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The contract also asks the developer to build valuable community benefits first, such as 90 of the affordable apartments by 2031, and either the child care facilities or a grocery store by the 10-year mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the developer meets those goals or chooses to pay a fee of $1 per square foot of unbuilt project square footage if it doesn’t, then it can request the first of three five-year extension options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re tying (the extensions) to the things that matter to us from a community benefit standpoint with the realization that they’re likely not going to build those in a standalone fashion,” Brilliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara is not new to big plans and indeed has laid out major growth blueprints all around the stadium. Just last week, the council approved the first 284 apartments of a potential 12,000 planned for a 74-acre area filled with offices that run along Patrick Henry Drive, sandwiched between Mission College and the Kylli development site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s major plans also include the Tasman East area, where some successes have already been notched. On the 45-acre plot just northeast of Levi’s, several developers are working on roughly 4,500 residential units, some of which are complete, some which are largely constructed and some are still in the pipeline, all following a 2018 plan approved by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Tasman East work has moved along relatively smoothly, the city has also seen its share of unexpected delays throwing a wrench into much-ballyhooed plans for major developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Related Companies, a massive New York City-based development firm, has long planned to build a landmark $8 billion project in Santa Clara directly across from Levi’s and Tasman East, known as Related Santa Clara, that was originally set to include a total of 9 million square feet of homes, offices, hotels and restaurants, all on 240-acres of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since its 2016 approval, some site work has been completed, but nothing has been built. The project faced lawsuits out of the gate from San José and later faced challenges about Related’s plan to pay workers less than prevailing wages, and requires careful environmental planning because much of it is being built on a former landfill site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also contended with the same market forces shifting other projects. Related was able to secure nearly $700 million in financing to build two projects in the Tasman East area in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenges aside, some leaders have grown frustrated with the lack of construction over eight years for the large project, especially because of the developer’s size.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12012008,news_12014393,news_12014710\"]“They’re Related,” Park said. At some point, if they can’t make a plan to build this, then who?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related has, in the last year, submitted an alternate plan to replace millions of square feet of office space with industrial manufacturing uses on the site and consolidate some of the office space into other portions of the land, but the city is still reviewing that plan. The developer has continued to pay rent to the city annually during the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Related Santa Clara did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long holdup for Related Santa Clara gives Park concern about the extended timeline options for Kylli and other potential similar agreements that might undergird developments aimed at renewing the city’s north end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like long timelines. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan from Kylli, a Bay Area-based subsidiary of Chinese investment firm Genzon Group, is set to be built on a 48.6-acre site near the corner of Tasman and Old Ironsides drives, which Kylli owns and is largely made up of a parking lot currently used by Levi’s Stadium during events, along with four office buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lisa Gillmor called the project a “valuable lynchpin” toward the success of the northside during the Nov. 19 meeting where the plan was greenlit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to bring a different dynamic to that area. Once you have residential development and the mixed-use, there’s a vibrancy that comes along with it,” Gillmor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the project was supported widely by business advocates, residents and pro-housing coalitions, all the excitement may be on hold for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city and Kylli agreed to a contract that allows the developer 10 years to complete the project, with options for extending the development timeline to a total of 25 years if certain milestones are achieved or if the developer pays fees for unbuilt portions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara could be waiting for up to 10 years and receive nothing in return if the developer were to walk away from the project altogether, but officials are hoping the developer will follow through on its aims and say the agreement is necessary for such a large development in a rocky financing cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t force it. Some people don’t understand that,” Gillmor told KQED. “When the market becomes available to finance these types of projects, believe me, they’re going to build. They will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reena Brilliot, the city’s director of economic development and sustainability, said when crafting the agreement, the city had to consider that the large project would likely need to be built across multiple market cycles and that it includes a significant portion of new office space, for which there is little to no demand currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware that the office market is quite soft, and there isn’t a clear trajectory on when that’s going to change with remote work being still in flux,” Brilliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approval allows the developer to shrink some of its office space plans in exchange for more housing units to help boost the viability of the project and meet market demands if needed. The contract also asks the developer to build valuable community benefits first, such as 90 of the affordable apartments by 2031, and either the child care facilities or a grocery store by the 10-year mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the developer meets those goals or chooses to pay a fee of $1 per square foot of unbuilt project square footage if it doesn’t, then it can request the first of three five-year extension options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re tying (the extensions) to the things that matter to us from a community benefit standpoint with the realization that they’re likely not going to build those in a standalone fashion,” Brilliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara is not new to big plans and indeed has laid out major growth blueprints all around the stadium. Just last week, the council approved the first 284 apartments of a potential 12,000 planned for a 74-acre area filled with offices that run along Patrick Henry Drive, sandwiched between Mission College and the Kylli development site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s major plans also include the Tasman East area, where some successes have already been notched. On the 45-acre plot just northeast of Levi’s, several developers are working on roughly 4,500 residential units, some of which are complete, some which are largely constructed and some are still in the pipeline, all following a 2018 plan approved by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Tasman East work has moved along relatively smoothly, the city has also seen its share of unexpected delays throwing a wrench into much-ballyhooed plans for major developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Related Companies, a massive New York City-based development firm, has long planned to build a landmark $8 billion project in Santa Clara directly across from Levi’s and Tasman East, known as Related Santa Clara, that was originally set to include a total of 9 million square feet of homes, offices, hotels and restaurants, all on 240-acres of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since its 2016 approval, some site work has been completed, but nothing has been built. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They’re Related,” Park said. At some point, if they can’t make a plan to build this, then who?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related has, in the last year, submitted an alternate plan to replace millions of square feet of office space with industrial manufacturing uses on the site and consolidate some of the office space into other portions of the land, but the city is still reviewing that plan. The developer has continued to pay rent to the city annually during the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Related Santa Clara did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long holdup for Related Santa Clara gives Park concern about the extended timeline options for Kylli and other potential similar agreements that might undergird developments aimed at renewing the city’s north end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like long timelines. With every long timeline you give, you hope it’s because it gives you a higher percentage of completion or possibility of completion,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for Kylli say the developer has every intention of building the project, though the company has paid attention to the bevy of challenges other developers are facing, informing how the development agreement was structured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every developer and every project has its own story,” said Wendi Baker, the chief operating officer of Los Gatos-based Harmonie Park Development, who is working as a consultant on the Kylli project. “We saw all of those stories unfolding before us, and we really tried to create the best opportunity for success for all of us here, the developer, the city, the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite concerns council members and others may have, Park and Gillmor said the city and its leaders need to keep pressing forward in planning for hubs that attract and benefit residents and visitors. The city is leaning on trust that developers will come through, like with past successes at Rivermark and Santa Clara Square, two major mixed-use developments in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t look at a developer and take them at face value and take them in good faith, if we try to be too clever, I just don’t think that’s a good thing,” Park said. “We can’t look at the possible downsides and not approve projects. We have to look at the possible upsides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943887/que-hacer-si-su-hogar-sufrio-danos-por-las-tormentas-de-california\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015754/more-bay-area-rain-could-spell-a-wet-thanksgiving-after-record-breaking-storm\">Yet another atmospheric river is set to hit California,\u003c/a> lasting into Thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s coming on the heels of last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015534/bay-area-record-breaking-rainfall-deluge-surprises-forecasters\">record-breaking rain\u003c/a>, which hit the North Bay the hardest, where mountain areas saw more than 20 inches. The foot of rain that fell in downtown Santa Rosa was \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nwsbayarea/status/1860380861675503931?s=46&t=8L9OHVE58oUXKjH2wCBDtA\">a 1,000-year event\u003c/a>, according to the National Weather Service\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Local officials are getting ready for strong winds to bring down trees and power lines and are recommending residents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">prepare their homes\u003c/a> as well. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">Read our guide on how protect yourself and your home against winter storms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some good news: If you are a tenant and your home has experienced damages, California requires that your landlord provides repairs as soon as possible, regardless of whether you have a formal lease contract or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news: For some tenants, it could be difficult to contact your landlord or make sure they move quickly to make the repairs your home needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for tenants rights group \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/renterhelp\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)\u003c/a>, to better understand what rights tenants have during and after winter storms and how best to communicate with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#landlorddamage\">What do I do if my landlord isn’t responding?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#flooddamage\">The damage is very serious and I don’t think we can keep living here (at least for now). What can we do?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#nolease\">How does my situation change if I don’t have a lease?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#belongingsdamage\">What about my belongings — and what does renters insurance even cover?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#FEMA\">Can I apply for FEMA aid?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Storm damage: When and how should I report it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regardless of where you live in California, \u003ca href=\"https://nchh.org/resource-library/HH_Codes_CA_9-9-07.pdf\">tenants are protected by a health and safety code (PDF)\u003c/a> in the state’s housing law that lays out how a home should be maintained.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\"]‘A landlord is always responsible for maintaining a unit so that it is healthy and safe for the tenant.’[/pullquote]This regulation requires landlords to ensure their properties have things like working toilets and sinks, but it also prohibits homes from having walls, ceilings and floors that are deteriorating or damaged, along with leaks, mold and lack of heating. “Those are all things that have impacts on people’s health and are not considered lawful in California,” said Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you believe the conditions in your home have become unsafe after the storms and your life could be in danger, leave the house immediately and call 911, said Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, call your landlord and explain the situation. She specifies you should only call 911 in extreme circumstances — your roof has fallen in, for example — echoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">what San Francisco officials have advised the public about when to call 911\u003c/a>: during 2023’s storms, Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson asked city residents to only call 911 when there are life-threatening emergencies. “So if you have a little bit of flooding in your home, call 311. If someone is having a heart attack or if someone is being swept by water, call 911,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if it’s something smaller, Simon-Weisberg said, “something you can contain with towels or a pot, call your landlord” — not 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"nolease\">\u003c/a>How should I talk to my landlord about flood damage?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I really want to encourage people to have the courage to call their landlords,” Simon-Weisberg said, adding that it’s understandable that some tenants may feel nervous about these conversations, especially if they do not have a lease contract — or are afraid of some sort of ramification for speaking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First off, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1942.5.&lawCode=CIV\">it’s against the law to retaliate against a tenant\u003c/a> for speaking about repairs,” she said. “A landlord is always responsible for maintaining a unit so that it is healthy and safe for the tenant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These tenant protections apply even if you currently do not have a written lease contract. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dre.ca.gov/files/pdf/refbook/ref09.pdf\">California recognizes verbal agreements (PDF)\u003c/a>, and property owners cannot use damages caused by the storm as an excuse to evict tenants. “Once the landlord has accepted a dollar for rent, then you have a tenancy and [tenants] can’t be evicted without using the legal process,” Simon-Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you are ready to contact your landlord, keep in mind that a phone call works — but it’s best to accompany such a call with written communication, like email or text message, to have a record of what you talked about. In that written correspondence, make sure to include photos of the damage, the time it occurred and details on your personal belongings that may also have been damaged. \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/flooding\">ACCE has created a sample email\u003c/a> that shows one way to document when you contacted your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As these storms have shown us, water can do an incredible amount of damage very quickly — so make it clear to your landlord that repairs are urgently needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sooner someone is in there to make repairs,” Simon-Weisberg said, “the safer you are and the less damage that’s going to happen both to where you’re living, but also to your belongings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11974720 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Search and rescue workers investigate a car surrounded by floodwater\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Search and rescue workers investigate a car surrounded by floodwater as heavy rains caused the Guadalupe River to swell, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. The vehicle was uninhabited. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"landlorddamage\">\u003c/a>I’m having problems getting my landlord to make repairs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What to do if your landlord pushes back and refuses to fix the damage caused by a storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, Simon-Weisberg said, landlords do push back and argue that it is not their responsibility to make repairs, claiming a natural disaster exemption. She rejects this argument and affirms that “what we’re experiencing right now is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a natural disaster.” The natural disaster exemption can only be used when a natural phenomenon, like an earthquake or a tsunami, affects all houses in a city or region.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director, ACCE\"]‘If people’s houses are flooding, it’s because they’re not being properly maintained.’[/pullquote]“If people’s houses are flooding, it’s because they’re not being properly maintained,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A landlord should let you know what repairs will be made and give you a time frame. If you’re still being rejected or not hearing back at all, that’s when you call the government, Simon-Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Option: Call your city’s code enforcement agency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your city’s code enforcement agency is the office responsible for making sure all homes follow the state’s housing law. You can let them know about your situation and that your landlord has failed to resolve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A code enforcement team should visit your home and then contact the landlord if they find a safety code violation. Simon-Weisberg adds that this will put pressure on your landlord to make the repairs as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is the contact information for code enforcement agencies for several Bay Area cities. We’ll be constantly updating this list to add the contact information for more cities in the region. If the situation in your home has worsened and your life is in immediate danger, call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco: Call 311 or \u003ca href=\"https://dbiweb02.sfgov.org/dbi_complaints/default.aspx?page=AddressQuery\">file a complaint about a San Francisco rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San José: Call (408) 535-7770 or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/code-enforcement/request-service-check-status/code-service-request-form\">file a complaint about a San José rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland: Call (510) 238-3444 or \u003ca href=\"https://aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/Cap/CapApplyDisclaimer.aspx?module=Enforcement&TabName=Enforcement\">file a complaint about an Oakland rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redwood City: Call (650) 780-7577\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: Email code@srcity.org or \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/21358\">file a complaint about a Santa Rosa rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Richmond: Call 311 or (804) 646-6398.