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Attica Bowden, recently appointed to head the arson unit, says the department requires investigations for all of the city's largest blazes -- those in which two or more alarms have been called. For smaller fires, Bowden said, arson investigators are called in only when incident commanders believe a blaze has been intentionally set or they can't determine the cause themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 19 structure fires in the Mission this year, De Cossio says 10 have been the subject of arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those probes is still open, concerning a March apartment fire that killed two people at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/12/s-f-supervisor-latest-mission-fire-shows-new-danger-in-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">24th Street and Treat Avenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of the other larger structure fires this year in the Mission were found to be accidental, De Cossio said. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department is trying to quell neighborhood concerns that a wave of arson is behind a rising number of fires in the city's Mission District this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department took the unusual step Monday of publishing the number of blazes that caused major property damage in each of the city's Board of Supervisors districts since 2012 -- with a special emphasis on such incidents in the Mission. The report says that over the last four years, investigators have identified just one intentionally set \"property damage fire\" in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, the department said, the number of property damage fires this year in supervisorial District 9, made up primarily of the Mission and Bernal Heights, stood at 20. According to the report compiled by Jonathan Baxter, the Fire Department's spokesman, more than 60 fires in the district have caused property damage over the last four years: 10 in 2012, 18 in 2013, 15 in 2014 and the 20 so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thursday, the city's Fire Commission \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/fire-commission-says-sf-mission-fires-arent-arson/\" target=\"_blank\">discussed suspicions\u003c/a> voiced by some in the Mission that some recent fires in the district were deliberately set. According to a count by news site Mission Local, the fires have displaced 130 residents at a time when both rents and the number of evictions in the district are rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Marshal Daniel De Cossio \u003ca href=\"http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2015/12/mission-arson-claims-debated-at-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">told the commission\u003c/a> that the number of fires in the Mission \"fluctuates up and down, but it's relatively consistent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio said investigations have shown that most of the fires in the district over the last several years are not arson-related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've looked at investigations that have been closed out, at the cause of the fires,\" De Cossio said. \"The majority of them are electrical, accidental or at this point undetermined. 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Otherwise, if this continues -- and I don't know how it got started -- but we really have to let people know that as far as the Fire Department knows, there is not an active arsonist in the Mission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jEXO8TUDkc0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>A Look at fires in San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department's count of property damage fires -- blazes that have caused significant damage to structures -- over the past four years, with the number investigators say were intentionally set.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003cth>Supervisorial district\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Area\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Property damage fires, 2012-15\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Arson fires\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Richmond\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>56\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>2\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Marina/Presidio\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>54\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Chinatown/North Beach\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>68\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>4\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Sunset\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>47\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>5\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Western Addition/Haight\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>72\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>6\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Tenderloin/SOMA\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>141\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>7\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>West Portal/Lake Merced\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>61\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>8\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Castro/Noe Valley\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>9\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mission/Bernal\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>68\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>10\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Bayview/Potrero\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>153\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>11\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Excelsior/Crocker Amazon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>58\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Citywide, the report released Monday said, there were 853 property damage fires that took place over the last four years. Fifty-two of them were classified as arson. Baxter, the department spokesman, noted that the national average for intentionally set fires is between 9 percent and 10 percent, whereas in San Francisco, it's around 6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district with the most fires during that snapshot was District 10, which includes Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ack in October, a crowd of about 80 people marched along busy El Camino