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Pero de ellos, sólo el 3% eran personas afroamericanas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/dream/images/dfa-phase-I-outcomes.png\">según CalHFA\u003c/a>. En comparación, el 35% de los beneficiarios eran de la raza blanca, el 33% latinos y el 19% asiáticos e isleños del Pacífico.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eric Johnson, Agencia de Financiación de la Vivienda de California\"]‘El programa está diseñado para ayudar a aquellos que no han tenido el beneficio del patrimonio generacional a la hora de comprar su primera vivienda.’[/pullquote]Según Briones, los fondos del programa California Dream For All tampoco se distribuyeron por igual según criterios geográficos. Un porcentaje desproporcionada se distribuyó a residentes de Sacramento, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gran parte de ello tuvo que ver con el acceso al conocimiento que un gran programa se iba a poner en marcha”, dijo Briones. 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También tiene que devolver el 20% de cualquier revalorización del valor de la vivienda (por eso el programa se llama Préstamo de Revalorización Compartida). Por tanto, si compra una casa de 600 mil dólares y es seleccionado para el programa, puede recibir un anticipo de hasta 120 mil dólares. Digamos que la vende 10 años después por 700 mil dólares, tendrá que reembolsar los 120 mil dólares iniciales de anticipo y otros 20 mil dólares adicionales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En diciembre, el precio promedio de las viviendas en California era de casi 820 mil dólares, \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/countysalesactivity\">según la Asociación de Agentes Inmobiliarios de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Básicamente, a cambio de una inversión del estado en su pago inicial, cuando usted vende la casa, usted debe compartir esa apreciación con el estado”, dijo Briones, añadiendo que el dinero que devuelvan los compradores se destinará a financiar futuros préstamos de California Dream for All.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como organización que trabaja para cerrar la brecha de riqueza racial pensamos que esa compensación es justa, para asegurar que podamos apoyar a las familias ahora y en el futuro”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"solicitar\">\u003c/a>¿Quién puede solicitar la ayuda de California Dream for All?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Algunos de los cambios introducidos este año en el programa se refieren a “quién es cualificado”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al igual que el año pasado, los solicitantes de California Dream for All deben ser residentes de California (ciudadanos, residentes permanentes o “\u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1641%20edition:prelim)\">extranjeros cualificados\u003c/a>“) y compradores de su primera vivienda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a diferencia del año pasado, al menos una persona en la solicitud también debe ser primera generación de compradores, lo que significa que sus padres no poseen actualmente una casa en los Estados Unidos. Los solicitantes que hayan estado alguna vez en cuidado temporal también son elegibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que esto es necesario para garantizar que el programa sea destinado a las personas que realmente necesitan los fondos”, afirmó Briones de California Community Builders.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']El año pasado los residentes con ingresos de hasta el 150% del ingeso medio podían solicitar ayudas. Pero este año, ese umbral se ha reducido al 120% del ingreso medio de la zona donde uno vive. Esos límites de ingresos oscilan ahora entre 287 mil de dólares en el Condado de Santa Clara y 132 mil de dólares en algunas de las zonas más rurales o agrícolas del estado, como los condados de Humboldt y Fresno. \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/limits/income/income-cadfa.pdf\">Revise la lista completa de los límites de ingresos del condado aquí\u003c/a> (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson dijo que CalHFA se basa en los ingresos que el prestamista utiliza para calificar a los compradores de vivienda. Por ejemplo, un matrimonio solicita, entonces el prestamista utiliza sus ingresos combinados. Si una sola persona lo solicita, entonces el prestamista sólo utiliza un ingreso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los solicitantes también deben tener una puntuación crediticia de 680 y un porcentaje de endeudamiento no superior al 45%. \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/programs/loans-cadfa.pdf\">Lea la lista completa de requisitos de elegibilidad para California Dream for All\u003c/a> (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Creo que cumplo con los requisitos para el programa California Dream For All. ¿Y ahora qué?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No empiece a elegir la casa de sus sueños todavía. Johnson dijo que lo primero que debe hacer es encontrar \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homebuyer/lenders.htm#\">un prestamista aprobado por la CalHFA\u003c/a> que ofrezca el programa California Dream For All y que pueda pre aprobarlo. Esto se debe a que usted necesitará una \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/forms/pre-approval-letter-cadfa.pdf\">carta de pre-aprobación\u003c/a> (PDF) de ellos para inscribirse en el programa en abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Averigüe para que tipo de vivienda puede cualificar”, dijo Johnson. “Trabaje con un oficial de préstamos para asegurarse de que su solicitud esté lista”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfadreamforall.com/\">portal de solicitud en línea\u003c/a> se abrió el 3 de abril y permanecerá abierto hasta las 5 p.m. del 29 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de eso, usted tendrá que tomar un curso para compradores de vivienda que dura entre cinco a seis horas y luego un segundo curso de una hora sobre cómo funciona una hipoteca de apreciación compartida. Puede inscribirse en \u003ca href=\"http://calhfadreamforall.com\">calhfadreamforall.com\u003c/a> y las clases son gratuitas y en línea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si logra ser seleccionado para un préstamo del programa, tendrá 90 días para encontrar la casa de sus sueños, firmar un contrato de compra de vivienda y hacer que el prestamista reserve el préstamo a través del Sistema de Acceso Hipotecario de la CalHFA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si aún no está listo para hablar con un funcionario de préstamos, Johnson dijo que también puede hablar con un \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/states/california/homeownership/hsgcounseling\">asesor de vivienda gratuito aprobado por la Secretaría de Vivienda y Desarollo Urbano\u003c/a>, quien puede analizar sus finanzas y determinar qué necesita hacer para estar listo para comprar una casa.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Qué sucede después de solicitar California Dream for All?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A diferencia de la primera ronda de financiación del 2023 en la que se otorgaron los prestamos por orden en que la oficina recibió las solicitudes, en 2024 habrá una lotería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto significa que no tiene que preocuparse de presentar su solicitud justo cuando se abra el programa. Johnson confirmó que tendrá hasta finales de abril para presentarla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson dijo que CalHFA ha dividido el estado en nueve zonas geográficas. El número de solicitantes seleccionados para los préstamos del programa California Dream for All se basará en el número de hogares dentro de cada zona. “Realmente queríamos asegurarnos de que estos fondos se distribuyeran equitativamente”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Algunas personas no tuvieron tiempo para reunir su papeleo el año pasado”, dijo Johnson. “Queríamos asegurarnos de que habíamos hecho todo lo posible y que la gente pusiera sus finanzas en orden, para asegurarnos de que pudieran tener éxito este año”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson dijo que no pasa nada si el solicitante comete un pequeño error en la solicitud. En vez de descalificar la aplicación, CalHFA trabajará con el solicitante para corregir cualquier equivocación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disponemos de una plataforma de atención al cliente muy sólida”, afirmó. “Ayudamos a guiar a las personas en el proceso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero también dijo que es importante ir preperando todo lo requerido para solicitud lo más antes posible. Así que, si aún no lo ha hecho, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homebuyer/lenders.htm\">busque un agente de préstamos\u003c/a> que pueda ayudarle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y, si no sucede este año, Johnson dijo que también podría calificar para algunos de los otros programas de asistencia para compradores de vivienda del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>El año pasado los residentes con ingresos de hasta el 150% del ingeso medio podían solicitar ayudas. Pero este año, ese umbral se ha reducido al 120% del ingreso medio de la zona donde uno vive. Esos límites de ingresos oscilan ahora entre 287 mil de dólares en el Condado de Santa Clara y 132 mil de dólares en algunas de las zonas más rurales o agrícolas del estado, como los condados de Humboldt y Fresno. \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/limits/income/income-cadfa.pdf\">Revise la lista completa de los límites de ingresos del condado aquí\u003c/a> (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson dijo que CalHFA se basa en los ingresos que el prestamista utiliza para calificar a los compradores de vivienda. Por ejemplo, un matrimonio solicita, entonces el prestamista utiliza sus ingresos combinados. Si una sola persona lo solicita, entonces el prestamista sólo utiliza un ingreso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los solicitantes también deben tener una puntuación crediticia de 680 y un porcentaje de endeudamiento no superior al 45%. \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/programs/loans-cadfa.pdf\">Lea la lista completa de requisitos de elegibilidad para California Dream for All\u003c/a> (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Creo que cumplo con los requisitos para el programa California Dream For All. ¿Y ahora qué?