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Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/03/at-newly-converted-motel-governor-newsom-launches-project-roomkey-a-first-in-the-nation-initiative-to-secure-hotel-motel-rooms-to-protect-homeless-individuals-from-covid-19/\">launched the hotel shelter program\u003c/a> — dubbed Project Roomkey — in April 2020, just a month after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted him to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.4.20-Coronavirus-SOE-Proclamation.pdf\">declare a state of emergency (PDF)\u003c/a>. Health experts were terrified that California, with its massive homeless population, would see the virus wreak havoc in crowded shelters and unsanitary encampments. The state rolled out a plan to move unhoused people with COVID-19, as well as those particularly vulnerable to the virus — people who were over 65 or had pre-existing respiratory, immune or other chronic diseases — into empty hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11847782,news_11914346,news_11927968 label='Homelessness During COVID']Individual cities and counties leased and paid for those hotel rooms with the expectation that FEMA would reimburse them. At first, the federal agency agreed to cover 75% of the cost for eligible expenses, including the rooms and services such as meals, security and cleaning. By January 2021, FEMA agreed to reimburse 100% of those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825653/california-found-hotels-for-10000-homeless-residents-what-next\">Roomkey served about 62,000 people throughout the pandemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Roomkey launched, FEMA had no rules governing how long someone could stay in a hotel room, according to the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Officials there claim FEMA didn’t set the 20-day limit until October 2023, long after the unhoused residents had moved out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its letter, FEMA said it capped stays between June 2021 and May 2023 because by that time, transmission rates were down, and 20 days were the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s maximum recommended period of quarantine. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/06/11/as-california-fully-reopens-governor-newsom-announces-plans-to-lift-pandemic-executive-orders/\">lifted the state’s stay-at-home order in June 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things had changed,” said Robert Fenton, regional administrator for FEMA Region 9, in a phone call with CalMatters. “The vaccine was readily available. Testing was readily available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenton, who wrote the October letter, insisted FEMA’s policy has not changed — despite the assertions of state officials and multiple cities and counties. Fenton said that from the beginning, the federal agency said it would pay for shelter stays that were based on “health guidance” and limited to what was needed to address immediate threats to health and safety. State and local officials should have known that referred to the CDC guideline of quarantining for up to 20 days — because that’s the policy Newsom and local health departments followed themselves, Fenton said. But there is no evidence FEMA made that 20-day rule explicit prior to October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s 20-day quarantine recommendation was for people who had or were exposed to COVID-19. But the state, and California cities and counties, interpreted FEMA’s rules to mean the federal agency would pay for hotel rooms for unhoused people who were unusually susceptible to the virus — but had not been infected or exposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Randy Scott\"]‘[Project Roomkey] changed my life, really.’[/pullquote]Fenton said he sent the October letter spelling out the 20-day cap after seeing the reimbursement requests submitted by California cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not new,” he said. “What I’m doing is clarifying the original guidance of the original policy and providing that back to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state sent FEMA a letter last month asking the federal agency to reconsider the 20-day cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is committed to maximizing federal aid to local communities and intends to aggressively advocate for FEMA to rescind the decision to deny public assistance to local governments,” Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said in an email to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office looks forward to the federal government “honoring its commitments,” spokesman Daniel Lopez added in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the state, which serves as an intermediary between local officials and FEMA, can put pressure on FEMA, it has no authority to force the federal agency to change its mind, Ellard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When everything was really bad, and it was top of mind for everyone, FEMA was advising a lot of the applicants that it would provide the necessary support, that the federal government would be there to support the need,” Ellard said. “And now that things have calmed down a bit, the story has changed. I think FEMA and the federal government generally has seen the size and scale of the recovery and the expenses and now is walking back some of the earlier approvals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The October letter also clarified that FEMA would not reimburse cities and counties for unoccupied rooms leased through Roomkey. That’s a tough pill to swallow for local officials, who sometimes had empty quarantine rooms as virus transmission rates fluctuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Blindsided’ by FEMA’s letter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County didn’t limit how long people could stay in its Roomkey hotel rooms, said Kyle Hammon with the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance. Until the program ended, people generally were allowed to stay until they got permanent housing or wanted to leave for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our county, for sure, and other counties, I’m sure we all were pretty blindsided by this,” he said of FEMA’s letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-day cap could force Sacramento County to forfeit nearly $9 million in FEMA reimbursements officials there had been counting on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about 1% of the county’s annual discretionary revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to say where exactly the impacts would be felt, but there would be either cuts or, at the very least, missed opportunities,” Patrick Kennedy, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the county spent more than $50 million on Project Roomkey — $8.8 million of which FEMA already reimbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA’s choice to introduce a new rule years after counties spent the Roomkey money is “indefensible,” said Susan Ellenberg, president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Her county could lose nearly $16 million thanks to the 20-day rule and FEMA’s refusal to reimburse for vacant rooms. To make matters worse, the county anticipates a $250 million budget deficit in the next fiscal year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/06/labor-health-costs-lead-santa-clara-county-to-project-250-million-deficit-in-upcoming-fiscal-year\">according to The Mercury News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the message is that we can’t count on our federal government to be accountable for promises that have been made and money that was spent in reliance on those promises,” Ellenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using hotel rooms as shelter is not cheap: \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.acgov.org/homelessness-assets/img/reports/Final%20PRK%20Report%20Summary.pdf\">Alameda County estimated Project Roomkey costs about $260 per participant per night (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were other options to help pay. The state kicked in over $260 million, and counties also used federal CARES Act and American Rescue Plan funding. Some counties, including San Benito, Sutter and Calaveras, ran hotel programs without applying for FEMA funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Scott Murray, California Department of Social Services\"]‘The success of the program in keeping people safe outside of hospital settings is well documented.’[/pullquote]But for most local governments, especially those with the largest homeless populations, FEMA was intended to be a big part of their Roomkey strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the federal agency is poised to deny California governments hundreds of millions of dollars, local officials have limited options. If FEMA denies their claims, they can appeal and even go to arbitration at an administrative court in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process could take a year or more, Ellard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries FEMA might even use the 20-day cap to claw back money already paid to counties. If a county can’t pay, it could mean they get less funding during the next disaster, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What would local governments have done differently?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Roomkey launched in 2020, it was meant as an emergency health measure to prevent homeless Californians from dying on the street or in crowded shelters — not as an ongoing housing program. Throughout all of 2020, state officials had to ask FEMA every month to extend the program another 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the pandemic dragged on, cities and counties saw the federally funded hotel rooms as a unique opportunity to stabilize their vulnerable homeless populations. They brought in social workers to help residents get their identification and other paperwork in order and tried to find them permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were more successful at engaging individuals because we had a set location and because they had access to food and shelter,” said Wendy Osikafo, director of the Kings County Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county’s “primary objective” was providing temporary shelter for 386 people at high risk of COVID-19 complications, Osikafo said the continuity provided by motel rooms helped 95 people move on to long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kings County is still waiting for more than $8 million from FEMA — the vast majority of the $9.9 million that the Central Valley county spent to shelter people. Changes to the federal agency’s funding rules could “drastically reduce” how much is reimbursed, Osikafo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to move people from Roomkey hotels into long-term housing were far from perfect. In Sacramento County, just 25% of people who left the hotels ended up in permanent homes, compared to 32% who went into other temporary shelters and 41% who landed back on the streets or weren’t tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program made a major difference for some people. Randy Scott, 59, lived off and on inside a drainage culvert along a San Pablo creek for 10 years. When he wasn’t sleeping there, he was usually in jail — picked up for parole violations stemming from past offenses, including a 2017 assault case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, he landed a motel room in the East Bay suburb of Pittsburg through Project Roomkey. Scott lived there for about a year. Having a stable place to live allowed him to hold down a job and buy a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It changed my life, really,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he works nights as a security guard at a storage facility in Richmond, where he lives in a trailer on the property. During the day, he works for a nonprofit doing outreach at homeless encampments. He has health insurance and paid vacation time, he’s filing taxes, and for the first time in about three decades, he’s no longer under any kind of court supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no way any of that would have happened if he’d been kicked out of his motel room after 20 days, Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11953216 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061623-UNHOUSED-LOS-ANGELES-AP-DD-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I needed that time to get a job and help me with my mental health and to get me in contact with services,” he said. “Nothing happens in 20 days in government. Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would state and local officials in California have acted differently if they knew FEMA wouldn’t reimburse lengthy Project Roomkey stays? That’s a tough question, say those involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The success of the program in keeping people safe outside of hospital settings is well documented,” Scott Murray, deputy director of public affairs and outreach programs for the California Department of Social Services, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California did not see widespread COVID-19 deaths among its unhoused communities, as experts initially feared. Roomkey also helped set a new standard of care in the state. After seeing how homeless occupants benefited from having a private space with a door that locked — instead of sleeping on a cot in a traditional, crowded shelter — many California homeless service providers are opting to use similar models. Newsom’s latest plan is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972474/newsom-administration-makes-progress-on-tiny-home-promise\">deploy 1,200 tiny homes\u003c/a> throughout the state as another way to give homeless occupants a private place to shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellenberg said she’s sure Roomkey saved lives in Santa Clara County. If they had known from the beginning FEMA wouldn’t pay for longer stays, they might have imposed limits. But it’s hard to imagine a blanket 20-day cap, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about what the impact would have been on people with health vulnerabilities, older adults, people with underlying conditions, if we had told them we can help and support you but only for three weeks,” Ellenberg said, “that would have been disastrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lauren Hepler contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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For a family of four, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/income-limits-2023.pdf\">that can range\u003c/a> from $137,100 to $362,600 in high-priced Santa Clara County to between $65,950 to $167,600 in more rural and agricultural areas of the state, such as Humboldt and Fresno counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge amount of people when you consider the size of California,” said Adam Briones, CEO of California Community Builders. “Just the fact that our state is becoming both a state for the very poor and for the very rich is something that we believe should be shocking to policymakers and really needs a lot more attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-2.37.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11975044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-2.37.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1316\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-2.37.40-PM.png 1316w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-2.37.40-PM-800x255.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-2.37.40-PM-1020x326.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-07-at-2.37.40-PM-160x51.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1316px) 100vw, 1316px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also an incredibly diverse group of residents, Briones said. Sixty percent of middle-income earners are people of color, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really, really want to get away from the narrative that all people of color are low income,” Briones said. “That’s really just not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11969623,news_11973653,news_11970993\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The trend is even more pronounced among families that are considered lower middle income, with that population seeing a 35% drop in population. That includes families earning between 80% and 120% of area median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report didn’t look at why people were leaving, but other studies have \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/californias-population-drain\">pointed to high housing costs\u003c/a> as one \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/whats-behind-californias-recent-population-decline-and-why-it-matters/\">main driver\u003c/a> for middle-income residents, and especially lower-middle-income residents, to leave the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric McGhee, at the Public Policy Institute of California, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-moving-in/\">his organization’s research\u003c/a> into the trend also found it was especially pronounced among lower- and middle-income residents. The researchers used a different definition of middle income, capping it at $137,500 for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do see over time that as the cost of housing increases in California relative to the rest of the country, we do see people moving out at higher rates,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been true since at least 2010, McGhee said, but he said the trend has become more pronounced in the past 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, higher-income residents were leaving the state at a higher rate than in the past, according to McGhee and other researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California. The rise in remote work precipitated that trend, he said, but it has recently slowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also seeing that particular part of it dial back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to policy recommendations for retaining lower- and middle-income residents, Briones said more research is needed. His organization helped shape a down-payment assistance program, California Dream For All, that rolled out last year. It provided loans for up to 20% of the down payment on homes for residents who made up to 150% of the area median income that is repaid when the homeowner sells the house, along with 20% of the home’s appreciation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That program had so much demand its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/04/california-first-time-homebuyer-assistance-demographics/\">funding was exhausted within 11 days\u003c/a> of its launch. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/dream/\">second round\u003c/a> of funding is scheduled to roll out in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Community Builders is also sponsoring a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2140\">Assembly Bill 2140\u003c/a>, that would direct the state to study the creation of a large-scale homeownership financing program for middle-income residents. Briones emphasized the intent of the legislation is not to propose any programs that would be funded at the expense of supporting low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We truly don’t think that those two groups are at odds,” Briones said, adding the policy question the legislation hopes to consider is, “How do we create more resources for affordable homeownership that does not reduce resources for affordable rental housing?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s primary is just around the corner, on March 5, 2024. This year, there’s a statewide Proposition on your primary ballot, but don’t worry we’ve got you covered. Prop. 1 asks voters two big questions: Should mental health funding be used for housing? And should the state borrow money to build more housing and treatment facilities? There’s tons of interesting stuff to dig into on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> California. Primary day is just around the corner on March 5th, and this year Californians have a lot to consider. We’ve got the presidential primary. Of course, there’s a contentious Senate race and lots happening on the local level. And then we’ve got proposition one all about funding for mental health care and housing for the state’s most vulnerable residents. Here’s how prop one will read on your ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over:\u003c/strong> Authorizes $6.38 billion in bonds to build mental health treatment facilities for those with mental health and substance use challenges. It provides housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Now, there are two big questions being asked in this prop should mental health funding be used for housing? And should the state borrow money to build more housing and treatment facilities? There is lots of interesting stuff to discuss here. We’ll dig in just ahead on be curious. I’m Olivia Allen Price. It is always a pleasure when prop voting time rolls around, because it means I get to talk to KQED politics correspondent guy Maserati. Hey, Guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Hey, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> It’s been a minute, but here we are in a big election year. One of the first decisions that California voters are going to make is which way to go on prop one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> That’s right. Proposition one is actually two pretty big ideas that are rolled up into one proposition. So it’s a bond measure. It’s also a reallocation of existing funds. So this was placed on the ballot by the state legislature because they need to go to the voters to get approval if they want to issue a bond. They also need to go to the voters to make a change to a ballot measure that voters previously approved back in 2004. So here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We’ll go step by step through all the moving parts of this one. But first, guy, can you walk us through the problems that proposition one is aiming to solve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah. The big idea behind the proposition is focusing state dollars on people who are experiencing homelessness and who have severe behavioral health issues. So we know Californians who are experiencing homelessness. It’s not a monolith. You have people who maybe, you know, fell behind on rent, maybe people who are just looking for an affordable place to live. Prop one is not focused on those folks. But, there are a lot of people who are experiencing homelessness in California who have added challenges on top of that. UCSF did their massive study of the state’s homeless population. They found 27% of people living without shelter have been hospitalized for a mental health issue. They also found 65% of those people who are living without shelter have reported heavy substance abuse. These are the kinds of people who are prop one is aimed at helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the idea is that of all the people in the state who are facing mental health challenges, these Californians, the ones who are living on the streets or at risk of living on the streets, are the ones who need to be prioritized. And so that’s where you get to kind of the political piece of all of this, which is that homelessness is a top priority for voters, especially kind of the visible suffering of people that you see on the streets. That’s become such a huge political issue, and it’s become a big issue for the man who is backing prop one. Governor Gavin Newsom, this is part of his kind of big swing to try to fix this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Okay. And broadly, what are we considering in proposition one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So voters are being asked if the state should borrow money to build treatment facilities, build supportive housing, and if it should also change how existing mental health money gets spent, mainly by using more of that mental health money to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Let’s dig into the details a bit more now. Like we said a minute ago, this prop has sort of two arms. And I want to start with that first arm the bond. Now a quick bond refresher. A bond is essentially a loan the government takes out to fund certain projects. In this case, it’s a loan the state will pay back with interest over the next 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Right. So prop one would allow the state to borrow money by issuing $6.38 billion in bonds. Most of that money, about $4.4 billion, is going to go towards building treatment facilities. Now, this is for, like we mentioned, the thousands of Californians who have mental health needs, who have substance abuse issues, who are at risk or are actually living on the street. So that could be kind of a short term crisis care facility or longer term, you know, residential facilities, rehab communities and even, you know, some outpatient services. So that’s about 4.