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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a sunny spring morning in Riverside, and Jen Larratt-Smith is walking through a field of yellow and purple wildflowers behind the home she shares with her husband and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place near and dear to us,” she said, recalling how her family used the space constantly during the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020. “I would do my ‘science class’ with my son out here. He’d get his mountain bike and we’d come out here, and he would have to draw pictures of flowers that he saw or animals that he saw, and he took pictures of wildlife tracks.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jen Larratt-Smith, Riverside resident\"]‘With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land.’[/pullquote]But she’s worried it may not be an open space for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly part of the March Air Force Base, this 360-acre expanse is still dotted with bunkers that were used to house munitions before the base was closed in the early 1990s, and the military handed over control of the land to a local joint-power authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now surrounded on three sides by suburban homes and a megachurch; to the east sits Interstate 215. On this morning, cyclists fly along the dirt trails and dog walkers meander among the blooming flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, nearly the entire open space could be paved over and developed into a commercial park that could include more than 4 million square feet of warehouses — about the size of 69 football fields — used by companies like Amazon as a repository for goods from across the globe that millions have come to depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the six new warehouses would join the roughly 4,000 other warehouses that have already been built in the Inland Empire, this region east of Los Angeles spanning both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. All told, those warehouses already cover more than 1 billion square feet of land, with an estimated 170 million additional square feet of planned or proposed warehouse construction in the pipeline, including this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, with their backs to the camera, stand on a path looking out on a large expanse of grassland .\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith surveying the open space near their homes they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For neighbors like Larratt-Smith, whose house overlooks this field, it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve been here since my son was an infant, in 2011,” she said. “When I look out in my backyard, I look out on the fields and on the military bunkers that they’re planning to blast. So I’m right here on the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It really snuck up on us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This region has long been known as a logistics hub — it’s close to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for years had relatively cheap, open land to build on. But Larratt-Smith says the pace of construction over the past decade has been staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really snuck up on us,” she said. “Over time, we looked around and we were surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of support behind the proliferation of these giant industrial buildings — including from virtually every chamber of commerce in the Inland Empire and many labor unions. Most city councils and other local government agencies have been happy to welcome the developments, citing the influx of trucking and warehouse jobs they bring, and their proximity to the two largest ports in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the many warehouses scattered across the Inland Empire region.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are currently more than 3,800 warehouses in the Inland Empire, with more than 450 more proposed or approved for development, according to groups tracking the growth. \u003ccite>(Mike McCarthy/Radical Research/Pitzer Redford Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the pace of growth is causing a backlash among some residents, community groups and environmental organizations. They argue that the warehouses have not brought an economic boom, but rather low-paying, sometimes dangerous and often seasonal jobs. And they say the trucks bringing goods to and from the warehouses around the clock are emitting dangerous chemicals that are making people here sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land,” said Larratt-Smith, who has created a group called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/rivnow/home?authuser=0&pli=1\">R-NOW\u003c/a>, or Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pay the price of the traffic and the air quality and aesthetics and quality of life, but we don’t really reap any of the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers agree. Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in the nearby city of Claremont, has been studying the impact of warehouses for over two decades.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"inland-empire\"]She points to the pollution caused by the estimated 200 million truck trips to and from warehouses each year, or about 600,000 trips a day. She said those trucks are clogging freeways and city streets as they move goods from the ports to these warehouses and “contributing to this legacy of environmental injustice and toxicity that already exists in largely low-income communities of color within the Inland Empire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody we know who lives close to warehouses, they have asthma, their children have asthma. Their kids get bloody noses when they play outside,” she said. “There’s a whole host of cognitive and behavioral health issues that also come out of it because of the way that diesel particulate matter comes into your bloodstream. … It is extremely, extremely scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cites environmental concerns that go beyond truck emissions: the cost of covering open space with concrete that makes an already arid region even hotter and more prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moratoriums and buffer zones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phillips and Larratt-Smith are among the residents representing a coalition of groups that signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/622827611/Letter-to-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-Asking-for-an-Inland-Warehouse-Moratorium\">letter\u003c/a> earlier this year asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in the region and impose a temporary moratorium on warehouse construction. The coalition is also supporting state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1000\">legislation — AB 1000 —that would create a 1,000-foot buffer zone\u003c/a>, just shy of a quarter-mile, between new warehouses and homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of huge warehouses across a flat landscape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge warehouses dominate the landscape in the Inland Empire city of Rialto. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That bill, which has failed twice before, is up for a hearing Wednesday in an Assembly committee, along with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1748\">a competing measure\u003c/a> — AB 1748 — that would require only a 300-foot buffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips helped draft the letter to Newsom and supports the bigger buffer-zone proposal, arguing that just 300 feet of space wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the approval process for these developments is happening piecemeal — one city council or county board of supervisors at a time, Phillips explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We can’t even keep track of what is happening,” said Phillips, who leads the Robert Redwood Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, which helped develop \u003ca href=\"https://radicalresearch.shinyapps.io/WarehouseCITY/\">an interactive map\u003c/a> of the warehouses that shows estimates of related emissions from the warehouses and other negative impacts.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis, Pitzer College\"]‘There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up. It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.’[/pullquote]“There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up,” she said. “It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the coalition in support of more development is large and powerful and is using its muscle to oppose the 1,000-foot buffer bill, which also would allow people to sue the government agency that approves a project in conflict with the bill’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Regele, vice president of advocacy and strategic partnerships at the California Chamber of Commerce, says the 1,000-foot buffer proposal is based on old science that fails to take into account that air quality regulators have required truck fleets to become cleaner in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits and costs of ‘unprecedented’ growth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regele also notes the economic benefit to the region: 1.6 million union jobs in Southern California alone directly associated with the ports — and millions more connected to the warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says AB 1000 would discourage job creation, housing construction and the state’s ability to move goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the Inland Empire doesn’t host these warehouses, Regele argues, they will simply be built further from coastal ports — and the trucks will still be using the same highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will drive through those communities, pass those jobs and keep going to where the warehouses are ultimately allowed to be permitted, only to then truck all those goods back in for retail distribution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips acknowledges that trucks have gotten cleaner in recent years, but says those improvements have been outweighed by the pace of growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman are seen from afar, their backs to the camera, walking down a long dirt road alongside a fence topped with barbed wire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith walk down a path, alongside a fenced-off area, on the open space land they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Individual warehouses are getting bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where they’re being constructed as megawarehouses,” she said. “Even though the fleet is greener than it was 20 years ago, the growth is unprecedented and the proximity to homes and schools is continuing. And so … whereas people should be benefiting from cleaner air because the fleet is cleaner, our communities aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some neighbors, like Larratt-Smith, argue that many of the economic benefits that come from these warehouses are flowing to company executives and workers who live and work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the junk store of the U.S. Basically, we are storing the goods for them so that we can send it out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I don’t think we need more warehouse land in this area, given how oversaturated we already are,” Larratt-Smith added, acknowledging that her goal of having a complete moratorium is a long shot. “But at least put some guardrails on it. Like at least if you’re going to be building, consider the community and the impacts before you do it.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But she’s worried it may not be an open space for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly part of the March Air Force Base, this 360-acre expanse is still dotted with bunkers that were used to house munitions before the base was closed in the early 1990s, and the military handed over control of the land to a local joint-power authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s now surrounded on three sides by suburban homes and a megachurch; to the east sits Interstate 215. On this morning, cyclists fly along the dirt trails and dog walkers meander among the blooming flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, nearly the entire open space could be paved over and developed into a commercial park that could include more than 4 million square feet of warehouses — about the size of 69 football fields — used by companies like Amazon as a repository for goods from across the globe that millions have come to depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the six new warehouses would join the roughly 4,000 other warehouses that have already been built in the Inland Empire, this region east of Los Angeles spanning both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. All told, those warehouses already cover more than 1 billion square feet of land, with an estimated 170 million additional square feet of planned or proposed warehouse construction in the pipeline, including this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947694\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, with their backs to the camera, stand on a path looking out on a large expanse of grassland .