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vallejo: Call the city’s Building Division at (707) 648-4374.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Option: Take legal action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If code enforcement has already come over but your landlord is still not getting back to you, Simon-Weisberg said the next step is to take legal action. If you live in the Bay Area, there are several tenants rights groups that can help you in these situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ACCE hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/dyh\">bilingual English/Spanish statewide tenant clinics\u003c/a> every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/dyh\">here’s how to register\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There’s also an additional \u003ca href=\"https://calorganize-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuuppjstGd1rkLGgBX1wgoiyMLpX5ADj\">tenant clinic for Contra Costa County residents\u003c/a> every third Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. (\u003ca href=\"https://calorganize-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuuppjstGd1rkLGgBX1wgoiyMLpX5ADj\">here’s how to register\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://cjjc.org/\">Causa Justa/Just Cause\u003c/a> offers a website that \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtenantrights.org/tenant-rights/repairs/\">walks you step-by-step on how to talk to your landlord\u003c/a>, how to file a complaint with city code enforcement and how to take legal action if needed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidsc.org/\">Legal Aid of Sonoma County\u003c/a> has a housing hotline for tenants seeking legal assistance. Call them directly at (707) 843-4432.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"flooddamage\">\u003c/a>I can no longer live in my home because of the damages. What can I do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your landlord has scheduled repairs that require you to live somewhere else in the meantime, they are required to pay for your housing, which could be a hotel or another property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That being said,” Simon-Weisberg added, “you will probably need to be paying rent while they pay for those other things. You can’t both withhold rent \u003cem>and\u003c/em> have your hotel paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, cities and counties can differ on how long a landlord has to pay for this temporary accommodation. ACCE has partnered with the group TechEquity Collaborative to create \u003ca href=\"https://tenantprotections.org/eligibility\">TenantProtections.org\u003c/a>, a website where you can input your ZIP code and learn which additional local- and county-wide protections you have available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg does note that there’s a loophole in many California cities that allows landlords to evict tenants if they have to make substantial repairs and the tenant cannot live on the property while these repairs are being made. In these instances, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790591/new-sf-eviction-law-extends-protections-to-nearly-all-privately-owned-rental-units\">many Bay Area cities with protections against no-fault evictions, like San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandtenantsunion.org/just-cause-for-eviction.html\">Oakland\u003c/a>, require landlords to offer tenants relocation payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are afraid this could happen to you, reach out to a tenants group for legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"belongingsdamage\">\u003c/a>What if my belongings also were damaged by water?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Is your landlord responsible for damage to your belongings if you’re a tenant? The answer is not always cut and dried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Ruiz, director of strategic communication for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, an industry group, told KQED that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937459/does-your-insurance-plan-cover-flood-and-storm-damage\">your landlord is not responsible for your belongings\u003c/a>” and that instead, “renters insurance or flood-renters insurance … would cover your belongings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simon-Weisberg says that property owners can be held responsible for damages of tenants’ belongings — and that your landlord may push back on this depending on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should you do? First of all, if water damage has destroyed your belongings, like a computer or furniture, make sure to document this and include the information when communicating with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you have renters insurance\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check in with your agent to understand what your policy covers and what costs you (or your landlord) may have to cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you don’t have renters insurance\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you believe that your belongings were damaged due to your home not receiving necessary repairs prior to the storms, whether or not you have renters insurance, this may be something you bring up when talking to a renters rights group or legal aid clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If your heating, electricity or plumbing broke down and your rent payment includes any of these utilities, let them know this as well, including how long this happened for. You may be able to negotiate a temporary discount on your utilities payment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have renters insurance and you are considering getting it after the storms, it’s important to mention that most policies come with a 30-day wait period for the benefits to begin — so a policy would not cover damages caused by past storms. Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210318/yes-renters-can-buy-flood-insurance\">some tenants may have to pay higher premiums\u003c/a> due to where they live, how old their home is and even how many floors there are in their building.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I lost food during a blackout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For families who receive CalFresh benefits, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACLs/2019/19-95_ES.pdf\">receive replacement funds on your EBT card (PDF)\u003c/a> if you lost food due to flooding or a blackout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do this, contact the case manager or social worker who’s managing your CalFresh benefits within 10 days of losing your food to let them know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has confirmed with California’s Department of Social Services that this \u003cem>does\u003c/em> include having food spoiled or destroyed due to the winter storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on March 10, 2023\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This regulation requires landlords to ensure their properties have things like working toilets and sinks, but it also prohibits homes from having walls, ceilings and floors that are deteriorating or damaged, along with leaks, mold and lack of heating. “Those are all things that have impacts on people’s health and are not considered lawful in California,” said Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you believe the conditions in your home have become unsafe after the storms and your life could be in danger, leave the house immediately and call 911, said Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, call your landlord and explain the situation. She specifies you should only call 911 in extreme circumstances — your roof has fallen in, for example — echoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">what San Francisco officials have advised the public about when to call 911\u003c/a>: during 2023’s storms, Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson asked city residents to only call 911 when there are life-threatening emergencies. “So if you have a little bit of flooding in your home, call 311. If someone is having a heart attack or if someone is being swept by water, call 911,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if it’s something smaller, Simon-Weisberg said, “something you can contain with towels or a pot, call your landlord” — not 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"nolease\">\u003c/a>How should I talk to my landlord about flood damage?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I really want to encourage people to have the courage to call their landlords,” Simon-Weisberg said, adding that it’s understandable that some tenants may feel nervous about these conversations, especially if they do not have a lease contract — or are afraid of some sort of ramification for speaking up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First off, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1942.5.&lawCode=CIV\">it’s against the law to retaliate against a tenant\u003c/a> for speaking about repairs,” she said. “A landlord is always responsible for maintaining a unit so that it is healthy and safe for the tenant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These tenant protections apply even if you currently do not have a written lease contract. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dre.ca.gov/files/pdf/refbook/ref09.pdf\">California recognizes verbal agreements (PDF)\u003c/a>, and property owners cannot use damages caused by the storm as an excuse to evict tenants. “Once the landlord has accepted a dollar for rent, then you have a tenancy and [tenants] can’t be evicted without using the legal process,” Simon-Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you are ready to contact your landlord, keep in mind that a phone call works — but it’s best to accompany such a call with written communication, like email or text message, to have a record of what you talked about. In that written correspondence, make sure to include photos of the damage, the time it occurred and details on your personal belongings that may also have been damaged. \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/flooding\">ACCE has created a sample email\u003c/a> that shows one way to document when you contacted your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As these storms have shown us, water can do an incredible amount of damage very quickly — so make it clear to your landlord that repairs are urgently needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sooner someone is in there to make repairs,” Simon-Weisberg said, “the safer you are and the less damage that’s going to happen both to where you’re living, but also to your belongings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11974720 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Search and rescue workers investigate a car surrounded by floodwater\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AP24035841785066-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Search and rescue workers investigate a car surrounded by floodwater as heavy rains caused the Guadalupe River to swell, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If people’s houses are flooding, it’s because they’re not being properly maintained,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A landlord should let you know what repairs will be made and give you a time frame. If you’re still being rejected or not hearing back at all, that’s when you call the government, Simon-Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Option: Call your city’s code enforcement agency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your city’s code enforcement agency is the office responsible for making sure all homes follow the state’s housing law. You can let them know about your situation and that your landlord has failed to resolve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A code enforcement team should visit your home and then contact the landlord if they find a safety code violation. Simon-Weisberg adds that this will put pressure on your landlord to make the repairs as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is the contact information for code enforcement agencies for several Bay Area cities. We’ll be constantly updating this list to add the contact information for more cities in the region. If the situation in your home has worsened and your life is in immediate danger, call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco: Call 311 or \u003ca href=\"https://dbiweb02.sfgov.org/dbi_complaints/default.aspx?page=AddressQuery\">file a complaint about a San Francisco rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San José: Call (408) 535-7770 or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/code-enforcement/request-service-check-status/code-service-request-form\">file a complaint about a San José rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland: Call (510) 238-3444 or \u003ca href=\"https://aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/Cap/CapApplyDisclaimer.aspx?module=Enforcement&TabName=Enforcement\">file a complaint about an Oakland rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redwood City: Call (650) 780-7577\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: Email code@srcity.org or \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/21358\">file a complaint about a Santa Rosa rental online\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Richmond: Call 311 or (804) 646-6398.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vallejo: Call the city’s Building Division at (707) 648-4374.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Option: Take legal action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If code enforcement has already come over but your landlord is still not getting back to you, Simon-Weisberg said the next step is to take legal action. If you live in the Bay Area, there are several tenants rights groups that can help you in these situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ACCE hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/dyh\">bilingual English/Spanish statewide tenant clinics\u003c/a> every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/dyh\">here’s how to register\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There’s also an additional \u003ca href=\"https://calorganize-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuuppjstGd1rkLGgBX1wgoiyMLpX5ADj\">tenant clinic for Contra Costa County residents\u003c/a> every third Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. (\u003ca href=\"https://calorganize-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuuppjstGd1rkLGgBX1wgoiyMLpX5ADj\">here’s how to register\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://cjjc.org/\">Causa Justa/Just Cause\u003c/a> offers a website that \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtenantrights.org/tenant-rights/repairs/\">walks you step-by-step on how to talk to your landlord\u003c/a>, how to file a complaint with city code enforcement and how to take legal action if needed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidsc.org/\">Legal Aid of Sonoma County\u003c/a> has a housing hotline for tenants seeking legal assistance. Call them directly at (707) 843-4432.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"flooddamage\">\u003c/a>I can no longer live in my home because of the damages. What can I do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your landlord has scheduled repairs that require you to live somewhere else in the meantime, they are required to pay for your housing, which could be a hotel or another property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That being said,” Simon-Weisberg added, “you will probably need to be paying rent while they pay for those other things. You can’t both withhold rent \u003cem>and\u003c/em> have your hotel paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, cities and counties can differ on how long a landlord has to pay for this temporary accommodation. ACCE has partnered with the group TechEquity Collaborative to create \u003ca href=\"https://tenantprotections.org/eligibility\">TenantProtections.org\u003c/a>, a website where you can input your ZIP code and learn which additional local- and county-wide protections you have available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg does note that there’s a loophole in many California cities that allows landlords to evict tenants if they have to make substantial repairs and the tenant cannot live on the property while these repairs are being made. In these instances, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790591/new-sf-eviction-law-extends-protections-to-nearly-all-privately-owned-rental-units\">many Bay Area cities with protections against no-fault evictions, like San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandtenantsunion.org/just-cause-for-eviction.html\">Oakland\u003c/a>, require landlords to offer tenants relocation payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are afraid this could happen to you, reach out to a tenants group for legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"belongingsdamage\">\u003c/a>What if my belongings also were damaged by water?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Is your landlord responsible for damage to your belongings if you’re a tenant? The answer is not always cut and dried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Ruiz, director of strategic communication for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, an industry group, told KQED that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937459/does-your-insurance-plan-cover-flood-and-storm-damage\">your landlord is not responsible for your belongings\u003c/a>” and that instead, “renters insurance or flood-renters insurance … would cover your belongings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simon-Weisberg says that property owners can be held responsible for damages of tenants’ belongings — and that your landlord may push back on this depending on the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should you do? First of all, if water damage has destroyed your belongings, like a computer or furniture, make sure to document this and include the information when communicating with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you have renters insurance\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check in with your agent to understand what your policy covers and what costs you (or your landlord) may have to cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>If you don’t have renters insurance\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you believe that your belongings were damaged due to your home not receiving necessary repairs prior to the storms, whether or not you have renters insurance, this may be something you bring up when talking to a renters rights group or legal aid clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(If your heating, electricity or plumbing broke down and your rent payment includes any of these utilities, let them know this as well, including how long this happened for. You may be able to negotiate a temporary discount on your utilities payment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have renters insurance and you are considering getting it after the storms, it’s important to mention that most policies come with a 30-day wait period for the benefits to begin — so a policy would not cover damages caused by past storms. Additionally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210318/yes-renters-can-buy-flood-insurance\">some tenants may have to pay higher premiums\u003c/a> due to where they live, how old their home is and even how many floors there are in their building.