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the rest of the measure, roughly 2 billion, that’s going to go towards building affordable apartments that come with kind of onsite behavioral health services. Of that 2 billion. Now we’re breaking this down further. Of that 2 billion. About 1 billion would be specifically for veterans who have behavioral health challenges. So again, we’re talking about helping people who are most visibly suffering, people who are having, you know, psychotic episodes on the street, people who are living in tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So what is all this investment actually going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Supporters of prop one say by spending this bond money, they’re going to be able to create 4350 housing units, another 6800 treatment slots. Obviously, this is all a drop in the bucket for the overall homeless population in California, which is estimated to be more than 180,000 people. But again, the idea of prop one is a focus less focus on a subgroup of people who are experiencing homelessness. Newsom says prop one is the solution to the decades of unintended consequences that kicked off when California closed its state mental hospitals, but didn’t create alternative places for people to live and get care. Here’s Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom:\u003c/strong> The reforms that took place in the late 50s, in the 60s and the 70s, that bipartisan endeavor around deinstitutionalization. We had a peak 37,000, beds in the state of California in the 60s, 37,000 beds. Today, it’s about 5500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We actually do have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here\">Bay Curious episode about the closing of state mental hospitals and its impact on homelessness\u003c/a>. We’ll put a link in the show notes and transcript for this episode if you want to check that out. Guy, is there more detail on how this money will be allocated, like specific projects or even how much would go to, say, Alameda County versus Los Angeles County or anything like that? Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> That all hasn’t been laid out yet. I will say Newsom’s chief of staff, toxic KQED last summer about this prop. She said the administration, even though this had just started to move towards the ballot, they’re already looking at locations to build or refurbish, potential places with this bond money. I think really acknowledging that the process of building anything in California just takes a really long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> [00:06:50] Another discussion for another time. I think it’s always worth remembering that bond money isn’t free if voters approve it. How will this bond impact Californians over time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Right. So California would have to repay the bonds back over 30 years out of the state’s general fund. That’s where all our tax money ends up. And that works out to about $310 million a year, which because we’re talking about a really massive state budget, it’s actually only about one half of 1% of the general fund. Now, the state would have to pay interest on top of all of that. So over the course of three decades, we’d pay about $9 billion, not adjusted for inflation, to pay back what is a $6.38 billion bond on the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Okay, now on to the second arm of proposition one. So this measure would change how money collected for mental health services under Prop 63, which passed in 2004, is distributed. Okay. Start by taking us back 20 years to when voters approved the Mental Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah, this was really wild for me. Going back and looking at the coverage of that campaign back in 2004, because the issues that the supporters of Prop 63 were trying to address are so similar to what supporters of prop one are talking about right now. It’s basically a feeling that since those state hospitals closed, California really stopped providing the necessary care for people who have these severe mental health challenges. And the result has been those same people end up on the streets, in tents in our county jails. So what the Mental Health Services Act did back in 2004 was create this 1% tax on income over $1 million. It’s since been kind of colloquially known as the millionaires tax. And that created this new bucket of money that the state could use for mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So voters passed the Mental Health Services Act, which generates between two and a half and $3 billion per year. And that money now funds about a third of mental health services budgets for counties around the state. What counties especially like about this money is they have a lot of say in how it gets used. There aren’t a lot of strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Darrell Steinberg, who is currently the mayor of Sacramento back then in 2004, he was in the legislature and actually helped write the original Mental Health Services Act. He says the measure has been successful. It’s paid for a lot of services all across the state, from counseling to drop in centers to early intervention, having people come in to schools and classrooms and help teachers identify kids who might have mental health challenges. But he says the reason that all these years later, he’s now one of the leading supporters of changing it is because there hasn’t been enough focus on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I think the counties have actually spent the money well, but what they haven’t done is spent it in a way that was focused on the most critical issues affecting our state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So the trade off that supporters of prop one are pitching to voters is basically, let’s give up the flexibility in how this money is spent in exchange for adding greater focus, specifically focus on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Tell me more about how they would limit flexibility that the counties have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So under prop one, if it passes, counties would be required to spend 30% of that millionaire tax money they get from the state, specifically on housing. So that could mean providing rental subsidies, building new housing, converting things like motels into housing with supportive services. So this would leave counties then with less money to spend on some of the other programs and services they’ve been providing in the mental health space. So they need to find the money elsewhere. Or in the case a lot of opponents are concerned about, they would need to scale back or cut some of these programs. Paul Simmons is one of the leaders of the No on prop one campaign. He recently led Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California, which provides peer support for people with depression bipolar disorder. He says service providers in similar positions are really worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Simmons:\u003c/strong> Adult respite centers and wellness centers are very, very much at risk. All peer support programs are just scared to death right now that they’re going to lose any funding they got from from the MSA funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> And you also have county governments who are really concerned about prop one, because right now they’re the ones that are getting this millionaires tax money. They are concerned that more of this money would go to the state. The state wants more say on how the millionaires tax money is spent. So you have many county supervisors who have come out against prop one. They’re concerned that if it passes, they’re going to have to cancel contracts with community based organizations or even perhaps reduce county staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Right now, 95% of that million in our tax money goes to counties. What would that look like under prop one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Under prop one, it would be more like 90% with the state using its cut for things like increasing just the number of mental health care workers. And one other change I should note here is that counties under prop one would be able to spend some of this money on housing for folks who just have drug and alcohol addiction challenges, you know, substance abuse issues. They may not have a dual diagnosis, mental health issue. And right now, all the Mental Health Services Act funding under Prop 63, the millionaires tax, all of that has to be used for people with mental health conditions. This would actually change the name of the entire thing to the Behavioral Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I see, so by calling it the behavioral rather than the Mental Health Services Act, it really broadens out the group of people who could be served by the money guy. Would this increase taxes for anybody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> No. And this is actually what makes this kind of controversial. It doesn’t increase the millionaires tax that funds the current Mental Health Services Act. So opponents of prop one say you have the same pot of money. You’re just stretching it in all these new directions by trying to focus on housing. Now, supporters like Newsom will say, that’s not the whole picture. There are all these other initiatives happening, you know, like Cal Aim, which try to get, for example, health plans to pay for some of these mental health services that prop 63, the Mental Health Services Act, has been doing for the last two. Years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> What else do opponents have to say about this one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So I think just like we broke down the measure into a couple parts, it might be helpful to break down where opponents are coming from on this pretty, pretty complex measure. So let’s start with the bonds. You have the state borrowing a lot of money to build these treatment facilities, supportive apartments. So you have conservatives, anti-tax groups like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. They oppose taking on that debt. And then there’s other conservatives who kind of jump on and say, we also don’t agree with the Housing First policy here, which is when someone with, say, a substance abuse problem is given housing before going through treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s another piece of this, which is about what kind of housing can be built with this bond money, because prop one actually allows the money to be spent on locked facilities. These are, you know, places where people might get placed as a result of a conservatorship, where treatment is not voluntary. And this is pretty controversial. You get opposition not from conservatives on this, but you get opposition from groups like Disability Rights California, for example, who say these kind of lock facilities violate civil liberties and don’t have proven outcomes. Now, supporters of prop one say this is not going to be a huge piece of all the new facilities that get built, but that’s really an open question going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And what about the changes to how the existing prop 63 millionaires tax money is spent? Who is opposed to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah, that piece of prop one is opposed by some service providers, folks like Paul Simmons, who say if you’re focusing on helping people who are the most visible have the most acute needs, that’s a poor investment. If you’re taking that money from programs that try to provide help with mental health, substance abuse, when people are in school or when they’re in counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Simmons:\u003c/strong> But really, what they’re doing, from my perspective, is to take the money from the early intervention, take it from the upstream part and throw it all into downstream. You know, where people are having more trouble and in fact, forcing more people downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> And so folks like Simmons are worried that if California puts less funding toward preventative upstream programs that support people you know, before their problems are most severe, we’re actually going to worsen some of the state’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And who is in support of proposition one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah, the biggest name in support is Governor Gavin Newsom. You know, for all the attention he’s gotten on political stunts, campaigning across the country, debating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the biggest policy focus he’s had in Sacramento has been at this intersection of behavioral health and homelessness. So just in the last few years, the governor signed bills to create care courts. So this kind of compels treatment, housing for people with severe mental illness. He also signed bills making it easier to place people in a conservative ship. Prop one is the latest step in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom:\u003c/strong> This is, I think, the last big piece. We’ve got we’ve just we’ve radically changed the way we’re doing business. We created more flexibility, more tools, more accountability, more resources. Now we just we need more beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> And I think what’s notable about prop one is just the size of the coalition supporting it. So both these ideas, the bond measure and then these changes to mental health spending. They both passed with huge majorities in the legislature last year. Support from Democrats, support from Republicans. Now, you might say like, oh, when the governor comes out and says, this is my top priority, everyone’s going to get in line. But I also think it’s a fact that the broken status quo, we see people just visibly suffering on the street. That touches a lot of different parts of society. So you have, you know, leaders of California hospitals supporting this. They see many of these residents end up in their emergency rooms. You have groups representing firefighters, law enforcement behind this. They often get called to respond when someone is having a mental health episode. And then you have what might be the biggest group of backers, which are mayors. You know, they feel directly, you know, accountable to voters for what residents see on the street. And it’s why you have mayors like London Breed in San Francisco so vocally in support of prop one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>London Breed:\u003c/strong> I was just out in the Tenderloin and San Francisco, and it is clear that we need people to get the support that they need, especially those suffering from mental health and substance use disorder. Let’s get into campaign spending. What does it look like on this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Prop spending is very lopsided for this prop. You have supporters having raised more than $11 million to help push this measure through. Opponents, on the other hand, just about $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Wow. So really kind of David and Goliath on the on spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> On the spending front for sure. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, KQED political correspondent Guy Maserati, always a pleasure. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Thanks, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In a nutshell, a vote yes on proposition one means you’d like to see funds from an existing tax on millionaires used not just for mental health care, but also people facing drug or alcohol challenges. You’d also like those funds to be used for housing people needing mental health or substance abuse care. Finally, you’d like California to borrow $6.4 billion to pay for more mental health and substance abuse treatment facilities and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote no on proposition one means you’d like to keep the Mental Health Services Act in its current form, and or you do not want California to issue that $6.4 billion bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All right. We really hope that helped you make sense of what you’ll be voting on. Again, Election Day is March 5th, but ballots should be in your mailbox soon if they haven’t arrived yet. If you found this episode helpful, do us a favor and tell your friends all about it or share it out on your social media accounts. Thanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re already gearing up for our full sized Prop Fest series during the upcoming general election. If you’ve got questions about a prop, another race, or any other voting issue in California, head over to Bay curious.org and use the form at the top of the page to send that question our way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay curious is made in San Francisco at member supported KQED. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Bill and me Olivia Allen Price. Additional support from Jen Chen, Katie Springer, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanford, Hollie Kernan and the whole KQED family. I’m Olivia Ellen Price. Best of luck in your decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> California. Primary day is just around the corner on March 5th, and this year Californians have a lot to consider. We’ve got the presidential primary. Of course, there’s a contentious Senate race and lots happening on the local level. And then we’ve got proposition one all about funding for mental health care and housing for the state’s most vulnerable residents. Here’s how prop one will read on your ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over:\u003c/strong> Authorizes $6.38 billion in bonds to build mental health treatment facilities for those with mental health and substance use challenges. It provides housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Now, there are two big questions being asked in this prop should mental health funding be used for housing? And should the state borrow money to build more housing and treatment facilities? There is lots of interesting stuff to discuss here. We’ll dig in just ahead on be curious. I’m Olivia Allen Price. It is always a pleasure when prop voting time rolls around, because it means I get to talk to KQED politics correspondent guy Maserati. Hey, Guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Hey, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> It’s been a minute, but here we are in a big election year. One of the first decisions that California voters are going to make is which way to go on prop one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> That’s right. Proposition one is actually two pretty big ideas that are rolled up into one proposition. So it’s a bond measure. It’s also a reallocation of existing funds. So this was placed on the ballot by the state legislature because they need to go to the voters to get approval if they want to issue a bond. They also need to go to the voters to make a change to a ballot measure that voters previously approved back in 2004. So here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We’ll go step by step through all the moving parts of this one. But first, guy, can you walk us through the problems that proposition one is aiming to solve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah. The big idea behind the proposition is focusing state dollars on people who are experiencing homelessness and who have severe behavioral health issues. So we know Californians who are experiencing homelessness. It’s not a monolith. You have people who maybe, you know, fell behind on rent, maybe people who are just looking for an affordable place to live. Prop one is not focused on those folks. But, there are a lot of people who are experiencing homelessness in California who have added challenges on top of that. UCSF did their massive study of the state’s homeless population. They found 27% of people living without shelter have been hospitalized for a mental health issue. They also found 65% of those people who are living without shelter have reported heavy substance abuse. These are the kinds of people who are prop one is aimed at helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the idea is that of all the people in the state who are facing mental health challenges, these Californians, the ones who are living on the streets or at risk of living on the streets, are the ones who need to be prioritized. And so that’s where you get to kind of the political piece of all of this, which is that homelessness is a top priority for voters, especially kind of the visible suffering of people that you see on the streets. That’s become such a huge political issue, and it’s become a big issue for the man who is backing prop one. Governor Gavin Newsom, this is part of his kind of big swing to try to fix this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Okay. And broadly, what are we considering in proposition one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So voters are being asked if the state should borrow money to build treatment facilities, build supportive housing, and if it should also change how existing mental health money gets spent, mainly by using more of that mental health money to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Let’s dig into the details a bit more now. Like we said a minute ago, this prop has sort of two arms. And I want to start with that first arm the bond. Now a quick bond refresher. A bond is essentially a loan the government takes out to fund certain projects. In this case, it’s a loan the state will pay back with interest over the next 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Right. So prop one would allow the state to borrow money by issuing $6.38 billion in bonds. Most of that money, about $4.4 billion, is going to go towards building treatment facilities. Now, this is for, like we mentioned, the thousands of Californians who have mental health needs, who have substance abuse issues, who are at risk or are actually living on the street. So that could be kind of a short term crisis care facility or longer term, you know, residential facilities, rehab communities and even, you know, some outpatient services. So that’s about 4.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the rest of the measure, roughly 2 billion, that’s going to go towards building affordable apartments that come with kind of onsite behavioral health services. Of that 2 billion. Now we’re breaking this down further. Of that 2 billion. About 1 billion would be specifically for veterans who have behavioral health challenges. So again, we’re talking about helping people who are most visibly suffering, people who are having, you know, psychotic episodes on the street, people who are living in tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So what is all this investment actually going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Supporters of prop one say by spending this bond money, they’re going to be able to create 4350 housing units, another 6800 treatment slots. Obviously, this is all a drop in the bucket for the overall homeless population in California, which is estimated to be more than 180,000 people. But again, the idea of prop one is a focus less focus on a subgroup of people who are experiencing homelessness. Newsom says prop one is the solution to the decades of unintended consequences that kicked off when California closed its state mental hospitals, but didn’t create alternative places for people to live and get care. Here’s Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom:\u003c/strong> The reforms that took place in the late 50s, in the 60s and the 70s, that bipartisan endeavor around deinstitutionalization. We had a peak 37,000, beds in the state of California in the 60s, 37,000 beds. Today, it’s about 5500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We actually do have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here\">Bay Curious episode about the closing of state mental hospitals and its impact on homelessness\u003c/a>. We’ll put a link in the show notes and transcript for this episode if you want to check that out. Guy, is there more detail on how this money will be allocated, like specific projects or even how much would go to, say, Alameda County versus Los Angeles County or anything like that? Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> That all hasn’t been laid out yet. I will say Newsom’s chief of staff, toxic KQED last summer about this prop. She said the administration, even though this had just started to move towards the ballot, they’re already looking at locations to build or refurbish, potential places with this bond money. I think really acknowledging that the process of building anything in California just takes a really long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> [00:06:50] Another discussion for another time. I think it’s always worth remembering that bond money isn’t free if voters approve it. How will this bond impact Californians over time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Right. So California would have to repay the bonds back over 30 years out of the state’s general fund. That’s where all our tax money ends up. And that works out to about $310 million a year, which because we’re talking about a really massive state budget, it’s actually only about one half of 1% of the general fund. Now, the state would have to pay interest on top of all of that. So over the course of three decades, we’d pay about $9 billion, not adjusted for inflation, to pay back what is a $6.38 billion bond on the ballot?