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No empiece a elegir la casa de sus sueños todavía. Johnson dijo que lo primero que debe hacer es encontrar \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homebuyer/lenders.htm#\">un prestamista aprobado por la CalHFA\u003c/a> que ofrezca el programa California Dream For All y que pueda pre aprobarlo. 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She pointed out that the HomeRise building with the highest level of vacancies is an SRO that doesn’t have kitchens or private bathrooms, making those units less attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the Homeless Oversight Commission looks to identify ways to ensure that we’re spending our money and resources appropriately, we really need to look at repurposing the buildings that have high vacancy rates because they really don’t meet people’s long-term needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, which helped found the nonprofit and still appoints members to its board, cited senior staff turnover as a major contributor to HomeRise’s troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have folks who are doing really advanced jobs and then their salaries aren’t competitive, there’s a lot of turnover,” she said. “This combination of underfunding of wages that lead to turnover and the empty units, all of this kind of spells disaster. It’s a very difficult situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March 15 response to the controller’s findings, HomeRise CEO Janéa Jackson, who took over in mid-2023, and board president Gregg Miller assured the city that the organization is on its way to remedying the issues identified by the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new leadership, they said HomeRise has, among other things, overhauled its budgeting process, slashed the number of credit card users to 30 and steeply reduced the credit limits on those cards, updated its policies on evictions for nonpayment and is working with city agencies to fill vacancies, cutting them by 33% over the past nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders point out that the instances of improper spending called out in the audit represent only 1.3% of the nonprofit’s $130 million operating budget over the four-year period scrutinized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They criticize the audit for ignoring the “immense operational challenges” the organization faced between 2019 and 2022, including a major leadership change, the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, and rising inflation. 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It’s a very difficult situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March 15 response to the controller’s findings, HomeRise CEO Janéa Jackson, who took over in mid-2023, and board president Gregg Miller assured the city that the organization is on its way to remedying the issues identified by the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new leadership, they said HomeRise has, among other things, overhauled its budgeting process, slashed the number of credit card users to 30 and steeply reduced the credit limits on those cards, updated its policies on evictions for nonpayment and is working with city agencies to fill vacancies, cutting them by 33% over the past nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders point out that the instances of improper spending called out in the audit represent only 1.3% of the nonprofit’s $130 million operating budget over the four-year period scrutinized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They criticize the audit for ignoring the “immense operational challenges” the organization faced between 2019 and 2022, including a major leadership change, the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, and rising inflation. The audit acknowledges these headwinds but traces the problems back further than 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter the extenuating circumstances, HomeRise had an obligation to ensure public funds were managed appropriately,” controller Greg Wagner said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is already seeing improvements in the nonprofit’s management practices, according to a press release from the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have full confidence in the new HomeRise leadership to fully implement the audit recommendations, strengthen their organization, and ultimately improve services for tenants in permanent supportive housing,” said Shireen McSpadden, Executive Director of the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed on Wednesday said the city would take measures to improve oversight of nonprofits, but didn’t offer specifics. “We don’t want to create unfair burdens on all nonprofits because of the missteps of one, but we will be putting in some new safeguards and making sure that we deal with HomeRise appropriately,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit calls for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and HSH to work with HomeRise to create a plan to address its financial issues and bring the organization into compliance with city agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It also clarifies where the projects can be located and establishes standards for how large they can be, among other changes.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Adam Mayberry, architect\"]‘A bill like this would lessen the uncertainty and the risk that developers that have submitted projects are going through.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the bill clarifies “how the builder’s remedy will work in different situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It provides clear and objective standards, to provide greater guidance, more clarity, more certainty as to when the builder’s remedy applies and when projects must be approved,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By reducing the bill’s requirements and providing legal clarity on a law filled with ambiguities could empower more developers to use the law. And since the builder’s remedy only applies to cities or counties that don’t comply with state housing law, Wicks said the bill should further incentivize those jurisdictions to get in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message to local jurisdictions is very clear: The days of shirking your responsibility to your neighbors are over,” she said. “This bill is not about taking away local control. It’s about creating consequences for ignoring the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11945744,news_11938267\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Though the builder’s remedy has been on the books since 1990, developers have only recently been willing to use it. That changed, in part, due to a bevy of new housing laws that have been approved over the past half-decade as the state seeks to spur the construction of some \u003ca href=\"https://statewide-housing-plan-cahcd.hub.arcgis.com/\">2.5 million new homes by 2031\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, jurisdictions are required to submit plans to the state every eight years detailing where developers can build new housing. But, because of those recent changes to state law, cities and counties not only have to plan for more housing than ever before, they also have to locate more of that housing in neighborhoods with access to highly-rated schools, grocery stores and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant that cities and counties have often had to resubmit plans multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday, 40% of cities and counties across the state were \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-review-and-compliance-report\">out of compliance\u003c/a> with state housing law, and in the Bay Area, 37% were out of compliance — making them potentially vulnerable to builder’s remedy projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, \u003ca href=\"https://airtable.com/app9RDx8iUzQMybXB/shrOu16SXIFWr5Bsy/tblCmd5iq08cbtxR8/viwdVopcBuGou2AfK?backgroundColor=green\">at least 93 builder’s remedy projects\u003c/a>, representing 17,000 potential new homes or apartments, have been proposed across California, according to the pro-housing advocacy organization, YIMBY Law, which keeps a running tally — though Sonja Trauss, the organization’s executive director, admits the tally is an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a jurisdiction is in compliance with housing element law, that means they’ve made it possible to build the housing that we need,” Wicks said. “That means that they have zoned to ensure there’s enough land where it’s legal to build housing. They’ve