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If a person is parked on a “narrow” street, police will ticket them, provide them with a map of where they can park and give them 72 hours to move their vehicle before towing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 792px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=38351\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11926755 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/ENGLISH-SPANISH_Final-Parking-Restrictions-Map-08242283-2.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing streets in the city of Mountain View.\" width=\"792\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/ENGLISH-SPANISH_Final-Parking-Restrictions-Map-08242283-2.jpg 792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/ENGLISH-SPANISH_Final-Parking-Restrictions-Map-08242283-2-160x247.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along with a ticket, police have to provide a copy of the map so RV residents know where they can and cannot park. The city of Mountain View started distributing these maps in early September. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Mountain View)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the Bay Area has gotten more expensive, and housing hasn’t kept up with demand, people have looked to RVs as their plan B — affordable housing that allows them to stay in the Bay Area, close to schools, jobs and even lifesaving medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit dragged on, these Mountain View RV residents created their own communities. Children ride their bikes down the streets and play in nearby parks, while parents talk to each other outside. Many of the residents are elderly, and rely on each other for companionship and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now as enforcement nears, RV residents are grappling with where they will live next and what that means for the networks they have built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling woman wearing bright red dress with hands clasped in front, and trees in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Ramirez Vasquez moved into her RV before the pandemic started, when rent got too expensive for her and her husband to stay in an apartment. Her RV allows her to live close to her husband’s workplace and a local park where she often walks. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francisca Ramirez Vasquez lives in an RV parked on Crisanto Avenue, along with about 30 others. It sits alongside Mountain View’s Caltrain station, and as the train loudly whooshes past, she sweeps the area next to her vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to make sure we have our yard clean. We sweep and collect our garbage so we don’t look bad,” she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman in bright red dress holds bundle of leaves under a tree as she prepares to place it in a trash bag, with an RV in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Ramirez Vasquez likes to keep the area around her RV clean, so that neighbors can walk by and kids can play outside without having to step over leaves and trash. She says she is ‘worthy’ of Mountain View, even if she can’t afford an apartment here. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramirez Vasquez, who declined to share her age, used to live in an apartment with her husband in Mountain View, close to Shoreline Park. But in 2019, the rent got too expensive and they couldn’t find housing anywhere else, so they used their savings to buy their RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, her granddaughter lived with them, and went to the school nearby, but she moved away with her mother, and now it’s just Ramirez Vasquez and her husband. She enjoys looking after other children who live next door while their parents are at work. It’s just one of the things that she and her neighbors do to help each other out. When a new RV moves onto their block, they all work together to make space and welcome them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mere truth is that I’ve never lived like this, but I’m not ashamed of it,” she said. “I will hold my head high because we are not stealing, we are living in a decent place. We are also worthy of this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing red dress washes dishes at a sink inside an RV as light streams in through the window\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Ramirez Vasquez washes dishes in the RV where she resides in Mountain View. She said she’s part of a community on Crisanto Avenue, having become friends with neighboring RV residents and looking after children while their parents are at work. She is not ready to leave this community behind. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On her walks through Rengstorff Park, located next to Crisanto Avenue, she has heard people say mean things about people living in RVs. A few months ago, she overheard some outreach workers talking to an unhoused woman staying in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘Why don’t you live in the RVs?’ and she replied, ‘Never. I’m not crazy. They don’t shower.’ I wanted to go off on her, but I decided to stay quiet. But it does make you angry to hear that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has been encouraging people living in the RVs to pursue other housing programs, like shelters and safe parking sites, city-sanctioned parking lots that also offer services. Ramirez Vasquez has looked into some of them but found they don’t work for her and her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some shelters, but she heard they have curfews. Her husband works the late shift at a McDonald’s nearby and doesn’t come home until 11 p.m. or midnight. She has also tried to apply for apartments, but many require a credit check and other paperwork. “If you don’t have that, they won’t accept your application, will they?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the city’s Narrow Streets Ordinance map, Crisanto Avenue is considered a “narrow” street, so Ramirez Vasquez will have to move. But this street has become her home, her neighborhood. It’s difficult for her to leave it behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling man wearing blue shorts sits in a folding chair outside the side door of his RV\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector ‘Max’ Hernandez traveled all over the world while serving in the Marines before coming to California and working as a chef at a Palo Alto Italian restaurant. When he lost his job during the pandemic and had to move out of his apartment, he decided to buy an RV for a more stable living situation. He said that when life gave him lemons, he made limoncello. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hector “Max” Hernandez, 70, worked as a chef at a fancy Italian restaurant in Palo Alto for 18 years. Before the pandemic started, he was living in a one-bedroom apartment in Mountain View, but his landlord slowly raised his rent from $1,500 to $2,000 per month. Eventually, his landlord asked for $2,500. His restaurant shut down in the pandemic and he lost his job. He was forced to move out and buy an RV, which he now parks close to Ramirez Vasquez on Crisanto Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a palace, but it’s a place that I call my home,” he said in Spanish. “There’s a saying in Italian, that when life gives you lemons, make limoncello. I’m not homeless. I have a place to sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez is originally from the seaside town of Mazatlán, Mexico, and owns a three-bedroom house there, but moved to the United States to serve as a Marine and earn enough money to support his family. Today, he is divorced and has family all over the country; his daughter is all grown up and has a job in Japan. He had planned to work for a few more years while the lawsuit played out, but has become tired of the uncertainty around whether he’ll be able to stay on Crisanto Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I keep thinking, well, Max, you have a choice,” he said. “Either you can keep doing this or go back [to Mexico] and live happily ever after, I hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to move back to Mexico in December and finally retire. “I’m going to eat big prawns and seafood and fish and drink Pacifico beer,” he said. “That’s my plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"photo looking into distance down long street, with one side of street fully lined with RVs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Continental Circle is one of the most densely packed Mountain View streets for RV residents, many of whom choose to park here because it’s close to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s offices. Most of the RV residents KQED spoke with on this street are elderly and require easy access to medical care. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Continental Circle, a 15-minute drive from Crisanto Avenue, is also densely packed with more than 30 RVs and is now officially considered a “narrow street”. On one side there are apartment buildings, and on the other is the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), which houses doctors’ offices. That’s what has kept Harry Epstein, 72, parked here for the past 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epstein started getting chronically sick in his 30s and was unable to keep a consistent job. He has a number of health issues, but his chronic fatigue affects him the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Harry Epstein, Mountain View RV resident\"]‘I never want to get rid of this [RV] because whatever happens in life — you don’t have a home, you don’t have a job — well, I do have a home, so I never want to get rid of this.’[/pullquote]“I kept getting jobs and losing them,” he said. “I’d have an apartment and then I’d lose the job and I’d be out on the streets, I’d have nothing. That’s when I started thinking about something like a motor home or living in a car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is one of many who live here, because it’s all they can afford close to medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been very good for me to be close to PAMF, you know, because I have to go over there for a lot of things, you know. That’s been very, very helpful to be this close,” Epstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But living here hasn’t been easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Close up photo of elderly man wearing blue shirt with large gray beard with exterior wall of RV behind him\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Epstein has had a hate note taped to his windshield and has been harassed by people who walk on the sidewalk outside his RV. He worries for his safety and feels he isn’t protected by the police. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, as more and more Bay Area residents have gotten pushed to the streets, Epstein had to deal with some unfriendly RV dwellers who parked next to him. They left trash and started dumpster fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were all sorts of characters coming over there, and it just got to be too evil of a place for me to be hanging around,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually moved to another street nearby, lined with multimillion-dollar homes. A few months ago, he found a hate letter taped to his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s intimidating because you don’t know what’s going on here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Elderly man wearing blue shirt strokes his long gray beard, standing outside his RV\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Epstein has heard about other alternative housing programs the city offers, including the Safe Parking Program and LifeMoves temporary housing. But he’s afraid the programs will require him to get rid of his RV, an idea that makes him hesitant to try them out. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esptein has tried to call the police a few times, when he was worried about his safety, but doesn’t feel protected. During a KQED interview, a police officer visited Epstein to check in on him. When KQED showed the officer the hate note that had been taped to Epstein’s windshield, the officer said her main goal was to provide RV residents with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t offer any solutions to his problem. Epstein believes this is because he doesn’t live in a traditional home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t do anything that they would normally do if I were a regular resident calling to complain,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11889042,news_11876745,news_11848619 label='Related Coverage']Police officers and other city officials have come by and encouraged him to find housing at a shelter or apply for a parking spot with their Safe Parking Program. But he has been resistant, because he has the impression that he’d have to eventually give up his RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never want to get rid of this [RV] because whatever happens in life — you don’t have a home, you don’t have a job — well, I do have a home, so I never want to get rid of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epstein doesn’t have a backup plan and no intention of applying for the city’s alternative housing programs. His street, Dale Avenue, is one of the few streets included in the three miles of permitted parking for RV residents. He won’t have to move his RV, but his neighbors on Continental Circle, many of whom have disabilities and medical issues, will have to park somewhere else or leave Mountain View entirely.\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>According to the settlement, the city must provide at least three miles of street segments where people can park their vehicle. If a person is parked on a “narrow” street, police will ticket them, provide them with a map of where they can park and give them 72 hours to move their vehicle before towing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 792px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=38351\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11926755 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/ENGLISH-SPANISH_Final-Parking-Restrictions-Map-08242283-2.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing streets in the city of Mountain View.\" width=\"792\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/ENGLISH-SPANISH_Final-Parking-Restrictions-Map-08242283-2.jpg 792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/ENGLISH-SPANISH_Final-Parking-Restrictions-Map-08242283-2-160x247.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along with a ticket, police have to provide a copy of the map so RV residents know where they can and cannot park. The city of Mountain View started distributing these maps in early September. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Mountain View)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the Bay Area has gotten more expensive, and housing hasn’t kept up with demand, people have looked to RVs as their plan B — affordable housing that allows them to stay in the Bay Area, close to schools, jobs and even lifesaving medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit dragged on, these Mountain View RV residents created their own communities. Children ride their bikes down the streets and play in nearby parks, while parents talk to each other outside. Many of the residents are elderly, and rely on each other for companionship and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now as enforcement nears, RV residents are grappling with where they will live next and what that means for the networks they have built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling woman wearing bright red dress with hands clasped in front, and trees in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57948_034_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Ramirez Vasquez moved into her RV before the pandemic started, when rent got too expensive for her and her husband to stay in an apartment. Her RV allows her to live close to her husband’s workplace and a local park where she often walks. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francisca Ramirez Vasquez lives in an RV parked on Crisanto Avenue, along with about 30 others. It sits alongside Mountain View’s Caltrain station, and as the train loudly whooshes past, she sweeps the area next to her vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to make sure we have our yard clean. We sweep and collect our garbage so we don’t look bad,” she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman in bright red dress holds bundle of leaves under a tree as she prepares to place it in a trash bag, with an RV in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57936_020_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Ramirez Vasquez likes to keep the area around her RV clean, so that neighbors can walk by and kids can play outside without having to step over leaves and trash. She says she is ‘worthy’ of Mountain View, even if she can’t afford an apartment here. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramirez Vasquez, who declined to share her age, used to live in an apartment with her husband in Mountain View, close to Shoreline Park. But in 2019, the rent got too expensive and they couldn’t find housing anywhere else, so they used their savings to buy their RV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, her granddaughter lived with them, and went to the school nearby, but she moved away with her mother, and now it’s just Ramirez Vasquez and her husband. She enjoys looking after other children who live next door while their parents are at work. It’s just one of the things that she and her neighbors do to help each other out. When a new RV moves onto their block, they all work together to make space and welcome them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mere truth is that I’ve never lived like this, but I’m not ashamed of it,” she said. “I will hold my head high because we are not stealing, we are living in a decent place. We are also worthy of this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing red dress washes dishes at a sink inside an RV as light streams in through the window\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57942_026_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisca Ramirez Vasquez washes dishes in the RV where she resides in Mountain View. She said she’s part of a community on Crisanto Avenue, having become friends with neighboring RV residents and looking after children while their parents are at work. She is not ready to leave this community behind. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On her walks through Rengstorff Park, located next to Crisanto Avenue, she has heard people say mean things about people living in RVs. A few months ago, she overheard some outreach workers talking to an unhoused woman staying in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘Why don’t you live in the RVs?’ and she replied, ‘Never. I’m not crazy. They don’t shower.’ I wanted to go off on her, but I decided to stay quiet. But it does make you angry to hear that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has been encouraging people living in the RVs to pursue other housing programs, like shelters and safe parking sites, city-sanctioned parking lots that also offer services. Ramirez Vasquez has looked into some of them but found they don’t work for her and her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some shelters, but she heard they have curfews. Her husband works the late shift at a McDonald’s nearby and doesn’t come home until 11 p.m. or midnight. She has also tried to apply for apartments, but many require a credit check and other paperwork. “If you don’t have that, they won’t accept your application, will they?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the city’s Narrow Streets Ordinance map, Crisanto Avenue is considered a “narrow” street, so Ramirez Vasquez will have to move. But this street has become her home, her neighborhood. It’s difficult for her to leave it behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling man wearing blue shorts sits in a folding chair outside the side door of his RV\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57951_040_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector ‘Max’ Hernandez traveled all over the world while serving in the Marines before coming to California and working as a chef at a Palo Alto Italian restaurant. When he lost his job during the pandemic and had to move out of his apartment, he decided to buy an RV for a more stable living situation. He said that when life gave him lemons, he made limoncello. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hector “Max” Hernandez, 70, worked as a chef at a fancy Italian restaurant in Palo Alto for 18 years. Before the pandemic started, he was living in a one-bedroom apartment in Mountain View, but his landlord slowly raised his rent from $1,500 to $2,000 per month. Eventually, his landlord asked for $2,500. His restaurant shut down in the pandemic and he lost his job. He was forced to move out and buy an RV, which he now parks close to Ramirez Vasquez on Crisanto Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a palace, but it’s a place that I call my home,” he said in Spanish. “There’s a saying in Italian, that when life gives you lemons, make limoncello. I’m not homeless. I have a place to sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez is originally from the seaside town of Mazatlán, Mexico, and owns a three-bedroom house there, but moved to the United States to serve as a Marine and earn enough money to support his family. Today, he is divorced and has family all over the country; his daughter is all grown up and has a job in Japan. He had planned to work for a few more years while the lawsuit played out, but has become tired of the uncertainty around whether he’ll be able to stay on Crisanto Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I keep thinking, well, Max, you have a choice,” he said. “Either you can keep doing this or go back [to Mexico] and live happily ever after, I hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to move back to Mexico in December and finally retire. “I’m going to eat big prawns and seafood and fish and drink Pacifico beer,” he said. “That’s my plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"photo looking into distance down long street, with one side of street fully lined with RVs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57929_016_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Continental Circle is one of the most densely packed Mountain View streets for RV residents, many of whom choose to park here because it’s close to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s offices. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I kept getting jobs and losing them,” he said. “I’d have an apartment and then I’d lose the job and I’d be out on the streets, I’d have nothing. That’s when I started thinking about something like a motor home or living in a car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is one of many who live here, because it’s all they can afford close to medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been very good for me to be close to PAMF, you know, because I have to go over there for a lot of things, you know. That’s been very, very helpful to be this close,” Epstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But living here hasn’t been easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Close up photo of elderly man wearing blue shirt with large gray beard with exterior wall of RV behind him\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57915_006_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Epstein has had a hate note taped to his windshield and has been harassed by people who walk on the sidewalk outside his RV. He worries for his safety and feels he isn’t protected by the police. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past two years, as more and more Bay Area residents have gotten pushed to the streets, Epstein had to deal with some unfriendly RV dwellers who parked next to him. They left trash and started dumpster fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were all sorts of characters coming over there, and it just got to be too evil of a place for me to be hanging around,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually moved to another street nearby, lined with multimillion-dollar homes. A few months ago, he found a hate letter taped to his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s intimidating because you don’t know what’s going on here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Elderly man wearing blue shirt strokes his long gray beard, standing outside his RV\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS57921_013_KQED_MountainViewRVs_08172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Epstein has heard about other alternative housing programs the city offers, including the Safe Parking Program and LifeMoves temporary housing. But he’s afraid the programs will require him to get rid of his RV, an idea that makes him hesitant to try them out. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esptein has tried to call the police a few times, when he was worried about his safety, but doesn’t feel protected. During a KQED interview, a police officer visited Epstein to check in on him. When KQED showed the officer the hate note that had been taped to Epstein’s windshield, the officer said her main goal was to provide RV residents with services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t offer any solutions to his problem. Epstein believes this is because he doesn’t live in a traditional home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t do anything that they would normally do if I were a regular resident calling to complain,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The building was vacant for 20 years, but is now home to eight families.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Betty Gray, resident of Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments\"]‘For people to go out of their way to be kind to help you … it’s new, and it makes you feel wanted and not hopeless.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each of the apartments is wheelchair-accessible and has its own in-unit washer and dryer. The building also comes with an electric vehicle for all the residents to share.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To come to this is nothing short of a miracle. It really is. It has changed my perspective on life because I had just about given up hope,” Gray said. She heard of the apartments by word of mouth, and another resident encouraged her to apply. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stand outside a blue painted house with white trimming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of people listen to speakers during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments are the first project funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program, which the city council approved in 2018 to create more affordable housing and slow displacement. Instead of building a large new housing complex from scratch, the small-sites model buys and transforms existing buildings that are vacant or run-down. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11924697,news_11922784\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s one way to help meet the huge demand for affordable housing in Berkeley, where waitlists can stretch for years, according to Berkeley City Council Member Ben Bartlett.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“These small sites … exist on the marketplace right now, that are everywhere, and sort of underutilized,” Bartlett said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The small sites also fit in better with the surrounding communities than larger housing developments, said Tracy Parent, director of the Bay Area Community Land Trust, which partnered on the project.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Mostly it’s about location, being in diverse neighborhoods spread out across the city, not just all built in one neighborhood,” said Parent. “And that is the key. It’s about preserving the existing social fabric, not just the housing units.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a yellow sweater and pink and white shirt sits down by an open door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Gray sits in her new apartment in Berkeley on Sept. 14, 2022. She is a resident of the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust will continue to manage the project, and maintain it as a permanently affordable housing co-op. The land trust owns other projects in Berkeley and Oakland that are home to nearly 100 people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For people to go out of their way to be kind to help you … it’s new, and it makes you feel wanted and not hopeless,” Gray said. She said she feels a sense of community with her neighbors. The proximity of the church has allowed her to benefit from church services, like food and plant drives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stuart Street provides affordable housing to those making 80% of the average income in Berkeley. Rents in the building are below market for Berkeley at $1,300 a month for a studio and $1,900 for a one-bedroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a brown hat, sun glasses, a short-sleeved shirt and vest holds a microphone in front of several people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrin Jourdan, chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, speaks during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derrin Jourdan is chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, and led the effort from the church’s side in hopes of providing an affordable place for people of color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I focus a lot of my unspoken attention on being able to provide a space that people who look like me could afford to stay,” Jourdan said. He said the finished product is more “amazing than I could have imagined.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McGee Avenue Baptist Church hopes to provide resources for other churches in the Bay Area interested in creating similar programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Churches are some of the last, I think, property owners of color throughout Berkeley,” Jourdan said. “If we don’t find ways of leveraging our support, we’re going to find it enormously difficult to hold on to the property.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project has a long list of funders, including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, The Bay’s Future Fund, the San Francisco Foundation and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total cost was $3.3 million, according to the city, or $415,000 per unit. That’s 40% lower than what it costs to build new lower-income housing in the Bay Area, according to figures from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust plans to open its second small-site building on Solano Avenue in North Berkeley later this month. The building still houses residents who were facing eviction under the Ellis Act. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a business suit and glasses holds a microphone in his right hand outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín speaks during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said the city has financed over 800 affordable housing units in the last three years but the city is still in need of more housing. This November, Berkeley residents will have the opportunity to vote on Measure M to tax vacant properties, which Arreguín said could continue to fund the Small Sites Program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If we don’t act soon enough, there’s going to be more families that are going to be pushed out of Berkeley,” Arreguín said. \u003c/span>\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>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s one way to help meet the huge demand for affordable housing in Berkeley, where waitlists can stretch for years, according to Berkeley City Council Member Ben Bartlett.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“These small sites … exist on the marketplace right now, that are everywhere, and sort of underutilized,” Bartlett said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The small sites also fit in better with the surrounding communities than larger housing developments, said Tracy Parent, director of the Bay Area Community Land Trust, which partnered on the project.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Mostly it’s about location, being in diverse neighborhoods spread out across the city, not just all built in one neighborhood,” said Parent. “And that is the key. It’s about preserving the existing social fabric, not just the housing units.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a yellow sweater and pink and white shirt sits down by an open door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Gray sits in her new apartment in Berkeley on Sept. 14, 2022. She is a resident of the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust will continue to manage the project, and maintain it as a permanently affordable housing co-op. The land trust owns other projects in Berkeley and Oakland that are home to nearly 100 people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For people to go out of their way to be kind to help you … it’s new, and it makes you feel wanted and not hopeless,” Gray said. She said she feels a sense of community with her neighbors. The proximity of the church has allowed her to benefit from church services, like food and plant drives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stuart Street provides affordable housing to those making 80% of the average income in Berkeley. Rents in the building are below market for Berkeley at $1,300 a month for a studio and $1,900 for a one-bedroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a brown hat, sun glasses, a short-sleeved shirt and vest holds a microphone in front of several people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrin Jourdan, chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, speaks during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derrin Jourdan is chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, and led the effort from the church’s side in hopes of providing an affordable place for people of color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I focus a lot of my unspoken attention on being able to provide a space that people who look like me could afford to stay,” Jourdan said. He said the finished product is more “amazing than I could have imagined.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McGee Avenue Baptist Church hopes to provide resources for other churches in the Bay Area interested in creating similar programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Churches are some of the last, I think, property owners of color throughout Berkeley,” Jourdan said. “If we don’t find ways of leveraging our support, we’re going to find it enormously difficult to hold on to the property.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project has a long list of funders, including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, The Bay’s Future Fund, the San Francisco Foundation and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total cost was $3.3 million, according to the city, or $415,000 per unit. That’s 40% lower than what it costs to build new lower-income housing in the Bay Area, according to figures from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust plans to open its second small-site building on Solano Avenue in North Berkeley later this month. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday 2 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial bill Wednesday overhauling the state’s approach to mental health care for people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state Senate last month approved the\u003c/span> Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, which will allow family members and first responders to ask a judge to draw up a treatment plan for people deemed to be suffering from those disorders. Those who refuse could be placed under a conservatorship and ordered to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, unhoused people with severe mental health disorders can be held against their will at psychiatric hospitals, but must be released after three days if they promise to follow up with other services and take prescribed medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law will let a court order a treatment plan for up to two years, which may include medication, housing and therapy.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Participants will have access to a public defender and an advocate to help make decisions about treatment programs and housing. In turn, the behavioral health department in that county would be compelled to provide treatment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it shares some elements of mental health programs in some other states, California’s new system will be the first of its kind in the country, according to state Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, who co-authored the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Standing outside Momentum for Health, a nonprofit mental health care provider in San José, Newsom on Wednesday said the bill was about redesigning a broken system \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that often leaves people cycling among homelessness, jail and emergency rooms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in the status quo,” he said. “I’m not interested in the compassionless-ness of the approach we have today of people moralizing and normalizing that suffering on the streets and sidewalks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But critics of the bill say it coerces people into care, which is less effective than voluntary treatment, and doesn’t provide the necessary health and housing resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Burch, deputy director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, which is part of a statewide coalition opposing CARE Court, called the bill’s signing “devastating.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It ignores the very stark reality that we’re living in in this moment,” he said. “We are tens of thousands of beds short in the Bay Area of the permanent housing that we need. … And we are woefully short on voluntary treatment programs.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11914873 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS16522_GettyImages-73453883-qut-1020x682.jpg']\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced the proposal in March. \u003c/span>It passed the Legislature with overwhelming support, despite vehement opposition from disability rights and homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a matter of months ago that we stood right here and we laid out a vision,” Newsom said Wednesday. “And here we are. We’ve made it a reality, and that is rare in politics, particularly on issues as vexing and challenging as this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley said every day he sees people caught in a cycle of homelessness, jail and emergency rooms, without ever getting the adequate care or housing they need. Manley oversees a \u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/champion/stephen-v-manley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental health care diversion court\u003c/a> for people awaiting trial for suspected crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a major step towards building a system that is going to be effective, as opposed to the present system,” Manley said, “where these individuals simply cycle through our jails over to the emergency room of a hospital, back to the streets, back to the jail, back to the hospital. And it doesn’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, said CARE Court was coming 10 years too late. She shared the story of her cousin, a Vietnam veteran, who was homeless and living in an encampment for five years before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that my family had the tools that this bill is going to bring forward so that he might still be alive and with us,” she said, adding, “But there’s more work to be done. This bill is great, but we need resources for the programs, for the services, for the workforce that doesn’t currently exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state faces a shortage of not only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric facilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but also the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/sites/healthforce.ucsf.edu/files/publication-pdf/California%E2%80%99s%20Current%20and%20Future%20Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">health care staff\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> needed to operate those facilities. And Newsom’s administration estimates that between 7,000 and 12,000 people across the state will be eligible for CARE Court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re guessing there will be demand for this,” said Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California. “There’s not a lot of give in terms of our workforce currently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state is allocating $65 million to implement CARE Court within the judicial system, as well as additional money for county behavioral health care agencies, which would manage cases. To help pay for start-up and training costs, the first seven counties to implement CARE Court will receive $26 million, with another $31 million going to counties across the state, Doty Cabrera said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those first seven counties are Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and San Francisco, which will implement CARE Courts by Oct. 1, 2023. The remaining counties would have until Dec. 1, 2024.