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Okay, now on to the second arm of proposition one. So this measure would change how money collected for mental health services under Prop 63, which passed in 2004, is distributed. Okay. Start by taking us back 20 years to when voters approved the Mental Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah, this was really wild for me. Going back and looking at the coverage of that campaign back in 2004, because the issues that the supporters of Prop 63 were trying to address are so similar to what supporters of prop one are talking about right now. It’s basically a feeling that since those state hospitals closed, California really stopped providing the necessary care for people who have these severe mental health challenges. And the result has been those same people end up on the streets, in tents in our county jails. So what the Mental Health Services Act did back in 2004 was create this 1% tax on income over $1 million. It’s since been kind of colloquially known as the millionaires tax. And that created this new bucket of money that the state could use for mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So voters passed the Mental Health Services Act, which generates between two and a half and $3 billion per year. And that money now funds about a third of mental health services budgets for counties around the state. What counties especially like about this money is they have a lot of say in how it gets used. There aren’t a lot of strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Darrell Steinberg, who is currently the mayor of Sacramento back then in 2004, he was in the legislature and actually helped write the original Mental Health Services Act. He says the measure has been successful. It’s paid for a lot of services all across the state, from counseling to drop in centers to early intervention, having people come in to schools and classrooms and help teachers identify kids who might have mental health challenges. But he says the reason that all these years later, he’s now one of the leading supporters of changing it is because there hasn’t been enough focus on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I think the counties have actually spent the money well, but what they haven’t done is spent it in a way that was focused on the most critical issues affecting our state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So the trade off that supporters of prop one are pitching to voters is basically, let’s give up the flexibility in how this money is spent in exchange for adding greater focus, specifically focus on housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Tell me more about how they would limit flexibility that the counties have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So under prop one, if it passes, counties would be required to spend 30% of that millionaire tax money they get from the state, specifically on housing. So that could mean providing rental subsidies, building new housing, converting things like motels into housing with supportive services. So this would leave counties then with less money to spend on some of the other programs and services they’ve been providing in the mental health space. So they need to find the money elsewhere. Or in the case a lot of opponents are concerned about, they would need to scale back or cut some of these programs. Paul Simmons is one of the leaders of the No on prop one campaign. He recently led Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California, which provides peer support for people with depression bipolar disorder. He says service providers in similar positions are really worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Simmons:\u003c/strong> Adult respite centers and wellness centers are very, very much at risk. All peer support programs are just scared to death right now that they’re going to lose any funding they got from from the MSA funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> And you also have county governments who are really concerned about prop one, because right now they’re the ones that are getting this millionaires tax money. They are concerned that more of this money would go to the state. The state wants more say on how the millionaires tax money is spent. So you have many county supervisors who have come out against prop one. They’re concerned that if it passes, they’re going to have to cancel contracts with community based organizations or even perhaps reduce county staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Right now, 95% of that million in our tax money goes to counties. What would that look like under prop one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Under prop one, it would be more like 90% with the state using its cut for things like increasing just the number of mental health care workers. And one other change I should note here is that counties under prop one would be able to spend some of this money on housing for folks who just have drug and alcohol addiction challenges, you know, substance abuse issues. They may not have a dual diagnosis, mental health issue. And right now, all the Mental Health Services Act funding under Prop 63, the millionaires tax, all of that has to be used for people with mental health conditions. This would actually change the name of the entire thing to the Behavioral Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I see, so by calling it the behavioral rather than the Mental Health Services Act, it really broadens out the group of people who could be served by the money guy. Would this increase taxes for anybody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> No. And this is actually what makes this kind of controversial. It doesn’t increase the millionaires tax that funds the current Mental Health Services Act. So opponents of prop one say you have the same pot of money. You’re just stretching it in all these new directions by trying to focus on housing. Now, supporters like Newsom will say, that’s not the whole picture. There are all these other initiatives happening, you know, like Cal Aim, which try to get, for example, health plans to pay for some of these mental health services that prop 63, the Mental Health Services Act, has been doing for the last two. Years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> What else do opponents have to say about this one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> So I think just like we broke down the measure into a couple parts, it might be helpful to break down where opponents are coming from on this pretty, pretty complex measure. So let’s start with the bonds. You have the state borrowing a lot of money to build these treatment facilities, supportive apartments. So you have conservatives, anti-tax groups like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. They oppose taking on that debt. And then there’s other conservatives who kind of jump on and say, we also don’t agree with the Housing First policy here, which is when someone with, say, a substance abuse problem is given housing before going through treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s another piece of this, which is about what kind of housing can be built with this bond money, because prop one actually allows the money to be spent on locked facilities. These are, you know, places where people might get placed as a result of a conservatorship, where treatment is not voluntary. And this is pretty controversial. You get opposition not from conservatives on this, but you get opposition from groups like Disability Rights California, for example, who say these kind of lock facilities violate civil liberties and don’t have proven outcomes. Now, supporters of prop one say this is not going to be a huge piece of all the new facilities that get built, but that’s really an open question going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And what about the changes to how the existing prop 63 millionaires tax money is spent? Who is opposed to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah, that piece of prop one is opposed by some service providers, folks like Paul Simmons, who say if you’re focusing on helping people who are the most visible have the most acute needs, that’s a poor investment. If you’re taking that money from programs that try to provide help with mental health, substance abuse, when people are in school or when they’re in counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Simmons:\u003c/strong> But really, what they’re doing, from my perspective, is to take the money from the early intervention, take it from the upstream part and throw it all into downstream. You know, where people are having more trouble and in fact, forcing more people downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> And so folks like Simmons are worried that if California puts less funding toward preventative upstream programs that support people you know, before their problems are most severe, we’re actually going to worsen some of the state’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And who is in support of proposition one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Yeah, the biggest name in support is Governor Gavin Newsom. You know, for all the attention he’s gotten on political stunts, campaigning across the country, debating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the biggest policy focus he’s had in Sacramento has been at this intersection of behavioral health and homelessness. So just in the last few years, the governor signed bills to create care courts. So this kind of compels treatment, housing for people with severe mental illness. He also signed bills making it easier to place people in a conservative ship. Prop one is the latest step in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom:\u003c/strong> This is, I think, the last big piece. We’ve got we’ve just we’ve radically changed the way we’re doing business. We created more flexibility, more tools, more accountability, more resources. Now we just we need more beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> And I think what’s notable about prop one is just the size of the coalition supporting it. So both these ideas, the bond measure and then these changes to mental health spending. They both passed with huge majorities in the legislature last year. Support from Democrats, support from Republicans. Now, you might say like, oh, when the governor comes out and says, this is my top priority, everyone’s going to get in line. But I also think it’s a fact that the broken status quo, we see people just visibly suffering on the street. That touches a lot of different parts of society. So you have, you know, leaders of California hospitals supporting this. They see many of these residents end up in their emergency rooms. You have groups representing firefighters, law enforcement behind this. They often get called to respond when someone is having a mental health episode. And then you have what might be the biggest group of backers, which are mayors. You know, they feel directly, you know, accountable to voters for what residents see on the street. And it’s why you have mayors like London Breed in San Francisco so vocally in support of prop one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>London Breed:\u003c/strong> I was just out in the Tenderloin and San Francisco, and it is clear that we need people to get the support that they need, especially those suffering from mental health and substance use disorder. Let’s get into campaign spending. What does it look like on this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Prop spending is very lopsided for this prop. You have supporters having raised more than $11 million to help push this measure through. Opponents, on the other hand, just about $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Wow. So really kind of David and Goliath on the on spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> On the spending front for sure. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> All right. Well, KQED political correspondent Guy Maserati, always a pleasure. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati:\u003c/strong> Thanks, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In a nutshell, a vote yes on proposition one means you’d like to see funds from an existing tax on millionaires used not just for mental health care, but also people facing drug or alcohol challenges. You’d also like those funds to be used for housing people needing mental health or substance abuse care. Finally, you’d like California to borrow $6.4 billion to pay for more mental health and substance abuse treatment facilities and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vote no on proposition one means you’d like to keep the Mental Health Services Act in its current form, and or you do not want California to issue that $6.4 billion bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All right. We really hope that helped you make sense of what you’ll be voting on. Again, Election Day is March 5th, but ballots should be in your mailbox soon if they haven’t arrived yet. If you found this episode helpful, do us a favor and tell your friends all about it or share it out on your social media accounts. Thanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re already gearing up for our full sized Prop Fest series during the upcoming general election. If you’ve got questions about a prop, another race, or any other voting issue in California, head over to Bay curious.org and use the form at the top of the page to send that question our way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay curious is made in San Francisco at member supported KQED. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Bill and me Olivia Allen Price. Additional support from Jen Chen, Katie Springer, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanford, Hollie Kernan and the whole KQED family. I’m Olivia Ellen Price. Best of luck in your decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938251/renters-was-your-home-damaged-by-rain-or-floods-heres-what-to-do\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leer en inglés\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apenas comenzó febrero y California ha sido azotada por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974714/california-storm-brings-flooding-mudslides-and-power-outages\">lluvias torrenciales y fuertes vientos gracias a un río atmosférico\u003c/a> que trae miles de millones de galones de agua evaporada desde el Océano Pacífico hasta la Costa Oeste. Este sistema meteorológico ha dejado cientos de miles de californianos sin luz y muchos ahora tienen que hacer frente, una vez más, a las inundaciones en sus casas o a las pertenencias destruidas por las filtraciones de agua de lluvia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La buena noticia: Si usted es inquilino y su vivienda ha sufrido daños, el arrendador tiene obligaciones estatales con usted, independientemente de si tiene un contrato de alquiler o no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La mala noticia: Puede resultar que algunos arrendatarios tarden en reparar los daños en su casa y otros pueden hasta negar esta responsabilidad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por eso, KQED habló con Leah Simon-Weisberg, directora legal del grupo de inquilinos \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/renterhelp\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)\u003c/a>, para entender mejor qué derechos un inquilino tiene durante y después una tormenta y también cómo puede comunicarse con su arrendador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ir directo a:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#arrendador\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué hago si mi arrendador no responde?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#puedo\">\u003cstrong>Los daños son muy graves y no creo que podamos seguir viviendo aquí (al menos por ahora). ¿Qué puedo hacer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#hablar\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo debo hablar con mi arrendatario sobre los daños por inundación?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#pertenencias\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué pasa con mis pertenencias? ¿Qué cubre el seguro de alquiler?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#FEMA\">\u003cstrong>¿Puedo solicitar la ayuda de la FEMA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Daños causados por las tormentas: ¿Cuándo y cómo denunciarlos?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Casi todo el estado se ha visto empapado por la lluvia en 2024, y muchos hogares siguen inundados o sin electricidad. Pero independientemente de dónde viva en California, los inquilinos están protegidos por \u003ca href=\"https://nchh.org/resource-library/HH_Codes_CA_9-9-07.pdf\">un código de salud y seguridad en la ley estatal de vivienda que establece cómo debe mantenerse una casa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esta normativa exige a los propietarios que se aseguren de que sus viviendas cuentan con elementos como inodoros y lavabos que funcionen, pero también prohíbe que las paredes, techos y pisos de las casas estén deteriorados o dañados, junto con goteras, moho y falta de calefacción. “Todas estas cosas afectan a la salud de las personas y no se consideran legales en California”, dijo Simon-Weisberg.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, directora jurídica, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\"]‘El propietario siempre será responsable del mantenimiento de la vivienda para que sea sana y segura para el inquilino.’[/pullquote]Si cree que las condiciones en su casa se han vuelto inseguras tras las tormentas y su vida podría estar en peligro, abandone la casa inmediatamente y llame al 911, dijo Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después, llame a su arrendatario y explíque la situación. Es importante recalcar que sólo se debe llamar al 911 en circunstancias extremas, por ejemplo, si su techo se ha caído. Pero si es algo menor, dijo Simon-Weisberg, “algo que puede contener con una olla o toallas, llame a su arrendatario”, no al 911.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"hablar\">\u003c/a>¿Cómo debo hablar con mi arrendatario sobre los daños por inundación?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Realmente quiero animar a la gente a que tenga el valor de llamar a sus caseros”, dijo Simon-Weisberg, añadiendo que es comprensible que algunos inquilinos puedan sentirse nerviosos ante estas conversaciones, especialmente si no tienen un contrato de arrendamiento, o tienen miedo de algún tipo de castigo por hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En primer lugar, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1942.5.&lawCode=CIV\">es ilegal tomar represalias contra un inquilino\u003c/a> por hablar del mantenimiento”, dijo. “Un propietario siempre será responsable de mantener una unidad para que sea saludable y segura para el inquilino”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estas protecciones para inquilinos se aplican incluso si actualmente no tiene un contrato de arrendamiento por escrito. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dre.ca.gov/files/pdf/refbook/ref09.pdf\">California reconoce los acuerdos verbales\u003c/a> y los propietarios no pueden utilizar los daños causados por la tormenta como pretexto para desalojar a los inquilinos. “Una vez que el propietario ha aceptado un dólar por el alquiler, entonces usted tiene una tenencia y [los inquilinos] no pueden ser desalojados sin utilizar el proceso legal”, dijo Simon-Weisberg.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Una vez que esté listo para ponerse en contacto con el arrendatario, tenga en cuenta que una llamada telefónica funciona, pero lo mejor es acompañar dicha llamada con una comunicación por escrito, como un correo electrónico o un mensaje de texto, para que usted tenga constancia de lo que hablaron. En esa correspondencia escrita, asegúrese de incluir fotos de los daños, la hora en que se produjeron y detalles sobre sus pertenencias personales que también hayan podido resultar dañados. \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/flooding\">ACCE ha creado un ejemplo de correo electrónico\u003c/a> que muestra una forma de documentar cuándo contactó a su arrendatario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como nos han demostrado estas tormentas, el agua puede causar daños rápidamente, así que deje claro al propietario que las reparaciones son urgentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuanto antes llegue alguien para hacer reparaciones”, dice Simon-Weisberg, “más seguro estará y menos daños sufrirán tanto el lugar donde vive como sus pertenencias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11974779 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"Un hombre lleva puesto varios abrigos y usa un paraguas mientras cruza la calle en una ciudad con muchos carros.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una persona camina bajo la lluvia en la calle Mission en San Francisco el 18 de diciembre de 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"arrendador\">\u003c/a>Tengo problemas para que el arrendador haga las reparaciones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>¿Qué hacer si el propietario se niega a reparar los daños causados por una tormenta?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En algunos casos, según Simon-Weisberg, los propietarios se oponen y argumentan que no es responsabilidad suya hacer reparaciones, alegando una exención por catástrofe natural. Ella rechaza este argumento y afirma que “lo que estamos viviendo ahora no es un desastre natural”. La exención por catástrofe natural sólo puede utilizarse cuando un fenómeno natural, como un terremoto o un tsunami, afecta a todas las viviendas de una ciudad o región.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si las casas de la gente se inundan, es porque no reciben el mantenimiento adecuado”, dijo.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, directora jurídica, ACCE\"]‘Si las casas de la gente se inundan, es porque no reciben el mantenimiento adecuado.’[/pullquote]El propietario debe informarle sobre las reparaciones que se harán y darle un plazo. Si le siguen rechazando o no le contestan, ahí es cuando debe llamar al gobierno, dijo Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>También puede reportar los daños a la ciudad\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muchas ciudades de California cuentan con organismo que hace cumplir las normas de la ley estatal de vivienda. Puede informarle de su situación y de que su arrendatario no la ha resuelto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un equipo de aplicación del código debe visitar su casa y ponerse en contacto con el propietario si encuentra una infracción del código de seguridad. Simon-Weisberg añade que esto presionará al propietario para que haga las reparaciones lo antes posible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A continuación encontrará la información de los organismos encargados de hacer cumplir las normas de varias ciudades del Área de la Bahía. Actualizaremos constantemente esta lista para añadir la información de contacto de más ciudades de la región. Si la situación en su casa ha empeorado y su vida corre peligro inmediato, llame al 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco: Llame al 311 o \u003ca href=\"https://dbiweb02.sfgov.org/dbi_complaints/default.aspx?page=AddressQuery\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en San Francisco\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San José: Llame al (408) 535-7770 o \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/code-enforcement/request-service-check-status/code-service-request-form\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland: Llame al (510) 238-3444 o \u003ca href=\"https://aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/Cap/CapApplyDisclaimer.aspx?module=Enforcement&TabName=Enforcement\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en Oakland\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: Envíe un correo electrónico a code@srcity.org o \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/21358/Code-Enforcement-Complaint-Form-PDF?bidId=\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en Santa Rosa\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Richmond: Llame al 311 o al (804) 646-6398.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vallejo: Llame a la División de Construcción de la ciudad al (707) 648-4374.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redwood City: (650) 780-7577\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Otra opción: Emprender acciones legales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si las autoridades ya han acudido a su casa pero el propietario sigue sin ponerse en contacto con usted, Simon-Weisberg dice que el siguiente paso es emprender acciones legales. Si vive en el Área de la Bahía, hay varios grupos de defensa de los derechos de los inquilinos que pueden ayudarle en estas situaciones:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ACCE organiza \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/dyh\">clínicas bilingües español/inglés para inquilinos\u003c/a> en todo el estado todos los jueves a las 6:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>En Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://cjjc.org/es/\">Causa Justa/Just Cause\u003c/a> ofrece un sitio web que \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtenantrights.org/es/derechos-de-los-inquilinos/reparaciones-2/\">le guía paso a paso sobre cómo hablar con su arrendatario\u003c/a>, cómo presentar una queja con la aplicación del código de la ciudad y cómo emprender acciones legales si es necesario.