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I lost food during a blackout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For families who receive CalFresh benefits, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACLs/2019/19-95_ES.pdf\">receive replacement funds on your EBT card (PDF)\u003c/a> if you lost food due to flooding or a blackout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do this, contact the case manager or social worker who’s managing your CalFresh benefits within 10 days of losing your food to let them know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has confirmed with California’s Department of Social Services that this \u003cem>does\u003c/em> include having food spoiled or destroyed due to the winter storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on March 10, 2023\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap] deadly wildfire, flooding and a seemingly endless malaise. Jennifer Porter has found her way through it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago this month, Porter survived the deadly Camp Fire in Paradise, California, but her home, and thousands of others, were turned to ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Porter was lucky enough to drive through the flames that day, she was immediately set on a new, harrowing path: creating a new life, finding a new job and building a new community, all while recovering from trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We checked in with Porter in various stages of her journey to rebuild her life to hear about all the bumps in the road and how she navigated them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Life before the fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just before the Paradise fire started on Nov. 8, 2018, Porter’s life had hit a sweet spot. She was an emergency department nurse at the local hospital and was living in her “dream home.” Her bedroom was “huge,” and her parents and best friend would often visit to enjoy her pool and hot tub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had really good times there,” Porter remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had strong ties in Paradise. When she first got there in 2006, she was a core member at a local Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where she helped coordinate worship services. That’s where she met her ex-husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would sing, and he played violin,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter said she struggled with a group-think mentality at the church. She felt forced into getting married and having a perfect wedding. That marriage didn’t last, and by the time the fire broke out in 2018, she was divorced. The house she lived in was part of a new life she carved out for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving through the flames\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That November day, Porter had just come home from working an overnight shift at the hospital. She decided to sleep on the couch and charge her phone because there were warnings of high winds and a possible power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom called me,” Porter remembers. “She was like, ‘Jenny, you need to pack up your cats, grab… important stuff and get the hell out, now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter didn’t realize how bad it was until she got in her car. Fire crews had stopped traffic on her road to let residents closer to the fire out first. Ash started to fall on them. Then, the wildfire jumped a major thoroughfare and ignited a house on their street. The house exploded — possibly from a propane tank — and sent embers over their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it headed for my house,” Porter remembers. “I watched it go straight for my house, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, there goes my home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the roads were still blocked. Porter and other people in their cars started screaming to let them go. When Porter finally was able to start driving, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw that the people behind her were burning up in their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, I couldn’t process it or something,” Porter said about seeing the horrific tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She kept driving and called her mom to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was screaming: ‘I love you guys. I’m so sorry. I tried. I tried really hard…but I’m not going to make it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her mom told her she had to get out, and Porter kept driving through smoke and flames. It was pitch black outside the car, so she had to drive with her bumper right up against the car in front of her to guide her way out. People were jumping out of their vehicles with their children and pets in their arms. Finally, Porter reached a parking lot 20 miles away where her family was waiting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My little brother saw me, and he came running and gave me a big hug,” Porter remembers. “It was probably one of the best moments of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Jennifer Porter’s home in Paradise before the Camp Fire. Right: Porter’s home after the Camp Fire in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Just after the fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Porter and her parents were close before the fire, but after, they were inseparable. Her parents and her little brother had also lost their homes in the fire, and she was determined to stay with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks after the fire in 2018, the town of Oroville — about 30 minutes south of Paradise — turned a local community center into a makeshift free grocery store. There, evacuees — still sleeping on couches or in their neighbors’ garages — could fill shopping carts with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I first met Porter. She had been washing up in store bathrooms and wearing donated clothes since the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really hard for us to find a place,” she explained to me about trying to find a temporary home for her adult family members and all their pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter had slept wherever she could since the fire. First, it was in her car, with five cats, in a Kmart parking lot. Then her aunt loaned her a trailer, where Porter — 35 years old at the time — slept in the same bed as her parents, packed in with the nine cats and a dog they shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, an animal shelter in Grass Valley put the whole family — and their animals — up. That’s where she was sleeping when I met her. It wasn’t a huge improvement, but she was grateful for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ideal because there’s so many of us,” she said. “We don’t have a kitchen or anything. We just have a room and a bathroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was surprisingly calm and clear-headed for someone in the thick of a disaster. But at the same time, strong emotions would sometimes erupt out of her. Dead bodies were still being identified among the ashes, and she knew some of them from her church. She had intense survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God, I just wish so bad we had time [to save them],” she said as she fought back tears. “We just didn’t, and if I didn’t leave a minute earlier, I would have burned too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six months later\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To this day, the Camp Fire in Paradise is still the most deadly in our state’s recent history. It also destroyed more buildings than any other California wildfire. And at least 30,000 people in and around Paradise lost their homes overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, in the spring of 2019, Porter had learned through conversations with her homeowner’s insurance company and mortgage lender that she was “grossly underinsured” on her home in Paradise. She was told that she would have had to pay to keep her property, so she let the mortgage company auction off her plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had received some insurance money for lost belongings and had bought a used trailer. Her parents had a trailer, too, so they had all moved to an RV community right on the Sacramento River in Los Molinos, a half-hour north of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without knowing where she would be permanently, she said, it was hard to look for a job. In the meantime, living in an RV park on a riverbed presented a new problem: flooding. After one rain storm that spring, water had risen to the third step of her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015035\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Porter’s cats look out the door at flooding in the RV park in Los Molinos where she lived after the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. Right: Flooding at the RV park in Los Molinos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When my mom and I wanted to get to each other’s trailers, we would be walking through a lake. It was insane,” Porter laughed about it later. “It was just like, ‘What’s next, God? What else do you have for me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst the catastrophes, Porter’s family formed even tighter bonds during this time. Her two aunts were there too, and when I visited them one hot spring evening, they were all barbecuing. Her mom, Linda, sat at a picnic bench, scrolling through real estate listings on her phone, looking for places where they could all live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (center) stands with her mother, Linda Porter (right), and a family friend in the RV where she lives in Los Molinos in 2019 after her home burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (left) and her mother, Linda Porter (center), eat dinner outside Linda’s RV in Los Molinos in Spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Porter was laser-focused on finding a new home with her family and getting her career back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like starting over a whole new life,” she said, and “figuring out who I am now. Because who I was is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Family strife\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Later that summer of 2019, Porter and her parents found a house in Red Bluff, farther up the Sacramento River. She got a job as an ER nurse again — this time, at a hospital in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter found that kind of nursing harder than before. She was helping people in the worst moments of their lives while she herself was struggling with PTSD and survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re an ER nurse, you have to put that away because you have to be present for the person that you’re dealing with,” she said. “I just was unable to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was getting help from a psychiatrist. But she said the medications she got during that time actually started her on a new bad road. At one point, she was on five different anxiety and depression meds, and she started experimenting with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you say an antidepressant… or an anti-anxiety med, I’ve probably been on it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she started mixing medications and taking too much of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents were trying to intervene with me and tell me that I needed to back off the medications,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her parents were fighting constantly. Porter was having trouble getting out of bed, and her parents were doing all her household duties, including taking care of their large menagerie of pets. After only a year of living together, Porter and her parents decided they couldn’t do it anymore. Porter moved out, stopped nursing and was back in limbo, picking up waitressing shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew I needed something light. And my whole life before I was a nurse was being a waitress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few years after the fire, Porter was still finding herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wildfires in 2024\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When wildfires started raging this past summer, I wondered about Porter. People in Butte County were being evacuated again because of the Park Fire, which burned more than 400,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I connected with Porter over Zoom and found she was still the look-on-the-bright side person I first met six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had moved to Portola, a town north of Lake Tahoe, near the Nevada border. She still had four of the five cats she escaped Paradise with. She had finally received a victim compensation check from PG&E. And she was almost completely off the medications she started taking after the fire. She was back to nursing, but this time, taking care of the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge change,” she said. “I needed something a little more lightweight, and geriatrics was a good way to get back into it easily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was living alone now, and she had reconciled with her parents, who had moved nearby to be with her. The Park Fire wasn’t threatening them, but other smaller fires in the mountains were. Porter got a warning that she might have to evacuate, and her parents actually did —they came and stayed with her for a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was pretty calm about it all when I talked to her. But when the orange glow came back in the sky, she said she did lose it for a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom says all the time, ‘I don’t know why we moved back into the trees,’” Porter said. “Because it’s always in the back of your mind, is there a fire risk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Moving to Nevada\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some time now, Porter’s been cooking up a plan to get out of California fire country for good. She used some of her insurance money to buy land in Carson City, Nevada. There’s a trailer home on it now, but it’s in bad shape. So, using some money she got from PG&E, she’s tearing it down and putting a new manufactured home on the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met her in Carson City in October 2024, I also saw a new development in her life: her future husband, Johnny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they’re building their home, he’s living among the plywood and moving boxes, and Porter visits on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love four-wheeling, being up in the mountains… We take my Jeep up and go camping,” she said about spending time with her fiancé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter and her fiancé stand in front of their home in Carson City, Nevada, on Oct. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her new neighborhood in Nevada’s capital suburbs isn’t much like Paradise. There aren’t many trees near her house, and it’s so flat you can see the horizon over miles of farmland. She couldn’t be more excited to move into a new permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to set myself back up in a position where I can be a homeowner again and start over has been everything to me,” Porter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s happier now without the medications. She’s studying for another nursing degree, and, at least for a while, she plans to commute to her nursing job in California, where the wages are much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she doesn’t think she’ll miss California or Paradise — too many triggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma never really goes away, she said, and it took her many years to come to terms with that. But she said prayer — for herself and others — has helped her heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to decide that you’re not going to let that traumatic event control who you’re going to become anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that she survived and finding a purpose in that survival, she said, has helped her move to a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to Paul Conley and to Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, where Pauline first covered the aftermath of the Paradise fire.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had really good times there,” Porter remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had strong ties in Paradise. When she first got there in 2006, she was a core member at a local Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where she helped coordinate worship services. That’s where she met her ex-husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would sing, and he played violin,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter said she struggled with a group-think mentality at the church. She felt forced into getting married and having a perfect wedding. That marriage didn’t last, and by the time the fire broke out in 2018, she was divorced. The house she lived in was part of a new life she carved out for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving through the flames\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That November day, Porter had just come home from working an overnight shift at the hospital. She decided to sleep on the couch and charge her phone because there were warnings of high winds and a possible power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom called me,” Porter remembers. “She was like, ‘Jenny, you need to pack up your cats, grab… important stuff and get the hell out, now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter didn’t realize how bad it was until she got in her car. Fire crews had stopped traffic on her road to let residents closer to the fire out first. Ash started to fall on them. Then, the wildfire jumped a major thoroughfare and ignited a house on their street. The house exploded — possibly from a propane tank — and sent embers over their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it headed for my house,” Porter remembers. “I watched it go straight for my house, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, there goes my home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the roads were still blocked. Porter and other people in their cars started screaming to let them go. When Porter finally was able to start driving, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw that the people behind her were burning up in their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, I couldn’t process it or something,” Porter said about seeing the horrific tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She kept driving and called her mom to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was screaming: ‘I love you guys. I’m so sorry. I tried. I tried really hard…but I’m not going to make it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her mom told her she had to get out, and Porter kept driving through smoke and flames. It was pitch black outside the car, so she had to drive with her bumper right up against the car in front of her to guide her way out. People were jumping out of their vehicles with their children and pets in their arms. Finally, Porter reached a parking lot 20 miles away where her family was waiting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My little brother saw me, and he came running and gave me a big hug,” Porter remembers. “It was probably one of the best moments of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015024\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Jennifer Porter’s home in Paradise before the Camp Fire. Right: Porter’s home after the Camp Fire in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Just after the fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Porter and her parents were close before the fire, but after, they were inseparable. Her parents and her little brother had also lost their homes in the fire, and she was determined to stay with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few weeks after the fire in 2018, the town