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And, there’s an ongoing conversation around long-term funding,” Doty Cabrera said. The bill now requires the state to provide funding to county behavioral health care agencies for programs and services before counties are required to implement CARE Court. “What that is, what it looks like, how much — all of that is still to be worked out between counties and the state,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11916040 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/GettyImages-1236267426-1020x680.jpg']The other looming question is housing. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The current version of the bill allows judges to order other government agencies, such as housing authorities, to prioritize CARE Court participants for housing. But in more rural parts of the state, housing with the appropriate services just doesn’t exist, Doty Cabrera added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who exactly are we going to pull into the order?” she said. “No one. There is nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, nearly 14,000 people experiencing homelessness voluntarily sought mental health services, but only half were placed into housing, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the logistics, members of the Assembly grappled with CARE Court’s reliance on the judicial system. Although voluntary, the legislation also comes with a threat: Continued refusal could be used as a justification for conservatorship, where people could be forced into care against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“At what point does compassion end and our desire to just get people off the streets and out of public sight begin?” said Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance. “\u003c/span>I don’t think this is a great bill, but it seems to be the best idea that we have at this point to try to improve a god-awful situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worry whether it will do more harm than good, by disproportionately affecting \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black residents in the state, who are diagnosed with schizophrenia, on average, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">three to four times more often\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> than white residents. Black residents also represent\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 30% of those experiencing homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the state, but only 6.5% of the general population. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s Black men, Black trans folks, Black folks in general who will be the ones who are disproportionately forced into CARE Court and disproportionately affected by this horribly myopic legislation,” said Burch, of the Anti Police-Terror Project. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill requires an annual report on CARE Court, along with an independent, research-based entity to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, including “through the lens of health equity” to identify racial bias. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that CARE Court has been signed into law, Doty Cabrera said it will be critical to keep those concerns in mind as counties try to imagine all of the program’s “unknown variables.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is sort of like Chapter One of a novel,” she said. “We’ll be working on this for a long time to come.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced the proposal in March. \u003c/span>It passed the Legislature with overwhelming support, despite vehement opposition from disability rights and homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a matter of months ago that we stood right here and we laid out a vision,” Newsom said Wednesday. “And here we are. We’ve made it a reality, and that is rare in politics, particularly on issues as vexing and challenging as this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley said every day he sees people caught in a cycle of homelessness, jail and emergency rooms, without ever getting the adequate care or housing they need. Manley oversees a \u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/champion/stephen-v-manley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental health care diversion court\u003c/a> for people awaiting trial for suspected crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a major step towards building a system that is going to be effective, as opposed to the present system,” Manley said, “where these individuals simply cycle through our jails over to the emergency room of a hospital, back to the streets, back to the jail, back to the hospital. And it doesn’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, said CARE Court was coming 10 years too late. She shared the story of her cousin, a Vietnam veteran, who was homeless and living in an encampment for five years before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that my family had the tools that this bill is going to bring forward so that he might still be alive and with us,” she said, adding, “But there’s more work to be done. This bill is great, but we need resources for the programs, for the services, for the workforce that doesn’t currently exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state faces a shortage of not only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychiatric facilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but also the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://healthforce.ucsf.edu/sites/healthforce.ucsf.edu/files/publication-pdf/California%E2%80%99s%20Current%20and%20Future%20Behavioral%20Health%20Workforce.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">health care staff\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> needed to operate those facilities. And Newsom’s administration estimates that between 7,000 and 12,000 people across the state will be eligible for CARE Court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re guessing there will be demand for this,” said Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California. “There’s not a lot of give in terms of our workforce currently.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state is allocating $65 million to implement CARE Court within the judicial system, as well as additional money for county behavioral health care agencies, which would manage cases. To help pay for start-up and training costs, the first seven counties to implement CARE Court will receive $26 million, with another $31 million going to counties across the state, Doty Cabrera said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those first seven counties are Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and San Francisco, which will implement CARE Courts by Oct. 1, 2023. The remaining counties would have until Dec. 1, 2024.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And, there’s an ongoing conversation around long-term funding,” Doty Cabrera said. The bill now requires the state to provide funding to county behavioral health care agencies for programs and services before counties are required to implement CARE Court. “What that is, what it looks like, how much — all of that is still to be worked out between counties and the state,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The other looming question is housing. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The current version of the bill allows judges to order other government agencies, such as housing authorities, to prioritize CARE Court participants for housing. But in more rural parts of the state, housing with the appropriate services just doesn’t exist, Doty Cabrera added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who exactly are we going to pull into the order?” she said. “No one. There is nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, nearly 14,000 people experiencing homelessness voluntarily sought mental health services, but only half were placed into housing, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the logistics, members of the Assembly grappled with CARE Court’s reliance on the judicial system. Although voluntary, the legislation also comes with a threat: Continued refusal could be used as a justification for conservatorship, where people could be forced into care against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“At what point does compassion end and our desire to just get people off the streets and out of public sight begin?” said Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance. “\u003c/span>I don’t think this is a great bill, but it seems to be the best idea that we have at this point to try to improve a god-awful situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worry whether it will do more harm than good, by disproportionately affecting \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black residents in the state, who are diagnosed with schizophrenia, on average, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">three to four times more often\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> than white residents. Black residents also represent\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 30% of those experiencing homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the state, but only 6.5% of the general population. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s Black men, Black trans folks, Black folks in general who will be the ones who are disproportionately forced into CARE Court and disproportionately affected by this horribly myopic legislation,” said Burch, of the Anti Police-Terror Project. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill requires an annual report on CARE Court, along with an independent, research-based entity to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, including “through the lens of health equity” to identify racial bias. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that CARE Court has been signed into law, Doty Cabrera said it will be critical to keep those concerns in mind as counties try to imagine all of the program’s “unknown variables.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is sort of like Chapter One of a novel,” she said. “We’ll be working on this for a long time to come.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Emotions ran hot Thursday as Caltrans began evicting residents from Oakland’s largest encampment of unhoused people. Some residents of the Wood Street encampment, with help from volunteers and activists, erected a makeshift barricade to block the only access road to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ben Murawski, 47, Wood Street resident\"]‘You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings … how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land” blared from a windup amplifier as Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers faced off with residents and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings,” said Ben Murawski, 47, his voice quivering. “And how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people — Ron McGowan, who lived in the northern area of the encampment and was set to be evicted Thursday, and Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer — both were arrested after refusing to leave a pickup truck that was blocking the access road. Colibri lay down, motionless, in the bed of the truck, prompting officers to pick her up and physically carry her away, as supporters chanted, “We love you, Jaz!” and “Housing is a human right!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three officers hold a person as they are arrested with a dumpster in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Jaz Colibri is arrested and carried by police officers after she attempted to block Caltrans from removing a barricade from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evictions came after a more-than-month-long delay, resulting from a lawsuit residents filed in July to block Caltrans from clearing the site. Federal District Judge William Orrick ruled last month they could continue, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the delay, for many residents, the evictions came too quickly. Caltrans posted notices on Tuesday that the first of the three-phased evictions would start in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could you complain if you’re on somebody else’s land, and they want you to leave in 30 days? Seems reasonable,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who’s lived at Wood Street for nearly four years. “But to get out of here in two days or then destroy your stuff, or take your stuff, it just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People standing on a car that is spray-painted saying: 'where do we go?'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents and supporters stand on a truck to barricade Caltrans workers from entering the encampment In Oakland to begin clearing garbage on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his order, Judge Orrick directed Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer shelter to the estimated 200 residents who live at Wood Street. As of Thursday, the county had made contact with 75 residents and around half had accepted offers of shelter, said Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randrup said the county offered residents spaces in congregate shelters, Oakland’s “cabin community” or “tuff shed” shelters, and safe RV parking, among other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Oliveira, 42, said he got a spot at a hotel that’s been converted into housing for people who were formerly homeless. Even though he’ll have to share a room, he said it was a much better situation than some of the other shelters. [aside tag=\"housing, homeless\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“I’m really happy. It’s gonna help me out a whole lot,” Oliveira said. “It’s going to be good. I’m going to actually be able to get restful sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schatzinger said he was offered only a spot at a tuff shed site, which he declined because there is no parking within three blocks, residents aren’t allowed to bring in mattresses or bedding and can only use city-provided cots, and there is little space to store his belongings. Instead, he and his neighbor, Jessica Huffman, 42, will likely be looking for some other place to park their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to Wood Street after being forced to leave other encampments, Huffman said, and she didn’t want to return to a situation where she’s required to move her RV every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a big problem when we’re forced into residential neighborhoods,” Huffman said. “That’s why the cops all pushed us out here in the first place. But it looks like we’re probably going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the encampment at Wood Street has grown from a few RVs parked on the street to a sprawling tangle of structures, vehicles and trailers. It stretches for more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attorneys for Caltrans say the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires over the past two years, including one on July 11 that sent plumes of smoke onto the freeway and prompted the transportation agency to begin clearing the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency with fires, especially in that area,” Mark Guenzi, an attorney for Caltrans, said at an August 26 hearing, “is just very concerning given the potential for catastrophic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evictions are expected to continue over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925268 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats and construction bests stand in a line under a freeway overpass\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans crews wait to clear the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while residents and advocates block the road. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925269 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Image from further away of the highway overpass and the clearing of Wood Street encampment\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/034_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrans workers clear a barricade made by Wood Street residents meant to keep Caltrans out of the encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925270 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats, bright vests and masks clear away debris from the encampment with rakes\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/067_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Emotions ran hot Thursday as Caltrans began evicting residents from Oakland’s largest encampment of unhoused people. Some residents of the Wood Street encampment, with help from volunteers and activists, erected a makeshift barricade to block the only access road to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody Guthrie’s folk anthem “This Land Is Your Land” blared from a windup amplifier as Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers faced off with residents and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You destroy people’s lives, you take their belongings,” said Ben Murawski, 47, his voice quivering. “And how are they supposed to get back on their feet to do anything to move forward in life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people — Ron McGowan, who lived in the northern area of the encampment and was set to be evicted Thursday, and Jaz Colibri, a resident and organizer — both were arrested after refusing to leave a pickup truck that was blocking the access road. Colibri lay down, motionless, in the bed of the truck, prompting officers to pick her up and physically carry her away, as supporters chanted, “We love you, Jaz!” and “Housing is a human right!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three officers hold a person as they are arrested with a dumpster in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58517_061_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street resident Jaz Colibri is arrested and carried by police officers after she attempted to block Caltrans from removing a barricade from the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evictions came after a more-than-month-long delay, resulting from a lawsuit residents filed in July to block Caltrans from clearing the site. Federal District Judge William Orrick ruled last month they could continue, citing safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the delay, for many residents, the evictions came too quickly. Caltrans posted notices on Tuesday that the first of the three-phased evictions would start in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could you complain if you’re on somebody else’s land, and they want you to leave in 30 days? Seems reasonable,” said Matthew Schatzinger, 45, who’s lived at Wood Street for nearly four years. “But to get out of here in two days or then destroy your stuff, or take your stuff, it just doesn’t make sense to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People standing on a car that is spray-painted saying: 'where do we go?'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58499_038_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Street residents and supporters stand on a truck to barricade Caltrans workers from entering the encampment In Oakland to begin clearing garbage on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his order, Judge Orrick directed Caltrans to work with the city of Oakland and Alameda County to offer shelter to the estimated 200 residents who live at Wood Street. As of Thursday, the county had made contact with 75 residents and around half had accepted offers of shelter, said Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randrup said the county offered residents spaces in congregate shelters, Oakland’s “cabin community” or “tuff shed” shelters, and safe RV parking, among other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeremy Oliveira, 42, said he got a spot at a hotel that’s been converted into housing for people who were formerly homeless. Even though he’ll have to share a room, he said it was a much better situation than some of the other shelters. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m really happy. It’s gonna help me out a whole lot,” Oliveira said. “It’s going to be good. I’m going to actually be able to get restful sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Schatzinger said he was offered only a spot at a tuff shed site, which he declined because there is no parking within three blocks, residents aren’t allowed to bring in mattresses or bedding and can only use city-provided cots, and there is little space to store his belongings. Instead, he and his neighbor, Jessica Huffman, 42, will likely be looking for some other place to park their RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to Wood Street after being forced to leave other encampments, Huffman said, and she didn’t want to return to a situation where she’s required to move her RV every few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a big problem when we’re forced into residential neighborhoods,” Huffman said. “That’s why the cops all pushed us out here in the first place. But it looks like we’re probably going to have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the encampment at Wood Street has grown from a few RVs parked on the street to a sprawling tangle of structures, vehicles and trailers. It stretches for more than 15 city blocks underneath the I-880 overpass between Wood Street and the BNSF and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF and private entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts some items onto a truck\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58525_074_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Murawski fills a truck with his belongings in an attempt to remove the items from an area being cleared by Caltrans at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attorneys for Caltrans say the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires over the past two years, including one on July 11 that sent plumes of smoke onto the freeway and prompted the transportation agency to begin clearing the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency with fires, especially in that area,” Mark Guenzi, an attorney for Caltrans, said at an August 26 hearing, “is just very concerning given the potential for catastrophic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evictions are expected to continue over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11925268 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in hard hats and construction bests stand in a line under a freeway overpass\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/017_KQED_WoodStreetOaklandCalTrans_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, 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Ronald Reagan to send in 3,000 National Guard troops for a two-week occupation that evoked images of war in a city that was clamoring for peace in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mitchell, whose father was a UC Berkeley professor during the 1969 uprising, views People’s Park as a social experiment worth saving, as more cookie-cutter communities get built in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a mic in front of a university building and a sign for people's park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park supporters rally at Sproul Hall to protest the construction of UC Berkeley student housing at the park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it,” said Mitchell, a professor of human geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. “It’s a free and open space, a place where the rules of exclusion are very different. So people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ethos has long made the park a way station for unhoused people, with scattered tent clusters and makeshift kitchens. Drug use and violence have helped spur support for the university’s development plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atmaa Das, 28, began spending time in People’s Park not long after leaving Alabama in 2014 and found his way there again a couple weeks after workers left behind construction equipment, now splattered with obscene graffiti — part of $1.5 million in recent protest damage, the university estimated. “I came here looking for the promised land and reckon I found it,” he said on a recent morning, strumming his guitar while singing parts of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Don Mitchell, professor, Uppsala University in Sweden\"]‘People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it … so people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.’[/pullquote]University officials say they are sympathetic to both the park’s heritage and the needs of unhoused people who have lived there since another set of fences surrounding the property were removed in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and city \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/rodewayinn\">moved dozens of unhoused people into a motel\u003c/a> as part of an $8 million relocation initiative, and officials promised to \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/new-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep most of the site as open space\u003c/a>. The school also hired award-winning architect \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/history-commemoration\">Walter Hood to design a memorial\u003c/a> celebrating its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan will meet multiple interests to preserve the park, create urgently needed student housing, and provide permanent housing for unhoused and low-income individuals,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in an email sent to university alumni and other supporters earlier this week. University spokesperson Dan Mogulof declined a request to interview Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even People’s Park supporters dispute more affordable housing is needed — the median sales price for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-priceshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-prices.\">a home near the university is $1.5 million\u003c/a>. But critics blame mismanagement for the crisis and contend the university could build on its other property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under a 2005 long-range plan, UC Berkeley estimated enrollment at 33,000 students by 2020. Instead, it had about 43,000 students that year and expects roughly 45,000 this academic year — with only 10,000 campus beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring shortage is mainly why city officials back the university’s plan, including city Councilmember Rigel Robinson, who represents the People’s Park area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppression, but it has since become a symbol of something else entirely: our failure as a region to respond to the housing crisis,” Robinson said. “The time has come to turn the page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month’s protests showed that a significant part of Berkeley isn’t ready to let go, mainly because of what the park has come to symbolize since UC Berkeley seized it for $1.3 million in 1968 under eminent domain and demolished homes there. After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boilermaker Michael Delacour led a grassroots group to plant vegetation, turning the eyesore into a community magnet, UC Berkeley decided to fence it off on May 15, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for rebellion. At a rally outside UC Berkeley’s administration building, incoming student body President Dan Siegel urged the crowd to “take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the issues now are like 1969,” said Siegel, now a lawyer in nearby Oakland. “People’s Park is both a park and a symbol of activism that is worthy of protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 1969 clash between hundreds of police, some of them dubbed “Blue Meanies,” and protesters became a flashpoint in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. During the hours-long melee, police fatally shot a man standing on a rooftop and blinded another who was struck in the face with bird shot. Dozens of protesters were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Reagan, who had vowed “to clean up the mess in Berkeley” during his victorious 1966 gubernatorial campaign, called in military troops. Before an uneasy truce was reached May 30, 1969, hundreds more were arrested, and, in another infamous moment, an Army helicopter sprayed a crowd with what authorities called tear gas but others insisted was an even more dangerous substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Reagan’s detractors still believe he deliberately deployed strong-arm tactics to establish himself as a law-and-order leader while pursuing a political agenda that led to his 1980 election as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group that is spearheading the legal fight for preservation, likens UC Berkeley’s plan to Reagan’s 1969 crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan “wanted to wipe out the social and political history of Berkeley and now the university is carrying it forward,” Smith said on August 3 while construction crews used bulldozers and buzz saws to topple most of the park’s trees, including some that predated the school’s purchase 54 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clear-cutting depressed Bertha Jones, who lived in People’s Park for several years before accepting the university’s offer to move into a nearby Rodeway Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandparents got married at one of those trees. My mom got married at one of those trees,” Jones, 43, said. “I wanted to keep the tradition going, but obviously that isn’t going to work out now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other former People’s Park inhabitants said they moved into the motel reluctantly, though they like having their own bed and bathroom. What they don’t like is not being given room keys, or being banned from leaving the premises from midnight to 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending most of his time in People’s Park for seven years, Eric Morales moved in early June to the Rodeway Inn with his dog, Bonita. But he will always consider People’s Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like any other park,” Morales, 54, said. “You can go to other parks and you say hi and bye, then you won’t ever see them again. But People’s Park is a community, you know? We are a family.