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidsc.org/\">Legal Aid del Condado de Sonoma\u003c/a> tiene una línea directa de vivienda para los inquilinos que buscan asistencia legal. Llame directamente al (707) 843-4432.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"puedo\">\u003c/a>Ya no puedo vivir en mi casa a causa de los daños. ¿Qué podemos hacer?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si su arrendatario ha programado reparaciones que requieren que usted viva en otro sitio durante ese periodo, está obligado a pagarle el alojamiento, ya sea un hotel u otra propiedad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dicho esto”, añade Simon-Weisberg, “probablemente tendrá que estar pagando el alquiler mientras ellos pagan esas otras cosas. No puede retener el alquiler y que le paguen el hotel a la vez”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, las ciudades y los condados pueden diferir en cuanto al tiempo que un propietario tiene que pagar por este alojamiento temporal. ACCE se ha asociado con el grupo TechEquity Collaborative para crear \u003ca href=\"https://tenantprotections.org/es/eligibility\">TenantProtections.org\u003c/a>, un sitio web en el que puede ingresar su código postal y saber de qué protecciones adicionales dispone a nivel local y de condado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg señala que en muchas ciudades de California existe una escapatoria legal que permite a los propietarios desalojar a los inquilinos si tienen que hacer reparaciones importantes y el inquilino no puede vivir en la propiedad mientras se realizan dichas reparaciones. En estos casos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790591/new-sf-eviction-law-extends-protections-to-nearly-all-privately-owned-rental-units\">muchas ciudades del Área de la Bahía con protecciones contra los desalojos “sin culpa”, como San Francisco\u003c/a> y \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandtenantsunion.org/just-cause-for-eviction.html\">Oakland\u003c/a>, exigen a los propietarios ofrecer a los inquilinos indemnizaciones por reubicación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si teme que esto pueda ocurrirle a usted, póngase en contacto con un grupo de inquilinos para obtener asesoramiento jurídico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pertenencias\">\u003c/a>¿Y si el agua también ha dañado mis pertenencias?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>¿Su arrendatario es responsable de los daños causados a sus pertenencias si usted es inquilino? La respuesta no siempre es sencilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Ruiz, directora de comunicación estratégica del \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, un grupo que representa a la industria de seguros, dijo a KQED que “su arrendatario no es responsable de sus pertenencias” y que, en su lugar, “el seguro de inquilinos o el seguro de inundación para inquilinos … cubriría sus pertenencias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Simon-Weisberg afirma que los propietarios pueden ser considerados responsables de los daños causados a las pertenencias de los inquilinos, y que el arrendatario podrá oponerse a ello dependiendo de la situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Qué debe hacer? En primer lugar, si los daños causados por el agua han destruido sus pertenencias, como una computadora o muebles, asegúrese de documentarlo y de incluir la información cuando se comunique con el propietario.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si tiene seguro de alquiler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consulte a su agente para saber qué cubre su póliza y qué gastos puede tener que cubrir usted (o su arrendatario).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si no tiene seguro de alquiler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si cree que sus pertenencias sufrieron daños porque su vivienda no recibió las reparaciones necesarias antes de las tormentas, si tiene o no seguro de alquiler, usted puede plantearlo cuando hable con un grupo de defensa de los derechos de los inquilinos o una clínica de asistencia jurídica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Si se ha dañado la calefacción, la electricidad o la plomería y su alquiler incluye alguno de estos servicios, mencione esto también a su arrendador. Es posible que pueda negociar un descuento temporal en el pago de los servicios).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted no tiene seguro de alquiler y está pensando en contratarlo después de las tormentas, es importante mencionar que la mayoría de las pólizas vienen con un período de espera de 30 días para que comiencen los beneficios, por lo que una póliza no cubrirá los daños causados por tormentas pasadas. Además, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/es/press-release/20210317/yes-renters-can-buy-flood-insurance\">algunos inquilinos pueden tener que pagar primas más altas\u003c/a> debido al lugar donde viven, la antigüedad de su vivienda e incluso el número de plantas de su edificio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué pasa si se daña la comida durante un apagón?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Las familias que reciben prestaciones de CalFresh pueden \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACLs/2019/19-95_ES.pdf\">recibir fondos de reemplazo en su tarjeta EBT \u003c/a>si han perdido alimentos a causa de una inundación o un apagón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para ello, póngase en contacto con el administrador de casos o trabajador social que está administrando sus beneficios de CalFresh dentro de los 10 días de haberse dañado su comida para hacerles saber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED ha confirmado con el Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California que esto incluye la pérdida o destrucción de alimentos debido a las tormentas invernales.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo incluye información de Kevin Stark, Brian Watt y Spencer Whitney de KQED. Además\u003c/em>\u003cem> ha sido actualizado con información de las tormentas que se vieron en California en febrero 2024. La versión original se publicó el 10 de marzo de 2023. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> tradujo al español y fue editada por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Una vez que esté listo para ponerse en contacto con el arrendatario, tenga en cuenta que una llamada telefónica funciona, pero lo mejor es acompañar dicha llamada con una comunicación por escrito, como un correo electrónico o un mensaje de texto, para que usted tenga constancia de lo que hablaron. En esa correspondencia escrita, asegúrese de incluir fotos de los daños, la hora en que se produjeron y detalles sobre sus pertenencias personales que también hayan podido resultar dañados. \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/flooding\">ACCE ha creado un ejemplo de correo electrónico\u003c/a> que muestra una forma de documentar cuándo contactó a su arrendatario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como nos han demostrado estas tormentas, el agua puede causar daños rápidamente, así que deje claro al propietario que las reparaciones son urgentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuanto antes llegue alguien para hacer reparaciones”, dice Simon-Weisberg, “más seguro estará y menos daños sufrirán tanto el lugar donde vive como sus pertenencias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11974779 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"Un hombre lleva puesto varios abrigos y usa un paraguas mientras cruza la calle en una ciudad con muchos carros.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/231218-RainFile-14-BL_qut-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una persona camina bajo la lluvia en la calle Mission en San Francisco el 18 de diciembre de 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"arrendador\">\u003c/a>Tengo problemas para que el arrendador haga las reparaciones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>¿Qué hacer si el propietario se niega a reparar los daños causados por una tormenta?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En algunos casos, según Simon-Weisberg, los propietarios se oponen y argumentan que no es responsabilidad suya hacer reparaciones, alegando una exención por catástrofe natural. Ella rechaza este argumento y afirma que “lo que estamos viviendo ahora no es un desastre natural”. La exención por catástrofe natural sólo puede utilizarse cuando un fenómeno natural, como un terremoto o un tsunami, afecta a todas las viviendas de una ciudad o región.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si las casas de la gente se inundan, es porque no reciben el mantenimiento adecuado”, dijo.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>El propietario debe informarle sobre las reparaciones que se harán y darle un plazo. Si le siguen rechazando o no le contestan, ahí es cuando debe llamar al gobierno, dijo Simon-Weisberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>También puede reportar los daños a la ciudad\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muchas ciudades de California cuentan con organismo que hace cumplir las normas de la ley estatal de vivienda. Puede informarle de su situación y de que su arrendatario no la ha resuelto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un equipo de aplicación del código debe visitar su casa y ponerse en contacto con el propietario si encuentra una infracción del código de seguridad. Simon-Weisberg añade que esto presionará al propietario para que haga las reparaciones lo antes posible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A continuación encontrará la información de los organismos encargados de hacer cumplir las normas de varias ciudades del Área de la Bahía. Actualizaremos constantemente esta lista para añadir la información de contacto de más ciudades de la región. Si la situación en su casa ha empeorado y su vida corre peligro inmediato, llame al 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco: Llame al 311 o \u003ca href=\"https://dbiweb02.sfgov.org/dbi_complaints/default.aspx?page=AddressQuery\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en San Francisco\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San José: Llame al (408) 535-7770 o \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/code-enforcement/request-service-check-status/code-service-request-form\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oakland: Llame al (510) 238-3444 o \u003ca href=\"https://aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/Cap/CapApplyDisclaimer.aspx?module=Enforcement&TabName=Enforcement\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en Oakland\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Rosa: Envíe un correo electrónico a code@srcity.org o \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/21358/Code-Enforcement-Complaint-Form-PDF?bidId=\">presente una queja en línea sobre un alquiler en Santa Rosa\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Richmond: Llame al 311 o al (804) 646-6398.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vallejo: Llame a la División de Construcción de la ciudad al (707) 648-4374.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Redwood City: (650) 780-7577\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Otra opción: Emprender acciones legales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si las autoridades ya han acudido a su casa pero el propietario sigue sin ponerse en contacto con usted, Simon-Weisberg dice que el siguiente paso es emprender acciones legales. Si vive en el Área de la Bahía, hay varios grupos de defensa de los derechos de los inquilinos que pueden ayudarle en estas situaciones:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>ACCE organiza \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/dyh\">clínicas bilingües español/inglés para inquilinos\u003c/a> en todo el estado todos los jueves a las 6:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>En Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://cjjc.org/es/\">Causa Justa/Just Cause\u003c/a> ofrece un sitio web que \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtenantrights.org/es/derechos-de-los-inquilinos/reparaciones-2/\">le guía paso a paso sobre cómo hablar con su arrendatario\u003c/a>, cómo presentar una queja con la aplicación del código de la ciudad y cómo emprender acciones legales si es necesario.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://legalaidsc.org/\">Legal Aid del Condado de Sonoma\u003c/a> tiene una línea directa de vivienda para los inquilinos que buscan asistencia legal. Llame directamente al (707) 843-4432.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"puedo\">\u003c/a>Ya no puedo vivir en mi casa a causa de los daños. ¿Qué podemos hacer?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si su arrendatario ha programado reparaciones que requieren que usted viva en otro sitio durante ese periodo, está obligado a pagarle el alojamiento, ya sea un hotel u otra propiedad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dicho esto”, añade Simon-Weisberg, “probablemente tendrá que estar pagando el alquiler mientras ellos pagan esas otras cosas. No puede retener el alquiler y que le paguen el hotel a la vez”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, las ciudades y los condados pueden diferir en cuanto al tiempo que un propietario tiene que pagar por este alojamiento temporal. ACCE se ha asociado con el grupo TechEquity Collaborative para crear \u003ca href=\"https://tenantprotections.org/es/eligibility\">TenantProtections.org\u003c/a>, un sitio web en el que puede ingresar su código postal y saber de qué protecciones adicionales dispone a nivel local y de condado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg señala que en muchas ciudades de California existe una escapatoria legal que permite a los propietarios desalojar a los inquilinos si tienen que hacer reparaciones importantes y el inquilino no puede vivir en la propiedad mientras se realizan dichas reparaciones. En estos casos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790591/new-sf-eviction-law-extends-protections-to-nearly-all-privately-owned-rental-units\">muchas ciudades del Área de la Bahía con protecciones contra los desalojos “sin culpa”, como San Francisco\u003c/a> y \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandtenantsunion.org/just-cause-for-eviction.html\">Oakland\u003c/a>, exigen a los propietarios ofrecer a los inquilinos indemnizaciones por reubicación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si teme que esto pueda ocurrirle a usted, póngase en contacto con un grupo de inquilinos para obtener asesoramiento jurídico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"pertenencias\">\u003c/a>¿Y si el agua también ha dañado mis pertenencias?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>¿Su arrendatario es responsable de los daños causados a sus pertenencias si usted es inquilino? La respuesta no siempre es sencilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Ruiz, directora de comunicación estratégica del \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, un grupo que representa a la industria de seguros, dijo a KQED que “su arrendatario no es responsable de sus pertenencias” y que, en su lugar, “el seguro de inquilinos o el seguro de inundación para inquilinos … cubriría sus pertenencias”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Simon-Weisberg afirma que los propietarios pueden ser considerados responsables de los daños causados a las pertenencias de los inquilinos, y que el arrendatario podrá oponerse a ello dependiendo de la situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Qué debe hacer? En primer lugar, si los daños causados por el agua han destruido sus pertenencias, como una computadora o muebles, asegúrese de documentarlo y de incluir la información cuando se comunique con el propietario.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si tiene seguro de alquiler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consulte a su agente para saber qué cubre su póliza y qué gastos puede tener que cubrir usted (o su arrendatario).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Si no tiene seguro de alquiler\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si cree que sus pertenencias sufrieron daños porque su vivienda no recibió las reparaciones necesarias antes de las tormentas, si tiene o no seguro de alquiler, usted puede plantearlo cuando hable con un grupo de defensa de los derechos de los inquilinos o una clínica de asistencia jurídica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Si se ha dañado la calefacción, la electricidad o la plomería y su alquiler incluye alguno de estos servicios, mencione esto también a su arrendador. Es posible que pueda negociar un descuento temporal en el pago de los servicios).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted no tiene seguro de alquiler y está pensando en contratarlo después de las tormentas, es importante mencionar que la mayoría de las pólizas vienen con un período de espera de 30 días para que comiencen los beneficios, por lo que una póliza no cubrirá los daños causados por tormentas pasadas. Además, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/es/press-release/20210317/yes-renters-can-buy-flood-insurance\">algunos inquilinos pueden tener que pagar primas más altas\u003c/a> debido al lugar donde viven, la antigüedad de su vivienda e incluso el número de plantas de su edificio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué pasa si se daña la comida durante un apagón?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Las familias que reciben prestaciones de CalFresh pueden \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Letters-and-Notices/ACLs/2019/19-95_ES.pdf\">recibir fondos de reemplazo en su tarjeta EBT \u003c/a>si han perdido alimentos a causa de una inundación o un apagón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para ello, póngase en contacto con el administrador de casos o trabajador social que está administrando sus beneficios de CalFresh dentro de los 10 días de haberse dañado su comida para hacerles saber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED ha confirmado con el Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California que esto incluye la pérdida o destrucción de alimentos debido a las tormentas invernales.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo incluye información de Kevin Stark, Brian Watt y Spencer Whitney de KQED. Además\u003c/em>\u003cem> ha sido actualizado con información de las tormentas que se vieron en California en febrero 2024. La versión original se publicó el 10 de marzo de 2023. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> tradujo al español y fue editada por \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biannual “point in time” count of unhoused residents is imperfect but an important part of tracking the homelessness crisis in cities across the country. KQED’s Sydney Johnson joined city workers as they drove around one San Francisco neighborhood to count the number of people living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1679610696\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Every two years, cities around the country are tasked with counting the number of people living on the streets on a single night. Everyone agrees it’s hard to be exact, but these numbers matter, and it’s this point in time count that helps the federal government decide how to dole out money for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So I think about it as a really important spot check of are we doing better or are we doing worse today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>KQED reporter Sydney Johnson takes us to Bayview Hunters Point to see how city workers count San Francisco’s unhoused population. I know you recently went out with the team doing a headcount in Bayview Hunters Point. Can you take us to the scene? Where did you go first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I and several other folks gathered in a conference room downtown in a public health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jose Torres: \u003c/strong>Where are you going to be? Seeing as many vehicles. You know, anything that’s abandoned? You gonna count those anyways? Of course. Tents and definitely people. So you might see people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And that’s where we received our instructions from Jose Torres. He’s a program manager at the SF Homeless Outreach team, and he told us what to look out for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jose Torres: \u003c/strong>When we see a light in the baby right now is, RVs, vehicles, people sleeping in vehicles. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It was a one night assignment, and folks were pretty ready to just go out and do their job. I think many folks who were there had done it before. For the most part, I think these are professionals who were eager to go out and kind of see their line of work from a different perspective for one night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so after you get these instructions, you leave the clinic. Where do you go next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So after we received our instructions, some teams took off by foot to more dense neighborhoods like the tenderloin. So I piled into the back of a small corolla with three of those city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>We drove to the Bayview. It’s a pretty residential neighborhood in the city’s southeast corner. I didn’t get both of your names up in the front. Well, I’m Sydney, by the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>My name is Elester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Elester, would you spell it for me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>Sure. It’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Elester Hubbard is a San Francisco native. He drove us around all night, and he works in the Bayview, often connecting folks to homelessness services and also overseeing other outreach workers who do that same work as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>I’m Sean, S E A N, and.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Riding passenger was Sean Bullock, who is also an outreach worker for the city. Here’s a little bit younger than I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>Really new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>When did you start?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>January 8th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Oh, awesome. And then in the back seat with me was another city worker nam ed Elizabeth Hudson. You already told me. What is your title?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Hudson \u003c/strong>You just h manager of supportive housing programs. Great. Okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And she was highlighting the parts of the map that we would complete as we drove around, block by block, alleyway by alleyway. Yes, we do need to go down, Miranda. Depends on if you want to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>Just like however you would like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Sure. Go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Here. In what exactly were the workers looking for? I assume just these more visible signs of homelessness, like tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Right? We were told to count every individual that we saw, but also every RV and vehicle that appeared to be lived in as well. Half of the area that we were covering were, you know, single family homes and apartment buildings. But a lot of the area that we were covering, too, was super industrial. You know, we were scanning between warehouses and factories. There were a lot of arv’s that we were looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Many of the RVs that we saw were believed to be lived in because they had personal belongings. You know, maybe there was someone visible. So in some areas, like when we pulled up kind of behind a Amazon warehouse, there was a line of more than a dozen RVs. And our task was to drive through and try and identify which ones might have people in them. And that was really tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>Well, because we we didn’t see anyone. So on the app here, we just have a suspected, Tanner vehicle you believe to be inhabited but cannot confirm because of privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>Okay, so I’m going to go down here because I think that’s part of it, and then I’ll come back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, some of them, it was obvious we saw someone outside. Maybe they were listening to music or there was a light on others. It was hard to tell, you know, they were boarded up, or maybe it looked like they hadn’t been touched in years. And so some of those trickier judgment calls, a Lester and Sean would kind of go back and forth on a little bit and have to decide, what they thought at the end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>People around us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>You don’t think this is you think that’s storage? Yeah. Yeah, it’s one storage. So that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>One of them, Elester says, no, I think that’s just storage. And it was a small trailer that was boarded up, but there was a window in the back that you could see. There was just a lot of equipment, bike parts, things like that. So I asked a Lester, I said, how did you make that call? Like, how do you know someone’s not sleeping in there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>I’ve been through here like so many times, just like, you see, like the cart there. And then it’s you see that the tarp that’s poking out. So it’s more equipment. They would have a really hard time if somebody was to sleep in there, but there’s not. But if there was it, they would have have a really hard time because they would be sleeping on like pointing bike parts or tools or things like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And then for cars, we were told to look out for things like foggy windows or having belongings next to the car or on top of the car that may look like someone is living there. And then of course, we also saw encampments. You know, we walked by a group of people who were huddled around a fire under a freeway overpass because it was a really cold night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>We’ve already got fairly kind of 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>And so much more to go. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So once you actually spotted an RV or people, what happens? How do how do you actually count that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So a Elester was driving the vehicle while Sean was riding passenger and marking our findings in the app. So for an individual, it’s pretty straightforward. They’ll try to collect as much data as possible, so they’ll guess if it is a male or female and maybe what age they are. But you know, it’s not a direct science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>They aren’t going up and asking these people these questions. For the RVs, though, and for cars, the counters would mark the license plate and that was only to duplicates. So when the data gets uploaded, they’ll include the license plate for vehicles that have one, and then try to non duplicate those vehicles if they happen to be counted more than once. And that’s really how it’s done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Their experience in these neighborhoods and in this work seems like very important, very informative in how this county works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There’s no disagreement that this count is imperfect. Even the national experts that I spoke to who use this data understand that it is rife with human error, that these judgment calls are imperfect, that different people might assume different things. So having folks like Alastor who work in that community, who literally know some of the people that they’re talking to, you know, I think it does help with the accuracy, for sure, but I think it also helps with just the process of the count itself. You know, there were times where we were rolling past encampments, kind of slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And frankly, if I were the other person, you know, seeing some car roll up to me, I would be wondering what the heck is going on and maybe a little bit on edge. And a Lester and Sean, to their credit, were really gentle and trying to just be mindful of these people’s spaces and that it was at night. And I think that comes from having experience in that community as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Sydney, how long did you do this for how long were you in the car?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Oh, boy. We were in the car for four hours. Wow. And we wrapped up just after midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how many people did the team count by the end of the night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So the team counted 257.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, what happens after the headcount is done across the entire city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney. This was, of course, just one neighborhood in San Francisco. What happens from here? Like once this count in this single neighborhood is done? Like, how do we go from that to then the final number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Next, there’s going to be this follow up report where researchers are going to go out and gather more qualitative data. They’re going to ask folks in the communities that we surveyed more about their age, their race, their gender, and try and get just a little bit more rich information to add to the count. And then there will be preliminary data released in the spring, and then the full report will be released in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I do wonder, is it harder to get an accurate count in the Bay area versus maybe other places around the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, in some ways it is. And that’s because here in San Francisco and really on the West Coast, the majority of people who are experiencing homelessness are unsheltered, meaning they don’t have access to any kind of roof over their heads. 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Everyone agrees it’s hard to be exact, but these numbers matter, and it’s this point in time count that helps the federal government decide how to dole out money for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So I think about it as a really important spot check of are we doing better or are we doing worse today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>KQED reporter Sydney Johnson takes us to Bayview Hunters Point to see how city workers count San Francisco’s unhoused population. I know you recently went out with the team doing a headcount in Bayview Hunters Point. Can you take us to the scene? Where did you go first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I and several other folks gathered in a conference room downtown in a public health clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jose Torres: \u003c/strong>Where are you going to be? Seeing as many vehicles. 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He drove us around all night, and he works in the Bayview, often connecting folks to homelessness services and also overseeing other outreach workers who do that same work as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>I’m Sean, S E A N, and.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Riding passenger was Sean Bullock, who is also an outreach worker for the city. Here’s a little bit younger than I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>Really new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>When did you start?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>January 8th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Oh, awesome. And then in the back seat with me was another city worker nam ed Elizabeth Hudson. You already told me. What is your title?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Hudson \u003c/strong>You just h manager of supportive housing programs. Great. Okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And she was highlighting the parts of the map that we would complete as we drove around, block by block, alleyway by alleyway. Yes, we do need to go down, Miranda. Depends on if you want to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>Just like however you would like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Sure. Go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Here. In what exactly were the workers looking for? I assume just these more visible signs of homelessness, like tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Right? We were told to count every individual that we saw, but also every RV and vehicle that appeared to be lived in as well. Half of the area that we were covering were, you know, single family homes and apartment buildings. But a lot of the area that we were covering, too, was super industrial. 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So that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>One of them, Elester says, no, I think that’s just storage. And it was a small trailer that was boarded up, but there was a window in the back that you could see. There was just a lot of equipment, bike parts, things like that. So I asked a Lester, I said, how did you make that call? Like, how do you know someone’s not sleeping in there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>I’ve been through here like so many times, just like, you see, like the cart there. And then it’s you see that the tarp that’s poking out. So it’s more equipment. They would have a really hard time if somebody was to sleep in there, but there’s not. But if there was it, they would have have a really hard time because they would be sleeping on like pointing bike parts or tools or things like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And then for cars, we were told to look out for things like foggy windows or having belongings next to the car or on top of the car that may look like someone is living there. And then of course, we also saw encampments. You know, we walked by a group of people who were huddled around a fire under a freeway overpass because it was a really cold night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Bullock: \u003c/strong>We’ve already got fairly kind of 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elester Hubbard: \u003c/strong>And so much more to go. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So once you actually spotted an RV or people, what happens? How do how do you actually count that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So a Elester was driving the vehicle while Sean was riding passenger and marking our findings in the app. So for an individual, it’s pretty straightforward. They’ll try to collect as much data as possible, so they’ll guess if it is a male or female and maybe what age they are. But you know, it’s not a direct science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>They aren’t going up and asking these people these questions. For the RVs, though, and for cars, the counters would mark the license plate and that was only to duplicates. So when the data gets uploaded, they’ll include the license plate for vehicles that have one, and then try to non duplicate those vehicles if they happen to be counted more than once. And that’s really how it’s done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Their experience in these neighborhoods and in this work seems like very important, very informative in how this county works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There’s no disagreement that this count is imperfect. Even the national experts that I spoke to who use this data understand that it is rife with human error, that these judgment calls are imperfect, that different people might assume different things. So having folks like Alastor who work in that community, who literally know some of the people that they’re talking to, you know, I think it does help with the accuracy, for sure, but I think it also helps with just the process of the count itself. 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They’re going to ask folks in the communities that we surveyed more about their age, their race, their gender, and try and get just a little bit more rich information to add to the count. And then there will be preliminary data released in the spring, and then the full report will be released in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I do wonder, is it harder to get an accurate count in the Bay area versus maybe other places around the country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, in some ways it is. And that’s because here in San Francisco and really on the West Coast, the majority of people who are experiencing homelessness are unsheltered, meaning they don’t have access to any kind of roof over their heads. 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The city uses it to get a sense of how much, you know, resources it needs to allocate to different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>This data is important for seeing how and whether San Francisco or any local municipality is doing in terms of improving on serving its homeless population as well. We can see if homelessness is going up and whether it’s sheltered versus unsheltered is going up or down, even if the exact number is not totally accurate. If we can compare it to the past, it can tell a really interesting story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Sydney Johnson, a reporter for KQED. This 28 minute conversation with Sydney was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. 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"content": "\u003cp>Elester Hubbard sees San Francisco’s housing crisis up close on a daily basis. As a supervisor for San Francisco’s homelessness outreach team, he works every day to connect unhoused people with social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late in the night on Tuesday, while winding through residential and industrial areas of the Bayview neighborhood, Hubbard had a realization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see homelessness all the time. But actually counting it, and just seeing those numbers go up and keep growing, you really see how there’s always work to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hubbard, who grew up in San Francisco, was among dozens of workers who fanned out across the city to pursue an almost impossible task: estimate the number of unhoused people in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand beside an official-looking car, holding a map in the dark.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Hewson (left), manager at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, and Elester Hubbard, Outreach Supervisor with SFHOT, look at a map after their team completed their assigned area during a point-in-time homeless population count in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Known as \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/#:~:text=The%20PIT%20Count%20is%20a,course%20of%20a%20full%20year.\">the point-in-time count\u003c/a>, the survey measures the number of people staying in shelters, as well as those who are living in cars, tents, sleeping bags or other places not meant for human habitation. The U.S. government requires all local regions and counties to participate in the count every two years in order to receive federal dollars for homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11973859,news_11812665,news_11799833 label='The Point-in-Time Count']Preliminary data from San Francisco’s survey will be released in Spring 2024, and the full report will be available this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last time around, in 2021, San Francisco and the many Bay Area counties canceled the count due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, another winter surge of COVID-19 delayed the count from its usual January date to February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, city workers tallied 7,754 people experiencing homelessness two years ago — a 3.5% decrease from 2019. Also, during that period, the number of people staying in San Francisco’s shelters, rather than sleeping outside, increased as the city simultaneously grew its inventory of shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any year, the survey is widely considered an undercount because counters have to make judgment calls and can also easily overlook people who are couch surfing or simply hidden from plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco Point-in-Time Homeless Count Since 2005\" aria-label=\"Stacked Columns\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Qx8jm\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Qx8jm/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are several well-known limitations of the point-in-time count,” said Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at UCSF. “It doesn’t do a good job counting young adults and homeless youth, or people who are cycling in and out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the information from the count is still valuable, Kushel said, especially when compared to other data sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Kushel and a team of researchers at UCSF released the largest of its kind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953216/lack-of-affordable-housing-is-driving-older-californians-into-homelessness\">study\u003c/a> on homelessness in California, which asked thousands of unhoused people in-depth questions about how they became homeless, their health, drug use, family history, work history and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to understand that there are way too many people experiencing homelessness, but it would help us to understand what is happening in people’s lives right before they’re homeless,” Kushel said. “What are the signals just before someone becomes homeless, and how can we get them legal services or funding to pay back rent? How do we end their homelessness quickly?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How San Francisco conducts its point-in-time count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, teams of workers and volunteers — most of whom work within the city’s homeless services agencies — gathered downtown around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday to hear instructions. Each crew was handed a detailed map of streets and alleyways to scan for signs of life, along with instructions to record findings in a mobile app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counters did not conduct interviews with people they identified but were given tips before the assignment on visual cues to look out for and others to be wary of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man inputs data into a phone, while sitting in the passenger seat of a car\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outreach specialist Sean Bullock inputs data into an app as teams spread out through San Francisco to count sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You might see people laying down, count them. People walking around, count them,” Jose Torres, program manager for the SF Homeless Outreach Team, said to surveyors before they took off for the night. “If they are carrying a lot of stuff and bags, that might tell you the person is unhoused. Shoes can tell you a lot about a person too, seeing if they have really old shoes or no shoes at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups took off by foot in densely populated areas like the Tenderloin and Mission. But out in the sprawling Bayview neighborhood, where RVs are much more common, Hubbard and his team drove in a city vehicle to cover more ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately upon getting to the group’s map area, the team spotted a line of RVs with tents and other makeshift shelters scattered between a FedEx distribution center and Amazon warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to say that RV is confirmed because there’s music playing inside,” said Sean Bullock, an outreach specialist with SFHOT who was riding in the passenger seat while recording the data. At another row of RVs, the team stopped beside a smaller trailer packed with items but dark inside. “That looks like storage; let’s move on,” Hubbard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block by block, the team scanned the streets, making these types of judgments over whether a person or multiple people may be living in a vehicle or tent. But some calls were easier than others. As the team drove slowly under a freeway overpass, four people stood beside their tents and huddled around a small fire to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly four hours, Hubbard’s crew called it a night. They recorded 257 encounters, including individuals confirmed and vehicles and RVs that appeared to be lived in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a line of RVs in a car mirror\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members look for vehicles and RVs serving as shelters, but many have to make judgment calls as they count. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike counties that conduct their point-in-time count in the early morning hours, San Francisco does its count at night. It also relies on trained workers, as opposed to a volunteer crew, to perform the tallies. Other cities across the country, and even across California, do it differently — another challenge researchers have with the accuracy of the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York City, 95% of people experiencing homelessness are in shelters, according to Kushel, whereas the majority of unhoused people in San Francisco are unsheltered. And in more rural parts of the country, “it’s way easier to not be counted or found,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at highlighted maps and the final tally on his phone, Hubbard said the count itself made him appreciate the work that’s done beyond just number-gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll come back 10 times to build rapport with a client to make progress,” Hubbard said. “Some people may think that’s wasted time, but we don’t think of it as that. That’s how we get results with clients we work with.”\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>\u003cp>Elester Hubbard sees San Francisco’s housing crisis up close on a daily basis. As a supervisor for San Francisco’s homelessness outreach team, he works every day to connect unhoused people with social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But late in the night on Tuesday, while winding through residential and industrial areas of the Bayview neighborhood, Hubbard had a realization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see homelessness all the time. But actually counting it, and just seeing those numbers go up and keep growing, you really see how there’s always work to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hubbard, who grew up in San Francisco, was among dozens of workers who fanned out across the city to pursue an almost impossible task: estimate the number of unhoused people in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand beside an official-looking car, holding a map in the dark.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HOMELESSCOUNT-51-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Hewson (left), manager at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, and Elester Hubbard, Outreach Supervisor with SFHOT, look at a map after their team completed their assigned area during a point-in-time homeless population count in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Known as \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/#:~:text=The%20PIT%20Count%20is%20a,course%20of%20a%20full%20year.\">the point-in-time count\u003c/a>, the survey measures the number of people staying in shelters, as well as those who are living in cars, tents, sleeping bags or other places not meant for human habitation. The U.S. government requires all local regions and counties to participate in the count every two years in order to receive federal dollars for homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Preliminary data from San Francisco’s survey will be released in Spring 2024, and the full report will be available this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last time around, in 2021, San Francisco and the many Bay Area counties canceled the count due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, another winter surge of COVID-19 delayed the count from its usual January date to February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, city workers tallied 7,754 people experiencing homelessness two years ago — a 3.5% decrease from 2019. Also, during that period, the number of people staying in San Francisco’s shelters, rather than sleeping outside, increased as the city simultaneously grew its inventory of shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any year, the survey is widely considered an undercount because counters have to make judgment calls and can also easily overlook people who are couch surfing or simply hidden from plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco Point-in-Time Homeless Count Since 2005\" aria-label=\"Stacked Columns\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Qx8jm\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Qx8jm/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"600\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are several well-known limitations of the point-in-time count,” said Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at UCSF. “It doesn’t do a good job counting young adults and homeless youth, or people who are cycling in and out of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the information from the count is still valuable, Kushel said, especially when compared to other data sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Kushel and a team of researchers at UCSF released the largest of its kind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953216/lack-of-affordable-housing-is-driving-older-californians-into-homelessness\">study\u003c/a> on homelessness in California, which asked thousands of unhoused people in-depth questions about how they became homeless, their health, drug use, family history, work history and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to understand that there are way too many people experiencing homelessness, but it would help us to understand what is happening in people’s lives right before they’re homeless,” Kushel said. “What are the signals just before someone becomes homeless, and how can we get them legal services or funding to pay back rent? How do we end their homelessness quickly?