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"content": "\u003cp>Six years ago, homebuilders and Realtors were facing brutal business conditions: Millions of Americans were losing their jobs and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As 2015 begins, hiring is strong and economic indicators are pointing up. Could this be the year when the housing market finally breaks out of its tepid recovery and takes off?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists see several reasons why 2015 might be a banner year for homebuying — and not just in San Francisco and Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also see One Big Factor that potentially could block a buying binge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before considering that possible downer, let's first look at the upside:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Employers\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> are hiring again.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When companies are hiring, would-be homebuyers feel more confident about taking on mortgage debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the recession, companies kept slashing positions, sending the unemployment rate soaring to 10 percent and frightening potential homebuyers. But job growth has been strong lately, with employers adding 321,000 jobs in November. The unemployment rate has tumbled to 5.8 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that good news sinks in, optimism is rising. The Conference Board's latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.conference-board.org/press/pressdetail.cfm?pressid=5353\">Consumer Confidence Index\u003c/a> shows confidence is running 19.5 percent higher than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> prices just took a breather, which helps.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From January to October, home prices rose 4.5 percent nationally, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.housingviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CSHomePrice_Release_Oct2014-results.pdf\">S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index\u003c/a>. That gain was subdued compared with October 2013, when home prices jumped 11 percent higher than the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But slower price appreciation in 2014 may have set the stage for a buying surge in 2015. That's because buyers need the right combination of steady income, decent savings, low interest rates and reasonable home prices to jump into the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Labor Department's \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm\">latest jobs report\u003c/a> showed an uptick in wages, and the surging stock market has been boosting savings. Mortgages have been holding below 4 percent for 30-year fixed rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now the decelerating growth in home prices may be creating an affordability opportunity that will attract buyers in early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rents\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> are high.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When millions of Americans were losing their homes in the recession, many started moving into apartments. That shift caused rents to soar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With rents now rising at a seven-year high, historically low [interest] rates and moderating [home] price growth are likely to entice more buyers to enter the market in upcoming months,\" Lawrence Yun, the National Association of Realtors' chief economist, said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.realtor.org/news-releases/2014/12/pending-home-sales-show-modest-gain-in-november\">a release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Millennials\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> are sick of Mom's basement.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau says just \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf\">36 percent\u003c/a> of Americans under age 35 own a home. In 2007, that figure was 42 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some young people enjoy renting, but a recent survey by Fannie Mae showed nine in 10 would prefer to own. They have been held back by tight lending standards that have made it tough to get around their heavy student debts and light savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in December, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/12/12/370378515/mortgage-giants-ease-down-payments-for-first-time-homebuyers\">announced programs\u003c/a> that would allow first-time buyers to get homes with down payments of just 3 percent, instead of 5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lower amount would allow creditworthy but cash-strapped young buyers to qualify for mortgages. \"If access to credit improves, we could see substantially larger numbers of young buyers in the market,\" Jonathan Smoke, chief economist for Realtor.com, said in his \u003ca href=\"http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2014/12/05/2015-year-first-time-home-buyer\">2015 outlook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> there's one reason for pessimism.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, many economists have been saying mortgage interest rates would rise. 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"content": "\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra Scott spent their 41st anniversary on Dec. 14 in a place they can finally call home — even temporarily. After being homeless for a year, the couple moved into a motel room paid for by the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After living under the bleachers, in the flowerbeds and beneath different trees in Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Park for most of the year, Patrick Scott said he was looking forward to sitting in a bath for a whole day, just letting the water run, fully aware that there’s a drought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little things that you miss the most,” Patrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra, both 62 years old, became homeless last December because Patrick retired as a cook one year before he was eligible for Social Security benefits. 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(Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they were forced to leave their apartment in Sunnyvale, a relative offered to help, but they said they wanted to work out their money problems on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County, even with its enormous wealth per capita because of Silicon Valley’s boom, had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Of the 7,567 homeless, 75 percent lived on the streets or in their cars. Of New York City’s 67,810 homeless, only 5 percent were unsheltered this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, Santa Clara County has opened three shelters from Dec. 1 to March 31 to provide overnight lodging for homeless during the winter months. But the closing of one of them — the Sunnyvale Armory — this past spring has left homeless in the northern part of the county searching for alternatives as the cold winter temperatures set in. The old Sunnyvale Armory site is being converted to low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a countywide search for a replacement shelter bore no fruit, the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a new comprehensive winter plan to deal with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the loss of 125 beds in the Sunnyvale Armory, 56 beds are being added to other shelters, including the Boccardo Reception Center, the Commercial Street Inn in San Jose, Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto and Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto. In addition, the county is offering 90 motel beds — like the ones the Scotts obtained — the largest number the county has ever offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Nsn2V61GQGJ3Rgo0xcCXCwwiyHd0nl0y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the county approved $1 million to assist the homeless, an increase of close to $400,000 compared with last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the increase is to pay for the motel beds, which cost an average of $850 per week for one person — nearly twice as much as a shelter bed — according to Bob Dolci, the county’s homeless concerns coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 90 motel beds, 54 are dedicated to homeless families. InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter and supportive services for the homeless, referred families on a first-come, first-serve basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 36 motel beds are reserved for homeless individuals and are overseen by Downtown Streets Team, an organization that helps the homeless find jobs and housing. Members on the Downtown Streets Team “volunteer” up to 20 hours per week on cleaning jobs, and instead of payment, receive grocery gift cards and case management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only team members, or those on the wait list to get on the team, are eligible for motel beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the Scotts — both team members — were able to move into a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is for “people to see those on the team getting into a motel, getting housing and building better lives, and say, ‘I can do that too,' ” said Chris Richardson, Downtown Streets Team’s program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those who wanted to stay in the Sunnyvale Armory had to line up each afternoon and join a lottery for a bed every day. Under the new program, the lucky ones are placed into a motel or a shelter for 90 to 120 days. Demand still far exceeds supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\" alt=\"In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s “Jungle” was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. 