\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64700_007_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0076_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith surveying the open space near their homes they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For neighbors like Larratt-Smith, whose house overlooks this field, it’s enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We’ve been here since my son was an infant, in 2011,” she said. “When I look out in my backyard, I look out on the fields and on the military bunkers that they’re planning to blast. So I’m right here on the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It really snuck up on us’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This region has long been known as a logistics hub — it’s close to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and for years had relatively cheap, open land to build on. But Larratt-Smith says the pace of construction over the past decade has been staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really snuck up on us,” she said. “Over time, we looked around and we were surrounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of support behind the proliferation of these giant industrial buildings — including from virtually every chamber of commerce in the Inland Empire and many labor unions. Most city councils and other local government agencies have been happy to welcome the developments, citing the influx of trucking and warehouse jobs they bring, and their proximity to the two largest ports in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the many warehouses scattered across the Inland Empire region.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IE_KQED_WH_map_noShadow_tbl1-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are currently more than 3,800 warehouses in the Inland Empire, with more than 450 more proposed or approved for development, according to groups tracking the growth. \u003ccite>(Mike McCarthy/Radical Research/Pitzer Redford Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the pace of growth is causing a backlash among some residents, community groups and environmental organizations. They argue that the warehouses have not brought an economic boom, but rather low-paying, sometimes dangerous and often seasonal jobs. And they say the trucks bringing goods to and from the warehouses around the clock are emitting dangerous chemicals that are making people here sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all these corporations coming in from outside, buying these warehouses, basically they’re exploiting our land,” said Larratt-Smith, who has created a group called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/rivnow/home?authuser=0&pli=1\">R-NOW\u003c/a>, or Riverside Neighbors Opposing Warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to pay the price of the traffic and the air quality and aesthetics and quality of life, but we don’t really reap any of the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers agree. Susan Phillips, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in the nearby city of Claremont, has been studying the impact of warehouses for over two decades.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She points to the pollution caused by the estimated 200 million truck trips to and from warehouses each year, or about 600,000 trips a day. She said those trucks are clogging freeways and city streets as they move goods from the ports to these warehouses and “contributing to this legacy of environmental injustice and toxicity that already exists in largely low-income communities of color within the Inland Empire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody we know who lives close to warehouses, they have asthma, their children have asthma. Their kids get bloody noses when they play outside,” she said. “There’s a whole host of cognitive and behavioral health issues that also come out of it because of the way that diesel particulate matter comes into your bloodstream. … It is extremely, extremely scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cites environmental concerns that go beyond truck emissions: the cost of covering open space with concrete that makes an already arid region even hotter and more prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moratoriums and buffer zones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Phillips and Larratt-Smith are among the residents representing a coalition of groups that signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/622827611/Letter-to-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-Asking-for-an-Inland-Warehouse-Moratorium\">letter\u003c/a> earlier this year asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in the region and impose a temporary moratorium on warehouse construction. The coalition is also supporting state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1000\">legislation — AB 1000 —that would create a 1,000-foot buffer zone\u003c/a>, just shy of a quarter-mile, between new warehouses and homes and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of huge warehouses across a flat landscape.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1246744673-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huge warehouses dominate the landscape in the Inland Empire city of Rialto. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That bill, which has failed twice before, is up for a hearing Wednesday in an Assembly committee, along with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1748\">a competing measure\u003c/a> — AB 1748 — that would require only a 300-foot buffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips helped draft the letter to Newsom and supports the bigger buffer-zone proposal, arguing that just 300 feet of space wouldn’t be enough to adequately protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the approval process for these developments is happening piecemeal — one city council or county board of supervisors at a time, Phillips explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We can’t even keep track of what is happening,” said Phillips, who leads the Robert Redwood Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer, which helped develop \u003ca href=\"https://radicalresearch.shinyapps.io/WarehouseCITY/\">an interactive map\u003c/a> of the warehouses that shows estimates of related emissions from the warehouses and other negative impacts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There’s no effective tracking system to understand how many warehouses are under construction right now, how many are being approved, what are the newest ones coming up,” she said. “It’s happening so rapidly we don’t even have time to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the coalition in support of more development is large and powerful and is using its muscle to oppose the 1,000-foot buffer bill, which also would allow people to sue the government agency that approves a project in conflict with the bill’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Regele, vice president of advocacy and strategic partnerships at the California Chamber of Commerce, says the 1,000-foot buffer proposal is based on old science that fails to take into account that air quality regulators have required truck fleets to become cleaner in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits and costs of ‘unprecedented’ growth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regele also notes the economic benefit to the region: 1.6 million union jobs in Southern California alone directly associated with the ports — and millions more connected to the warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says AB 1000 would discourage job creation, housing construction and the state’s ability to move goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the Inland Empire doesn’t host these warehouses, Regele argues, they will simply be built further from coastal ports — and the trucks will still be using the same highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will drive through those communities, pass those jobs and keep going to where the warehouses are ultimately allowed to be permitted, only to then truck all those goods back in for retail distribution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips acknowledges that trucks have gotten cleaner in recent years, but says those improvements have been outweighed by the pace of growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947692\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman are seen from afar, their backs to the camera, walking down a long dirt road alongside a fence topped with barbed wire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64694_003_KQED_InlandEmpireWarehouses_IMG_0058_04182023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael McCarthy and Jen Larratt-Smith walk down a path, alongside a fenced-off area, on the open space land they hope to preserve. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Individual warehouses are getting bigger and bigger and bigger to the point where they’re being constructed as megawarehouses,” she said. “Even though the fleet is greener than it was 20 years ago, the growth is unprecedented and the proximity to homes and schools is continuing. And so … whereas people should be benefiting from cleaner air because the fleet is cleaner, our communities aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some neighbors, like Larratt-Smith, argue that many of the economic benefits that come from these warehouses are flowing to company executives and workers who live and work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the junk store of the U.S. Basically, we are storing the goods for them so that we can send it out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I don’t think we need more warehouse land in this area, given how oversaturated we already are,” Larratt-Smith added, acknowledging that her goal of having a complete moratorium is a long shot. “But at least put some guardrails on it. Like at least if you’re going to be building, consider the community and the impacts before you do it.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom made a splashy announcement: The state had procured around 1,300 trailers to house people experiencing homelessness who were especially vulnerable to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the more than three years since the trailers were delivered throughout the state, the results have been mixed. In some areas, the trailers continue to fill a crucial need, like in Napa County, where they are used to quarantine sick farmworkers, and in San Francisco, where they’ve become part of the city’s network of non-congregate homeless shelters. But in some other counties that requested them, like Monterey, the trailers are now gathering dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Farrah McDaid Ting, director of public affairs, California State Association of Counties\"]‘The tiny home plan is welcome, and it’s going to be amazing, but it’s a drop in the ocean.’[/pullquote]State housing advocates and fiscal watchdogs say the patchwork success of the trailer program raises questions about whether Newsom’s most recently announced homelessness plan — to erect 1,200 tiny homes across the state — could have a similarly uneven, largely inadequate impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tiny home plan is welcome, and it’s going to be amazing, but it’s a drop in the ocean,” said Farrah McDaid Ting, director of public affairs for the California State Association of Counties. “And like the COVID trailers, they may get lost because there is no accountability or expectation of outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An emergency response to COVID\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January 2020, the Newsom administration began delivering temporary housing trailers to California cities, including more than a dozen to a parking lot in East Oakland. When the COVID emergency orders went into effect in March, that effort ramped up so both counties and cities could request the trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the program, the state purchased a total of 1,305 trailers — of which about 105 were used and 1,200 were new — and started leasing hotels in California’s largest population centers to provide isolated lodging to unhoused people. The trailers slept anywhere from two to 10 people. Some had microwaves, bunk beds, sofas, TV mounts and full bathrooms, while others were smaller with fewer amenities.[aside postID=\"news_11945422,news_11927278,news_11796428\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Each trailer cost anywhere from roughly $12,000 to $30,000, totaling nearly $29 million including delivery fees, according to data from the California Department of General Services, which procured them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the trailers arrived, it was up to each city or county to figure out how to fund and manage them. Some did; others didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco set up its 116 trailers — 91 gifted by the state and 21 paid for by the city — at Pier 94 near the Bayview neighborhood. The city paid for electricity, bathrooms and showers for residents, daily meals, transportation services and on-site health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were able to get power and resources out to the site relatively quickly and open it up to people who were the most vulnerable to COVID living on the streets of the Bayview,” said Emily Cohen, spokesperson for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “It’s not just a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 303 people have so far participated in San Francisco’s program. Of those, 37 have moved to permanent housing, according to Cohen. All but two of the trailers are still in use, and 118 people are still living at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a site just across the bay, near Oakland International Airport, the trailer program had a much rockier start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were in pretty sad shape and rehabbing them was extremely expensive,” said Derek Soo, an advocate for people experiencing homelessness, who in spring 2020 helped move some residents from nearby encampments into the trailers at the site on Hegenberger Road, which became known as Operation HomeBase. “They were falling apart after the first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soo, who was unhoused himself, reported some of the dangerous conditions at the trailer site in its early days, including a lack of stable electricity. The city of Oakland eventually installed a transformer, which cost about $250,000, according to Soo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Site infrastructure improvements, like physical accessibility and trailer maintenance, and ongoing services, like meals and sanitation, are expensive but necessary to effectively operate temporary housing, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kym Wilson lived in a trailer at HomeBase from May 2020 to November 2021 with her husband and their two cats and a dog, until the couple was finally approved for an emergency housing voucher. The voucher allowed them to move from the trailer into an apartment in San Leandro, where they continue to live today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trailer was smaller than our tent and we didn’t like that, but we knew we had an opportunity for housing, so we stayed,” said Wilson, who grew up in the East Bay, but was forced into homelessness after being evicted from her apartment in 2017. “Overall, the [trailer] experience was good. It was like a big trailer park right next to the Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Scott, spokesperson, San José Housing Department\"]‘We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city.’