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How San Francisco conducts its point-in-time count\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, teams of workers and volunteers — most of whom work within the city’s homeless services agencies — gathered downtown around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday to hear instructions. Each crew was handed a detailed map of streets and alleyways to scan for signs of life, along with instructions to record findings in a mobile app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counters did not conduct interviews with people they identified but were given tips before the assignment on visual cues to look out for and others to be wary of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man inputs data into a phone, while sitting in the passenger seat of a car\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240130-HomelessCount-47-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outreach specialist Sean Bullock inputs data into an app as teams spread out through San Francisco to count sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You might see people laying down, count them. People walking around, count them,” Jose Torres, program manager for the SF Homeless Outreach Team, said to surveyors before they took off for the night. “If they are carrying a lot of stuff and bags, that might tell you the person is unhoused. Shoes can tell you a lot about a person too, seeing if they have really old shoes or no shoes at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups took off by foot in densely populated areas like the Tenderloin and Mission. But out in the sprawling Bayview neighborhood, where RVs are much more common, Hubbard and his team drove in a city vehicle to cover more ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately upon getting to the group’s map area, the team spotted a line of RVs with tents and other makeshift shelters scattered between a FedEx distribution center and Amazon warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to say that RV is confirmed because there’s music playing inside,” said Sean Bullock, an outreach specialist with SFHOT who was riding in the passenger seat while recording the data. At another row of RVs, the team stopped beside a smaller trailer packed with items but dark inside. “That looks like storage; let’s move on,” Hubbard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block by block, the team scanned the streets, making these types of judgments over whether a person or multiple people may be living in a vehicle or tent. But some calls were easier than others. As the team drove slowly under a freeway overpass, four people stood beside their tents and huddled around a small fire to keep warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly four hours, Hubbard’s crew called it a night. 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It also relies on trained workers, as opposed to a volunteer crew, to perform the tallies. Other cities across the country, and even across California, do it differently — another challenge researchers have with the accuracy of the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York City, 95% of people experiencing homelessness are in shelters, according to Kushel, whereas the majority of unhoused people in San Francisco are unsheltered. And in more rural parts of the country, “it’s way easier to not be counted or found,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at highlighted maps and the final tally on his phone, Hubbard said the count itself made him appreciate the work that’s done beyond just number-gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll come back 10 times to build rapport with a client to make progress,” Hubbard said. “Some people may think that’s wasted time, but we don’t think of it as that. That’s how we get results with clients we work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of volunteers fanned out across California this week, peering down alleyways, into parked cars and along creek beds in a mass effort to count the state’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federally mandated census, done every two years and dubbed the point-in-time count, serves as the main framework Californians use to understand their state’s homelessness crisis. The data it produces influences everything from allocations of state funding, to local policy decisions, to the way politicians talk about homelessness in campaign speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which requires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927968/california-unhoused-population-grew-by-more-than-22000-since-start-of-pandemic\">the counts every other year\u003c/a>, compiles the data from across the country into \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">an annual report submitted to Congress (PDF)\u003c/a>. Last year, the department tallied 181,399 unhoused Californians — 28% of the nation’s total homeless population. That’s up nearly 40% from five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11927968,news_11914346 label='Previous Homelessness Counts']But the counts, despite being mandated by federal law and serving as the basis for any number of decisions on California housing and homelessness policy, rely on unpaid volunteers and are far from an exact science. Different counties in California tally their numbers differently. Some attempt to talk to each person they count, while others use algorithms to estimate how many people live inside each tent and RV. Experts agree the real number is higher than the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not a finite count,” said Tamera Kohler, CEO of the Regional Task Force on Homelessness in San Diego County. “It is at a minimum, you know you have this many people. …You’re going to miss some folks. You’re just not going to be able to get in every little area in that period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties tested out new methods this year in an attempt to improve accuracy. In the last count, Alameda County volunteers were instructed to tally tents and RVs without bothering the people inside. This year, volunteers instead tried to talk to everyone inside those tents and RVs and get them to answer a 15-minute survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Surveying the unhoused\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The sun hadn’t yet risen Thursday morning when Andrea Zeppa, homeless services regional coordinator at Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, led her team down a row of RVs parked along the side of a street in Berkeley. Each volunteer was equipped with a map speckled with red dots that signified known encampments. Bundled up against the early morning chill, they picked around piles of trash as a fluffy cat with a bell on its collar darted back and forth between the vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/27/inside-californias-massive-statewide-effort-to-count-the-unhoused-population/012524_alameda-pit-count_le_cm_04/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973863\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in sweatshirts and jackets stand outside an RV on the street, talking to someone inside\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Zeppa, homeless services regional coordinator for Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, and Deidra Perry (far right) program financial manager for Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, team up during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley on Jan. 25, 2024. The PIT count, which included a voluntary survey, gathers data on the county’s homeless population.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hello, hello,” Zeppa called softly. “I’m here for the homeless count. Anybody awake?” A generator powering one of the RVs droned in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, 61-year-old volunteer Deidra Perry met a young woman in a long peasant skirt. who was living in a SUV. As Perry asked her a series of increasingly personal questions about everything from her mental health to her HIV status, the woman revealed a glimpse into her life, and how she ended up on the street. She survived domestic violence, she said, and her post-traumatic stress disorder makes it impossible for her to sleep in a crowded homeless shelter. She sleeps on the streets when she isn’t working. At one point she’d had a tent, but it was stolen before she even had a chance to set it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sky began to lighten and birds started chirping, Perry typed the woman’s answers into an app on her phone. At the end of the interview, Perry handed her a $10 Safeway gift card. The woman thanked her, and Perry moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re tough questions to ask,” Perry said afterward. It was her first time participating in a point-in-time count. “It feels very intrusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/27/inside-californias-massive-statewide-effort-to-count-the-unhoused-population/012524_alameda-pit-count_le_cm_10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973864\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10.jpg\" alt=\"a younger woman with a clipboard talks to a man whose back is turned, standing in the middle of the street\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aneeka Chaudhry, assistant director of Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, speaks with a homeless person during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley on Jan. 25, 2024. The PIT count, which included a voluntary survey, gathers data on the county’s homeless population.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the vehicles they approached remained dark and silent. Starting the count before dawn helps ensure people aren’t moving around town and at risk of being counted twice, but it means many people are still sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, by mid-morning, Zeppa said the surveys were going “really well.” The people who were awake were receptive to sharing their stories — which Zeppa hopes leads to more accurate information about the region’s homeless population and helps agencies like hers plan better programming and spend their money more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Busting myths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the last census, there were concerns that Black and Indigenous unhoused people were undercounted in Alameda County, said Sharon Cornu, executive director of St. Mary’s Center, which provides housing and support services for homeless seniors in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are hopeful this year that the count will provide us better data that helps us design and run a stronger system to bring people home,” Cornu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Mary’s Center uses the point-in-time count data in its funding applications, Cornu said. The data also helps them learn about the people falling through the cracks in the area’s net of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really busts a lot of the myths,” Cornu said. For example, the 2022 count showed that 65% of people surveyed had lived in Alameda County for 10 or more years, compared to just 8% who had lived there a year or less — contrary to speculation that unhoused people are traveling there from out of the area to take advantage of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lingering impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic have complicated efforts to paint a statewide picture of the homelessness crisis. Counts that were supposed to happen in 2021 were delayed until the following year over fears that they could put unhoused people and volunteers at risk of catching the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/27/inside-californias-massive-statewide-effort-to-count-the-unhoused-population/012524_alameda-pit-count_le_cm_06/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973865\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"two women talk to a man sitting behind a shopping cart with belongings in it\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeppa speaks with an unhoused person during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley on Jan. 25. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counts went ahead in 2022. But then things got messy. Some counties, such as Santa Clara, opted to count again in 2023 — reasoning counts in the past had happened in odd-numbered years. Others, including the rest of the Bay Area and Sacramento, chose to count this year instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, parts of the state are out of sync. Even the federal government doesn’t know which counties are counting when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11721460 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS19958_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs01-qut.jpg']“It is not easy to predict which (continuums of care) will conduct a count every year,” Andra Higgs and Andrew Ten said in an emailed statement on behalf of the housing department. “COVID-19 complicated the regularity of counts. Most of Southern California has historically counted every single year. However, the Inland Empire upwards to Northern California follow less-clear patterns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, about 6,000 volunteers spent three nights counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “coolest feature” of this year’s count was new geo-fencing technology on volunteers’ smartphones that alerted them if they strayed outside their assigned area, said Ahmad Chapman, communications director for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. It also alerted count organizers if streets were skipped so they could go back and count them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers in Los Angeles County don’t try to survey every unhoused person they meet. Instead, they tally the number of people, tents and vehicles they see. That data then goes to researchers at USC, who use it to estimate how many people live in each tent and vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result isn’t a precise count, said Ben Henwood, project lead for the homeless count at USC. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the counts, despite being mandated by federal law and serving as the basis for any number of decisions on California housing and homelessness policy, rely on unpaid volunteers and are far from an exact science. Different counties in California tally their numbers differently. Some attempt to talk to each person they count, while others use algorithms to estimate how many people live inside each tent and RV. Experts agree the real number is higher than the count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not a finite count,” said Tamera Kohler, CEO of the Regional Task Force on Homelessness in San Diego County. “It is at a minimum, you know you have this many people. …You’re going to miss some folks. You’re just not going to be able to get in every little area in that period of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties tested out new methods this year in an attempt to improve accuracy. In the last count, Alameda County volunteers were instructed to tally tents and RVs without bothering the people inside. This year, volunteers instead tried to talk to everyone inside those tents and RVs and get them to answer a 15-minute survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Surveying the unhoused\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The sun hadn’t yet risen Thursday morning when Andrea Zeppa, homeless services regional coordinator at Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, led her team down a row of RVs parked along the side of a street in Berkeley. Each volunteer was equipped with a map speckled with red dots that signified known encampments. Bundled up against the early morning chill, they picked around piles of trash as a fluffy cat with a bell on its collar darted back and forth between the vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/27/inside-californias-massive-statewide-effort-to-count-the-unhoused-population/012524_alameda-pit-count_le_cm_04/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973863\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in sweatshirts and jackets stand outside an RV on the street, talking to someone inside\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Zeppa, homeless services regional coordinator for Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, and Deidra Perry (far right) program financial manager for Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless, team up during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley on Jan. 25, 2024. The PIT count, which included a voluntary survey, gathers data on the county’s homeless population.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hello, hello,” Zeppa called softly. “I’m here for the homeless count. Anybody awake?” A generator powering one of the RVs droned in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, 61-year-old volunteer Deidra Perry met a young woman in a long peasant skirt. who was living in a SUV. As Perry asked her a series of increasingly personal questions about everything from her mental health to her HIV status, the woman revealed a glimpse into her life, and how she ended up on the street. She survived domestic violence, she said, and her post-traumatic stress disorder makes it impossible for her to sleep in a crowded homeless shelter. She sleeps on the streets when she isn’t working. At one point she’d had a tent, but it was stolen before she even had a chance to set it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sky began to lighten and birds started chirping, Perry typed the woman’s answers into an app on her phone. At the end of the interview, Perry handed her a $10 Safeway gift card. The woman thanked her, and Perry moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re tough questions to ask,” Perry said afterward. It was her first time participating in a point-in-time count. “It feels very intrusive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/27/inside-californias-massive-statewide-effort-to-count-the-unhoused-population/012524_alameda-pit-count_le_cm_10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973864\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10.jpg\" alt=\"a younger woman with a clipboard talks to a man whose back is turned, standing in the middle of the street\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aneeka Chaudhry, assistant director of Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, speaks with a homeless person during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley on Jan. 25, 2024. The PIT count, which included a voluntary survey, gathers data on the county’s homeless population.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the vehicles they approached remained dark and silent. Starting the count before dawn helps ensure people aren’t moving around town and at risk of being counted twice, but it means many people are still sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, by mid-morning, Zeppa said the surveys were going “really well.” The people who were awake were receptive to sharing their stories — which Zeppa hopes leads to more accurate information about the region’s homeless population and helps agencies like hers plan better programming and spend their money more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Busting myths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the last census, there were concerns that Black and Indigenous unhoused people were undercounted in Alameda County, said Sharon Cornu, executive director of St. Mary’s Center, which provides housing and support services for homeless seniors in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are hopeful this year that the count will provide us better data that helps us design and run a stronger system to bring people home,” Cornu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Mary’s Center uses the point-in-time count data in its funding applications, Cornu said. The data also helps them learn about the people falling through the cracks in the area’s net of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really busts a lot of the myths,” Cornu said. For example, the 2022 count showed that 65% of people surveyed had lived in Alameda County for 10 or more years, compared to just 8% who had lived there a year or less — contrary to speculation that unhoused people are traveling there from out of the area to take advantage of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lingering impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic have complicated efforts to paint a statewide picture of the homelessness crisis. Counts that were supposed to happen in 2021 were delayed until the following year over fears that they could put unhoused people and volunteers at risk of catching the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/27/inside-californias-massive-statewide-effort-to-count-the-unhoused-population/012524_alameda-pit-count_le_cm_06/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973865\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06.jpg\" alt=\"two women talk to a man sitting behind a shopping cart with belongings in it\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/012524_Alameda-PIT-Count_LE_CM_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeppa speaks with an unhoused person during Alameda County’s 2024 point-in-time count in Berkeley on Jan. 25. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The counts went ahead in 2022. But then things got messy. Some counties, such as Santa Clara, opted to count again in 2023 — reasoning counts in the past had happened in odd-numbered years. Others, including the rest of the Bay Area and Sacramento, chose to count this year instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, parts of the state are out of sync. Even the federal government doesn’t know which counties are counting when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It is not easy to predict which (continuums of care) will conduct a count every year,” Andra Higgs and Andrew Ten said in an emailed statement on behalf of the housing department. “COVID-19 complicated the regularity of counts. Most of Southern California has historically counted every single year. However, the Inland Empire upwards to Northern California follow less-clear patterns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, about 6,000 volunteers spent three nights counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “coolest feature” of this year’s count was new geo-fencing technology on volunteers’ smartphones that alerted them if they strayed outside their assigned area, said Ahmad Chapman, communications director for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. It also alerted count organizers if streets were skipped so they could go back and count them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers in Los Angeles County don’t try to survey every unhoused person they meet. Instead, they tally the number of people, tents and vehicles they see. That data then goes to researchers at USC, who use it to estimate how many people live in each tent and vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result isn’t a precise count, said Ben Henwood, project lead for the homeless count at USC. However, the estimate can pinpoint trends, such as places where the population is going up or down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the count has other benefits, Henwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a mass civic engagement project that gets people out of their house and involved in thinking about homelessness,” he said, “which serves its own purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The small communities tucked into the San Joaquin River Delta are full of contradictions. Located northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, much of the area is populated by farmers growing crops like wheat, alfalfa and rice. But, visitors might also stumble upon a circus performed on board a huge boat made to look like an island, a community of free spirits living out of tiny homes plopped down in an RV park, even a woman walking a goose on a leash down the street in town. Needless to say, it can be a quirky place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once primarily known for farming, Delta communities are changing as people priced out of the Bay Area discover this relatively close region that still offers land and freedom. It has become particularly attractive to artists and other creatives looking to live in a place where they’re free to create without the pressures of city regulators and rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963681\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A lighthouse and a number of boats are seen across a stretch of water.