removed constraints so that their approval process is more efficient and objective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the update proposed under AB 1893, Trauss said the law has been successful “at motivating cities to get in compliance” with state housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking forward to continuing to see positive results in the courts on projects using the existing program, and also looking forward to the improvements this bill promises in making the builder’s remedy even easier to use to build housing faster,” she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects, however, have faced opposition from cities that have sought to block approvals under the builder’s remedy. In the wealthy Los Angeles-area city of La Cañada Flintridge, for instance, city officials denied an application for a project with 80 mixed-income apartment units, along with hotel and office space, arguing it had “self-certified” its own housing plan, making it immune to the law. Last month, a court \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-court-orders-la-ca%C3%B1ada-flintridge-follow-state-housing#:~:text=OAKLAND%20%E2%80%94%20California%20Attorney%20General%20Rob,did%20not%20have%20a%20compliant\">ruled against the city\u003c/a>, forcing it to proceed with processing the application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1893 clarifies where housing could be built, designating sites already used for housing, retail or office as appropriate and prohibiting projects on or adjacent to industrial sites. It also provides clearer objective standards for development, allowing projects to more than double or sometimes triple the density of housing the jurisdiction currently allows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which should make it easier for developers to make sure their projects can’t be challenged in court, said Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It establishes a definitive objective standard,” he said. “This also diminishes the ability for local governments to disapprove projects by adding onerous standards or refusing to process applications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameldin said the projects are more likely to be financially feasible by lowering the requirements to provide affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what the bill hopes to do is that by lowering the threshold, more projects will be proposed,” he said. “By making [the affordable housing requirement] 10%, then projects could start penciling across the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One developer, Sasha Zbrozek, wasted no time submitting an application to build a five-unit townhouse on his property in the Bay Area’s Los Altos Hills. 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Depending on how the court rules, it could empower community members to demand that developers do extra studies before building new housing, potentially lengthening an already tedious process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a person is vehemently opposed to a project, they can go to court and say ‘tell them to do more studies,’” said Chris Elmendorf, a professor at UC Davis specializing in land-use law. “Maybe the court agrees, or maybe the court disagrees, but while the project is in court, it’s effectively on hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11971858,news_11972091,news_11971577 label='What Happened in Peoples Park']This case, over the planned development of People’s Park, stems from a 2021 lawsuit brought by Make UC A Good Neighbor and The People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group against UC Berkeley’s heavily contested \u003ca href=\"https://capitalstrategies.berkeley.edu/planning-documents\">Long Range Development Plan\u003c/a>, which aims to add nearly 12,000 new student beds and 8 million square feet of new classrooms, research labs, libraries and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most controversial development in the plan is the proposal to build housing on People’s Park, including a dormitory for students and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">nonprofit-run\u003c/a> apartments for unhoused and low-income people. 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"content": "\u003cp>Joy Perrin had been living in a van with her two children for several months when she walked into a welfare office in 2018. She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney College in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social worker told Perrin she qualified for the CalWORKS family stabilization program, which provides cash assistance, transitional housing and counseling to families experiencing crises such as domestic violence, substance abuse, or the risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years later, Perrin spoke to lawmakers on March 20, trying to save the program that helped her find a safe home and achieve an associate’s degree in biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program gave me the opportunity to show my children that poverty doesn’t have to be our name,” said Perrin, who plans to study radiology. “Not only am I a testament of the power of this program, but my children will be able to share their stories and how it can change their path to their future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California faces a projected budget shortfall of $38 billion to $73 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom in January \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">proposed cuts\u003c/a> that would wipe out funding for the family stabilization program and for another CalWORKS program that subsidizes jobs for lower-income recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A room full of people seated and listening.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both cuts would undermine CalWORKS’ effectiveness, advocates say, and contradict the governor’s stated goals of helping move families out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family stabilization program serves more than 31,000 people. The extended subsidized employment program reaches about 8,000 participants a month. In total 354,000 households with 659,000 children receive CalWORKS benefits a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CalWORKS cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To shrink CalWORKS’ $7 billion annual budget, Newsom would take away what’s left of the $55 million from family stabilization this year and $71 million next year and $134 million each year from the expanded subsidized employment program — along with other cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are resisting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Corey Jackson, the Moreno Valley Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Human Services Committee, held the recent hearing to make clear how many people would be hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told CalMatters he opposes “a vast majority” of Newsom’s proposed cuts to CalWORKS and is seeking alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981424\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1257px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man in a gray suit with black tie listens from behind a desk with his name on it.\" width=\"1257\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg 1257w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1257px) 100vw, 1257px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Corey Jackson, chairperson of the Human Services Committee, at a hearing at the state Capitol on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The question is no longer whether something is a good program; the question is whether it is more important than another,” Jackson said. “CalWORKS is one of the most important programs that the state has. Very few can compete with it from a priorities perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State senators recently proposed shrinking the state budget shortfall by trimming current-year allocations. They agreed with Newsom’s plan to take back $336 million from CalWORKs, saying the money “is projected to be unexpended and should have no programmatic impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean the cuts are set in stone. Newsom’s administration has proposed “a number of solutions across state government,” said H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for Newsom’s finance department, including some funding for both CalWORKS programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office is also recommending \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872\">reducing CalWORKS funding\u003c/a> to reflect “consistently unspent funds,” said Sonia Russo, a policy analyst there. Almost $40 million a year remains unspent in the subsidized employment program, she said, though the family stabilization program spends all of its funds each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A family’s lifeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, generally known as welfare, CalWORKS requires recipients to get a job or participate in activities intended to lead to employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its subsidized employment program helps people transition off public assistance by placing them into jobs and paying part of their wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley)\"]‘CalWORKS is one of the most important programs that the state has. Very few can compete with it from a priorities perspective.’