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"content": "\u003cp>With more California homeowners just discovering their insurance policies are getting canceled — and hundreds of thousands of others stuck with a pricey option of last resort — state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s efforts to fix the home insurance market can’t come quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara has introduced two main regulations, with more to come. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2024/release007-2024.cfm\">first\u003c/a>, unveiled last month, aims to streamline rate reviews. State law allows the Insurance Department to approve or deny insurers’ requests to raise premiums. Insurance companies complain the process has been holding up the increases they seek due to increased costs due to rising climate-change risks and inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2024/release011-2024.cfm\">second regulation\u003c/a> will let insurers use catastrophe modeling — which combines historical data with projected risk and losses — along with other factors when setting their premiums. 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But almost everyone else — homeowners, consumer groups and former insurance commissioners — has lingering concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"U.S. Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.)\"]‘One of the critical things a commissioner does is to analyze the market and provide the public with information. (Lara) didn’t use his power to control the industry and second, to inform Californians.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/member/john-garamendi/G000559\">U.S. Rep. John Garamendi\u003c/a>, a Democrat representing parts of Solano and Contra Costa counties, had two stints as state insurance commissioner in the mid-1990s and early 2000s. He said the insurance market is “in chaos” — and that Lara should be holding public hearings and demanding insurance company executives testify to explain to Californians why their premiums are rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the critical things a commissioner does is to analyze the market and provide the public with information,” Garamendi said in an interview with CalMatters. “(Lara) didn’t use his power to control the industry and second, to inform Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criticism drew a retort from Soller: “Commissioner Lara is fixing decadeslong neglected issues that have led to this crisis. He is focused on safeguarding the integrity of the state’s insurance market, not second-guessing from predecessors who had their chance and failed to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Winnacker, chief of the East Bay’s Moraga-Orinda Fire District, said the upsides of catastrophe modeling include being able to credit what homeowners, communities and governments do to lessen wildfire risk. That includes being able to account for the numbers and proximity of firefighters in certain areas, Winnacker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michael Soller, deputy commissioner for communications, California Department of Insurance\"]‘Commissioner Lara is fixing decadeslong neglected issues that have led to this crisis. He is focused on safeguarding the integrity of the state’s insurance market, not second-guessing from predecessors who had their chance and failed to act.’[/pullquote]“Depending on where you are in a state, and that’s tied to population density, the number of firefighters available could affect the outcome (of a wildfire),” he said, adding that catastrophe models should reflect that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said he and other fire chiefs are working to ensure the interests of consumers, fire professionals, insurers and the state are aligned. Insurers may not know what homeowners, communities and local fire departments are doing to reduce wildfire risk. One idea: a database to share that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no future in which we can price our way out of this crisis with just premiums,” Winnacker said, adding that everyone needs to work together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Jones, the state insurance commissioner for eight years before Lara took over in 2019, said he is “trying to avoid looking over the shoulder of my successor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones is now director of the Climate Risk Initiative Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law. He said it is good for consumers that the catastrophe-modeling regulation could take forest management into consideration. But he said he’s not sure Lara’s actions will be sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/092622_PressConference_LJ_CM_11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/092622_PressConference_LJ_CM_11-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/092622_PressConference_LJ_CM_11-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/092622_PressConference_LJ_CM_11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/092622_PressConference_LJ_CM_11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/092622_PressConference_LJ_CM_11-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara speaks during a press conference with Los Angeles labor leaders and advocates in Commerce, Los Angeles County, on Sept. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the end of the year, Lara is also expected to issue a regulation allowing insurers to factor reinsurance costs into their rates. Reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies in the event of large payouts. That plus the other new regulations may “help in the short to mid term,” giving insurance companies the ability to raise premiums, Jones told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said those actions may “ultimately be overwhelmed by our failure to stop the fossil-fuel industry, which is contributing to rising temperatures” and, therefore, insurance losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also pointed out that Florida has long allowed insurers to use catastrophe modeling and has let them factor in reinsurance costs in their rates — yet its insurance market is in worse shape than California’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1985175,news_11968643,news_11962131\"]“Florida has done what insurers are asking for,” Jones said. Yet “Florida’s rates are three or four times the national average.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Friedlander, spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group, confirmed that the group estimates that Florida’s average home insurance premium was $6,000, or 3 1/2 times the national average, in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Jones said Florida’s version of California’s last-resort FAIR Plan — called the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. because it’s funded with a surcharge on policyholders — has \u003ca href=\"https://www.citizensfla.com/policies-in-force\">more than 1 million policies\u003c/a>. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/01/california-fire-insurance-2/\">growing FAIR Plan\u003c/a>, run by a pool of insurers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/article286650045.html\">has 373,000 policies\u003c/a>, its president told state lawmakers recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That raises the question,” Jones said. “Giving insurers (higher rates) and shifting the burden to all Californians … whether that’s going to be enough in the face of growing background risk associated with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, last week, State Farm said that it is not renewing policies for 30,000 California homeowners, as well as refusing to cover all commercial apartments by not renewing 42,000 of those policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is happening despite California approving State Farm’s requests to levy double-digit premium increases last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our roles as the insurance regulator is to hold insurance companies accountable for their words and deeds,” said Soller, the Insurance Department spokesperson. “State Farm General’s decision … raises serious questions about its financial situation — questions the company must answer to regulators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Farm spokesperson Sevag Sarkissian would not comment beyond the statement the company put on its website last week, which read in part: “This decision was not made lightly and only after careful analysis of State Farm General’s financial health, which continues to be impacted by inflation, catastrophe exposure, reinsurance costs, and the limitations of working within decades-old insurance regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarkissian also referred CalMatters to the Personal Insurance Federation of California, which counts State Farm as a member. The industry group’s president, Rex Frazier, said in an email last week that allowing insurers to use catastrophe modeling would help with insurance availability. Yet in its statement, State Farm acknowledged the actions Lara is taking to try to fix the insurance availability and affordability crisis in California, even as it announced its decision not to renew tens of thousands of homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce Kaufman, a retiree in June Lake in Mono County, recently received a notice of nonrenewal for her homeowners insurance with Farmers, which she said she and her husband were dreading but expecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dave Jones, former state insurance commissioner\"]‘That raises the question … Giving insurers (higher rates) and shifting the burden to all Californians … whether that’s going to be enough in the face of growing background risk associated with climate change.’[/pullquote]“I’m not really sure what the state’s trying to do, both at the commissioner and legislative level,” Kaufman said. And losing the ability to renew her policy is affecting her other insurance needs, she said. As her broker helps look for an alternative, her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/12/california-car-insurance/\">auto premium is now going up \u003c/a>about $300 a year because it will no longer be bundled with home insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new regulations give insurance companies what they had asked for, one part of Lara’s strategy — which he first \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-insurance-crisis/\">laid out last year\u003c/a> after an executive order by the governor — is conspicuously missing. Lara had said insurance companies would be required “to commit to writing at least 85% of their statewide market share in wildfire-distressed underserved areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That provision is nowhere in the text of Lara’s unveiled regulations so far — an omission not lost on consumer groups or former commissioner Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is that 85% ?” asked Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog. Soller, the Insurance Department’s spokesperson, said that part of the commissioner’s strategy is coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balber also said she is concerned that the catastrophe-modeling regulation “appears to not comply with the transparency requirements of Prop. 103,” the voter-approved law that regulates the insurance industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the text of the regulation on catastrophe modeling, the public will be able to take part in reviewing catastrophe models before they’re deemed acceptable. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]early a decade ago, David Modersbach had what he thought was a straightforward question: How many unhoused people had died that year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants manager and his team at \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/\">Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\u003c/a> knew people were dying on the streets, but they wanted more than anecdotal evidence; they wanted data that could show them the big picture and help them hone their strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They queried the coroner’s bureau and were stunned by the response: only a single death had been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized there’s a lot of work to do,” Modersbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a bootstrap campaign to fill the data gap. It took years, and the work was sometimes lonely, often tedious and consistently heartbreaking. When the team finally released its first report in 2022, detailing deaths from 2018–20, they counted 195 people in Alameda County who died while homeless in 2018, plus another 189 people with recent histories of homelessness whose housing status couldn’t be verified at their time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/david-modersbach-works-in-his-office-in-oakland-on-march-15-2024/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a man with glasses and long hair, wearing a flannel shirt, sits behind a computer\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Modersbach works in his office in Oakland. Modersbach has spearheaded Alameda County’s efforts to count the deaths of unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As more Californians have fallen into homelessness — a number greater than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">181,000 at last count (PDF)\u003c/a> — more have died while unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred in part by Alameda County’s efforts, which are considered a national model for the field, the state recently began taking steps toward collecting this data. In 2022, California added a field to death records for homelessness status, and this year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271\">a law went into effect that empowers counties to set up homeless death review committees to determine the root causes of homeless mortality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several jurisdictions across the country seeking this data. The pandemic put a spotlight on the health vulnerabilities accompanying homelessness, and that has led to growing national interest in the topic, said Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">A recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NYU found the death rate of people experiencing homelessness increased 238% between 2011 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara DiPietro, National Health Care for the Homeless Council\"]‘Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.’