Real, near Redwood City’s downtown. The marchers, many of them parents with young children, were demanding that the City Council do something to limit steep rent increases and stop evictions. Among the signs they waved was one reading, \"A healthy community welcomes all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estefania Camacho, a nanny and college student, led the protesters through intersections of halted traffic. Camacho had recently received an eviction notice and she, her mother and husband had to vacate their two-bedroom apartment in less than two months. But the search for another home was not going well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really worried. We are counting the days,” Camacho said at the time. “We haven’t found a place. We cannot afford a place with minimum wage in Redwood City or any place in the Bay Area. Everything is so overpriced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799541 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marchers get ready to cross El Camino Real in Redwood City on October 1, 2015. They ask the City Council limits evictions and rent hikes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17865_IMG_9698.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marchers get ready to cross El Camino Real in Redwood City on Oct. 1, 2015. The cost of housing is transforming the city, once known for its affordability compared with neighboring cities in San Mateo County.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across Redwood City, the median rent price for two-bedroom apartments increased from $2,500 to $3,800 since 2012, according to the real estate website Zillow. Minimum wage and other full-time workers are unable to afford those rents. They end up having to move out of the area and sometimes quitting their local jobs. Anecdotes abound of “Help wanted” signs up longer than usual in Redwood City’s downtown businesses, while some local employers worry about retaining workers that can’t afford housing nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We haven’t found a place. We cannot afford a place with minimum wage in Redwood City or any place in the Bay Area. Everything is so overpriced.'\u003ccite>Estefania Camacho,\u003cbr>\nRedwood City renter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The issue is prompting a wide array of residents to call for measures such as rent control and “just cause” requirements for eviction, which don't exist in Redwood City or most of San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evictions in Redwood City and much of the Bay Area is hard to track, as only cases that make it to court tend to be recorded. Residents and housing advocates say some landlords are getting rid of low-income tenants -- often through “no fault” evictions -- so they can charge higher rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower-income and heavily Latino census tracts surrounding Redwood City's downtown are at risk of or already undergoing displacement, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the area where Estefania Camacho lives. Last summer, Palo Alto-based Spieker Companies Inc. bought the 85-unit apartment complex that includes Camacho's home and, according to residents, began sending eviction letters to tenants. Spieker did not return requests for comment, but Camacho's eviction notice says the company needs her to vacate her unit so it can be remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238190822&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238191076&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and other tenants banded together and got help from attorneys at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. They were able to negotiate with the new owners for more time to move out and a gradual, rather than immediate, increase in rent. Tenants will still be forced to leave -- but not until next July. In the meantime, tenants said rent on two-bedroom units, currently $1,600 a month, will increase by $300 next month, with an additional $300 increase coming in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and her family are moving after Christmas to Tracy, about 50 miles to the east in San Joaquin County. They will be renting a three-bedroom house there for $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho is quitting her nanny jobs for two families in San Carlos and San Mateo because commuting from Tracy would be too taxing. Her mother is also quitting her work at a Peninsula restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be challenging because we have to find jobs there,\" said Camacho. \"But that's all we can afford for now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tories like Camacho’s -- of working residents leaving their jobs and simply moving -- are becoming more common, says Charleen White, a lifelong resident of Redwood City who runs her own interior design and remodeling business. She says her contractor of 15 years got fed up of living in a crammed one-bedroom apartment with his family and he is moving to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me very unhappy because we are going to lose our dear friends. We are going to lose our diversity in our community,\" said White. She added that every Sunday at church she hears more news of families struggling to hang on to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila is the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic parish and school that serves over 1,700 families, including White's. Some families have been coming here for generations, while others are new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Aquila says the lack of affordable housing is a source of anxiety for an overwhelming number of his parishioners, including children who sense their parents' stress when they can't afford to pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I think it's a big crisis. And I think it's an economic crisis exteriorly and I think interiorly it's a deep moral crisis, that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here,\" said D'Aquila. He says he supports rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long ago, Redwood City had a reputation as being more affordable than its neighbors. Unlike other communities in San Mateo County, the town produced nearly \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#reports\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 housing units\u003c/a> for low-income residents from 1988 to 1998, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments. But that supply was dwarfed by demand long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799542 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 per cent of all the new construction