[/pullquote]But some other cities that received trailers in 2020 couldn’t follow through on providing the services necessary to make the temporary alternative housing programs successful. And some cities that requested the trailers didn’t receive any at all, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19HomelessImpactDashboard/HomelessImpact?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no\">state data dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, for instance, only 90 of the 104 trailers sent were deemed habitable upon arrival, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/san-jose-spent-1-3-million-on-trailers-for-homeless-a-month-later-the-site-was-shut-down/\">Mercury News reported\u003c/a> at the start of the program, as some were missing sinks and had damaged vents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent nearly $1.3 million to repair damaged trailers and set up services and infrastructure, like water and electricity. But several months later, San José officials decided to return all 105 of its trailers and ditch the idea altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” said Jeff Scott, spokesperson for the city’s housing department. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, 15 trailers were set up at a county-owned park with RV hookups for water and electricity already available. But in the fall of 2022, as the COVID emergency became less dire, the trailers were decommissioned, according to Karen Smith, spokesperson with the Monterey County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though the county continues to grapple with an acute housing shortage, the trailers are now sitting unused, in storage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Empty trailers in a housing crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11947622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"A lineup of trailers outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trailers that were brought to Oakland to be used by unhoused people remain empty on Day 30 of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order in Oakland on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Some of the trailers had been there since a joint press conference was held with Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Mayor Libby Schaaf on Jan. 16, 2020. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To avoid that same fate with tiny homes and other emergency housing initiatives, housing advocates say local municipalities need to receive more guidance and sustained funding from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco, said Newsom’s tiny home plan feels very similar to the trailer program. “Newsom is doing these one-time investments, then asking municipalities to take it on,” she said. “The local government still has to pay for all the infrastructure costs, like pouring cement, staffing, food costs and other services. That was expensive at Pier 94 [in San Francisco].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide disparity in outcomes for these short-term solutions has much to do with a lack of coordination and accountability when they are rolled out, notes McDaid Ting, of the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hodgepodge,” she said of the way broad homelessness initiatives, like the trailer program, have been implemented in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDaid Ting’s group is calling on the governor to create a master plan to address homelessness that clarifies which state, county and local agencies are responsible for managing different parts of the state’s response — from running shelters and building ample housing and safety-net programs to expanding data collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has so far allocated around $2.5 billion in this year’s budget to address homelessness, and has directed more than $20 billion toward the issue since taking office in 2018 — far more than any of his predecessors — according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many advocates say that still falls far short of what is needed to provide long-term solutions to \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"http://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">the state’s more than 171,000 unhoused people (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state’s homelessness crisis is so severe that the governor has called in the National Guard, and several city leaders have declared emergencies in their jurisdictions,” Cal Cities executive director and CEO Carolyn Coleman said in a statement in response to a recent survey showing that 90% of California cities don’t know how they’ll pay for homelessness services in the years ahead. “Lasting progress will be out of reach without an ongoing source of state investment in local communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tiny homes, big promises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Newsom’s newest housing initiative, the state is planning to deliver 350 tiny homes to Sacramento, 500 to Los Angeles, 200 to San José and 150 to San Diego. The cities will own the homes and be on the hook for funding ongoing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In various studies, a majority of unhoused people say they prefer tiny homes and trailers to congregate shelters because they offer more privacy and security, helping residents to reestablish a greater degree of stability and confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants their own place, the opportunity to move forward from the sidewalk to the trailer or tiny homes and into their own apartment or house. That’s the end result, that’s what we are looking for,” said Wilson, a former resident of Oakland’s Operation HomeBase program. “We came from homes. We haven’t always been homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Each trailer cost anywhere from roughly $12,000 to $30,000, totaling nearly $29 million including delivery fees, according to data from the California Department of General Services, which procured them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the trailers arrived, it was up to each city or county to figure out how to fund and manage them. Some did; others didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco set up its 116 trailers — 91 gifted by the state and 21 paid for by the city — at Pier 94 near the Bayview neighborhood. The city paid for electricity, bathrooms and showers for residents, daily meals, transportation services and on-site health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were able to get power and resources out to the site relatively quickly and open it up to people who were the most vulnerable to COVID living on the streets of the Bayview,” said Emily Cohen, spokesperson for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “It’s not just a trailer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 303 people have so far participated in San Francisco’s program. Of those, 37 have moved to permanent housing, according to Cohen. All but two of the trailers are still in use, and 118 people are still living at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a site just across the bay, near Oakland International Airport, the trailer program had a much rockier start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were in pretty sad shape and rehabbing them was extremely expensive,” said Derek Soo, an advocate for people experiencing homelessness, who in spring 2020 helped move some residents from nearby encampments into the trailers at the site on Hegenberger Road, which became known as Operation HomeBase. “They were falling apart after the first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soo, who was unhoused himself, reported some of the dangerous conditions at the trailer site in its early days, including a lack of stable electricity. The city of Oakland eventually installed a transformer, which cost about $250,000, according to Soo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But some other cities that received trailers in 2020 couldn’t follow through on providing the services necessary to make the temporary alternative housing programs successful. And some cities that requested the trailers didn’t receive any at all, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19HomelessImpactDashboard/HomelessImpact?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no\">state data dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, for instance, only 90 of the 104 trailers sent were deemed habitable upon arrival, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/san-jose-spent-1-3-million-on-trailers-for-homeless-a-month-later-the-site-was-shut-down/\">Mercury News reported\u003c/a> at the start of the program, as some were missing sinks and had damaged vents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent nearly $1.3 million to repair damaged trailers and set up services and infrastructure, like water and electricity. But several months later, San José officials decided to return all 105 of its trailers and ditch the idea altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used the trailers for a couple months, but we found the expense and operational challenges of maintaining such a large fleet of trailers were not a good fit for our city,” said Jeff Scott, spokesperson for the city’s housing department. “We transitioned our residents into other accommodations and returned the trailers to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, 15 trailers were set up at a county-owned park with RV hookups for water and electricity already available. But in the fall of 2022, as the COVID emergency became less dire, the trailers were decommissioned, according to Karen Smith, spokesperson with the Monterey County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though the county continues to grapple with an acute housing shortage, the trailers are now sitting unused, in storage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Empty trailers in a housing crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11947622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"A lineup of trailers outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1220237023.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trailers that were brought to Oakland to be used by unhoused people remain empty on Day 30 of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order in Oakland on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Some of the trailers had been there since a joint press conference was held with Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Mayor Libby Schaaf on Jan. 16, 2020. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To avoid that same fate with tiny homes and other emergency housing initiatives, housing advocates say local municipalities need to receive more guidance and sustained funding from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco, said Newsom’s tiny home plan feels very similar to the trailer program. “Newsom is doing these one-time investments, then asking municipalities to take it on,” she said. “The local government still has to pay for all the infrastructure costs, like pouring cement, staffing, food costs and other services. That was expensive at Pier 94 [in San Francisco].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide disparity in outcomes for these short-term solutions has much to do with a lack of coordination and accountability when they are rolled out, notes McDaid Ting, of the California State Association of Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so hodgepodge,” she said of the way broad homelessness initiatives, like the trailer program, have been implemented in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDaid Ting’s group is calling on the governor to create a master plan to address homelessness that clarifies which state, county and local agencies are responsible for managing different parts of the state’s response — from running shelters and building ample housing and safety-net programs to expanding data collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has so far allocated around $2.5 billion in this year’s budget to address homelessness, and has directed more than $20 billion toward the issue since taking office in 2018 — far more than any of his predecessors — according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many advocates say that still falls far short of what is needed to provide long-term solutions to \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"http://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">the state’s more than 171,000 unhoused people (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state’s homelessness crisis is so severe that the governor has called in the National Guard, and several city leaders have declared emergencies in their jurisdictions,” Cal Cities executive director and CEO Carolyn Coleman said in a statement in response to a recent survey showing that 90% of California cities don’t know how they’ll pay for homelessness services in the years ahead. “Lasting progress will be out of reach without an ongoing source of state investment in local communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tiny homes, big promises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Newsom’s newest housing initiative, the state is planning to deliver 350 tiny homes to Sacramento, 500 to Los Angeles, 200 to San José and 150 to San Diego. 