[/pullquote]“One of the things that hopefully we took away from COVID is that homelessness is a public health issue,” she said. “Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the data is critical in assessing whether the state’s public health interventions for people on the streets work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is how we work to change things,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting statewide — let alone national — data detailing the number of unhoused deaths requires meticulous reporting on the part of local agencies. In the case of Alameda County, it was a system Modersbach had to build from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How they count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For each homeless mortality report, Modersbach and his colleagues first scour thousands of county death records, searching for clues that suggest homelessness: words like “encampment,” “tent” and “shelter.” They then cross reference that list with a database of everyone in the county who has experienced homelessness in the past five years — itself a bespoke repository that draws on the agency’s healthcare data and records from the county’s shelter and homeless assistance programs. To capture anyone they might miss, they cull information from service providers, media accounts and a public online portal for submitting tips about deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11973859,news_11974385]Since they began tracking homeless mortality, the team has traced an 80% increase in the number of deaths, which rose from 195 in 2018 to 351 in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/alameda-county-homeless-mortality.html\">the most recent year for which data was reported\u003c/a>. Over the same period, homelessness in the county jumped by nearly the same amount — or 77% — from 5,496 people to 9,747.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the numbers are snapshots of how and where people are dying. A body found in a car. An overdose at an encampment. People mangled by cars or trains; others charred. Modersbach finds the tableau at once unsurprising and shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the same inequities in our mortality data that are reflected in homelessness,” he said. Black people are overrepresented, comprising \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/asr1451/viz/TableauAlamedaCounty-HDXandSurveyData/SurveyTOC\">48% of the unhoused population\u003c/a> and accounting for 44% of the deaths — though they represent only 19% of deaths in the county’s general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are unhoused die at five times the rate of those with housing and do so more than two decades sooner — at an average age of 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The data shapes decisions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the deaths could be prevented, said Amy Garlin, Medical Director for Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream,” Garlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest share, 44% of the deaths among the homeless population, were caused by acute or chronic medical conditions, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and infections. Some of those appear to have been more immediately avoidable, Garlin said. “If these people had had medical care, they may not have died this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an encampment along East 12th Street in Oakland, Angel Gonzalez, 40, remembered the friends he’d known there who had died. An asthma attack claimed one, exposure another and a third succumbed to a fever. Though Gonzalez said he didn’t know what had caused the fever, he said people are often sick, and rat bites are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health-wise here, it’s bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s frequent violence, too. Gonzalez described a drive-by shooting that killed one friend and wounded others. But what claims most people in the camp, he and others said, is overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl is killing mostly everybody,” Gonzalez said, explaining that people unwittingly use fentanyl-laced meth or other drugs. “It’s kind of scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/25/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless/angel-gonzalez_qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980551\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg\" alt=\"a man stands in front of some cars and tents and belongings in an encampment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Gonzalez, 40, at an encampment on East 12th Street in Oakland, has seen many deaths at the camp, including from fevers, exposure, asthma attacks and gunshot wounds. But the most common cause by far is drug overdoses. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mortality data compiled by Modersbach’s team reflects this, with an alarming rate of overdose deaths among unhoused residents that is 44 times the general population’s. In response, they’ve expanded their harm reduction services, focusing on naloxone distribution and installing dispensers in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the East 12th Street camp, Gonzalez pointed out a purple dispenser on the street corner. Though Modersbach’s team had not installed it, it still proved lifesaving, Gonzalez said, when a friend recently used one of the naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless received \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/od2a/local.html\">a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> in 2023 to fund overdose response, a key part of their strategy to reduce mortality, and Modersbach credits their data for helping them get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy Garlin, Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\"]‘You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream.’[/pullquote]In Minnesota, the only state with a statewide robust system for tracking homeless mortality, public health officials took a similar approach. A report on deaths between 2017 and 2021 showed unhoused people in the state were 10 times more likely than the general population to die of an overdose. Shortly after that data was released in 2023, state lawmakers passed drug overdose prevention legislation that expanded harm reduction and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, decriminalized drug paraphernalia — a first for the U.S. — and funded “\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/alcohol-drugs-addictions/programs-and-services/safe-recovery-sites.jsp\">safe recovery sites\u003c/a>” that offer clean needles, fentanyl testing and will eventually offer supervised drug consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the data was really useful in making the case for some of those things, both with legislators and with the public and advocates,” said Josh Leopold, senior advisor on health, homelessness and housing at the Minnesota Department of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s latest homeless mortality report is now prompting the team to focus on how to extend palliative care services to unhoused people with terminal illnesses. Garlin estimates almost one-fifth of those who died in 2022 would likely have been eligible for hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in the ‘labor of love’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modersbach’s team is also working to automate the most tedious aspects of compiling the county’s homeless mortality report and aims to launch a public dashboard later this year that will make information available quarterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is that we do not have timely data that we can act upon more quickly because of the workarounds that we have to do to get an accurate count,” Modersbach said. “We’re almost always looking backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977614 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/021422-FRESNO-HOMELESS-LV-08-CM-1020x680.jpg']The county’s latest tally, for 2022, was released at the beginning of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz, San Diego, San Mateo, Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/chie/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820967/deaths-of-homeless-people-spike-in-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are among the counties with varying degrees of reporting on homeless deaths. In Santa Clara County, an early champion of this work, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sccgov.org/Health/Medical-Examiner-Coroner-Unhoused-Homeless-Deaths-/kemd-3zbq/data\">a public dashboard tracking homeless mortality is updated nightly\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s Office credited its partnership with a third-party vendor with allowing it to return results so quickly. So far this year, the dashboard listed 51 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, about two dozen jurisdictions have homeless mortality reports that are issued with some regularity, according to DiPietro of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, which tracks these efforts. But because the reporting isn’t standardized, it’s difficult to draw comparisons between them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/240315-david-modersbach-md-03-kqed-02/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg\" alt=\"a computer screen shows a tally of numbers\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-03-KQED-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statistics on homeless mortality in Alameda County on David Modersbach’s computer in his office in Oakland on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, despite the recent efforts to improve this tracking, limited resources will likely continue to hamper the reporting of homeless deaths. Since 2022, when the state added a field on death reports to indicate a person’s housing status, Modersbach has seen some evidence people are filling it out, but he worries many unhoused deaths will continue to go uncounted around the state because the funeral directors, coroners and physicians filling out the reports don’t often have the resources to determine whether someone was housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lonely, costly battle to just put all this information together, not a funded mandate,” he said. “It’s kind of a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties with well-established systems for tracking these deaths, Modersbach hopes AB 271, by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma), will make a difference. The new law allows counties to create homeless death review committees and access sensitive information about people who died. The data, which includes medical, mental health and criminal records, goes beyond what Modersbach and his team have so far been able to collect, giving them greater insight into the circumstances surrounding a person’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County assembled its death review committee last year, bringing together officials from several county agencies, homeless service providers and formerly unhoused people with the aim of finding ways to keep more people experiencing homelessness alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just getting started,” Modersbach said, “but this is the future for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">N\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>early a decade ago, David Modersbach had what he thought was a straightforward question: How many unhoused people had died that year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grants manager and his team at \u003ca href=\"https://www.achch.org/\">Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless\u003c/a> knew people were dying on the streets, but they wanted more than anecdotal evidence; they wanted data that could show them the big picture and help them hone their strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They queried the coroner’s bureau and were stunned by the response: only a single death had been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized there’s a lot of work to do,” Modersbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a bootstrap campaign to fill the data gap. It took years, and the work was sometimes lonely, often tedious and consistently heartbreaking. When the team finally released its first report in 2022, detailing deaths from 2018–20, they counted 195 people in Alameda County who died while homeless in 2018, plus another 189 people with recent histories of homelessness whose housing status couldn’t be verified at their time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/david-modersbach-works-in-his-office-in-oakland-on-march-15-2024/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a man with glasses and long hair, wearing a flannel shirt, sits behind a computer\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-DAVID-MODERSBACH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Modersbach works in his office in Oakland. Modersbach has spearheaded Alameda County’s efforts to count the deaths of unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As more Californians have fallen into homelessness — a number greater than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">181,000 at last count (PDF)\u003c/a> — more have died while unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spurred in part by Alameda County’s efforts, which are considered a national model for the field, the state recently began taking steps toward collecting this data. In 2022, California added a field to death records for homelessness status, and this year, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB271\">a law went into effect that empowers counties to set up homeless death review committees to determine the root causes of homeless mortality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several jurisdictions across the country seeking this data. The pandemic put a spotlight on the health vulnerabilities accompanying homelessness, and that has led to growing national interest in the topic, said Barbara DiPietro, senior director of policy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039\">A recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NYU found the death rate of people experiencing homelessness increased 238% between 2011 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the things that hopefully we took away from COVID is that homelessness is a public health issue,” she said. “Not only is living unhoused very dangerous and high risk for people experiencing homelessness, this isn’t good for communities either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers said the data is critical in assessing whether the state’s public health interventions for people on the streets work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is how we work to change things,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting statewide — let alone national — data detailing the number of unhoused deaths requires meticulous reporting on the part of local agencies. In the case of Alameda County, it was a system Modersbach had to build from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How they count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For each homeless mortality report, Modersbach and his colleagues first scour thousands of county death records, searching for clues that suggest homelessness: words like “encampment,” “tent” and “shelter.” They then cross reference that list with a database of everyone in the county who has experienced homelessness in the past five years — itself a bespoke repository that draws on the agency’s healthcare data and records from the county’s shelter and homeless assistance programs. To capture anyone they