since 2012 was housing for low and moderate incomes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 percent of all the new construction since 2012 has been housing for low and moderate incomes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the big new buildings under construction downtown are mostly for offices and market-rate housing. Only about 5 percent of all new construction since 2012 has been housing for people with low and moderate incomes, according to Diana O'Dell, Redwood City's principal planner. Moderate incomes, according to county figures, include families of four earning up to $120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Britschgi, who grew up in Redwood City and raised her kids there, says the loss of cultural and economic diversity in the city hurts upper-income families as well, even if they are not struggling directly with displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To have quality of life we are called to all live together, and this is where we learn and grow from each other,\" said Britschgi, a member of the city's Senior Affairs Commission. \"So if we lose that sense of diversity, we're losing a little bit of our quality of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t the root of the housing crunch is a huge imbalance between the number of jobs and housing created. Between 2010 and 2014, San Mateo County gained 54,600 jobs but only 2,500 new homes, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/labor-market-data-library.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-5/2011-20/view.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County recently created a task force to study that imbalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll see growth taper off as companies decide they can no longer locate in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the lack of workforce housing,\" said Michael Lane, from the \u003ca href=\"http://nonprofithousing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\u003c/a> and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a regional business group, identified workforce housing, traffic congestion and the growing difficulty employers face in finding workers as the region’s top \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/category/housing-and-sustainable-development/\">challenges\u003c/a> for 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think it's a big crisis. ... It's a deep moral crisis that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here.'\u003ccite>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila,\u003cbr>\nPastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing costs are impacting more and more people, and cities across the region are struggling to figure out what to do about it, said Lane. That conversation often includes rent control. Pacifica, Alameda and the city of San Mateo are debating whether to regulate rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have jurisdictions that probably five or 10 years ago would never consider rent stabilization ordinances, and now that’s on the table and residents are demanding that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, which currently allows rent hikes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2313\" target=\"_blank\">under 8 percent\u003c/a> in a year, is considering tightening its rent ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a senior affairs commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as resident's quality of life.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a Senior Affairs Commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as residents' quality of life. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has not formally considered rent control, but residents have raised the issue before the City Council. At a recent meeting, children told council members their parents are unable to afford rent increases, and their families will have to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of rent control contend these ordinances have unintended consequences, such as keeping the most affordable units off market. Tenants in rent-controlled units in San Francisco tend to stay there even if they can afford to move somewhere more expensive, says Michael Verdone, president of the San Mateo County Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it does is it creates a stagnant housing market,\" said Verdone, former chair of Redwood City's Planning Commission and a resident of the city since the 1980s. \"Normally if there was no rent control, tenants with means would purchase a home, and that unit would become available on the open market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee, whose mayoral term ended this month, is also opposed to any rent regulation by the city. Gee, an architect who works full time managing construction projects, says he’s seen that owners of rent-controlled buildings don't spend as much to upgrade and maintain them. Sometimes that means the buildings don't comply with current safety codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent control doesn’t address the investment that is needed to maintain a property at quality level,” said Gee, adding that a large portion of the city’s rental stock is old and lacking earthquake retrofits and fire sprinklers. “That’s why we need to find new tools to moderate rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o tackle the issue, Gee and the rest of the City Council approved Fire Safety First, a program aimed at improving safety and stabilizing rents at the same time. The initiative gives property owners low-interest loans to pay for sprinkler installations, and if the owners agree to limit rent increases, the city forgives the loan. It's still unclear how many renters the program might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has also taken other steps to ease the housing crisis, such as approving plans to build as many as 137 homes for low-income residents on city land. Developers working on new projects will now also have to pay a fee to fund affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates supporting rent control, such as Aracely Mondragon from Peninsula Interfaith Action, say Redwood City's affordable housing measures may bear fruit years from now, but do little for people who are desperate for help now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just not going to help that family who received a 60-day notice last week and is thinking about moving to Oregon and taking their kids off the school district here,\" said Mondragon, who also leads her organization's countywide campaign for renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee says the problem is a regional