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"content": "\u003cp>California lawmakers marketed their new loan program for first-time home buyers as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/dream/index.htm\">Dream for All\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just 11 days after applications opened, the initial \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-08/california-has-already-run-out-of-cash-to-help-first-time-home-buyers-heres-what-happened\">pot of money is tapped out\u003c/a>, sucked dry by eager house hunters. It turns out the dream was only for a lucky couple thousand borrowers — a disproportionate number of them white, non-Latino and living in the Sacramento area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/03/home-equity-california/\">Dream for All program\u003c/a> was paused on April 6, less than two weeks after the California Housing Finance Agency said it would make the program available to lenders. About $288 million in initial funding will be provided to 2,564 homebuyers, according to an internal document obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complicated program involves the state paying some or all of the upfront costs for buying a home — namely, the down payment — in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/06/california-down-payment-help/\">exchange for a share in the home’s value\u003c/a> when it is sold, refinanced or transferred. If the home appreciates in value, those gains to the state would then be used to fund the next borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program was meant, in part, to help address California’s ethnic and racial wealth gap, with Black and Latino families having fewer net assets than the national average. Participation in the program was limited to households earning less than 150% of median earnings in their county. According to the initial characteristics shown in the agency document obtained by CalMatters, roughly two-thirds of the beneficiaries went to those making less than $125,000. The average loan was a little more than $112,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those figures also show that the program was disproportionately used by white home-buyers. Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins, of San Diego, said in a statement Monday that the program was intended to reach those historically shut out of the housing market.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Matt Gougé, loan officer, Sacramento\"]‘I would guess that 30% to 50% of the people who are using it could qualify or buy without it.’[/pullquote]“While this program has been immensely successful in getting new homebuyers into the market quickly and in places with low homeownership rates like the Central Valley, clearly more work needs to be done to make sure that there is statewide awareness, particularly in communities of color,” Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that the program ran out of cash in a two-week spree speaks to just how voracious demand is for housing in California. It also suggests that some of the people who made use of the program were already well into the house-hunting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That raises an important question: How many of the people who benefited from the loan program actually needed the help and how many would have purchased a home anyway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would guess that 30% to 50% of the people who are using it could qualify or buy without it because I had plenty like that,” said Matt Gougé, a Sacramento loan officer, referring to his own clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California prohibits affirmative action, limiting the housing agency’s ability to direct the money to communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d like to do something we’re not allowed to do in California, and this is not the fault of CalHFA or anybody else,” said Micah Weinberg, chief executive of California Forward, a nonprofit hired by the state treasurer to create an initial framework for the program. “When those of us outside of government talked about what the intention of the program is — it is to really, very specifically, target those demographic communities, African Americans and others — who have been locked out of the home-buyer marketplace for a variety of different reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You actually can’t do that directly in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who got California first-time home-buyer loans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Demographic data in the document obtained by CalMatters showed that 65% of initial buyers identified as white, 18% as Asian, 4% as Black, 1% as Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and 1% American Indian or Alaska Native. Ethnically, 62% of homebuyers identified as not Hispanic or Latino while about 34% did. The document indicated that some of the data was preliminary and might change once all the transactions closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Johnson, an agency spokesperson, confirmed on Monday that the program would be paused until more funding could be allocated. He pointed to the fact that 25% of homeowners in California are of Hispanic or Latino origin, and said the fact that 34% of the loans were made to these groups meant the program was “outperforming in that category.” Asian families make up about 16% and Black families about 4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the program initially outperformed with white and Latino homebuyers and did a bit better than average with Asian families but only matched the average with Black buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program is doing a pretty decent job of representing California,” Johnson said, though he agreed that there is “definitely a gigantic wealth and homeownership gap” and that the program is aimed at addressing that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sacramento leads the pack\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Geographically, the funds weren’t spread out evenly across the state, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County, home to the state capital, received 11% of the program’s funds, despite making up just 4% of the state population. Los Angeles County, in contrast, received 9% of the money, despite being home to a quarter of all Californians. Johnson, of CalHFA, said Sacramento County consistently sees higher participation rates than other counties, and that the overrepresentation of loans from the county “tracks with our other loan programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/13367631/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That geographic disparity is hard to explain. \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentoappraisalblog.com/\">Ryan Lundquist, a Sacramento appraiser\u003c/a> and real estate analyst, said the demographics and current price trends across the region make Sacramento County “a prime target for first-time buyers” and therefore a natural beneficiary of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gougé, the local loan officer, said news of the program spread by word of mouth throughout the capital community in the days before the state officially launched the program on March 27. The regional rumor mill may have been churning especially quickly given how much more plugged-in locals are to matters of state bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento and the surrounding area’s loan officers and realtors probably got a jump start,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the initial funding for the program might be tapped out, the size and scope of the Dream for All program will likely be a subject of negotiations between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-budget/2023/01/california-budget-newsom-deficit/\">Newsom proposed a significantly smaller version of the 10-year\u003c/a>, $10 billion program originally envisioned by Atkins. 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"content": "\u003cp>With police officers standing by, city workers began on Monday what will be a two-week process of clearing residents and their belongings from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodstreetcommons.com/\">Wood Street Commons\u003c/a>, a longstanding community of unhoused people that, until September, was the city’s largest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a press conference held on-site the same morning, Wood Street residents and activists took turns speaking about the evictions taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"LaMonte Ford, Wood Street Commons resident\"]‘We’re just like you. We’re normal people. I have two jobs. I cannot afford the rent. I’ve been here 10 years. You think I can pack it up in two bags?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying. We’re doing the best we can. If we had resources, we’d be a whole lot better,” said LaMonte Ford, 48, a longtime resident and lead organizer at Wood Street. “We’re just like you. We’re normal people. I have two jobs. I cannot afford the rent. I’ve been here 10 years. You think I can pack it up in two bags?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 60 people live in RVs and trailers at the site, located at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945682/the-last-residents-of-oaklands-wood-street-encampment\">1707 Wood Street in West Oakland\u003c/a>. Residents have built the space into a resource hub, complete with a communal kitchen, outdoor meeting areas, a free store, space for food and clothing donations, storage facilities and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man looks through a chain link fence at police officers on the other side of it. The man has a crowd of people behind him as his fingers rest in between the fence coils.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/023_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident LaMonte Ford speaks to the police as the city of Oakland begins to evict the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jean Walsh, spokesperson for the city, said the city is offering residents beds at a new “cabin community” site a few blocks away, as well as parking spaces at a recently opened RV lot in East Oakland and at shelters throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Walsh said four residents had agreed to relocate to the new cabin site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re being cattle-rustled from one camp to another camp, and around and around we go,” Wood Street resident Mavin Carter-Griffin said at the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like, ‘Move over, homeless. We’re going to stomp right through this and we’re going to stick you in some sheds,’” Carter-Griffin continued. “Sheds are so six years ago. There are many different types of unhoused people. We’re not the shed type. That wasn’t good for us. … That’s a prison cell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black police officer is shown standing behind a chain link fence as city workers behind him haul wood and other materials into large garbage trucks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland works to clear items from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Wood Street Commons' tag='wood-street-commons']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has long planned to redevelop the formerly vacant lot into affordable housing. It \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=745898&GUID=9A69A99B-2EA1-4B3E-BA84-C0DE1D47F9E0&Options=&Search=\">purchased the property, which is across from Raimondi Park, in 2007 for $8 million\u003c/a> as part of a larger redevelopment of the area that authorized around \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=742328&GUID=6BB49C5D-30C9-4253-85B8-6E66E8499C3A&Options=&Search=\">1,500 new homes and apartments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3759867&GUID=ECC644E3-BC09-4E5E-A98E-A04FCE3B7F11&Options=&Search=\">progress at the lot was delayed for more than a decade\u003c/a>, due in part to the 2008 foreclosure crisis and subsequent Great Recession, according to a city report. In 2018, the city selected a developer to build 170 affordable, for-sale and rental apartments at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One housed neighbor, Mo, who declined to give his last name, said he’s lived in the area for 16 years and watched the community at the Commons grow from a few trailers into dozens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has become more and more expensive out here. And, that’s why homeless people cannot afford to live in Oakland and that’s why they are here on the street,” Mo said. “They’ve been here for over ten years, and now they’ve been kicked out so people can build more high rises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials initially scheduled evictions for Jan. 9, so the developer could start assessing the kind of environmental remediation it needs to build housing there. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940107/judge-to-allow-evictions-at-long-running-oakland-homeless-encampment-residents-vow-to-fight\">residents successfully filed for a temporary restraining order\u003c/a> — citing the onslaught of historic storms and lack of adequate alternative housing as grounds to delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received two state grants last year, totaling \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5962116&GUID=B467C58E-50EB-4A4C-BE99-496372BE92B6&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=%22Wood+Street%22\">$8.3 million, to relocate residents to a new cabin community site\u003c/a> at 2601 Wood Street in Oakland, consisting of 70 “tuff shed” structures with space for 100 beds. But the site hadn’t yet opened when the city issued its eviction orders, and Federal District Judge William Orrick ordered the city to delay evictions until it had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a black headdress and T-shirt looks heartbroken as she stares downward. Two men, one Black and one white-presenting, are pictured behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents John Janosko and Mona Choyce listen to an outreach worker talk about the tuff sheds in Oakland on April 10, 2023, while the city of Oakland begins to evict the encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Give us some real options. Instead of putting us in the cycle of being housed — get us housed,” said Jessica “Freeway” Blalock, a Wood Street resident, who had a bad experience at a different “community cabin” site in Oakland. “With all of the vacant lots and all the vacant houses that are here, there’s no reason all of us couldn’t be housed — and then some.