might miss, they cull information from service providers, media accounts and a public online portal for submitting tips about deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The data shapes decisions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the deaths could be prevented, said Amy Garlin, Medical Director for Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say almost all of these deaths are preventable if you go far enough upstream,” Garlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest share, 44% of the deaths among the homeless population, were caused by acute or chronic medical conditions, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and infections. Some of those appear to have been more immediately avoidable, Garlin said. “If these people had had medical care, they may not have died this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an encampment along East 12th Street in Oakland, Angel Gonzalez, 40, remembered the friends he’d known there who had died. An asthma attack claimed one, exposure another and a third succumbed to a fever. Though Gonzalez said he didn’t know what had caused the fever, he said people are often sick, and rat bites are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health-wise here, it’s bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s frequent violence, too. Gonzalez described a drive-by shooting that killed one friend and wounded others. But what claims most people in the camp, he and others said, is overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fentanyl is killing mostly everybody,” Gonzalez said, explaining that people unwittingly use fentanyl-laced meth or other drugs. “It’s kind of scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/25/why-california-doesnt-know-how-many-people-are-dying-while-homeless/angel-gonzalez_qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980551\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980551\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg\" alt=\"a man stands in front of some cars and tents and belongings in an encampment\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/Angel-Gonzalez_qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Gonzalez, 40, at an encampment on East 12th Street in Oakland, has seen many deaths at the camp, including from fevers, exposure, asthma attacks and gunshot wounds. But the most common cause by far is drug overdoses. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mortality data compiled by Modersbach’s team reflects this, with an alarming rate of overdose deaths among unhoused residents that is 44 times the general population’s. In response, they’ve expanded their harm reduction services, focusing on naloxone distribution and installing dispensers in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the East 12th Street camp, Gonzalez pointed out a purple dispenser on the street corner. Though Modersbach’s team had not installed it, it still proved lifesaving, Gonzalez said, when a friend recently used one of the naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless received \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/od2a/local.html\">a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> in 2023 to fund overdose response, a key part of their strategy to reduce mortality, and Modersbach credits their data for helping them get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Minnesota, the only state with a statewide robust system for tracking homeless mortality, public health officials took a similar approach. A report on deaths between 2017 and 2021 showed unhoused people in the state were 10 times more likely than the general population to die of an overdose. Shortly after that data was released in 2023, state lawmakers passed drug overdose prevention legislation that expanded harm reduction and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness, decriminalized drug paraphernalia — a first for the U.S. — and funded “\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/alcohol-drugs-addictions/programs-and-services/safe-recovery-sites.jsp\">safe recovery sites\u003c/a>” that offer clean needles, fentanyl testing and will eventually offer supervised drug consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the data was really useful in making the case for some of those things, both with legislators and with the public and advocates,” said Josh Leopold, senior advisor on health, homelessness and housing at the Minnesota Department of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County’s latest homeless mortality report is now prompting the team to focus on how to extend palliative care services to unhoused people with terminal illnesses. Garlin estimates almost one-fifth of those who died in 2022 would likely have been eligible for hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in the ‘labor of love’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Modersbach’s team is also working to automate the most tedious aspects of compiling the county’s homeless mortality report and aims to launch a public dashboard later this year that will make information available quarterly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is that we do not have timely data that we can act upon more quickly because of the workarounds that we have to do to get an accurate count,” Modersbach said. “We’re almost always looking backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Big changes are coming to the way people buy and sell houses in the United States. The National Association of Realtors settled a lawsuit last week that could up-end the way real estate agents are paid, doing away with the traditional agent’s commission of 5–6%. That’s prompting a reckoning for buyers, sellers and real estate agents. Here are six things to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if you already sold a house?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement, the National Association of Realtors agreed to pay $418 million over the next four years. That’s in addition to $210 million that various brokerage firms had already agreed to pay. Lawyers will get a chunk of that money, but the rest will go to people who sold their homes in recent years and paid what critics argue were inflated real estate commissions. Eligibility depends on where you live, but in some parts of the country, the settlement covers people who sold homes as much as a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know the exact number, but we estimate it to be in the neighborhood of 40 or 50 million” people, says Benjamin Brown, co-chair of the anti-trust practice at Cohen Milstein, one of the law firms involved in the class-action case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out if they’re entitled to compensation, sellers can check the lawyers’ website: \u003ca href=\"https://www.realestatecommissionlitigation.com/\">www.realestatecommissionlitigation.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this change real estate commissions?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, the norm in this country has been for the person selling a home to pay both her own agent and the buyer’s agent. What’s more, the buyer’s share of that commission had to be spelled out in order to advertise the home on the big regional listing sites. Realtors insist they never fixed those commissions, but as a practical matter, the public notice worked to set a standard — often in the neighborhood of 5 or 6%, split between the seller’s agent and the buyer’s agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11980019 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1468009097-1020x680.jpg']For a home priced at $400,000 — which is close to the national average — that works out to $20,000 to $24,000 in commissions — much higher than people in other countries typically pay. In Germany, commissions average 4.5%. In the U.K., they’re under 2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in July, sellers will no longer have to spell out a commission for the buyer’s agent. Advocates say that should lead to more negotiation, more competition and ultimately lower costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What increased negotiations mean for buyers and sellers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s going to be more opportunity to shop around, and likely a wider array of services, from deluxe agents who charge a premium price to discount agents with more limited services — similar to what exists in other markets like stock brokers and travel agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sellers may be able to negotiate a flat fee to market their house, not connected to the selling price. Buyers may be able to purchase a la carte services — paying less if they do their own house-hunting on the Internet and more if they want to be chauffeured around to open houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many sellers may decide not to pay the buyer’s agent, leaving buyers to shoulder that cost on their own, or go without an agent altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall expenses are expected to be significantly lower, however. Economists at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_brief/2024/eb_24-08\">Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond\u003c/a> estimate the changes could save homebuyers $30 billion a year, with most of those savings coming out of the pockets of real estate agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does this mean for agents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Agents are still sorting out what this might mean for their business. When fees are more negotiable, agents will have to make the case for what they’re worth. But the best agents feel like they do that already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kevin Wilson, president, Greater Nashville Realtors\"]‘Do I think that Realtors have to learn to do business in a different way? Absolutely. But I also think this is a wrinkle in the landscape. Not a landmine.’[/pullquote]“Do I think that Realtors have to learn to do business in a different way? Absolutely,” says Kevin Wilson, president of the Greater Nashville Realtors. “But I also think this is a wrinkle in the landscape. Not a landmine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A drop in commissions might drive some agents into other lines of work, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The U.S. has 2.5 to 3 million real estate agents — which is far more than any other country, relative to the size of its housing market. For example, the U.S. has about six times more home sales each year than the U.K. does, but 26 times more agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we see agents that work with buyers start to phase out of the business because they’re just not getting as many clients?” asks Jovani Ortiz, an agent on Long Island. “These are sort of the unknowns that most agents are looking at right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the commission pie is likely to shrink, it may be cut into fewer slices, so the remaining agents might end up making the same amount of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>With home prices and mortgage rates already high, how will homebuyers pay for their own agents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While sellers have traditionally paid buyers’ agents in the U.S. (and built that expense into the sales price of their home), many sellers may opt not to pay buyers’ agents in the future. In that case, buyers will have to pay their own agent out of pocket, on top of a down payment and other closing costs. Finding thousands of dollars to pay an agent could be a challenge, especially for first-time buyers, who typically have limited funds and also the greatest need for an agent’s guidance. First-time buyers accounted for just 26% of existing home sales in February — tying a record low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vanessa Perry, professor, George Washington University School of Business\"]‘Many first time buyers are already at the absolute max of what they’re able to borrow. They’re not going to be able to come up with any additional cash to pay their own agent’[/pullquote]“Many first time buyers are already at the absolute max of what they’re able to borrow,” says Vanessa Perry, a professor at George Washington University School of Business and a fellow at the Urban Institute’s Housing Policy Finance Center. “They’re not going to be able to come up with any additional cash to pay their own agent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Home sellers could still agree through negotiation to pay the buyer’s agent. But in a hot housing market, sellers may have little incentive to do so. Eventually, buyers may be able to fold the cost of their agent’s commission into their mortgage, stretching the payments out over the life of the loan. But that will require a change in mortgage underwriting rules. 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"content": "\u003cp>Guaranteed income has become a buzzword in California as the state struggles to stop people from getting priced out of their homes and landing on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest entity pushing to give cash directly to people in need isn’t a nonprofit or an uber-progressive politician — it’s a massive federal agency not typically known for its innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging local housing authorities to experiment with giving cash directly to renters in pilot programs it wants to track. It wants to know if this simplified method, which cuts down on red tape and puts more power in tenants’ hands, works better than its decades-old approach: a voucher system where money flows from the federal government to the local housing authority to the landlord’s pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the tests succeed, they could inspire national change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could be a significant sea change in how HUD implements subsidies,” said Jimar Wilson, vice president of the Southern California market for national housing nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners, which is considering getting involved in the test program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the pilots could help more people find housing by making landlords less likely to discriminate against renters who get federal aid. At least one California housing authority — in Silicon Valley — is very interested in participating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nobody knows what these programs would look like and, most importantly, how they would be funded. Despite advocating for guaranteed income pilot programs, HUD said it can’t use federal money, placing the idea in limbo until funding sources come forward. Santa Clara County’s housing authority has pushed back on HUD’s claim that it can’t use federal money for this purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1='https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout,Sold Out - Rethinking Housing in America' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/horizontal-image-1020x574.png']“HUD doing this and being willing to look at the role of cash aid or direct cash assistance or subsidies in this way is moving in the right direction,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Santa Clara County-based nonprofit Destination: Home. “What would make it incredibly perfect is if they were championing new funding for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD published \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-frm-asst-sec-090523.html\">an online article in September\u003c/a> calling for nonprofits to partner with it on cash-aid pilots, convened \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/event/quarterlyupdate-November2023.html#:~:text=On%20Thursday%2C%20November%2016%2C%202023,cash%20assistance%20programs%20and%20housing.