[/pullquote]At the height of the pandemic, the subsidized employment program’s caseload dropped, largely due to worksite closures and restrictions. But it began rebounding in 2021 and this year increased again, though still below pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizbet Paz Alegria, a program participant, said it’s a lifeline for many who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz Alegria, a Mexican-born immigrant, sought CalWORKS help in 2022 because her husband at the time had lost his job. Bills were piling up and she and her three children needed to escape domestic violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidized employment program gave her a job at a San Mateo County resource center, where she helps other Spanish-speaking CalWORKS participants find employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so grateful, because I was placed in a position to welcome families,” she told CalMatters, “and they see in me someone who has walked in their shoes, who knows that feeling of desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz Alegria is a permanent resident who immigrated more than two decades ago. Many other immigrants do not qualify for CalWORKS benefits because they are undocumented or have legal status but have lived fewer than five years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981422\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blond hair and a red cardigan stands in court, looking toward the floor.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Paz Alegria at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CalWORKS bases its grants on the number of eligible family members in a household. The average cash grant was $1,021 a month last year, though families living in high-cost coastal counties, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, received 5% more than families in inland counties, such as Shasta and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, where poverty is nearly 19% higher than the rest of the state, more than 8,000 people received employment services from CalWORKS last year, said Maria Rodriguez-Lopez, the county’s deputy director of employment services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county contracts with the Marjaree Mason Center to help domestic violence victims. Last year the center handled 8,748 domestic violence cases, Rodriquez-Lopez said, and more than 500 people, including 257 children, participated in the family stabilization program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If funding is terminated, the risk of transitioning out of this contract is high,” Rodriguez-Lopez said. “However our department will make every attempt to mitigate the negative consequences to our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A question of priorities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson said the state has an obligation to prevent its vulnerable population from plunging further into a financial crisis. Last year California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/poverty-rate-california/\">poverty\u003c/a> rate grew from 11.7% in 2021 to 13.2%, with 5 million people living in poverty, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/JTF_PovertyJTF.pdf\">according to the Public Policy Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11969301,news_11980559,news_11949192\"]“I agree there must be cuts,” Jackson said. “The only question is where and whether we accomplish this through a just process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said he and other lawmakers have asked Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas to “not rush the process so people are not hurt due to political theater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups and nonprofits wrote a joint letter to legislative leaders predicting the cuts won’t save money but will instead cost the state: “Every $1 in CalWORKs received by a family saves the state $8 by preventing increases in child protective services, worsened children and parents’ health, and reductions in future education, employment and earnings,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney College in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social worker told Perrin she qualified for the CalWORKS family stabilization program, which provides cash assistance, transitional housing and counseling to families experiencing crises such as domestic violence, substance abuse, or the risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years later, Perrin spoke to lawmakers on March 20, trying to save the program that helped her find a safe home and achieve an associate’s degree in biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program gave me the opportunity to show my children that poverty doesn’t have to be our name,” said Perrin, who plans to study radiology. “Not only am I a testament of the power of this program, but my children will be able to share their stories and how it can change their path to their future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California faces a projected budget shortfall of $38 billion to $73 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom in January \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">proposed cuts\u003c/a> that would wipe out funding for the family stabilization program and for another CalWORKS program that subsidizes jobs for lower-income recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A room full of people seated and listening.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both cuts would undermine CalWORKS’ effectiveness, advocates say, and contradict the governor’s stated goals of helping move families out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family stabilization program serves more than 31,000 people. The extended subsidized employment program reaches about 8,000 participants a month. In total 354,000 households with 659,000 children receive CalWORKS benefits a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CalWORKS cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To shrink CalWORKS’ $7 billion annual budget, Newsom would take away what’s left of the $55 million from family stabilization this year and $71 million next year and $134 million each year from the expanded subsidized employment program — along with other cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are resisting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Corey Jackson, the Moreno Valley Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Human Services Committee, held the recent hearing to make clear how many people would be hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told CalMatters he opposes “a vast majority” of Newsom’s proposed cuts to CalWORKS and is seeking alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981424\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1257px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man in a gray suit with black tie listens from behind a desk with his name on it.\" width=\"1257\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg 1257w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1257px) 100vw, 1257px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Corey Jackson, chairperson of the Human Services Committee, at a hearing at the state Capitol on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The question is no longer whether something is a good program; the question is whether it is more important than another,” Jackson said. “CalWORKS is one of the most important programs that the state has. Very few can compete with it from a priorities perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State senators recently proposed shrinking the state budget shortfall by trimming current-year allocations. They agreed with Newsom’s plan to take back $336 million from CalWORKs, saying the money “is projected to be unexpended and should have no programmatic impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean the cuts are set in stone. Newsom’s administration has proposed “a number of solutions across state government,” said H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for Newsom’s finance department, including some funding for both CalWORKS programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the height of the pandemic, the subsidized employment program’s caseload dropped, largely due to worksite closures and restrictions. But it began rebounding in 2021 and this year increased again, though still below pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizbet Paz Alegria, a program participant, said it’s a lifeline for many who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz Alegria, a Mexican-born immigrant, sought CalWORKS help in 2022 because her husband at the time had lost his job. Bills were piling up and she and her three children needed to escape domestic violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidized employment program gave her a job at a San Mateo County resource center, where she helps other Spanish-speaking CalWORKS participants find employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so grateful, because I was placed in a position to welcome families,” she told CalMatters, “and they see in me someone who has walked in their shoes, who knows that feeling of desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz Alegria is a permanent resident who immigrated more than two decades ago. Many other immigrants do not qualify for CalWORKS benefits because they are undocumented or have legal status but have lived fewer than five years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981422\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blond hair and a red cardigan stands in court, looking toward the floor.