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/14G98PfutiSU4vCEEummva59RGH6XWeNK/view?usp=sharing\">Feb. 24 court filing\u003c/a>, Supervising Deputy City Attorney Jamilah Jefferson wrote that the city had opened the community cabin site and had RV parking spaces available. Orrick lifted the restraining order three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, volunteers and advocates were on site to assist residents with moving. Kelly Thompson, 75, who is himself homeless in Oakland, sat in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting on somebody to say, ‘I need a tow,'” he said. “But where are they supposed to go? Where do they want to go? 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The family that’s here. … That’s not going anywhere.’[/pullquote]Considered one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/homeless-wood-street-oakland-17717303.php\">largest encampments in Northern California\u003c/a>, Wood Street grew over the course of a decade. 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In 2018, the city selected a developer to build 170 affordable, for-sale and rental apartments at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One housed neighbor, Mo, who declined to give his last name, said he’s lived in the area for 16 years and watched the community at the Commons grow from a few trailers into dozens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has become more and more expensive out here. And, that’s why homeless people cannot afford to live in Oakland and that’s why they are here on the street,” Mo said. “They’ve been here for over ten years, and now they’ve been kicked out so people can build more high rises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials initially scheduled evictions for Jan. 9, so the developer could start assessing the kind of environmental remediation it needs to build housing there. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940107/judge-to-allow-evictions-at-long-running-oakland-homeless-encampment-residents-vow-to-fight\">residents successfully filed for a temporary restraining order\u003c/a> — citing the onslaught of historic storms and lack of adequate alternative housing as grounds to delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received two state grants last year, totaling \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5962116&GUID=B467C58E-50EB-4A4C-BE99-496372BE92B6&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=%22Wood+Street%22\">$8.3 million, to relocate residents to a new cabin community site\u003c/a> at 2601 Wood Street in Oakland, consisting of 70 “tuff shed” structures with space for 100 beds. But the site hadn’t yet opened when the city issued its eviction orders, and Federal District Judge William Orrick ordered the city to delay evictions until it had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with a black headdress and T-shirt looks heartbroken as she stares downward. Two men, one Black and one white-presenting, are pictured behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/002_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents John Janosko and Mona Choyce listen to an outreach worker talk about the tuff sheds in Oakland on April 10, 2023, while the city of Oakland begins to evict the encampment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Give us some real options. Instead of putting us in the cycle of being housed — get us housed,” said Jessica “Freeway” Blalock, a Wood Street resident, who had a bad experience at a different “community cabin” site in Oakland. “With all of the vacant lots and all the vacant houses that are here, there’s no reason all of us couldn’t be housed — and then some.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/14G98PfutiSU4vCEEummva59RGH6XWeNK/view?usp=sharing\">Feb. 24 court filing\u003c/a>, Supervising Deputy City Attorney Jamilah Jefferson wrote that the city had opened the community cabin site and had RV parking spaces available. Orrick lifted the restraining order three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, volunteers and advocates were on site to assist residents with moving. Kelly Thompson, 75, who is himself homeless in Oakland, sat in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m waiting on somebody to say, ‘I need a tow,'” he said. “But where are they supposed to go? Where do they want to go? 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"content": "\u003cp>Three real estate companies overseeing the revitalization of San Francisco’s Treasure Island are now suing each other over their expected returns on the former naval base project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether the infighting will delay what’s slated to be the largest single housing development in Northern California. The massive, multiyear effort to transform Treasure Island into a dense neighborhood includes a mix of retail space, parks, transportation services and new housing totaling about 8,000 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This could definitely throw a stone into the gears and bring development to a halt,” said Sam Singer, a spokesperson representing Kenwood Investments, one of the real estate companies in the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11790693 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40411_SFPL-TI-Construction-partially-built-island-AAD-3782_600dpi-qut-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two real estate companies, Stockbridge Investments and Wilson Meany, filed a lawsuit last weekend against the third developer, Kenwood Investments, claiming the lengthy development timeline for Treasure Island will diminish their anticipated profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenwood on Tuesday filed a counter lawsuit, alleging that Stockbridge and Wilson Meany are conspiring to breach a contract among the three groups and steal profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stockbridge and WM tried to keep Kenwood in the dark on their plans,” the complaint from Kenwood reads. “Stockbridge and WM’s actions place the entire Treasure Island project at risk and leave Kenwood with no option but to protect its interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockbridge representatives denied that the dispute would further delay constriction. The Treasure Island Development Authority did not immediately return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work is continuing at Treasure Island. This is a dispute between members of KSWM, an entity that, along with a Stockbridge affiliate, owns half of the Treasure Island venture,” a spokesperson for Stockbridge wrote to KQED. “The dispute involves the distribution and allocation of any future profits from the venture. We expect to resolve it without any impact on the development.’’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, Kenwood entered an agreement with real estate company Lennar Urban to redevelop Treasure Island, a 400-acre island situated between the East Bay and San Francisco. Kenwood and Lennar held a 50% interest in the Treasure Island Community Development (TICD) project, the Kenwood complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, Stockbridge and Wilson Meany joined Kenwood as partners, and the groups formed a company called KSWM Treasure Island. As part of that partnership, Kenwood claims it transferred its 50% share to the KSWM group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3.jpg\" alt=\"A housing structure is seen being built on an island with a view of a silver bridge in the background.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A structure sits on the water off Treasure Island, across from the Bay Bridge. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 2016, a separate investor and affiliate of Stockbridge, Stockbridge TI, joined TICD. As a result, KSWM and Stockbridge TI then shared the 50% interest. Kenwood claims in its lawsuit that Wilson Meany and Stockbridge “never requested Kenwood’s consent to this amendment and Kenwood did not agree to this amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenwood is now alleging that by allowing Stockbridge TI to invest directly into TICD, the partners “diluted” the 50% share for KSWM. Stockbridge and Wilson Meany deny both claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their original complaint, Stockbridge and Wilson Meany assert that the projected values of KSWM’s interests are “much lower today than they were a few years ago, before the COVID pandemic and economic shocks that came in its wake, and before unanticipated cost increases and delays pushed out the reduced projected revenues by several years, all of which have depressed expected returns,” the document reads. “Because of these setbacks, none of KSWM’s members can look forward to the financial rewards they had hoped for when this project started in the early 2000s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cranes and other building equipment are seen parked on wet ground. Trees and powerlines are also pictured in the background under gray skies.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulldozers and other construction equipment are locked away on Treasure Island on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island represents both a massive opportunity and challenge for developers. Unlike many parts of the city, the former naval base has tremendous space for new developments and housing, which is sorely needed to address the region’s housing crunch. But the former military site has a history spotted with environmental lawsuits, permitting hurdles and other barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent project to break ground was Star View Court, a 138-unit development that includes 71 units for formerly unhoused families transitioning out of interim supportive housing, 43 units for lower-income households, and 23 homes for current Treasure Island residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Housing' tag='housing']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 27% of the homes and apartments slated for the Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Development Project, which the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved in 2011, are earmarked to be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Treasure Island we have an incredible opportunity to create a whole new neighborhood that serves all San Franciscans,” Mayor London Breed said in 2022 when the Star View Court project was announced. “As we do that work, it’s essential that we have affordable places for people to live that also provide housing for the existing residents of this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey and Assemblymember Matt Haney, whose districts include Treasure Island, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story has been updated to include a statement from a Stockbridge Investments spokesperson.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, Kenwood entered an agreement with real estate company Lennar Urban to redevelop Treasure Island, a 400-acre island situated between the East Bay and San Francisco. Kenwood and Lennar held a 50% interest in the Treasure Island Community Development (TICD) project, the Kenwood complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, Stockbridge and Wilson Meany joined Kenwood as partners, and the groups formed a company called KSWM Treasure Island. As part of that partnership, Kenwood claims it transferred its 50% share to the KSWM group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3.jpg\" alt=\"A housing structure is seen being built on an island with a view of a silver bridge in the background.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS7294_Google_Barge_web_3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A structure sits on the water off Treasure Island, across from the Bay Bridge. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in 2016, a separate investor and affiliate of Stockbridge, Stockbridge TI, joined TICD. As a result, KSWM and Stockbridge TI then shared the 50% interest. Kenwood claims in its lawsuit that Wilson Meany and Stockbridge “never requested Kenwood’s consent to this amendment and Kenwood did not agree to this amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenwood is now alleging that by allowing Stockbridge TI to invest directly into TICD, the partners “diluted” the 50% share for KSWM. Stockbridge and Wilson Meany deny both claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their original complaint, Stockbridge and Wilson Meany assert that the projected values of KSWM’s interests are “much lower today than they were a few years ago, before the COVID pandemic and economic shocks that came in its wake, and before unanticipated cost increases and delays pushed out the reduced projected revenues by several years, all of which have depressed expected returns,” the document reads. “Because of these setbacks, none of KSWM’s members can look forward to the financial rewards they had hoped for when this project started in the early 2000s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cranes and other building equipment are seen parked on wet ground. Trees and powerlines are also pictured in the background under gray skies.