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One day, her brothers made a game of jumping off a railroad bridge onto a mattress on the dirt below.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11949327,news_11945984,news_11945422\"]“The first bone I broke was off this bridge,” she said, recalling how, as she jumped, her brothers pulled the mattress out from under her. “It made me tough, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she had lived with her family for much of her life but, after a falling out, set out on her own, first living in her truck, then in an RV community in Richmond, before arriving at Wood Street in June 2022. The settlement provided a safety net, she said, a community where people looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was Northern California’s largest settlement of unhoused people. But in September, just months after Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a serious fire near her trailer prompted Caltrans, the agency that owns the land, to order all of the roughly 300 residents to pack up and leave within five days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the eviction, many residents scattered to areas around Wood Street, including the neighboring city-owned land, which they dubbed the Commons. But people staying there were soon forced to leave as well, and by April, the city had cleared the last remaining residents, with Oakland officials saying the site would be used to develop 170 units of affordable housing. Hundreds of people continue to live in the area without permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story follows Jessica Katrice Fountaine from July 2022 through May 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950152\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV parked beneath a freeway ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets on the Wood Street settlement seen from an abandoned railroad bridge in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman with a black shirt and a denim jacket fixes the baseball hat on her head inside her RV as she laughs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine laughs with a friend in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a friend let her live in an empty trailer at his compound. Although residents see themselves as one community, most people separate into smaller groups — or compounds — for both camaraderie and protection. “I’m the compound cook,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman applies eye makeup in a mirror.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine practices putting makeup on herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Fountaine worked as an in-home caregiver to her two godchildren. After losing her job when the lockdown started, she said she took time to think about what she wanted to do to make money. “I don’t want to live to work. And I don’t want to work to live,” she said. “I want to be able to enjoy some part of it and try to make a change just a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A written note in red ink on lined notebook paper lays on the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign notifying people not to disturb Fountaine’s virtual church fell to the ground after being taped to her RV door at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine grew up attending Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland, where she was baptized and went to her first praise dance, and religion continues to play a large role in her life. She recalled a time before moving to Wood Street that brought her closer to her church: “I walked around for days with nowhere to go. I couldn’t sleep because it’s not safe. It just took one person to offer for me to live in her trailer that she wasn’t living in, and I cried for three days. I slept, and I cried. And then I just got up. It was a Sunday, and I got on my phone, and I went to church because my church goes live on Facebook … I’ve never been more deep and more strong in my religion than I am now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman leaves her RV as she prepares to exit the open door and down the stairs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine leaves her RV to visit a neighbor. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wood Street life could be tough. Residents often used generators or solar power for electricity, and there was no running water. That scarcity heightened Fountaine’s awareness of the resources she uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a very traditional background, so it’s weird for my family to see or to accept how I live, but I’ve never been more aware of my carbon footprint in my life,” she said. “I went home for Christmas, and I sat back, and I watched how they just let the water run washing dishes. I don’t have that luxury no more. How I used to let the shower run to get hot. I don’t have that luxury no more … I don’t let food go to waste. I preserve my lights. My everything has changed with me living like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Manicured and stylized long fingernails in a photo of an African American woman's right hand with a denim jacket sleeve.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine shows off the nails she did for herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Fountaine said, she still considers herself “a girly girl.” “I like nails. I like makeup. So I made the choice to go to cosmetology school,” she said. Fountaine said she has already picked a name for the salon she hopes to one day own: Rosalind’s Beauty Bar, an homage to her mother. Despite their strained relationship, she said, she still cares deeply about her mom. “And all I do is pray about it. I just pray that, before God calls either one of us home, he fix whatever is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two African American women, one seated in the drivers seat of a car and the other standing outside her car door, holding a box.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her friend Shavon who had recently been in a car accident near Wood Street. As soon as Fountaine heard about it, she and another friend jumped into action to tow the car back to the settlement. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950158\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A car being towed ahead seen from inside another car driving behind it as they pass under an overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine drives behind as her friend Shavon’s car is towed into the settlement to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950159\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a blue denim jacket smoking while seated inside an RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine smokes a vape pen in her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950160\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman dancing with a dog as dust is kicked up, with industrial structures behind them, and she's wearing a pink sleeveless shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Wood Street, Fountaine dances with Bonita, a neighbor’s dog, in front of an abandoned railroad bridge. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although people formed into small compounds, Fountaine said Wood Street residents also saw themselves as one community and built up shared resources. “We still all come together. We have a community center called the Cob. It’s all the way in the middle … It’s pretty nice,” she said, as the eviction loomed closer. “During what’s going on now, we’ve been having a lot of family dinners and stuff. You will find more help here than you will from a government facility. Clothes, food, shelter from the weather, mental health, hygiene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950161\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman looks out pensively from the passenger seat of a car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine sits in a friend’s car at Wood Street Fountaine after losing the RV where she was living. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But things weren’t always harmonious. A dispute within her compound at the beginning of September cost her the trailer where she was living: Its owner took it back without warning, along with all her belongings. Although she didn’t know where she would live at the time, she expressed confidence in her friends and herself. “My family … They did not raise a quitter. And they didn’t raise me to just sit and wallow in my self-pity. So I’m figuring it out one day at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans began evicting residents just days later, she remained optimistic. “Well, I’ll be OK. I just got to make sure that my family’s OK because that’s what they don’t understand. We are not friends. We are not associates. This is our family. We depend on one another. We help one another, and when we sick, we help each other get well. That’s us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RVs in an encampment under a freeway ramp with signs that say 'Where do we go?' draped on the nearest RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover 2 RVs at the Wood Street encampment as Caltrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the evictions continued over several weeks, Fountaine reflected on the resilience of her community. “We didn’t [just] survive. We were living. We lived here. We can do it anywhere. So just shutting us down and pushing us out does nothing but make the city have to really figure it out because where are we gonna go? We’re just going to find another empty lot, and we’re gonna do this all over. So find a permanent solution,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950163\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sweeps a dirt path with a broom with cars and RVs parked behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine uses a broom to sweep around her new RV parked at the end of 9th and Pine streets, near the Lower Bobs Skatepark. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After being evicted from Wood Street, Fountaine found another RV to live in and relocated about a mile away to 9th and Pine streets in October, where a growing number of displaced residents had relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man leans on the open door of an SUV with window rolled down, talking with an African American woman seated in the drivers seat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her neighbor, Bradford Nicholson, on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the new site, Fountaine helped arrange toilets, a sink and a regular trash pick-up at the end of the street. “I fight for my community to be better because I want my family to come over here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American looking out of her RV door, smiling, seen from the left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks to her cousins from the doorway of the RV where she lives at 9th and Pine streets. A sign about faith and trust in God she made hangs on the wall. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman lying in bed with her cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine lies in bed with her cat BW in the bedroom of her RV on 9th and Pine Streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, as the holidays approached, Fountaine said she had been thinking a lot about her relationship with her mother after her difficult teen and young-adult years. “Our relationship is so torn apart. All I can do is be the best daughter that I can be right now. I want her to see me for who I am now and not who I was 10 years ago. Like she doesn’t understand how important a hug means to me right now … I miss her so much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950167\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A notebook open on a lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While lying in her bed in the RV at 9th and Pine streets, Fountaine reads through responses she wrote to prompts in a life-story journal. For her greatest achievement, she wrote, ‘Living on my own.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was taught that being book smart is one thing, but you still need to know how to be street smart. And it comes in handy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man smiles as he looks through an RV window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine’s cousin, Earnest Jasper, talks to her through the window of her RV at 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman cooking food on a BBQ, wearing a broadbrimmed hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine cooks on a stove she created in the bed of a pickup truck on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine is often the cook for her community but said they also look out for her. “We all depend on each other. I’m diabetic,” she said. “My neighbors come over there and be like, ‘You eat today?’” But living alone, often without a cellphone, also worries her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV kitchen with food on the counter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food sits in Fountaine’s kitchen as smoke wafts through the air. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she has considered moving into safe RV parking, a space for RV residents that offers electrical hookups, bathrooms and other amenities, but the rumors of limited-term stays or RV park closures have dissuaded her. \u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what these are for, to house those who are unhoused,” she said. “So you’re going to house us, then unhouse us?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sits on a chair outside by the road, closing her eyes as she smokes a cigarette, wearing a black outfit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine sits on an abandoned chair left on the road outside her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the 9th and Pine streets area scheduled to be cleared by the city of Oakland on May 17, 2023, Fountaine said she’s considering moving to a city-run shelter, consisting of “community cabins” — essentially, Tuff Sheds — where other former Wood Street residents have gone. But she said that would only be a temporary solution to a long-term problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How I live is not who I am. And unfortunately, I’m sorry. I can’t afford that $1,500, that $1,200 rent,” she said, adding that lower-cost housing is the only solution she can see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t afford it, we gonna be right back where we started. That’s what I feel like nobody understands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The first bone I broke was off this bridge,” she said, recalling how, as she jumped, her brothers pulled the mattress out from under her. “It made me tough, though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she had lived with her family for much of her life but, after a falling out, set out on her own, first living in her truck, then in an RV community in Richmond, before arriving at Wood Street in June 2022. The settlement provided a safety net, she said, a community where people looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was Northern California’s largest settlement of unhoused people. But in September, just months after Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a serious fire near her trailer prompted Caltrans, the agency that owns the land, to order all of the roughly 300 residents to pack up and leave within five days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the eviction, many residents scattered to areas around Wood Street, including the neighboring city-owned land, which they dubbed the Commons. But people staying there were soon forced to leave as well, and by April, the city had cleared the last remaining residents, with Oakland officials saying the site would be used to develop 170 units of affordable housing. Hundreds of people continue to live in the area without permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story follows Jessica Katrice Fountaine from July 2022 through May 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950152\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV parked beneath a freeway ramp.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets on the Wood Street settlement seen from an abandoned railroad bridge in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman with a black shirt and a denim jacket fixes the baseball hat on her head inside her RV as she laughs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine laughs with a friend in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Fountaine arrived at Wood Street, a friend let her live in an empty trailer at his compound. Although residents see themselves as one community, most people separate into smaller groups — or compounds — for both camaraderie and protection. “I’m the compound cook,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman applies eye makeup in a mirror.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/004_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine practices putting makeup on herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Fountaine worked as an in-home caregiver to her two godchildren. After losing her job when the lockdown started, she said she took time to think about what she wanted to do to make money. “I don’t want to live to work. And I don’t want to work to live,” she said. “I want to be able to enjoy some part of it and try to make a change just a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950172\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A written note in red ink on lined notebook paper lays on the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/005_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign notifying people not to disturb Fountaine’s virtual church fell to the ground after being taped to her RV door at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine grew up attending Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland, where she was baptized and went to her first praise dance, and religion continues to play a large role in her life. She recalled a time before moving to Wood Street that brought her closer to her church: “I walked around for days with nowhere to go. I couldn’t sleep because it’s not safe. It just took one person to offer for me to live in her trailer that she wasn’t living in, and I cried for three days. I slept, and I cried. And then I just got up. It was a Sunday, and I got on my phone, and I went to church because my church goes live on Facebook … I’ve never been more deep and more strong in my religion than I am now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman leaves her RV as she prepares to exit the open door and down the stairs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine leaves her RV to visit a neighbor. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wood Street life could be tough. Residents often used generators or solar power for electricity, and there was no running water. That scarcity heightened Fountaine’s awareness of the resources she uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a very traditional background, so it’s weird for my family to see or to accept how I live, but I’ve never been more aware of my carbon footprint in my life,” she said. “I went home for Christmas, and I sat back, and I watched how they just let the water run washing dishes. I don’t have that luxury no more. How I used to let the shower run to get hot. I don’t have that luxury no more … I don’t let food go to waste. I preserve my lights. My everything has changed with me living like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Manicured and stylized long fingernails in a photo of an African American woman's right hand with a denim jacket sleeve.