one, and the solutions need to be worked on by governments in the entire region as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get it, I see the 'help wanted' signs. ... Living here on minimum wage is a challenge,\" he said. \"But it’s not just my responsibility. We have to work together with our neighbors to address affordability and the housing and employment needs of the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Barbara Britschgi remains hopeful that her neighbors and elected officials will come together to protect the city's diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a sense of concern and caring for each other, and I think that's going to come through,\" Britschgi said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of evictions in Redwood City and much of the Bay Area is hard to track, as only cases that make it to court tend to be recorded. Residents and housing advocates say some landlords are getting rid of low-income tenants -- often through “no fault” evictions -- so they can charge higher rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower-income and heavily Latino census tracts surrounding Redwood City's downtown are at risk of or already undergoing displacement, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the area where Estefania Camacho lives. Last summer, Palo Alto-based Spieker Companies Inc. bought the 85-unit apartment complex that includes Camacho's home and, according to residents, began sending eviction letters to tenants. Spieker did not return requests for comment, but Camacho's eviction notice says the company needs her to vacate her unit so it can be remodeled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238190822&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238191076&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and other tenants banded together and got help from attorneys at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. They were able to negotiate with the new owners for more time to move out and a gradual, rather than immediate, increase in rent. Tenants will still be forced to leave -- but not until next July. In the meantime, tenants said rent on two-bedroom units, currently $1,600 a month, will increase by $300 next month, with an additional $300 increase coming in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho and her family are moving after Christmas to Tracy, about 50 miles to the east in San Joaquin County. They will be renting a three-bedroom house there for $1,800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho is quitting her nanny jobs for two families in San Carlos and San Mateo because commuting from Tracy would be too taxing. Her mother is also quitting her work at a Peninsula restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be challenging because we have to find jobs there,\" said Camacho. \"But that's all we can afford for now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tories like Camacho’s -- of working residents leaving their jobs and simply moving -- are becoming more common, says Charleen White, a lifelong resident of Redwood City who runs her own interior design and remodeling business. She says her contractor of 15 years got fed up of living in a crammed one-bedroom apartment with his family and he is moving to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me very unhappy because we are going to lose our dear friends. We are going to lose our diversity in our community,\" said White. She added that every Sunday at church she hears more news of families struggling to hang on to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila is the pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic parish and school that serves over 1,700 families, including White's. Some families have been coming here for generations, while others are new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'Aquila says the lack of affordable housing is a source of anxiety for an overwhelming number of his parishioners, including children who sense their parents' stress when they can't afford to pay rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I think it's a big crisis. And I think it's an economic crisis exteriorly and I think interiorly it's a deep moral crisis, that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here,\" said D'Aquila. He says he supports rent control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long ago, Redwood City had a reputation as being more affordable than its neighbors. Unlike other communities in San Mateo County, the town produced nearly \u003ca href=\"http://abag.ca.gov/planning/housing/datasets.html#reports\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 housing units\u003c/a> for low-income residents from 1988 to 1998, according to the Association of Bay Area Governments. But that supply was dwarfed by demand long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799542 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 per cent of all the new construction since 2012 was housing for low and moderate incomes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17861_IMG_0045.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction throughout the city is mostly commercial and market rate housing. Redwood City's principal planner says only about 5 percent of all the new construction since 2012 has been housing for low and moderate incomes. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the big new buildings under construction downtown are mostly for offices and market-rate housing. Only about 5 percent of all new construction since 2012 has been housing for people with low and moderate incomes, according to Diana O'Dell, Redwood City's principal planner. Moderate incomes, according to county figures, include families of four earning up to $120,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Britschgi, who grew up in Redwood City and raised her kids there, says the loss of cultural and economic diversity in the city hurts upper-income families as well, even if they are not struggling directly with displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To have quality of life we are called to all live together, and this is where we learn and grow from each other,\" said Britschgi, a member of the city's Senior Affairs Commission. \"So if we lose that sense of diversity, we're losing a little bit of our quality of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t the root of the housing crunch is a huge imbalance between the number of jobs and housing created. Between 2010 and 2014, San Mateo County gained 54,600 jobs but only 2,500 new homes, according to the state \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/labor-market-data-library.