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(Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I sure can use a motel room where I can come back anytime I want,” said Clint, a 62-year-old homeless veteran who wouldn’t give his last name, while he was eating a free breakfast at a church in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint was given a bed at a church in San Jose after he underwent heart surgery in September. He unzipped the top of his sweater and revealed a 4-inch-long scar on his chest that was still fresh. But he has to leave by 5:30 in the morning and come back after 8:00 at night, under church rules. He spends most of his days reading in the library or wandering aimlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Rosado, 40, was ecstatic when he was told by the Downtown Streets Team to move into a motel last week. For the past month, he had been sleeping in his brother’s truck after getting off work at a Mountain View Safeway at 11:30 p.m. When it got really cold, he stayed at work for extra hours or took a bus ride to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosado almost lost his chance at a motel bed after being kicked off the Downtown Streets Team in early November for not showing up for his shifts. Rosado said the schedule conflicted with his two other jobs — one at Safeway and another part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the team took Rosado back and put him on the wait list for a motel bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being homeless in Silicon Valley means constantly having to figure out where to get a night’s sleep. While some sleep in their cars, some sleep on “Motel 22″ — the only bus that runs 24 hours a day in Silicon Valley. Others scatter to wherever they can get a few hours of undisturbed sleep. One of those places — the San Jose “Jungle” along Coyote Creek — was \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/09/san-jose-homeless-encampment-shut-down/\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled on Dec. 4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci acknowledged that the new homeless program helped fewer people, but said those who received hotel rooms were more likely to get off the streets permanently. They won’t have to constantly look for a place to sleep and will have time, with the help of case managers, to look for employment and permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is geared to hopefully solve some homelessness problems and end it,” Dolci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the new program proves effective, the county will continue it next year while still looking for a replacement for the Sunnyvale Armory, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Collins, shelter director at InnVision Shelter Network, described this year as a “trial period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all learning this together,” Collins said. “We are all optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scotts, with their retirement benefits kicking in early next year, hope the motel will be the last stop in their homeless journey. They have been accepted to the low-income apartment complex currently being built at the old Sunnyvale Armory site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being homeless, it hurts,” Patrick said. “But in the morning, you get up, tie your shoes and get life going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on KQED News Associate site \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>. It's part of a special reporting series on \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/15/special-report-living-in-silicon-valley-profiles-of-communities-in-transition/\" target=\"_blank\">South Bay communities in transition\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra Scott spent their 41st anniversary on Dec. 14 in a place they can finally call home — even temporarily. After being homeless for a year, the couple moved into a motel room paid for by the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After living under the bleachers, in the flowerbeds and beneath different trees in Sunnyvale’s Fair Oaks Park for most of the year, Patrick Scott said he was looking forward to sitting in a bath for a whole day, just letting the water run, fully aware that there’s a drought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the little things that you miss the most,” Patrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick and Sandra, both 62 years old, became homeless last December because Patrick retired as a cook one year before he was eligible for Social Security benefits. Sandra was unemployed after being injured at work in 2005, and expensive hospital stays exhausted most of their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg\" alt=\"Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey.jpg 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-400x517.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Graphic_survey-1440x1863.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facts on the homeless in Santa Clara County. (Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they were forced to leave their apartment in Sunnyvale, a relative offered to help, but they said they wanted to work out their money problems on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County, even with its enormous wealth per capita because of Silicon Valley’s boom, had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year, according to the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Of the 7,567 homeless, 75 percent lived on the streets or in their cars. Of New York City’s 67,810 homeless, only 5 percent were unsheltered this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past decade, Santa Clara County has opened three shelters from Dec. 1 to March 31 to provide overnight lodging for homeless during the winter months. But the closing of one of them — the Sunnyvale Armory — this past spring has left homeless in the northern part of the county searching for alternatives as the cold winter temperatures set in. The old Sunnyvale Armory site is being converted to low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a countywide search for a replacement shelter bore no fruit, the county’s Board of Supervisors approved a new comprehensive winter plan to deal with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the loss of 125 beds in the Sunnyvale Armory, 56 beds are being added to other shelters, including the Boccardo Reception Center, the Commercial Street Inn in San Jose, Hotel de Zink in Palo Alto and Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto. In addition, the county is offering 90 motel beds — like the ones the Scotts obtained — the largest number the county has ever offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the county approved $1 million to assist the homeless, an increase of close to $400,000 compared with last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the increase is to pay for the motel beds, which cost an average of $850 per week for one person — nearly twice as much as a shelter bed — according to Bob Dolci, the county’s homeless concerns coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 90 motel beds, 54 are dedicated to homeless families. InnVision Shelter Network, a provider of shelter and supportive services for the homeless, referred families on a first-come, first-serve basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 36 motel beds are reserved for homeless individuals and are overseen by Downtown Streets Team, an organization that helps the homeless find jobs and housing. Members on the Downtown Streets Team “volunteer” up to 20 hours per week on cleaning jobs, and instead of payment, receive grocery gift cards and case management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only team members, or those on the wait list to get on the team, are eligible for motel beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the Scotts — both team members — were able to move into a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is for “people to see those on the team getting into a motel, getting housing and building better lives, and say, ‘I can do that too,' ” said Chris Richardson, Downtown Streets Team’s program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those who wanted to stay in the Sunnyvale Armory had to line up each afternoon and join a lottery for a bed every day. Under the new program, the lucky ones are placed into a motel or a shelter for 90 to 120 days. Demand still far exceeds supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/jungle_new1.jpg\" alt=\"In the vicinity of giant tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Jose’s “Jungle” was one of the country’s largest homeless encampments. This site, where about 300 people lived, was shut down on Dec. 4, 2014. 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(Graphic by Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I sure can use a motel room where I can come back anytime I want,” said Clint, a 62-year-old homeless veteran who wouldn’t give his last name, while he was eating a free breakfast at a church in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clint was given a bed at a church in San Jose after he underwent heart surgery in September. He unzipped the top of his sweater and revealed a 4-inch-long scar on his chest that was still fresh. But he has to leave by 5:30 in the morning and come back after 8:00 at night, under church rules. He spends most of his days reading in the library or wandering aimlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Rosado, 40, was ecstatic when he was told by the Downtown Streets Team to move into a motel last week. For the past month, he had been sleeping in his brother’s truck after getting off work at a Mountain View Safeway at 11:30 p.m. When it got really cold, he stayed at work for extra hours or took a bus ride to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosado almost lost his chance at a motel bed after being kicked off the Downtown Streets Team in early November for not showing up for his shifts. Rosado said the schedule conflicted with his two other jobs — one at Safeway and another part-time job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the team took Rosado back and put him on the wait list for a motel bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being homeless in Silicon Valley means constantly having to figure out where to get a night’s sleep. While some sleep in their cars, some sleep on “Motel 22″ — the only bus that runs 24 hours a day in Silicon Valley. Others scatter to wherever they can get a few hours of undisturbed sleep. One of those places — the San Jose “Jungle” along Coyote Creek — was \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2014/12/09/san-jose-homeless-encampment-shut-down/\" target=\"_blank\">dismantled on Dec. 4\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci acknowledged that the new homeless program helped fewer people, but said those who received hotel rooms were more likely to get off the streets permanently. 