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine shows off the nails she did for herself in her RV at Wood Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Fountaine said, she still considers herself “a girly girl.” “I like nails. I like makeup. So I made the choice to go to cosmetology school,” she said. Fountaine said she has already picked a name for the salon she hopes to one day own: Rosalind’s Beauty Bar, an homage to her mother. Despite their strained relationship, she said, she still cares deeply about her mom. “And all I do is pray about it. I just pray that, before God calls either one of us home, he fix whatever is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two African American women, one seated in the drivers seat of a car and the other standing outside her car door, holding a box.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/008_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her friend Shavon who had recently been in a car accident near Wood Street. As soon as Fountaine heard about it, she and another friend jumped into action to tow the car back to the settlement. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950158\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A car being towed ahead seen from inside another car driving behind it as they pass under an overpass.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/009_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine drives behind as her friend Shavon’s car is towed into the settlement to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950159\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman wearing a blue denim jacket smoking while seated inside an RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/010_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08302022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine smokes a vape pen in her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950160\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman dancing with a dog as dust is kicked up, with industrial structures behind them, and she's wearing a pink sleeveless shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/011_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_08032022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Wood Street, Fountaine dances with Bonita, a neighbor’s dog, in front of an abandoned railroad bridge. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although people formed into small compounds, Fountaine said Wood Street residents also saw themselves as one community and built up shared resources. “We still all come together. We have a community center called the Cob. It’s all the way in the middle … It’s pretty nice,” she said, as the eviction loomed closer. “During what’s going on now, we’ve been having a lot of family dinners and stuff. You will find more help here than you will from a government facility. Clothes, food, shelter from the weather, mental health, hygiene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950161\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman looks out pensively from the passenger seat of a car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/012_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09022022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine sits in a friend’s car at Wood Street Fountaine after losing the RV where she was living. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But things weren’t always harmonious. A dispute within her compound at the beginning of September cost her the trailer where she was living: Its owner took it back without warning, along with all her belongings. Although she didn’t know where she would live at the time, she expressed confidence in her friends and herself. “My family … They did not raise a quitter. And they didn’t raise me to just sit and wallow in my self-pity. So I’m figuring it out one day at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans began evicting residents just days later, she remained optimistic. “Well, I’ll be OK. I just got to make sure that my family’s OK because that’s what they don’t understand. We are not friends. We are not associates. This is our family. We depend on one another. We help one another, and when we sick, we help each other get well. That’s us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RVs in an encampment under a freeway ramp with signs that say 'Where do we go?' draped on the nearest RV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover 2 RVs at the Wood Street encampment as Caltrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the evictions continued over several weeks, Fountaine reflected on the resilience of her community. “We didn’t [just] survive. We were living. We lived here. We can do it anywhere. So just shutting us down and pushing us out does nothing but make the city have to really figure it out because where are we gonna go? We’re just going to find another empty lot, and we’re gonna do this all over. So find a permanent solution,” Fountaine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950163\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sweeps a dirt path with a broom with cars and RVs parked behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/014_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine uses a broom to sweep around her new RV parked at the end of 9th and Pine streets, near the Lower Bobs Skatepark. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After being evicted from Wood Street, Fountaine found another RV to live in and relocated about a mile away to 9th and Pine streets in October, where a growing number of displaced residents had relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white man leans on the open door of an SUV with window rolled down, talking with an African American woman seated in the drivers seat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/015_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks with her neighbor, Bradford Nicholson, on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the new site, Fountaine helped arrange toilets, a sink and a regular trash pick-up at the end of the street. “I fight for my community to be better because I want my family to come over here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American looking out of her RV door, smiling, seen from the left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine talks to her cousins from the doorway of the RV where she lives at 9th and Pine streets. A sign about faith and trust in God she made hangs on the wall. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman lying in bed with her cat\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01182023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine lies in bed with her cat BW in the bedroom of her RV on 9th and Pine Streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, as the holidays approached, Fountaine said she had been thinking a lot about her relationship with her mother after her difficult teen and young-adult years. “Our relationship is so torn apart. All I can do is be the best daughter that I can be right now. I want her to see me for who I am now and not who I was 10 years ago. Like she doesn’t understand how important a hug means to me right now … I miss her so much,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950167\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A notebook open on a lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/018_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While lying in her bed in the RV at 9th and Pine streets, Fountaine reads through responses she wrote to prompts in a life-story journal. For her greatest achievement, she wrote, ‘Living on my own.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was taught that being book smart is one thing, but you still need to know how to be street smart. And it comes in handy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man smiles as he looks through an RV window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/019_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_05142023.jpg 1864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine’s cousin, Earnest Jasper, talks to her through the window of her RV at 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman cooking food on a BBQ, wearing a broadbrimmed hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/020_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_10272022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountaine cooks on a stove she created in the bed of a pickup truck on 9th and Pine streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine is often the cook for her community but said they also look out for her. “We all depend on each other. I’m diabetic,” she said. “My neighbors come over there and be like, ‘You eat today?’” But living alone, often without a cellphone, also worries her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An RV kitchen with food on the counter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/021_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_12162022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food sits in Fountaine’s kitchen as smoke wafts through the air. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fountaine said she has considered moving into safe RV parking, a space for RV residents that offers electrical hookups, bathrooms and other amenities, but the rumors of limited-term stays or RV park closures have dissuaded her. \u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what these are for, to house those who are unhoused,” she said. “So you’re going to house us, then unhouse us?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950171\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An African American woman sits on a chair outside by the road, closing her eyes as she smokes a cigarette, wearing a black outfit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_01092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Fountaine sits on an abandoned chair left on the road outside her RV. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the 9th and Pine streets area scheduled to be cleared by the city of Oakland on May 17, 2023, Fountaine said she’s considering moving to a city-run shelter, consisting of “community cabins” — essentially, Tuff Sheds — where other former Wood Street residents have gone. But she said that would only be a temporary solution to a long-term problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How I live is not who I am. And unfortunately, I’m sorry. I can’t afford that $1,500, that $1,200 rent,” she said, adding that lower-cost housing is the only solution she can see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can’t afford it, we gonna be right back where we started. That’s what I feel like nobody understands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José’s city council is weighing a controversial plan to dramatically reshape how the city spends money to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, spearheaded by Mayor Matt Mahan, would shift dedicated homelessness dollars away from building affordable apartments to, instead, constructing temporary shelters. The budget plan is the manifestation of an argument \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937410/san-joses-new-mayor-matt-mahan-seeks-allies-to-tackle-homelessness-policing\">Mahan made repeatedly during his mayoral campaign\u003c/a>: that local governments have placed too much focus on permanent supportive housing instead of what the mayor describes as low-barrier solutions to quickly provide more shelter for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets,” Mahan said at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate centers on a pot of money created by San José voters in 2020, when they approved Measure E to address housing affordability and homelessness by taxing home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s push to reallocate the city’s Measure E funds is the most contentious proposal in this year’s budget process. The council will take a final vote in June on the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. On Tuesday, they heard hours of public comment on the homelessness spending plan from residents who crowded City Hall into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San José Mayor Matt Mahan\"]‘We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 75% of Measure E revenue is used to pay for the development of new affordable housing at a variety of income levels, with the rest going to shelter construction and homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2023–24 fiscal year, Mahan is proposing a dramatic revision: for 80% of Measure E revenue (estimated to be $50 million) to go toward temporary housing, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">six emergency interim housing sites already open\u003c/a> across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would set aside 20% of revenue for rental and legal assistance for San José tenants. None of the new Measure E funds would be dedicated to permanent affordable housing. At the end of the 2023–24 budget year, Measure E allocations would return to their current levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Neat rows of gray shipping containers with a singular white window in each line a sidewalk with well-manicured flower beds filled with brown bark. A mountain range is seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted into transitional homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the shift say a change of approach is needed in the face of a problem that seems intractable. San José’s unhoused population grew to 6,650 people last year, and while the ratio of households exiting and entering homelessness has narrowed in Santa Clara County, 1.7 households are still becoming homeless for every one household housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see homeless that [are] sleeping right in front of our businesses,” said June Tran, owner of Crema Coffee, who spoke at Mahan’s press conference. “I can see that our current strategy right now is not working, so we really need change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to critics, the plan is a short-sighted maneuver designed to mollify concerns about visible street homelessness without providing permanent shelter for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only people that call for this kind of an approach has usually been politicians,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the housing nonprofit Destination: Home. “But there’s no evidence, there’s no research, there’s no subject matter experts that would tell you diverting money from creating the deepest level of affordable housing in perpetuity and moving it to do shelter is a winning strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stare at a computer screen within a gray cubicle. A single green plant is seen in the corner of the foreground. 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But affordable housing advocates say the falloff in funding in the next budget could lead to some projects dying on the vine — losing out on not only city money but also the matching funds from other levels of government that could accompany it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents,” said Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents District 5, which includes East San José.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Councilmember Peter Ortiz, District 5\"]‘We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents.’[/pullquote]Backers of affordable housing funding waved paper fans with pictures of houses and a broken heart during Tuesday’s meeting and used the public comment period to decry the Measure E change as a betrayal of the ballot measure’s promises around building affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This comes down to a matter of trust,” said RJ Ramsey, a resident of an affordable housing project in San José, who said he helped campaign for the passage of Measure E. “Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Gonzalez, a real estate broker, applauded the proposal, arguing that money spent on interim housing would still serve the goal of helping residents exit homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been no taking away from Measure E,” he said. “We’re talking about homeless shelters, you guys, we need this for our homeless folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg\" alt='Outside of a tan and gray government building, a large metal sign reads, \"San Jose City Hall.\" An art sculpture in the background depicts the large letters, \"XO.\" A California State flag with a brown bear is waving from a flagpole in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Hall, March 20, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Mahan is that while Santa Clara County has picked up the tab for services at permanent affordable housing sites, the city is on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948329/residents-fear-crime-and-drugs-near-temporary-housing-sites-in-san-jose-but-the-evidence-shows-otherwise\">the operation of interim housing\u003c/a> into the future.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"RJ Ramsey, resident of an affordable housing project\"]‘This comes down to a matter of trust. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 75% of Measure E revenue is used to pay for the development of new affordable housing at a variety of income levels, with the rest going to shelter construction and homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2023–24 fiscal year, Mahan is proposing a dramatic revision: for 80% of Measure E revenue (estimated to be $50 million) to go toward temporary housing, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">six emergency interim housing sites already open\u003c/a> across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would set aside 20% of revenue for rental and legal assistance for San José tenants. None of the new Measure E funds would be dedicated to permanent affordable housing. At the end of the 2023–24 budget year, Measure E allocations would return to their current levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Neat rows of gray shipping containers with a singular white window in each line a sidewalk with well-manicured flower beds filled with brown bark. 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San José’s unhoused population grew to 6,650 people last year, and while the ratio of households exiting and entering homelessness has narrowed in Santa Clara County, 1.7 households are still becoming homeless for every one household housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see homeless that [are] sleeping right in front of our businesses,” said June Tran, owner of Crema Coffee, who spoke at Mahan’s press conference. “I can see that our current strategy right now is not working, so we really need change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to critics, the plan is a short-sighted maneuver designed to mollify concerns about visible street homelessness without providing permanent shelter for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only people that call for this kind of an approach has usually been politicians,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the housing nonprofit Destination: Home. “But there’s no evidence, there’s no research, there’s no subject matter experts that would tell you diverting money from creating the deepest level of affordable housing in perpetuity and moving it to do shelter is a winning strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stare at a computer screen within a gray cubicle. 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"content": "\u003cp>The area had long been a forgotten place. That’s what Jessica Huffman found most appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 2019, and she had just been evicted from an encampment near Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Huffman needed a place to go where she could be invisible. She found it, near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945984/oakland-begins-evicting-unhoused-residents-at-wood-street-commons\">Wood and 34th streets\u003c/a>, under a tangle of freeway overpasses on the city’s western fringe. A locus of industry and transportation arteries, of waste-recycling centers and logistics, the area had also been, for decades, a release valve for the region’s marginally housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Huffman, former Wood Street resident\"]‘It was a place where they could just kind of brush us under the rug.