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employment Development Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/reports/estimates/e-5/2011-20/view.php\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Finance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County recently created a task force to study that imbalance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ll see growth taper off as companies decide they can no longer locate in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the lack of workforce housing,\" said Michael Lane, from the \u003ca href=\"http://nonprofithousing.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California\u003c/a> and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a regional business group, identified workforce housing, traffic congestion and the growing difficulty employers face in finding workers as the region’s top \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/category/housing-and-sustainable-development/\">challenges\u003c/a> for 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think it's a big crisis. ... It's a deep moral crisis that it's something that we have to answer for as a society here.'\u003ccite>The Rev. Ulysses D'Aquila,\u003cbr>\nPastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Housing costs are impacting more and more people, and cities across the region are struggling to figure out what to do about it, said Lane. That conversation often includes rent control. Pacifica, Alameda and the city of San Mateo are debating whether to regulate rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have jurisdictions that probably five or 10 years ago would never consider rent stabilization ordinances, and now that’s on the table and residents are demanding that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose, which currently allows rent hikes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2313\" target=\"_blank\">under 8 percent\u003c/a> in a year, is considering tightening its rent ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799494 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a senior affairs commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as resident's quality of life.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17860_IMG_0011.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Britschgi, 80, prepares for a Senior Affairs Commission meeting in Redwood City, her lifelong hometown. She says skyrocketing rents and housing prices are diminishing Redwood City's diversity, as well as residents' quality of life. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Redwood City has not formally considered rent control, but residents have raised the issue before the City Council. At a recent meeting, children told council members their parents are unable to afford rent increases, and their families will have to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of rent control contend these ordinances have unintended consequences, such as keeping the most affordable units off market. Tenants in rent-controlled units in San Francisco tend to stay there even if they can afford to move somewhere more expensive, says Michael Verdone, president of the San Mateo County Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it does is it creates a stagnant housing market,\" said Verdone, former chair of Redwood City's Planning Commission and a resident of the city since the 1980s. \"Normally if there was no rent control, tenants with means would purchase a home, and that unit would become available on the open market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee, whose mayoral term ended this month, is also opposed to any rent regulation by the city. Gee, an architect who works full time managing construction projects, says he’s seen that owners of rent-controlled buildings don't spend as much to upgrade and maintain them. Sometimes that means the buildings don't comply with current safety codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent control doesn’t address the investment that is needed to maintain a property at quality level,” said Gee, adding that a large portion of the city’s rental stock is old and lacking earthquake retrofits and fire sprinklers. “That’s why we need to find new tools to moderate rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>o tackle the issue, Gee and the rest of the City Council approved Fire Safety First, a program aimed at improving safety and stabilizing rents at the same time. The initiative gives property owners low-interest loans to pay for sprinkler installations, and if the owners agree to limit rent increases, the city forgives the loan. It's still unclear how many renters the program might help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has also taken other steps to ease the housing crisis, such as approving plans to build as many as 137 homes for low-income residents on city land. Developers working on new projects will now also have to pay a fee to fund affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates supporting rent control, such as Aracely Mondragon from Peninsula Interfaith Action, say Redwood City's affordable housing measures may bear fruit years from now, but do little for people who are desperate for help now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just not going to help that family who received a 60-day notice last week and is thinking about moving to Oregon and taking their kids off the school district here,\" said Mondragon, who also leads her organization's countywide campaign for renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee says the problem is a regional one, and the solutions need to be worked on by governments in the entire region as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get it, I see the 'help wanted' signs. ... Living here on minimum wage is a challenge,\" he said. \"But it’s not just my responsibility. We have to work together with our neighbors to address affordability and the housing and employment needs of the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Barbara Britschgi remains hopeful that her neighbors and elected officials will come together to protect the city's diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you rent in a newer San Francisco building -- anything built since 1979 -- your landlords can raise your rent as much as they want. Supervisor Aaron Peskin says that means even people who can afford one of San Francisco's expensive new apartments may eventually be priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of the big buildings that are being built today are not subject to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/\">rent control\u003c/a>,\" says Peskin. \"And, even if you're paying top