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Paz Alegria at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CalWORKS bases its grants on the number of eligible family members in a household. The average cash grant was $1,021 a month last year, though families living in high-cost coastal counties, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, received 5% more than families in inland counties, such as Shasta and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, where poverty is nearly 19% higher than the rest of the state, more than 8,000 people received employment services from CalWORKS last year, said Maria Rodriguez-Lopez, the county’s deputy director of employment services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county contracts with the Marjaree Mason Center to help domestic violence victims. Last year the center handled 8,748 domestic violence cases, Rodriquez-Lopez said, and more than 500 people, including 257 children, participated in the family stabilization program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If funding is terminated, the risk of transitioning out of this contract is high,” Rodriguez-Lopez said. “However our department will make every attempt to mitigate the negative consequences to our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A question of priorities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson said the state has an obligation to prevent its vulnerable population from plunging further into a financial crisis. Last year California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/poverty-rate-california/\">poverty\u003c/a> rate grew from 11.7% in 2021 to 13.2%, with 5 million people living in poverty, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/JTF_PovertyJTF.pdf\">according to the Public Policy Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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From May to December, agents distributed colored wristbands to prioritize whom to process first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11979131,news_11977405,news_11973981\"]Advocates say the Border Patrol often directs migrants to the camps, sometimes even driving them there. Agents are often seen nearby keeping a loose watch until buses and vans arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department, which rejects advocates’ label of “open-air detention sites,” says smugglers send migrants to camps. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, Ericka, Maria and Alan talk about the resurgence of the East Bay’s Street Spirit newspaper, a new non-emergency phone line for Oakland residents, and Aaron Peskin’s potential bid for San Francisco mayor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Berkeleyside: \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/01/street-spirit-homeless-newspaper-back-in-print?goal=0_aad4b5ee64-b8e5c003d0-333786926&mc_cid=b8e5c003d0&mc_eid=491aa37a27-\">Street Spirit homeless newspaper is back in print\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Oaklandside: \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/21/oakland-macro-crisis-response-phone-number-contact/\">MACRO, Oakland’s non-emergency crisis response team, now has a phone number\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED: \u003ca class=\"c-link c-message_attachment__title_link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979849/peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_title_link\">\u003cspan dir=\"auto\">Aaron Peskin’s Rumored Run for SF Mayor Has Same Strength and Weakness: Housing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC4898698236\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our March News roundup, where me and the Bay team sit down to talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. I’m here with producer Maria Esquinca. Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Hello, hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And senior editor Alan Montecillo. What’s up? Allan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And, it’s officially spring in the Bay area, which is my favorite. How are y’all feeling?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I’m feeling really excited for the flowers, the sunlight. I can’t wait to go to Lake Merritt and hang out with my friends and feel the sun. So I’m pretty. I’m pretty excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I’m cautiously optimistic about spring. Obviously, it is very, very pretty. There’s, you know, the super blooms. You can see the wildflowers. I can definitely feel spring on my face, if you know what I mean. Like I’m sneezing all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Y’all, as listeners probably heard Allan a bunch in the hot seat. Sort of. On a personal note from me, you probably didn’t hear as much from me as usual this month because I was dealing with some family stuff, helping my mom recover from breast cancer, which I do feel comfortable talking about because it is such a common thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So many people deal with breast cancer. She’s doing really well. She’s recovering, she’s feeling good. So I feel like that was also sort of a turn of the winter to spring, the shift and the transition on that end for me. So shout out to the Bay team for holding it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Of course. And you know, we’re all very, very happy and relief that your mom’s doing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Shout out to mom. All right, well, let’s hop into some of the other stories we’ve been following this month, starting with Maria, who has some pretty good news out of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So something that happened earlier this month is that the Street Spirit newspaper is back in print after being out of print for eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, I think I’ve seen news, like are usually very concerned to hear whenever, like a newspaper goes out of business or stops printing. But can you remind us of, like what street spirit was known for? Like what kind of reporting were they doing in the East Bay, and what role did it serve in the community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>It was created in the 90s when the Oakland Tribune was sold by homeless people, and the founders noticed that the irony of it was, you know, unhoused people were selling this newspaper. But the coverage that they saw out of the Oakland Tribune was not reflecting their stories and was actually disparaging of of unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And so that was the seed of this newspaper. And so it’s a it’s a monthly newspaper that is sold by homeless people. They get some of the funds back from, selling them. And I think the intention is really to have a publication that is written by and for unhoused people, for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alastair Boone \u003c/strong>The purpose of st reet spirit is to shed light on the experience of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Alastair Boone, the current director of Street Spirit, spoke in July about some of this, the intention behind it and I think really responding to. How sometimes news coverage of unhoused people does not even include them. It does not quote them. And so really responding to what they see as an absence of homeless people and stories that report about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alastair Boone \u003c/strong>So that means that every story we publish is either written by somebody who has experience of homelessness, or if it’s like a new style article. 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The current director and the current editor in chief, Bradley Penner, basically, raised $250,000 from individual donations, and that’s enough to cover them until the end of the year. The newspaper will be continued to be printed and sold, around 40 vendors in Berkeley, Oakland and Fairfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>All these newspapers and and some of the funds directly go back to them. So it’s a way to support them. And Alistair Boon also mentioned that this event, ways to support them. So that includes anything from volunteering to raising funds on your own and donating them to the publication. And so if people you know are interested in supporting their work, there’s like a number of ways to to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much, Maria. For that piece of good news. When we come back, we’ll talk about a new phone number for non-emergency situations in Oakland and Aaron Peskin running for mayor. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Support for KQED podcasts comes from Star One Credit Union, now offering real time money movement with instant pay, make transfers and payments instantly between financial institutions online or through Star One’s mobile app. Star one credit union in your best interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to The Bay’s monthly news roundup, where we discuss the stories that we’ve been following this month. And up next is my story, which is about a new phone line that residents in Oakland can call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So when you’re talking about, nonviolent and non-emergency situations, what are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This phone line, which is called the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, line or macro for short, is really about giving community members in Oakland a number to call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations where maybe someone could use some help or some connections with social services. Maybe they could use some water or some blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some examples of the kinds of things that Oakland residents can pick up the phone for would be a wellness check for someone on the streets, a noise complaint, someone maybe being drunk in public, or even panhandling. When you call macro, you’re really reaching out to civilian responders. So in other words, not police. And the whole idea behind macro was really to be an alternative to police…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>…Who so often in all parts of the state and the country are kind of the only people that you can call when you see someone having a mental health crisis on the streets, or you see a homeless person suffering on the streets. And so the idea behind macro is to create an alternative to police that can actually connect people with services, and perhaps be more helpful when people are in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Is this, a new thing for the Bay area, for California? How common is something like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There are definitely other versions of this across the Bay area. But I think what’s really different about this in Oakland are what’s really changed in Oakland is that this is a separate line from 901 that civilians can call. That basically makes it easier on 911 dispatchers who are, as the Oakland side has reported, really overwhelmed by the number of calls that they get every year, majority of which are actually non-emergency related calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And that’s really meant that the 901 system in the city has really struggled to respond quickly to actual emergencies in a timely manner. Macro actually first launched in April of 2022, and until now, in order to reach macro civilian responders, you had to call 911, and then have your your non-emergency call diverted through these sort of other channels before you could actually reach a macro responder. 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Allan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And, it’s officially spring in the Bay area, which is my favorite. How are y’all feeling?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>I’m feeling really excited for the flowers, the sunlight. I can’t wait to go to Lake Merritt and hang out with my friends and feel the sun. So I’m pretty. I’m pretty excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I’m cautiously optimistic about spring. Obviously, it is very, very pretty. There’s, you know, the super blooms. You can see the wildflowers. I can definitely feel spring on my face, if you know what I mean. Like I’m sneezing all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Y’all, as listeners probably heard Allan a bunch in the hot seat. Sort of. On a personal note from me, you probably didn’t hear as much from me as usual this month because I was dealing with some family stuff, helping my mom recover from breast cancer, which I do feel comfortable talking about because it is such a common thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So many people deal with breast cancer. She’s doing really well. She’s recovering, she’s feeling good. So I feel like that was also sort of a turn of the winter to spring, the shift and the transition on that end for me. So shout out to the Bay team for holding it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Of course. And you know, we’re all very, very happy and relief that your mom’s doing well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Shout out to mom. 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The newspaper will be continued to be printed and sold, around 40 vendors in Berkeley, Oakland and Fairfax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>All these newspapers and and some of the funds directly go back to them. So it’s a way to support them. And Alistair Boon also mentioned that this event, ways to support them. So that includes anything from volunteering to raising funds on your own and donating them to the publication. And so if people you know are interested in supporting their work, there’s like a number of ways to to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, thank you so much, Maria. For that piece of good news. When we come back, we’ll talk about a new phone number for non-emergency situations in Oakland and Aaron Peskin running for mayor. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Support for KQED podcasts comes from Star One Credit Union, now offering real time money movement with instant pay, make transfers and payments instantly between financial institutions online or through Star One’s mobile app. Star one credit union in your best interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to The Bay’s monthly news roundup, where we discuss the stories that we’ve been following this month. And up next is my story, which is about a new phone line that residents in Oakland can call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So when you’re talking about, nonviolent and non-emergency situations, what are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This phone line, which is called the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, line or macro for short, is really about giving community members in Oakland a number to call for nonviolent, non-emergency situations where maybe someone could use some help or some connections with social services. Maybe they could use some water or some blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Some examples of the kinds of things that Oakland residents can pick up the phone for would be a wellness check for someone on the streets, a noise complaint, someone maybe being drunk in public, or even panhandling. When you call macro, you’re really reaching out to civilian responders. So in other words, not police. And the whole idea behind macro was really to be an alternative to police…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>…Who so often in all parts of the state and the country are kind of the only people that you can call when you see someone having a mental health crisis on the streets, or you see a homeless person suffering on the streets. And so the idea behind macro is to create an alternative to police that can actually connect people with services, and perhaps be more helpful when people are in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Is this, a new thing for the Bay area, for California? How common is something like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There are definitely other versions of this across the Bay area. But I think what’s really different about this in Oakland are what’s really changed in Oakland is that this is a separate line from 901 that civilians can call. That basically makes it easier on 911 dispatchers who are, as the Oakland side has reported, really overwhelmed by the number of calls that they get every year, majority of which are actually non-emergency related calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And that’s really meant that the 901 system in the city has really struggled to respond quickly to actual emergencies in a timely manner. Macro actually first launched in April of 2022, and until now, in order to reach macro civilian responders, you had to call 911, and then have your your non-emergency call diverted through these sort of other channels before you could actually reach a macro responder. 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And that’s why many people are wondering that if Peskin decides to run, if if he could be that candidate, and if in a ranked choice voting system, he might actually have a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Alan, you mentioned Aaron Peskin hasn’t officially declared his candidacy for mayor. So how do we know this? How likely is it? And is it basically a sure thing at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Basically, several publications say, including the Chronicle, including San Francisco Standard, that sources close to Peskin have told them that he plans to run. But when asked directly currently, he will not say that he’s running. There’s been some speculation that one reason he’s held off is because right now, you can really see the moderate candidates going at each other already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, Mayor London Breed is vulnerable. Her unfavorable favorables are very high. So, you know, I don’t know if it’s for sure a sure thing. I think people would be surprised that after all this kind of hubbub, he decides not to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Well, another interesting part of this is there’s been a lot of reporting, including a story by Mission Local in The Guardian, about the political contributions in S.F. that can be traced back to the tech industry and and these billionaires. How do you think that will play a role in this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>They’re already coming out and saying, we do not want this guy as the mayor after the primary. The founder of grow SF told KQED and other reporters that they’re basically saying anybody but Peskin grow S.F.. Moderate politicians and groups see Peskin as a as someone who’s basically presided over San Francisco’s decline. One main objection to Aaron Peskin is when it comes to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>You know, there’s been a much stronger push in California for, you know, I guess the term Nimby. Yes. In my backyard, basically people who say we need to build housing much, much more aggressively all over the city, including market rate housing if we’re going to solve the housing crisis. Peskin has generally prioritized affordable housing while also wanting to limit construction. In some cases when he feels like it might negatively affect the surrounding neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>He once said, in a separate fight over density, which we only get into, essentially, we can save San Francisco without destroying San Francisco. So to a lot of the moderate aligned politicians who want to build much more housing, they say, this guy, he’s just said, no in my backyard Nimby, someone who’s going to stop change. 