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, scattered stands of cattails and a small grove of eucalyptus trees punctuated the vast patch of dirt where Huffman parked her trailer. There were a few people there, tucked back from the street. More importantly, she said, it’s where police officers told her she could go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was nobody around,” Huffman said. “It was a place where they could just kind of brush us under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next three years, some 300 people moved into a roughly mile-long swath of land under Huffman’s freeway overpass. And the settlement — known simply as Wood Street, for the road running parallel to it — exploded into Northern California’s largest community of unhoused people. Its growth became a symbol of a housing market gone awry, as a yawning affordability gap left many seeking refuge in neglected corners of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities knew about the Wood Street settlement for years, and arguably aided in fueling its expansion. But once it came time to close the site down, they were remarkably short on solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As homelessness in California reaches new peaks — \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2022.pdf\">more than 171,000 people, according to the most recent count (PDF)\u003c/a> — what happened at Wood Street offers a compelling window into why the state’s approach to clearing homeless encampments so often fails to get people housed and what these communities can offer residents, however imperfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jessica\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huffman’s spot was near the settlement’s northern edge, which ended in a triangle above 34th Street, where the land narrows between train tracks and warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading south, a dirt access road served as the community’s main artery. On either side, clusters of RVs, trailers and makeshift dwellings lined the road. Inoperable cars and fields of debris, often dumped there illegally, checkered the spaces in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949351 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits on the stoop of her trailer. A pile of her belongings are stacked to the left of her. A blue jacket hangs on a hook on the door. She is looking off to the left.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Huffman sits in her RV, which was damaged during a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exhaust from the overpass mixed with dust to form a haze that turned the air harsh and acrid. On hot days, trash ripened in the sun, the odor wafting through the camp. There was no running water, and no electricity, except what residents could siphon from electrical panels under the freeway or generate through solar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t come here because we wanted to be here,” Huffman said. “We came here because we were pushed here, and there’s nowhere else we can be. So, we made it the best we could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman’s blond hair, streaked with pink, was often swept into a loose ponytail, accentuating her angular face and wiry frame. She, like many in the settlement, formed her trailer into a compound with a half dozen other people for both camaraderie and protection. Wood Street, Huffman said, could be a fractious place — the big group was actually made of smaller groups. Theft was common. Some people made their money illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949350 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a homeless encampment with trailers, tents and people's belongings scattered about underneath a freeway overpass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Huffman’s compound seen from above after damage from a nearby fire, at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffman didn’t care how people survived. “Just don’t steal my [stuff] or you’ll cause a consequence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her compound was ensconced in an 11-foot-high fence, held in place with metal wire. The half dozen trailers encircled an outdoor living room and kitchen, complete with an electric stove.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Huffman, former Wood Street resident\"]‘If you don’t have an address, you don’t have a job. You don’t have a job, you don’t have an address. And then, you can’t save up money because you got to live every day spending it.’[/pullquote]One day, someone dumped a truckload of bricks in the middle of a street near the settlement. Huffman loaded them onto the back of her truck, brought them to her camp and cemented them into a chunky, V-shaped patio. “It’s got a custom pattern, way original work,” she said, with a wink. “We did a damn good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wood Street, Huffman was able to settle. It was a welcome respite after years of moving her trailer every three days from one residential street to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness, she said, can be a vicious cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have an address, you don’t have a job. You don’t have a job, you don’t have an address,” she said. “And then, you can’t save up money because you got to live every day spending it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949600\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949600 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257.jpg\" alt=\"Four people sit at a picnic bench talking to one another. A small cooler sits on top of the table along with a gray basket. Tiny homes are pictured in the background that sit under a freeway overpass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared DeFigh (center right) takes a break from dismantling community structure Cob on Wood on Oct. 13, 2022. Nonprofits helped residents build Cob on Wood in early 2021. The buildings housed a free store, a medical supply shed, a bathroom and a shower. There was also a community garden and shared kitchen at the site. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowing nobody was coming to kick her out meant Huffman could get other needs met — laundry, food, finding a place to shower — and even land a job. She worked graveyards packing produce boxes and meal kits at Good Eggs’ distribution warehouse near Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful illustration of a map of the Wood Street encampment located in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-800x1097.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1020x1399.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1120x1536.jpg 1120w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1493x2048.jpg 1493w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1920x2633.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sketch of the Wood Street settlement, as of July 2022. Places and borders are approximate. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was such a big, important thing. And there is no way I could have pulled it off otherwise,” Huffman said. “You can’t be moving around every three days like they want you to do and be dependable anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stability also enabled residents to develop shared resources in the form of two community centers within the camp: Cob on Wood, and the Commons. The centers helped smooth divisions within the camp, allowing residents at Wood Street to cohere into something more like one community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of nonprofits and volunteers in early 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/30/homeless-oaklanders-bring-hot-showers-medical-care-and-a-pizza-oven-to-their-encampment/\">helped residents build Cob on Wood\u003c/a> near the middle of the settlement, turning it into a surprising and incongruous oasis. Structures made of mud and recycled materials — which residents jokingly referred to as “hobbit houses” — surrounded a community garden and an outdoor kitchen. Residents used the homespun buildings to house a free store, a medical supply shed, a bathroom and a shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, co-founder of Essential Food and Medicine, helped mastermind the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Cob on Wood] was birthed from the visions of the residents here around how to meet some of the basic needs that people who are unhoused have in this community,” Moreno said. “Places like Wood Street, and these types of communities that are built from the rubble of society, are really important for unhoused people to create systems of safety, systems of community, because state solutions aren’t providing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949604 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1.jpg\" alt='A woman in a pink T-shirt with blonde hair pulls weeds from a planter box that holds a sprouting garden. Little orange flowers are blossoming. A nearby white board reads, \"Today Meeting.\" A trailer is seen to the left in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Huckaby, 28, pulls weeds from a garden at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffman had been unhoused, on and off, for the better part of her 43 years. She said she left her small, Texas hometown as an adolescent, hitchhiking her way across the country. At 17, she stopped in San Francisco, captivated by the city’s Victorian houses and rolling hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like that where I’m from, which is like flatland boring,” she said, recalling the awe of her first impressions. “It’s beautiful out here.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, co-founder, Essential Food and Medicine\"]‘Places like Wood Street, and these types of communities that are built from the rubble of society, are really important for unhoused people to create systems of safety, systems of community, because state solutions aren’t providing that.’[/pullquote]In San Francisco, Huffman hung out on Haight Street with other people her age and began experimenting with psychedelics and, later, crack cocaine and speed. Over the next two decades, she had periods of relative stability — a job, housing, sobriety — that would be shattered by a more damaging addiction: abusive partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided that the last time my ex was going to whoop my [butt] was the last time,” she said of her most recent bout with homelessness. “I would rather be safe than dealing with that [stuff].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than three years at Wood Street, she finally had enough money to move — if only a landlord would accept her spotty rental history and lack of a credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just not very well qualified,” she lamented. “I don’t have bad credit. I just have no credit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman wasn’t looking for anything fancy: a house with a yard. Somewhere close to work. Working plumbing. Electricity. “Not much,” she said. “Probably normal to everybody else. For me, it’d be a dream come true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on July 11, 2022, a fire changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 10 a.m. Huffman saw several police cars in the area and went to ask them why they were there (officials said later they were looking for stolen and abandoned cars). Before she could get an answer, smoke began rising near the train trestle, swirling into a thick, black column. It was coming from her compound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949349 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Charred cars, metal, belongings and debris are scattered throughout an open field.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred remnants of residents’ belongings fill areas of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She ran back. Officers swarmed around her, she said: “They were just ushering us out. Like, go, go, go, go, go!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Huffman saw that faces were missing from her crew. One — a woman named DeeDee — had a tent under the wooden train trestle, which was engulfed in flames. She pleaded with the officers to let her go there. They refused. Another friend began shouting in their faces, causing enough of a distraction for Huffman to slip past the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found DeeDee still asleep in her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fire was touching her face,” Huffman shuddered. “She would have burned — not even smoke inhalation — she would have burned to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a gray and black sweater and a blonde ponytail points to damage done to her trailer. It's covered in soot and grime from a previous fire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica points to damage to her RV from a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her voice cracked remembering the moment. “That could have been any one of us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman’s truck burned, and the side of her trailer melted from the heat. Her bed momentarily caught on fire, but firefighters doused the flames before the fire could spread further. Others weren’t as lucky. Her partner, Matthew Schatzinger, lost the mini school bus he lived in. Another one of their compound members, Shaun Ryan, watched his trailer and all his belongings turn to ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials later said five RVs burned in the two-alarm blaze. The cause of the fire was undetermined, but a spokesperson for the fire department said it started in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup shot of a man's hands covered in black soot from a previous fire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Schatzinger shows soot on his hands from sorting through his belongings that burned during a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside Huffman’s compound, soot blackened every surface. The only remnants of the outdoor living room and kitchen were charred wood and twisted metal.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Huffman, former Wood Street resident\"]‘I can’t crawl out of poverty if they make me have to constantly put my job and my income and my everything on emergency hold. It’s like they just want us to die or something.’[/pullquote]Then, less than a week later, Caltrans posted five-day eviction notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Huffman, it felt like a cruel joke. Bits of soot and ash were still raining over the camp, sticking to Huffman’s skin and collecting in the crevices of her face, neck and hands. The sickly smell of burned plastics hung heavy in the air. She hadn’t had time yet to take stock of her losses. Now, she’d lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions raced through her mind: Where would she move now? How would she get there? What could she take with her? And, perhaps most importantly, how could she do all that and still make it to work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t crawl out of poverty if they make me have to constantly put my job and my income and my everything on emergency hold,” she said, bitterly. “It’s like they just want us to die or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>John\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans issued the eviction notices, John Janosko sprang into action. Tall, with short dreadlocks and an effusive smile, Janosko could be mistaken for the mayor of Wood Street — or, at least, president of its improvement association, if such a thing existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His trailer sat at the entrance to the Commons. He had built out the space into a maze of rooms made from plywood and other materials. Beyond it, he arranged couches and outdoor furniture into an open-air living room that doubled as a community meeting space with a communal kitchen tucked into one corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949603 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white, hooded sweatshirt and long, brown braids sits on a sofa outdoors listening to someone speak off camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko speaks with other members of the Wood Street Commons before a meeting with the city of Oakland and its nonprofit contractor, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know how you have that family member where you always go to Thanksgiving or you always spend Christmas?” Janosko said. “So, that would be me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the previous three years, the Commons had served as the main gateway into the larger Wood Street settlement, which was mostly tucked back from the street. Across from Raimondi Park, where kids played football and soccer, the Commons was the most visible part of the settlement, and the most accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established nonprofits like LifeLong Medical Care and Operation Dignity routinely came by to provide health care and shower services for Wood Street residents, and volunteer advocates offered rides to medical appointments or help with paperwork to get into housing. Church groups and other organizations stopped by almost daily with boxes of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949341\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949341 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut.jpg\" alt='A man and a woman hold a conversation at a holiday party. Behind them, a wall with many posters tacked to it. One poster reads, \"Encampment evictions = state violence.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko makes cocktails at the Wood Street Commons for attendees at a holiday celebration at the encampment in Oakland on Dec. 17, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janosko had worked hard to make the Commons homey. Succulent-filled planters dotted the space. Pop-up canopies shaded a few of the outdoor seating areas. A changing rotation of art decorated the walkways.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Janosko, former Wood Street resident\"]‘All this stuff, these resources, these connections, these people, this caring, this love — that took time. It takes time to be able to get to a point where you’re able to take care of yourself and also help take care of your community.’[/pullquote]“All this stuff, these resources, these connections, these people, this caring, this love — that took time,” Janosko said. “It takes time to be able to get to a point where you’re able to take care of yourself and also help take care of your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was frustrated that certain issues — like trash — persisted, despite offers to the city to pay for dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The designated dumping spot is on the street, where everybody can see it,” Janosko said. “So, that looks bad, when the city should have just put out dumpsters, and that would make it look a lot better, and there wouldn’t be all this trash flying around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In posting the eviction notices, Caltrans — which owns the bulk of the land the Wood Street settlement occupied — said Wood Street had become too dangerous, with more than 200 fires reported in the span of 2 1/2 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949348\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949348 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white page with burned edges shows a charcoal drawing of Victorian facades, and sits among brown, shaded debris.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned drawing of Victorian houses lies amid the remnants of a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on Sept. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Hunt, spokesperson for the Oakland Fire Department, said investigators typically did not look into the causes of these fires, which some residents suspected were arson, because highly flammable siding on RVs and trailers, combined with propane tanks, lighters and other combustible objects, often obscured where fires started or how they spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighboring residents cited ongoing complaints of crime and blight. Stephen Denlis, CEO of Mean Machine, a nearby fabrication business, said employees’ cars were routinely vandalized, making it hard for him to hire and retain staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is impossible to hire when you are in the middle of a homeless encampment,” he said, adding that over the past 15 years, his workforce had dwindled from 15 employees to four. “I pay $100 a month for rat abatement, close my doors due to tire fires, and added fencing and screening out front. … The way it is now is scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denlis watched the community of unhoused people at Wood Street ebb and flow over the years. But around 2019, city workers painted a long white line on the street and set up concrete dividers, separating people’s four-wheeled homes from traffic — an action that, to Larry Coke and other unhoused people living there, seemed to sanction the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coke had been living at Raimondi Park, near 18th and Wood streets, in a tent, and later a trailer, since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949491 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg\" alt='A small, tan shack under the freeway with a garden in front of it and a rainbow sign above a wooden archway is hand painted and reads, \"Cob on Wood.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cob on Wood in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city moved us over here right in front of the soccer field,” he recalled. Across from the park was a vacant lot. “We came across the street. And that’s how it started. That’s how people started coming over here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp_yDu2nqSA\">In an interview at the time\u003c/a> with KPIX, then-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf defended the city’s actions, saying, “We don’t have a permanent place for that encampment yet, so you will see us use interim measures because we don’t have enough [shelter] beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schaaf also made it clear the encampment wasn’t, officially speaking, “sanctioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From my experience, we have tried it, and it has failed,” Schaaf said of other sanctioned encampments in the city. “All of them have ended in fires, in really dangerous and unhealthy conditions that I believe are not healthy for the unhoused residents, let alone the surrounding community.”[aside label='More Stories on Wood Street' tag='wood-street']Given all that, for Janosko and other residents, it was clear the city and Caltrans both had known about the settlement for years. What was the rush to evict everyone now? And besides, where was everyone supposed to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worked with another camp resident, Jaz Colibri, and a nonprofit law group to file for a temporary restraining order in federal court to stop the evictions. The suit argued the five-day notices would cause immediate and irreparable harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko hoped to buy his unhoused neighbors some time, and force the city to offer more in the way of solutions than to simply scatter. The strategy worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first hearing, District Judge William Orrick asked the attorneys for the government agencies involved — Caltrans, the city of Oakland and Alameda County — what kind of shelter was being offered to residents. They all pointed fingers at each other, admitting there was no plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that everybody wants to wash their hands of this particular problem, and that’s not going to happen,” Orrick said, ordering the agencies to come back in a month with answers to where people could go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949500\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949500 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Men in orange and yellow work clothes and white hardhats clear a homeless encampment using large machinery. A white pickup truck is seen being hoisted into the air and hauled off.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers remove vehicles and clear people’s belongings from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this reprieve was only temporary. Caltrans had been on a tear in the year leading up to the eviction notices at Wood Street, clearing 1,237 encampments in fiscal year 2022, according to William Arnold, spokesperson for the agency. In the months since, Caltrans has ramped up its efforts, clearing 1,534 encampments between July 1, 2022, and April 14, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ensuring displaced residents have viable housing options is not part of Caltrans’ mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under state law, providing shelter and housing assistance to homeless individuals — including those residing on a state right-of-way within a city’s or county’s boundaries — is the responsibility of local government,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans will notify local social services providers and request outreach be done at least two weeks prior to an eviction, he said. And, it posts notices at the site “at least 48 hours in advance.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"William Arnold, spokesperson, Caltrans\"]‘Under state law, providing shelter and housing assistance to homeless individuals — including those residing on a state right-of-way within a city’s or county’s boundaries — is the responsibility of local government.’[/pullquote]But finding enough shelter for people displaced through these evictions can be challenging. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2022.pdf\">California had around 68,600 emergency or transitional shelter beds across the state and nearly 115,500 people living in tents, RVs and cars (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wood Street residents, this shortage meant that despite a federal court order mandating a plan for housing, the best that Oakland and Alameda County could offer was beds for about half of the soon-to-be-displaced residents. At the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923663/caltrans-ok-to-clear-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment-federal-judge-rules\">next hearing\u003c/a>, Orrick said that was adequate. The law was on Caltrans’ side. “There is no constitutional right to housing,” Orrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko was crushed. He knew outsiders saw only the maze of rundown trailers, the makeshift hovels scrapped together with plywood and tarp, the trash. He wished someone with power could also see what he saw: a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People, they look at the wrong things,” he said, turning his face skyward. “Even though it’s a situation that’s maybe not ideal to most people, there’s a lot of things that bring up good emotions inside of you that make you feel good still. It’s not all about being sad and stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949605\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949605 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a black beanie and jacket hugs a man who is crying wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl Bernadette Moreno hugs John Janosko at the Wood Street Commons on Friday, Feb. 2, 2023, after a federal district judge said he would allow the city of Oakland to begin evicting residents at the Commons. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 8, 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">the evictions began\u003c/a>. Caltrans crews showed up in force. Dozens of California Highway Patrol officers spread out in a line to separate residents from workers, clearing roughly three-quarters of the settlement. Arnold said the agency ultimately spent $2.1 million removing 800 vehicles and enough debris to fill 200 dumpsters. It spent another $5.5 million installing a concrete barrier and a fence to deter people from reentering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Janosko, all that money added up to just one thing: “A whole bunch of people just got all their worldly belongings thrown into a dumpster and grinded away. They got pushed out to another location. They’re scared and alone and by themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By mid-October, when Caltrans had finished its work at Wood Street, city officials said roughly half the settlement, or 95 people, had accepted offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the remaining 110 people, some moved to the Commons. That part of the settlement was spared because it sat on city-owned land — and the city had its own plans for that lot. Others simply spread into the surrounding neighborhood.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Janosko, former Wood Street resident\"]‘A whole bunch of people just got all their worldly belongings thrown into a dumpster and grinded away. They got pushed out to another location. They’re scared and alone and by themselves.’[/pullquote]“Everyone is just sort of scattered,” Janosko said. “If you go up and down some of these side streets, you’ll notice that there’s a few more RVs parked on just regular residential streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Huffman moved about a dozen blocks south, to another vacant lot in West Oakland. Many from her compound followed, along with other displaced Wood Street residents. But just as the owner of that lot was gearing up to kick them out, Huffman caught a break. A long-time friend with a house in East Oakland allowed her to move in. It wasn’t close to her job, but it had a yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949607 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with shoulder-length blonde hair is wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt and is standing inside in front of a kitchen sink filled with dishes. She's smiling. A kitchen window is behind her letting in sunlight.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Huffman poses for a photo inside her home in East Oakland, where she recently began renting a room, on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I got lucky,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she had left Wood Street, she still returned to the area to visit her friends who remained in trailers nearby. Without them, she said, she never would have made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949346 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup shot of a dirt field with red bricks from a former patio pictured. Everything is burned.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of Jessica Huffman’s brick patio at the site of the Wood Street encampment where Huffman and other residents once lived, in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“‘Cause, if I didn’t have something to eat, my neighbor was going to share a sandwich with me. And that was the case every day,” Huffman said. “Nobody can survive without everybody else there. We can’t live without each other, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans returned the land where the Wood Street settlement had stood back to bare earth, as empty and open as when Huffman had moved there. Only her brick patio remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ramona\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After getting evicted from her spot under the freeway at Wood Street in September 2022, Ramona Choyce moved three times in three months, ultimately ending up about six blocks south, next door to the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guarded by nature, Choyce, 46, has an assertive demeanor that belies her 4-foot-11-inch frame. She works as a scrapper — making money by turning in used metal to be recycled — a trade her father and grandmother practiced before her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949388\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2003px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a broom and looks at the camera as she tries to push away pools of water from her trailer. The sun is going down.\" width=\"2003\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971.jpg 2003w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-1920x1372.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2003px) 100vw, 2003px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce rakes debris from water that flooded the area around her trailer, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the family,” she joked on a recycling run one day, driving her beat-up, sky-blue Isuzu pickup truck from the 1980s. “I guess I need to open up my own business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the move from Caltrans’ land had made it hard for Choyce to keep working. She had taken what she could fit in her trailer or carry in her pickup, but had to leave behind a lot of gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I done lost a lot. A lot,” she said. “I can’t even work on stuff that I need to work on because I really don’t have the tools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321522000269\">Studies\u003c/a> show that encampment sweeps, like the one Caltrans performed at Wood Street, \u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11606-022-07471-y.pdf\">lead to worse mental and physical health for residents (PDF)\u003c/a>, undermine trust in service providers, and push residents into more dangerous environments, among \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\">other outcomes (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949338 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An outdoor shot of an unhoused person's encampment site. A white trailer is covered in brown tarps as pools of water start to form in front of the place. Piles of abandoned tires are in the background amid a gray sky.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV sits in water on Wood Street in Oakland on Jan. 5, 2023, after storms contributed to flooding in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her new spot, Choyce was right on the street, exposed to passersby in a way she hadn’t been when she had been tucked under the overpass, “Now, I’m in front, open,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On several occasions, people broke into Choyce’s trailer. Then, when the rains came in November, water pooled in a sometimes knee-deep moat that was often filled with trash and other debris, despite her constantly raking it clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the time that I moved over here, it’s been water,” Choyce said. “Caltrans done threw away all my weather gear. … So, I’m getting wet, and it feel like I’m getting sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949610 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt='A brown tarp hangs over a trailer with spraypainted letters in yellow reading, \"Leave us alone in the name of Jesus.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of Ramona Choyce’s trailer on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her trailer now butted against the fence surrounding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910890/how-oaklands-16th-street-train-station-helped-build-west-oakland-and-the-modern-civil-rights-movement\">Southern Pacific’s abandoned 16th Street train station\u003c/a>, not far from where she had grown up as a kid. When she was younger, Choyce sometimes wandered down 16th Street to stare up at the tiled, beaux-arts-style building, with its vaulted ceiling and ornate interior, before the station stopped serving passengers in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to walk all the way up here,” she said. “But never got on the train.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, a gleaming white-and-gray apartment complex was under construction — the last of some 1,500 new homes, mostly market rate, built as part of \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=742328&GUID=6BB49C5D-30C9-4253-85B8-6E66E8499C3A&Options=&Search=\">a redevelopment plan Oakland officials approved in 2005\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Silicon Valley’s tech industry was rebounding from the dot-com bust and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Housing-market-still-hot-2004-Bay-Area-median-2737351.php\">rent prices in the region were rising\u003c/a>. West Oakland, which had long experienced disinvestment, suddenly seemed like a promising bet for real estate developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slowly, the march of development moved its way northward, right to the Commons’ doorstep. And evidence of the \u003ca href=\"https://ccrl.stanford.edu/blog/oakland-series-4\">change in demographics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/18/oakland-s-f-neighborhoods-fastest-gentrifying-in-u-s/\">income\u003c/a> was all around West Oakland in the form of new cafes, restaurants — even a doggie hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949497\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949497 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a gray, hooded sweater is using a yellow push-broom to sweep away water on the side of the road.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce sweeps large puddles away from her trailer on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sorting aluminum from plastics into blue trash barrels, Choyce eyed a ginger-bearded man as he jogged past her trailer. She shook her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These new people,” she said, emphasizing and repeating “\u003cem>these new people\u003c/em> that’s moving in, in our town, want to boot us out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought about how her mom worked under the table to feed her and her six siblings. Choyce now had six kids of her own, the two youngest of whom were living with their aunt. But despite all the “progress” in West Oakland, it had only become harder for Choyce to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just imagining it’s going to be even worse for my kids,” she said. “A lot of stuff’s changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her move from under the overpass to the street, she was buoyed by remaining close to the Commons, where she could still access food donations and Operation Dignity’s mobile shower van, and where she was surrounded by people she knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her pickup truck stalled at an intersection one day, her neighbor Smiley helped her fix it. Another day, Patrick Barnes, a volunteer advocate, pulled up with trash cans full of metal that Choyce had collected from her time under the overpass. He had stored it for her during the evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel bad, because I’ve been sitting on it for so long,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is perfect,” she said, “because, right now, I could use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949339\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949339 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a black jacket and a N95 mask over her head is seen moving a pile of scrap metal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce, 44, sorts metal at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this stability was only temporary. The Commons — this last vestige of the Wood Street settlement on city-owned land — was facing its own eviction. Officials had long planned to build affordable housing on the lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of the last remaining projects of the original 2005 redevelopment agreement, and officials said the developer couldn’t begin work on the planned 170 affordable condos and apartments until the property was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, Oakland officials applied for and received a little more than $8 million in state grants to relocate residents from the Commons into a new temporary shelter site consisting of 77 “community cabins” — essentially, Tuff Sheds — capable of housing 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money was part of a $700 million initiative that Newsom established in 2021, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/erf_program.html\">Encampment Resolution Funding Program\u003c/a>, which has a stated goal of placing people exiting encampments into housing or shelter.