of Oroville — about 30 minutes south of Paradise — turned a local community center into a makeshift free grocery store. There, evacuees — still sleeping on couches or in their neighbors’ garages — could fill shopping carts with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where I first met Porter. She had been washing up in store bathrooms and wearing donated clothes since the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really hard for us to find a place,” she explained to me about trying to find a temporary home for her adult family members and all their pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter had slept wherever she could since the fire. First, it was in her car, with five cats, in a Kmart parking lot. Then her aunt loaned her a trailer, where Porter — 35 years old at the time — slept in the same bed as her parents, packed in with the nine cats and a dog they shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, an animal shelter in Grass Valley put the whole family — and their animals — up. That’s where she was sleeping when I met her. It wasn’t a huge improvement, but she was grateful for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ideal because there’s so many of us,” she said. “We don’t have a kitchen or anything. We just have a room and a bathroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was surprisingly calm and clear-headed for someone in the thick of a disaster. But at the same time, strong emotions would sometimes erupt out of her. Dead bodies were still being identified among the ashes, and she knew some of them from her church. She had intense survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“God, I just wish so bad we had time [to save them],” she said as she fought back tears. “We just didn’t, and if I didn’t leave a minute earlier, I would have burned too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six months later\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To this day, the Camp Fire in Paradise is still the most deadly in our state’s recent history. It also destroyed more buildings than any other California wildfire. And at least 30,000 people in and around Paradise lost their homes overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months later, in the spring of 2019, Porter had learned through conversations with her homeowner’s insurance company and mortgage lender that she was “grossly underinsured” on her home in Paradise. She was told that she would have had to pay to keep her property, so she let the mortgage company auction off her plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had received some insurance money for lost belongings and had bought a used trailer. Her parents had a trailer, too, so they had all moved to an RV community right on the Sacramento River in Los Molinos, a half-hour north of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without knowing where she would be permanently, she said, it was hard to look for a job. In the meantime, living in an RV park on a riverbed presented a new problem: flooding. After one rain storm that spring, water had risen to the third step of her trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015035\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-Diptych3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Porter’s cats look out the door at flooding in the RV park in Los Molinos where she lived after the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. Right: Flooding at the RV park in Los Molinos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Porter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When my mom and I wanted to get to each other’s trailers, we would be walking through a lake. It was insane,” Porter laughed about it later. “It was just like, ‘What’s next, God? What else do you have for me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst the catastrophes, Porter’s family formed even tighter bonds during this time. Her two aunts were there too, and when I visited them one hot spring evening, they were all barbecuing. Her mom, Linda, sat at a picnic bench, scrolling through real estate listings on her phone, looking for places where they could all live together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-03-Porter_LosMolinos.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (center) stands with her mother, Linda Porter (right), and a family friend in the RV where she lives in Los Molinos in 2019 after her home burned in the Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-04-Porter_LosMolinos_grilling.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter (left) and her mother, Linda Porter (center), eat dinner outside Linda’s RV in Los Molinos in Spring 2019. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Porter was laser-focused on finding a new home with her family and getting her career back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like starting over a whole new life,” she said, and “figuring out who I am now. Because who I was is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Family strife\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Later that summer of 2019, Porter and her parents found a house in Red Bluff, farther up the Sacramento River. She got a job as an ER nurse again — this time, at a hospital in Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Porter found that kind of nursing harder than before. She was helping people in the worst moments of their lives while she herself was struggling with PTSD and survivor’s guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re an ER nurse, you have to put that away because you have to be present for the person that you’re dealing with,” she said. “I just was unable to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was getting help from a psychiatrist. But she said the medications she got during that time actually started her on a new bad road. At one point, she was on five different anxiety and depression meds, and she started experimenting with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you say an antidepressant… or an anti-anxiety med, I’ve probably been on it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she started mixing medications and taking too much of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents were trying to intervene with me and tell me that I needed to back off the medications,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her parents were fighting constantly. Porter was having trouble getting out of bed, and her parents were doing all her household duties, including taking care of their large menagerie of pets. After only a year of living together, Porter and her parents decided they couldn’t do it anymore. Porter moved out, stopped nursing and was back in limbo, picking up waitressing shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew I needed something light. And my whole life before I was a nurse was being a waitress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few years after the fire, Porter was still finding herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wildfires in 2024\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When wildfires started raging this past summer, I wondered about Porter. People in Butte County were being evacuated again because of the Park Fire, which burned more than 400,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I connected with Porter over Zoom and found she was still the look-on-the-bright side person I first met six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had moved to Portola, a town north of Lake Tahoe, near the Nevada border. She still had four of the five cats she escaped Paradise with. She had finally received a victim compensation check from PG&E. And she was almost completely off the medications she started taking after the fire. She was back to nursing, but this time, taking care of the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge change,” she said. “I needed something a little more lightweight, and geriatrics was a good way to get back into it easily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was living alone now, and she had reconciled with her parents, who had moved nearby to be with her. The Park Fire wasn’t threatening them, but other smaller fires in the mountains were. Porter got a warning that she might have to evacuate, and her parents actually did —they came and stayed with her for a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was pretty calm about it all when I talked to her. But when the orange glow came back in the sky, she said she did lose it for a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom says all the time, ‘I don’t know why we moved back into the trees,’” Porter said. “Because it’s always in the back of your mind, is there a fire risk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Moving to Nevada\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some time now, Porter’s been cooking up a plan to get out of California fire country for good. She used some of her insurance money to buy land in Carson City, Nevada. There’s a trailer home on it now, but it’s in bad shape. So, using some money she got from PG&E, she’s tearing it down and putting a new manufactured home on the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met her in Carson City in October 2024, I also saw a new development in her life: her future husband, Johnny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they’re building their home, he’s living among the plywood and moving boxes, and Porter visits on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love four-wheeling, being up in the mountains… We take my Jeep up and go camping,” she said about spending time with her fiancé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12015027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-ParadiseFireSurvivor-02-Porter_Johnny_CarsonCity2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Porter and her fiancé stand in front of their home in Carson City, Nevada, on Oct. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Pauline Bartolone/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her new neighborhood in Nevada’s capital suburbs isn’t much like Paradise. There aren’t many trees near her house, and it’s so flat you can see the horizon over miles of farmland. She couldn’t be more excited to move into a new permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to set myself back up in a position where I can be a homeowner again and start over has been everything to me,” Porter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s happier now without the medications. She’s studying for another nursing degree, and, at least for a while, she plans to commute to her nursing job in California, where the wages are much higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she doesn’t think she’ll miss California or Paradise — too many triggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma never really goes away, she said, and it took her many years to come to terms with that. But she said prayer — for herself and others — has helped her heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to decide that you’re not going to let that traumatic event control who you’re going to become anymore,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing that she survived and finding a purpose in that survival, she said, has helped her move to a better place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015275/another-strong-storm-to-slam-california-raising-flood-risk-in-north-bay\">storms continue to pummel Northern California\u003c/a>, unhoused San Franciscans and their advocates fear the city’s aggressive removal of tents and structures in recent months leaves people especially vulnerable to the elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although officials say they won’t do full sweeps in the storms, the city has already removed 2,465 tents and structures between Aug. 1 and Nov. 17, according to the Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates and residents say that hasn’t necessarily translated into fewer people living on the streets. Instead, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000781/sf-encampment-crackdown-gets-tents-but-not-people-off-the-streets-neighbors-say\">people experiencing homelessness have dispersed\u003c/a>, moving to less visible corners of the city with fewer belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeless community members are having their survival gear ripped from them, ensuring that those folks are staying wet,” said Lukas Illa, an organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Healthy Streets Operations Center (HSOC), which coordinates clearing encampments, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/healthy-streets-data-and-information\">conducted more than 240 sweeps since July 1\u003c/a>. During the storms, that team will focus on removing “soiled materials” and making sure sidewalks aren’t blocked, said a spokesperson for the Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A makeshift shelter sits on the sidewalk in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 19, 2024, before San Francisco Public Works employees remove the structure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While that is underway, the city’s Homeless Outreach Team will hand out emergency blankets and ponchos and check unhoused residents for signs of hypothermia, according to a memo the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services (HSH) distributed to providers this week. The city is also opening four temporary drop-in shelters through Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission, said the response seemed contradictory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some wet weather protocols in place to try to address people’s safety needs, but you can see the lack of cohesiveness in the city response,” she said, “that one department would be taking away people’s survival gear and the other would be trying to stand up limited emergency options for people to try to stay dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015294\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Luis Sanchez waits with his belongings near a makeshift shelter he built to be taken to a temporary shelter in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a sweep on Tuesday, before the storm moved in, Jorge Luis Sanchez, 42, took an outreach worker up on his offer of shelter. He had grown tired of being forced to move and build new shelters every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The street’s no good,” Sanchez said in Spanish. “It’s really cold, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took a few belongings from the home made of pallets and tarps he was sharing with a friend before heading to the nearby Division Circle Navigation Center, where he was promised a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014710 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2167671875-1020x702.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most of the people outreach workers approached during Tuesday’s sweeps turned down similar offers. One man said his mental health condition made it untenable for him to sleep near others in a group shelter; another said he’d rather brave the weather than follow shelter rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Nakanishi, HSOC manager, said this scenario is becoming increasingly common. As the city has gotten more aggressive in its crackdown on tent encampments, Nakanishi said people with substance use disorders and serious mental health issues are the ones who most often refuse to come inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the people who don’t want to go in who are left back out here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Aug. 1, police have cited or arrested \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Police-Department-Incident-Reports-2018-to-Present/wg3w-h783/data_preview\">417 people\u003c/a> for lodging without permission. HSOC teams made \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/healthy-streets-data-and-information\">478 shelter placements\u003c/a> in that time, while 1,482 offers were declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Illa, the Coalition on Homelessness organizer, said those who remain outside also have fewer tarps, jackets and other gear to help them weather the storms, adding that people pushed to the fringes will have a harder time making their way to the city’s storm resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/reports/november-2024/interfaith-winter-shelter\">Interfaith Winter Shelter program\u003c/a> isn’t set to open until Nov. 25, but the \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SF_HSH/status/1859653691651043534\">city’s drop-in shelters\u003c/a> this week are Next Door, open to walk-ins from 1:30 p.m. to midnight; the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, which is offering warm meals between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.; MSC-South, open 1 p.m. to midnight; and Sanctuary, open 1:30 p.m. to midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeless community members are having their survival gear ripped from them, ensuring that those folks are staying wet,” said Lukas Illa, an organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Healthy Streets Operations Center (HSOC), which coordinates clearing encampments, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/healthy-streets-data-and-information\">conducted more than 240 sweeps since July 1\u003c/a>. During the storms, that team will focus on removing “soiled materials” and making sure sidewalks aren’t blocked, said a spokesperson for the Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A makeshift shelter sits on the sidewalk in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 19, 2024, before San Francisco Public Works employees remove the structure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While that is underway, the city’s Homeless Outreach Team will hand out emergency blankets and ponchos and check unhoused residents for signs of hypothermia, according to a memo the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Services (HSH) distributed to providers this week. The city is also opening four temporary drop-in shelters through Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission, said the response seemed contradictory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some wet weather protocols in place to try to address people’s safety needs, but you can see the lack of cohesiveness in the city response,” she said, “that one department would be taking away people’s survival gear and the other would be trying to stand up limited emergency options for people to try to stay dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015294\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-36-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Luis Sanchez waits with his belongings near a makeshift shelter he built to be taken to a temporary shelter in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During a sweep on Tuesday, before the storm moved in, Jorge Luis Sanchez, 42, took an outreach worker up on his offer of shelter. He had grown tired of being forced to move and build new shelters every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The street’s no good,” Sanchez said in Spanish. “It’s really cold, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took a few belongings from the home made of pallets and tarps he was sharing with a friend before heading to the nearby Division Circle Navigation Center, where he was promised a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The future’s looking grim for affordable housing projects across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing developers and advocates hung their hopes on Proposition 5, a measure rejected by voters that would have made it easier to raise local funding for affordable housing and public infrastructure projects. Meanwhile, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, no one expects the federal government to dole out more money for subsidized housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t sugarcoat the fact that this is a significant setback,” said Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation at All Home, a Bay Area housing justice advocacy group. “We are running low on public funds for housing. We are facing significant headwinds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing took center stage in state and national elections this November as more Americans feel the pinch of rising rents and a shortage of affordable housing. However, the results of the election have California affordable housing developers concerned that a shortage of public funds will put a stop to some of their projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/meetings/attachments/6021/09a_3_Attachment_B_Bay_Area_Affordable_Housing_Pipeline_Brief_v2.pdf\">May report from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a>, almost 41,000 affordable homes and apartments in the Bay Area are in the pre-development phase, meaning developers still need a certain amount of funding — collectively, about $9.7 billion — to start construction. Without that money, the projects sit idle as other funding sources, sometimes contingent on each other, disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 5 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006445/transcript-proposition-5-would-lower-the-voting-threshold-for-certain-local-bond-measures\">could have unleashed more funding\u003c/a> by lowering the threshold for approving local bond measures for housing and infrastructure from a supermajority of 66.67% to 55%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Karlinsky, research director for the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation, likens the complicated funding structures for affordable housing to a layer cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many different sources of funding for affordable housing at the state level and different departments and parts of the government that control different pieces, and then affordable housing developers kind of have to knit all of them together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karlinsky said there will be increased competition for what funding is still available, while projects that can’t get enough will be pushed further into the future.