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS35226_TREASUREISLAND_003-qut-1-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulldozers and other construction equipment are locked away on Treasure Island on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Treasure Island represents both a massive opportunity and challenge for developers. Unlike many parts of the city, the former naval base has tremendous space for new developments and housing, which is sorely needed to address the region’s housing crunch. But the former military site has a history spotted with environmental lawsuits, permitting hurdles and other barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent project to break ground was Star View Court, a 138-unit development that includes 71 units for formerly unhoused families transitioning out of interim supportive housing, 43 units for lower-income households, and 23 homes for current Treasure Island residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains two corrections. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates touted the “builder’s remedy” as a clever way to circumvent NIMBY politics and get more housing built. But in the two months since the law has been available to Bay Area developers, few have submitted proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a survey of more than 30 cities, five have received Builder’s Remedy applications: San Jose, Mountain View, Los Altos Hills, Fairfax and Brentwood. If they move forward, the nine projects would total 1,203 units, of which 250 would be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on California Housing' tag='housing']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a trickled compared to the deluge Southern California cities received, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2023/02/27/see-the-list-developers-file-26-southern-california-builders-remedy-projects/?clearUserState=true\">26 applications\u003c/a> totaling more than 8,600 homes — almost 2,000 of them affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference, said UC Davis law professor Chris Elmendorf, is a growing reticence to use the law in the Bay Area. Developers are wary of potential legal challenges and worry a builder’s remedy project could sever important relationships with city officials they rely on to get other projects approved. Despite the slow uptick, housing advocates say the law is already doing its job by forcing cities to adopt housing plans that meet the state’s ambitious goal to build 2.5 million new homes and apartments by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of uncertainty for developers that makes most developers pretty reluctant to pull the trigger on a [builder’s remedy] project,” Elmendorf said. He added that even without the volume of applications seen in Southern California cities, “it has done an enormous amount of good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The builder’s remedy is a 1990 law that allows developers to circumvent local building rules, if the city is out of compliance with state housing law, and if it meets certain affordability requirements. Developers have long had the ability to invoke the law, but according to Elmendorf, many have only recently been willing to use it. This is due, in part, to newly passed legislation and growing concern about the state’s housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The usual basis on which a city denies a project is [that it might be] too tall, it’s too big, it doesn’t conform to community character,” Elmendorf said. “All of that is off the table.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Elmendorf, law professor, UC Davis\"]‘There’s a lot of uncertainty for developers that makes most developers pretty reluctant to pull the trigger on a [builder’s remedy] project.’[/pullquote]To meet its housing goals, California now requires cities to plan for more housing than it ever has in the past. But rather than rubber-stamp the plans, it’s mandating they place new housing in neighborhoods with highly rated schools, grocery stores and access to transportation. All of this has raised the stakes of compliance, often forcing cities to resubmit plans multiple times, which in turn has allowed developers more time to submit builder’s remedy proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, cities had to win state approval for their housing plans by October 2021. Developers waited nearly a year to submit builder’s remedy projects, which Elmendorf said reflected a lack of awareness about the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once they caught on, some cities got a flood of applications. \u003ca href=\"https://www.santamonica.gov/builders-remedy\">Santa Monica\u003c/a> notoriously received 16 applications within the span of a few weeks starting in September 2022 and has begun processing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943154/they-asked-for-this-california-sues-huntington-beach-for-flouting-laws-meant-to-ease-housing-crisis\">Huntington Beach\u003c/a>, city officials chose a more combative approach by trying to ban builder’s remedy applications outright. The Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit in Orange County against the town, arguing the ban is illegal under state law. And, in the Bay Area, some developers are already running up against legal challenges of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with gray hair and a black jacket stands to the right of his black truck in the middle of the country lined with trees and grass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contractor Marshal Rothman stands on the property he owns in Fairfax on March 27, 2023. He has owned the property for the last decade, hoping to turn it into housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When developer Marshal Rothman submitted a preliminary application to build 10 single-family homes in Fairfax, the city charged him $50,000 in application fees. Fairfax Mayor Chance Cutrano defended the fees, saying they include a legal review of the application. Until Rothman pays the fee, Cutrano said, the application would be incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothman, who has been trying to build these homes for a decade, wants to sue the city over its steep fee, but fears a lawsuit could be even more costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a contractor and I don’t have a lot of money,” Rothman said. “At this point, I have a piece of property I’ve been supporting for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sonja Trauss, founder, YIMBY Law\"]‘It’s not hard to read between the lines that the only reason you need a special [legal] consultant for a builder’s remedy project is if you are hiring a lawyer to stop it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonja Trauss, founder of nonprofit YIMBY Law is helping Rothman develop a lawsuit against the city and said Fairfax officials don’t need a legal review unless they plan to litigate the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not hard to read between the lines that the only reason you need a special [legal] consultant for a builder’s remedy project is if you are hiring a lawyer to stop it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Altos Hills, Sasha Zbrozek wasted no time submitting a builder’s remedy application, filing his plan the first day he legally could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to build and rent a five-unit townhouse on his property to make up some of the money he’s been spending to repair his home. But just a month after he submitted, city officials found the application incomplete. Zbrozek said he also plans to sue the city to get his townhouses built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/019_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a black, zip-up sweater stands inside a dilapidated house where the walls have enormous holes and is in need of heavy repairs. He peers down through one of the openings with one hand on his right hip.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/019_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/019_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/019_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/019_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/019_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Zbrozek stands next to rotted siding at his home in Los Altos Hills, on Feb. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[My] 1.84 acres are theoretically mine, but not really,” Zbrozek said. “This whole odyssey is my attempt to claw back some tiny modicum of self-determination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zbrozek and his wife, Stella Wang, bought their house in 2019 to make room for children they hoped to have one day.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Zbrozek, homeowner\"]‘[My] 1.84 acres are theoretically mine, but not really. This whole odyssey is my attempt to claw back some tiny modicum of self-determination.’[/pullquote]But after the first rain, Zbrozek noticed wet patches on the walls and discovered a crumbling foundation. It took him more than two years to fix the leaky roof, and more repairs are still pending. He blames the planning department for moving too slowly to allow him to fix his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never occurred to us that planning departments could be quite so recalcitrant towards doing literally anything,” Zbrozek said. “I’m going to exit this process older, without kids, and poorer than I would have had this been a quick and easy process like it should have been. I generally just feel like I’ve wasted a life span.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/003_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a house in grave disrepair. Gray tarps hang from it loosely. Exposed, tan plywood is seen on one side of the structure and a bare tree is in the foreground while a line of trees is pictured in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/003_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/003_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/003_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/003_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/003_KQED_HousingSashaZbrozek_02132023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarps cover the side of Sasha Zbrozek’s home after he discovered that the walls were rotting after buying the property in 2019 in Los Altos Hills, on Feb. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He became so frustrated with the process that he left his job as a computer software developer to build housing instead. It’s part of the reason he’s not afraid to use the builder’s remedy: He doesn’t have preexisting relationships with city officials he wants to maintain. He saw what developers in Santa Monica did with the builder’s remedy and was inspired to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that anyone was winning against the recalcitrant zoning brought joy to my heart,” Zbrozek said. “And it only brought even more joy when I realized I, too, might be able to follow in those footsteps.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Zbrozek, homeowner\"]‘I’m going to exit this process older, without kids, and poorer than I would have had this been a quick and easy process like it should have been. I generally just feel like I’ve wasted a life span.’[/pullquote]Most developers rely on their relationships with city planners and the city council to get their plans approved. Adam Mayberry, an architect in Davis, who is considering submitting a builder’s remedy proposal there, fears it could damage ties with the city officials he often works with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Developers] are essentially saying, I’m going to do something that most likely will get all my neighbors really mad, and they’re all going to complain to you, and you’re going to have to face all this undue stress because of something I’ve done,” Mayberry said. “I don’t want to be a middle finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the potential repercussions, Mayberry still plans to submit a builder’s remedy application. He sees it as an important tool to combat opposition to housing. For too long, Mayberry said, cities were allowed to exert control over how much housing was built in their jurisdictions. But that housing was never built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state said you can have local control as long as [the city] meets the demands of the citizens, and they’re not meeting those demands,” he said. “So [the state is putting the control] in the hands of people who can make a difference in the housing shortage — developers, builders and architects like myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some housing advocates, like Trauss of YIMBY Action, were skeptical anyone would use the builder’s remedy in the state. So, she’s pleased to see people taking advantage of it.[aside postID=news_11942158 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62004_008_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-qut-1020x680.jpg']“I’ve been feeling awesome,” Trauss said. “I’m amazed at how much interest there is, and people are considering it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other housing advocates and experts view the mere presence of the builder’s remedy as an important tool to scare cities and counties into adopting state-approved housing plans to avoid development they can’t control. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938267/to-meet-state-housing-goals-one-bay-area-city-had-to-overcome-its-nimby-past\">some residents in Alameda\u003c/a>, the first Bay Area city to get its housing plan approved by the state, used the builder’s remedy to advocate for the speedy passage of their city’s plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if most Bay Area planning departments don’t receive builder’s remedy applications, Elmendorf sees the threat of it as a force for good, especially in cities like San Francisco, where new development is slow; that city adopted its plan to build more than 82,000 homes on the day of the state-mandated deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just inconceivable to anyone who has observed politics in San Francisco that the Board of Supervisors would adopt that kind of plan, unless the supervisors were terrified about state law,” Elmendorf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated San Jose received completed Builder’s Remedy applications. The applications were preliminary. An earlier version also incorrectly identified Sonja Trauss as the founder of YIMBY Action. Trauss is the founder of YIMBY Law, a 501(c)3 organization the leads legal enforcement. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To meet its housing goals, California now requires cities to plan for more housing than it ever has in the past. But rather than rubber-stamp the plans, it’s mandating they place new housing in neighborhoods with highly rated schools, grocery stores and access to transportation. All of this has raised the stakes of compliance, often forcing cities to resubmit plans multiple times, which in turn has allowed developers more time to submit builder’s remedy proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, cities had to win state approval for their housing plans by October 2021. Developers waited nearly a year to submit builder’s remedy projects, which Elmendorf said reflected a lack of awareness about the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once they caught on, some cities got a flood of applications. \u003ca href=\"https://www.santamonica.gov/builders-remedy\">Santa Monica\u003c/a> notoriously received 16 applications within the span of a few weeks starting in September 2022 and has begun processing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943154/they-asked-for-this-california-sues-huntington-beach-for-flouting-laws-meant-to-ease-housing-crisis\">Huntington Beach\u003c/a>, city officials chose a more combative approach by trying to ban builder’s remedy applications outright. The Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit in Orange County against the town, arguing the ban is illegal under state law. And, in the Bay Area, some developers are already running up against legal challenges of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with gray hair and a black jacket stands to the right of his black truck in the middle of the country lined with trees and grass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/017_KQED_MarshalRothmanFairfax_03272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contractor Marshal Rothman stands on the property he owns in Fairfax on March 27, 2023. He has owned the property for the last decade, hoping to turn it into housing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When developer Marshal Rothman submitted a preliminary application to build 10 single-family homes in Fairfax, the city charged him $50,000 in application fees. Fairfax Mayor Chance Cutrano defended the fees, saying they include a legal review of the application. Until Rothman pays the fee, Cutrano said, the application would be incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothman, who has been trying to build these homes for a decade, wants to sue the city over its steep fee, but fears a lawsuit could be even more costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a contractor and I don’t have a lot of money,” Rothman said. “At this point, I have a piece of property I’ve been supporting for 10 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Residents at the Commons have built the space into a resource hub, complete with a communal kitchen, outdoor meeting areas, a free store and storage facilities, among other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m afraid of what’s going to happen to people if we’re not here to provide this sanctuary,” said Masoud Saberi, one of the Commons’ earliest residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing his home to foreclosure a decade ago, he found himself living in his car in North Oakland, and later moved to the vacant, city-owned plot of land across from Raimondi Park at 1707 Wood Street, where the Commons is now. He helped build a community there.[aside postID=news_11940107 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1-1020x765.jpg']“I’m thinking back to when I was lost, and when I was looking for that foundation, that comfort,” he said, choking back tears. “I was lucky enough to experience it. So, I pray it’s not lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commons is the last remaining vestige of the much larger Wood Street settlement, which, until last year, was home to around 300 people. It stretched for more than a mile under Interstate 880 on land owned by Caltrans, BNSF railway, private individuals and the city of Oakland. In September, Caltrans evicted residents from the land it owns, citing safety concerns, after a fire on July 11 sent plumes of black smoke onto the freeway above, stopping traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commons was spared because it sits on city-owned land. But residents knew their days there were limited. City officials have long planned to build 171 affordable for-sale and rental housing units at 1707 Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city purchased the lot in 2007 as part of a larger redevelopment that authorized around 1,500 new homes and apartments in the surrounding area. The 2008 foreclosure crisis slowed the city’s plans to build affordable housing there, and it wasn’t until 2018 that officials entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with a developer for the lot.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Masoud Saberi, Wood Street Commons resident\"]‘I’m thinking back to when I was lost, and when I was looking for that foundation, that comfort. I was lucky enough to experience it. So, I pray it’s not lost.’[/pullquote]Then, last year, the city secured two grants from the state, totaling $8.3 million, to relocate residents of the Commons to a new temporary shelter a few blocks away. The site, which will ultimately consist of 70 “tuff sheds,” opened in February. City officials have also said residents are being offered spots at a safe RV parking site in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many residents said they didn’t want to live in East Oakland, so far from the community they’ve built at the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People here have already been pushed out of so many other places,” said Lydia Blumberg, a resident of the Commons. “It’s given us a common kind of passion for community and being part of community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents expressed concern about going into the tuff sheds, where typical stays are limited to no more than six months. An audit last year of the city’s homelessness services found \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">fewer than a third of the people who went into these tuff sheds got into permanent housing\u003c/a>. The majority remained unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, going into the tuff sheds means giving up the one stable home many of the residents have come to rely on — their RVs and trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11945430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man with a yellow rain jacket and dreadlocks records an eviction notice with his phone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street Commons resident John Janosko records a live video to Instagram announcing that the eviction notices had been posted, on March 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I could be kicked out, back on the street with a tent,” said Ramona Choyce, who’s lived at Wood Street for around six years. “If I got my trailer, then I’ll be sheltered. I don’t know if they understand that clearly, but it’s important because I hate the cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choyce said that doesn’t mean she would turn down permanent housing; it’s the uncertainty she fears. And, it’s a big reason people don’t want to leave the Commons — they’ve found stability there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need stability,” said John Janosko, a resident of the Commons and one of its leaders. “Once you get stability, then you get everything else that comes along with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took residents here a decade to build that stability, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re destroying something that took so long [to build],” Janosko said. “All this stuff — these resources, these connections, these people, this caring, this love — that took time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m thinking back to when I was lost, and when I was looking for that foundation, that comfort,” he said, choking back tears. “I was lucky enough to experience it. So, I pray it’s not lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commons is the last remaining vestige of the much larger Wood Street settlement, which, until last year, was home to around 300 people. It stretched for more than a mile under Interstate 880 on land owned by Caltrans, BNSF railway, private individuals and the city of Oakland. In September, Caltrans evicted residents from the land it owns, citing safety concerns, after a fire on July 11 sent plumes of black smoke onto the freeway above, stopping traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commons was spared because it sits on city-owned land. But residents knew their days there were limited. City officials have long planned to build 171 affordable for-sale and rental housing units at 1707 Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city purchased the lot in 2007 as part of a larger redevelopment that authorized around 1,500 new homes and apartments in the surrounding area. The 2008 foreclosure crisis slowed the city’s plans to build affordable housing there, and it wasn’t until 2018 that officials entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with a developer for the lot.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then, last year, the city secured two grants from the state, totaling $8.3 million, to relocate residents of the Commons to a new temporary shelter a few blocks away. The site, which will ultimately consist of 70 “tuff sheds,” opened in February. City officials have also said residents are being offered spots at a safe RV parking site in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many residents said they didn’t want to live in East Oakland, so far from the community they’ve built at the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People here have already been pushed out of so many other places,” said Lydia Blumberg, a resident of the Commons. “It’s given us a common kind of passion for community and being part of community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents expressed concern about going into the tuff sheds, where typical stays are limited to no more than six months. An audit last year of the city’s homelessness services found \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">fewer than a third of the people who went into these tuff sheds got into permanent housing\u003c/a>. The majority remained unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, going into the tuff sheds means giving up the one stable home many of the residents have come to rely on — their RVs and trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11945430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man with a yellow rain jacket and dreadlocks records an eviction notice with his phone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_4577-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street Commons resident John Janosko records a live video to Instagram announcing that the eviction notices had been posted, on March 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I could be kicked out, back on the street with a tent,” said Ramona Choyce, who’s lived at Wood Street for around six years. “If I got my trailer, then I’ll be sheltered. I don’t know if they understand that clearly, but it’s important because I hate the cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choyce said that doesn’t mean she would turn down permanent housing; it’s the uncertainty she fears. And, it’s a big reason people don’t want to leave the Commons — they’ve found stability there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need stability,” said John Janosko, a resident of the Commons and one of its leaders. “Once you get stability, then you get everything else that comes along with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took residents here a decade to build that stability, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re destroying something that took so long [to build],” Janosko said. “All this stuff — these resources, these connections, these people, this caring, this love — that took time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After more than a decade in the same Concord apartment with his wife and three kids, Antonio Avila Garcia is getting evicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not because he failed to pay or broke the lease, but because his landlord wants to remodel. But Avila Garcia doesn’t want to leave the tight-knit community he’s built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know each other here,” he said. “I even have a brother [who lives] here, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major renovations are one of the few reasons outlined in the 2019 Tenant Protection Act that landlords in California can use to evict tenants who haven’t done anything wrong. The landmark legislation was designed to curb the impacts of rising rents and keep tenants in their homes. But housing advocates said the substantial-repairs exception created a loophole property owners are exploiting to kick renters out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Renters’ Rights' tag='renters']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates and lawmakers have a plan to curb that practice. State Sen. María Elena Durazo’s (D-Los Angeles) SB 567, called the Homelessness Prevention Act, removes the financial incentive behind these so-called “reno-victions” by increasing the amount landlords must pay renters to relocate, or requiring them to cover temporary relocation costs and re-rent the apartment to the displaced tenants at the same price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to close the loopholes for landlords to evict,” Durazo said at a March press conference announcing the bill. “We can’t let families get pushed out onto the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also lower the state rent cap from 10% to 5%, expand the number of Californians covered by that cap and place other restrictions on evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But property owners are balking at the proposal, which comes just a few years after the 2019 legislation. Earle Vaughan, president of the California Rental Housing Association, said the Tenant Protection Act was a long-negotiated compromise between property owners and tenant advocates meant to last a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a bill that was supposed to be fair to both the landlords and the tenants, allowing landlords to at least have a way to raise the rent so we could maintain our properties,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64037_010_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man on the patio of his apartment leaves the sliding glass door ajar as he puts together boxes getting ready to move out.