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ramona Choyce, former Wood Street resident\"]‘If they kick me out, I’ve got my trailer. I’m sheltered. I don’t know if they understand that clearly, but it’s important.’[/pullquote]But the program has so far seen mixed results. Only 30% of the roughly 1,500 people removed from encampments through this program transitioned to temporary or permanent housing, said Russ Heimerich, spokesperson for the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many people at the Commons, Choyce was skeptical of the city’s plan. To start, officials hadn’t asked residents before they applied for the grant whether anyone wanted to move into cabins. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to go there, either,” Choyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving to the cabins meant giving up the one home she had been able to count on in her six years at Wood Street — her trailer — to go into a program where the outcome was uncertain. \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">A 2022 audit of the city’s homelessness services (PDF)\u003c/a> found that fewer than one-third of the people who went into the community cabins moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choyce had known people who cycled through the six-month program, only to end up back on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick me out, I’ve got my trailer. I’m sheltered,” Choyce said. “I don’t know if they understand that clearly, but it’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko wanted the city to think long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko speaks during a community meeting with city officials about the kinds of services that will be provided to residents of the Commons, if they choose to relocate to a community cabin site the city plans to build, on Nov. 21, 2022. \u003ccite>(Photo by Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Think permanent,” he pleaded with city officials at a community meeting last fall. “So people don’t have to worry [that] if they don’t get housing because they’ve been in mental illness, in drug usage or whatever for the last 10 years and you expect that everything’s gonna be OK? It’s not. There’s too much trauma out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he wanted the city to offer something more than what residents were already getting at the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a clothing closet, we feed people, we house people, we counsel people, we do harm reduction. We already do all this stuff [at the Commons],” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials declined multiple requests for an interview and did not respond to questions about why they chose the community cabin model in applying for the state grants, or how they planned to improve outcomes for residents. In a statement, officials said the city “was able to accommodate many of [the residents’] needs and requests, including plumbed bathrooms, a community space, the ability to cook food, workforce opportunities, and a desire to remain together as a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the cabins had even been installed, city officials posted eviction notices at the Commons. Choyce and Janosko felt betrayed. Despite the $8 million plan and the community meetings, they were being told to leave before there was a place for them to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the people?” Choyce asked. “They don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t get it,” Janosko said. “We put our hope in other people, the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A female-presenting white woman with long brown hair and a beanie holds her fist to her mouth with a concerned expression while listening\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica ‘Freeway’ Blalock (right), along with other residents and supporters, listens to a court hearing, via Zoom, at the Wood Street Commons on Friday, Feb. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Again, he and other residents fought back, filing for a temporary restraining order in federal court. And again, the judge sided with residents, ordering the city to delay the evictions until the community cabin site was open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay would prove instrumental, but it would come with costs. It bought residents a few more months of stability, time Janosko used to try to lobby people at the Commons into accepting the city’s offer to move to the new shelter site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a hard sell. Gathered under the pop-up canopy in the outdoor living room Janosko had built, many at the Commons wanted nothing to do with the rules that come with accepting shelter from the city: Residents weren’t allowed keys to their own cabins, could have no visitors. Minor infractions could lead to expulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949423 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman walks with her hands behind her back toward a community cabins site for unhouse folks. She's accompanied by a man who walks on her left side.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Ramona Choyce tours the Tuff Sheds near the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janosko painted a different vision, of using the time at the cabins to realize a larger dream: buying a plot of land together, people building their own houses, a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He could almost see it, he said: “That day we walk on our land, that day we break ground. People are coming off the street, and they have a community they can live in for the rest of their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, uncertainty was taking its toll. The looming evictions heightened tensions inside the camp. Sober for nine months, Janosko began using crystal methamphetamine again. Arguments between residents became more common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just anger,” Janosko said. “Anger and frustration with everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945422/end-of-an-era-last-remaining-unhoused-residents-at-oaklands-wood-street-commons-getting-evicted\">the city began evicting residents at the Commons\u003c/a>. For nearly two weeks, residents resisted, fencing off the site and locking the gates, dragging bulky items into the street to block public works crews from entering, and sitting on or lying in front of equipment. But, on April 20, police officers showed up in force, arresting two people on conspiracy and theft charges and threatening to arrest anyone else who obstructed city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A 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/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\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>Faced with bulldozers and handcuffs, most of the residents reluctantly agreed to move to the community cabins or go to a city-run RV parking lot in East Oakland. About a dozen chose to take their chances on the streets.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Janosko, former Wood Street resident\"]‘Once you get stability, then you get everything else that comes along with it.’[/pullquote]But Janosko didn’t see the evictions as a complete defeat. Dozens of volunteer advocates had come out to support residents. At the cabins, they’d be together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was already thinking of ways to make the new site less sterile, with planter boxes and a grill outside the fences for barbecues. “We’re going to turn it into something more than what it is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, the Commons had provided residents enough stability to build a community. If all went according to plan, Janosko hoped the cabins would enable them to keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you get stability,” he said, “then you get everything else that comes along with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But once it came time to close the site down, they were remarkably short on solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As homelessness in California reaches new peaks — \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2022.pdf\">more than 171,000 people, according to the most recent count (PDF)\u003c/a> — what happened at Wood Street offers a compelling window into why the state’s approach to clearing homeless encampments so often fails to get people housed and what these communities can offer residents, however imperfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jessica\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huffman’s spot was near the settlement’s northern edge, which ended in a triangle above 34th Street, where the land narrows between train tracks and warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading south, a dirt access road served as the community’s main artery. On either side, clusters of RVs, trailers and makeshift dwellings lined the road. Inoperable cars and fields of debris, often dumped there illegally, checkered the spaces in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949351 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits on the stoop of her trailer. A pile of her belongings are stacked to the left of her. A blue jacket hangs on a hook on the door. She is looking off to the left.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57509_006_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Huffman sits in her RV, which was damaged during a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exhaust from the overpass mixed with dust to form a haze that turned the air harsh and acrid. On hot days, trash ripened in the sun, the odor wafting through the camp. There was no running water, and no electricity, except what residents could siphon from electrical panels under the freeway or generate through solar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t come here because we wanted to be here,” Huffman said. “We came here because we were pushed here, and there’s nowhere else we can be. So, we made it the best we could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman’s blond hair, streaked with pink, was often swept into a loose ponytail, accentuating her angular face and wiry frame. She, like many in the settlement, formed her trailer into a compound with a half dozen other people for both camaraderie and protection. Wood Street, Huffman said, could be a fractious place — the big group was actually made of smaller groups. Theft was common. Some people made their money illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949350 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a homeless encampment with trailers, tents and people's belongings scattered about underneath a freeway overpass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58500_037_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Huffman’s compound seen from above after damage from a nearby fire, at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffman didn’t care how people survived. “Just don’t steal my [stuff] or you’ll cause a consequence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her compound was ensconced in an 11-foot-high fence, held in place with metal wire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One day, someone dumped a truckload of bricks in the middle of a street near the settlement. Huffman loaded them onto the back of her truck, brought them to her camp and cemented them into a chunky, V-shaped patio. “It’s got a custom pattern, way original work,” she said, with a wink. “We did a damn good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wood Street, Huffman was able to settle. It was a welcome respite after years of moving her trailer every three days from one residential street to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness, she said, can be a vicious cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have an address, you don’t have a job. You don’t have a job, you don’t have an address,” she said. “And then, you can’t save up money because you got to live every day spending it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949600\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949600 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257.jpg\" alt=\"Four people sit at a picnic bench talking to one another. A small cooler sits on top of the table along with a gray basket. Tiny homes are pictured in the background that sit under a freeway overpass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6257-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared DeFigh (center right) takes a break from dismantling community structure Cob on Wood on Oct. 13, 2022. Nonprofits helped residents build Cob on Wood in early 2021. The buildings housed a free store, a medical supply shed, a bathroom and a shower. There was also a community garden and shared kitchen at the site. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Knowing nobody was coming to kick her out meant Huffman could get other needs met — laundry, food, finding a place to shower — and even land a job. She worked graveyards packing produce boxes and meal kits at Good Eggs’ distribution warehouse near Wood Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949690\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful illustration of a map of the Wood Street encampment located in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg 1867w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-800x1097.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1020x1399.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1120x1536.jpg 1120w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1493x2048.jpg 1493w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_0212-1920x2633.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sketch of the Wood Street settlement, as of July 2022. Places and borders are approximate. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was such a big, important thing. And there is no way I could have pulled it off otherwise,” Huffman said. “You can’t be moving around every three days like they want you to do and be dependable anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stability also enabled residents to develop shared resources in the form of two community centers within the camp: Cob on Wood, and the Commons. The centers helped smooth divisions within the camp, allowing residents at Wood Street to cohere into something more like one community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of nonprofits and volunteers in early 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/30/homeless-oaklanders-bring-hot-showers-medical-care-and-a-pizza-oven-to-their-encampment/\">helped residents build Cob on Wood\u003c/a> near the middle of the settlement, turning it into a surprising and incongruous oasis. Structures made of mud and recycled materials — which residents jokingly referred to as “hobbit houses” — surrounded a community garden and an outdoor kitchen. Residents used the homespun buildings to house a free store, a medical supply shed, a bathroom and a shower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, co-founder of Essential Food and Medicine, helped mastermind the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Cob on Wood] was birthed from the visions of the residents here around how to meet some of the basic needs that people who are unhoused have in this community,” Moreno said. “Places like Wood Street, and these types of communities that are built from the rubble of society, are really important for unhoused people to create systems of safety, systems of community, because state solutions aren’t providing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949604 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1.jpg\" alt='A woman in a pink T-shirt with blonde hair pulls weeds from a planter box that holds a sprouting garden. Little orange flowers are blossoming. A nearby white board reads, \"Today Meeting.\" A trailer is seen to the left in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/016_KQED_WoodStreetEncampmentOakland_07192022-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Huckaby, 28, pulls weeds from a garden at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffman had been unhoused, on and off, for the better part of her 43 years. She said she left her small, Texas hometown as an adolescent, hitchhiking her way across the country. At 17, she stopped in San Francisco, captivated by the city’s Victorian houses and rolling hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like that where I’m from, which is like flatland boring,” she said, recalling the awe of her first impressions. “It’s beautiful out here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In San Francisco, Huffman hung out on Haight Street with other people her age and began experimenting with psychedelics and, later, crack cocaine and speed. Over the next two decades, she had periods of relative stability — a job, housing, sobriety — that would be shattered by a more damaging addiction: abusive partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided that the last time my ex was going to whoop my [butt] was the last time,” she said of her most recent bout with homelessness. “I would rather be safe than dealing with that [stuff].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than three years at Wood Street, she finally had enough money to move — if only a landlord would accept her spotty rental history and lack of a credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just not very well qualified,” she lamented. “I don’t have bad credit. I just have no credit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman wasn’t looking for anything fancy: a house with a yard. Somewhere close to work. Working plumbing. Electricity. “Not much,” she said. “Probably normal to everybody else. For me, it’d be a dream come true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on July 11, 2022, a fire changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 10 a.m. Huffman saw several police cars in the area and went to ask them why they were there (officials said later they were looking for stolen and abandoned cars). Before she could get an answer, smoke began rising near the train trestle, swirling into a thick, black column. It was coming from her compound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949349 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Charred cars, metal, belongings and debris are scattered throughout an open field.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57510_004_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charred remnants of residents’ belongings fill areas of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She ran back. Officers swarmed around her, she said: “They were just ushering us out. Like, go, go, go, go, go!