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forbes Island is seen during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The big question was, ‘Do I stay in the Bay Area, which is getting unsustainably expensive?’” said Michelle Burke, who used to be involved in running American Steel, a sprawling West Oakland artist collective. “My friends are being displaced. They’re losing their workspaces, their art spaces, their homes. It was just unsustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Burke, Isleton artist and resident\"]‘The big question was, ‘Do I stay in the Bay Area, which is getting unsustainably expensive? My friends are being displaced. They’re losing their workspaces, their art spaces, their homes. It was just unsustainable.’[/pullquote]In Isleton, where Burke relocated, she’s got enough room on her property for six shipping containers to store materials and DIY projects. She’s one of many who have found the Delta to be a refreshing change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a motorcycle ride out here, and I was just kind of blown away with the vibe,” said Iva Walton, another transplant from Oakland who now owns the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ediblesacramento.com/editorial/drinks-2019/mei-wah-beer-room/\">Mei Wah Beer Room in Isleton\u003c/a>. “When people ask where Isleton is, I say, ‘It’s 50 miles and 50 years away from Oakland.’ I like that it’s sort of a little bit stuck in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton used to work as a stage designer and tile setter in Oakland and San Francisco before moving to Isleton and opening her bar. Now, she’s serving her second term on the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were very welcoming and appreciative of me doing a cool business here in town,” Walton said. “They were hungry for it, supportive of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sillouette's of a handful of people in the dusk with glowing orange clouds behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees gather to watch the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival on Forbes Island. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She likes that in Isleton, she’s friends with people who have different life experiences and opinions from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moving out here popped my Bay Area bubble,” she explained. “I used to think that Christians and conservatives wanted to kill me for being a big old, queer whatever. Completely not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she’s found that people in the Delta are like her; they want to live and let live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people I’m closest to, some of my customers, are Christians and conservatives. There’s been nothing but good treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963683\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hang on ropes from a light tower as people look on.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members watch Roel Seeber (left) and Megan Lowe (right) dance off of the side of a lighthouse during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>More space and opportunity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Heidi Petty, a watershed manager for the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, moved from Benicia to Oakley in 2015. Petty was able to use the proceeds from the sale of her home to buy a property with two tiny houses on it, an ownership stake in a marina and a 21-acre cattle ranch on Bradford Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Delta changed who I [am],” Petty said. It made me realize the things I could do. If you’re willing to try things, the Delta will let you try them. That’s why I like the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in an ornate hat smiles and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Petty poses for a portrait at the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival on Forbes Island in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Petty’s cattle ranch is off the shore of where the festival takes place, giving attendees a place to camp. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to her work for the county, Petty is now part of several creative endeavors, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secrets-of-the-sea-circus-festival-aboard-forbes-island-tickets-530909202717?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios\">\u003cem>Secrets of the Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an “immersive water circus” performed on a 5,000-square-foot barge docked near Petty’s ranch. The show was \u003ca href=\"http://www.NikkiBorodi.com\">cofounded by Nikki Borodi\u003c/a>, an artist who plans to produce future shows. Petty and the other owners of the marina have been transforming the barge, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forbes-island\">Forbes Island\u003c/a>, into a performance venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/forbes-island-sf-floating-island-returns-18180173.php\">Once a novelty restaurant docked in the San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>, the owners towed the barge up to the Delta. It has palm trees, a 40-foot lighthouse and a full restaurant below deck. \u003cem>Secrets of the Sea \u003c/em>was its inaugural event\u003cem>, \u003c/em>where dancers suspended from the lighthouse by cables twisted and turned, a fire-eater performed on a raft in the river and a burlesque performer strutted her stuff below deck. Petty and her partners expect to stage more shows on the river when they move the barge to their marina on Bethel Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three people seated applying makeup surrounded by two small buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers Shannon Gray (left), Sam Malloy (center) and Myles Hochman (right) apply makeup before taking the stage at Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An artist herself, Petty is glad that more creatives are moving to the area. She’s noticed that when her artist friends go to a local bar, they do get noticed by longtime Delta residents because “they dress funny; they’re artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Heidi Petty, watershed manager for Contra Costa Resource Conservation District.\"]‘But more than anything, the locals are happy to see people clean things up. They just appreciate people who make things better. Anybody who’s willing to work is pretty welcome in the Delta.’[/pullquote]“But more than anything, the locals are happy to see people clean things up,” Petty said. “They just appreciate people who make things better. Anybody who’s willing to work is pretty welcome in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to irritate folks here, though, is to refer to the Delta as the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t live in the Bay Area; we live in the Delta!” said John Bento, a local architect who grew up in Rio Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bento and other locals gathered at a farmers market in Rio Vista for a meeting organized by the California Delta Chambers & Visitors Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Delta is still funky,” said Bill Wells, the group’s executive director. “I think everybody has kind of the attitude of ‘mind your own business’ up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bar with people at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees gather and listen to music after performances conclude at the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the newcomers are visible because of their aesthetic and creative projects, it’s not like people are flooding into these rural communities, he said. In fact, according to Wells, the population numbers have largely stayed the same for a hundred years. Still, some locals distrust the new people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmers that I talk to are more concerned about that than anybody else,” Wells said. “I think everybody else enjoys some controlled growth. The farmers are concerned because they have farm equipment, and they claim people are coming and stealing crap out of their farmyards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963686\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person kneels and breathes fire at the end of a short jetty.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie (who declined to give last name) breathes fire alongside his partner Ro (who declined to give last name) on a rotating dock during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear who’s to blame if that’s true, Wells said, but it’s easy to be suspicious of the new people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s ‘a good fit for the Delta’?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The people who are in the Delta are just amazing, wonderful people,” said Tim Anderson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2009/08/16/111851629/do-it-yourself-guru-makes-treasures-from-trash\">a well-known figure in the maker community\u003c/a>, who splits his time between Berkeley and a pig farm on Brannan Island along the San Joaquin River. Anderson’s crafty DIY sensibility is on display all over this farm, where he uses a battered sedan as a tractor and old apple crates to fence in his 100 pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973679\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973679\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"An acrobatic artist hanging by the arm during a performance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trapeze artist Shannon Gray is lifted out of the water during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He acknowledges that the Delta was thriving “without us newcomers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about the obvious flood risk that repels uptight, control freak kind of people,” he said. “The people in the Delta are there to have a good time and not stop people from having hobbies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Anderson, resident and pig farmer\"]‘My goal is to have all the high-functioning misfits move out to the Delta because that’s who’s a good fit for the Delta culture.’[/pullquote]Anderson said many of his friends prefer to live in mobile tiny homes. In Oakland, they often ran up against permitting and regulation issues for tiny houses, but out in the Delta, there’s more space and fewer rules. There are 15 tiny houses at a marina down the road from Anderson’s pig farm and more are planned at another marina in Isleton for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to have all the high-functioning misfits move out to the Delta because that’s who’s a good fit for the Delta culture,” he said while unloading bales of hay from the roof and hood of his car. “We’re plugging into an existing society that is just miraculously compatible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a hat sitting on the trunk of a car surrounded by pigs.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/tim-pigs-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Anderson, a well-known figure in the maker community, with his pigs on his pig farm on Brannan Island in November 2023. \u003ccite>(John Kalish for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In early November, a bunch of Anderson’s friends got together in Isleton to carve giant pumpkins grown at a community farm on his property. The largest of the pumpkins was 350 pounds. The carvers fed the pumpkin flesh to his pigs and saved the seeds for eating later. Then, the friends hopped into their hollowed-out pumpkin crafts and paddled around in the San Joaquin River. It might seem wacky, but this type of exuberant, interactive art is an increasingly common sight around here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story was updated to include Nikki Borodi’s role in the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival and the correct employer of Heidi Petty. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The small communities tucked into the San Joaquin River Delta are full of contradictions. Located northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, much of the area is populated by farmers growing crops like wheat, alfalfa and rice. But, visitors might also stumble upon a circus performed on board a huge boat made to look like an island, a community of free spirits living out of tiny homes plopped down in an RV park, even a woman walking a goose on a leash down the street in town. Needless to say, it can be a quirky place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once primarily known for farming, Delta communities are changing as people priced out of the Bay Area discover this relatively close region that still offers land and freedom. It has become particularly attractive to artists and other creatives looking to live in a place where they’re free to create without the pressures of city regulators and rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963681\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A lighthouse and a number of boats are seen across a stretch of water.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-001-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forbes Island is seen during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The big question was, ‘Do I stay in the Bay Area, which is getting unsustainably expensive?’” said Michelle Burke, who used to be involved in running American Steel, a sprawling West Oakland artist collective. “My friends are being displaced. They’re losing their workspaces, their art spaces, their homes. It was just unsustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Isleton, where Burke relocated, she’s got enough room on her property for six shipping containers to store materials and DIY projects. She’s one of many who have found the Delta to be a refreshing change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a motorcycle ride out here, and I was just kind of blown away with the vibe,” said Iva Walton, another transplant from Oakland who now owns the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ediblesacramento.com/editorial/drinks-2019/mei-wah-beer-room/\">Mei Wah Beer Room in Isleton\u003c/a>. “When people ask where Isleton is, I say, ‘It’s 50 miles and 50 years away from Oakland.’ I like that it’s sort of a little bit stuck in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton used to work as a stage designer and tile setter in Oakland and San Francisco before moving to Isleton and opening her bar. Now, she’s serving her second term on the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were very welcoming and appreciative of me doing a cool business here in town,” Walton said. “They were hungry for it, supportive of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sillouette's of a handful of people in the dusk with glowing orange clouds behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-039-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees gather to watch the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival on Forbes Island. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She likes that in Isleton, she’s friends with people who have different life experiences and opinions from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moving out here popped my Bay Area bubble,” she explained. “I used to think that Christians and conservatives wanted to kill me for being a big old, queer whatever. Completely not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she’s found that people in the Delta are like her; they want to live and let live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people I’m closest to, some of my customers, are Christians and conservatives. There’s been nothing but good treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963683\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hang on ropes from a light tower as people look on.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-017-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members watch Roel Seeber (left) and Megan Lowe (right) dance off of the side of a lighthouse during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>More space and opportunity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Heidi Petty, a watershed manager for the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, moved from Benicia to Oakley in 2015. Petty was able to use the proceeds from the sale of her home to buy a property with two tiny houses on it, an ownership stake in a marina and a 21-acre cattle ranch on Bradford Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Delta changed who I [am],” Petty said. It made me realize the things I could do. If you’re willing to try things, the Delta will let you try them. That’s why I like the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in an ornate hat smiles and looks at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-006-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Petty poses for a portrait at the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival on Forbes Island in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Petty’s cattle ranch is off the shore of where the festival takes place, giving attendees a place to camp. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to her work for the county, Petty is now part of several creative endeavors, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secrets-of-the-sea-circus-festival-aboard-forbes-island-tickets-530909202717?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios\">\u003cem>Secrets of the Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an “immersive water circus” performed on a 5,000-square-foot barge docked near Petty’s ranch. The show was \u003ca href=\"http://www.NikkiBorodi.com\">cofounded by Nikki Borodi\u003c/a>, an artist who plans to produce future shows. Petty and the other owners of the marina have been transforming the barge, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forbes-island\">Forbes Island\u003c/a>, into a performance venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/forbes-island-sf-floating-island-returns-18180173.php\">Once a novelty restaurant docked in the San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>, the owners towed the barge up to the Delta. It has palm trees, a 40-foot lighthouse and a full restaurant below deck. \u003cem>Secrets of the Sea \u003c/em>was its inaugural event\u003cem>, \u003c/em>where dancers suspended from the lighthouse by cables twisted and turned, a fire-eater performed on a raft in the river and a burlesque performer strutted her stuff below deck. Petty and her partners expect to stage more shows on the river when they move the barge to their marina on Bethel Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Three people seated applying makeup surrounded by two small buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-005-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers Shannon Gray (left), Sam Malloy (center) and Myles Hochman (right) apply makeup before taking the stage at Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An artist herself, Petty is glad that more creatives are moving to the area. She’s noticed that when her artist friends go to a local bar, they do get noticed by longtime Delta residents because “they dress funny; they’re artists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“But more than anything, the locals are happy to see people clean things up,” Petty said. “They just appreciate people who make things better. Anybody who’s willing to work is pretty welcome in the Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to irritate folks here, though, is to refer to the Delta as the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t live in the Bay Area; we live in the Delta!” said John Bento, a local architect who grew up in Rio Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bento and other locals gathered at a farmers market in Rio Vista for a meeting organized by the California Delta Chambers & Visitors Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Delta is still funky,” said Bill Wells, the group’s executive director. “I think everybody has kind of the attitude of ‘mind your own business’ up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bar with people at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-046-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees gather and listen to music after performances conclude at the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the newcomers are visible because of their aesthetic and creative projects, it’s not like people are flooding into these rural communities, he said. In fact, according to Wells, the population numbers have largely stayed the same for a hundred years. Still, some locals distrust the new people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmers that I talk to are more concerned about that than anybody else,” Wells said. “I think everybody else enjoys some controlled growth. The farmers are concerned because they have farm equipment, and they claim people are coming and stealing crap out of their farmyards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963686\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person kneels and breathes fire at the end of a short jetty.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20230930-Sea-Circus-029-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie (who declined to give last name) breathes fire alongside his partner Ro (who declined to give last name) on a rotating dock during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear who’s to blame if that’s true, Wells said, but it’s easy to be suspicious of the new people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s ‘a good fit for the Delta’?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The people who are in the Delta are just amazing, wonderful people,” said Tim Anderson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2009/08/16/111851629/do-it-yourself-guru-makes-treasures-from-trash\">a well-known figure in the maker community\u003c/a>, who splits his time between Berkeley and a pig farm on Brannan Island along the San Joaquin River. Anderson’s crafty DIY sensibility is on display all over this farm, where he uses a battered sedan as a tractor and old apple crates to fence in his 100 pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973679\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973679\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut.jpg\" alt=\"An acrobatic artist hanging by the arm during a performance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/20230930-Sea-Circus-033-JY_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trapeze artist Shannon Gray is lifted out of the water during the Secrets of the Sea Circus Festival. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He acknowledges that the Delta was thriving “without us newcomers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about the obvious flood risk that repels uptight, control freak kind of people,” he said. “The people in the Delta are there to have a good time and not stop people from having hobbies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s put up or shut up time for dozens of cities across the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last January, local governments across the region were required to submit “housing elements” to state regulators — future development blueprints that spell out how each jurisdiction intends to make room for its share of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/05/california-exodus-housing-cost/#:~:text=And%20last%20year%2C%20in%20putting,(or%20315%2C000%20per%20year).\">more than 2.5 million new homes\u003c/a> the Newsom administration wants to see built across California by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year later, on Jan. 31, many of those same jurisdictions are now required to turn key components of those blueprints into law. That means re-inking their zoning maps, converting thousands of suburban-style tracts into apartment-ready parcels and proving to the state that they are, in fact, going to do what they said they would do to address California’s chronic housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Brilliot, deputy planning director, San Jose\"]‘We’re going to have to have a conversation about revising the sacredness of single-family zoning…This is just the beginning. There’s a lot of work to do.’[/pullquote]The Bay Area zoning crunch is just the latest inflection point in a yearslong tussle between California’s housing agency and local governments over how many new homes California needs to plan for and where this anticipated influx of development ought to go. The Bay Area’s end-of-month due date is the first big one in a series of rolling regional deadlines. Next up: Santa Barbara County on Feb. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Bay Area local governments comply — and how the state responds to those that don’t — could indicate just how seriously the Newsom administration takes its ambitious housing goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is kind of the test case,” said Will Sterling, a land use attorney with the San Francisco firm Holland & Knight, which regularly represents real estate interests in cases against development-averse cities. “It’s going to be interesting to see what (the state) does, how firm they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers, attorneys, elected officials and housing advocates are watching closely because this is uncharted territory. For more than 50 years, California’s Department of Housing and Community Development has been setting eight-year planning goals for cities and counties, but only recently have state bureaucrats had the legal and political backing to drop the hammer of serious litigation and funding cuts on municipalities that don’t play along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11970993,news_11970242,news_11965492\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Suddenly, everyone is taking the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-housing-supply/\">once-obscure “Regional Housing Needs Allocation”\u003c/a> process seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a doozy this time,” said Michael Brilliot, deputy planning director for San Jose. On Tuesday, the city council raced through a final round of zoning changes to beat the end-of-the-month deadline. Compared to past cycles, Brilliot said the city had to triple the number of employees tasked with planning San Jose’s housing future from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How forcefully Newsom’s housing department plans to wield its new hammer is an open question, though its special treatment of San Francisco earlier this winter may offer a hint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After conducting an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/domestic-violence-children/#wm-story-3\">unprecedented audit\u003c/a> of the city last year, the department called upon San Francisco to overhaul its ponderous permitting process under threat of litigation, funding cuts and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/06/california-builders-remedy/\">possible revocation of its local planning authority\u003c/a>. The city’s Board of Supervisors ultimately blinked, passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/s-f-housing-ordinance-state-approves-18550114.php\">Mayor London Breed’s proposed reform package\u003c/a>. The state’s housing department \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/San-Francisco-successful-corrective-action-011624.pdf\">signed off on the changes last week (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area cities and counties “know that they’ll take on a lot of risk by blatantly not complying” come Jan. 31, said Jenny Silva, an advocate for denser development in Marin County and board chair for the Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative. “They see what happens in San Francisco. They hear what happens elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nuts and bolts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even with the state breathing down its neck, meeting the deadline has proven to be a “heavy lift” for pint-sized Fairfax in Marin County, Mayor Barbara Coler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent town council meeting, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.townoffairfax.org/meetings/special-town-council-meeting-january-10-2024/#/tab-video\">discussion and debate lasted three hours\u003c/a>, public commenters agonized over what denser construction would do to the “heart and soul” of the town of less than 7,500, long-defined by its “village-like quality.” Some raised concerns about heightened fire risk, while others promised litigation and threatened the elected officials at the dais with recall campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coler said she, too, would have preferred the state require Fairfax to plan for fewer homes (the town is setting aside space for 540) and that she and her colleagues had the power to require new developments to set aside more units for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when locals encourage the city to fight back, she said she points to the community’s sheer need for extra places to live. “What I tell folks is, ‘Who do you think is waiting on you in the restaurant? Don’t you want them to live here?’” Coler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, so many local officials across the region are facing a special kind of political pressure as the rezoning deadline approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing elements are big-picture plans that identify development sites and commit to future policy changes. In their high-level abstraction, they can sometimes read like the urban planning equivalent of a vision board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoning rules, in contrast, are “the nuts and bolts of how to take a site and get a certain number of units on it…rezoning is really where the rubber meets the road,” said Martha Battaglia, a planner with the nearby city of Corte Madera, which has already met the state’s upcoming deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing a zoning code puts to paper a city’s decision to raise maximum building heights, reduce parking requirements or increase the allowable density of a specific parcel. These are changes that neighbors can readily identify, envision and, frequently enough, dread, bemoan and rally against.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nuclear options on the table\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not every city and county is feeling the heat equally. State law gives jurisdictions that followed the rules earlier in the process a more leisurely schedule while tightening the screws on scofflaws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That places cities around the state into three buckets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>On-time: \u003c/b>Cities that had their housing plans certified prior to a drop-dead deadline — which varies across the state — have another three years to make any necessary zoning changes. Of the Bay Area’s 109 cities and counties, which had until May 31, 2023, fewer than 30 fall into that category.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>Forgivably late:\u003c/b> Those that got their elements approved but after that deadline have just one year to follow up with zoning changes, if required. In the Bay Area, that’s Jan. 31.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unforgivably late\u003c/strong>: Cities and counties that still don’t have certified housing plans by the end of that one-year deadline will be deemed out of compliance and open to a slew of possible legal and financial penalties until they do their rezoning, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Most of Southern California faced an earlier compliance deadline, but all jurisdictions except those in the “unforgivably late” category received a legislative extension and now have until next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state plans to review the work of the Bay Area cities and counties that are on the hook for rezoning, said housing department spokesperson Alicia Murillo in an email. If found lacking, those jurisdictions will be issued a warning and given 30 days to catch up. After that, the department “will revoke” its findings that those local governments comply with state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences for that will depend in part on how tough the state decides to be. For local governments, they range from irksome to catastrophic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included among the possible penalties listed in state law are cuts in state funding for affordable housing and transportation. The state’s housing department could also refer a city to the state Attorney General, who has shown a past eagerness to take local governments, like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2023/03/california-housing-battles-huntington-beach/\">Huntington Beach\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://therealdeal.com/la/2023/08/30/san-bernardino-settles-with-state-on-housing-plan/\">San Bernardino\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2023-10-20/island-city-agrees-to-support-more-affordable-housing-after-state-pressure\">Coronado\u003c/a>, to court over failure to plan for enough new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More extreme consequences — sitting, mostly dormant, in the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=65583&lawCode=GOV\">state’s government code\u003c/a> — include the automatic approval of certain proposed affordable housing developments. The state could also ask a court to either entirely suspend a city’s ability to issue new permits until it follows the rules or to put its entire planning apparatus into receivership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurisdictions without certified housing plans also open themselves up to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/06/california-builders-remedy/\">so-called builder’s remedy\u003c/a>, in which developers can completely ignore a city’s zoning map, building as much as they like wherever they like, so long as 20% of the units are designated affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s quite a bit of discretion built into whether HCD wants to go nuclear on a jurisdiction,” said Sterling with Holland & Knight. But if not for political reasons, the state’s housing department may be limited in how aggressive it can be state-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They certainly have cities that are more on their radar than other cities. They don’t have all the staff in the world,” Sterling said. “If only everyone got the San Francisco treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Next stage, but not the final one\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Where the state declines to step in, other sheriffs are in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Gelfand, an attorney with the legal nonprofit Californians for Homeownership, said he doesn’t expect the state to be “ultra-aggressive” in looking over each jurisdiction’s shoulder as it redraws its zoning maps. “Nor do I think that’s necessarily the role of the state,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in Gelfand’s view, is his job. “We are ultra, ultra-aggressive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit, sponsored by the California Association of Realtors, has sued roughly a dozen cities across the state for failing to plan or zone for enough housing. Last month, they secured a judgment from a Southern California judge against Beverly Hills for that city’s failure to pass a state-sanctioned housing plan on time. The penalty: The government of the tony enclave \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2024-01-18/beverly-hills-affordable-housing-permit-moratorium\">lost its ability to issue any new construction and remodeling permits\u003c/a>, save those that would bring it into compliance with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also took La Cañada Flintridge and Hawaiian Gardens to court last year, forcing both to re-do their zoning maps. In December, Gelfand asked a court to subject the city of South Pasadena to the Beverly Hills permit moratorium treatment, but rescinded the request after city officials agreed to conduct more rezoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is ultimately the point: To provide the right carrots and sticks to get folks to come into compliance,” Gelfand said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, South Pasadena’s city council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.southpasadenaca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/34183/638410089271570000\">nearly double the number of new units\u003c/a> that can be constructed in parcels in some of the city’s denser neighborhoods. Mayor Jon Primuth said it was the city’s “intent all along” to do so, lawsuit or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Pasadena’s housing element still hasn’t been certified by state regulators, a fact the mayor attributed in part to the state’s approval process itself. “I think everyone would have to agree, given the number of revisions cities have had to make over and over, that there was a lack of clarity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials in the Bay Area may ultimately have the plight of Beverly Hills and South Pasadena in mind as Jan. 31 approaches. That, anyway, is the hope of Leora Tanjuatco Ross, organizing director with YIMBY Law, another regular on the housing element lawsuit circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically these have just been paper exercises; they’ve been empty promises,” she said of the state’s planning process. “What we’re trying to do is make sure that these housing element policies are actually implemented this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a city commits to doing a policy and they don’t pass it, that is grounds for a lawsuit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, the city is facing double deadline pressure. The Bay Area’s largest city has yet to have its housing element certified by the state, though a draft is under review by the housing department. With a final change to its zoning code, enacted with a unanimous early-evening vote by the council, city officials hope to convince state regulators to sign off on both plan and zoning maps before Jan. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the city can get everything squared away in time, there are more housing debates to come, said Brilliot, the planning director. Housing elements are more than just a list of sites ripe for development. They also include pledged policy changes for the coming years. San Jose has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/107420/638370204948130000\">more than 130 of them in its draft proposal\u003c/a> — and there are some biggies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include cutting local restrictions on infill development, allowing for taller and denser buildings if developers include affordable units and allowing small multifamily housing projects across most of the city’s traditionally suburban-style neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come back down the road, it’s going to be messy,” Brilliot said. “We’re going to have to have a conversation about revising the sacredness of single-family zoning…This is just the beginning. There’s a lot of work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Suddenly, everyone is taking the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-housing-supply/\">once-obscure “Regional Housing Needs Allocation”\u003c/a> process seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a doozy this time,” said Michael Brilliot, deputy planning director for San Jose. On Tuesday, the city council raced through a final round of zoning changes to beat the end-of-the-month deadline. Compared to past cycles, Brilliot said the city had to triple the number of employees tasked with planning San Jose’s housing future from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How forcefully Newsom’s housing department plans to wield its new hammer is an open question, though its special treatment of San Francisco earlier this winter may offer a hint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After conducting an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/domestic-violence-children/#wm-story-3\">unprecedented audit\u003c/a> of the city last year, the department called upon San Francisco to overhaul its ponderous permitting process under threat of litigation, funding cuts and the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/06/california-builders-remedy/\">possible revocation of its local planning authority\u003c/a>. The city’s Board of Supervisors ultimately blinked, passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/s-f-housing-ordinance-state-approves-18550114.php\">Mayor London Breed’s proposed reform package\u003c/a>. The state’s housing department \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/San-Francisco-successful-corrective-action-011624.pdf\">signed off on the changes last week (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area cities and counties “know that they’ll take on a lot of risk by blatantly not complying” come Jan. 31, said Jenny Silva, an advocate for denser development in Marin County and board chair for the Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative. “They see what happens in San Francisco. They hear what happens elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nuts and bolts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even with the state breathing down its neck, meeting the deadline has proven to be a “heavy lift” for pint-sized Fairfax in Marin County, Mayor Barbara Coler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent town council meeting, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.townoffairfax.org/meetings/special-town-council-meeting-january-10-2024/#/tab-video\">discussion and debate lasted three hours\u003c/a>, public commenters agonized over what denser construction would do to the “heart and soul” of the town of less than 7,500, long-defined by its “village-like quality.” Some raised concerns about heightened fire risk, while others promised litigation and threatened the elected officials at the dais with recall campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coler said she, too, would have preferred the state require Fairfax to plan for fewer homes (the town is setting aside space for 540) and that she and her colleagues had the power to require new developments to set aside more units for lower-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when locals encourage the city to fight back, she said she points to the community’s sheer need for extra places to live. “What I tell folks is, ‘Who do you think is waiting on you in the restaurant? Don’t you want them to live here?’” Coler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, so many local officials across the region are facing a special kind of political pressure as the rezoning deadline approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing elements are big-picture plans that identify development sites and commit to future policy changes. In their high-level abstraction, they can sometimes read like the urban planning equivalent of a vision board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoning rules, in contrast, are “the nuts and bolts of how to take a site and get a certain number of units on it…rezoning is really where the rubber meets the road,” said Martha Battaglia, a planner with the nearby city of Corte Madera, which has already met the state’s upcoming deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing a zoning code puts to paper a city’s decision to raise maximum building heights, reduce parking requirements or increase the allowable density of a specific parcel. These are changes that neighbors can readily identify, envision and, frequently enough, dread, bemoan and rally against.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nuclear options on the table\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not every city and county is feeling the heat equally. State law gives jurisdictions that followed the rules earlier in the process a more leisurely schedule while tightening the screws on scofflaws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That places cities around the state into three buckets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>On-time: \u003c/b>Cities that had their housing plans certified prior to a drop-dead deadline — which varies across the state — have another three years to make any necessary zoning changes. Of the Bay Area’s 109 cities and counties, which had until May 31, 2023, fewer than 30 fall into that category.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>Forgivably late:\u003c/b> Those that got their elements approved but after that deadline have just one year to follow up with zoning changes, if required. In the Bay Area, that’s Jan. 31.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unforgivably late\u003c/strong>: Cities and counties that still don’t have certified housing plans by the end of that one-year deadline will be deemed out of compliance and open to a slew of possible legal and financial penalties until they do their rezoning, too.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Most of Southern California faced an earlier compliance deadline, but all jurisdictions except those in the “unforgivably late” category received a legislative extension and now have until next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state plans to review the work of the Bay Area cities and counties that are on the hook for rezoning, said housing department spokesperson Alicia Murillo in an email. If found lacking, those jurisdictions will be issued a warning and given 30 days to catch up. After that, the department “will revoke” its findings that those local governments comply with state housing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences for that will depend in part on how tough the state decides to be. For local governments, they range from irksome to catastrophic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included among the possible penalties listed in state law are cuts in state funding for affordable housing and transportation. The state’s housing department could also refer a city to the state Attorney General, who has shown a past eagerness to take local governments, like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2023/03/california-housing-battles-huntington-beach/\">Huntington Beach\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://therealdeal.com/la/2023/08/30/san-bernardino-settles-with-state-on-housing-plan/\">San Bernardino\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2023-10-20/island-city-agrees-to-support-more-affordable-housing-after-state-pressure\">Coronado\u003c/a>, to court over failure to plan for enough new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More extreme consequences — sitting, mostly dormant, in the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=65583&lawCode=GOV\">state’s government code\u003c/a> — include the automatic approval of certain proposed affordable housing developments. The state could also ask a court to either entirely suspend a city’s ability to issue new permits until it follows the rules or to put its entire planning apparatus into receivership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurisdictions without certified housing plans also open themselves up to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/06/california-builders-remedy/\">so-called builder’s remedy\u003c/a>, in which developers can completely ignore a city’s zoning map, building as much as they like wherever they like, so long as 20% of the units are designated affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s quite a bit of discretion built into whether HCD wants to go nuclear on a jurisdiction,” said Sterling with Holland & Knight. But if not for political reasons, the state’s housing department may be limited in how aggressive it can be state-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They certainly have cities that are more on their radar than other cities. They don’t have all the staff in the world,” Sterling said. “If only everyone got the San Francisco treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Next stage, but not the final one\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Where the state declines to step in, other sheriffs are in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Gelfand, an attorney with the legal nonprofit Californians for Homeownership, said he doesn’t expect the state to be “ultra-aggressive” in looking over each jurisdiction’s shoulder as it redraws its zoning maps. “Nor do I think that’s necessarily the role of the state,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, in Gelfand’s view, is his job. “We are ultra, ultra-aggressive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit, sponsored by the California Association of Realtors, has sued roughly a dozen cities across the state for failing to plan or zone for enough housing. Last month, they secured a judgment from a Southern California judge against Beverly Hills for that city’s failure to pass a state-sanctioned housing plan on time. The penalty: The government of the tony enclave \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2024-01-18/beverly-hills-affordable-housing-permit-moratorium\">lost its ability to issue any new construction and remodeling permits\u003c/a>, save those that would bring it into compliance with state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also took La Cañada Flintridge and Hawaiian Gardens to court last year, forcing both to re-do their zoning maps. In December, Gelfand asked a court to subject the city of South Pasadena to the Beverly Hills permit moratorium treatment, but rescinded the request after city officials agreed to conduct more rezoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is ultimately the point: To provide the right carrots and sticks to get folks to come into compliance,” Gelfand said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, South Pasadena’s city council voted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.southpasadenaca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/34183/638410089271570000\">nearly double the number of new units\u003c/a> that can be constructed in parcels in some of the city’s denser neighborhoods. Mayor Jon Primuth said it was the city’s “intent all along” to do so, lawsuit or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Pasadena’s housing element still hasn’t been certified by state regulators, a fact the mayor attributed in part to the state’s approval process itself. “I think everyone would have to agree, given the number of revisions cities have had to make over and over, that there was a lack of clarity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials in the Bay Area may ultimately have the plight of Beverly Hills and South Pasadena in mind as Jan. 31 approaches. 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