\">an in-person event in November\u003c/a> to discuss cash aid and has been hosting monthly virtual meetings on the topic attended by nonprofits and housing authorities around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD offered CalMatters an interview with one of the September article’s co-authors — then rescinded the offer two days later. Instead, a HUD spokesperson sent an emailed statement that referenced the article, November event, and monthly meetings but failed to address several of CalMatters’ questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Biden-Harris Administration has made strides to expand, streamline, and strengthen the (Housing Choice Voucher) program, including continuing to explore a broad range of actions to improve and expand rental assistance for low-income households,” spokesperson Andra Higgs wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why give people cash?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea of giving cash directly to people in need, known as guaranteed income, is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/02/universal-basic-income/\">swiftly gaining traction in California\u003c/a>. Nonprofits, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895209/concord-launches-guaranteed-income-pilot-as-programs-gain-traction-in-the-bay-area\">cities\u003c/a> and counties throughout the state have launched \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/guaranteed-income-program/\">dozens\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934613/gift-is-san-franciscos-guaranteed-income-program-for-transgender-people-heres-how-to-apply\">local programs\u003c/a>. Even Gov. Gavin Newsom recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/Press%20Releases/2023/CDSS-News-Release-Guaranteed-Income-Pilots.pdf\">set aside $35 million (PDF)\u003c/a> to fund a handful of programs testing the idea. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946467/study-shows-limits-of-stocktons-guaranteed-income-program-during-pandemic\">Early results\u003c/a> suggest this model has helped people become more financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philadelphia is already \u003ca href=\"https://phdcphila.org/residents-and-landlords/homebuyers-and-renters/phlhousing-plus/\">testing giving 300 renters cash instead of housing vouchers\u003c/a> — a program \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1238053555/rent-cash-philadelphia-hud-housing-vouchers\">HUD is keeping a close eye on\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, cash aid programs have been limited to scattered, small-scale, temporary pilots that lack the resources to scale up. HUD jumping into the ring marks the first time a federal agency is taking a cohesive look at the model and potentially creating a path for it to influence national policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what’s exciting about this, the fact that the initial call has come from HUD,” said Alexa Rosenberg, who co-leads Enterprise’s economic mobility initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD operates the country’s Housing Choice Voucher program (also known as Section 8), which doles out vouchers to low-income tenants who can’t afford market-rate rent. The program started in the 1970s as an alternative to place-based subsidized housing. Instead of having to rent an apartment in a building specifically designated as affordable housing, the tenant can use the voucher to pay a portion of the rent at any market-rate property. Payments under the voucher system go directly to the landlord, who first has to pass a housing inspection. Tenants pay 30% of their income toward rent, and the voucher covers the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That system, which is a cornerstone of America’s subsidized housing program, has several problems. People languish for years on waitlists before they get a voucher, and many never get one at all. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/families-wait-years-for-housing-vouchers-due-to-inadequate-funding\">Only about one in four households\u003c/a> eligible for rental assistance receives it, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those tenants lucky enough to score a voucher, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Voucher-Success_Rates.pdf\">about 40% can’t use it (PDF)\u003c/a>: They either can’t find an apartment that meets HUD’s requirements or a landlord willing to accept the voucher, according to HUD data. Though California prohibits landlords from discriminating against a potential tenant based on their source of income, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-19/california-outlawed-section-8-housing-discrimination-why-it-still-persists\">many still refuse to rent to voucher-holders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The direct cash program could eliminate some of those issues. \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdredge/DRA-proposal-9-5-23.pdf\">The housing department (PDF)\u003c/a> envisions allowing the tenant to inspect their own unit rather than having to wait for an official inspection from their local housing authority. And the landlord would not have to sign a contract with the housing authority. Instead, the renter would pay the landlord directly, just like any other renter. Advocates say that could help prevent discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s housing authority is “very interested” in participating, said deputy executive director Angie Garcia-Nguyen. Her team has been attending monthly virtual meetings hosted by HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought this would be a good opportunity to learn where we have been a barrier in folks achieving housing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margarita Lares, chief programs officer for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, is less convinced. She worries that without oversight, renters will spend the cash they get from this program on things other than rent — leaving their landlords in the lurch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone within HUD is convinced cash is necessarily the answer, either. The current voucher system is working, said Richard Monocchio, principal deputy assistant secretary of HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing. He called it “the best homelessness prevention program of all time.” While he said he has nothing against testing cash aid, he doesn’t think it will prevent discrimination, and he’s focused instead on increasing resources for the existing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to do anything to diminish this program,” he said. “I mean, it’s the largest rental assistance program in history, and it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/23/the-feds-want-organizations-to-give-cash-straight-to-renters-but-who-will-pay-for-it/sfchroniclehousingcrunch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980574\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the housing crisis in California, many nonprofit groups and advocates are eager for new ways to improve access to affordable housing. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>So, who’s paying for this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s main hang-up when it comes to a cash-aid pilot? A lack of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-frm-asst-sec-090523.html\">HUD said it doesn’t have the authority\u003c/a> to use federal funds to pay for this experiment. Garcia-Nguyen disagrees. She said Santa Clara County, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/mtw\">HUD’s Moving to Work program\u003c/a> — which is supposed to fund innovation — should be allowed to use federal dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without federal money, Garcia-Nguyen doesn’t see a way forward. Their average housing voucher payment is $2,200 per month. HUD envisions these pilots lasting up to four years, and experts say each one likely would need a few hundred people in order to demonstrate convincing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of money,” Garcia-Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD has indicated it will reconsider its position on Moving to Work funds, Garcia-Nguyen said, and now they’re waiting for the agency’s final determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD declined to comment to CalMatters on the funding question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, HUD expects nonprofits to pay for this effort. But so far, none has committed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen our members jumping at this,” said Amanda Misiko Andere, CEO of Funders Together to End Homelessness, an organization made up of homelessness nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Angie Garcia-Nguyen, Santa Clara County housing authority\"]‘We’re going to need a lot of money.’[/pullquote]Housing organizations generally support the concept of cash aid, but are reluctant to be the first one to throw their hat in the ring, said Jeanne Fekade-Sellassie, executive director of Funders for Housing and Opportunity. Before they commit, they want more details about what the programs will look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, HUD’s best bet is likely Enterprise. The national housing nonprofit could act as an umbrella agency that helps coordinate the pilots — making sure they operate with similar guidelines, setting evaluation metrics and bringing together funders, Rosenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enterprise wants a year to plan its approach, pick locations for pilots and identify resources. Just to fund that year of planning, Enterprise will need about $850,000, Rosenberg said. After that, she estimates it would cost between $4.7 million and $7.7 million to fund each pilot for between three and five years, plus an additional $2 or $3 million in infrastructure costs. She hopes they launch at least five pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Enterprise isn’t committing to anything until it has funding in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What comes next for HUD rent experiment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if these pilot programs get off the ground and succeed — essentially proving to the federal government that cash payments work — what happens next is unclear. 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HUD jumping into the ring marks the first time a federal agency is taking a cohesive look at the model and potentially creating a path for it to influence national policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what’s exciting about this, the fact that the initial call has come from HUD,” said Alexa Rosenberg, who co-leads Enterprise’s economic mobility initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD operates the country’s Housing Choice Voucher program (also known as Section 8), which doles out vouchers to low-income tenants who can’t afford market-rate rent. The program started in the 1970s as an alternative to place-based subsidized housing. Instead of having to rent an apartment in a building specifically designated as affordable housing, the tenant can use the voucher to pay a portion of the rent at any market-rate property. Payments under the voucher system go directly to the landlord, who first has to pass a housing inspection. Tenants pay 30% of their income toward rent, and the voucher covers the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That system, which is a cornerstone of America’s subsidized housing program, has several problems. People languish for years on waitlists before they get a voucher, and many never get one at all. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/families-wait-years-for-housing-vouchers-due-to-inadequate-funding\">Only about one in four households\u003c/a> eligible for rental assistance receives it, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those tenants lucky enough to score a voucher, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Voucher-Success_Rates.pdf\">about 40% can’t use it (PDF)\u003c/a>: They either can’t find an apartment that meets HUD’s requirements or a landlord willing to accept the voucher, according to HUD data. Though California prohibits landlords from discriminating against a potential tenant based on their source of income, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-19/california-outlawed-section-8-housing-discrimination-why-it-still-persists\">many still refuse to rent to voucher-holders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The direct cash program could eliminate some of those issues. \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdredge/DRA-proposal-9-5-23.pdf\">The housing department (PDF)\u003c/a> envisions allowing the tenant to inspect their own unit rather than having to wait for an official inspection from their local housing authority. And the landlord would not have to sign a contract with the housing authority. Instead, the renter would pay the landlord directly, just like any other renter. Advocates say that could help prevent discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s housing authority is “very interested” in participating, said deputy executive director Angie Garcia-Nguyen. Her team has been attending monthly virtual meetings hosted by HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought this would be a good opportunity to learn where we have been a barrier in folks achieving housing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margarita Lares, chief programs officer for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, is less convinced. She worries that without oversight, renters will spend the cash they get from this program on things other than rent — leaving their landlords in the lurch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone within HUD is convinced cash is necessarily the answer, either. The current voucher system is working, said Richard Monocchio, principal deputy assistant secretary of HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing. He called it “the best homelessness prevention program of all time.” While he said he has nothing against testing cash aid, he doesn’t think it will prevent discrimination, and he’s focused instead on increasing resources for the existing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to do anything to diminish this program,” he said. “I mean, it’s the largest rental assistance program in history, and it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/23/the-feds-want-organizations-to-give-cash-straight-to-renters-but-who-will-pay-for-it/sfchroniclehousingcrunch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11980574\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1309172817-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the housing crisis in California, many nonprofit groups and advocates are eager for new ways to improve access to affordable housing. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>So, who’s paying for this?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s main hang-up when it comes to a cash-aid pilot? A lack of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-frm-asst-sec-090523.html\">HUD said it doesn’t have the authority\u003c/a> to use federal funds to pay for this experiment. Garcia-Nguyen disagrees. She said Santa Clara County, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/mtw\">HUD’s Moving to Work program\u003c/a> — which is supposed to fund innovation — should be allowed to use federal dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without federal money, Garcia-Nguyen doesn’t see a way forward. Their average housing voucher payment is $2,200 per month. HUD envisions these pilots lasting up to four years, and experts say each one likely would need a few hundred people in order to demonstrate convincing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of money,” Garcia-Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD has indicated it will reconsider its position on Moving to Work funds, Garcia-Nguyen said, and now they’re waiting for the agency’s final determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD declined to comment to CalMatters on the funding question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, HUD expects nonprofits to pay for this effort. But so far, none has committed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen our members jumping at this,” said Amanda Misiko Andere, CEO of Funders Together to End Homelessness, an organization made up of homelessness nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley landlords aim to get a measure on the November ballot that would de-fang the city’s rent board and dedicate more money for rent relief — an initiative that could potentially set the stage for dueling ballot measures between landlord and tenant groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest effort by Bay Area property owners to fight tenant protections at the ballot box. In Concord, a referendum drive is underway to undo the city’s recently adopted rent control plan. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977071/larkspur-voters-to-decide-future-of-rent-control-in-their-city\">similar referendum\u003c/a> in Larkspur narrowly failed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Krista Gulbransen, executive director, Berkeley Property Owners Association\"]‘I think the voters are ready for a citizens’ initiative like this one. I do believe very strongly that a lot of citizens of Berkeley are pretty fed up with some of the overregulation of the government on small businesses and small property owners.’[/pullquote]Property owners in Berkeley began gathering signatures on Thursday in hopes of putting their own initiative on the ballot that would make sweeping changes to the city’s rent board, modify grounds for evictions, and exempt more properties from the city’s rent stabilization and eviction ordinance. The plan also calls for a rent relief fund for certain tenants who can’t pay, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the voters are ready for a citizens’ initiative like this one,” said Krista Gulbransen, executive director of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, which is behind the effort. “I do believe very strongly that a lot of citizens of Berkeley are pretty fed up with some of the overregulation of the government on small businesses and small property owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort follows one from renters’ advocates, who have been collecting signatures since early March for their own measure that would strengthen the city’s tenant protections. In a statement, rent board chair Leah Simon-Weisberg blasted the property owners’ proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that Berkeley voters will see through the corporate landlords’ strategy of chaos,” Simon-Weisberg said. “Time and again, corporate money flows into Berkeley elections, only to be defeated by community organizing and the grassroots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property owners’ initiative would exempt more owner-occupied properties from the city’s rent stabilization and eviction ordinance, raise the rent cap slightly to 7.1%, and allow landlords to negotiate with tenants for even higher increases in exchange for more services or amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, chair, Berkeley Rent Board\"]‘I am confident that Berkeley voters will see through the corporate landlords’ strategy of chaos. Time and again, corporate money flows into Berkeley elections, only to be defeated by community organizing and the grassroots.’[/pullquote]But perhaps the most substantial of its proposed changes are to the city’s rent board. It would strip the rent board of certain powers, including eliminating its ability to reduce rents in the case of tenant relocation or repairs, determine whether property owners comply with health and safety laws, and intervene as an interested party in lawsuits. It would also eliminate commissioners’ salaries and require the board to be audited every three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the proposal be challenged in court, the city must defend the initiative and protect its proponents from damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rent relief fund proposed in the initiative, Gulbransen said property owners are still reeling from rents lost during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This rent relief fund is critical,” she said. “I have property owners who are still struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed program would rely on an existing tax on large landlords that voters approved in 2016, called Measure U1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11977071,news_11970062,news_11975969\"]Gulbransen has \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2017/03/31/opinion-berkeley-done-bait-switch-using-housing-funds-buy-new-council-chambers\">criticized city leaders\u003c/a> for misusing money from the measure. The Berkeley Property Owners Association sponsored a competing initiative at the time, Measure DD, that would have implemented a more modest tax increase. Voters rejected that measure \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2016/10/12/real-estate-interests-spend-big-in-berkeley-to-defeat-spike-in-rental-tax\">despite landlords spending over $780,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association’s initiative would ensure that a portion of the 2016 tax is dedicated to rent relief, raising an estimated $1.2 million annually and creating a new committee to oversee the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s current rent relief fund, the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/affordable-housing-berkeley/housing-retention-program\">Housing Retention Program\u003c/a>, is administered by the Eviction Defense Center. Anne Tamiko Omura, Executive Director of the center, called the program one of the best in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has put millions of dollars into landlord pockets and kept hundreds of low-income tenants housed,” she wrote in an email to KQED. “My gut reaction is, ‘If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Rent Board Vice Chair Soli Alpert said he wants to see more money dedicated to the city’s existing rent relief fund, but he’s critical of the association’s proposal, dismissing it as “a distraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director, Eviction Defense Center\"]‘My gut reaction is, ‘If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.”[/pullquote]“I don’t think the landlords should be in charge of what happens with the landlord tax,” he said. “Pardon me if I don’t think that landlords have the best interests of tenants in mind when they’re talking about the use of these funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg and Alpert are the proponents behind another ballot measure, developed and approved by the rent board. It would strengthen existing renter protections by removing an exception for two-unit rentals that were grandfathered into the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Ordinance, subjecting them to both rent control and just-cause protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed Berkeley Tenant Protection and Right to Organize Act would also establish the right to form tenant associations. With support from 50% plus one occupied units in a complex, tenants could form a union and demand their landlord negotiate over grievances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco became the first city in the country to pass such \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-legislation-tenant-organizing-and-tenant-associations#:~:text=The%20Right%2DTo%2DOrganize%20legislation,surveys)%20to%20ascertain%20interest%20in\">right-to-organize legislation\u003c/a> in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Soli Alpert, vice chair, Berkeley Rent Board\"]‘I don’t think the landlords should be in charge of what happens with the landlord tax. Pardon me if I don’t think that landlords have the best interests of tenants in mind when they’re talking about the use of these funds.’[/pullquote]The initiative by the Berkeley Property Owners Association would establish a higher threshold for creating a tenants’ union, requiring two-thirds of occupied rental units to sign on. Owners would have to confer with associations in good faith, but unlike the tenant advocates’ proposal, the rent board wouldn’t have the authority to define the terms of a “good faith” negotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property owners’ proposal also seeks a less restrictive form of eviction protection than what the tenant advocates are seeking. Under the tenants’ plan, renters couldn’t be evicted if they owe less than the equivalent of one month’s fair market rent — an amount determined by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the property owners’ proposal, evictions would be prohibited if the tenant owes less than one month of the rent outlined in their lease agreement unless they haven’t paid for more than 90 days, among a few other modifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gulbransen said the association added these changes in response to the tenants’ proposed ballot initiative in the hopes that it would entice more voters to support their competing proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The documentary also reveals how the conflict over the Crossley Tract trees is resolved; however, this article and audio story are both spoiler-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Report Magazine\u003c/em>’s host, Sasha Khokha, sat down with filmmakers Sara Newens and Mina T. Son to talk about Racist Trees, which is available on PBS’s Independent Lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below are excerpts of the conversation. For the full interview on The California Report Magazine, listen to the audio at the top of this story.\u003c/em>\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On why they made this film\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: We were on the lookout for stories that were somewhat local. We have both spent a lot of time in Palm Springs as a respite to get away, to enjoy the sun. We were there, and we saw the cover of the Desert Sun: it was a picture of this wall of trees and a headline that basically said many residents believe they were planted with racist intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first thought was, “There’s a Black community in Palm Springs that I don’t know about? Where is this neighborhood?!” We figured if it was a blind spot for us that this neighborhood even existed, then it might be for a lot of other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-scaled.jpg\" alt='A folded newspaper from The Desert Sun that says \"Divided by Trees\" on a doormat.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of several articles featured on the cover of The Desert Sun that sparked international media attention and backlash against the so-called ‘racist trees’ that were planted in Palm Springs in the late 1950s. \u003ccite>(Jerry Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On the history of Crossley Tract\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>MINA T. SON: Crossley Tract is named after Lawrence Crossley, who founded the neighborhood. Crossley bought this tract of land for Black families to be able to live in the city. It wasn’t incorporated as part of Palm Springs at the time, so it was just on the outskirts, which is why he was able to buy the land and allow families to live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: But many of the Black families had to live in Crossley Tract because they were pushed out of an area that is now downtown Palm Springs, called Section 14. Section 14 is originally tribal land and part of the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Indians, who welcomed Black families onto their land. Actually, all communities of color were welcome to live there because they weren’t allowed to live in Palm Springs proper. At some point, city leaders realized that the commercial value of this land was very valuable, and they forcibly removed these families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the trees themselves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>MINA T. SON: Imagine a wall 60 feet tall and five to maybe 10 feet deep. It was such a striking visual metaphor about exclusion and segregation. Not only is this community sort of excluded from the rest of the city of Palm Springs, but these trees — because they’re so big, and they’re so tall — they’re actually blocking that million-dollar view of the mountains that so many people in Palm Springs come for. Real estate has skyrocketed, but [Crossley Tract] has not seen that appreciation. Many speculate it’s because of these trees and the lack of that view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When [Crossley Tract residents] started complaining and trying to raise their voices to the city about having the trees removed, and having that be unanswered for decades, I think it compounded the idea of being unseen and unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man sits in a chair outside with trees in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-2048x1080.