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Huffman saw that faces were missing from her crew. One — a woman named DeeDee — had a tent under the wooden train trestle, which was engulfed in flames. She pleaded with the officers to let her go there. They refused. Another friend began shouting in their faces, causing enough of a distraction for Huffman to slip past the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found DeeDee still asleep in her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fire was touching her face,” Huffman shuddered. “She would have burned — not even smoke inhalation — she would have burned to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a gray and black sweater and a blonde ponytail points to damage done to her trailer. It's covered in soot and grime from a previous fire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57515_008_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica points to damage to her RV from a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her voice cracked remembering the moment. “That could have been any one of us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman’s truck burned, and the side of her trailer melted from the heat. Her bed momentarily caught on fire, but firefighters doused the flames before the fire could spread further. Others weren’t as lucky. Her partner, Matthew Schatzinger, lost the mini school bus he lived in. Another one of their compound members, Shaun Ryan, watched his trailer and all his belongings turn to ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials later said five RVs burned in the two-alarm blaze. The cause of the fire was undetermined, but a spokesperson for the fire department said it started in an RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup shot of a man's hands covered in black soot from a previous fire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57514_010_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Schatzinger shows soot on his hands from sorting through his belongings that burned during a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside Huffman’s compound, soot blackened every surface. The only remnants of the outdoor living room and kitchen were charred wood and twisted metal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then, less than a week later, Caltrans posted five-day eviction notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Huffman, it felt like a cruel joke. Bits of soot and ash were still raining over the camp, sticking to Huffman’s skin and collecting in the crevices of her face, neck and hands. The sickly smell of burned plastics hung heavy in the air. She hadn’t had time yet to take stock of her losses. Now, she’d lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions raced through her mind: Where would she move now? How would she get there? What could she take with her? And, perhaps most importantly, how could she do all that and still make it to work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t crawl out of poverty if they make me have to constantly put my job and my income and my everything on emergency hold,” she said, bitterly. “It’s like they just want us to die or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>John\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans issued the eviction notices, John Janosko sprang into action. Tall, with short dreadlocks and an effusive smile, Janosko could be mistaken for the mayor of Wood Street — or, at least, president of its improvement association, if such a thing existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His trailer sat at the entrance to the Commons. He had built out the space into a maze of rooms made from plywood and other materials. Beyond it, he arranged couches and outdoor furniture into an open-air living room that doubled as a community meeting space with a communal kitchen tucked into one corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949603\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949603 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white, hooded sweatshirt and long, brown braids sits on a sofa outdoors listening to someone speak off camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/007_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_3463-1020x765-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko speaks with other members of the Wood Street Commons before a meeting with the city of Oakland and its nonprofit contractor, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), on Nov. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know how you have that family member where you always go to Thanksgiving or you always spend Christmas?” Janosko said. “So, that would be me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the previous three years, the Commons had served as the main gateway into the larger Wood Street settlement, which was mostly tucked back from the street. Across from Raimondi Park, where kids played football and soccer, the Commons was the most visible part of the settlement, and the most accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established nonprofits like LifeLong Medical Care and Operation Dignity routinely came by to provide health care and shower services for Wood Street residents, and volunteer advocates offered rides to medical appointments or help with paperwork to get into housing. Church groups and other organizations stopped by almost daily with boxes of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949341\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949341 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut.jpg\" alt='A man and a woman hold a conversation at a holiday party. Behind them, a wall with many posters tacked to it. One poster reads, \"Encampment evictions = state violence.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62090_006_KQED_WoodStreetHolidayParty_12172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko makes cocktails at the Wood Street Commons for attendees at a holiday celebration at the encampment in Oakland on Dec. 17, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janosko had worked hard to make the Commons homey. Succulent-filled planters dotted the space. Pop-up canopies shaded a few of the outdoor seating areas. A changing rotation of art decorated the walkways.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“All this stuff, these resources, these connections, these people, this caring, this love — that took time,” Janosko said. “It takes time to be able to get to a point where you’re able to take care of yourself and also help take care of your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was frustrated that certain issues — like trash — persisted, despite offers to the city to pay for dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The designated dumping spot is on the street, where everybody can see it,” Janosko said. “So, that looks bad, when the city should have just put out dumpsters, and that would make it look a lot better, and there wouldn’t be all this trash flying around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In posting the eviction notices, Caltrans — which owns the bulk of the land the Wood Street settlement occupied — said Wood Street had become too dangerous, with more than 200 fires reported in the span of 2 1/2 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949348\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949348 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white page with burned edges shows a charcoal drawing of Victorian facades, and sits among brown, shaded debris.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58415_018_KQED_WoodStreet_09022022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned drawing of Victorian houses lies amid the remnants of a fire at the Wood Street encampment, in Oakland on Sept. 2, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Hunt, spokesperson for the Oakland Fire Department, said investigators typically did not look into the causes of these fires, which some residents suspected were arson, because highly flammable siding on RVs and trailers, combined with propane tanks, lighters and other combustible objects, often obscured where fires started or how they spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighboring residents cited ongoing complaints of crime and blight. Stephen Denlis, CEO of Mean Machine, a nearby fabrication business, said employees’ cars were routinely vandalized, making it hard for him to hire and retain staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is impossible to hire when you are in the middle of a homeless encampment,” he said, adding that over the past 15 years, his workforce had dwindled from 15 employees to four. “I pay $100 a month for rat abatement, close my doors due to tire fires, and added fencing and screening out front. … The way it is now is scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denlis watched the community of unhoused people at Wood Street ebb and flow over the years. But around 2019, city workers painted a long white line on the street and set up concrete dividers, separating people’s four-wheeled homes from traffic — an action that, to Larry Coke and other unhoused people living there, seemed to sanction the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coke had been living at Raimondi Park, near 18th and Wood streets, in a tent, and later a trailer, since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949491 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg\" alt='A small, tan shack under the freeway with a garden in front of it and a rainbow sign above a wooden archway is hand painted and reads, \"Cob on Wood.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/088_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cob on Wood in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city moved us over here right in front of the soccer field,” he recalled. Across from the park was a vacant lot. “We came across the street. And that’s how it started. That’s how people started coming over here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp_yDu2nqSA\">In an interview at the time\u003c/a> with KPIX, then-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf defended the city’s actions, saying, “We don’t have a permanent place for that encampment yet, so you will see us use interim measures because we don’t have enough [shelter] beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schaaf also made it clear the encampment wasn’t, officially speaking, “sanctioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From my experience, we have tried it, and it has failed,” Schaaf said of other sanctioned encampments in the city. “All of them have ended in fires, in really dangerous and unhealthy conditions that I believe are not healthy for the unhoused residents, let alone the surrounding community.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Given all that, for Janosko and other residents, it was clear the city and Caltrans both had known about the settlement for years. What was the rush to evict everyone now? And besides, where was everyone supposed to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worked with another camp resident, Jaz Colibri, and a nonprofit law group to file for a temporary restraining order in federal court to stop the evictions. The suit argued the five-day notices would cause immediate and irreparable harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko hoped to buy his unhoused neighbors some time, and force the city to offer more in the way of solutions than to simply scatter. The strategy worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first hearing, District Judge William Orrick asked the attorneys for the government agencies involved — Caltrans, the city of Oakland and Alameda County — what kind of shelter was being offered to residents. They all pointed fingers at each other, admitting there was no plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that everybody wants to wash their hands of this particular problem, and that’s not going to happen,” Orrick said, ordering the agencies to come back in a month with answers to where people could go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949500\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949500 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Men in orange and yellow work clothes and white hardhats clear a homeless encampment using large machinery. A white pickup truck is seen being hoisted into the air and hauled off.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS58520_063_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers remove vehicles and clear people’s belongings from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this reprieve was only temporary. Caltrans had been on a tear in the year leading up to the eviction notices at Wood Street, clearing 1,237 encampments in fiscal year 2022, according to William Arnold, spokesperson for the agency. In the months since, Caltrans has ramped up its efforts, clearing 1,534 encampments between July 1, 2022, and April 14, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ensuring displaced residents have viable housing options is not part of Caltrans’ mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under state law, providing shelter and housing assistance to homeless individuals — including those residing on a state right-of-way within a city’s or county’s boundaries — is the responsibility of local government,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans will notify local social services providers and request outreach be done at least two weeks prior to an eviction, he said. And, it posts notices at the site “at least 48 hours in advance.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But finding enough shelter for people displaced through these evictions can be challenging. In 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2022.pdf\">California had around 68,600 emergency or transitional shelter beds across the state and nearly 115,500 people living in tents, RVs and cars (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wood Street residents, this shortage meant that despite a federal court order mandating a plan for housing, the best that Oakland and Alameda County could offer was beds for about half of the soon-to-be-displaced residents. At the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923663/caltrans-ok-to-clear-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment-federal-judge-rules\">next hearing\u003c/a>, Orrick said that was adequate. The law was on Caltrans’ side. “There is no constitutional right to housing,” Orrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko was crushed. He knew outsiders saw only the maze of rundown trailers, the makeshift hovels scrapped together with plywood and tarp, the trash. He wished someone with power could also see what he saw: a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People, they look at the wrong things,” he said, turning his face skyward. “Even though it’s a situation that’s maybe not ideal to most people, there’s a lot of things that bring up good emotions inside of you that make you feel good still. It’s not all about being sad and stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949605\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949605 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a black beanie and jacket hugs a man who is crying wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/006_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_RS62562_IMG_4157-qut-1020x765-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl Bernadette Moreno hugs John Janosko at the Wood Street Commons on Friday, Feb. 2, 2023, after a federal district judge said he would allow the city of Oakland to begin evicting residents at the Commons. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 8, 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925169/residents-activists-decry-evictions-at-oaklands-largest-homeless-encampment\">the evictions began\u003c/a>. Caltrans crews showed up in force. Dozens of California Highway Patrol officers spread out in a line to separate residents from workers, clearing roughly three-quarters of the settlement. Arnold said the agency ultimately spent $2.1 million removing 800 vehicles and enough debris to fill 200 dumpsters. It spent another $5.5 million installing a concrete barrier and a fence to deter people from reentering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Janosko, all that money added up to just one thing: “A whole bunch of people just got all their worldly belongings thrown into a dumpster and grinded away. They got pushed out to another location. They’re scared and alone and by themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By mid-October, when Caltrans had finished its work at Wood Street, city officials said roughly half the settlement, or 95 people, had accepted offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the remaining 110 people, some moved to the Commons. That part of the settlement was spared because it sat on city-owned land — and the city had its own plans for that lot. Others simply spread into the surrounding neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Everyone is just sort of scattered,” Janosko said. “If you go up and down some of these side streets, you’ll notice that there’s a few more RVs parked on just regular residential streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Huffman moved about a dozen blocks south, to another vacant lot in West Oakland. Many from her compound followed, along with other displaced Wood Street residents. But just as the owner of that lot was gearing up to kick them out, Huffman caught a break. A long-time friend with a house in East Oakland allowed her to move in. It wasn’t close to her job, but it had a yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949607 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with shoulder-length blonde hair is wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt and is standing inside in front of a kitchen sink filled with dishes. She's smiling. A kitchen window is behind her letting in sunlight.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/003_KQED_ErinBaldassari_JessicaHuffman_112022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Huffman poses for a photo inside her home in East Oakland, where she recently began renting a room, on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I got lucky,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she had left Wood Street, she still returned to the area to visit her friends who remained in trailers nearby. Without them, she said, she never would have made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949346 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup shot of a dirt field with red bricks from a former patio pictured. Everything is burned.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62128_019_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of Jessica Huffman’s brick patio at the site of the Wood Street encampment where Huffman and other residents once lived, in Oakland on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“‘Cause, if I didn’t have something to eat, my neighbor was going to share a sandwich with me. And that was the case every day,” Huffman said. “Nobody can survive without everybody else there. We can’t live without each other, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans returned the land where the Wood Street settlement had stood back to bare earth, as empty and open as when Huffman had moved there. Only her brick patio remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ramona\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After getting evicted from her spot under the freeway at Wood Street in September 2022, Ramona Choyce moved three times in three months, ultimately ending up about six blocks south, next door to the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guarded by nature, Choyce, 46, has an assertive demeanor that belies her 4-foot-11-inch frame. She works as a scrapper — making money by turning in used metal to be recycled — a trade her father and grandmother practiced before her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949388\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2003px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a broom and looks at the camera as she tries to push away pools of water from her trailer. The sun is going down.\" width=\"2003\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971.jpg 2003w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreetErinBaldassari_IMG_3971-1920x1372.