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"content": "\u003cp>It started as the summer weather descended on the Mission District: Shabby tents popped up in clusters of three or four along residential streets at dusk. Then came the human waste. Then the drug dealing and the thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marked increase in homeless encampments in the Mission, Potrero Hill and nearby neighborhoods has led residents to complain of their sense of powerlessness and insecurity with the proliferation of extreme poverty, grime and crime on their doorsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the spread of the encampments is hard to quantify because of the nomadic culture on the streets, neighbors say they were unprepared for the change. Some say it is due to a mass migration from the Civic Center and Mid-Market areas as police step up enforcement of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2011-04/2010-sit-lie-law-could-cost-city-thousands-to-jail-repeat-offenders\" target=\"_blank\">“sit-lie” policy \u003c/a>that restricts loitering and sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ypUxaSXgMelpNSfZiqwiwQL1nVejLIn0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police have made efforts using the sit-lie policy to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-starts-enforcing-rules-on-sitting-at-Powell-5636846.php\" target=\"_blank\">aggressively clear out Powell and Civic Center stations\u003c/a> to keep corridors safe for emergency situations, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in July. The paper also reported that Mayor Ed Lee has made it a priority to clean up the Mid-Market area. Police Chief Greg Suhr said he “takes orders straight from the mayor” and has doubled foot patrols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it is no surprise that efforts to clean up one neighborhood are shifting these problems to another, where residents say enforcement seems relatively lax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The complaints have been incoming for probably two to three months now,” said Bevan Dufty, San Francisco’s so-called homelessness czar, at a community gathering in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty, director of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=903\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement program\u003c/a>, said the streets of the Mission District are more comfortable and convenient for outdoor living than areas closer to downtown. “It is safe enough, and seems to work for them enough that they are willing to move for an hour,” he said. The sense of frustration among residents is palpable. At the community meeting, residents expressed a complex mix of fear and disgust, and asked city officials and police to fix the problem. But not everyone is scared of the rising population of homeless people in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Pereira, an urban planner, owns a home in a three-story renovated Victorian building with her husband. While she agrees that the Mission has become a “dirty neighborhood,” she said she wanted to shift the conversation to generosity and community. She attended the meeting to see what options were out there for her new house guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira did something few of her neighbors would contemplate: She befriended a homeless man, and ended up inviting him into a semi-detached room in her home so he could get back on his feet, apply for city and state benefits and interview for jobs. So far, she said, he seems to be making progress despite problems getting help through the slow and dysfunctional welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEIGHBORS FRUSTRATED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town hall-style meeting, organized by residents of the Mission and Potrero Hill, filled an auditorium at Bonhams auction house near Highway 101. The gathering served as a platform for numerous complaints. While officials offered no firm ideas about solutions, they said they had stepped up policing, street cleaning and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 867px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\" alt=\"Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"867\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg 867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-800x543.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On any given day, about six tents stand beneath the looming, noisy intersection of interstate highways 101 and 80, nestled at the junction of the Mission, SoMa and Potrero Hill. The freeway overpass offers some protection from the elements during the colder seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quiet at night,” Dufty said. “The people who I talked to who have been camping here say it’s very safe here, and the people watch out for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Bean, a Bonhams employee and co-organizer of the meeting, said that while the homeless find safety there, longtime residents feel the community overall is becoming less safe. He said he perceives the street population becoming younger and more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now there are broken-into cars, stolen bikes, shady drug activity and growing fear,” Bean said. “It’s more a changing of population than an increase of encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'But if I give someone who's homeless a citation, they're not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say 'no' to shelters. We just have no answer to this.'\u003ccite>Capt. Daniel Perea, Mission Station\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gregory Dicum, a resident of the Mission for 15 years, criticized police Capt. Daniel Perea of Mission Station for not providing enough foot patrols. He said Perea was “throwing up his hands” to absolve himself from responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/09/homeless-encampments-here-to-stay/\" target=\"_blank\">Perea told Mission Local\u003c/a>, a neighborhood news website, that “enforcement is ineffective, because it only temporarily displaces the encampments. Further enforcement is not going to correct this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could go to all these places every day and give tickets to everybody,” he said. “But if I give someone who’s homeless a citation, they’re not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say ‘no’ to shelters. We just have no answer to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dicum also conceded that Mission Station was understaffed, and that homelessness was a citywide issue that could not be addressed by police in just one neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, what we believe or suspect is not enough to place somebody under arrest or to take them away,” Capt. Robert O’Sullivan of Bayview Police Station told residents at the community meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one homeless man by the name of Kane said police often “insist” that he move from site to site, using the 2010 sit-lie law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"p0vrutYsjHDjneFkIB6eHJvHSn4u7Kfb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are also responding to poor sanitary conditions on the streets, which are distressing to residents. Problems include human feces, used condoms and drug needles, as well as increased vulnerability to sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Stringer, director of operations at the Department of Public Works, said he is organizing “alley crews” to visit 50 sites a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest challenges when alley crews clean,” he said, is that “the homeless return to the 50 sites to make another mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crews work with the police and Dufty’s team at the mayor’s office to ask the homeless to leave so they can clean the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kane said that despite the increasing complaints from neighbors, not much has changed recently in terms of enforcement and cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been here off and on for years. They’ve been doing it every day,” he said, adding: “I wonder how much it costs for them to stand around while they watch us pack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER TYPE OF RESPONSE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the range of discussion about options for dealing with the street population seems limited to Monica Pereira.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He didn't look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help.'\u003ccite>Monica Pereira\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Early in the fall, she took in a homeless man who moved to San Francisco earlier this year. A Venezuelan native, he moved into a “glorified storage room” attached to the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She invited him to stay after meeting him two or three times and learning that he had the potential to get back on his feet with a little bit of help. What convinced her was when he asked her to watch his dog while he attended a job interview. She said she hopes her assistance will help expedite his journey out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man had been living in San Francisco for about four months. Trained as a boxer, he came to fight in the United States for a South American boxing club and stayed. Since then, he has worked odd jobs in pest control and casinos in Las Vegas. While he does have a green card, Pereira said, he does not have enough money to apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira acknowledged that the man’s situation was unusual, and she had a gut feeling that she could help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira also bought the man a bus pass and a prepaid cellphone. In return, he sweeps the front yard daily and sometimes cooks traditional Venezuelan dishes for Pereira and her husband, Kevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless man’s room had bright blue walls and low ceilings. 