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-1920x1013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossley Tract resident Charles Metcalf, Jr. finds himself surrounded by detritus from the imposing Tamarisk trees bordering his property. \u003ccite>(Jerry Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On the tension between white gay leadership and Black residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: From the beginning, Mina and I really wanted to investigate this “turning a blind eye” to racism in a liberal town. I think it’s more common that people can talk about overt racial issues in other areas of the country. It was just very mystifying to us why [in Palm Springs] there wasn’t more acknowledgment of this being a potential issue, especially given the history with Section 14. So we really wanted to showcase the lengths to which it can be uncomfortable for white people to acknowledge [racism], especially if they have their own identity of their progressive politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways — and we’ve heard this from many people of color who have watched the film — it’s more insidious that this is happening in liberal communities. There is no acknowledgment, despite a community literally sitting there saying, “This feels like an act of racism! Our property values are being depressed, and we deserve what everyone else in this city deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>“There’s no tamarisk trees anywhere else along this golf course. Anywhere. Now, I’m not blaming the current city officials for planting these trees here, but I’m kind of borderline blaming them for being the reason why they’re still here.”\u003c/i> — Charles Metcalf, Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: I think what Charles says [in our documentary] sums up nicely the fact that it doesn’t matter if there was racist intent when the trees were planted. It’s the fact that they remained there, and there were many efforts by the Black community to try to get the city’s attention. Unfortunately, it took this white guy named Trae Daniel to come in and really start using a megaphone to get the city’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a blue dress shirt sits in a chair outside in a backyard in front of a pool.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trae Daniel, a newer resident of Crossley Tract, took up the mantle to advocate for the removal of the Tamarisk trees after the city of Palm Springs ignored Black residents for decades. \u003ccite>(Jerry Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>MINA T. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first thought was, “There’s a Black community in Palm Springs that I don’t know about? Where is this neighborhood?!” We figured if it was a blind spot for us that this neighborhood even existed, then it might be for a lot of other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980368\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-scaled.jpg\" alt='A folded newspaper from The Desert Sun that says \"Divided by Trees\" on a doormat.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_02-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of several articles featured on the cover of The Desert Sun that sparked international media attention and backlash against the so-called ‘racist trees’ that were planted in Palm Springs in the late 1950s. \u003ccite>(Jerry Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On the history of Crossley Tract\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>MINA T. SON: Crossley Tract is named after Lawrence Crossley, who founded the neighborhood. Crossley bought this tract of land for Black families to be able to live in the city. It wasn’t incorporated as part of Palm Springs at the time, so it was just on the outskirts, which is why he was able to buy the land and allow families to live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: But many of the Black families had to live in Crossley Tract because they were pushed out of an area that is now downtown Palm Springs, called Section 14. Section 14 is originally tribal land and part of the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Indians, who welcomed Black families onto their land. Actually, all communities of color were welcome to live there because they weren’t allowed to live in Palm Springs proper. At some point, city leaders realized that the commercial value of this land was very valuable, and they forcibly removed these families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the trees themselves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>MINA T. SON: Imagine a wall 60 feet tall and five to maybe 10 feet deep. It was such a striking visual metaphor about exclusion and segregation. Not only is this community sort of excluded from the rest of the city of Palm Springs, but these trees — because they’re so big, and they’re so tall — they’re actually blocking that million-dollar view of the mountains that so many people in Palm Springs come for. Real estate has skyrocketed, but [Crossley Tract] has not seen that appreciation. Many speculate it’s because of these trees and the lack of that view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When [Crossley Tract residents] started complaining and trying to raise their voices to the city about having the trees removed, and having that be unanswered for decades, I think it compounded the idea of being unseen and unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man sits in a chair outside with trees in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-2048x1080.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_SigImage-1920x1013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossley Tract resident Charles Metcalf, Jr. finds himself surrounded by detritus from the imposing Tamarisk trees bordering his property. \u003ccite>(Jerry Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On the tension between white gay leadership and Black residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: From the beginning, Mina and I really wanted to investigate this “turning a blind eye” to racism in a liberal town. I think it’s more common that people can talk about overt racial issues in other areas of the country. It was just very mystifying to us why [in Palm Springs] there wasn’t more acknowledgment of this being a potential issue, especially given the history with Section 14. So we really wanted to showcase the lengths to which it can be uncomfortable for white people to acknowledge [racism], especially if they have their own identity of their progressive politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways — and we’ve heard this from many people of color who have watched the film — it’s more insidious that this is happening in liberal communities. There is no acknowledgment, despite a community literally sitting there saying, “This feels like an act of racism! Our property values are being depressed, and we deserve what everyone else in this city deserves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>“There’s no tamarisk trees anywhere else along this golf course. Anywhere. Now, I’m not blaming the current city officials for planting these trees here, but I’m kind of borderline blaming them for being the reason why they’re still here.”\u003c/i> — Charles Metcalf, Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SARA NEWENS: I think what Charles says [in our documentary] sums up nicely the fact that it doesn’t matter if there was racist intent when the trees were planted. It’s the fact that they remained there, and there were many efforts by the Black community to try to get the city’s attention. Unfortunately, it took this white guy named Trae Daniel to come in and really start using a megaphone to get the city’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a blue dress shirt sits in a chair outside in a backyard in front of a pool.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/RACISTTREES_PubStills_04-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trae Daniel, a newer resident of Crossley Tract, took up the mantle to advocate for the removal of the Tamarisk trees after the city of Palm Springs ignored Black residents for decades. \u003ccite>(Jerry Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>MINA T. SON: One of the things that Sara and I found particularly interesting about the story was Trae’s role. Why was he so invested in these trees? Particularly because he’s not Black and didn’t have that investment in the neighborhood. People can speculate, but I think he sticks with saying that he believed something was wrong, and he thought if he could be a part of correcting that wrong, he wanted to be able to use his voice. And I think the residents [of Crossley Tract] understood that. They welcomed it, and they acknowledged the power that he had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On takeaways for viewers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>MINA T. SON: This story seems local, because obviously it’s in Palm Springs and it’s talking about this one row of trees. But it’s representative of so many other issues in the country. In this city, it happens to be trees. In Santa Monica, it’s highways. In other areas, it’s railroads. There’s so many other barriers and so many other stories like this across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we want real progress in this country, I think people need to have very open and probably uncomfortable conversations around race. And that includes what happened in the past. I think it’s hard for people when they think, well, I didn’t do that, so why do I have to talk about it? Or why do I have to feel bad about it? Or why do I have to do something about it? It’s not personal in that sense, but it’s very systemic. It’s people outside of the Black community and people outside of these marginalized communities that have to do the work and find ways to make amends in order to truly move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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These have been a few long weeks, sleepless weeks.’[/pullquote]After breathing a sigh of relief that Proposition 1 was able to survive an unfriendly primary electorate, Newsom aimed much of his remarks at the county governments who will be tasked with implementing many of the measure’s provisions. The governor acknowledged his legacy would hinge in part on the rollout of the measure and related programs at the intersection of behavioral health and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got three more years here, roughly, to prove that we can make a dent in this,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> called Proposition 1’s victory late Wednesday. The measure currently leads by just under 30,000 votes — out of more than 7 million ballots cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broad bipartisan coalition backed Proposition 1, and supporters vastly outspent a mostly volunteer group of opponents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Without admitting wrongdoing, the association said it would pay $418 million over approximately four years. It also gave up its right to appeal and agreed to change its practices around setting commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has always been our goal to preserve consumer choice and protect our members to the greatest extent possible,” Nykia Wright, interim CEO of the NAR, said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/nar-reaches-agreement-to-resolve-nationwide-claims-brought-by-home-sellers\">a statement\u003c/a>. “This settlement achieves both of those goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people looking to buy or sell a home, here’s what this settlement means:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do real estate agents get their commissions today? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine you’re on Zillow or Redfin, looking to buy a home. You see the list price for a home, but what you might not realize is that the commission for both the buyer’s and seller’s agents is baked into that price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, the National Association of Realtors made it mandatory to publish in the home listing how much agents stand to make from a sale. While there isn’t a set rule for how much the commission should be, it became industry practice to set it around 5%–6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Previously, the buyer’s and seller’s agents would split the commission, but now, the buyer and seller will both be responsible for paying their respective agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the settlement does is [it] enables both the buyer and the seller to negotiate with the broker upfront of what level of service they want and what their fees are going to be,” said Ted Tozer, a fellow at the Urban Institute, who specializes in housing finance. “I think, in the long run, this is very positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How will the world of real estate change? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Likely, quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because commission rates can’t be set up front, realtors will have to compete for business and may offer lower rates to their clients. But it could also mean bad news for part-time realtors, who have otherwise relied on that 5%–6% commission as an occasional income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a realtor and you only sell a couple houses a month, you’re going to have a tough time making it,” Tozer said. “You will probably have less realtors in numbers, but the ones that are doing business are probably going to be more effective at what they’re doing because they’ll have to make it a full-time job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What does all this mean for me, a home buyer or seller? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Firstly, because this is a class-action lawsuit, some home sellers might be entitled to compensation. But it doesn’t include California. It only pertains to metro areas in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the proposed settlement will likely empower home buyers and sellers to negotiate the commission rate with their agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the lawsuit was all about was that the sellers felt like they should have more control,” Tozer said. “I should have the ability to have a say in what I’m paying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After winding down a trailer site at Pier 94 used for emergency housing during the pandemic, San Francisco is now looking to offload a portion of its RVs to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will consider accepting up to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6565671&GUID=4B00A68B-8528-428A-AC7C-94BFD14FFD92\">60 of the 120 trailers\u003c/a>, which could be donated to nonprofits that provide shelter to people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential handoff comes nearly four years after Gov. Gavin Newsom sent nearly 1,300 trailers across the state to help California counties house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947567/what-happened-to-the-1300-rvs-gov-newsom-sent-to-address-homelessness-back-in-2020\">saw mixed outcomes across the state\u003c/a> — with some cities embracing the solution and others letting the trailers gather dust. But in San Francisco, the trailer site at Pier 94 ultimately became the city’s longest-running COVID-response emergency housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A line of trailers sits inside a park with wire fencing in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-03-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located at an industrial site in the city’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, the trailers were always intended to be a temporary measure. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness pushed to keep it open so residents could find housing placements before exiting. Altogether, the program ran from April 2020 until January 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), said city leaders had hoped to keep the program running at another location but, after months of searching, couldn’t find a suitable replacement site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Thomas Taylor, supervisor, Felton Institute\"]‘This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets. It showed them that there are people actually there for them.’[/pullquote]The Port of San Francisco owns Pier 94 and has plans to eventually use the site for offshore wind production. In the near future, it will be available for lease, according to Eric Young, director of communications for the Port of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that all RV residents have moved out, the city must figure out what to do with the trailers Oakland doesn’t claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets,” said Thomas Taylor, who left his job as a banker early in the pandemic to become a supervisor at the Felton Institute, which oversaw the trailer program. “It showed them that there are people actually there for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Life at Pier 94\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-born Christina Zeigler said the space gave her a chance to figuratively — and quite literally — get back on her feet. In 2018, her landlord sold the duplex in the city of Richmond, where she had lived for eight years. After losing the home she loved, Zeigler struggled to find a new spot she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She crashed with friends and family, but then another setback further entrenched her struggle to find housing. In October 2021, she tore her meniscus while working as a janitor in San Francisco’s Federal Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman is seen from the neck down holding a photo with four African Americans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Zeigler holds a photo of herself (top right) and her Felton Institute caseworker (top center) in her apartment in San Francisco on March 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was just devastating to me, that was really tough,” Zeigler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a trailer at Pier 94 in December 2022 and said she used her time there to rest, collect herself and move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to be somewhere to focus on my healing and nursing my injury,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Zeigler had access to three meals a day, got help with financial planning and put in applications for permanent housing. Residents could also participate in communal activities, like talent shows and holiday parties. Zeigler regularly spent time in the program’s women’s group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met some really great people there,” Zeigler said. “I interacted with the program so much that sometimes even other clients thought I was staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christina Zeigler\"]‘I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there. This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.’[/pullquote]Zeigler was one of 301 people who lived in the trailers throughout the life of the program. After stopping new intakes in April 2023, the last remaining resident moved out and into permanent housing in January 2024. Zeigler moved out in June 2023 and now lives in an apartment in the Tenderloin. She keeps the place meticulously organized — with shoes lined up at the entrance and pieces of art and 49ers memorabilia intentionally placed throughout the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was putting in (applications) for housing left and right once I was there,” Zeigler said. “This place came available, and I loved it. As soon as I signed my lease, I was packing up that little bitty trailer, and I took off running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the Pier 94 residents identify as Black or African American, including Zeigler, and the program prioritized spaces for people living within the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Most were between 45 and 64 years of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three-quarters — or 72% — of the 114 residents who were living at the site by the time it started winding down moved on to permanent housing, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Of those, about half moved into San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing, and the other half received subsidies for private-market rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"A row of trailers seen from the ground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240315-PIER-94-RV-SITE-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pier 94 RV site in San Francisco on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the remaining 28% moved on for various reasons. Some moved back in with family, others moved into homeless shelters, and the rest are completely unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An imperfect solution or missed opportunity?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city spent $6.4 million annually to run the shelter site at Pier 94. Of that, the bulk — $6.1 million — went to the Felton Institute and on-site services. About $300,000 was dedicated to trailer maintenance, according to HSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11970299,news_11965352,news_11947567\"]But concerns over the 3-acre site’s location — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-cement-plant-pier-94-18411201.php\">adjacent to a toxic debris-crushing site\u003c/a> — led even supporters to agree the site was not ideal for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The site was always intended to be a temporary emergency COVID intervention measure,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with issues at the site itself, Bouck said that the trailers were expensive to maintain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are more cost-effective and space-efficient ways to build low-barrier non-congregate shelter programs — such as tiny cabins,” Bouck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities had less success with the trailers. San José, for example, returned them after only a few months, citing costly repairs and a lack of necessary water and electricity hookups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” Jeff Scott, a spokesperson for San José’s housing department, previously told KQED. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man with a gray blazer and white shirt and a blue beanie stands in front of a house looking away from camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240301-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Taylor at a Felton Institute office in San Francisco on March 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the RVs provided a significant opportunity for San Francisco, which faces a dramatic shortage of housing and shelter beds for people who need them. The city estimated in 2022 that more than 7,000 people are experiencing homelessness, but it has just over 3,000 shelter beds. On March 14, there were 107 people on the city’s online shelter reservation waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the 120 trailers at Pier 94 will further that crunch. Taylor hopes that the program can eventually come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a difference in clients when you are actively there for them, having conversations and supporting their well-being,” he said. “We’ll hopefully rebuild this program.”\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>The Port of San Francisco owns Pier 94 and has plans to eventually use the site for offshore wind production. In the near future, it will be available for lease, according to Eric Young, director of communications for the Port of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that all RV residents have moved out, the city must figure out what to do with the trailers Oakland doesn’t claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program was great for the community and helped a lot of people get off the streets,” said Thomas Taylor, who left his job as a banker early in the pandemic to become a supervisor at the Felton Institute, which oversaw the trailer program. “It showed them that there are people actually there for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Life at Pier 94\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-born Christina Zeigler said the space gave her a chance to figuratively — and quite literally — get back on her feet. In 2018, her landlord sold the duplex in the city of Richmond, where she had lived for eight years. After losing the home she loved, Zeigler struggled to find a new spot she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She crashed with friends and family, but then another setback further entrenched her struggle to find housing. In October 2021, she tore her meniscus while working as a janitor in San Francisco’s Federal Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman is seen from the neck down holding a photo with four African Americans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240306-HOMELESS-TRAILERS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Zeigler holds a photo of herself (top right) and her Felton Institute caseworker (top center) in her apartment in San Francisco on March 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was just devastating to me, that was really tough,” Zeigler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved into a trailer at Pier 94 in December 2022 and said she used her time there to rest, collect herself and move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to be somewhere to focus on my healing and nursing my injury,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, Zeigler had access to three meals a day, got help with financial planning and put in applications for permanent housing. Residents could also participate in communal activities, like talent shows and holiday parties. Zeigler regularly spent time in the program’s women’s group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met some really great people there,” Zeigler said. “I interacted with the program so much that sometimes even other clients thought I was staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Several months after Mikey Burke’s house burned down in Lahaina, her husband got a text message out of the blue. It was an offer to buy their property with no inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s gotten a couple of those,” Burke says. “Fighting against speculators and large developers coming in is nothing new for us, but we’ve never had it where it’s been this important to our very being as this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke and her family are among hundreds in Lahaina who are navigating the long and arduous process of rebuilding. More than seven months after the wildfire that took 101 lives, hundreds of properties are still covered in piles of debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fire survivors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1231191740/maui-fire-survivors-struggle-to-find-long-term-housing-half-a-year-after-the-bla\">moved into rental properties outside Lahaina\u003c/a>. Others are finding new jobs or schools elsewhere on Maui or in the continental U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195387894/lahaina-residents-worry-developers-will-scoop-up-land-after-the-recent-wildfires#:~:text=Transcript-,NPR's%20Leila%20Fadel%20talks%20to%20Tiare%20Lawrence%2C%20who%20belongs%20to,land%20after%20the%20recent%20wildfires.\">Many Lahaina residents worry\u003c/a> that developers will buy up properties as they become available, changing the makeup of a community that was once the historic capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have enough of that happening, the village we grew up in is not going to be the village that we want to raise our kids in,” Burke says. “This community is so important to who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Maui is a center of the tourism industry, raising concerns in the community that developers will buy properties destroyed in the fire as they come up for sale. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, some community members are \u003ca href=\"https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/\">working on a way to buy properties\u003c/a> so they can remain affordable and available to local residents. It’s a nonprofit community land trust modeled after ones \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168839399/community-land-trusts-are-providing-a-solution-to-gentrification\">used around the country for affordable housing.\u003c/a> Land trusts purchase properties and then sell or rent the houses. When the homes are for purchase, the trust keeps ownership of the land they’re built on, so the overall sale price is less than comparable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community land trusts have emerged in a handful of other places recovering from disasters, like \u003ca href=\"https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/community-land-trusts-are-building-disaster-resilient-neighborhoods\">Houston\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/news/2018-08-16/in-post-irma-keys-one-tiny-new-home-is-cause-for-major-celebration\">Florida Keys\u003c/a> after both places were hit by hurricanes. The challenge is mobilizing financial resources in time to purchase properties in the crucial years post-disaster when properties go up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of units destroyed that are housing people affordably always outnumbers the amount that you rebuild,” says Steve Kirk, president of Rural Communities, an affordable housing nonprofit affiliated with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.affordablekeys.org/\">Florida Keys Community Land Trust\u003c/a>. “There are individuals and corporations with strike capital that can step into that void and acquire that land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip-copy_custom-ccd780a6287ce9de1f7f1dea4eabc316971db35a-s2600-c85-copy-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maui’s striking volcano and scenic beaches are a major draw for tourists. Half of all condo sales on the island are to out-of-state buyers. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Challenges to rebuilding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Life is still in upheaval for Burke and her family. For months after the fire, her family of four kids and four dogs lived in two hotel rooms. Recently, they moved into a longer-term rental north of Lahaina. Her kids go to a Hawaiian language immersion school right next to the burn zone, so all four are doing distance learning by computer from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re still grappling with memories from the day of the fire. As the smoke approached their house, Burke loaded the kids into the car. But the traffic was at a standstill in the rush to evacuate Lahaina. They watched as the flames kept getting closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was telling the kids: if mommy opens the door, you run straight and you run to the ocean,” she says. “I will never forget that feeling because I didn’t know if it was OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their house was destroyed. The burned debris is still awaiting removal, like hundreds of other properties in Lahaina. But Burke’s family is already navigating the rebuilding process. Burke says they received a dollar estimate for what their insurance company will pay them, but they’re not sure if it will be enough to cover the cost of rebuilding with contractors in such high demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course in August, everyone was like: yeah, we’re going to rebuild,” Burke says. “But now, we’re looking at the actual money we have to rebuild and have to make a decision. Do we rebuild? What can we even rebuild? Or do we sell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s heard from others from Lahaina going through the same struggle. Some who are older may not be up for the long rebuilding process. Some are underinsured and won’t have enough to rebuild what they had. Burke says she’s determined to stay, but concern is high that the community she grew up in will be forever altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0816-edit_custom-f6b47bba705382ff21e8ba6a7918ca13555eff0c-s2600-c85-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 7 months after the fire, most properties that were burned in Lahaina are still covered with debris. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Selling in, instead of selling out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Keeping the community together was on Burke’s mind when she ran into two people working on a potential way to help: Carolyn Auweloa and Autumn Ness. Having worked on housing policy, Ness and Auweloa were aware of the community land trust model and decided to start one for Lahaina. The goal of land trusts is to keep housing affordable in the long term since the buyer agrees to sell the home at a restricted price whenever they choose to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/0b6a1287-copy_custom-7c5e76759d3a2dbfed0a6152c4ae0608e71982f0-s1000-c85-copy-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Ness, who has worked on housing and local food policy on Maui, says the land trust would be led by the Lahaina community as it re-envisions its future. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cltweb.org/clt-directory/\">Dozens of community land trusts\u003c/a> have been established around the country to boost the affordable housing supply. As climate-driven disasters have taken a bigger and bigger toll, land trusts are getting new attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ness says the wildfires only increased the already-existing pressure on Maui’s housing market. With its stunning ocean views and rich history, Lahaina was a tourism hotspot. Short-term rentals, driven by Airbnb and VRBO, \u003ca href=\"https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawaiiHousingFactbook.pdf\">made up 40% of the total housing supply (PDF)\u003c/a> in Lahaina’s zip code. And in Maui County more broadly, half of all condominium sales \u003ca href=\"https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawaiiHousingFactbook.pdf\">are to out-of-state buyers (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen Lahaina be sold to investors parcel by parcel over the last couple of generations, so it was just like: oh my god, we’re super vulnerable,” Ness says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/\">Lahaina Community Land Trust\u003c/a>, as they’ve named it, is still in the early stages and is starting to raise money through donations. Ness says it could do more than just build housing. They could buy some properties that are of cultural value to Native Hawaiians and preserve them for the community. They could buy other properties at risk of being flooded by sea level rise and not build on them at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Autumn Ness\"]‘We’ve seen Lahaina be sold to investors parcel by parcel over the last couple of generations, so it was just like: oh my god, we’re super vulnerable.’[/pullquote]“People talk about the land trust as a way to sell in, instead of selling out,” Ness says. “If you have to sell — not your fault, no judgment. How can we make sure you have what you need and the land stays in the highest and best interest of the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke decided to join the effort to develop the land trust, which she says will hopefully lessen the pain for neighbors who choose to leave Lahaina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we can’t save every parcel that’s gonna come up to be sold,” Burke says. “But if we’re an option on somebody’s table so if they have to walk away, they can do it in good conscience, that’s all we’re there for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land trusts are growing after disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When hurricanes, floods and wildfires destroy housing, the ensuing upheaval can permanently shift the makeup of a community. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://www.riskproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Graif_Popul_Environ_2016.pdf\">a third of displaced residents (PDF)\u003c/a> still had not returned after three years, and lower-income residents were the most vulnerable to being displaced. Neighborhoods damaged by flooding \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098018800445?journalCode=usja\">were also more likely to experience gentrification\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys in 2017, the Florida Keys Community Land Trust was established. Like in Lahaina, land values are high there, driven by tourism and restrictions on development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vacation rentals command so much money that even in the absence of any storm, we are losing service worker housing on a month-to-month basis,” says Kirk, who works on the land trust as well as affordable housing around Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community land trusts are used widely around the US, but have only recently started in communities hit by disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trust built 31 affordable units on property that went up for sale after the hurricane. It began with a private donation, but the trust eventually secured a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/cdbg-dr\">federal grant earmarked for disaster recovery\u003c/a>. Kirk says securing funding quickly is key since many properties are put up for sale within just a few years of a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public funding is really a necessity in order to preserve land in the aftermath of a disaster, particularly in an affluent location,” Kirk says. “Because in the absence of that, market conditions will cause speculators and others to step into that land and end up serving a completely different income level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lahaina, Burke says organizers aren’t sure how many properties the land trust might be able to buy, but they hope to start within the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’re at a place where we can’t come back and still make this a beautiful, vibrant community,” Burke says. “We’re gonna need help and we’re going to continue to need help for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several months after Mikey Burke’s house burned down in Lahaina, her husband got a text message out of the blue. It was an offer to buy their property with no inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s gotten a couple of those,” Burke says. “Fighting against speculators and large developers coming in is nothing new for us, but we’ve never had it where it’s been this important to our very being as this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke and her family are among hundreds in Lahaina who are navigating the long and arduous process of rebuilding. More than seven months after the wildfire that took 101 lives, hundreds of properties are still covered in piles of debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fire survivors have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1231191740/maui-fire-survivors-struggle-to-find-long-term-housing-half-a-year-after-the-bla\">moved into rental properties outside Lahaina\u003c/a>. Others are finding new jobs or schools elsewhere on Maui or in the continental U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195387894/lahaina-residents-worry-developers-will-scoop-up-land-after-the-recent-wildfires#:~:text=Transcript-,NPR's%20Leila%20Fadel%20talks%20to%20Tiare%20Lawrence%2C%20who%20belongs%20to,land%20after%20the%20recent%20wildfires.\">Many Lahaina residents worry\u003c/a> that developers will buy up properties as they become available, changing the makeup of a community that was once the historic capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have enough of that happening, the village we grew up in is not going to be the village that we want to raise our kids in,” Burke says. “This community is so important to who we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/d9a0823-edit-copy_custom-1c8f8b1c2444cf6cb8a2caa95c83485ec1758b99-s2600-c85-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Maui is a center of the tourism industry, raising concerns in the community that developers will buy properties destroyed in the fire as they come up for sale. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, some community members are \u003ca href=\"https://lahainacommunitylandtrust.org/\">working on a way to buy properties\u003c/a> so they can remain affordable and available to local residents. It’s a nonprofit community land trust modeled after ones \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168839399/community-land-trusts-are-providing-a-solution-to-gentrification\">used around the country for affordable housing.\u003c/a> Land trusts purchase properties and then sell or rent the houses. When the homes are for purchase, the trust keeps ownership of the land they’re built on, so the overall sale price is less than comparable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community land trusts have emerged in a handful of other places recovering from disasters, like \u003ca href=\"https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/community-land-trusts-are-building-disaster-resilient-neighborhoods\">Houston\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/news/2018-08-16/in-post-irma-keys-one-tiny-new-home-is-cause-for-major-celebration\">Florida Keys\u003c/a> after both places were hit by hurricanes. 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Having worked on housing policy, Ness and Auweloa were aware of the community land trust model and decided to start one for Lahaina. 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As climate-driven disasters have taken a bigger and bigger toll, land trusts are getting new attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ness says the wildfires only increased the already-existing pressure on Maui’s housing market. With its stunning ocean views and rich history, Lahaina was a tourism hotspot. Short-term rentals, driven by Airbnb and VRBO, \u003ca href=\"https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawaiiHousingFactbook.pdf\">made up 40% of the total housing supply (PDF)\u003c/a> in Lahaina’s zip code. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People talk about the land trust as a way to sell in, instead of selling out,” Ness says. “If you have to sell — not your fault, no judgment. How can we make sure you have what you need and the land stays in the highest and best interest of the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke decided to join the effort to develop the land trust, which she says will hopefully lessen the pain for neighbors who choose to leave Lahaina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we can’t save every parcel that’s gonna come up to be sold,” Burke says. “But if we’re an option on somebody’s table so if they have to walk away, they can do it in good conscience, that’s all we’re there for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Land trusts are growing after disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When hurricanes, floods and wildfires destroy housing, the ensuing upheaval can permanently shift the makeup of a community. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://www.riskproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Graif_Popul_Environ_2016.pdf\">a third of displaced residents (PDF)\u003c/a> still had not returned after three years, and lower-income residents were the most vulnerable to being displaced. Neighborhoods damaged by flooding \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098018800445?journalCode=usja\">were also more likely to experience gentrification\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys in 2017, the Florida Keys Community Land Trust was established. Like in Lahaina, land values are high there, driven by tourism and restrictions on development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vacation rentals command so much money that even in the absence of any storm, we are losing service worker housing on a month-to-month basis,” says Kirk, who works on the land trust as well as affordable housing around Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/hawaiidip2jpg_custom-d162482bb9927c489db86931714d28f8ea208ad5-s2600-c85-copy-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community land trusts are used widely around the US, but have only recently started in communities hit by disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The trust built 31 affordable units on property that went up for sale after the hurricane. It began with a private donation, but the trust eventually secured a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/cdbg-dr\">federal grant earmarked for disaster recovery\u003c/a>. Kirk says securing funding quickly is key since many properties are put up for sale within just a few years of a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public funding is really a necessity in order to preserve land in the aftermath of a disaster, particularly in an affluent location,” Kirk says. “Because in the absence of that, market conditions will cause speculators and others to step into that land and end up serving a completely different income level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lahaina, Burke says organizers aren’t sure how many properties the land trust might be able to buy, but they hope to start within the next six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we’re at a place where we can’t come back and still make this a beautiful, vibrant community,” Burke says. “We’re gonna need help and we’re going to continue to need help for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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