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2003px) 100vw, 2003px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce rakes debris from water that flooded the area around her trailer, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the family,” she joked on a recycling run one day, driving her beat-up, sky-blue Isuzu pickup truck from the 1980s. “I guess I need to open up my own business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the move from Caltrans’ land had made it hard for Choyce to keep working. She had taken what she could fit in her trailer or carry in her pickup, but had to leave behind a lot of gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I done lost a lot. A lot,” she said. “I can’t even work on stuff that I need to work on because I really don’t have the tools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321522000269\">Studies\u003c/a> show that encampment sweeps, like the one Caltrans performed at Wood Street, \u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11606-022-07471-y.pdf\">lead to worse mental and physical health for residents (PDF)\u003c/a>, undermine trust in service providers, and push residents into more dangerous environments, among \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\">other outcomes (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949338 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An outdoor shot of an unhoused person's encampment site. A white trailer is covered in brown tarps as pools of water start to form in front of the place. Piles of abandoned tires are in the background amid a gray sky.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An RV sits in water on Wood Street in Oakland on Jan. 5, 2023, after storms contributed to flooding in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her new spot, Choyce was right on the street, exposed to passersby in a way she hadn’t been when she had been tucked under the overpass, “Now, I’m in front, open,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On several occasions, people broke into Choyce’s trailer. Then, when the rains came in November, water pooled in a sometimes knee-deep moat that was often filled with trash and other debris, despite her constantly raking it clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the time that I moved over here, it’s been water,” Choyce said. “Caltrans done threw away all my weather gear. … So, I’m getting wet, and it feel like I’m getting sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949610 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1.jpg\" alt='A brown tarp hangs over a trailer with spraypainted letters in yellow reading, \"Leave us alone in the name of Jesus.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/002_KQED_WoodStreet_ErinBaldassari_IMG_4345-1020x765-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of Ramona Choyce’s trailer on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her trailer now butted against the fence surrounding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910890/how-oaklands-16th-street-train-station-helped-build-west-oakland-and-the-modern-civil-rights-movement\">Southern Pacific’s abandoned 16th Street train station\u003c/a>, not far from where she had grown up as a kid. When she was younger, Choyce sometimes wandered down 16th Street to stare up at the tiled, beaux-arts-style building, with its vaulted ceiling and ornate interior, before the station stopped serving passengers in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to walk all the way up here,” she said. “But never got on the train.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, a gleaming white-and-gray apartment complex was under construction — the last of some 1,500 new homes, mostly market rate, built as part of \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=742328&GUID=6BB49C5D-30C9-4253-85B8-6E66E8499C3A&Options=&Search=\">a redevelopment plan Oakland officials approved in 2005\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Silicon Valley’s tech industry was rebounding from the dot-com bust and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Housing-market-still-hot-2004-Bay-Area-median-2737351.php\">rent prices in the region were rising\u003c/a>. West Oakland, which had long experienced disinvestment, suddenly seemed like a promising bet for real estate developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slowly, the march of development moved its way northward, right to the Commons’ doorstep. And evidence of the \u003ca href=\"https://ccrl.stanford.edu/blog/oakland-series-4\">change in demographics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/18/oakland-s-f-neighborhoods-fastest-gentrifying-in-u-s/\">income\u003c/a> was all around West Oakland in the form of new cafes, restaurants — even a doggie hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949497\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949497 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a gray, hooded sweater is using a yellow push-broom to sweep away water on the side of the road.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_3960-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce sweeps large puddles away from her trailer on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sorting aluminum from plastics into blue trash barrels, Choyce eyed a ginger-bearded man as he jogged past her trailer. She shook her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These new people,” she said, emphasizing and repeating “\u003cem>these new people\u003c/em> that’s moving in, in our town, want to boot us out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought about how her mom worked under the table to feed her and her six siblings. Choyce now had six kids of her own, the two youngest of whom were living with their aunt. But despite all the “progress” in West Oakland, it had only become harder for Choyce to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just imagining it’s going to be even worse for my kids,” she said. “A lot of stuff’s changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her move from under the overpass to the street, she was buoyed by remaining close to the Commons, where she could still access food donations and Operation Dignity’s mobile shower van, and where she was surrounded by people she knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her pickup truck stalled at an intersection one day, her neighbor Smiley helped her fix it. Another day, Patrick Barnes, a volunteer advocate, pulled up with trash cans full of metal that Choyce had collected from her time under the overpass. He had stored it for her during the evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel bad, because I’ve been sitting on it for so long,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is perfect,” she said, “because, right now, I could use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949339\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949339 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a black jacket and a N95 mask over her head is seen moving a pile of scrap metal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS57336_022_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Choyce, 44, sorts metal at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this stability was only temporary. The Commons — this last vestige of the Wood Street settlement on city-owned land — was facing its own eviction. Officials had long planned to build affordable housing on the lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of the last remaining projects of the original 2005 redevelopment agreement, and officials said the developer couldn’t begin work on the planned 170 affordable condos and apartments until the property was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do that, Oakland officials applied for and received a little more than $8 million in state grants to relocate residents from the Commons into a new temporary shelter site consisting of 77 “community cabins” — essentially, Tuff Sheds — capable of housing 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money was part of a $700 million initiative that Newsom established in 2021, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/erf_program.html\">Encampment Resolution Funding Program\u003c/a>, which has a stated goal of placing people exiting encampments into housing or shelter.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the program has so far seen mixed results. Only 30% of the roughly 1,500 people removed from encampments through this program transitioned to temporary or permanent housing, said Russ Heimerich, spokesperson for the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many people at the Commons, Choyce was skeptical of the city’s plan. To start, officials hadn’t asked residents before they applied for the grant whether anyone wanted to move into cabins. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to go there, either,” Choyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving to the cabins meant giving up the one home she had been able to count on in her six years at Wood Street — her trailer — to go into a program where the outcome was uncertain. \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220919_Performance-Audit_The-City-of-Oaklands-Homelessness-Services_Final.pdf\">A 2022 audit of the city’s homelessness services (PDF)\u003c/a> found that fewer than one-third of the people who went into the community cabins moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choyce had known people who cycled through the six-month program, only to end up back on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they kick me out, I’ve got my trailer. I’m sheltered,” Choyce said. “I don’t know if they understand that clearly, but it’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janosko wanted the city to think long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/IMG_6893A-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Janosko speaks during a community meeting with city officials about the kinds of services that will be provided to residents of the Commons, if they choose to relocate to a community cabin site the city plans to build, on Nov. 21, 2022. \u003ccite>(Photo by Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Think permanent,” he pleaded with city officials at a community meeting last fall. “So people don’t have to worry [that] if they don’t get housing because they’ve been in mental illness, in drug usage or whatever for the last 10 years and you expect that everything’s gonna be OK? It’s not. There’s too much trauma out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he wanted the city to offer something more than what residents were already getting at the Commons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a clothing closet, we feed people, we house people, we counsel people, we do harm reduction. We already do all this stuff [at the Commons],” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials declined multiple requests for an interview and did not respond to questions about why they chose the community cabin model in applying for the state grants, or how they planned to improve outcomes for residents. In a statement, officials said the city “was able to accommodate many of [the residents’] needs and requests, including plumbed bathrooms, a community space, the ability to cook food, workforce opportunities, and a desire to remain together as a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before the cabins had even been installed, city officials posted eviction notices at the Commons. Choyce and Janosko felt betrayed. Despite the $8 million plan and the community meetings, they were being told to leave before there was a place for them to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the people?” Choyce asked. “They don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t get it,” Janosko said. “We put our hope in other people, the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A female-presenting white woman with long brown hair and a beanie holds her fist to her mouth with a concerned expression while listening\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62559_IMG_7029A-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica ‘Freeway’ Blalock (right), along with other residents and supporters, listens to a court hearing, via Zoom, at the Wood Street Commons on Friday, Feb. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Again, he and other residents fought back, filing for a temporary restraining order in federal court. And again, the judge sided with residents, ordering the city to delay the evictions until the community cabin site was open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay would prove instrumental, but it would come with costs. It bought residents a few more months of stability, time Janosko used to try to lobby people at the Commons into accepting the city’s offer to move to the new shelter site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a hard sell. Gathered under the pop-up canopy in the outdoor living room Janosko had built, many at the Commons wanted nothing to do with the rules that come with accepting shelter from the city: Residents weren’t allowed keys to their own cabins, could have no visitors. Minor infractions could lead to expulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11949423 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman walks with her hands behind her back toward a community cabins site for unhouse folks. She's accompanied by a man who walks on her left side.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64447_012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Ramona Choyce tours the Tuff Sheds near the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janosko painted a different vision, of using the time at the cabins to realize a larger dream: buying a plot of land together, people building their own houses, a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He could almost see it, he said: “That day we walk on our land, that day we break ground. People are coming off the street, and they have a community they can live in for the rest of their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, uncertainty was taking its toll. The looming evictions heightened tensions inside the camp. Sober for nine months, Janosko began using crystal methamphetamine again. Arguments between residents became more common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just anger,” Janosko said. “Anger and frustration with everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945422/end-of-an-era-last-remaining-unhoused-residents-at-oaklands-wood-street-commons-getting-evicted\">the city began evicting residents at the Commons\u003c/a>. For nearly two weeks, residents resisted, fencing off the site and locking the gates, dragging bulky items into the street to block public works crews from entering, and sitting on or lying in front of equipment. But, on April 20, police officers showed up in force, arresting two people on conspiracy and theft charges and threatening to arrest anyone else who obstructed city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg\" alt=\"A 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/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/026_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\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>Faced with bulldozers and handcuffs, most of the residents reluctantly agreed to move to the community cabins or go to a city-run RV parking lot in East Oakland. About a dozen chose to take their chances on the streets.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The hospital is facing a major regulatory crisis that threatens to close the 153-year-old public skilled nursing facility, home to more than 500 residents, many of whom require high levels of nursing care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID “cases were generally mild, and many were asymptomatic and identified due to Laguna Honda’s proactive testing of entire units until no new cases are identified for 14 days,” a spokesperson for Laguna Honda said in an email on May 12. “Laguna Honda Hospital was a model for pandemic response, and we continue to respond effectively to COVID by slowing the spread of the virus on campus and caring for residents if they test positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest resident outbreak in 2023 peaked in April at 79 cases, and as of May 15 there were \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/laguna-honda-hospital-covid-19-cases-and-deaths\">10 residents with active cases\u003c/a>, signaling a significant downward trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11939987,news_11920121,news_11921717,news_11757925 label=\"More on Laguna Honda\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outbreak in 2023 surpassed the total number of COVID cases that occurred at Laguna Honda in 2020 (46) and 2021 (32), when \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-104291\">nursing homes across the country saw devastating impacts of the virus\u003c/a>, which disproportionately affects older adults. 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That plan involved assessing and relocating as many patients as possible in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of 57 residents who were transferred or discharged during that process, 12 died shortly after their relocations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital\">The city sued the federal government\u003c/a> in response, and the transfer process was paused temporarily as part of a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939987/feds-grant-reprieve-on-laguna-honda-patient-transfers-until-may\">regulators agreed to extend the pause on transfers to May 19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, Laguna Honda had until May 13 to implement an “Action Plan” that aims to address some of the areas where the hospital was found out of compliance, ranging from basic hygiene to medication storage and illicit substances on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its agreement, Laguna Honda must complete hundreds of items in the action plan to address deficiencies. So far, the hospital has cleared all of those: 126 in January, 133 in February, 77 in March and 122 in April. Officials said they are on track to complete all May milestones, also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident that Laguna Honda has delivered on our end of the settlement to date,” the hospital spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the action plan is completed, the hospital can apply for recertification, according to San Francisco Health Commission documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Unacceptable’ options\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the hospital has resumed voluntary discharges of residents who are found to no longer require the level of skilled nursing care that Laguna Honda provides.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tony Chicotel, staff attorney, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform\"]‘I’m concerned that residents will be dumped inappropriately and this will green-light discharges of residents that Laguna Honda has wanted to rid themselves of.’[/pullquote]But the entire Bay Area is facing a drastic scarcity of affordable care and living accommodations for older adults, making it difficult to find new homes for discharged residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 41 people have so far been identified as appropriate for discharge. 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In March, the median price of an existing \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/housingdata\">single-family California home was $791,490\u003c/a>, more than twice the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/existing-home-sales-slid-2-4-in-march\">national median of $375,700\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When house prices go up, people leave,” said Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Even last year, a relative high-water mark for home construction, the total was roughly 100,000 units below that goal.