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Those who cannot secure spots must fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the community meeting, Dufty said the complexity of the problem of homelessness defied simple solutions. “Everyone is an expert in homelessness,” he said. “You cannot do business here, you cannot work here, you cannot live here without seeing a lot of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/homelessness\" target=\"_blank\">special report on homelessness and mental health in San Francisco\u003c/a> reported and produced by KQED News Associate the San Francisco Public Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It started as the summer weather descended on the Mission District: Shabby tents popped up in clusters of three or four along residential streets at dusk. Then came the human waste. Then the drug dealing and the thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marked increase in homeless encampments in the Mission, Potrero Hill and nearby neighborhoods has led residents to complain of their sense of powerlessness and insecurity with the proliferation of extreme poverty, grime and crime on their doorsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the spread of the encampments is hard to quantify because of the nomadic culture on the streets, neighbors say they were unprepared for the change. Some say it is due to a mass migration from the Civic Center and Mid-Market areas as police step up enforcement of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2011-04/2010-sit-lie-law-could-cost-city-thousands-to-jail-repeat-offenders\" target=\"_blank\">“sit-lie” policy \u003c/a>that restricts loitering and sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police have made efforts using the sit-lie policy to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-starts-enforcing-rules-on-sitting-at-Powell-5636846.php\" target=\"_blank\">aggressively clear out Powell and Civic Center stations\u003c/a> to keep corridors safe for emergency situations, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in July. The paper also reported that Mayor Ed Lee has made it a priority to clean up the Mid-Market area. Police Chief Greg Suhr said he “takes orders straight from the mayor” and has doubled foot patrols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it is no surprise that efforts to clean up one neighborhood are shifting these problems to another, where residents say enforcement seems relatively lax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The complaints have been incoming for probably two to three months now,” said Bevan Dufty, San Francisco’s so-called homelessness czar, at a community gathering in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty, director of the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=903\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement program\u003c/a>, said the streets of the Mission District are more comfortable and convenient for outdoor living than areas closer to downtown. “It is safe enough, and seems to work for them enough that they are willing to move for an hour,” he said. The sense of frustration among residents is palpable. At the community meeting, residents expressed a complex mix of fear and disgust, and asked city officials and police to fix the problem. But not everyone is scared of the rising population of homeless people in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Pereira, an urban planner, owns a home in a three-story renovated Victorian building with her husband. While she agrees that the Mission has become a “dirty neighborhood,” she said she wanted to shift the conversation to generosity and community. She attended the meeting to see what options were out there for her new house guest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira did something few of her neighbors would contemplate: She befriended a homeless man, and ended up inviting him into a semi-detached room in her home so he could get back on his feet, apply for city and state benefits and interview for jobs. So far, she said, he seems to be making progress despite problems getting help through the slow and dysfunctional welfare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEIGHBORS FRUSTRATED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town hall-style meeting, organized by residents of the Mission and Potrero Hill, filled an auditorium at Bonhams auction house near Highway 101. The gathering served as a platform for numerous complaints. While officials offered no firm ideas about solutions, they said they had stepped up policing, street cleaning and outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10387397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 867px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10387397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg\" alt=\"Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson / San Francisco Public Press)\" width=\"867\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane.jpg 867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Kane-800x543.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kane, camping near Showplace Square at 15th and Utah streets, says police tell him to move from site to site. Sitting or lying on the sidewalk has been illegal in San Francisco since November 2010, when a majority of voters empowered police to fine, and sometimes arrest, people for the offense. (Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On any given day, about six tents stand beneath the looming, noisy intersection of interstate highways 101 and 80, nestled at the junction of the Mission, SoMa and Potrero Hill. The freeway overpass offers some protection from the elements during the colder seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quiet at night,” Dufty said. “The people who I talked to who have been camping here say it’s very safe here, and the people watch out for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Bean, a Bonhams employee and co-organizer of the meeting, said that while the homeless find safety there, longtime residents feel the community overall is becoming less safe. He said he perceives the street population becoming younger and more aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now there are broken-into cars, stolen bikes, shady drug activity and growing fear,” Bean said. “It’s more a changing of population than an increase of encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'But if I give someone who's homeless a citation, they're not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say 'no' to shelters. We just have no answer to this.'\u003ccite>Capt. Daniel Perea, Mission Station\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gregory Dicum, a resident of the Mission for 15 years, criticized police Capt. Daniel Perea of Mission Station for not providing enough foot patrols. He said Perea was “throwing up his hands” to absolve himself from responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/09/homeless-encampments-here-to-stay/\" target=\"_blank\">Perea told Mission Local\u003c/a>, a neighborhood news website, that “enforcement is ineffective, because it only temporarily displaces the encampments. Further enforcement is not going to correct this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could go to all these places every day and give tickets to everybody,” he said. “But if I give someone who’s homeless a citation, they’re not gonna stop. And nine out of 10 times they say ‘no’ to shelters. We just have no answer to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dicum also conceded that Mission Station was understaffed, and that homelessness was a citywide issue that could not be addressed by police in just one neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, what we believe or suspect is not enough to place somebody under arrest or to take them away,” Capt. Robert O’Sullivan of Bayview Police Station told residents at the community meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one homeless man by the name of Kane said police often “insist” that he move from site to site, using the 2010 sit-lie law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are also responding to poor sanitary conditions on the streets, which are distressing to residents. Problems include human feces, used condoms and drug needles, as well as increased vulnerability to sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Stringer, director of operations at the Department of Public Works, said he is organizing “alley crews” to visit 50 sites a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the biggest challenges when alley crews clean,” he said, is that “the homeless return to the 50 sites to make another mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crews work with the police and Dufty’s team at the mayor’s office to ask the homeless to leave so they can clean the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kane said that despite the increasing complaints from neighbors, not much has changed recently in terms of enforcement and cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been here off and on for years. They’ve been doing it every day,” he said, adding: “I wonder how much it costs for them to stand around while they watch us pack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER TYPE OF RESPONSE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the range of discussion about options for dealing with the street population seems limited to Monica Pereira.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He didn't look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help.'