lower than the national rate of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not great news — we want to see an actual reduction,” Irons said. “But holding the line in the state with the largest homeless population in the country is an accomplishment, sadly. And we won’t be able to sustain that progress or improve upon it without more funding to continue the solutions that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the remaining weeks before the budget is finalized, housing advocates are hoping to strike the right deal with lawmakers and the governor to secure HHAP funding for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> A previous version of this story misstated the name of the CEO of the California State Association of Counties. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We had to build working relationships, we had to build trust, but having the resources helped us to help that collaboration transition … into shelters and permanent supportive housing,” he said. “If the legislature continues not having a single dollar for the next round of homelessness funding through HHAP, all these projects and all this collaboration will definitely be at risk in the coming months ahead of us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/hhap-data-dashboard-and-downloads\">state data\u003c/a>, local governments received more than $600 million during the first round of HHAP funding in 2019. Most of those dollars went toward opening navigation centers and operating costs for new and existing housing and shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the fifth and latest cycle of funding, the state awarded almost $870 million, though only half of that money has been earmarked for specific uses and a little more than a tenth has been spent already. The sixth cycle, which was budgeted last year, includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/calich/hhap-6-nofa.pdf\">$760 million\u003c/a> and is expected to be awarded to cities later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">federal data\u003c/a>, California is home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, but earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced\u003c/a> the state had dramatically slowed the increase in people living on the streets to 3% last year — far lower than the national increase of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edie Irons, a spokesperson for the homelessness policy organization, All Home, said those numbers aren’t cause for celebration but they do demonstrate the state’s investments are beginning to work. For the first year since 2018, the number of people sleeping outside, as opposed to in a shelter, held relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">steady\u003c/a> between 2023 and 2024, increasing less than half a percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants local governments to use the money that has been doled out before the state sets aside additional funds. So far, the state has awarded more than $3 billion to the program, with only $1.9 billion spent so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250304-OaklandHighStreetEncampment-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of an encampment on Alameda Avenue in Oakland is cleared on March 4, 2025. A shipping container barrier now surrounds the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Governor expects local governments to use the unprecedented funding already provided to them — including the billions in funding that has been allocated to locals but not yet spent — to get people off the streets and connected to the help they need,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/02/24/governor-newsom-announces-stronger-accountability-measures-launches-new-tool-measuring-local-progress-in-tackling-homelessness/#:~:text=Reversing%20decades%20of%20inaction,seen%20during%20the%20Newsom%20Administration.\">announced that California had dramatically slowed\u003c/a> the growth of homelessness to a statewide increase of 3%. While the state is still home to the largest number of people experiencing homelessness, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\"> federal data\u003c/a>, its rate is far lower than the national rate of 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not great news — we want to see an actual reduction,” Irons said. “But holding the line in the state with the largest homeless population in the country is an accomplishment, sadly. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aimee Baldwin is worried her home is in danger of being seen as the “scruffy house” on the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s often a jumble of loose lumber and supplies the artist uses for projects in front of the garage, plants that need to be potted and a sprawling garden she describes as “chaotic” — a mix of California native flowers and shrubs that spill from the front yard and run down the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the backyard are the persimmon and Asian pear trees her grandparents, Frank and Jackie Kee, planted after they moved to Francisco Street in the mid-1950s, near what is now the North Berkeley BART station. Back then, it was a blue-collar neighborhood — her grandfather worked as a gardener at a Japanese-owned plant nursery — with a set of train tracks running through the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, those tracks have been converted into a greenway, complete with a pocket community garden Baldwin helps tend. Recently, the 960 square-foot house across from hers sold for $1.1 million, and the new owners are renovating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of wonder how much are people going to start to look down on me for having things a little funky and weird,” she said, “when other people are clearly working on fixing up their house and fixing up their yard and trying to make it look nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045597 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Baldwin walks along the West Street Pathway near her home on June 23, 2025. Her neighborhood gardening group helped plant native species along the path. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldwin is concerned not only for the changes already underway but also about what might come if the Berkeley City Council votes Thursday to allow more duplexes, fourplexes and small apartments in most neighborhoods throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure is approved, it would be a historic reversal of more than a century of city planning. In 1916, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">set aside\u003c/a> parts of the city as single-family neighborhoods, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planning_Problems_of_Town_City_and_Regio/lnmiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chinese&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover\">first applied\u003c/a> to Elmwood Park to combat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">perceived invasion\u003c/a> “by flats, apartment houses and stores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has already essentially outlawed single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to build both accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, on their properties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">subdivide lots to build up to two duplexes\u003c/a> in most urban neighborhoods, Berkeley’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> would go further. It would allow greater flexibility in home design and increase the number of units permitted in each building.[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']The ordinance would allow three-story buildings, with the number of units determined by lot size. A typical 5,000-square-foot property could potentially have five to seven units, not including ADUs. Neighborhoods in the Berkeley hills, with steep, narrow, winding roads, are excluded because of fire-safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has long championed the proposal, said the idea is to promote more housing on existing lots, with the expectation that the new homes will be more accessible to middle-income earners who don’t qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to think about the future of our city and what kind of community we want to be,” Kesarwani said. “I believe that we need to be a city that has housing opportunities for our middle-class workers. And really, the only way we can do that cost-effectively is through middle housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin’s block already has a diverse mix of single-family homes, duplexes and the occasional low-rise apartment building, making it emblematic of the kind of development the city’s proposed Middle Housing ordinance seeks to promote. Despite this mix, the neighborhood maintains a suburban feel, she said. Baldwin is concerned that the plan could pressure the remaining working-class families to sell, driving them out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is middle housing getting us, besides what I fear is the opportunity for basically really large profiteering companies to come and strip our neighborhood of the community that we have,” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her fears were echoed in \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">letters sent to the council\u003c/a> ahead of Thursday’s meeting. Some residents, like Clifford Fred, are concerned about the sheer volume of development that could be unleashed, writing: “Berkeley city officials are turning what used to be a beautiful, low-rise, human-scaled city into an ugly warren of high rises and massive buildings stretching relentlessly from the Oakland border to the Albany border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are more apprehensive about where the new homes and apartments would be built. The proposed Middle Housing ordinance would allow greater density in parts of the city that have historically allowed duplexes and apartments, and less density in the city’s existing single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would only further exacerbate disparities in development, wrote a group of residents, including Eugene Turitz of Friends of Adeline and Wilhelimenia Wilson, executive director of Healthy Black Families Inc., in a joint letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Middle Housing] is discriminatory because of its predictable consequences, as neighborhoods in the ‘flats’ become repositories of excessive densities — with no additional amenities like parks or neighborhood-supporting services,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, how developers will respond to Berkeley’s Middle Housing proposal, should it be adopted. In September, Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/09/19/sacramento-first-in-california-to-allow-multi-unit-housing-in-every-neighborhood/#:~:text=The%20Missing%20Middle%20Housing%20(MMH,and%20proximity%20to%20public%20transit.\">approved\u003c/a> a similar ordinance, becoming the first in the state to do so, though Santa Rosa is considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/3495/Missing-Middle-Housing\">proposal\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since going into effect in October, Sacramento has received 19 applications, most for duplexes with ADUs, Nguyen Nguyen, an associate planner for the city, wrote in an email to KQED. Of those, nine have been approved and six are in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said staff are seeing projects that otherwise would not have been allowed without the new ordinance, but added that developers tend to prefer projects on vacant lots over properties with existing homes that would first need to be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders proposing projects under the ordinance have also tended to be less experienced than typical developers, he said. “They are usually a local property owner or local entrepreneur or small real estate investor who needs extra hand-holding and technical assistance,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financing is also a challenge, according to Nguyen. Projects proposing three or more units are reviewed under the Commercial Building Code, which creates higher construction and permitting costs. Projects with four or more units require a licensed professional, which adds more cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s experience, though nascent, aligns with predictions from a study David Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Missing-Middle-Development-Math-Final-June-2024.pdf\">published last year\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s Terner Center on Housing Innovation. In it, he found that most forms of “middle housing” — buildings with two and 10 units — are not financially feasible, except for duplexes under the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign promoting homes at North Berkeley BART in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many other factors that go into whether or not a missing middle housing project can work in real life. So, it’s not just the zoning,” Garcia told KQED. “It’s all these other little rules that dictate what can be built on the sites — whether that’s setbacks, height restrictions, roof pitch materials, easements, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers who pursue middle housing projects often find themselves mired in site-by-site problem-solving, Garcia said, making the projects unappealing to large, corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no economies of scale there,” Garcia said. “A traditional large developer is not really gonna get out of bed for anything lower than 100 units. And that’s not what we’re talking about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, thinks it unlikely his department will be overwhelmed with applications. In the first three years after the state’s lot-split law, SB 9, went into effect, developers submitted 17 applications, 12 of which were deemed eligible. Of those dozen, five single-family homes and one ADU have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get 10 middle housing projects a year, I think that’ll be a success,” Klein said. “I think we’ll be excited about that. Adding maybe an average of three units per project. That’s 40 units a year. That would be great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some proponents of the ordinance say it doesn’t go far enough and want to see it strengthened by removing density limits to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">more units\u003c/a> within the same building envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Matthews, a longtime Berkeley resident and former candidate for City Council District 3, near her home in Berkeley on June 23, 2025, where she’s been involved in community housing advocacy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In South Berkeley, resident and real estate agent Deborah Matthews shares concerns about limiting development in the city’s historically exclusionary neighborhoods — but also acknowledges the demographic shift that has already taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-history-of-gentrification-in\">downzoning efforts\u003c/a> in the 1960s, which limited new apartments in residential neighborhoods, have already driven up home prices and pushed out many lower- and middle-income families, including many Black residents. Berkeley’s Black population peaked in 1970 at \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">about 24%\u003c/a> of the population. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">just over 7%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exodus is felt on Sunday strolls through South Berkeley, as much as it is heard. Where gospel music once rang out from churches, now there is silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a wonderful celebration,” Matthews said, recalling her weekly walks some three decades ago. “You would interact with people that would walk by. They’d stop and start talking with you, and people would kind of do a little rhythm dance or hand clapping or just something that they enjoyed about listening to that music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 25 years, the price of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home rose more than 270%, from around $385,000 in January 2000 to just over $1.4 million in May 2025, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Middle Housing ordinance doesn’t specifically address homeownership, the city is considering separate proposals to allow homeowners to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-05-14%20Item%2028%20Increasing%20Entry%20Level%20Homeownership%20Opportunities%20Implementation%20of%20AB%201033_0.pdf\">convert ADUs into condominiums\u003c/a> and to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-01-21%20Item%2026%20Expanding%20Homeownership.pdf\">subdivide lots\u003c/a> that don’t qualify under the state’s lot split law. Taken together with Middle Housing, Matthews said, it will allow more opportunity for homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m hoping is that it will provide an opportunity, first of all, for homeownership and access to people who haven’t had it before, or who feel that they’ve been left out for a number of years — and rightfully so,” she said. “That assumption, that feeling, that lack of being able to participate in the housing market, it has been very accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said the final proposal should provide that opportunity throughout the city, rather than concentrating development in areas that have already borne the brunt of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley must implement inclusionary housing development in more than a ceremonial process,” Matthews said. “Middle Housing must be an equitable action throughout our city, providing housing in every district and neighborhood to meet residents’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, those tracks have been converted into a greenway, complete with a pocket community garden Baldwin helps tend. Recently, the 960 square-foot house across from hers sold for $1.1 million, and the new owners are renovating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of wonder how much are people going to start to look down on me for having things a little funky and weird,” she said, “when other people are clearly working on fixing up their house and fixing up their yard and trying to make it look nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045597 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Baldwin walks along the West Street Pathway near her home on June 23, 2025. Her neighborhood gardening group helped plant native species along the path. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldwin is concerned not only for the changes already underway but also about what might come if the Berkeley City Council votes Thursday to allow more duplexes, fourplexes and small apartments in most neighborhoods throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure is approved, it would be a historic reversal of more than a century of city planning. In 1916, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">set aside\u003c/a> parts of the city as single-family neighborhoods, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planning_Problems_of_Town_City_and_Regio/lnmiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chinese&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover\">first applied\u003c/a> to Elmwood Park to combat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">perceived invasion\u003c/a> “by flats, apartment houses and stores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has already essentially outlawed single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to build both accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, on their properties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">subdivide lots to build up to two duplexes\u003c/a> in most urban neighborhoods, Berkeley’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> would go further. It would allow greater flexibility in home design and increase the number of units permitted in each building.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The ordinance would allow three-story buildings, with the number of units determined by lot size. A typical 5,000-square-foot property could potentially have five to seven units, not including ADUs. Neighborhoods in the Berkeley hills, with steep, narrow, winding roads, are excluded because of fire-safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has long championed the proposal, said the idea is to promote more housing on existing lots, with the expectation that the new homes will be more accessible to middle-income earners who don’t qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to think about the future of our city and what kind of community we want to be,” Kesarwani said. “I believe that we need to be a city that has housing opportunities for our middle-class workers. And really, the only way we can do that cost-effectively is through middle housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin’s block already has a diverse mix of single-family homes, duplexes and the occasional low-rise apartment building, making it emblematic of the kind of development the city’s proposed Middle Housing ordinance seeks to promote. Despite this mix, the neighborhood maintains a suburban feel, she said. Baldwin is concerned that the plan could pressure the remaining working-class families to sell, driving them out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is middle housing getting us, besides what I fear is the opportunity for basically really large profiteering companies to come and strip our neighborhood of the community that we have,” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her fears were echoed in \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">letters sent to the council\u003c/a> ahead of Thursday’s meeting. Some residents, like Clifford Fred, are concerned about the sheer volume of development that could be unleashed, writing: “Berkeley city officials are turning what used to be a beautiful, low-rise, human-scaled city into an ugly warren of high rises and massive buildings stretching relentlessly from the Oakland border to the Albany border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are more apprehensive about where the new homes and apartments would be built. The proposed Middle Housing ordinance would allow greater density in parts of the city that have historically allowed duplexes and apartments, and less density in the city’s existing single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would only further exacerbate disparities in development, wrote a group of residents, including Eugene Turitz of Friends of Adeline and Wilhelimenia Wilson, executive director of Healthy Black Families Inc., in a joint letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Middle Housing] is discriminatory because of its predictable consequences, as neighborhoods in the ‘flats’ become repositories of excessive densities — with no additional amenities like parks or neighborhood-supporting services,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, how developers will respond to Berkeley’s Middle Housing proposal, should it be adopted. In September, Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/09/19/sacramento-first-in-california-to-allow-multi-unit-housing-in-every-neighborhood/#:~:text=The%20Missing%20Middle%20Housing%20(MMH,and%20proximity%20to%20public%20transit.\">approved\u003c/a> a similar ordinance, becoming the first in the state to do so, though Santa Rosa is considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/3495/Missing-Middle-Housing\">proposal\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since going into effect in October, Sacramento has received 19 applications, most for duplexes with ADUs, Nguyen Nguyen, an associate planner for the city, wrote in an email to KQED. Of those, nine have been approved and six are in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said staff are seeing projects that otherwise would not have been allowed without the new ordinance, but added that developers tend to prefer projects on vacant lots over properties with existing homes that would first need to be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders proposing projects under the ordinance have also tended to be less experienced than typical developers, he said. “They are usually a local property owner or local entrepreneur or small real estate investor who needs extra hand-holding and technical assistance,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financing is also a challenge, according to Nguyen. Projects proposing three or more units are reviewed under the Commercial Building Code, which creates higher construction and permitting costs. Projects with four or more units require a licensed professional, which adds more cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s experience, though nascent, aligns with predictions from a study David Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Missing-Middle-Development-Math-Final-June-2024.pdf\">published last year\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s Terner Center on Housing Innovation. In it, he found that most forms of “middle housing” — buildings with two and 10 units — are not financially feasible, except for duplexes under the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign promoting homes at North Berkeley BART in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many other factors that go into whether or not a missing middle housing project can work in real life. So, it’s not just the zoning,” Garcia told KQED. “It’s all these other little rules that dictate what can be built on the sites — whether that’s setbacks, height restrictions, roof pitch materials, easements, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers who pursue middle housing projects often find themselves mired in site-by-site problem-solving, Garcia said, making the projects unappealing to large, corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no economies of scale there,” Garcia said. “A traditional large developer is not really gonna get out of bed for anything lower than 100 units. And that’s not what we’re talking about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, thinks it unlikely his department will be overwhelmed with applications. In the first three years after the state’s lot-split law, SB 9, went into effect, developers submitted 17 applications, 12 of which were deemed eligible. Of those dozen, five single-family homes and one ADU have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get 10 middle housing projects a year, I think that’ll be a success,” Klein said. “I think we’ll be excited about that. Adding maybe an average of three units per project. That’s 40 units a year. That would be great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some proponents of the ordinance say it doesn’t go far enough and want to see it strengthened by removing density limits to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">more units\u003c/a> within the same building envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Matthews, a longtime Berkeley resident and former candidate for City Council District 3, near her home in Berkeley on June 23, 2025, where she’s been involved in community housing advocacy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In South Berkeley, resident and real estate agent Deborah Matthews shares concerns about limiting development in the city’s historically exclusionary neighborhoods — but also acknowledges the demographic shift that has already taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-history-of-gentrification-in\">downzoning efforts\u003c/a> in the 1960s, which limited new apartments in residential neighborhoods, have already driven up home prices and pushed out many lower- and middle-income families, including many Black residents. Berkeley’s Black population peaked in 1970 at \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">about 24%\u003c/a> of the population. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">just over 7%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exodus is felt on Sunday strolls through South Berkeley, as much as it is heard. Where gospel music once rang out from churches, now there is silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a wonderful celebration,” Matthews said, recalling her weekly walks some three decades ago. “You would interact with people that would walk by. They’d stop and start talking with you, and people would kind of do a little rhythm dance or hand clapping or just something that they enjoyed about listening to that music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 25 years, the price of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home rose more than 270%, from around $385,000 in January 2000 to just over $1.4 million in May 2025, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Middle Housing ordinance doesn’t specifically address homeownership, the city is considering separate proposals to allow homeowners to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-05-14%20Item%2028%20Increasing%20Entry%20Level%20Homeownership%20Opportunities%20Implementation%20of%20AB%201033_0.pdf\">convert ADUs into condominiums\u003c/a> and to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-01-21%20Item%2026%20Expanding%20Homeownership.pdf\">subdivide lots\u003c/a> that don’t qualify under the state’s lot split law. Taken together with Middle Housing, Matthews said, it will allow more opportunity for homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m hoping is that it will provide an opportunity, first of all, for homeownership and access to people who haven’t had it before, or who feel that they’ve been left out for a number of years — and rightfully so,” she said. “That assumption, that feeling, that lack of being able to participate in the housing market, it has been very accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said the final proposal should provide that opportunity throughout the city, rather than concentrating development in areas that have already borne the brunt of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley must implement inclusionary housing development in more than a ceremonial process,” Matthews said. “Middle Housing must be an equitable action throughout our city, providing housing in every district and neighborhood to meet residents’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A company with ties to the tech industry is seeking to bypass regulatory and environmental red tape to build an independently governed, AI-focused city within \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/_FrontierValley/status/1934346142986469864\">thread posted on X\u003c/a> Sunday from Frontier Valley, the company’s founder, James Ingallinera, called on President Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency and immediately approve development on a 512-acre parcel of federally owned land at Alameda Point, the former site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/BRAC-Bases/California/Former-Naval-Air-Station-Alameda/\">Naval Air Station Alameda\u003c/a>. The goal, Ingallinera said, is to accelerate the development of AI and robotics and to foster technology supremacy for the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the Manhattan project of our time,” Ingallinera said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/_FrontierValley/status/1934346177388106033\">promotional video\u003c/a> filmed at Alameda Point. “If we fail to rise to the occasion right now, then China will crush us, and that will be the end of America as the world’s greatest superpower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingallinera is proposing to build a city full of AI-focused startups and robotics manufacturers, housing for 10,000 residents, a commercial district, statues of American pioneers and a waterside park. The company drafted an executive order for Trump to sign that the company claims would allow development to proceed on the parcel, which is \u003ca href=\"https://alamedapointinfo.com/sites/default/files/resolution_14780_copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently designated as a nature reserve (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda city officials, however, told KQED they were never contacted by the company and only learned of its plans through its weekend post on X. Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft called the plans a “head scratcher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They haven’t talked to the city at all,” she said, adding that a development of that size would be challenging to build on land that is subject to sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000646_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda Point on Sept. 11, 2023. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to build a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium for 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point, on 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station. The project is funded by Congress and will be constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Veterans Affairs currently owns about 624 acres of the former Naval Air Station and \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/san-francisco-health-care/programs/va-alameda-point-development/#:~:text=Facilities%20on%20the%20site%20will,many%20Veterans%20residing%20in%20the\">plans to build\u003c/a> a medical clinic and a National Cemetery Columbarium, an above-ground burial site which could hold the remains of 300,000 veterans and spouses at Alameda Point. The project was authorized and funded by Congress and is planned to be constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big deal that we need a new veterans administration clinic and the burial spaces,” Ashcraft said. “They’re very much needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The columbarium and medical clinic, however, will account for only a fifth of the federal agency’s land. The remaining 512 acres, which Frontier Valley wants to build on, are a former aircraft landing strip and the nesting grounds for several bird populations, including the endangered California Least Tern.[aside postID=news_12024017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250114_Mare-Island2_DMB_00817-1020x680.jpg']According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ingallinera-4172a021/\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, Ingallinera has founded a series of startups and was most recently an advisor for the Carboncopies Foundation, a research organization studying whether the human brain can be scanned and simulated digitally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither he nor other members of Frontier Valley responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While his promotional video shares little detail about his background, it paints a picture of sluggish bureaucracy slowing down the country’s progress in developing competitive AI technology, including humanoid robots. In it, he claims that because this new city would be built on federal land, it would \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have total independence from the surrounding Bay Area and the state of California, avoiding the failures of many previous governance structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged the White House to transfer the 512-acre parcel from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of Defense. Neither federal agency responded to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Marcus, an AI expert, disagreed with Ingallinera’s characterization that red tape is holding back the development of humanoid robots and said the real bottleneck is software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044743 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000639_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Ingallinera, founder of Frontier Valley, urged former President Donald Trump on X to declare a national security emergency and fast-track AI and robotics development on 512 acres of federal land at Alameda Point. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/ Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s mostly a (very hard) software problem, not a hardware problem,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Companies can utterly work on that to a fair degree without a lot of red tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda is moving forward with its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Alameda-Point\">mixed-use development\u003c/a> on Alameda Point, adjacent to where Frontier Valley is proposing to build its city. It had planned to develop a portion of the former airstrip into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/projects/northwest-territories-regional-shoreline-alameda-point\">158-acre open-space park\u003c/a> that would be operated by the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Sarah Henry, a spokesperson for the city of Alameda, told KQED that “no reasonable fact” supports a proposed declaration of a national security emergency at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is in full support of the VA facility and regional parks project, which will serve Bay Area veterans, residents and visitors for many decades to come,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Teachers in San Francisco looking for affordable housing could have more options by the end of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction began earlier this year on the city’s second subsidized housing development for teachers and school staff. The site, located at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, will offer 75 apartments, with preference for employees of San Francisco’s Unified School District and Community College District. It’s slated to finish construction by the end of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re breaking ground on our future,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday. “A future for our families and teachers, and a future where building housing in San Francisco is not the exception, it is the expectation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event marked the early stages of construction for the educator workforce housing, as well as a second affordable housing development for families at 850 Turk Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">city\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://a46.asmdc.org/press-releases/20200928-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-spur-production-affordable-housing\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\"> leaders\u003c/a> have proposed solutions to the state’s housing shortage and the impact of high rents and home prices on educators, many of whom are forced to commute from outside of San Francisco. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/press-release/new-study-shows-californias-educators-are-stretched-thin-due-to-financial-pressures-with-four-in-10-thinking-of-leaving-the-profession\">survey\u003c/a> released in January by the California Teachers Association, more than 80% of the nearly 2,000 public school educators statewide said their salaries could not keep up with the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044983 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie breaks ground alongside members of the team behind a new housing project during a groundbreaking ceremony at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of 2 affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another at 850 Turk that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To meet the need in San Francisco, officials have passed \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/resource/sb423-application\">streamlining\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\"> bills\u003c/a> and used state programs to bring new homes online faster. But the process has been slow going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the developer MidPen Housing completed the city’s first affordable housing development for teachers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981429/applications-to-open-for-san-franciscos-first-affordable-housing-project-for-educators\">Shirley Chisholm Village\u003c/a> in the Outer Sunset. It took almost seven years to get the project’s permits approved and construction completed. When applications opened last April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/teacher-housing-demand-19578185.php\">more than 900 people\u003c/a> applied for a spot in the 135-unit building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the years since construction started at Shirley Chisholm Village, a lot has changed for the city and the developer, said Lauren Fuhry, project manager for MidPen Housing, which is also developing the Golden Gate site. Fuhry said the nonprofit was able to secure financing in Aug. 2023 and started construction in January — a relatively short timeline compared to the previous project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that really helped Golden Gate kind of streak forward is there were some changes at the state level in laws around permit timelines,” Fuhry said. “Golden Gate directly benefited from permit submissions having explicit deadlines for how long the city has to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The affordable housing development, located at 750 Golden Gate Ave., will have 75 affordable apartments, with preference for employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and Community College District. The development is slated to finish construction by the end of 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Baker Architects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is also being built on state-owned excess land. It replaces a parking lot for the Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city took advantage of the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/public-lands-affordable-housing-development\">Surplus Land Act\u003c/a>, which aims to repurpose underused public land for affordable housing by offering it to developers at a low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about projects like this, land cost is often a really significant cost,” Tomiquia Moss, secretary of the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, told KQED. “When we’re able to offer state land at a deeply discounted rate, it allows the developers to focus on the other parts of the financing stack that they have to put together.”[aside postID=news_12037474 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250425-SFSUStudentHousing-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Though the Shirley Chisholm Village took years to complete, officials are seeing success in what was built. Today, the apartments are 100% occupied, according to Anne Stanley, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90% of the 135 units are occupied by SFUSD educators and employees, with the remaining set aside for members of the general public with mobility, hearing or visual impairments, Stanley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more project is in the city’s teacher housing pipeline, but awaits funding: 2205 Mission Street. It’s the third teacher housing project \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">San Francisco officials \u003c/a>have vowed to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mission Local, that project, developed by the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), received about $12 million in funding from Proposition I in 2023 but has failed to get other financing needed to start construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MEDA remains committed to this project, which will bring much-needed housing for our educators,” Juan Mesa, the nonprofit’s spokesperson, said in a statement. “We continue to work with public and private partners to secure funding for 2205 Mission Street, exploring solutions to make this vision a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Teachers in San Francisco looking for affordable housing could have more options by the end of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction began earlier this year on the city’s second subsidized housing development for teachers and school staff. The site, located at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, will offer 75 apartments, with preference for employees of San Francisco’s Unified School District and Community College District. It’s slated to finish construction by the end of 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re breaking ground on our future,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday. “A future for our families and teachers, and a future where building housing in San Francisco is not the exception, it is the expectation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event marked the early stages of construction for the educator workforce housing, as well as a second affordable housing development for families at 850 Turk Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">city\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://a46.asmdc.org/press-releases/20200928-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-spur-production-affordable-housing\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\"> leaders\u003c/a> have proposed solutions to the state’s housing shortage and the impact of high rents and home prices on educators, many of whom are forced to commute from outside of San Francisco. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/press-release/new-study-shows-californias-educators-are-stretched-thin-due-to-financial-pressures-with-four-in-10-thinking-of-leaving-the-profession\">survey\u003c/a> released in January by the California Teachers Association, more than 80% of the nearly 2,000 public school educators statewide said their salaries could not keep up with the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044983 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie breaks ground alongside members of the team behind a new housing project during a groundbreaking ceremony at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of 2 affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another at 850 Turk that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To meet the need in San Francisco, officials have passed \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/resource/sb423-application\">streamlining\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\"> bills\u003c/a> and used state programs to bring new homes online faster. But the process has been slow going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the developer MidPen Housing completed the city’s first affordable housing development for teachers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981429/applications-to-open-for-san-franciscos-first-affordable-housing-project-for-educators\">Shirley Chisholm Village\u003c/a> in the Outer Sunset. It took almost seven years to get the project’s permits approved and construction completed. When applications opened last April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/teacher-housing-demand-19578185.php\">more than 900 people\u003c/a> applied for a spot in the 135-unit building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the years since construction started at Shirley Chisholm Village, a lot has changed for the city and the developer, said Lauren Fuhry, project manager for MidPen Housing, which is also developing the Golden Gate site. Fuhry said the nonprofit was able to secure financing in Aug. 2023 and started construction in January — a relatively short timeline compared to the previous project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that really helped Golden Gate kind of streak forward is there were some changes at the state level in laws around permit timelines,” Fuhry said. “Golden Gate directly benefited from permit submissions having explicit deadlines for how long the city has to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SFTeacherHousingRendering-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The affordable housing development, located at 750 Golden Gate Ave., will have 75 affordable apartments, with preference for employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and Community College District. The development is slated to finish construction by the end of 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Baker Architects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is also being built on state-owned excess land. It replaces a parking lot for the Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city took advantage of the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/public-lands-affordable-housing-development\">Surplus Land Act\u003c/a>, which aims to repurpose underused public land for affordable housing by offering it to developers at a low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about projects like this, land cost is often a really significant cost,” Tomiquia Moss, secretary of the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, told KQED. “When we’re able to offer state land at a deeply discounted rate, it allows the developers to focus on the other parts of the financing stack that they have to put together.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though the Shirley Chisholm Village took years to complete, officials are seeing success in what was built. Today, the apartments are 100% occupied, according to Anne Stanley, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90% of the 135 units are occupied by SFUSD educators and employees, with the remaining set aside for members of the general public with mobility, hearing or visual impairments, Stanley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more project is in the city’s teacher housing pipeline, but awaits funding: 2205 Mission Street. It’s the third teacher housing project \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news--san-francisco-announces-two-new-affordable-educator-housing-projects-0\">San Francisco officials \u003c/a>have vowed to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mission Local, that project, developed by the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), received about $12 million in funding from Proposition I in 2023 but has failed to get other financing needed to start construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MEDA remains committed to this project, which will bring much-needed housing for our educators,” Juan Mesa, the nonprofit’s spokesperson, said in a statement. “We continue to work with public and private partners to secure funding for 2205 Mission Street, exploring solutions to make this vision a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>An \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">El Tecolote investigation\u003c/a> reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em> investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind closed doors, staff warned the crackdown would likely fail and destabilize vulnerable residents. But officials moved forward anyway — citing political pressure, optics and infrastructure plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg']“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need a reasonable, feasible answer to the question, ‘Where will all these people go if they can’t park here?’” SFMTA’s policy analyst Andy Thornley wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/05-23-23_Melgar-understands-risks.jpg\">May 2023 email\u003c/a> to homelessness director Emily Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Supervisor Melgar “understands fully” the risks of mass displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials framed the evictions as public safety measures or routine maintenance. But records show a broader pattern. These five takeaways reveal how the crackdown unfolded — and how it became San Francisco’s playbook for displacing RV communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/04172024-RVBUCKINGHAMWAY-ET-PU-15-KQED-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line up on Winston Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, on April 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>1. A crackdown driven by politics, not safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly, city leaders said the Winston Drive displacement was about safety and the need for more parking near San Francisco State University. SFSU official Jason Porth \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-26-23_Jason_SFSU.jpg\">cited\u003c/a> “syringes with needles, broken beer bottles, a chair.” Supervisor Melgar echoed those concerns, requesting 4-hour parking limits to protect schools and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internal emails tell a different story. SFMTA staff \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shelter-vehicle-encampment-on-SFSU-vicinity-streets.docx-Google-Docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted\u003c/a> that most RV residents on Winston were “mostly obeying parking rules,” staying registered, moving their vehicles for street cleaning, and keeping the area tidy. Even so, Melgar and SFMTA moved ahead with new 4-hour parking restrictions designed to force residents out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents say the deepest betrayal came from Melgar — the city’s only Latina supervisor at the time — who had personally visited the community and promised families they wouldn’t be displaced without alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We trusted [Melgar] a lot,” said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her husband and two daughters. “She gave us false hope. She played with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, in a \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/El-Tecolote-Mail-Request-for-Comment_-Investigative-Report-on-RV-Enforcement-Policies.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written response\u003c/a> to \u003cem>El Tecolote’s\u003c/em> investigative findings, rejected claims that her office misled RV residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My staff and I worked for 3 years to find safe alternatives for the folks living on Winston and Buckingham drives. It took great effort,” wrote Melgar on April 28, 2025. “However, the goal was always to restore the public right of way, and I never said anything to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-9-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Lopez reacts in disbelief, as one of their neighbor’s RV was towed away on Zoo Road in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>2. When tickets didn’t work, the city turned to construction — and optics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A July 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2023/a164180.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> blocked San Francisco from towing legally parked vehicles for unpaid tickets. With towing off the table, officials looked for other tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar pushed for 4-hour limits on Winston, even though SFMTA staff noted enforcement would be difficult.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Bear in mind that this enforcement will not result in towing,” SFMTA liaison Joél Ramos wrote in a July 2024 email. “It is the Supervisor’s hope that the threat and/or issuance of parking citations alone will result in people moving the RVs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When tickets didn’t work, officials used a street repaving project to clear RVs, citing safety and logistics. The project became a public-facing justification that masked what internal emails described as political urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy worked. Families were pushed out. The press framed the evictions as development-driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days before the city’s July 2024 deadline to clear Winston Drive, more than 20 RVs \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/winston-drive-rv-sf-zoo/\">caravanned\u003c/a> to an empty private lot near the San Francisco Zoo in an attempt to pressure the city to provide an alternative safe parking site. That same night, police and park rangers redirected them to Zoo Road, near the Pomeroy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same strategy — combining parking restrictions and construction — was quickly replicated on Zoo Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA began enforcing the 72-hour parking rule. But internal emails questioned its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of [the] 72-hour rule is to ensure vehicles are not abandoned,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/07-31-24_72-hour-not-applicable.jpg\">wrote\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Chadwick Lee. “I do not believe it’s applicable in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/08082024-RVRESIDENTSZOOROAD-ET-PU-1-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families who live in RVs stressfully wait to see if their vehicles will be towed on Zoo Road during the morning time in San Francisco, on Aug. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director of Parking Enforcement Scott Edwards said in another \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/08-05-24-chalk-policy-zoo-rd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a>: “If a vehicle moves an inch, then it cannot be cited or towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To work around this limitation, SFMTA signed a work order for curb painting and restriping on Zoo Road, using the same contract from Winston. Advocates questioned whether the work was even necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families who did not qualify for housing who were promised safe parking for 3 years by [the] city are being evicted again,” read a Coalition on Homelessness \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C-lBVOsPcoE/?img_index=2&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">Instagram post\u003c/a>. “We spoke to workers who confirmed the [restriping] work has been completed so why exactly does the city require them to move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Evictions resulted in predictable consequences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before enforcement began, internal emails flagged likely fallout: displaced families would scatter across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As early as March 2023, SFMTA policy manager Hank Wilson flagged in an \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/04-20-23_4-hour-policy-internal-reviews.jpg\">email\u003c/a> to Melgar’s office the likely fallout: “as we all know, the proposed 4-hour time limits would impact the large number of vehicles (120 or so).” He added that “It likely will push those folks living in vehicles to other blocks in the City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened. As RVs were cleared from Winston and Zoo Road, they appeared on John Muir Drive, Vidal, 19th Avenue, the Bayview neighborhood, and beyond. Neighbors complained. Supervisors called for new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many predicted, displacing these vehicles from Winston Drive has merely moved the problem to other areas,” wrote an anonymous constituent to District 4 Supervisor Joe Engardio on Aug. 9, 2024. “Each day more and more RVs, vans, trailers, and trucks are showing up in front of Rolph Nicol Park and around the Merced Manor Reservoir.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously need a bigger citywide plan and process,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RE-Phelps-st-RVs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> Thornley on Aug. 21, responding to a complaint on Phelps Street. “Or we’ll just keep pushing large vehicles around from neighborhood to neighborhood — not good for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-25-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlo, 36, drives through the street where RVs are parked in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Carlo was a 4-year RV resident on Winston Drive. ‘It’s difficult what we are living through,’ Carlo said. ‘Mentally, it makes you feel depressed.’ \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>4. Winston became the city’s de-facto eviction playbook\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Winston and Zoo Road, SFMTA began using the same enforcement blueprint across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By December 2024, 19th Avenue had become the next target. “Question might be how will we handle enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoon_s-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote (PDF)\u003c/a> SFMTA’s Director of Streets Viktoriya Wise to Thornley. “My plan is to say we would handle it similar to Winston. Do you agree?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thornley \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Re-Webex-link-to-this-afternoons-MTAB-meeting-please.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> with a now-refined strategy: legislate the restriction, coordinate sign installation, post multilingual flyers, allow a two-week grace period and begin enforcement — while looping the homeless department and other agencies to manage fallout. But he also flagged the limits of this strategy: “Vidal Drive is more parked-up than it’s ever been,” he wrote. “It’s a stark illustration of our limitations, to put it mildly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>, SFMTA said: “We’ll continue working with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, SFPD, and the Mayor’s Office to make sure that anyone living on our streets or in recreational vehicles (RVs) has information about the many city services and resources available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/06112024-RVWINSTONPRESSER-ET-PU-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas, an RV resident, speaks to the media while holding her 1-year old son on Winston Drive, to appeal to the city to find a safe parking site for the RV community before a parking enforcement deadline, in San Francisco, on June 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>5. Immigrant families suffered most\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Throughout the eviction process, it was working-class immigrant families who were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco offered the Arostegui family a city subsidy in Parkmerced. Their rent is income-based, with support lasting up to three years. “Time flies,” said Angela Arostegui. “We’re already trying to find a more permanent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other relatives weren’t as lucky. Angela’s cousin Marlon remains in an RV nearby. Her nephew Lisandro, who couldn’t move in time, sold his RV and left San Francisco. He and his wife slept in their car before settling in Las Vegas. “At least in Winston, I had my family close,” Lisandro said. “We were helping each other. That made it easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosales family now lives under the shadow of another looming eviction. Verónica Cañas and her mother Eusebia were offered the same subsidy program to move into Parkmerced, but said they are being pressured to pay more rent soon, despite their inability to find stable work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick us out,” Eusebia said, “we’ll return to our RVs again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Angela Arostegui, who was leaving Zoo Road in August 2024, relentless pressure from city workers left the families exhausted and feeling coerced into signing rental agreements they didn’t fully understand or might have declined under different circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has us at the brink of the abyss,” said Angela Arostegui. “First on Winston, they gave us 4-hour parking rules. Then on Zoo Road, there wasn’t a day without a ticket or a knock on the door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several families moved out from Zoo Road into subsidized rentals at Parkmerced, other RV residents from Winston Drive remain uncertain about where they will park next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city did nothing for us,” said Marcivon Oliviera, 46, an Uber and Lyft driver from Brazil. He said about twenty other RV residents from Winston Drive are now parking in Palo Alto, forced to move every 72 hours in a continuous search for a new street on which to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/07312024-RVRESIDENTSWINSTON-ET-PU-21-COPY-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Cañas puts her hand on the window as her 1-year-old son looks out from their RV in San Francisco, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>6. The city is doubling down on the same strategy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a sweeping new policy that would expand the tactics used on Winston Drive into a citywide mandate. His new legislation, introduced with support from Supervisor Melgar and others, would impose 24/7 two-hour parking limits for large vehicles across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framed as part of Lurie’s “Breaking the Cycle” homelessness plan, the bill pledges $13 million for housing subsidies, a vehicle buyback program and specialized outreach teams. It would also create a temporary permit for people actively working with case managers to avoid displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the plan balances compassion with accountability. But advocates argue it formalizes the same enforcement-first model that scattered RV families from block to block, and now risks pushing even more residents into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/\">\u003cem>Read part one of El Tecolote’s investigation here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Medical debt. Messy divorce. Wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When hard life moments meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s sky-high housing costs, homelessness can quickly become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case for Nina, a mother who sought legal aid at the nonprofit Open Door Legal two years ago after facing domestic abuse by her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for them, realistically, my daughter and I would have probably been evicted, and we would have ended up living on the streets or in a shelter,” said Nina, who lives in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.[aside postID=news_12042895 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-29-BL-KQED.jpg']Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046933/renta-sin-contrato-tiene-derechos-california\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, almost 17 million people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040028/paying-rent-in-california-it-could-now-help-your-credit-score\">rent their homes\u003c/a>. And while many sign a contract at the start of their lease, others rent without a written agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to calculate exactly how many people rent without a contract, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2022/housing-leases-in-the-u-s-rental-market/home.htm\">according to federal data\u003c/a>, California is the state with the highest proportion of leases that are month-to-month, something usually seen when there’s no written lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many tenants, renting without a contract provides a certain flexibility that works well when living with family or friends, and it’s also an option \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2021/07/159-Ayano-Tenants-Without-Rights.pdf\">used by folks who have migrated to the United States\u003c/a> and are adapting to a new life. But this arrangement can also lead to issues between the tenant and landlord, said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation for the San Francisco tenants’ rights group, Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a written agreement that has been signed, you know exactly what the rules are in terms of how much the rent is, when it’s due, who’s going to pay the utilities. … All that’s very clear,” she said. “If it’s verbal, it’s not as clear what the agreement is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The power of a verbal contract\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tenants in these “informal” agreements can \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2021/07/159-Ayano-Tenants-Without-Rights.pdf\">experience abuse or neglect\u003c/a> from their landlords, who may think that, because there is no written contract, housing laws do not apply. But tenants without a written lease have the same rights as those with one, Prochovnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038224 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2022-9-28-KQED-News_Tenant-Organizing_006_qed-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a contract — it’s just not in writing,” she said. “The contract is a verbal contract, and you could prove it because the tenant’s been paying rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to state law, leases established verbally are legally binding agreements — as long as the lease \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV§ionNum=1624.\">is one year or less\u003c/a>. If, for example, you are renting a room in your cousin’s home month-to-month and coordinated the lease through a phone call, that is an agreement recognized by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to legal experts to understand what protections tenants have when there’s no written lease agreement, along with the responsibilities of landlords. For some tenants, it may be difficult to speak openly with their landlord, especially if they’re renting from a family member or someone who is threatening to evict them. Keep reading for advice on how to handle these important conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip ahead to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">How much can my landlord increase my rent?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">What are my privacy rights when I rent a room in someone’s house?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What can I do if my home needs repairs?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#D\">When can my landlord actually evict me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#E\">I am undocumented and my landlord is threatening me based on my immigration status.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Protecting your lease\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most dangerous thing a tenant without a written lease can do is pay their rent in cash, said Leah Simon-Weisberg, executive director of California Center for Movement Legal Services. “It’s really difficult to prove that you paid,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if — for whatever reason — you do pay rent in cash, make sure to ask your landlord for a receipt, which could be an email or text message that includes confirmation you paid rent, how much you paid and for what (if the lease comes with a parking spot, for example). Having receipts will also protect you in the future, as you will have some form of documentation that proves your lease exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re paying with a check or a money order, make sure to add your address, Simon-Weisberg said. “So when they’re cashed, it’s proof that the landlord acknowledges that you live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s other things you can do to document your lease, including getting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">a driver’s license or state ID\u003c/a> with your address or saving bills from utilities. If you have kids, make sure they are enrolled in school with your current address, as you can then ask the school in the future for official documentation that includes that information.”Or you can even mail yourself a letter,” Simon-Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>How much can my rent go up when I don’t have a written lease?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“One of the protections tenants have, whether the lease is verbal or written, is rent control,” Prochovnick said.[aside postID=news_12021928 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1020x680.jpg']If you are paying $1,000 per month for a room, your landlord cannot raise the rent to $2,000 from one month to the next — as that would exceed the limits allowed by the state’s rent cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rent cap \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1947.12.&lawCode=CIV\">blocks landlords from raising the rent by more than 10%\u003c/a> over a 12-month period — unless you live in a newer property that was built within the past 15 years. \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/landlord-tenant-issues#:~:text=Eviction%20Process%20guide.-,Who%20These%20Protections%20Apply%20To,Section%208%20Housing%20Choice%20Vouchers.\">Other exceptions\u003c/a> include certain single-family homes, most mobile homes and duplexes where the landlord lives in one of the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties — including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo in the Bay Area — have \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/Know-Your-Rights-Tenants-English.pdf\">additional rent control rules\u003c/a>, which may further limit how much landlords can raise the rent each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control also applies if you are leasing month-to-month. Any rent increase has to be done through a formal written notice \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/Know-Your-Rights-Tenants-English.pdf\">at least 30 days in advance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Living in someone else’s home? You have the right to privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One situation that EDC’s Prochovnick has seen before is when tenants rent a room at a family member’s home and arguments come up when the tenant’s privacy is not respected. “Even if your landlord is your cousin or your parent, they cannot enter your bedroom without a proper reason and proper notice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those reasons could be that you have invited your landlord to enter your room, or there’s an emergency. Otherwise, your landlord \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1954.&lawCode=CIV\">can only come in\u003c/a> to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Make necessary or agreed-upon repairs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inspect the room’s condition at the start or end of your lease.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Show the space to a potential tenant.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If any of these conditions apply, your landlord still needs to let you know — in writing — at least 24 hours in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their reason can’t just be because they want to see what’s going on and look in your drawers,” Prochovnick said. And one way to avoid misunderstandings could be for the tenant and landlord to clearly establish which spaces the tenant is renting, she suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they renting the whole apartment? Are they just renting one bedroom?” she said. “What is their space that they’re getting in exchange for their rent?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>My home needs repairs. Who’s responsible?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your landlord must follow \u003ca href=\"https://nchh.org/resource-library/HH_Codes_CA_9-9-07.pdf\">the state’s health and safety code\u003c/a>, which requires that a home have a working bathroom, functional plumbing, heating equipment that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970546/rental-home-getting-cold-this-winter-what-you-can-legally-ask-of-your-landlord\">can keep the indoor temperature at a minimum of 70 degrees\u003c/a> and be free of insects and rodents, among other rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether the lease is written or not, the landlord has the responsibility of maintaining the property,” Simon-Weisberg said. “That’s just state law; it has nothing to do with the contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11970546\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1457400106-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a subtenant and the master tenant is leasing from someone else, it’s the owner of the property who is liable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>Eviction: What changes when there’s no written lease?