dollar, the next year, your rent can be raised another thousand dollars a month. It's not equitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaa.org/pdf/CAA-Insights-Costa-Hawkins-Rental-Housing-Act.pdf\">1995 state law\u003c/a> bars cities from expanding their rent-control laws. But Peskin, moving forward with \u003ca href=\"http://aaron2015.com/policy/#stop-evictions-and-protect-our-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal\u003c/a> he made during his campaign for the District 3 seat on the Board of Supervisors, is exploring ways to expand rent control to newer buildings in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says the situation in the city today \"is not equitable. We have people who are in rent-control buildings and people who are not in rent-control buildings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, who was sworn in as a supervisor last week, says he will ask the City Attorney's Office to study an idea he thinks will get around the state ban on extending rent control. He wants to explore the possibility of imposing controls on new developments for which the city has granted some \"added benefit,\" such as adjustments in zoning to allow bigger or taller buildings than have previously existed at the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're proposing is that ... those new units be subject to rent control,\" Peskin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how many projects would be affected by the proposal, but Peskin estimated that as many as 30,000 units could become rent-controlled under his proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Iglesias, a University of San Francisco law professor who specializes in housing law, says the City Attorney's Office may well be receptive to Peskin's proposal. But even so, it will face some serious pushback from the housing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if it does get passed, I would immediately expect that they would bring a lawsuit to stop it,\" Iglesias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Apartment Association endorsed Peskin, who's a landlord himself, even though his platform included expanded rent control. Janan New, the group's executive director, says it's too soon to say whether it will file suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, Peskin should ask the city controller to consider the economic downside to his proposal \"and what potential chilling effect that that would send to potential investors that want to come to San Francisco to do the right thing to build affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says owners of new buildings are making plenty from the high rents they're already charging. As for people who can afford what look like sky-high rents now, he says, they may be in for a shock when it's time to renew their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says he wants to get out ahead of what could be a future wave of displacement.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. They include \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdconnections.org/SD/about_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connections Housing\u003c/a> in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lampcommunity.org/housing.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamp Lodge\u003c/a> in Los Angeles and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcsb.com/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulding Hotel\u003c/a> in Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763491 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man's belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17471_HomelessSanJoseCityHall.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings city on the grounds of San Jose City Hall. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Bramson, who heads the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Response Team for San Jose, \u003c/a>says this year San Jose plans to commit more than $40 million to nearly 600 units of interim housing and permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough money to get the ball rolling, but not enough money to meet the demand. San Jose is still home to 1,400 chronically homeless people. You’d need 10 Second Street Studios to accommodate that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What the Neighbors Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing-first approach has support from some in the neighborhood. Aurelia Sanchez, president of the Spartan Keyes Association, says she wants the homeless housed. “You’ll get no argument from me there,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She supports the construction of Second Street Studios, especially since First Community Housing promised to install security cameras and provide 24/7 front-desk service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763495 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to the Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities “You know what? Let’s do something about this.”\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Aurelia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Sanchez is president of the Spartan Keyes Association, the area once home to The Jungle. “Maybe if people had them in their creek and their neighborhood they would be telling their cities, ‘You know what? Let’s do something about this.’ ” \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is concerned, however, that her neighborhood not be overly burdened with services and homes for the homeless. She says other neighborhoods have to share in the solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Loving can sympathize with Sanchez. “Frankly, no city in our county is doing their fair share of supportive housing,” says the executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://destinationhomescc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>. “This is a strategy that’s been employed for only four, five years, so it’s just getting underway. We’ve built a lot of affordable housing and it’s still not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s to become of Brian and Andrea Rodriguez? Is an apartment at Second Street Studios in their future? They hope not. The development doesn’t expect to open its doors until 2018, and the couple hopes to be off the streets long before then. Brian still has a valid commercial driver’s license, and he’s actively looking for work. Ideally, he’ll find something before the rains of El Niño hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10762599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10762599\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"A recent study by the San Jose-based non-profit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-400x518.