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64037_010_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64037_010_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64037_010_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64037_010_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64037_010_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Avila Garcia packs up belongings from the home he has shared with his family since 2012 in Concord on March 29, 2023. A new owner bought the apartment building, and the family received an eviction notice soon after. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In August, a new owner bought the building where Avila Garcia lives, and a few months later, he got an eviction notice. His neighbor, Jose Luis Navarro Padilla, received the same notice, which cited plans to “substantially remodel” as grounds for the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived there for 15 years and never gave them any problems,” said Navarro Padilla, who moved with his wife in December to their son’s condo in Concord.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Antonio Avila Garcia, renter\"]‘I’m starting to ask myself if I’ll have to abandon my life and my family’s life and the community we’ve called home.’[/pullquote]Many of the residents in the complex are from the same part of Michoacán, Mexico. Avila Garcia has cousins here in addition to his brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m starting to ask myself if I’ll have to abandon my life and my family’s life and the community we’ve called home,” Avila Garcia said, speaking at a December Concord City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California doesn’t have publicly accessible data that details why people are getting evicted. But tenant advocate Betty Gabaldon, who’s working with Avila Garcia and other Concord renters, said that since the Tenant Protection Act went into effect in January 2020, she’s seen an uptick in renovation-related evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started noticing the 60-day [eviction] notices said the reason they’re getting evicted is because they’re planning on doing substantial renovations in the unit,” said Gabaldon, an organizer with the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945359\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64122_03312023_kqed_tenantorganizer-018-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long brown hair and eyeglasses wearing a white sweatshirt and jeans looks onward from her front patio outside of her apartment.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64122_03312023_kqed_tenantorganizer-018-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64122_03312023_kqed_tenantorganizer-018-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64122_03312023_kqed_tenantorganizer-018-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64122_03312023_kqed_tenantorganizer-018-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64122_03312023_kqed_tenantorganizer-018-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenant organizer Betty Gabaldon stands for a portrait outside her home in Walnut Creek on March 31, 2023. Gabaldon and other advocates say landlords are exploiting a loophole in California’s Tenant Protection Act to evict renters from their homes. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tenant Protection Act requires that renovations be significant enough that they entail permits, but Gabaldon said there’s no easy way to ensure property owners follow through. Tenants can sue, but the process is time-consuming and costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Avila Garcia’s case, the city has no permit on file for work on his apartment or his neighbor’s. Representatives for his landlord said they’ll start that process once they hire contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gabaldon’s experience with other tenants makes her skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The substantial renovations really don’t happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute, said there’s another incentive for landlords to use renovation-related evictions: It allows them to get around the state’s 10% cap on annual rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They buy it, kick everybody out, put a little bit of paint on it and then re-rent,” she said. “It’s a real problem. Displacement should not be at the core of a person’s business model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avila Garcia and Navarro Padilla said their property manager offered to re-rent them their apartments for over $800 dollars more than they had been paying. The property manager, Irma Galvez, disputes this. Through her attorney, Galvez said she never made a formal offer to re-rent the same apartments. Instead, she said she offered Avila Garcia an apartment at another property in Rodeo, 30 minutes away, for $1,950, or $500 more than he’d been paying.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute\"]‘They buy it, kick everybody out, put a little bit of paint on it and then re-rent. It’s a real problem. Displacement should not be at the core of a person’s business model.’[/pullquote]Linda Dunn, the attorney representing Galvez, defended property owners’ right to raise rents after significant renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not price gouging,” Dunn wrote in an email to KQED, “and it certainly isn’t price gouging as defined by the laws in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, Avila Garcia said the pressure from his landlord means his family won’t feel at ease in their own home. So, he chose to look for other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to stay and fight,” Avila Garcia said. “But even if I win, I won’t feel comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man with short, dark hair and a five o'clock shadow wears a gray hooded sweatshirt that reads "California 1850 Republic" as he stares out the window from his apartment. The sunlight illuminates his serious face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Avila Garcia looks out the window during a break from packing up the home he has shared with his family since 2012 in Concord on March 29, 2023. A new owner bought the apartment building, and the family received an eviction notice soon after. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Pittsburg, a group of tenants recently fended off a set of similar evictions. A new owner bought an apartment complex in March 2022 and, about six months later, started serving 60-day eviction notices, citing “extensive rehab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisca Castellanos was among those who received an eviction notice. She’s been living in her apartment for 46 years and said she pays $825 a month in rent. She’s not sure what she’d do if she had to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m used to being here,” the 74-year-old said. “I live comfortably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castellanos said she was told her rent would nearly double, to $1,600, if she wanted to return after the renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11945309 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two older women sit side by side on the steps to an apartment's front door. Each woman has her hands folded neatly on their laps. They look serious, tired, concerned.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_6950-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Castellanos (left) and Herlinda Villanueva (right). Castellanos has lived in her Pittsburg apartment for the past 46 years; Villanueva has lived in hers for a decade. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After tenants marched to the property manager’s office to protest, Contra Costa County ACCE Director David Sharples helped broker a deal to stop the evictions. To keep their homes, the renters agreed to a 10% rent increase beginning in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the building confirmed the details of the agreement, but declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows why we need to pass stronger tenant protections,” Sharples said. “We know one of the leading causes of homelessness is eviction and rent increases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE organizers are working with the tenants to urge the city to pass local renter protections. Most local rent stabilization and just cause ordinances go beyond state law, and can include provisions to prevent landlords from exploiting renovation evictions.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"David Sharples, director, Contra Costa County ACCE\"]‘It shows why we need to pass stronger tenant protections. We know one of the leading causes of homelessness is eviction and rent increases.’[/pullquote]But tenants’ rights organizations said these “reno-victions” are happening around the state. So, they worked with Sen. Durazo’s office on her bill to crack down on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg said SB 567 cuts off the financial incentive to exploit renovations by requiring landlords to let tenants return at the same rent, or pay a relocation fee of six times the current fair market rent for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also require property owners to have permits in hand before issuing eviction notices, provide a description of the repairs to be completed and detail how long they’re expected to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do that, then landlords will only do it where they need to do it, not as a business model,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also puts tighter limits on other types of no-fault evictions, including when an owner wants to move in or take their property off the market. Owners who plan to stop renting would have to keep their buildings off the market at least 10 years, and those who want to move in would have to do so within 90 days and stay for at least three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunn, the attorney for Avila Garcia’s landlord, called the proposal “another unconstitutional attempt to turn the entire state of California into a rent-controlled state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every landlord in California should be concerned with this proposed legislation as currently written,” Dunn wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS46917_024_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut.jpg\" alt='A wide shot of dozens of protestors in front of a superior court building. Large signs read \"Stop Evictions, Save Lives.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS46917_024_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS46917_024_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS46917_024_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS46917_024_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS46917_024_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters form a line in front of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San José on Jan. 27, 2021, demanding stronger state eviction protections. A new California bill would crack down on renovation-related evictions — one of the few reason property owners can evict tenants without cause in the state. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vaughan, of the California Rental Housing Association, said property owners need to be able to raise rents to deal with the impacts of inflation and COVID eviction moratoriums, or simply to recuperate costs associated with a renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to realize how much we’ve struggled in the last three years with not being able to collect rent in many cases,” he said. “How are we supposed to absorb these kinds of costs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avila Garcia is asking himself a similar question as he prepares to move his family into a new apartment in Concord that’s going to cost him $400 more a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working at a market for more than six years and makes $16 an hour, just over minimum wage. He said he’ll find another job, at night, to afford the increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re raising rents, and they don’t want to raise salaries,” he said. “How are we supposed to come up with the money to pay?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Linda Dunn, the attorney representing Galvez, defended property owners’ right to raise rents after significant renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not price gouging,” Dunn wrote in an email to KQED, “and it certainly isn’t price gouging as defined by the laws in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, Avila Garcia said the pressure from his landlord means his family won’t feel at ease in their own home. So, he chose to look for other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to stay and fight,” Avila Garcia said. “But even if I win, I won’t feel comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man with short, dark hair and a five o'clock shadow wears a gray hooded sweatshirt that reads "California 1850 Republic" as he stares out the window from his apartment. The sunlight illuminates his serious face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64035_009_KQED_HousingAntonioAvila_03292023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Avila Garcia looks out the window during a break from packing up the home he has shared with his family since 2012 in Concord on March 29, 2023. 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