\u003ccite>Monica Pereira\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Early in the fall, she took in a homeless man who moved to San Francisco earlier this year. A Venezuelan native, he moved into a “glorified storage room” attached to the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She invited him to stay after meeting him two or three times and learning that he had the potential to get back on his feet with a little bit of help. What convinced her was when he asked her to watch his dog while he attended a job interview. She said she hopes her assistance will help expedite his journey out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t look homeless, he looked poor, just someone in a bad situation that needs help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man had been living in San Francisco for about four months. Trained as a boxer, he came to fight in the United States for a South American boxing club and stayed. Since then, he has worked odd jobs in pest control and casinos in Las Vegas. While he does have a green card, Pereira said, he does not have enough money to apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira acknowledged that the man’s situation was unusual, and she had a gut feeling that she could help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pereira also bought the man a bus pass and a prepaid cellphone. In return, he sweeps the front yard daily and sometimes cooks traditional Venezuelan dishes for Pereira and her husband, Kevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless man’s room had bright blue walls and low ceilings. 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"content": "\u003cp>The names of the dead homeless people echoed through the Civic Center as the sun set over City Hall last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people with differing backgrounds and faiths came to pay their respects. Various religious leaders read more than 160 names as the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/23/glenda-hope-retires-after-four-decades-serving-san-franciscos-blighted-tenderloin-district/\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Glenda Hope\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnetworkministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Network Ministries\u003c/a> rang a bell after each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383408 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_006\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_006.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners gather in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza to pay their respects to the homeless people who died this year. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hope started the memorial 27 years ago after hearing of homeless people freezing to death overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s been attending and planning these memorials. She said she feels that everybody deserves a dignified farewell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383404 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_003\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. 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Swee believes it is time to take a stand for the homeless and serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383403 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_002\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner holds a candle as the names of the deceased are read. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Lyle Beckman of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnetworkministries.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Night Ministry\u003c/a> helped lead the group in prayers and helped read some of the names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_004.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383405 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_004-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_004\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_004-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_004-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_004-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_004.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners burn the names of the homeless people who died this year. 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(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hope started the memorial 27 years ago after hearing of homeless people freezing to death overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s been attending and planning these memorials. She said she feels that everybody deserves a dignified farewell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383404 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_003\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_003.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. 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Swee believes it is time to take a stand for the homeless and serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10383403 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"20141218_homeless_jt_002\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/20141218_homeless_jt_002.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner holds a candle as the names of the deceased are read. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13774_20141218_homeless_jt_002.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10384075\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13774_20141218_homeless_jt_002.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13774_20141218_homeless_jt_002.JPG-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13774_20141218_homeless_jt_002.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13774_20141218_homeless_jt_002.JPG-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13774_20141218_homeless_jt_002.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man holds a candle during a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/dozens_gather_for_deceased_homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thursday evening vigil for homeless people\u003c/a> who have died in San Francisco this year. Dozens of people gathered as ministers read more than 160 names of the dead. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10384076\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13679_JV0A0614-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13679_JV0A0614-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco marchers joined \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/thousands-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-francisco-join-millions-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tens of thousands nationwide\u003c/a> who turned out last Saturday to protest police violence against African-Americans. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13689_IMG_8909-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10384077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13689_IMG_8909-qut.jpg\" alt=\"RS13689_IMG_8909-qut\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13689_IMG_8909-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13689_IMG_8909-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13689_IMG_8909-qut-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland’s march, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/13/thousands-in-oakland-berkeley-and-san-francisco-join-millions-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 3,000 people walked from Frank Ogawa Plaza\u003c/a> to the Alameda County Courthouse waving “Black Lives Matter” signs and chanting, “I can’t breathe!” Later in the evening after speeches at the courthouse, a smaller group of several hundred people broke away and vandalized property downtown. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10379594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police-Protest\" width=\"1126\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605.jpg 1126w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605-400x223.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13710_IMG_20141215_084413742_HDR-scr-e1418664690605-800x446.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another protest against police violence, as many as 200 protesters \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/15/protesters-target-oakland-police-in-early-morning-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked entrances to Oakland Police Department\u003c/a> headquarters early Monday morning. Streets around the headquarters were blocked most of the morning, and police arrested 25 people. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10383218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi speaks in front of the city's Hall of Justice during a demonstration on Dec. 18. Public defenders in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties staged similar actions today at their county courthouses.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-400x273.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Adachi-sized-800x546.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area public defenders \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/18/public-defenders-hold-black-lives-matter-rallies-for-police-accountability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held demonstrations outside county courthouses\u003c/a> on Thursday decrying lack of prosecutions for racially charged police killings around the country. 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San Jose police said they are investigating a report from a woman who reportedly said McDonald had sexually assaulted her. The 49ers had allowed McDonald to continue playing during an earlier domestic violence investigation. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>City crews began dismantling San Jose’s massive homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living conditions that constantly jeopardize [lives of the homeless], put the environment at risk and put the surrounding safety of the neighborhoods in jeopardy is not a situation we can tolerate as a city,” said Ray Bramson, San Jose’s homeless encampment project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents were given notice Monday that they had to leave or face arrest for trespassing. This morning, about 60 residents remained at the camp, dragging their belongings through ankle-deep mud as they made their exit. Some had friends pick them up in cars or vans, while others left on foot with shopping carts filled to the brim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he's been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he’s been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Resident Robert Aguirre says the closure is baffling, because for years police and social workers sent people to The Jungle after closing other encampments across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By shutting this down you’re actually making these people homeless,” he said on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201412030900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “A lot of these people have been here for as much as 20 years. They built homes for themselves. They’re waterproof, they’re weatherproof, they’re just nontraditional homes. Now they’re going to be forced out into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has cleared out The Jungle in the past, most recently in May 2012, when 150 people were evicted. Aguirre said that it was only a matter of weeks before residents returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the city says, the eviction is final. They’ve dedicated $4 million to cleaning up the site and providing housing subsidies for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social workers have spent the past few months finding housing and jobs for residents. Instead of clearing camps as they have in the past, the city is taking a “housing first” approach, Bramson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve placed 144 people in permanent homes and another 55 will be housed soon, Bramson said. Nearby shelters have also set aside designated beds for camp residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179846221″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some housing advocates say the closure should have been postponed until more alternative housing could have been found, and that the housing subsidies aren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10367381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What [the city] does, is they fail to provide housing for people, and then they blame the homeless and think they can solve the problem just by moving them around,” said housing advocate Sandy Perry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo, eBay and Facebook have amassed incredible wealth as the tech sector roars back to life following the recession. The growth has driven up home prices in the Bay Area, and many available units are unaffordable for low and middle-class residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To not be able to house our people in the richest place in the world at the richest time in its history shows us that something’s completely broken about our city,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10367382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud has complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED) \" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud have complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A work tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367492\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala takes a break from packing to get a drink of water. Alcala lived in The Jungle for 2 years, and is now headed to a group home down the street. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13369_20141204_jungle_jt_004-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala takes a break from packing to get a drink of water. Alcala lived in The Jungle two years, and is now headed to a group home down the street. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367494\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The rain and mud made the move messy. At one point a dump truck brought in to cart debris away got stuck in the muck. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13375_20141204_jungle_jt_010-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rain and mud made the move messy. At one point a dump truck brought in to cart debris away got stuck in the muck. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367495\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Many residents left any valuables they could not carry in one or two loads behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13380_20141204_jungle_jt_015-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents left behind any valuables they could not carry in one or two loads. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367428 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Costa peels of a warning sign off a makeshift wall. The area was called 'The Jungle' because it reminded him of him of his four tours in Vietnam. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13376_20141204_jungle_jt_011.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Costa peels a warning sign off a makeshift wall. The area was called ‘The Jungle’ because it reminded him of his four tours in Vietnam. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents were given noticed that they needed to clear out on Monday. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13372_20141204_jungle_jt_007-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents were given notice that they needed to clear out on Monday. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367315\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cooper takes a break from pushing his shopping cart of belongings out of The Jungle. He's been living in the Jungle for about six months after falling on bad luck when he moved to San Jose from St. Louis. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13343_20141203_jungle_jt_005-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cooper takes a break from pushing his shopping cart of belongings out of The Jungle. He’s been living in the Jungle for about six months after falling on bad luck when he moved to San Jose from St. Louis. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An item left behind by a Jungle resident. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13352_20141203_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An item left behind by a Jungle resident. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday decorations adorn a tree at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13350_20141203_jungle_jt_012-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holiday decorations adorn a tree at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"One of Doug Wynne's six cats sits near his tent at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13346_20141203_jungle_jt_008-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Doug Wynne’s six cats sits near his tent at the Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>City crews began dismantling San Jose’s massive homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thought to be the largest homeless encampment in the United States, the 75-acre camp was home to about 300 people. Most lived in tents, shacks and tree houses amid piles of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says the camp must be cleared because of increased violence, wet weather and unsanitary conditions that are polluting nearby Coyote Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living conditions that constantly jeopardize [lives of the homeless], put the environment at risk and put the surrounding safety of the neighborhoods in jeopardy is not a situation we can tolerate as a city,” said Ray Bramson, San Jose’s homeless encampment project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents were given notice Monday that they had to leave or face arrest for trespassing. This morning, about 60 residents remained at the camp, dragging their belongings through ankle-deep mud as they made their exit. Some had friends pick them up in cars or vans, while others left on foot with shopping carts filled to the brim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10367312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he's been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13347_20141203_jungle_jt_009-scr.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Wynne pokes his head out of his tent where he’s been living for the past four years. Wynne came to San Jose from Florida hoping for a job in the tech industry, but feels he was too old to be viewed as a desirable employee. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Resident Robert Aguirre says the closure is baffling, because for years police and social workers sent people to The Jungle after closing other encampments across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By shutting this down you’re actually making these people homeless,” he said on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201412030900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “A lot of these people have been here for as much as 20 years. They built homes for themselves. They’re waterproof, they’re weatherproof, they’re just nontraditional homes. Now they’re going to be forced out into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has cleared out The Jungle in the past, most recently in May 2012, when 150 people were evicted. Aguirre said that it was only a matter of weeks before residents returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the city says, the eviction is final. They’ve dedicated $4 million to cleaning up the site and providing housing subsidies for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social workers have spent the past few months finding housing and jobs for residents. Instead of clearing camps as they have in the past, the city is taking a “housing first” approach, Bramson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve placed 144 people in permanent homes and another 55 will be housed soon, Bramson said. Nearby shelters have also set aside designated beds for camp residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”20″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179846221″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179846221″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some housing advocates say the closure should have been postponed until more alternative housing could have been found, and that the housing subsidies aren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10367381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13378_20141204_jungle_jt_013-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews work to clean out debris left behind. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What [the city] does, is they fail to provide housing for people, and then they blame the homeless and think they can solve the problem just by moving them around,” said housing advocate Sandy Perry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo, eBay and Facebook have amassed incredible wealth as the tech sector roars back to life following the recession. The growth has driven up home prices in the Bay Area, and many available units are unaffordable for low and middle-class residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To not be able to house our people in the richest place in the world at the richest time in its history shows us that something’s completely broken about our city,” Perry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10367382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud has complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED) \" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13367_20141204_jungle_jt_002-scr-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alcala, right, removes his belongings after living at The Jungle for two years. Rain and mud have complicated the move for many residents. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A work tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13379_20141204_jungle_jt_014-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker tears down a wall at The Jungle. (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10367492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10367492\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS13368_20141204_jungle_jt_003-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Residents dragged their belongings to the side of the road. Some had friends to pick them up. Others left on foot. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach was biking with her 10-year-old son, Makayln, on his way to school in San Francisco's Castro District when they saw a homeless teen being ticketed by the police for sitting on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makayln got quite upset, Friedenbach says, \"so we stopped the bikes and he said, 'Is it OK if I go over there?' And I said, 'Yeah, sure.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makayln sat down on the sidewalk and told the officers that if they were going to ticket the young man, then they would have to give him a ticket, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was, of course, scared,\" Makayln says. \"But it felt like the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179840997\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makayln and Friedenbach's older son Mateo, 14, have often been by her side as executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>, where she has \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/everyone-has-basic-right-to-sleep-even-homeless/Content?oid=2912384\">fought against ticketing homeless\u003c/a> people who are forced on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach says one of the officers was angry with her, suspecting she put Makayln up to it, but she explained it was her son's idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other police officer was actually really embarrassed by it and felt bad about the whole situation, and could see from a 10-year-old's perspective how wrong it was. This boy clearly had nowhere to go and was homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach says her two sons have learned to \"just treat people as people,\" and have joined her on weekend demonstrations, like one that was recently organized to protest \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Homeless-protest-BART-no-sleeping-rules-5880543.php\">a crackdown on homeless people sleeping at BART stations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, from a kid's perspective, they don't understand why,\" says Friedenbach. \"They see someone who's homeless and they're like, 'Mom, why don't you talk to them and give them a house?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s a perspective,\" she adds, \"that is shared by all children unless there’s some reason for them to have fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach is a familiar face at City Hall, where she has been on the front lines of policy battles over homelessness for nearly two decades. The problem, she says, has actually gotten worse in some ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've accomplished a lot but as we're fighting and get all these accomplishments, we end up losing ground,\" says Friedenbach, pointing to the current housing crisis that has displaced many San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite programs aimed at reducing homelessness, San Francisco's homeless population has remained steady over the past decade. Last year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\">count put the number\u003c/a> of homeless people at 6,436, with an additional 914 in a supplemental youth count. However, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, 2,357 public school students are homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you talk about who's homeless [to public school kids] they say, 'My uncle, me.' They talk about this stuff,\" says Friedenbach. \"Whereas if I'm doing a speaking engagement somewhere else and I ask that question, people will say, 'Drug addicts, mentally ill people.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makayln, who attends the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, says he likes to engage his classmates about homelessness. He's very proud of the work his mom does, and Friedenbach is proud of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a very different perspective and I think it’s really beautiful,\" says Friedenbach, which is why in her line of work she often asks herself: \"What would my kids do?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Thanks to Greg Burk for providing some audio for the radio version. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Homelessness is still a big problem in San Francisco. At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4819\" target=\"_blank\">last count in January 2013\u003c/a>, there were 7,350 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people in San Francisco, including about 914 youths. Anyone who lives in or visits the city sees panhandlers downtown, destitute people in doorways and young people hanging out on Haight Street or in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179839021\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many organizations working hard to provide services to the homeless, but finding places for shelters or halfway homes is a constant struggle in a city as dense and expensive as San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.larkinstreetyouth.org/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Larkin Street Youth Services\u003c/a> is one of the many nonprofit service providers working on homelessness in San Francisco. The organization operates an array of shelters, group homes, drop-in centers and other services for homeless youth, often in residential neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We said we're going to do this and do it right and take care of everything we haven't taken care of in the past. And I want to be a good neighbor.'\u003ccite>Denise Jimenez,\u003cbr>\nDiamond Youth Shelter assistant manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of Larkin's emergency shelters, known as Diamond Youth Shelter, is located in the upper-middle class neighborhood known as NoPa (North of the Panhandle). It’s been there for over 30 years, serving homeless and runaway kids under the age of 18. Many of its clients left home because of abuse, neglect, even a bad foster placement. The shelter was first run by Catholic Charities and now is part of Larkin Street Youth Services. Recently, it won approval from the city’s Planning Commission to expand its operations to 24 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is a response to \u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/2014.0362C.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new state licensing rules\u003c/a> that require shelters like Diamond to offer continuous 24-hour service in the same building. For the past 20 years, Diamond has been operating at two locations. Kids spent the night at the shelter in NoPa, which opened at 8 p.m., but they had to leave by 8 a.m. So, if they wanted a place to be during the day, they had to make their way to a drop-in center in the Tenderloin that serves homeless youths through age 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's hard to have a feeling of stability when you have to move around to so many places,” said Denise Jimenez, assistant manager of the Diamond Youth Shelter. “They need a safe space. Some of the youth that aren't from San Francisco don't know San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8SbSAtynfbzLLFMeyCKNzHCOmw3ixYQN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez wants Diamond to feel like a real home, even if it's temporary. Youth can stay here for only 21 days. But as the shelter transitions to a 24-hour operation, Jimenez says her staff will be able to keep a closer eye on the kids. That means keeping them out of trouble and getting them more services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything in our power to make sure nothing changes in the neighborhood other than our hours,” Jimenez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's taken awhile to convince neighbors on this quiet block of Central Avenue, between Hayes and Grove streets, that the change in hours won’t disturb their quality of life. Over the past decade, NoPa has become a family-oriented neighborhood with million-dollar homes. Neighbors are already fed up with parties spilling over from the Panhandle and onto their block. And even though the shelter has been around longer than many residents, some are wary that the longer hours will bring unwanted problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each one of the neighbors on either side found syringes just on the other side of the fence,” said neighbor Dan Reynolds. He worries that Diamond staff are too lenient with the kids that seek shelter there, and that troubled youth could jeopardize the safety of his own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said there have been issues with loitering, smoking, noise, even aggressive or defensive behavior from Diamond staff. But what bothers him most is how the shelter has incrementally grown while its managers claimed it wouldn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's just tough to take because you feel like you're being piecemealed,” Reynolds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10364899\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drop-in-center.