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-1180x1527.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17469_Cost-study-infographic-4-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recent study by the San Jose-based nonprofit Destination: Home tracked more than 104,000 homeless people to examine their cost to Santa Clara County over six years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the winter turns wet and cold, it’s hard not to notice the people living on the streets. Around this time last year, San Jose shut down “The Jungle,” one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. The forced exit of more than 300 people living along the banks of Coyote Creek garnered international headlines, as well as local coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, The Jungle is fenced off, but thousands of people are still camping out in creekbeds and freeway underpasses all over the city. In the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-in-time survey\u003c/a> conducted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Santa Clara County had 6,556 homeless people. That represents a drop of more than 1,000 people from 2014, but it’s still a substantial population. San Jose’s share of that was 4,063.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234020500″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Silicon Valley’s explosive economic growth didn’t create the homeless problem, experts say it made it worse for the homeless — and the working poor, who struggle to pay the cost of rising rents. Many of the working poor are just one job loss or health crisis away from becoming homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Chronically Homeless\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian and Andrea Rodriquez fell into that situation. They used to own a five-bedroom house in San Jose. But a complicated series of job and health setbacks led them from that home to motel rooms, then a car, and then the creeks, including The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian recalls that day they first wandered into The Jungle. “My wife was clinging to me, but we had nowhere to go,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 50, she’s 49, and they’ve been homeless for the better part of two years now. These days, you’ll find them camping on the grounds around \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceinsanjose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Baptist Church\u003c/a>. Depending on the weather, up to 20 people camp out on this busy streetcorner in return for signing a promise not to drink or take drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10763488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/HomelessGraceChurch-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Baptist Church in San Jose set up a shed on the side of the property for the homeless to store their belongings. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrea has advanced arthritis. She needs to replace her knees, but even though she has Medi-Cal, she has no place to recuperate from the operations. Brian has Medi-Cal, too. He can’t refrigerate the insulin he takes for diabetes. He’s learned the hard way: If insulin cooks in the South Bay heat, it’s no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been in the hospital several times,” says Andrea\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Andrea and Brian is not to become “chronically homeless.” Unlike people who dip in and out of homelessness, the chronically homeless are stuck on the streets, in large part because of serious physical and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, many California cities with large homeless populations — Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego — have committed to a strategy called “housing first.” The idea is that providing a chronically homeless person a place to live is less expensive for the government in the long run, not to mention a more compassionate approach. Housing first is one of the key concepts in the recently adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/2015%20Homeless%20Count%20press%20release%206-22-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Plan to End Homelessness in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> 2015-2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For that population, it costs anywhere from $60,000 or $70,000 a person \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to be housed,” says Geoff Morgan, president of San Jose-based First Community Housing. “They go to the emergency rooms, sometimes 80 or more times in a year. Or there are police calls. There’s a lot of criminalization of the homeless. People are out on a park bench, and they’re cited for being on a park bench.\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10763500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10763500 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17474_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man’s belongings sit outside the fenced pit where First Community Housing plans to build an apartment complex entirely dedicated to housing the homeless. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First Community Housing is one of several nonprofits in California that build and manage housing developments specifically for people who would otherwise be chronically homeless. Two blocks from where Brian and Andrea camp, First Community plans to build Second Street Studios: 134 apartments dedicated to permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Santa Clara County. It would be the city’s first housing project totally dedicated to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Permanent” marks a key strategy shift away from emergency shelter beds and transitional housing. “Supportive” also marks a shift. \u003ca href=\"http://www.firsthousing.com/blog/2009/05/08/secondstreet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a> will have nearly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor space for a health clinic and office space for case managers, one for every 20 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more efficient, frankly, for service providers to come in and do what they do. They don’t have to travel to individual homes or to people out on the street,” says Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permanent supportive housing may be relatively new to San Jose — there are roughly 50 such units in the city now — but you can find numerous examples in California’s other big homeless population centers. 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