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I already saved the station and my favorites and my car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>92.7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Exciting stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, what are you excited about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Well, it’s no surprise because I’ve talked about this a lot to Allan and ECG. April is National Poetry Month. I’m a poet, I love poetry, I think everyone is a poet. And so I’m very excited that there’s a whole month to celebrate poetry and a little tradition that we kind of have going on since I came on the show is that every April we feature a Bay poet, so listeners can expect that dropping in our feed sometime in April. And I do want, Plug Medicine for nightmares, which is a local bookstore in the mission, and they have tons of poetry events all year round. And so there could be someone to, to look for and. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about you, Allan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Oh, I mean, it’s March Madness. There are brackets going on at KQED. I think third and fourth right now in both the men’s and women’s side. There’s a batch of games this weekend. Stanford is still in. I have them going to the Final Four, but losing to Iowa in the finals. Sorry, but I can’t bet against Caitlin Clark. But that that’s a lot of what I’m looking forward to in the in the next week or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Maria, look forward to celebrating National Poetry Month with you and Allan. 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"content": "\u003cp>Brian and Gail Tremaine moved to East San José 45 years ago for the quiet. On the outskirts of this Silicon Valley city, atop what was once an apricot orchard, the couple kept sheep, goats and horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They planted mulberry trees along the driveway and carved terraces and patios out of the sloping hillside, but a portion of the 1.7-acre property remained untamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just become an area where we need to do weed control and keep it clean because the county gets after us if the weeds get too high,” said Brian Tremaine, 75. “We’re getting to the age where we want less land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple first considered building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) or backyard cottage. But the cost — with estimates ranging from $500,000 to $700,000 — was formidable, Brian Tremaine said, as was the idea of taking out a second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Gail Tremaine stand in the parcel of land that will be carved from their original parcel in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s when they learned about \u003ca href=\"https://www.buildcasa.com/\">BuildCasa \u003c/a>— a company that would purchase a portion of their backyard and assist them in splitting the lot under SB 9, a controversial law that went into effect in January 2022. It allows property owners to build up to two duplexes on most single-family properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of its passage, supporters hailed it as the end of single-family zoning in California and an opportunity to spur more housing, while critics worried it would spark a dramatic shift in the makeup of California’s suburban neighborhoods. But in the first two years since the law was in effect, it has produced little in the way of either new lots or housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED survey of 16 cities of varying sizes across the state found that between 2022 and 2023, the cities collectively approved 75 lot split applications and 112 applications for new units under the law. That’s compared to more than 8,800 ADUs the cities permitted during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ih4uc/4/?v=3\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a growing cadre of companies is hoping to jumpstart the construction of SB 9 projects by taking on the permitting and development work themselves, as well as making it easier for homeowners to take advantage of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on,” said Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO of BuildCasa. “They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://yardsworth.com/\">Yardsworth\u003c/a> has emerged with a model similar to BuildCasa. But unlike the latter company, which sells the lots to developers, Yardsworth plans to develop the lots themselves and either sell or rent out the new homes. Elsewhere in the state, other companies are specializing in particular aspects of SB 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO, BuildCasa.\"]‘These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on. They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.’[/pullquote]Bear said his clients make, on average, just over $100,000 selling the new lot — though in high-priced areas of the state, the amounts have been as high as $400,000. Homeowners get to keep their existing home and mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tradeoff, he said, is a reduction in the value of the existing property by 10% or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s a major positive benefit when you compare those two numbers,” Bear said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether these offers are enticing enough to encourage more homeowners to take advantage of SB 9 remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, is skeptical that these companies alone can kickstart the construction of new housing because few projects are financially viable under SB 9. He said that without changing the law itself, it would likely result in only a smattering of new homes each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do not go back after implementation and reform and fix some of the requirements of [SB 9],” he said, “then what’s the point of even having this big fight in the first place?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slow uptake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the law went into effect, many cities implemented their own restrictions on SB 9 projects. Alameldin co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/sb-9-turns-one-applications/\">2023 report\u003c/a> detailing many of them: limitations on the size of new units, open space requirements and burdensome fees, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a story that had been told before — with ADUs, which were first \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-california/#:~:text=In%202016%2C%20the%20state%20legislature,zoning%20ordinances%20and%20permitting%20processes.\">legalized statewide in 2016\u003c/a>. It took several years and nearly a dozen new laws to reduce regulations and spur construction. In 2016, just over\u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-california/#:~:text=As%20soon%20as%20the%20first,19%25%20of%20new%20housing%20permits.\"> 1,000 ADUs were approved\u003c/a> across the state. In 2022, there were nearly 25,000 — comprising \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">nearly a fifth\u003c/a> of the state’s estimated housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plot of land that will be carved off of Gail and Brian Tremaine’s original lot in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t by accident,” Alameldin said. “It was years and years of legislation by multiple authors from the Assembly and Senate, who kept improving the law year after year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Toni Atkins, SB 9’s original author, has introduced a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20230320-senate-leader-atkins-introduces-legislation-improve-access-oversight-california-home\">SB 450\u003c/a>, that begins to address some of the issues that developers, planning staff and homeowners have faced. It would set a time limit for jurisdictions to approve or reject applications for SB 9 projects and mandate that new housing not be held to stricter design standards than other homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed in the Senate and Assembly last year but was then put on hold. It’s eligible for a floor vote this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Atkins acknowledged the slow rollout of SB 9 and said she was committed to “finding solutions to the housing crisis by building on past legislative efforts, like SB 9.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Implementation of new legislation like SB 9 doesn’t happen overnight; it takes time and thoughtful consideration,” Atkins wrote. “SB 9 is a modest tool that gives homeowners control of housing options that best meet their needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with the proposed changes, some developers said SB 450 doesn’t go far enough. Several said they would like to see an anti-speculation measure removed that requires applicants to live on the property for three years after undergoing a lot split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so would make the projects more enticing to developers, said Peter Taormina, the managing owner of a development company called Cypress Pacific Investors, who is hoping the provision can be changed in subsequent legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)\"]‘Implementation of new legislation like SB 9 doesn’t happen overnight; it takes time and thoughtful consideration. SB 9 is a modest tool that gives homeowners control of housing options that best meet their needs.’