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013983,news_12012489,news_12007340\"]“We know it’s going to be extremely challenging because it’s been hard enough as it is,” said Noni Ramos, CEO of Housing Trust Silicon Valley, an affordable housing development financing organization. “Now we’re in a position where it’s going to be even harder to do this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defeat of Proposition 5 was a particularly big blow because it was one of the only large-scale funding efforts put to voters after a Bay Area-wide $20 billion housing bond and a statewide, billion-dollar housing bond both failed to get to the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there were some successes at the local level. San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved Measure B, a $390 million bond that includes funding for homeless shelters. Los Angeles voters approved Measure A, a sales tax initiative that would raise an estimated $1.1 billion per year for housing and homelessness efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As proponents and opponents seek to understand why Proposition 5 failed, they agree that the measure’s complicated nature was its biggest setback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When voters don’t understand a measure and how it would impact them, they are more likely to vote against it, according to Mark Baldassare, statewide survey director for the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who put it on the ballot really did not promote what it was in a way that connected the dots for people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents fear that the opposition campaign may have swayed voters at a time when people are concerned about high costs. While Proposition 5 would not have increased taxes, it would have made it easier for bond measures to pass locally, potentially meaning higher property taxes. Opponents said the proposition was “\u003ca href=\"https://reformcalifornia.org/news/no-on-prop-5-save-prop-13-and-block-tax-hikes\">deceptive” and that it would “trick voters into approving the tax-hike measure\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think voters vote for measures that benefit the social good when they feel more flush,” Karlinsky said. “They may not feel like they have anything left over for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Kirsch, a Proposition 5 opponent and the director of the Catalyst Institute for Local Control, an organization focused on local control in housing development, was relieved that voters rejected the measure. 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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates for unhoused San Franciscans are fighting back against an overnight RV parking ban that city transportation officials passed last month, leaving enforcement of the policy on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeal, which the End Poverty Tows Coalition filed \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7013291&GUID=88BA7974-12AC-489B-AA4B-9BBE62C7C372&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=241079\">with the Board of Supervisors on Oct. 29\u003c/a>, argues the ban is an unjust attack on residents who don’t have permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really just not a good policy and not the correct approach,” said Eleana Binder, policy manager for GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice, who filed the appeal on behalf of the coalition. “Especially when we know that we haven’t sufficiently invested in safe parking sites or targeted outreach to people who are living in our views as it stands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a first since the city enacted a \u003ca href=\"https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_transportation/0-0-0-52039#JD_10.1\">process for reviewing\u003c/a> SF Municipal Transportation Authority decisions in 2018, the Board of Supervisors will hear the appeal and decide whether to reverse or affirm the parking policy. The new parking rules were set to go into effect on Nov. 1, but they’re on hold while the process plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA did not respond to requests for comment on the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA’s board approved the parking rules change at a contentious Oct. 1 meeting, allowing the city to tow oversized vehicles if the people living in them turn down offers of shelter, housing or services. Current city law allows RVs to park overnight on certain streets, but under the new policy, large RVs and trailers parked between midnight and 6 a.m. on city streets where signage is posted could get towed. If someone lives inside, city workers would first have to offer shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-proposes-new-city-policy-address-oversized-vehicle-parking-across-san\">proposed the change\u003c/a> as part of her broader effort to crack down on visible homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes as the number of people living in vehicles rises in the city. At last count, 9% of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco lived in vehicles, up from 5% in 2022. Officials say the increase is driven in part by rising family homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its appeal, the coalition — which includes Bay Area Legal Aid, Compass Family Services and the Coalition on Homelessness — argues the rule changes will result in “dire economic hardship for impoverished individuals and families who cannot afford the fees” and disproportionately affect women and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group calls the protections included in the new policy “insufficient and ill-advised, noting there aren’t enough shelter beds even for those sleeping on the streets. “Individuals and families inhabiting RV’s should not be given access to shelter in front of those who are in worse situations,” it wrote in the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1655px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11771351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF.jpg\" alt=\"An RV is parked in Balboa Park up the street from San Francisco's first proposed safe parking lot, where people living in their vehicles would be able to park legally and access services.\" width=\"1655\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF.jpg 1655w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-1020x731.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-1200x860.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1655px) 100vw, 1655px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV is parked in Balboa Park up the street from San Francisco’s first safe parking lot, where people living in their vehicles were able to park legally and access services. San Francisco ran the site from 2019 to 2021. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">the city evicted\u003c/a> an RV community near Lake Merced made up primarily of Latino families established during the pandemic. The community, which included some 50 children, had been in talks with the city about finding a safe parking site for years. That never materialized, and the city began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983146/san-franciscos-new-parking-rules-set-to-displace-rv-community-near-sf-state\">enforcing four-hour parking restrictions\u003c/a> in an effort to force out the RVs before eventually evicting them. Twenty families accepted offers of shelter and housing from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city currently operates a single-sanctioned RV parking site at Candlestick Point in the Bayview, but problems have dogged it since opening in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local neighborhood group tried to block it with a lawsuit, the site’s residents have complained about the living conditions, and a report from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12320995&GUID=059EBD1F-2F09-42E5-816A-E23E32FD85CC\">Budget and Legislative Analyst\u003c/a> deemed it “by far the most expensive homeless response intervention” at an annual cost of $140,000 per RV. The site was intended to house 135 RVs, but PG&E delays establishing power to the site delayed the expansion, driving the high cost.[aside postID=news_12007425 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231017-LakeMercedRVs-009-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future of the site is unclear, but the city \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/RFP-150-Jerrold-Commons.pdf\">plans to open another sanctioned RV parking area\u003c/a> and tiny home community next year, with spots for 20 vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing executive director Shireen McSpadden told the Homeless Oversight Commission in October that the agency is working on a broader RV strategy for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But asked if there’s funding for a safe parking site on the city’s west side, Emily Cohen, deputy director for communications and legislative affairs for HSH, told commissioners that it’s limited. “I’m not sure it’s everything we would need to do it,” she said, adding that the city would continue looking for sites there and elsewhere “because we know there’s a lot of demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA decision review process requires the buy-in of five board members: Supervisors Ahsha Safaí, Aaron Peskin, Shamann Walton, Hillary Ronen and Dean Preston agreed to hear the coalition’s appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is scheduled for the Dec. 10 board meeting, where the group appealing will have a chance to present its case, the SFMTA and other city departments will respond, and the public will have the chance to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors have 60 days from the day the appeal was filed to decide.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA’s board approved the parking rules change at a contentious Oct. 1 meeting, allowing the city to tow oversized vehicles if the people living in them turn down offers of shelter, housing or services. Current city law allows RVs to park overnight on certain streets, but under the new policy, large RVs and trailers parked between midnight and 6 a.m. on city streets where signage is posted could get towed. If someone lives inside, city workers would first have to offer shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-proposes-new-city-policy-address-oversized-vehicle-parking-across-san\">proposed the change\u003c/a> as part of her broader effort to crack down on visible homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes as the number of people living in vehicles rises in the city. At last count, 9% of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco lived in vehicles, up from 5% in 2022. Officials say the increase is driven in part by rising family homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its appeal, the coalition — which includes Bay Area Legal Aid, Compass Family Services and the Coalition on Homelessness — argues the rule changes will result in “dire economic hardship for impoverished individuals and families who cannot afford the fees” and disproportionately affect women and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group calls the protections included in the new policy “insufficient and ill-advised, noting there aren’t enough shelter beds even for those sleeping on the streets. “Individuals and families inhabiting RV’s should not be given access to shelter in front of those who are in worse situations,” it wrote in the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1655px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11771351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF.jpg\" alt=\"An RV is parked in Balboa Park up the street from San Francisco's first proposed safe parking lot, where people living in their vehicles would be able to park legally and access services.\" width=\"1655\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF.jpg 1655w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-1020x731.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RV-Balboa-Park-SF-1200x860.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1655px) 100vw, 1655px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV is parked in Balboa Park up the street from San Francisco’s first safe parking lot, where people living in their vehicles were able to park legally and access services. San Francisco ran the site from 2019 to 2021. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">the city evicted\u003c/a> an RV community near Lake Merced made up primarily of Latino families established during the pandemic. The community, which included some 50 children, had been in talks with the city about finding a safe parking site for years. That never materialized, and the city began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983146/san-franciscos-new-parking-rules-set-to-displace-rv-community-near-sf-state\">enforcing four-hour parking restrictions\u003c/a> in an effort to force out the RVs before eventually evicting them. Twenty families accepted offers of shelter and housing from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city currently operates a single-sanctioned RV parking site at Candlestick Point in the Bayview, but problems have dogged it since opening in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local neighborhood group tried to block it with a lawsuit, the site’s residents have complained about the living conditions, and a report from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12320995&GUID=059EBD1F-2F09-42E5-816A-E23E32FD85CC\">Budget and Legislative Analyst\u003c/a> deemed it “by far the most expensive homeless response intervention” at an annual cost of $140,000 per RV. The site was intended to house 135 RVs, but PG&E delays establishing power to the site delayed the expansion, driving the high cost.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Advocates for unhoused residents in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> are reckoning with the limits of their famously progressive city’s liberalism after council members Tuesday night dismissed a resolution to oppose the “criminalization of poverty and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution from the city’s Peace and Justice Commission called on Berkeley to rebuke both Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-Encampments-EO-7-24.pdf\">July executive order\u003c/a> urging cities to clear encampments and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">June Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> that granted cities greater power to police homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Champions of the measure said it would have reined in Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">newly aggressive approach\u003c/a> to policing homelessness, though city officials disagreed with their assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-11-12%20Item%2018b%20Companion%20Report%20Resolution%20Opposing.pdf\">arguing existing policy is already consistent with this approach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council took no action on the resolution, marking the second time in five months that Berkeley leaders opted not to take a stand against punitive strategies to address homelessness. It followed a resolution this summer from \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/UrgentItem-GrantsPass.pdf\">Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra\u003c/a> calling for a similar action that was also scuttled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For advocates, however, Tuesday’s decision took on new meaning after the election of former President Donald Trump, as several invoked what they expected to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013983/how-another-trump-presidency-could-impact-housing-in-california\">draconian federal homelessness agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment under a freeway overpass in Berkeley on March 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George Lippman, vice chair of the Peace and Justice Commission, which advises the City Council on social justice issues, said the resolution was a “referendum on who we are and our values,” adding the city “should take a moral stance of upholding a stronger standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t end after Election Day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Berkeley surprised observers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">by joining the growing list\u003c/a> of cities embracing stronger enforcement tools to crack down on encampments in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling. Some two dozen cities and counties across the state have enacted or begun enforcing anti-camping laws, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/09/23/sheng-thao-homeless-camps-order-grants-pass/\">Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25291291-9_10_2024-clk-resolution-city-council-71513-encampment-policy-resolution-to-promote-healthy-and-safe-neighborhoods?responsive=1&title=1\">Berkeley’s new policy\u003c/a>, workers will continue to offer shelter “whenever practicable” before closing encampments, but there are now several exceptions. City workers can clear tents and cite and arrest unhoused people if an encampment is determined to be a health or fire hazard, public nuisance, too close to traffic or near a construction zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, assistant to the city manager, emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-10-7%20Implementation%20of%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20New%20Encampment%20Policy.pdf\">the policy’s exceptions are narrow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013983 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-2176495054-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a high bar,” he said. “We need to get them out of a dangerous situation now, or we need to accommodate some urgent operations or construction schedule now. And sometimes it’s just as simple as asking them and working with them to move across the street to accommodate that while we continue the hard work of getting them connected to resources that will end their homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Radu said, the city has twice taken advantage of its new authority to ask people to move without offering shelter: to clear Civic Center Park for a construction project and to remove someone encamped on a center median on University Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radu, who manages the division that oversees the city’s homeless response team, said no one was cited or arrested during the operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not interested in criminalizing homelessness,” he said. “We want to end it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates like attorney Andrea Henson argue that the policy’s exceptions are overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not narrow exceptions,” she said. “To be in proximity to traffic — every homeless encampment is in proximity to traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henson said unhoused residents are rattled by the shift toward more aggressive enforcement at the state and local level, and Trump’s election has only exacerbated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are really scared,” she said. “They’re very scared because of what’s happening, because of the election, because of the language that they’re hearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was among those who invoked the incoming federal administration at the City Council meeting and urged leaders to take a stand against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a decision to make here in Berkeley, and it’s the same decision that people need to make in this country,” she said. “Either you’re with our new government, which is quickly becoming very fascist … or you take a firm stand. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council took no action on the resolution, marking the second time in five months that Berkeley leaders opted not to take a stand against punitive strategies to address homelessness. It followed a resolution this summer from \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/UrgentItem-GrantsPass.pdf\">Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra\u003c/a> calling for a similar action that was also scuttled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For advocates, however, Tuesday’s decision took on new meaning after the election of former President Donald Trump, as several invoked what they expected to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013983/how-another-trump-presidency-could-impact-housing-in-california\">draconian federal homelessness agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/011_KQED_Berkeley_Homelessness_03192020_9408_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment under a freeway overpass in Berkeley on March 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George Lippman, vice chair of the Peace and Justice Commission, which advises the City Council on social justice issues, said the resolution was a “referendum on who we are and our values,” adding the city “should take a moral stance of upholding a stronger standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t end after Election Day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Berkeley surprised observers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">by joining the growing list\u003c/a> of cities embracing stronger enforcement tools to crack down on encampments in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling. Some two dozen cities and counties across the state have enacted or begun enforcing anti-camping laws, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/09/23/sheng-thao-homeless-camps-order-grants-pass/\">Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25291291-9_10_2024-clk-resolution-city-council-71513-encampment-policy-resolution-to-promote-healthy-and-safe-neighborhoods?responsive=1&title=1\">Berkeley’s new policy\u003c/a>, workers will continue to offer shelter “whenever practicable” before closing encampments, but there are now several exceptions. City workers can clear tents and cite and arrest unhoused people if an encampment is determined to be a health or fire hazard, public nuisance, too close to traffic or near a construction zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Radu, assistant to the city manager, emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-10-7%20Implementation%20of%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20New%20Encampment%20Policy.pdf\">the policy’s exceptions are narrow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously high home prices, rents and rates of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump promised to fix the country’s growing housing affordability crisis by slashing mortgage rates, reducing regulations and opening federal land for housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to his first term when housing policy was largely absent from either major candidate’s presidential platforms. This time around, that’s changed, and Trump has recognized housing affordability is a problem, said Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the policy organization the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the Trump administration has four years to fulfill a promise to make housing more affordable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, just how that happens is a point of concern among many California lawmakers, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">to call for a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to strategize ways to counteract the more harmful aspects of Trump’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we going to strengthen — from a legal perspective, as well as a policy perspective — the policies that are in place in California,” state Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, policymakers in California are wrestling with Democrats’ losses this election — not just nationally but also inside California. Two statewide ballot measures that would have directly helped residents better afford housing — by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024\">raising money for new affordable housing\u003c/a> and allowing local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a> — both failed. A third measure, which would raise \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024\">the minimum wage\u003c/a>, also \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">appeared headed toward defeat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us not to have approved propositions that could have supported the people that we say we care about — I think we’re in an identity crisis,” said Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services. “We say one thing, but we’re actually doing something completely different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how other California housing advocates are thinking about \u003ca href=\"#A\">housing supply\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#B\">federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#C\">homelessness\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Housing supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State officials have tasked cities with planning for about 2.5 million new homes in their respective jurisdictions by 2030. But, the number of new homes and apartments that can actually get built is determined by a number of factors; two of the most important are the cost of construction and the amount of red tape developers have to cut through before they can actually build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, said the federal government’s role in local policymaking is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mostly about some tax policies and funding mechanisms, but not much else,” he said. “What this really points back to is that the role of the state Legislature is even more important now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawmakers in California have made significant strides in passing bills to encourage more housing development, many cities have upheld policies or enacted new ones to slow growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s housing department have launched several lawsuits against cities in recent years — including Elk Grove, Huntington Beach, Portola, and most recently, the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-takes-action-against-norwalk-its-unlawful-shelter-ban\">Norwalk\u003c/a> — for violating state housing laws and preventing new housing from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely outcome [of the Trump presidency] is slightly worse than the status quo,” Lewis said. “But even that won’t change if the cities won’t reduce their barriers to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the cost of constructing housing, however, Trump’s promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013409/immigrant-advocates-anticipate-fight-against-trump-border-policies\">crack down on illegal immigration\u003c/a>, if realized, could grind “the construction industry to a halt,” said Russell Lowery, executive director for the California Rental Housing Association. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf\">23% of the construction industry nationally (PDF)\u003c/a> is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have a negative impact on supply no matter what,” he said. “If you don’t have people who can build the product, you’re not going to increase supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs could also make the cost of construction materials more expensive, Lowery said. Trump promised to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.html\">blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports\u003c/a>, which could raise the cost of imported construction supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-our-insane-construction-materials-costs\">2018 report from the Cato Institute\u003c/a>, a libertarian think tank, the cost of construction materials increased dramatically after Trump instituted tariffs and trade restrictions during his first term in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it is still unknown how Trump’s policies will shape the housing supply. Lowery said it could take years, perhaps after Trump has left office, to determine the effect his administration had on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes that happen at the federal level take time to change the behavior and really impact the rental market in individual states, certainly in a state as large as California,” he said. “It took years to get us into this crisis, and it’s going to take — no matter who is in charge — years to get out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The extent to which a second Trump administration can force its agenda on California remains to be seen, but affordable housing and homelessness policy experts say federal funding could be used as both a carrot and a stick to influence state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts listed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) budget as top concerns. During Trump’s first term, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income\">slashing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/president-trump-proposes-drastic-cuts-affordable-housing-programs\">federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/fiscal-year-2024-budget-sees-significant-increase-huds-native-american-programs\">\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Congress rebuffed some of those requests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. With Republicans likely to take control of Congress this year, that guardrail is less secure, said Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could probably move these things now under a new Congress that is just as radically motivated as he is,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Rapport, California state policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is most worried about efforts to defund rental subsidy programs for lower-income people, known as Housing Choice Vouchers or Section 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts to those programs lead directly to more people falling into homelessness,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/the-rise-of-homelessness-in-the-1980s#:~:text=The%20second%20key%20event%20was,to%20curtail%20them%20were%20introduced\">citing evidence\u003c/a> that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/proposed-cuts-public-housing-threaten-repeat-1980s-housing-crisis\">rise of\u003c/a> mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa127.pdf\">homelessness\u003c/a> in the ’80s corresponded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#:~:text=The%20recession%20of%20the%201980s,in%201990)%20and%20in%20subsidized\">major cuts to HUD programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that’s one area where the state could step in to help mitigate the impacts of potentially reduced federal funding. Rapport agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, we will see significant increases in homelessness for sure,” she said, though she acknowledged the state’s budget deficit presents a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-administrations-proposed-mixed-status-housing-rule-another-form-family\">previously endorsed\u003c/a> calls for the eviction of all noncitizens, including those in mixed-status families, from federally subsidized housing, a policy proposal that also appears in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-15.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">900-page policy playbook\u003c/a> from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy document advocates for doing away with federal commitments to the \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/\">Housing First\u003c/a> approach to homelessness, which prioritizes permanent housing and supportive services. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">disavowed the agenda\u003c/a> despite the fact that many of its authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">served in his first administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the driver of what does work in California,” said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “It’s partially because of California’s commitment to Housing First that the state-funded [Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program] \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.business.consumer.services.and.housing.agency/viz/HHAPReport/Overview\">has made 40,000 permanent housing placements\u003c/a> since the beginning of 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Republican-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23504323/housing-first-homelessness-houston-homes\">backlash against Housing First\u003c/a> in recent years, championed most fervently \u003ca href=\"https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/\">by the Cicero Institute\u003c/a>, has helped bring about the rise of punitive approaches to dealing with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first-term rhetoric and promises for a continuation of those policies point to an extreme agenda, advocates for people experiencing homelessness said, but one which they say mirrors an anti-homeless approach some state and local leaders in California have already embraced.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12013909,news_12012553,news_12012489\"]“We already see it manifesting in cities across California, and the new administration is just going to supercharge it,” said Eric Tars, senior policy director for the National Homelessness Law Center. “We see the next four years as posing a real threat to the rights of homeless people, and that will likely cause a severe growth of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first term, Trump repeatedly disparaged California over its homelessness crisis, calling it “a disgrace to the nation,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/10/trump-pushing-major-crackdown-homeless-camps-california-with-aides-discussing-moving-residents-government-backed-facilities/\">pushed for a crackdown on homeless encampments\u003c/a> in the state. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/02/trump_we_may_intercede_on_homelessness_crisis_in_california.html\">floated taking unilateral action\u003c/a> on homelessness in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and aides reportedly discussed moving people living on the streets into government facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s built on that foundation with \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-the-nightmare-of-the-homeless-drug-addicts-and-dangerously-deranged\">promises\u003c/a> to relocate houseless people to “tent cities,” with doctors and social workers on site and institutionalize those with severe mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has also vowed to divert money spent aiding Ukraine and on “shelter and transport of illegal aliens” to \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-ending-veteran-homelessness-in-america\">addressing homelessness\u003c/a>. He’s said he would “ban urban camping wherever possible” and have violators arrested unless they accept drug treatment or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court removed a significant hurdle to implementing that vision earlier this summer when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">gave cities the green light\u003c/a> to enforce camping bans regardless of whether or not they have shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, jurisdictions across California have passed new anti-camping ordinances, and Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">pressured local officials\u003c/a> to seize the opportunity to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, senior policy analyst and advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, wants to see the state push back against a Trump 2.0 agenda, which she calls an “existential threat” to people living on the streets, with a “strong and unequivocal commitment for equal rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees little appetite for that now among elected leaders who’ve taken an increasingly aggressive approach to the crisis but hopes the political calculus could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could represent a turning point for policy in California if the Newsom administration and local governments are viewed as following in lockstep with a Trump administration,” she said. “It could be a wake-up call and an opportunity to pivot away from Trump-like policies and move in a direction that is effective and caring and nonviolent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, California housing advocates are bracing for how a second term could impact the state’s notoriously high home prices, rents and rates of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump promised to fix the country’s growing housing affordability crisis by slashing mortgage rates, reducing regulations and opening federal land for housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to his first term when housing policy was largely absent from either major candidate’s presidential platforms. This time around, that’s changed, and Trump has recognized housing affordability is a problem, said Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the policy organization the California Housing Partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the Trump administration has four years to fulfill a promise to make housing more affordable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, just how that happens is a point of concern among many California lawmakers, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier last week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013535/california-and-the-bay-area-took-on-trump-before-theyre-ready-to-do-it-again\">to call for a special session\u003c/a> of the Legislature to strategize ways to counteract the more harmful aspects of Trump’s proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we going to strengthen — from a legal perspective, as well as a policy perspective — the policies that are in place in California,” state Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, policymakers in California are wrestling with Democrats’ losses this election — not just nationally but also inside California. Two statewide ballot measures that would have directly helped residents better afford housing — by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=5&year=2024\">raising money for new affordable housing\u003c/a> and allowing local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024\">strengthen tenant protections\u003c/a> — both failed. A third measure, which would raise \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=32&year=2024\">the minimum wage\u003c/a>, also \u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">appeared headed toward defeat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us not to have approved propositions that could have supported the people that we say we care about — I think we’re in an identity crisis,” said Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services. “We say one thing, but we’re actually doing something completely different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how other California housing advocates are thinking about \u003ca href=\"#A\">housing supply\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#B\">federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#C\">homelessness\u003c/a> under a second Trump term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Housing supply\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State officials have tasked cities with planning for about 2.5 million new homes in their respective jurisdictions by 2030. But, the number of new homes and apartments that can actually get built is determined by a number of factors; two of the most important are the cost of construction and the amount of red tape developers have to cut through before they can actually build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY, said the federal government’s role in local policymaking is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mostly about some tax policies and funding mechanisms, but not much else,” he said. “What this really points back to is that the role of the state Legislature is even more important now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While lawmakers in California have made significant strides in passing bills to encourage more housing development, many cities have upheld policies or enacted new ones to slow growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s housing department have launched several lawsuits against cities in recent years — including Elk Grove, Huntington Beach, Portola, and most recently, the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/about-hcd/newsroom/governor-newsom-takes-action-against-norwalk-its-unlawful-shelter-ban\">Norwalk\u003c/a> — for violating state housing laws and preventing new housing from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely outcome [of the Trump presidency] is slightly worse than the status quo,” Lewis said. “But even that won’t change if the cities won’t reduce their barriers to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the cost of constructing housing, however, Trump’s promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013409/immigrant-advocates-anticipate-fight-against-trump-border-policies\">crack down on illegal immigration\u003c/a>, if realized, could grind “the construction industry to a halt,” said Russell Lowery, executive director for the California Rental Housing Association. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf\">23% of the construction industry nationally (PDF)\u003c/a> is made up of undocumented immigrant workers, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have a negative impact on supply no matter what,” he said. “If you don’t have people who can build the product, you’re not going to increase supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs could also make the cost of construction materials more expensive, Lowery said. Trump promised to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-trade-policies-will-fuel-freight-rates-consumers-pay-price.html\">blanket tariffs of 10% to 20% on all imports\u003c/a>, which could raise the cost of imported construction supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/how-us-trade-policy-contributes-our-insane-construction-materials-costs\">2018 report from the Cato Institute\u003c/a>, a libertarian think tank, the cost of construction materials increased dramatically after Trump instituted tariffs and trade restrictions during his first term in the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it is still unknown how Trump’s policies will shape the housing supply. Lowery said it could take years, perhaps after Trump has left office, to determine the effect his administration had on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The changes that happen at the federal level take time to change the behavior and really impact the rental market in individual states, certainly in a state as large as California,” he said. “It took years to get us into this crisis, and it’s going to take — no matter who is in charge — years to get out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Federal funding for affordable housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The extent to which a second Trump administration can force its agenda on California remains to be seen, but affordable housing and homelessness policy experts say federal funding could be used as both a carrot and a stick to influence state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts listed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) budget as top concerns. During Trump’s first term, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income\">slashing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/president-trump-proposes-drastic-cuts-affordable-housing-programs\">federal funding\u003c/a> for affordable housing, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/fiscal-year-2024-budget-sees-significant-increase-huds-native-american-programs\">\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Congress rebuffed some of those requests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. With Republicans likely to take control of Congress this year, that guardrail is less secure, said Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could probably move these things now under a new Congress that is just as radically motivated as he is,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharon Rapport, California state policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is most worried about efforts to defund rental subsidy programs for lower-income people, known as Housing Choice Vouchers or Section 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts to those programs lead directly to more people falling into homelessness,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/the-rise-of-homelessness-in-the-1980s#:~:text=The%20second%20key%20event%20was,to%20curtail%20them%20were%20introduced\">citing evidence\u003c/a> that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/proposed-cuts-public-housing-threaten-repeat-1980s-housing-crisis\">rise of\u003c/a> mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa127.pdf\">homelessness\u003c/a> in the ’80s corresponded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#:~:text=The%20recession%20of%20the%201980s,in%201990)%20and%20in%20subsidized\">major cuts to HUD programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said that’s one area where the state could step in to help mitigate the impacts of potentially reduced federal funding. Rapport agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise, we will see significant increases in homelessness for sure,” she said, though she acknowledged the state’s budget deficit presents a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-administrations-proposed-mixed-status-housing-rule-another-form-family\">previously endorsed\u003c/a> calls for the eviction of all noncitizens, including those in mixed-status families, from federally subsidized housing, a policy proposal that also appears in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-15.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">900-page policy playbook\u003c/a> from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy document advocates for doing away with federal commitments to the \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/\">Housing First\u003c/a> approach to homelessness, which prioritizes permanent housing and supportive services. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html\">disavowed the agenda\u003c/a> despite the fact that many of its authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/22/us/politics/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation.html\">served in his first administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the driver of what does work in California,” said Alex Visotzky, senior California policy fellow at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “It’s partially because of California’s commitment to Housing First that the state-funded [Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program] \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.business.consumer.services.and.housing.agency/viz/HHAPReport/Overview\">has made 40,000 permanent housing placements\u003c/a> since the beginning of 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Republican-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23504323/housing-first-homelessness-houston-homes\">backlash against Housing First\u003c/a> in recent years, championed most fervently \u003ca href=\"https://ciceroinstitute.org/research/housing-first-is-a-failure/\">by the Cicero Institute\u003c/a>, has helped bring about the rise of punitive approaches to dealing with homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first-term rhetoric and promises for a continuation of those policies point to an extreme agenda, advocates for people experiencing homelessness said, but one which they say mirrors an anti-homeless approach some state and local leaders in California have already embraced.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And now, former president Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris opens the door to massive changes in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5164531/deportations-local-police-sheriff-trump-border-immigrants\">immigration\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013256/how-health-care-could-change-under-the-new-trump-administration\">health care\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181327/trump-election-economy-tariffs-deportations\">national security and economic policy\u003c/a> as Trump has vowed to take the country in a radically different direction from the last four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">California’s leaders have vowed to push back against the incoming administration in court\u003c/a>, but many residents nonetheless remain anxious that the sweeping changes Trump has promised could directly affect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"#find-legal-aid-bay-area\">\u003cstrong>Where can I find free legal aid in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Many folks are feeling vulnerable and insecure about how they might fit into this country at this moment,” said Cynthia Chagolla, chief program officer at Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, which provides free legal services to low- and moderate-income families in Santa Clara County. She said her team is preparing for what they expect is a higher demand for their services during the new administration, as folks respond to changes in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Irrespective of the outcome of the presidential election, individuals are still going to be entitled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/equality/due-process-equal-protection-and-disenfranchisement/\">due process\u003c/a>,” Chagolla said. “We want to make sure that folks know, should they receive any kind of adverse court papers … who to contact locally if they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley is one of the several organizations in the Bay Area that offer free legal aid: legal advice and representation, provided at no cost, to people who cannot afford to hire a private attorney. And there are dozens of different situations when someone may need legal assistance, not just in a criminal proceeding. For example, if you received an eviction notice from their landlord and need to know what your rights are; if you are applying for a change in your immigration status; or even if you qualify for certain public benefits but aren’t receiving what you’re entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to find out more about what legal aid services are available in the Bay Area, who qualifies for free legal aid and how to best prepare for a meeting with a legal aid office.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is legal aid different from using a private law firm?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A legal aid organization is not the same thing as a private law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private law firms charge clients fees in exchange for legal counsel and representation, a legal aid organization provides legal representation at no charge — but only for individuals and families who meet the eligibility requirements, which are usually based on income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are licensed attorneys with years of experience but we do not charge a dime for our services,” said Carolina Martín Ramos, executive director of La Raza Centro Legal, a legal aid and advocacy organization that has worked for decades in San Francisco’s Mission District. Martín Ramos adds that, from what she has seen, private attorneys can charge a few hundred dollars an hour. But if someone qualifies to receive services from La Raza Centro Legal, they wouldn’t have to worry about paying any attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where folks might have to pay something, it would be a government fee,” Martín Ramos said, “So, for instance, in the context of immigration law, if you’re applying for your legal permanent residency or citizenship, the federal government will have a filing fee that has to be paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can a legal aid group help me with?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal world is vast and complex, which is why many attorneys focus on a specific type of law. Legal aid organizations also specialize in specific areas, and one group may not be able to support your needs if it falls out of their scope — so check their website or give them a call first to make sure they are able to respond to your particular situation. Below are examples of different services offered by legal aid groups that KQED spoke with in the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is legal assistance for tenants facing eviction proceedings. Some groups, like the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, also focus on supporting clients if they are experiencing poor housing conditions, like infestations or electrical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services that we provide in the housing team vary from just offering advice and counsel or general information,” Chagolla said, “and then can extend up all the way through our full scope of representation, where we’re ultimately walking with tenants in court and representing tenants in court as their attorneys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martín Ramos of La Raza Centro Legal said the immigration services her organization offers can be placed into two categories: affirmative legal aid and defensive legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affirmative immigration program,” she explained, “offers services that are outside of the immigration court, outside the adversarial context, where people can apply for legal permanent residency or they can apply for citizenship and other types of immigration benefits, like a U or T visa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorneys give free consultations to immigrants during a Know Your Rights event in Los Angeles, Calif. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Defensive immigration, on the other hand, deals with deportation proceedings. If deportations are scaled up during the next administration, Martín Ramos said that there is a network of legal aid groups already in place ready to respond to the needs of the region’s undocumented community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those rapid response networks have not gone away, and will pick up and do what we did before, if we have to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consumer rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), based in Berkeley, is one of the few legal aid groups in California that provides consumer protection services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramon Becerra Alcantar, EBCLC’s director of operations, said their consumer justice program provides “hands-on assistance and representation” on a variety of consumer issues, “including debt collection defense, student loans, car fraud, predatory lending and consumer scams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Youth services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and EBCLC have teams that focus on serving kids and teenagers. “Issues range from some limited immigration matters, some school discipline or special education matters,” said the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley’s Chagolla. “We also represent children who are in dependency proceedings in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of those cases come to us by either direct referral from external partners, stakeholders or come to us through the court,” Chagolla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers’ rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of legal aid usually covers issues of wage theft, retaliation, and workplace discrimination. In many instances, you can also reach out with questions if there is something happening at work that you aren’t sure if it goes against the law but want to talk to an expert about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has a series of guides that cover many of the rights and protections California workers have available now, regardless of immigration status, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992472/these-california-cities-just-raised-the-minimum-wage-make-sure-youre-getting-paid-the-right-amount\">What to do if your employer is paying you less than the minimum wage.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During a heat wave, what protections are available for you if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999014/working-inside-during-a-heat-wave-what-to-know-about-californias-new-protections\">you work indoors\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">outdoors\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you are a farmworker, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958506/guide-unsafe-working-conditions-employer-retaliation-and-worker-protections\">what do you do if your employer fires you or cuts your hours after you speak out against unsafe working conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health and public benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area involves making sure patients receive the treatment they need, which could involve negotiating with health care providers or insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chagolla said that the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley also represents individuals who are on federal or state public benefits, but who are “not getting the full amount or they have an overpayment notice from the state or federal agency saying they owe money”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looking at documents. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How can I best prepare for a meeting with a legal aid office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even just thinking about courts and lawyers can be pretty overwhelming, especially if you are already in a high-pressure situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are things you can do to help you feel more prepared — and, crucially, to make the most of the time you have talking to a legal aid organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, try to have all the documents related to your situation in one place so you can easily share them when talking to an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This may include court documents, letters, eviction notices, applications, case numbers,” said Becerra Alcantar of EBCLC. “Stuff like that will allow our team to better help them, especially if it’s an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if you don’t have all your documents on hand, that’s OK, Chagolla said. “For example, if your landlord served you a notice to pay rent or quit, but you no longer have a copy of the document,” she said. “You can still call us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anyone walking away thinking if they don’t have paperwork that they can’t call us,” Chagolla said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"kqed-guides\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to think about: a timeline of key events relating to your situation. For example, if you are seeking immigration help, knowing the dates of when you came into the U.S., and if there were any changes to your immigration status since then and when, can make things a lot easier, Martín Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more logistical tip: make sure you have access to an email account so that an attorney can quickly share important updates about your situation. If you don’t have an email account, or you only have access to a shared email, you can \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en\">make a new one for free using tools like Gmail.