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10364899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drop-in-center-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Motivational posters on the walls of Larkin's drop-in center on Sutter Street. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drop-in-center-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/drop-in-center.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motivational posters on the walls of Larkin's drop-in center on Sutter Street. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first shelter was only one story. Larkin rebuilt it into a three-floor structure in 2009, promising it wouldn't change hours of operation. Now it's doing just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's just one thing after another,” Reynolds said. “You realize how valuable it is to have approval for some sort of services that aren't necessarily welcome to communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez knows some neighbors have concerns, so she’s been reaching out to people like Reynolds, trying to create a personal connection and single point of contact for neighbors to bring complaints. She's been holding monthly community meetings so she can respond to concerns like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We said we're going to do this and do it right and take care of everything we haven't taken care of in the past,” Jimenez said. “And I want to be a good neighbor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds said he’s glad there's finally one person in charge at Diamond. He and other neighbors said it’s a good sign that Larkin is responding to concerns proactively, but they are reserving judgment to see how the transition pans out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighbors say they don’t have a problem with the new hours. Liz Singer lives next door to the shelter. She says NoPa is the perfect kind of neighborhood for kids looking for help. It's safe; people are watching what they do; and the kids aren't that bad anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not littering any more or less. It's just easy to blame them,\" Singer said. \"And the noise -- they're never noisy. I think that one's just crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larkin went to the new 24-hour schedule right before Thanksgiving. Kids were able to stay in the house and celebrate a meal together. Jimenez says Larkin pushed for this timing so kids wouldn't have to wander the streets during their holiday break.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mountain View is considering raising fees on new construction to fund affordable housing, a move developers say would shift projects to other towns. But City Council members say the move is necessary because of a decrease in government funding for the projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the City Council proposed increasing a range of affordable housing fees and is now gathering community input ahead of a public hearing on Dec. 9. The city requires that developers pay the fees to help build more affordable houses for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fees for affordable housing construction are already generating resistance from developers. \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">The California Supreme Court is expected to rule on a legal challenge to a San Jose ordinance that had required housing developers to include affordable units for low-income buyers on new projects. \u003c/span>\u003c/span> Some Mountain View City Council members have suggested that the city wait until that ruling before adjusting their own fees, but other members think the city shouldn’t wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should at least begin the process of upping those fees now. If the Supreme Court comes down and says ‘no,’ then we suspend the rule. But if we don’t [increase the fees] now, we are going to lose another two years worth of fees,” City Councilman Mike Kasperzak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View attempted to increase affordable housing fees during the last housing boom in 2005, but the effort failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fees.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10355981\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fees.png\" alt=\"fees\" width=\"613\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fees.png 613w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/fees-400x142.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For new office construction, the council is considering roughly doubling the $10.26 fee per square foot. Fees on for-sale housing and rental apartment buildings could also see a rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more affordable housing,” said City Council member Ronit Bryant. “Housing prices in Mountain View have been so high for so long, the city is losing its diversity, in terms of people at different income levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant is advocating taking advantage of the building boom to support affordable housing. The city is currently reviewing more than 20 new development projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Patricia Sausedo — a policy consultant at the Building Industry Association of the Bay Area, a coalition of developers — said it was unfair for the city to just look “at development industries to resolve what is really a social issue in Silicon Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sausedo warned that a fee hike could discourage developers from building more houses in Mountain View, where there is already an inadequate supply to meet demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Developers will go to locations where there isn’t such a fee. If you look at all the cities in the Bay Area, there are many cities that have no impact fees,” she said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could mean higher housing prices in the future, Sausedo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10355982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/affordable-complex.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10355982\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/affordable-complex.jpg\" alt=\"An affordable housing complex under construction on El Camino Real in Mountain View, on Nov. 6, 2014. The complex will provide 26 studio units for developmentally disabled individuals. 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(Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kasperzak said he believed developers would continue to build in Mountain View regardless of the fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that developers may think it’s too expensive to build, but right now there’s still too much money to be made in housing around here,” Kasperzak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View isn’t the only city that has affordable housing fees. Cupertino, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale also implement similar fees, with Palo Alto being the most aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s simply that the developers are going to take less profits, honestly,” said Lydia Tan, senior vice president of real estate advisor Bentall Kennedy (US) LP, who has 25 years of experience developing affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question then becomes a matter of balance between the need to provide more affordable housing and how much developers can bear. Tan suggested that the city scale up the fees over time to give developers some leeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Zwick — CEO of Housing Trust Silicon Valley, a nonprofit organization that loans money to affordable housing projects — said he was glad to see Mountain View taking the need for affordable housing seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10355983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mtv-subsidized-housing-1024x868.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10355983\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/mtv-subsidized-housing-1024x868.jpg\" alt=\"This map shows all the subsidized rental complexes in Mountain View. 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(Yuqing Pan/Peninsula Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kasperzak said he believed developers would continue to build in Mountain View regardless of the fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that developers may think it’s too expensive to build, but right now there’s still too much money to be made in housing around here,” Kasperzak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View isn’t the only city that has affordable housing fees. Cupertino, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale also implement similar fees, with Palo Alto being the most aggressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s simply that the developers are going to take less profits, honestly,” said Lydia Tan, senior vice president of real estate advisor Bentall Kennedy (US) LP, who has 25 years of experience developing affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question then becomes a matter of balance between the need to provide more affordable housing and how much developers can bear. 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