[/pullquote]“You’re going to have to let the people that do this for a living, roll up their sleeves and do it,” said Taormina, who is in the process of completing an SB 9 project in Marina, California, that consists of splitting three parcels into six with a home and an in-law unit on each. “The end result will be [that] housing will be created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Lucido, co-founder and CEO of Yardsworth, identified less tangible barriers, as well. Most people simply aren’t aware of the bill, he said, and even if they are, they may be reluctant to sell a portion of their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really emotional thing. People are attached to their backyards, even if they don’t use them,” he said. “You’re asking them to carve off a piece of the American dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help potential clients overcome this hurdle, Yardsworth introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://zerodownca.com/\">new offer\u003c/a> earlier this month: The company will fund the down payment on a new home in exchange for a portion of the homebuyer’s yet-to-sentimentalized backyard. Lucido said that can help solve two problems simultaneously — adding housing amid a shortage and helping renters become owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homeowners leverage their lots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those willing to take on an SB 9 project, the leaders of BuildCasa and Yardsworth said their clients tended to fall into two categories: retirees looking to downsize in place — similar to the Tremaines in San José — or younger homeowners hoping to leverage the equity in their properties without taking on debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter was the case for one of Yardsworth’s clients, former Olympian Jamele Mason, who competed in the 2012 Summer Games in the men’s 400-meter hurdles. Mason bought his South Los Angeles home in February 2020, right before the pandemic lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11968455,news_11806332,news_11770372\"]At first, he thought maintaining the large backyard, with its lemon tree and pergola, would be a fun pastime. But, he quickly realized it was more work than pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I ripped up all the grass that was in the back. I put in artificial turf to try to make it as low maintenance as possible,” he said. “Turns out there is still maintenance that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned about Yardsworth while researching ways to pull equity out of his house without having to sell and contacted the company last fall to begin the process. In January, he began working for Yardsworth as a sales manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, 34, said he plans to use the $135,000 he got from Yardsworth to buy an investment property in Houston, where he grew up. He hopes the additional property will set him up for a more comfortable retirement, something he admitted was a constant worry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put everything I had into purchasing this house,” Mason said. “So, when I found out that I could pull the money out, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s actually a really cool way to leverage what I have.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, homeowners opt to keep their split lots vacant as an investment — either to pass down to their children or sell later. Such was the case with roughly half of Peter Riechers’ 80 or so clients, who are spread out across the state, he said. The president of civil engineering firm Riechers Engineering said he was so motivated by SB 9’s potential that he came out of a 15-year retirement when the law went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so exciting — still is very exciting,” he said. “You’ve got all this land sitting there, not being used … when it could be used for this housing crisis we have in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Peter Riechers, president, Riechers Engineering\"]‘It was so exciting — still is very exciting. You’ve got all this land sitting there, not being used … when it could be used for this housing crisis we have in California.’[/pullquote]Easton McAllister, the owner of DeBolt Civil Engineering, which is based out of Danville, said his company has taken on at least 50 lot splits. In roughly a dozen cases, he said he’s also offered to complete the work for free in exchange for an option to purchase the newly split lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether these companies’ models of shepherding property owners through the process — and then selling the newly split lots or developing them themselves — are in keeping with the spirit of SB 9’s anti-speculation protections. Atkins declined to be interviewed and didn’t respond to a request for comment via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Mason and the Tremaines said their projects wouldn’t have happened without some kind of professional assistance. Brian Tremaine said he wouldn’t even have known where to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ever go to the county, it’s impossible. … Who do you talk to?” he said. “That would have taken months — probably years, literally — just to figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mason is bracing for a duplex to be built behind his single-story home, while the Tremaines said they don’t yet know what kind of home might be built in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what worries Gail Tremaine. The law requires at least 40% of the existing lot to be sectioned off, which, in the Tremaines’ case, made for an awkward gerrymandering of the property. It meant they not only had to carve off the unused portion of their backyard but a portion of their front yard, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of tugs at my heart a little,” she said. “You know, change is always hard. And the older you get, the harder change is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Brian and Gail Tremaine moved to East San José 45 years ago for the quiet. On the outskirts of this Silicon Valley city, atop what was once an apricot orchard, the couple kept sheep, goats and horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They planted mulberry trees along the driveway and carved terraces and patios out of the sloping hillside, but a portion of the 1.7-acre property remained untamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just become an area where we need to do weed control and keep it clean because the county gets after us if the weeds get too high,” said Brian Tremaine, 75. “We’re getting to the age where we want less land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple first considered building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) or backyard cottage. But the cost — with estimates ranging from $500,000 to $700,000 — was formidable, Brian Tremaine said, as was the idea of taking out a second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Gail Tremaine stand in the parcel of land that will be carved from their original parcel in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s when they learned about \u003ca href=\"https://www.buildcasa.com/\">BuildCasa \u003c/a>— a company that would purchase a portion of their backyard and assist them in splitting the lot under SB 9, a controversial law that went into effect in January 2022. It allows property owners to build up to two duplexes on most single-family properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of its passage, supporters hailed it as the end of single-family zoning in California and an opportunity to spur more housing, while critics worried it would spark a dramatic shift in the makeup of California’s suburban neighborhoods. But in the first two years since the law was in effect, it has produced little in the way of either new lots or housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED survey of 16 cities of varying sizes across the state found that between 2022 and 2023, the cities collectively approved 75 lot split applications and 112 applications for new units under the law. That’s compared to more than 8,800 ADUs the cities permitted during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ih4uc/4/?v=3\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a growing cadre of companies is hoping to jumpstart the construction of SB 9 projects by taking on the permitting and development work themselves, as well as making it easier for homeowners to take advantage of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on,” said Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO of BuildCasa. “They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://yardsworth.com/\">Yardsworth\u003c/a> has emerged with a model similar to BuildCasa. But unlike the latter company, which sells the lots to developers, Yardsworth plans to develop the lots themselves and either sell or rent out the new homes. Elsewhere in the state, other companies are specializing in particular aspects of SB 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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