\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/13726368/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department published another \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/sha_final_combined.pdf\">estimate in 2018 urging 180,000 units per year through 2025 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And last year, in putting together housing goals for regions across the state, the \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/94729ab1648d43b1811c1698a748c136\">department’s total prescription added up to 2.5 million new homes over the next eight years (or 315,000 per year)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration acknowledged the state’s sluggish population growth in its latest proposed budget for next year, which gauged the need at \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/EconomicOutlook.pdf\">148,000 new units per year (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons these estimates vary is because there’s no single definition of a “housing shortage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, for example, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, an agency that serves as a think tank for state legislators, framed the issue with the following question: How many units would the state have had to build between 1980 and 2010 to keep the median value of an owner-occupied home increasing at the same rate as the rest of the nation, rather than skyrocketing so much higher, as it has for the last half century?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That definition of the state’s shortage led the office to estimate \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx\">210,000 each year\u003c/a>. Alas, the state has only hit that annual mark five times since 1980 — and not once since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11937777,news_11944063,news_11945744\" label=\"What are teachers really paid?\"]A year later, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company, put out its own figure — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%20and%20social%20sector/our%20insights/closing%20californias%20housing%20gap/closing-californias-housing-gap-full-report.pdf\">3.5 million homes by 2025 (PDF)\u003c/a>. Newsom took that eye-popping figure as a rallying cry during his first gubernatorial run, when the then-candidate vowed that California would reach that total by the end of his second term. He’s since \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/10/newsom-california-housing-crisis/\">scaled the pledge back to 2.5 million\u003c/a>, a goal the state is still unlikely to reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinsey based its estimate on its own version of the state’s housing problem: the number of new units required to bring California’s houses-to-people ratio in line with that of the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The common thread behind all these estimates is they are all very, very big. And whichever shortfall estimate you choose, the state has never hit the mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A moving target\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But the numbers have been moving in a more encouraging direction in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals since 2020: roughly 430,000 new homes and some 821,000 fewer Californians competing to reside within them. That necessarily narrows the gap, however we define it, said Hans Johnson, a researcher at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the shortage is relatively modest, he said, and “if we continue like this for another decade, with very slow population growth or essentially no population growth, and with fairly robust housing construction, then it should start to eat into that lack of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the state needs to hit McKinsey-esque levels of new production, counted in the millions of units, “we’re still a long, long way off,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because the size of the hole is so large. But it’s also because the shortfall is “a moving target,” explained Len Kiefer, deputy chief economist at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. The building industry booms and busts. Young Californians grow old enough to live out on their own while older ones begin to die off. And people’s housing wants and needs change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How COVID worsened the housing crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A particularly dramatic driver of such change: the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to keep COVID at bay and seeking more space to work from home, Californians dumped their roommates when they could and sought out places to live on their own, resulting in a great “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/shrinking-household-size-strains-californias-housing-market/\">spreading out\u003c/a>,” as analysts at the PPIC put it. The trend toward fewer people living in each home is nationwide and long term. Over the last 40 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/households.html\">the number of people living alone doubled across the country\u003c/a>. But the pandemic put the trend on overdrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That worsened the state’s housing shortage. Even if the total number of Californians continues its gradual downward drift, more homes are needed to house the roughly 38 million sticking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in June 2020, the median price of an existing single-family home shot up from $626,170 to a peak of $900,170 in May 2022, according to data compiled by the California Association of Realtors. That’s an increase of 44% in less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then high interest rates have brought California’s housing inflation back down to earth slightly. But the median price in March was still 29% above where it was three years earlier.\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/13740272/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Californians will begin clustering together again as COVID concerns ease is an open question. But there’s no sign that’s happening yet. By the beginning of 2023, with the worst of the pandemic presumably behind us, the number of Californians per household hit a record low of 2.77.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A shrinking population, driven largely by outward migration, provides an escape value for some of that extra pressure, said Meyer, the USC demographer. But based on \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2022/06/CCRE-Who-Gets-to-Call-California-Home_fin.pdf\">analysis he and his colleagues conducted for the California Association of Realtors (PDF)\u003c/a>, it’s easy to imagine demand for homes staying strong, given how large the millennial generation is and how many are now reaching a baby-having, roommate-jettisoning age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, if the California exodus is a cure to the state’s housing shortage, it’s also a symptom, said Dowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones who are older are leaving because they’re (homeowners) cashing in their gains,” he said of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-moving-in/\">nearly 8 million people who exited the state last decade\u003c/a>. “The young people who are leaving, we now think, are leaving because they can’t buy a house here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if those departures do ultimately alleviate the state’s scarcity of homes, it’s not the solution to the problem that anyone should want, adds Johnson from PPIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any of us who have been advocating for building more housing in California — to help alleviate the shortage of housing we’ve had and to improve affordability in the state — thought that the best path was just to have the state start to depopulate.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over that same period, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-population-shrink-exodus/\">the state’s population declined, marking the third year in a row that it’s fallen\u003c/a> from one new year to the next.Put those two numbers together and a surprising statistic emerges: There are now more homes per person — 3,770 units for every 10,000 Californians — than there have been since at least 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a state that has long suffered from too many people trying to cram themselves into too few homes, that’s an encouraging number at first glance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also the kind of news that might lead a person to wonder: Does this California exodus mean the state’s perennial housing shortage is finally coming to an end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long answer is “it’s complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many analysts have tried, no consensus exists on just how many more homes the state would need to build (or how many more people would need to leave) before we can call an end to the crisis and start to see rents and home prices fall within reach of working and middle class Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the short answer is “almost definitely, no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-moving-in/\">outflow of residents is itself driven by the high cost of living\u003c/a>. In March, the median price of an existing \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/en/marketdata/data/housingdata\">single-family California home was $791,490\u003c/a>, more than twice the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/existing-home-sales-slid-2-4-in-march\">national median of $375,700\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When house prices go up, people leave,” said Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said as much in \u003ca href=\"https://blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/gavin-newson-californias-governor-on-the-state-of-the-state/\">a recent interview with UCLA’s Blueprint\u003c/a>, naming the cost of living as the “principal driver” and its chronic shortage of homes “our original sin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while experts don’t agree on exactly how much additional housing the state might need to attain an ill-defined “affordability,” they do agree on this much: It’s a whole lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Just how big is California’s housing shortage?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2000, a report issued by California’s Department of Housing and Community Development estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt1391n947/qt1391n947.pdf?t=lnqfw6\">the state would need to build 220,000 additional units each year for two decades (PDF)\u003c/a> to meet the needs of what was then still a growing population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Even last year, a relative high-water mark for home construction, the total was roughly 100,000 units below that goal.\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/13726368/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department published another \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/sha_final_combined.pdf\">estimate in 2018 urging 180,000 units per year through 2025 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And last year, in putting together housing goals for regions across the state, the \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/94729ab1648d43b1811c1698a748c136\">department’s total prescription added up to 2.5 million new homes over the next eight years (or 315,000 per year)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration acknowledged the state’s sluggish population growth in its latest proposed budget for next year, which gauged the need at \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/EconomicOutlook.pdf\">148,000 new units per year (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons these estimates vary is because there’s no single definition of a “housing shortage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, for example, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, an agency that serves as a think tank for state legislators, framed the issue with the following question: How many units would the state have had to build between 1980 and 2010 to keep the median value of an owner-occupied home increasing at the same rate as the rest of the nation, rather than skyrocketing so much higher, as it has for the last half century?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That definition of the state’s shortage led the office to estimate \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx\">210,000 each year\u003c/a>. Alas, the state has only hit that annual mark five times since 1980 — and not once since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A year later, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company, put out its own figure — \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%20and%20social%20sector/our%20insights/closing%20californias%20housing%20gap/closing-californias-housing-gap-full-report.pdf\">3.5 million homes by 2025 (PDF)\u003c/a>. Newsom took that eye-popping figure as a rallying cry during his first gubernatorial run, when the then-candidate vowed that California would reach that total by the end of his second term. He’s since \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/10/newsom-california-housing-crisis/\">scaled the pledge back to 2.5 million\u003c/a>, a goal the state is still unlikely to reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinsey based its estimate on its own version of the state’s housing problem: the number of new units required to bring California’s houses-to-people ratio in line with that of the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The common thread behind all these estimates is they are all very, very big. And whichever shortfall estimate you choose, the state has never hit the mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A moving target\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But the numbers have been moving in a more encouraging direction in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals since 2020: roughly 430,000 new homes and some 821,000 fewer Californians competing to reside within them. That necessarily narrows the gap, however we define it, said Hans Johnson, a researcher at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the shortage is relatively modest, he said, and “if we continue like this for another decade, with very slow population growth or essentially no population growth, and with fairly robust housing construction, then it should start to eat into that lack of housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the state needs to hit McKinsey-esque levels of new production, counted in the millions of units, “we’re still a long, long way off,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because the size of the hole is so large. But it’s also because the shortfall is “a moving target,” explained Len Kiefer, deputy chief economist at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. The building industry booms and busts. Young Californians grow old enough to live out on their own while older ones begin to die off. And people’s housing wants and needs change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How COVID worsened the housing crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A particularly dramatic driver of such change: the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to keep COVID at bay and seeking more space to work from home, Californians dumped their roommates when they could and sought out places to live on their own, resulting in a great “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/shrinking-household-size-strains-californias-housing-market/\">spreading out\u003c/a>,” as analysts at the PPIC put it. The trend toward fewer people living in each home is nationwide and long term. Over the last 40 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/households.html\">the number of people living alone doubled across the country\u003c/a>. But the pandemic put the trend on overdrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That worsened the state’s housing shortage. Even if the total number of Californians continues its gradual downward drift, more homes are needed to house the roughly 38 million sticking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in June 2020, the median price of an existing single-family home shot up from $626,170 to a peak of $900,170 in May 2022, according to data compiled by the California Association of Realtors. That’s an increase of 44% in less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then high interest rates have brought California’s housing inflation back down to earth slightly. But the median price in March was still 29% above where it was three years earlier.\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/13740272/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Californians will begin clustering together again as COVID concerns ease is an open question. But there’s no sign that’s happening yet. By the beginning of 2023, with the worst of the pandemic presumably behind us, the number of Californians per household hit a record low of 2.77.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A shrinking population, driven largely by outward migration, provides an escape value for some of that extra pressure, said Meyer, the USC demographer. But based on \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2022/06/CCRE-Who-Gets-to-Call-California-Home_fin.pdf\">analysis he and his colleagues conducted for the California Association of Realtors (PDF)\u003c/a>, it’s easy to imagine demand for homes staying strong, given how large the millennial generation is and how many are now reaching a baby-having, roommate-jettisoning age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, if the California exodus is a cure to the state’s housing shortage, it’s also a symptom, said Dowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones who are older are leaving because they’re (homeowners) cashing in their gains,” he said of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-moving-in/\">nearly 8 million people who exited the state last decade\u003c/a>. “The young people who are leaving, we now think, are leaving because they can’t buy a house here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if those departures do ultimately alleviate the state’s scarcity of homes, it’s not the solution to the problem that anyone should want, adds Johnson from PPIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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This was an expectation that at some point you were going to pay your rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenants with lower income who have not paid their rent and who still have outstanding rent, even if they got some of it paid by rental assistance, need to come up with a payment plan with their landlord and identify some ways to start making payments,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/\">Alameda County Housing Secure\u003c/a> has referrals to agencies that can help you mediate that type of agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should landlords in Alameda County know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s anywhere from $125 million to $300 million worth of outstanding rent that’s owed in the county,” said Starratt. “That’s after the emergency rental assistance funding that came from the federal and state governments brought over $220 million worth of back paid rent into the county,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starratt says that in an Alameda County community survey of landlords in fall 2022 and spring 2023, landlords reported that “fully 50% of the rent that’s owed is owed by tenants who are over-income — meaning they’re higher than 80% of area median income. 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The over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. 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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. 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