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’re able to talk to an attorney, Martín Ramos strongly recommends that you are 100% honest with your attorney, to give them the full picture without holding anything back. “You are protected by attorney-client privilege,” she said. “An attorney could lose their license if they don’t respect your privacy or confidentiality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she stressed, let your attorney know when you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> understand something they’ve said, or about any aspect of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can ask the attorney or legal staff to slow down, to repeat things, to tell them you don’t understand and to explain things better,” Martín Ramos said. “Even with your own attorney, you have to be your own advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"find-legal-aid-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Where to find free legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The organizations KQED spoke to for this story confirmed that the best way to get in contact with them is over the phone, but some also offer walk-in services. When talking to representatives from these organizations, make sure to check in about the income eligibility requirements for the services you are looking for, as each organization has different guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/\">\u003cem>La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Besides immigration legal aid, La Raza Centro Legal also has teams that serve the specific needs of youth and elders. You can make an appointment by calling 415-575-3500 or emailing pilar@lrcl.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">\u003cem>Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> You can call 510-437-1554 or email the team at \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@centrolegal.org\">info@centrolegal.org\u003c/a>. The center also offers several remote legal clinics covering workers’, immigrants’ and tenants’ rights each month. To register, call ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/get-help\">\u003cem>Asian Law Caucus (ALC)\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: The ALC offers legal aid services on immigration, tenant and workers’ rights issues, with interpretation services available in over 200 languages, including Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. 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But if someone qualifies to receive services from La Raza Centro Legal, they wouldn’t have to worry about paying any attorney fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where folks might have to pay something, it would be a government fee,” Martín Ramos said, “So, for instance, in the context of immigration law, if you’re applying for your legal permanent residency or citizenship, the federal government will have a filing fee that has to be paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can a legal aid group help me with?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal world is vast and complex, which is why many attorneys focus on a specific type of law. Legal aid organizations also specialize in specific areas, and one group may not be able to support your needs if it falls out of their scope — so check their website or give them a call first to make sure they are able to respond to your particular situation. Below are examples of different services offered by legal aid groups that KQED spoke with in the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is legal assistance for tenants facing eviction proceedings. Some groups, like the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, also focus on supporting clients if they are experiencing poor housing conditions, like infestations or electrical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services that we provide in the housing team vary from just offering advice and counsel or general information,” Chagolla said, “and then can extend up all the way through our full scope of representation, where we’re ultimately walking with tenants in court and representing tenants in court as their attorneys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martín Ramos of La Raza Centro Legal said the immigration services her organization offers can be placed into two categories: affirmative legal aid and defensive legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affirmative immigration program,” she explained, “offers services that are outside of the immigration court, outside the adversarial context, where people can apply for legal permanent residency or they can apply for citizenship and other types of immigration benefits, like a U or T visa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-84047778-1-edited-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorneys give free consultations to immigrants during a Know Your Rights event in Los Angeles, Calif. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Defensive immigration, on the other hand, deals with deportation proceedings. If deportations are scaled up during the next administration, Martín Ramos said that there is a network of legal aid groups already in place ready to respond to the needs of the region’s undocumented community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those rapid response networks have not gone away, and will pick up and do what we did before, if we have to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consumer rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), based in Berkeley, is one of the few legal aid groups in California that provides consumer protection services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramon Becerra Alcantar, EBCLC’s director of operations, said their consumer justice program provides “hands-on assistance and representation” on a variety of consumer issues, “including debt collection defense, student loans, car fraud, predatory lending and consumer scams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Youth services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and EBCLC have teams that focus on serving kids and teenagers. “Issues range from some limited immigration matters, some school discipline or special education matters,” said the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley’s Chagolla. “We also represent children who are in dependency proceedings in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of those cases come to us by either direct referral from external partners, stakeholders or come to us through the court,” Chagolla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers’ rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of legal aid usually covers issues of wage theft, retaliation, and workplace discrimination. In many instances, you can also reach out with questions if there is something happening at work that you aren’t sure if it goes against the law but want to talk to an expert about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has a series of guides that cover many of the rights and protections California workers have available now, regardless of immigration status, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992472/these-california-cities-just-raised-the-minimum-wage-make-sure-youre-getting-paid-the-right-amount\">What to do if your employer is paying you less than the minimum wage.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During a heat wave, what protections are available for you if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999014/working-inside-during-a-heat-wave-what-to-know-about-californias-new-protections\">you work indoors\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886628/feeling-the-heat-how-workers-can-advocate-for-safer-working-conditions-under-the-sun\">outdoors\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you are a farmworker, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958506/guide-unsafe-working-conditions-employer-retaliation-and-worker-protections\">what do you do if your employer fires you or cuts your hours after you speak out against unsafe working conditions\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health and public benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area involves making sure patients receive the treatment they need, which could involve negotiating with health care providers or insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chagolla said that the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley also represents individuals who are on federal or state public benefits, but who are “not getting the full amount or they have an overpayment notice from the state or federal agency saying they owe money”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1403824678-edited-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looking at documents. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How can I best prepare for a meeting with a legal aid office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even just thinking about courts and lawyers can be pretty overwhelming, especially if you are already in a high-pressure situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are things you can do to help you feel more prepared — and, crucially, to make the most of the time you have talking to a legal aid organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, try to have all the documents related to your situation in one place so you can easily share them when talking to an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This may include court documents, letters, eviction notices, applications, case numbers,” said Becerra Alcantar of EBCLC. “Stuff like that will allow our team to better help them, especially if it’s an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if you don’t have all your documents on hand, that’s OK, Chagolla said. “For example, if your landlord served you a notice to pay rent or quit, but you no longer have a copy of the document,” she said. “You can still call us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want anyone walking away thinking if they don’t have paperwork that they can’t call us,” Chagolla said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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If you don’t have an email account, or you only have access to a shared email, you can \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en\">make a new one for free using tools like Gmail.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’re able to talk to an attorney, Martín Ramos strongly recommends that you are 100% honest with your attorney, to give them the full picture without holding anything back. “You are protected by attorney-client privilege,” she said. “An attorney could lose their license if they don’t respect your privacy or confidentiality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she stressed, let your attorney know when you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> understand something they’ve said, or about any aspect of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can ask the attorney or legal staff to slow down, to repeat things, to tell them you don’t understand and to explain things better,” Martín Ramos said. “Even with your own attorney, you have to be your own advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"find-legal-aid-bay-area\">\u003c/a>Where to find free legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The organizations KQED spoke to for this story confirmed that the best way to get in contact with them is over the phone, but some also offer walk-in services. When talking to representatives from these organizations, make sure to check in about the income eligibility requirements for the services you are looking for, as each organization has different guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/\">\u003cem>La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Besides immigration legal aid, La Raza Centro Legal also has teams that serve the specific needs of youth and elders. You can make an appointment by calling 415-575-3500 or emailing pilar@lrcl.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">\u003cem>Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> You can call 510-437-1554 or email the team at \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@centrolegal.org\">info@centrolegal.org\u003c/a>. The center also offers several remote legal clinics covering workers’, immigrants’ and tenants’ rights each month. To register, call ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/get-help\">\u003cem>Asian Law Caucus (ALC)\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: The ALC offers legal aid services on immigration, tenant and workers’ rights issues, with interpretation services available in over 200 languages, including Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/get-help\">complete a form on their website to request help\u003c/a> or call the ALC offices directly at 415-896-1701.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfoundation.org/contactus\">\u003cem>Law Foundation of Silicon Valley:\u003c/em>\u003c/a> The foundation’s housing team offers walk-in hours on Thursdays from 1 p.m. till appointments are booked and the health team’s walk-in hours are on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p,m. to 3 p.m. You can also call the organization’s general phone line to figure out which service works best for your needs at 408-293-4790.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/get-help/\">\u003cem>East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC):\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Besides the services listed in this guide, EBCLC offers services to small business owners, people living with HIV seeking treatment, unhoused individuals, people with a criminal record reentering society and much more. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rent control has been central to this election, statewide and around the Bay Area, but early returns suggest voters have little appetite to strengthen rent regulations — with one exception: Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians seem to be voting down \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008424/prop-33-rent-control-is-on-the-ballot-again-election-2024-california\">Proposition 33, \u003c/a>which would repeal a 1995 law, known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, that limits how far local governments can go with their rent control laws. The state law prohibits cities and counties from imposing rent control on all single-family homes, condos and apartments built after 1995 and ensures landlords can bring rents up to market rate when a new tenant moves in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That race is still too close to call late Tuesday night, but that didn’t stop o\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pponents from taking a victory lap. “For the THIRD time, Californians have said no to extreme rent control. This fight isn’t over — together with our coalition, we’ll work to actually make housing more accessible for Californians,” the No on Prop 33 campaign posted on X. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844438/californians-reject-rent-control-again-in-defeat-of-proposition-21\">In 2018 and 2020, voters rejected similar initiatives\u003c/a> that would have gutted Costa-Hawkins, but advocates and political leaders have increasingly turned to rent control as they struggle to rein in housing costs, and polling in California has shown an increase in support among likely voters. The policy is also gaining traction nationally, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/housing/365063/kamala-harris-housing-rent-control-landlords\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris embracing\u003c/a> it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, said Prop 33’s apparent defeat reflected the No campaign’s successful messaging. “We’re glad and relieved that the voters of California have not made our housing crisis worse,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group raised about $3 million to support the No campaign, according to Lowery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also appear to be narrowly supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-34\">Proposition 34\u003c/a>, which on its face, has nothing to do with rent control. But really, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/prop34-aids-healthcare-foundation-rent-control\">all about the politics\u003c/a> of this controversial policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure asks voters to decide whether the state should restrict how certain health care providers can spend revenue from prescription drug sales. But the stipulations mean it would likely only apply to a single organization: the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a major force in state and local housing policies and the group bankrolling Prop. 33 and the last two attempts to roll back Costa-Hawkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control appears to be faring somewhat better in the Bay Area, at least in Berkeley. Preliminary tallies show 51.79% of Berkeley voters narrowly supporting Measure BB, which would expand rent control and renter protections and 62.45 % shutting down Measure CC, which would rein in rent regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That’s really reassuring,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, chair of the Berkeley Rent Board. “I think the trend will continue to go that way as we know the even in Berkeley the early voters are more conservative.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County voters are a different story and appear to be pushing back on a range of rent control measures. Larkspur’s Measure K, a bid to expand rent control, is losing by 64% to 35.9%. An effort to repeal Fairfax’s rent cap, Measure I, is ahead 68% to 31.9%, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on local rent control, is down 65.9% to 34 %, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a>, to create new tenant protections, is down 69.3% to 30.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 34, whose primary sponsor is the California Apartment Association, is aimed at kneecapping the health care foundation’s political spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would work like this: Federal law allows health providers that serve lower-income patients to buy prescription drugs at a discount, sell them at retail rates and use the profits to expand services. Proposition 34 would require some providers to spend 98% of that net revenue on direct patient care or risk losing their licenses or tax-exempt status. It would only apply to health care providers who’ve spent at least $100 million on things other than patient care in the past decade and own apartment buildings that have been slapped with 500 or more health and safety violations. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is believed to be the only organization that fits the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='election-2024'] \u003c/span>Propositions 33 and 34 are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-rent-control-propositions-campaign-money/\">most expensive measures on this year’s ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, rent control is on ballots in Berkeley and Marin County’s Larkspur, Fairfax and San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/18/berkeley-ballot-measures-2024-bb-cc-rent-stabilization-ordinance\">Berkeley’s competing measures\u003c/a> would overhaul the city’s rent regulations in different ways. Measure BB, put forward by renters’ advocates, would lower the city’s rent cap, make more units subject to rent control and add new restrictions on evictions, among other tenant protections. Measure CC, championed by property owners’ advocates, would raise the rent cap marginally, exempt more properties from rent control, significantly curtail the rent board’s power, and make other changes to the city’s Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, the rent-related measures are also split on whether they would protect tenants or landlords. On the side of supporting tenants, Larkspur’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-k-tab\">Measure K\u003c/a> would lower the city’s rent cap from 7% to 3% and add new eviction protections, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a> would strengthen tenant protections. 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