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although California has some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/09/california-eviction-law/\">strongest protections against evictions\u003c/a> in the country, some landlords still push out their tenants through threats, disinformation or even changing the locks on the door. These “shadow evictions” were e\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890298/the-unofficial-evictions-affecting-latino-immigrants\">specially seen during the COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a> as landlords sought to get around the state’s eviction moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Landlords can’t just put your things out on the street and change the locks,” Prochovnick said. “They have to go through a proper court procedure to evict the tenant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/Tenant-Protection-Act-Landlords-and-Property-Managers-English.pdf\">Tenant Protection Act\u003c/a> requires a landlord to have a “just cause” in order to evict a tenant, which can include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The tenant has not paid their rent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The tenant has violated the terms of the lease.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord no longer wants to rent out the space.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord wants to use the home for themselves or a family member.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord plans to demolish the home or substantially remodel it, which could include removing lead paint, mold or asbestos.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord has received a government order for the home to be vacated.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A landlord then has to \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-landlord/notice-deliver\">give you a written notice\u003c/a>, either in person or through the mail, explaining why they are evicting you, along with a deadline for when you need to move out. How much time you get \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-tenant/notice-types\">depends on the circumstances of the eviction\u003c/a>. “Even if the lease is verbal, the notice to terminate has to be in writing,” Prochovnick said.[aside postID=news_12008424 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/018_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021_qed-1020x680.jpg']You have the ability to challenge the eviction order in court: After receiving the eviction notice from your landlord, you have 10 days to file a response with your county’s court. With this form, you can explain the circumstances of your lease and any issues that have come up with your landlord in the past, and a judge will then \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-tenant/trial\">hold an eviction trial\u003c/a> to decide whether you have to leave your home. \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-tenant/respond\">\u003cstrong>Learn more about how to respond to an eviction notice.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do decide to go to court, legal experts recommend having receipts and documentation ready to prove that you have been paying rent to live in your home and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>I am undocumented. Is my immigration status a problem when renting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2017, California lawmakers approved\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB291\"> AB 291\u003c/a>, which makes it illegal for a landlord to threaten undocumented tenants with reporting them to immigration authorities. Immigration advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanpabloca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/17573/AB-291-Immigration-Tenant-Protection-Fact-Sheet\">have pointed out for years\u003c/a> that undocumented immigrants are especially vulnerable to neglect and abuse from their landlords, who may threaten them with contacting law enforcement if they speak up about needed repairs or an unlawful eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of whether you’re documented or not, there’s no difference: We all have the same housing rights,” Simon-Weisberg said. “If a landlord is discriminating against you based on your immigration status, that’s illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court could fine a landlord up to $2,000 for violating this law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I effectively talk to my landlord about this stuff — particularly if they’re family?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it could feel strange or even uncomfortable bringing up all this legal talk, especially if your landlord is a friend or family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to find a balance between seeing this person as someone you know and someone you have a business relationship with, Simon-Weisberg said. “Whether you’re related to the person or not, one person owns it, and one person’s renting,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue she’s seen over the years is tenants disagreeing with their landlord over what’s actually included in the lease. She recommends sending your landlord an email or a text message after an important conversation that summarizes what the two of you agreed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t take it for granted that you are renting from somebody you know,” she said. “If you are working for a friend, you still want to do all the things that you normally would do because it doesn’t protect you that they’re a friend, necessarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you have the right to ask your landlord to stay out of your bedroom or provide necessary repairs, “it’s understandable that tenants feel nervous,” Prochovnick said. “There’s a power dynamic between landlords and tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need shelter, and we don’t want to put that at risk by pushing back,” she said, but “our legal rights are only as strong as we’re willing to argue for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conversations don’t have to be \u003cem>arguments \u003c/em>either, she said, pointing out that many community groups in California offer mediation services between landlords and tenants. “That might be something for people in these situations to try instead of ending up in court fighting each other, especially if they’re family members, and they want to preserve what was once a good relationship,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you are paying $1,000 per month for a room, your landlord cannot raise the rent to $2,000 from one month to the next — as that would exceed the limits allowed by the state’s rent cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rent cap \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1947.12.&lawCode=CIV\">blocks landlords from raising the rent by more than 10%\u003c/a> over a 12-month period — unless you live in a newer property that was built within the past 15 years. \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/landlord-tenant-issues#:~:text=Eviction%20Process%20guide.-,Who%20These%20Protections%20Apply%20To,Section%208%20Housing%20Choice%20Vouchers.\">Other exceptions\u003c/a> include certain single-family homes, most mobile homes and duplexes where the landlord lives in one of the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties — including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo in the Bay Area — have \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/Know-Your-Rights-Tenants-English.pdf\">additional rent control rules\u003c/a>, which may further limit how much landlords can raise the rent each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control also applies if you are leasing month-to-month. Any rent increase has to be done through a formal written notice \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/Know-Your-Rights-Tenants-English.pdf\">at least 30 days in advance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Living in someone else’s home? You have the right to privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One situation that EDC’s Prochovnick has seen before is when tenants rent a room at a family member’s home and arguments come up when the tenant’s privacy is not respected. “Even if your landlord is your cousin or your parent, they cannot enter your bedroom without a proper reason and proper notice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those reasons could be that you have invited your landlord to enter your room, or there’s an emergency. Otherwise, your landlord \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1954.&lawCode=CIV\">can only come in\u003c/a> to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Make necessary or agreed-upon repairs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inspect the room’s condition at the start or end of your lease.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Show the space to a potential tenant.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If any of these conditions apply, your landlord still needs to let you know — in writing — at least 24 hours in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their reason can’t just be because they want to see what’s going on and look in your drawers,” Prochovnick said. And one way to avoid misunderstandings could be for the tenant and landlord to clearly establish which spaces the tenant is renting, she suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they renting the whole apartment? Are they just renting one bedroom?” she said. “What is their space that they’re getting in exchange for their rent?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>My home needs repairs. Who’s responsible?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your landlord must follow \u003ca href=\"https://nchh.org/resource-library/HH_Codes_CA_9-9-07.pdf\">the state’s health and safety code\u003c/a>, which requires that a home have a working bathroom, functional plumbing, heating equipment that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970546/rental-home-getting-cold-this-winter-what-you-can-legally-ask-of-your-landlord\">can keep the indoor temperature at a minimum of 70 degrees\u003c/a> and be free of insects and rodents, among other rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether the lease is written or not, the landlord has the responsibility of maintaining the property,” Simon-Weisberg said. “That’s just state law; it has nothing to do with the contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a subtenant and the master tenant is leasing from someone else, it’s the owner of the property who is liable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>Eviction: What changes when there’s no written lease?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although California has some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/09/california-eviction-law/\">strongest protections against evictions\u003c/a> in the country, some landlords still push out their tenants through threats, disinformation or even changing the locks on the door. These “shadow evictions” were e\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890298/the-unofficial-evictions-affecting-latino-immigrants\">specially seen during the COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a> as landlords sought to get around the state’s eviction moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Landlords can’t just put your things out on the street and change the locks,” Prochovnick said. “They have to go through a proper court procedure to evict the tenant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/Tenant-Protection-Act-Landlords-and-Property-Managers-English.pdf\">Tenant Protection Act\u003c/a> requires a landlord to have a “just cause” in order to evict a tenant, which can include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The tenant has not paid their rent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The tenant has violated the terms of the lease.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord no longer wants to rent out the space.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord wants to use the home for themselves or a family member.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord plans to demolish the home or substantially remodel it, which could include removing lead paint, mold or asbestos.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The landlord has received a government order for the home to be vacated.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A landlord then has to \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-landlord/notice-deliver\">give you a written notice\u003c/a>, either in person or through the mail, explaining why they are evicting you, along with a deadline for when you need to move out. How much time you get \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-tenant/notice-types\">depends on the circumstances of the eviction\u003c/a>. “Even if the lease is verbal, the notice to terminate has to be in writing,” Prochovnick said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>You have the ability to challenge the eviction order in court: After receiving the eviction notice from your landlord, you have 10 days to file a response with your county’s court. With this form, you can explain the circumstances of your lease and any issues that have come up with your landlord in the past, and a judge will then \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-tenant/trial\">hold an eviction trial\u003c/a> to decide whether you have to leave your home. \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/eviction-tenant/respond\">\u003cstrong>Learn more about how to respond to an eviction notice.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do decide to go to court, legal experts recommend having receipts and documentation ready to prove that you have been paying rent to live in your home and for how long.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>I am undocumented. Is my immigration status a problem when renting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2017, California lawmakers approved\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB291\"> AB 291\u003c/a>, which makes it illegal for a landlord to threaten undocumented tenants with reporting them to immigration authorities. Immigration advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanpabloca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/17573/AB-291-Immigration-Tenant-Protection-Fact-Sheet\">have pointed out for years\u003c/a> that undocumented immigrants are especially vulnerable to neglect and abuse from their landlords, who may threaten them with contacting law enforcement if they speak up about needed repairs or an unlawful eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of whether you’re documented or not, there’s no difference: We all have the same housing rights,” Simon-Weisberg said. “If a landlord is discriminating against you based on your immigration status, that’s illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court could fine a landlord up to $2,000 for violating this law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can I effectively talk to my landlord about this stuff — particularly if they’re family?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, it could feel strange or even uncomfortable bringing up all this legal talk, especially if your landlord is a friend or family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to find a balance between seeing this person as someone you know and someone you have a business relationship with, Simon-Weisberg said. “Whether you’re related to the person or not, one person owns it, and one person’s renting,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue she’s seen over the years is tenants disagreeing with their landlord over what’s actually included in the lease. She recommends sending your landlord an email or a text message after an important conversation that summarizes what the two of you agreed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t take it for granted that you are renting from somebody you know,” she said. “If you are working for a friend, you still want to do all the things that you normally would do because it doesn’t protect you that they’re a friend, necessarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you have the right to ask your landlord to stay out of your bedroom or provide necessary repairs, “it’s understandable that tenants feel nervous,” Prochovnick said. “There’s a power dynamic between landlords and tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all need shelter, and we don’t want to put that at risk by pushing back,” she said, but “our legal rights are only as strong as we’re willing to argue for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conversations don’t have to be \u003cem>arguments \u003c/em>either, she said, pointing out that many community groups in California offer mediation services between landlords and tenants. “That might be something for people in these situations to try instead of ending up in court fighting each other, especially if they’re family members, and they want to preserve what was once a good relationship,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Proponents of a growing movement in the construction industry are asking: Why tear down old buildings with wrecking balls when those materials can be mined for reusable materials?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice, called deconstruction, creates a circular economy of reuse for building materials. It keeps waste out of landfills and shrinks the carbon footprint of buildings and infrastructure. It’s the kind of idea that sounds like an obvious win-win. But as the built environment rapidly changes over from one generation to the next, communities may not yet have the infrastructure — the sorting facilities and reuse stores — to keep up with new demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deconstruction and reuse industries have taken flight in the past five to 10 years in cities like Portland, Ore., and Boulder, Colo., where much of the original aging housing stock is now being replaced to suit the tastes of a much wealthier 21st-century population. As old homes come down to make way for new ones, specialist contractors like Anna Perks are moving in to handle the materials left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our team is systematically unbuilding the structure,” said Perks, co-owner of Perks Deconstruction, a contracting company that disassembles buildings for parts. She was hired to make a snug three-bedroom, two-bath home near the top of a green, hilly street in Boulder disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perks Deconstruction co-owner Anna Perks walks past the remaining slab of an old farmhouse at a project in Aurora. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her crew worked quickly. After the first day on-site, the roof of the house disappeared. The siding, too. A crew wielding hammers and crowbars pried pieces of wood sheathing off the studs and carefully sorted materials. Others clawed nails out of two-by-sixes in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a pretty good pile of lumber,” she said. “That’s all ceiling joists and floor joists. There’s a lot of good reusable lumber in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were trained to work precisely and with patience to keep the lumber as intact as possible as they removed it from the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, what happens is a bulldozer will come in, smash it all — it’ll all get trashed,” Perks said. “But deconstruction, we try to salvage and recycle as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck is piled with planks salvaged by Perks Deconstruction from an old farmhouse in Aurora. The wood will be transported to the company’s warehouse, where it will be sorted and priced for sale. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The carbon emissions embodied in buildings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea is to limit the climate impact of our built environment, which accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/2022-global-status-report-buildings-and-construction\">nearly 40%\u003c/a> of global greenhouse gas emissions. \u003ca href=\"https://carbonleadershipforum.org/the-embodied-carbon-benchmark-report/\">About half\u003c/a> of that comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://rmi.org/embodied-carbon-101/\">embodied carbon\u003c/a> of construction materials, according to Michelle Lambert, the policy and engagement manager at the nonprofit Carbon Leadership Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Embodied carbon is the greenhouse gas emissions that are generated by the manufacturing, the transportation, the installation, all the way through to the disposal of construction materials that are used in buildings or in roads and other infrastructure projects,” Lambert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, experts have focused on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/embodied-carbon-vs-operational-carbon-whats-the-difference-and-why-does-it-matter/\">climate impact\u003c/a> of building operations — the energy used to heat, cool and electrify spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the last five, 10 years, we’ve really started to understand that the materials and the processes that have created those materials are a really significant piece of the whole carbon footprint of buildings as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scout Wise, a Perks Deconstruction warehouse coordinator, walks through the company’s warehouse. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big promise of deconstruction is in creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/buildings/circular-economy\">circular economy\u003c/a> for building materials: harvesting lumber, say, from an old house, rather than a forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making use of the materials that we have already manufactured is one of the most impactful ways that we can reduce embodied carbon,” Lambert said. “Eliminating all of those emissions that would’ve been required to create new materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The challenges of deconstruction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Fellows, president of Colorado-based development company Resolute Strategies, hired Perks Deconstruction to dismantle a few crumbling farm buildings on a former homestead he’s now building out as a mixed-use residential neighborhood in Aurora. In his brief for the project, he included reusing as many of the original materials as possible on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bricks from the farmhouse and siding from the barn have been set aside in containers. They’ll be incorporated into a new community center for the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a place where there’s cool history and culture in the pioneers and the settlers that came out and did \u003ca href=\"https://www.drylandag.org/\">dryland farming\u003c/a>,” Fellows said. “We’re trying to honor that part of that culture and history of Colorado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows said he and his partners also liked deconstruction as a way to cut the carbon footprint of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to be good stewards of the land in terms of the climate and the environment,” he said. “So, to the extent that we could reuse and recycle any materials, we wanted to do that, so we don’t have to consume as much new material, nor do we have to take as much stuff to a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just because the interest is there doesn’t mean the execution is easy. A successful deconstruction program requires local infrastructure for processing and distributing salvaged materials, not to mention local end markets — people who want to buy and use those materials. Boulder, for instance, has a robust \u003ca href=\"https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cdrecyclingresourcesflyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deconstruction ecosystem\u003c/a> that includes expert contractors and recycling facilities for concrete, masonry and lumber, not to mention several building-materials reuse stores and donation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a project site in Boulder, a Perks Deconstruction crew pulls a metal gutter from a piece of roofing taken off a house. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a lot of places don’t have those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have a place to take all this material,” Perks said. “It gets really hard for contractors when there’s nowhere to take the material.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra cost of deconstruction can also make it a hard sell. Homeowners and developers may be motivated by environmental reasons, but the economic incentives aren’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows estimates that deconstruction increased project costs 35% to 40% and added at least a year to the schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we had to stage things carefully and do them in a certain sequence,” he said. “And we had to find the right people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Fellows said he’s glad they went for it and even thinks he’ll see an eventual return on the investment when eco-conscious homebuyers learn about the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to check back in three to five years. We’ll see if we think that’s happening,” he said. “But I think it was still the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.allforreuse.org/resources/policy-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful\u003c/a> of local governments, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Zero-Waste/Zero-Waste-Requirements-Guidelines/Deconstruction-Ordinance\">Palo Alto, Calif.\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.leegov.com/solidwaste/recycling/constructiondebris\">Fort Myers, Fla.\u003c/a>, and counting, now either require some percentage of demolition waste be salvaged, reused or recycled, or incentivize those practices. Portland, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/decon/about-decon\">an ordinance\u003c/a> has been on the books since 2016, was among the earliest deconstruction pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulder, more than 140 million pounds of materials have been kept out of landfills since a \u003ca href=\"https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/sustainable-deconstruction-requirements\">deconstruction ordinance\u003c/a> was adopted in 2020, according to the city of Boulder’s circular economy policy adviser, Emily Freeman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old wiring and pipe fittings are piled in the corner of a basement at a home in Boulder, where Perks Deconstruction is taking down the home and salvaging as much of its material as possible. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All residential and commercial buildings are required to be deconstructed,” Freeman said. “The ordinance requirements are that 75% or more of those building materials are diverted from landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has overshot that goal. Over the last five years, Freeman said, more than 83% of the construction waste generated in Boulder has been kept out of landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the movement matures, Perks said, the next frontier in deconstruction would be to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-06/documents/design_for_disassembly_in_the_built_environment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan for disassembly\u003c/a> before a building ever got built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you either incorporate reclaimed materials into the new design, or when you’re designing, can you think about what’s this going to be like to take it down?” she said. “And when it gets taken down, can it be reused?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perks says the future of climate-conscious construction will be knowing exactly how you’ll take a building apart before you even put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deconstruction and reuse industries have taken flight in the past five to 10 years in cities like Portland, Ore., and Boulder, Colo., where much of the original aging housing stock is now being replaced to suit the tastes of a much wealthier 21st-century population. As old homes come down to make way for new ones, specialist contractors like Anna Perks are moving in to handle the materials left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our team is systematically unbuilding the structure,” said Perks, co-owner of Perks Deconstruction, a contracting company that disassembles buildings for parts. She was hired to make a snug three-bedroom, two-bath home near the top of a green, hilly street in Boulder disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perks Deconstruction co-owner Anna Perks walks past the remaining slab of an old farmhouse at a project in Aurora. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her crew worked quickly. After the first day on-site, the roof of the house disappeared. The siding, too. A crew wielding hammers and crowbars pried pieces of wood sheathing off the studs and carefully sorted materials. Others clawed nails out of two-by-sixes in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a pretty good pile of lumber,” she said. “That’s all ceiling joists and floor joists. There’s a lot of good reusable lumber in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were trained to work precisely and with patience to keep the lumber as intact as possible as they removed it from the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, what happens is a bulldozer will come in, smash it all — it’ll all get trashed,” Perks said. “But deconstruction, we try to salvage and recycle as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck is piled with planks salvaged by Perks Deconstruction from an old farmhouse in Aurora. The wood will be transported to the company’s warehouse, where it will be sorted and priced for sale. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The carbon emissions embodied in buildings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea is to limit the climate impact of our built environment, which accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/2022-global-status-report-buildings-and-construction\">nearly 40%\u003c/a> of global greenhouse gas emissions. \u003ca href=\"https://carbonleadershipforum.org/the-embodied-carbon-benchmark-report/\">About half\u003c/a> of that comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://rmi.org/embodied-carbon-101/\">embodied carbon\u003c/a> of construction materials, according to Michelle Lambert, the policy and engagement manager at the nonprofit Carbon Leadership Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Embodied carbon is the greenhouse gas emissions that are generated by the manufacturing, the transportation, the installation, all the way through to the disposal of construction materials that are used in buildings or in roads and other infrastructure projects,” Lambert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, experts have focused on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/embodied-carbon-vs-operational-carbon-whats-the-difference-and-why-does-it-matter/\">climate impact\u003c/a> of building operations — the energy used to heat, cool and electrify spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the last five, 10 years, we’ve really started to understand that the materials and the processes that have created those materials are a really significant piece of the whole carbon footprint of buildings as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scout Wise, a Perks Deconstruction warehouse coordinator, walks through the company’s warehouse. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big promise of deconstruction is in creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/buildings/circular-economy\">circular economy\u003c/a> for building materials: harvesting lumber, say, from an old house, rather than a forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making use of the materials that we have already manufactured is one of the most impactful ways that we can reduce embodied carbon,” Lambert said. “Eliminating all of those emissions that would’ve been required to create new materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The challenges of deconstruction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Fellows, president of Colorado-based development company Resolute Strategies, hired Perks Deconstruction to dismantle a few crumbling farm buildings on a former homestead he’s now building out as a mixed-use residential neighborhood in Aurora. In his brief for the project, he included reusing as many of the original materials as possible on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bricks from the farmhouse and siding from the barn have been set aside in containers. They’ll be incorporated into a new community center for the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a place where there’s cool history and culture in the pioneers and the settlers that came out and did \u003ca href=\"https://www.drylandag.org/\">dryland farming\u003c/a>,” Fellows said. “We’re trying to honor that part of that culture and history of Colorado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows said he and his partners also liked deconstruction as a way to cut the carbon footprint of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to be good stewards of the land in terms of the climate and the environment,” he said. “So, to the extent that we could reuse and recycle any materials, we wanted to do that, so we don’t have to consume as much new material, nor do we have to take as much stuff to a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just because the interest is there doesn’t mean the execution is easy. A successful deconstruction program requires local infrastructure for processing and distributing salvaged materials, not to mention local end markets — people who want to buy and use those materials. Boulder, for instance, has a robust \u003ca href=\"https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cdrecyclingresourcesflyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deconstruction ecosystem\u003c/a> that includes expert contractors and recycling facilities for concrete, masonry and lumber, not to mention several building-materials reuse stores and donation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a project site in Boulder, a Perks Deconstruction crew pulls a metal gutter from a piece of roofing taken off a house. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a lot of places don’t have those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have a place to take all this material,” Perks said. “It gets really hard for contractors when there’s nowhere to take the material.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra cost of deconstruction can also make it a hard sell. Homeowners and developers may be motivated by environmental reasons, but the economic incentives aren’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows estimates that deconstruction increased project costs 35% to 40% and added at least a year to the schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we had to stage things carefully and do them in a certain sequence,” he said. “And we had to find the right people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Fellows said he’s glad they went for it and even thinks he’ll see an eventual return on the investment when eco-conscious homebuyers learn about the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to check back in three to five years. We’ll see if we think that’s happening,” he said. “But I think it was still the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.allforreuse.org/resources/policy-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful\u003c/a> of local governments, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Zero-Waste/Zero-Waste-Requirements-Guidelines/Deconstruction-Ordinance\">Palo Alto, Calif.\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.leegov.com/solidwaste/recycling/constructiondebris\">Fort Myers, Fla.\u003c/a>, and counting, now either require some percentage of demolition waste be salvaged, reused or recycled, or incentivize those practices. Portland, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/decon/about-decon\">an ordinance\u003c/a> has been on the books since 2016, was among the earliest deconstruction pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulder, more than 140 million pounds of materials have been kept out of landfills since a \u003ca href=\"https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/sustainable-deconstruction-requirements\">deconstruction ordinance\u003c/a> was adopted in 2020, according to the city of Boulder’s circular economy policy adviser, Emily Freeman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old wiring and pipe fittings are piled in the corner of a basement at a home in Boulder, where Perks Deconstruction is taking down the home and salvaging as much of its material as possible. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All residential and commercial buildings are required to be deconstructed,” Freeman said. “The ordinance requirements are that 75% or more of those building materials are diverted from landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has overshot that goal. Over the last five years, Freeman said, more than 83% of the construction waste generated in Boulder has been kept out of landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the movement matures, Perks said, the next frontier in deconstruction would be to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-06/documents/design_for_disassembly_in_the_built_environment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan for disassembly\u003c/a> before a building ever got built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you either incorporate reclaimed materials into the new design, or when you’re designing, can you think about what’s this going to be like to take it down?” she said. “And when it gets taken down, can it be reused?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perks says the future of climate-conscious construction will be knowing exactly how you’ll take a building apart before you even put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In January, three generations of the Hall family were living in a pair of RVs, tucked into an industrial corner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a>. Fannie Hall shared her blue and white 29-footer with her adult daughter and granddaughter, plus a pack of yapping Chihuahuas — Hall’s beloved Tutti, her daughter’s Blu, and nine puppies. Across the street, Hall’s son lived in a second camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m letting him stay in the cottage — I call it the cottage,” Hall, 64, said with a laugh, motioning toward a red and white RV she likened to a vacation home. “We all got homeless about the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was roughly six years ago, after the house they rented in San Pablo was red-tagged for code violations. They were forced to move out with a week’s notice, Hall said, and eventually all ended up on Berkeley’s Second Street — a stretch of wrecked asphalt at the city’s western edge lined with barbed wire-ringed recycling and construction businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, another family shared their own set of RVs. Patrick, 58, and his wife had moved into the area around the same time as the Halls, after Patrick’s wife had a heart attack, lost her job as an administrative assistant and the couple got evicted from their San Pablo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to afford anywhere around here,” said Patrick, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he doesn’t want his employers to know his living situation. “So this is kind of where we just landed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, is home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both families were working — Hall as a home health aide three days a week and Patrick as a security guard — and they tried to keep their areas tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time Elvia Guzman, 42, and her husband moved there in 2024, the area had become a well-established encampment with dozens of people living in motorhomes, broken down buses, cars and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there,” she said, explaining authorities had broken up a similar site where the couple was living in Richmond. “They weren’t really bothering us over here, so it felt more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the area grew increasingly chaotic. Hall watched in frustration as garbage piles swelled to mini mountains and fires broke out. The mess eventually became her problem, attracting pests — “I’ve had my camper chewed on and killed multiple rats up in my camper,” she said — and the authorities.[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']In 2023, police were called to the area around 250 times, and there were 20 reported fires, according to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-09-10%20Item%2037%20Encampment%20Policy%20Resolution.pdf\">city documents\u003c/a>. Neighbors complained to the city council that there were “human feces just about anywhere you dare to look,” “a stabbing,” and fights resulting in “retaliatory arson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city provided porta potties, dumpsters, mobile showers and laundry facilities, and cleared nearly 40 tons of debris over the years. Still, by early 2024, officials deemed the area an imminent health hazard, citing used hypodermic needles, rotting food, a rat infestation and waste-contaminated storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">even famously liberal Berkeley had had enough\u003c/a> and city leaders directed staff to focus on cleaning up the area. They started laying plans to close the encampment for good and, ideally, house its inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, who oversees Berkeley’s Homeless Response Team, knew they would need to try something different. Past outreach efforts offering shelter to the residents had largely failed. A staff report noted engagement wasn’t successful because many of the RV dwellers did not consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall explained it this way: With an apartment out of reach, her RV offered a degree of privacy, security and independence, not to mention a valuable asset that could be traded for cash. Accepting temporary shelter risked all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can’t guarantee you housing once you get in there,” she said, expressing concern that she might be forced to move out of the shelter before a permanent home opened up. Her family could land back on the streets and worse off if they gave up their campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Radu and his colleagues decided to test a new strategy: cash for RVs. If the participants agreed to move indoors, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle. They’d receive 15% of the payout when they moved into a motel shelter and the rest after they tried out the shelter and their RV was towed. If residents decided not to stick with the program during the trial period, they’d still pocket the initial payment and keep their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach was modeled after a pilot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/news-releases/new-initiatives-approved-binford-road-encampment?language=es\">Marin County that was \u003c/a>itself inspired by a cash incentive meant to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sausalito-homeless-encampment-17531723.php\">boat dwellers out of Richardson Bay\u003c/a>. It had a lot of promise, said UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Margot Kushel, who has \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">studied the needs of people living in large vehicles. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city designed this to really gain people’s trust and to make sure that people were not left worse off than they were when they started,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">She called Berkeley’s program \u003c/a>“quite innovative” and said it could prove valuable in the future as the state contends with RV homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teahana Roman, program manager, speaks with a resident at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2117990?src=#abstract\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/How_Communities_Are_Responding_to_Vehicular_Homelessness.pdf\">and more\u003c/a> Californians taking up residence in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/data_point_in_time.page?\">now lives in some kind of car or RV\u003c/a>, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">clear RV encampments\u003c/a> have led to widespread public outcry, and after moving to ban overnight RV parking, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">city reversed course\u003c/a> under pressure from advocates. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">again proposing to ban the vehicles\u003c/a>, this time with a similar offer to Berkeley’s, as part of a broader plan to get motorhomes off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">research\u003c/a> found that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials designed their strategy with that in mind, but residents still had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good,” Patrick said, “but that’s what makes me a little leery — maybe it just sounds too good to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was wary, too. What she didn’t know about the motel program gave her pause. “[You] don’t know if it’s going to be safe,” she said. “You’re going in with strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so did what she knew. “You can’t have anybody visiting you,” Hall said, “You can’t cook in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guzman, though RV living never felt truly safe, the possibility of ending up on the streets in a tent, even less protected from the elements, was even more terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the program to work, city staff and nonprofit outreach workers spent roughly three months coaxing residents, explaining their offer, listening to concerns and making accommodations to the shelter policies where possible. A one-dog-per-person rule stretched to allow four dogs in one room; friends were allowed to bunk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman looks out of the window in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of that really matters,” Radu said. But ultimately, it was the city’s cash offer that overcame many of the residents’ reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman and her husband ended up accepting roughly $3,000 for their vehicle, which they promptly put into savings. That gives them some reassurance, she said, in case they get kicked out or the program ends. “We don’t have another RV to go to or a Plan B, so we gotta have something put aside for that, just in case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and his wife also took the city up on its offer. For them, it solved a logistical problem: What to do with their motorhomes if they moved into a shelter? They have two cars and two RVs and stand to get about $4,900 for just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The buy-back program kind of makes everything sort of doable because it gives me a little money in my pocket, and I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting towed because it’s not my stuff anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls, on the other hand, opted out because, as Fannie Hall said, “I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with.” But they were among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of 36 people and 26 dogs moved from the encampment into a city-leased motel in central Berkeley beginning in January. Of the 32 vehicles workers encountered on Second Street during the closure process, just three remain on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By that metric, it was a resounding success and something that we’re looking to expand upon hopefully in other encampments,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel and her team are now evaluating the program’s success at Berkeley’s request — a highly unusual step. The city built the research plan into its application for $5.4 million in state \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/encampment-resolution-funding-program\">Encampment Resolution Funding\u003c/a> last year.[aside postID=news_11999643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/SFZooRVs-1020x683.jpg'] While California has put \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007\">$1 billion toward the grants\u003c/a> since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">there’s little quality research on what works\u003c/a> when it comes to successfully closing encampments. Radu and Kushel want to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that we are leaning into this crisis with both a sense of urgency and also a sense of moving beyond rhetoric to actually explore what does work, what doesn’t work and to try to get as many win-wins as we possibly can,” Kushel said. “The story is just beginning, but I think we’ve already learned a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the research, Kushel will be looking closely at the holdouts, like Hall and her family, to understand why they refused to accept the city’s offer. The answer might influence how they design future programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls left Second Street in late April with help from the city of Berkeley to get their RVs running. Rats had gnawed through some wiring, Hall said, and the motorhomes needed new batteries, which the city sprang for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re now adjusting to life behind a Target on the Oakland-Emeryville border. “We’re all kind of watching out for each other like we did over on Second Street,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall is applying for housing and still works three days a week as a home health aide, she said. “I’m just trying to keep the faith and then hopefully something gives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman holds a cat pillow in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, Guzman sat inside the Capri Motel, a two-story terracotta-roofed building on a busy street in Berkeley. It was a weekday in May, and a group of formerly homeless residents were playing cornhole in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman said she’s working with program staff to replace her ID, birth certificate and other documents that were stolen when she lived in the RV so she can apply for apartments. Like most of the residents there, it’ll take her several months, even a year or more, to get into a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just hoping to end up with our housing like we’ve been wanting for so many years now and be stable,” she said. “I just want a boring, normal, regular life, that’s all. I’ll be happy with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Second Street, there’s little trace of the encampment she and the Halls left behind. The heaps of garbage and barking dogs are gone. Dozens of new street signs line the road, threatening would-be lodgers with arrest. There’s not an RV in sight, just crumbling pavement, weeds and graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In January, three generations of the Hall family were living in a pair of RVs, tucked into an industrial corner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a>. Fannie Hall shared her blue and white 29-footer with her adult daughter and granddaughter, plus a pack of yapping Chihuahuas — Hall’s beloved Tutti, her daughter’s Blu, and nine puppies. Across the street, Hall’s son lived in a second camper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m letting him stay in the cottage — I call it the cottage,” Hall, 64, said with a laugh, motioning toward a red and white RV she likened to a vacation home. “We all got homeless about the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was roughly six years ago, after the house they rented in San Pablo was red-tagged for code violations. They were forced to move out with a week’s notice, Hall said, and eventually all ended up on Berkeley’s Second Street — a stretch of wrecked asphalt at the city’s western edge lined with barbed wire-ringed recycling and construction businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, another family shared their own set of RVs. Patrick, 58, and his wife had moved into the area around the same time as the Halls, after Patrick’s wife had a heart attack, lost her job as an administrative assistant and the couple got evicted from their San Pablo home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t been able to afford anywhere around here,” said Patrick, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he doesn’t want his employers to know his living situation. “So this is kind of where we just landed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-43-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, is home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both families were working — Hall as a home health aide three days a week and Patrick as a security guard — and they tried to keep their areas tidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time Elvia Guzman, 42, and her husband moved there in 2024, the area had become a well-established encampment with dozens of people living in motorhomes, broken down buses, cars and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Second Street was a place where there was a lot of RVs and a little community there,” she said, explaining authorities had broken up a similar site where the couple was living in Richmond. “They weren’t really bothering us over here, so it felt more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the area grew increasingly chaotic. Hall watched in frustration as garbage piles swelled to mini mountains and fires broke out. The mess eventually became her problem, attracting pests — “I’ve had my camper chewed on and killed multiple rats up in my camper,” she said — and the authorities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2023, police were called to the area around 250 times, and there were 20 reported fires, according to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-09-10%20Item%2037%20Encampment%20Policy%20Resolution.pdf\">city documents\u003c/a>. Neighbors complained to the city council that there were “human feces just about anywhere you dare to look,” “a stabbing,” and fights resulting in “retaliatory arson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city provided porta potties, dumpsters, mobile showers and laundry facilities, and cleared nearly 40 tons of debris over the years. Still, by early 2024, officials deemed the area an imminent health hazard, citing used hypodermic needles, rotting food, a rat infestation and waste-contaminated storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">even famously liberal Berkeley had had enough\u003c/a> and city leaders directed staff to focus on cleaning up the area. They started laying plans to close the encampment for good and, ideally, house its inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, who oversees Berkeley’s Homeless Response Team, knew they would need to try something different. Past outreach efforts offering shelter to the residents had largely failed. A staff report noted engagement wasn’t successful because many of the RV dwellers did not consider themselves homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall explained it this way: With an apartment out of reach, her RV offered a degree of privacy, security and independence, not to mention a valuable asset that could be traded for cash. Accepting temporary shelter risked all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can’t guarantee you housing once you get in there,” she said, expressing concern that she might be forced to move out of the shelter before a permanent home opened up. Her family could land back on the streets and worse off if they gave up their campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Radu and his colleagues decided to test a new strategy: cash for RVs. If the participants agreed to move indoors, they would get $175 per linear foot of RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle. They’d receive 15% of the payout when they moved into a motel shelter and the rest after they tried out the shelter and their RV was towed. If residents decided not to stick with the program during the trial period, they’d still pocket the initial payment and keep their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach was modeled after a pilot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/news-releases/new-initiatives-approved-binford-road-encampment?language=es\">Marin County that was \u003c/a>itself inspired by a cash incentive meant to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sausalito-homeless-encampment-17531723.php\">boat dwellers out of Richardson Bay\u003c/a>. It had a lot of promise, said UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Margot Kushel, who has \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">studied the needs of people living in large vehicles. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city designed this to really gain people’s trust and to make sure that people were not left worse off than they were when they started,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">She called Berkeley’s program \u003c/a>“quite innovative” and said it could prove valuable in the future as the state contends with RV homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teahana Roman, program manager, speaks with a resident at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As cities work to clean up homeless encampments under increasing pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and housed residents, RV communities present a distinct — and notoriously difficult — challenge, especially with \u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2022.2117990?src=#abstract\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/How_Communities_Are_Responding_to_Vehicular_Homelessness.pdf\">and more\u003c/a> Californians taking up residence in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over half of Alameda County’s unsheltered homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/data_point_in_time.page?\">now lives in some kind of car or RV\u003c/a>, but strategies for managing and resolving this unique form of homelessness are lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">clear RV encampments\u003c/a> have led to widespread public outcry, and after moving to ban overnight RV parking, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">city reversed course\u003c/a> under pressure from advocates. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">again proposing to ban the vehicles\u003c/a>, this time with a similar offer to Berkeley’s, as part of a broader plan to get motorhomes off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel’s \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/resources/long-road-home-housing-and-service-needs-people-who-inhabit-oversized-vehicles\">research\u003c/a> found that people living in RVs are reluctant to give them up for anything short of permanent housing — a dilemma when there’s little to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley officials designed their strategy with that in mind, but residents still had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good,” Patrick said, “but that’s what makes me a little leery — maybe it just sounds too good to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall was wary, too. What she didn’t know about the motel program gave her pause. “[You] don’t know if it’s going to be safe,” she said. “You’re going in with strangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so did what she knew. “You can’t have anybody visiting you,” Hall said, “You can’t cook in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guzman, though RV living never felt truly safe, the possibility of ending up on the streets in a tent, even less protected from the elements, was even more terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the program to work, city staff and nonprofit outreach workers spent roughly three months coaxing residents, explaining their offer, listening to concerns and making accommodations to the shelter policies where possible. A one-dog-per-person rule stretched to allow four dogs in one room; friends were allowed to bunk together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Letty Guzman looks out of the window in her room at Horizon Community Village at the Capri Motel on University Avenue in Berkeley on May 20, 2025. The site, operated by Dorothy Day House, provides transitional housing and supportive services for unhoused individuals in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of that really matters,” Radu said. But ultimately, it was the city’s cash offer that overcame many of the residents’ reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzman and her husband ended up accepting roughly $3,000 for their vehicle, which they promptly put into savings. That gives them some reassurance, she said, in case they get kicked out or the program ends. “We don’t have another RV to go to or a Plan B, so we gotta have something put aside for that, just in case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and his wife also took the city up on its offer. For them, it solved a logistical problem: What to do with their motorhomes if they moved into a shelter? They have two cars and two RVs and stand to get about $4,900 for just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The buy-back program kind of makes everything sort of doable because it gives me a little money in my pocket, and I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting towed because it’s not my stuff anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Halls, on the other hand, opted out because, as Fannie Hall said, “I’d rather stay where I’m safe and I’m familiar with.” But they were among the exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An empty stretch of Second Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, was once home to a large unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of 36 people and 26 dogs moved from the encampment into a city-leased motel in central Berkeley beginning in January. Of the 32 vehicles workers encountered on Second Street during the closure process, just three remain on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By that metric, it was a resounding success and something that we’re looking to expand upon hopefully in other encampments,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel and her team are now evaluating the program’s success at Berkeley’s request — a highly unusual step. The city built the research plan into its application for $5.4 million in state \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/encampment-resolution-funding-program\">Encampment Resolution Funding\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San José City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">approved a controversial plan\u003c/a> to potentially arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter — part of a series of votes on Tuesday that delivered a sweeping victory for San José Mayor Matt Mahan and his agenda for reducing homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With city finances on a stable course, Mahan used the budget process to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042688/mahan-unveils-final-san-jose-budget-plan\">advance ambitious policy priorities\u003c/a>, particularly a more aggressive, shelter-focused approach. That included the shelter-or-arrest plan and an effort to prioritize city homeless funding for temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will help us end the era of encampments,” Mahan told KQED. “It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s a step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The votes came as the council balanced a $1.7 billion general fund budget without large workforce cuts, and made a historic investment in legal defense in preparation for increased federal immigration enforcement. Mahan didn’t win support for his entire agenda, as his push to tie a portion of council and mayoral pay to the city’s performance on a variety of metrics was rejected by the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cities across California are weighing more aggressive action on homelessness after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">U.S. Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> gave local officials more powers to sweep encampments, Mahan pitched his Responsibility to Shelter plan as a more humane alternative to simply clearing camps without offering shelter.[aside postID=news_12042370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which passed the council on a 9–2 vote, would add an expectation of accepting shelter to the city’s Code of Conduct for Encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s humane or compassionate to allow people to live or die on our streets when they are unable or unwilling to accept the help the city is able to offer,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s police chief said violations of the code, which include camping near a shelter site, would guide police to prioritize specific encampments for outreach, and eventually arrests, such as for trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure will also create new police and housing units for outreach and enforcement. Mahan said he hoped to use arrests to compel unsheltered residents into court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responsibility to Shelter faced widespread skepticism from Santa Clara County officials — including members of the board of supervisors, the district attorney and the county sheriff — who argued the measure will push unhoused people into the criminal justice system without adding more housing for them while they receive treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a rally outside the Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Ortiz opposed the shelter enforcement plan, joined by Councilmember Pamela Campos. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who joined Councilmember Pamela Campos in opposition to the shelter enforcement plan, said the measure unfairly assumes that everyone who refuses shelter is suffering from addiction or mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who simply declines shelter could be susceptible to being arrested, when many reasons for denying [shelter] are relevant and should be taken into consideration,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement plan is likely to be carried out primarily in areas around interim housing sites, where the city has established no-encampment zones. Mahan argued that compelling unhoused people to accept shelter will help improve conditions on the streets around new shelters, which he views as key for maintaining political support for the interim housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for that program’s ongoing costs, the council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">permanently\u003c/a> earmark the lion’s share of tax revenue raised through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">Measure E\u003c/a>, a tax on property sales, for temporary housing and shelter. The new Measure E spending plan sets aside 90% for shelter costs ($47 million in 2025–26) and 10% ($5.2 million) for homeless prevention programs such as rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos pushed to increase the prevention funding to 15%, but a majority of the council rejected that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are put in this predicament of having to do a lot with less, prevention just makes sense,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clusters of tents belonging to unhoused residents line the banks of Coyote Creek near Tully Road in San José on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By covering interim housing costs with the Measure E fund, rather than the general fund, the council erased a $35.6 million budget shortfall — and avoided the need for the large staffing cuts needed to balance municipal budgets in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It preserves our staffing, which is really, really important,” Councilmember Pam Foley said. “Because they’re the ones who provide the services that we need to do the work in the city that our residents depend upon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the added fiscal breathing room, the council approved a memo from Ortiz to spend at least $1 million on immigration services, including on-call lawyers and programs to educate undocumented residents about their rights.[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing our families being unfortunately hunted down by the federal government,” Ortiz said. “This is more than a budget line, it’s recognition of the vital role our undocumented neighbors play in the vibrancy and resiliency of the city of San José.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council also set aside $27 million in reserves to reduce an anticipated shortfall in the 2026–27 fiscal year from $52.9 million to $25.9 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan found little support for his idea to withhold 5% of mayor and council pay, dispersing the money only if the city achieved council-approved goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan argued the proposal would drive greater council focus to achieve benchmarks such as lower crime and homelessness rates. But many council members said the goals could be easily manipulated to achieve success — or alternatively push council members to pursue goals not supported by their district’s constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job performance is judged by the ballot box,” Councilmember Bien Doan said. He said the plan “hands decision-making power to whoever controls the metric, not the people we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Mahan said he hoped to use arrests to compel unsheltered residents into court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responsibility to Shelter faced widespread skepticism from Santa Clara County officials — including members of the board of supervisors, the district attorney and the county sheriff — who argued the measure will push unhoused people into the criminal justice system without adding more housing for them while they receive treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-5_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a rally outside the Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Ortiz opposed the shelter enforcement plan, joined by Councilmember Pamela Campos. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who joined Councilmember Pamela Campos in opposition to the shelter enforcement plan, said the measure unfairly assumes that everyone who refuses shelter is suffering from addiction or mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone who simply declines shelter could be susceptible to being arrested, when many reasons for denying [shelter] are relevant and should be taken into consideration,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement plan is likely to be carried out primarily in areas around interim housing sites, where the city has established no-encampment zones. 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Lurie also intends to offer RV dwellers a “vehicle buyback” incentive — essentially a cash offer to encourage residents to relinquish their large vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes just six months after former Mayor London Breed’s own plan for banning RV street parking was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">reversed\u003c/a> by the Board of Supervisors, due to mounting criticism from homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a line of RVs in a car mirror\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members look for vehicles and RVs serving as shelters, but many have to make judgment calls as they count. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s plan would have allowed officials with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to tow vehicles if RV dwellers rejected the city’s offers of shelter or services. However, the End Poverty Tows Coalition successfully \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appealed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of that coalition are blasting Lurie’s current plan, while others say it has some merit, but lacks clarity about who specifically should be prioritized for rehousing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleana Binder, the director of public policy at the GLIDE Center for Social Justice and a member of the coalition, said the most troubling part of the plan is the city’s estimate that it could provide funding to rehouse only 115 families, or roughly a quarter of the 437 households estimated to live in large vehicles citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference between 115 and 437 is concerning,” Binder said. “Those who are not immediately connected with housing subsidies will have some protection from the two-hour parking restrictions, but we’ll still be at risk of ticketing and towing for other violations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017544 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal includes some exceptions for residents actively awaiting their placement into housing; they’ll be eligible for a temporary permit that allows them to remain parked until they can relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binder said she believes this plan could make it harder for people who are already in the queue for housing to get the resources they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those folks might experience further bottlenecking in the system if the few resources that are available are dedicated only to families who are living in RVs,” Binder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Binder said the coalition isn’t staunchly opposed to what Lurie has proposed so far. Still, she would like to see changes to the vehicle buyback program, which she said “needs to be actually adequate and a true recognition of the value of the vehicle\u003cem>.\u003c/em>” The city did not immediately respond to a question about how much money would be offered for each vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas Illa, a human rights organizer with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, however, called Lurie’s plan “draconian” and described the buyback program as “coercive in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] being framed as a benevolent act, but with the threat of towing and impounding and scrapping of their vehicle if they refuse the ‘services’ they’re being offered,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Lurie said his proposal has the support of five county supervisors, the majority needed for the board to approve his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will likely take its first vote on the proposal in September, according to Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. 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