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park turned into a symbol of both resistance and mayhem during a deadly 1969 confrontation known as “Bloody Thursday,” emboldening then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan to send in 3,000 National Guard troops for a two-week occupation that evoked images of war in a city that was clamoring for peace in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mitchell, whose father was a UC Berkeley professor during the 1969 uprising, views People’s Park as a social experiment worth saving, as more cookie-cutter communities get built in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a mic in front of a university building and a sign for people's park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park supporters rally at Sproul Hall to protest the construction of UC Berkeley student housing at the park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it,” said Mitchell, a professor of human geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. “It’s a free and open space, a place where the rules of exclusion are very different. So people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ethos has long made the park a way station for unhoused people, with scattered tent clusters and makeshift kitchens. Drug use and violence have helped spur support for the university’s development plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atmaa Das, 28, began spending time in People’s Park not long after leaving Alabama in 2014 and found his way there again a couple weeks after workers left behind construction equipment, now splattered with obscene graffiti — part of $1.5 million in recent protest damage, the university estimated. “I came here looking for the promised land and reckon I found it,” he said on a recent morning, strumming his guitar while singing parts of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>University officials say they are sympathetic to both the park’s heritage and the needs of unhoused people who have lived there since another set of fences surrounding the property were removed in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and city \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/rodewayinn\">moved dozens of unhoused people into a motel\u003c/a> as part of an $8 million relocation initiative, and officials promised to \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/new-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep most of the site as open space\u003c/a>. The school also hired award-winning architect \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/history-commemoration\">Walter Hood to design a memorial\u003c/a> celebrating its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan will meet multiple interests to preserve the park, create urgently needed student housing, and provide permanent housing for unhoused and low-income individuals,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in an email sent to university alumni and other supporters earlier this week. University spokesperson Dan Mogulof declined a request to interview Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even People’s Park supporters dispute more affordable housing is needed — the median sales price for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-priceshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-prices.\">a home near the university is $1.5 million\u003c/a>. But critics blame mismanagement for the crisis and contend the university could build on its other property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under a 2005 long-range plan, UC Berkeley estimated enrollment at 33,000 students by 2020. Instead, it had about 43,000 students that year and expects roughly 45,000 this academic year — with only 10,000 campus beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring shortage is mainly why city officials back the university’s plan, including city Councilmember Rigel Robinson, who represents the People’s Park area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppression, but it has since become a symbol of something else entirely: our failure as a region to respond to the housing crisis,” Robinson said. “The time has come to turn the page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month’s protests showed that a significant part of Berkeley isn’t ready to let go, mainly because of what the park has come to symbolize since UC Berkeley seized it for $1.3 million in 1968 under eminent domain and demolished homes there. After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boilermaker Michael Delacour led a grassroots group to plant vegetation, turning the eyesore into a community magnet, UC Berkeley decided to fence it off on May 15, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for rebellion. At a rally outside UC Berkeley’s administration building, incoming student body President Dan Siegel urged the crowd to “take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the issues now are like 1969,” said Siegel, now a lawyer in nearby Oakland. “People’s Park is both a park and a symbol of activism that is worthy of protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 1969 clash between hundreds of police, some of them dubbed “Blue Meanies,” and protesters became a flashpoint in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. During the hours-long melee, police fatally shot a man standing on a rooftop and blinded another who was struck in the face with bird shot. 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Thursday evening, representatives from the city of Oakland submitted a plan for a phased closure of the site, beginning at its northernmost edge, where a fire on July 11 sent plumes of black smoke onto the 880 overpass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11919941,news_11914346,news_11921155\"]\"What I have tried to do is create a possibility of relocation in a way that is the least harmful to the people who live on Wood Street,\" he said at the hearing. \"I realize that there are alternatives that public policy could be generating that would work better for homelessness than what has happened in the past. But those are things that are beyond what can be ordered in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to offer approximately 40 emergency shelter beds to residents in the first phase of the closure, though it’s unclear how many people actually live in the affected area. Resident Ron McGowan, who lives at the site in question, said there are about 80 people there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absurd to think that we've gotten this far through this process and we have not had anybody take a survey of who is actually affected by this,” McGowan said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the first phase includes offers of temporary shelter, Orrick said subsequent phases could continue whether or not shelter was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Blumberg, who’s lived at Wood Street for at least five years, called the decision “beyond disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants to wash their hands of us,” she said after the hearing. “We're not homeless. They're looking to make us homeless. This is our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Caltrans alerted the residents they would have five days to pack their belongings and leave. 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Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office publicly excoriated Oakland officials for failing to cooperate and threatened to withhold state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City’s suggestion that it has no responsibility for homeless individuals on state property unless there is a specific earmark is simply unacceptable,” Patterson wrote. “Under state law, working with homeless individuals to identify housing or shelter alternatives is a local, not a state, responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was clear at the hearing that the city, county and Caltrans still had not worked out a plan for a number of different issues related to the encampment's closure, including who would do the outreach to residents and where residents' belongings would be kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people at Wood Street live in RVs, cars and other vehicles. An attorney for the city said it doesn't have enough safe parking sites for everyone to bring their vehicles there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"What I have tried to do is create a possibility of relocation in a way that is the least harmful to the people who live on Wood Street,\" he said at the hearing. \"I realize that there are alternatives that public policy could be generating that would work better for homelessness than what has happened in the past. But those are things that are beyond what can be ordered in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to offer approximately 40 emergency shelter beds to residents in the first phase of the closure, though it’s unclear how many people actually live in the affected area. Resident Ron McGowan, who lives at the site in question, said there are about 80 people there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absurd to think that we've gotten this far through this process and we have not had anybody take a survey of who is actually affected by this,” McGowan said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the first phase includes offers of temporary shelter, Orrick said subsequent phases could continue whether or not shelter was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Blumberg, who’s lived at Wood Street for at least five years, called the decision “beyond disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants to wash their hands of us,” she said after the hearing. “We're not homeless. They're looking to make us homeless. This is our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Caltrans alerted the residents they would have five days to pack their belongings and leave. Tucked away from the street, the encampment, commonly known as “Wood Street,” stretches along property owned by Caltrans, the city of Oakland, BNSF Railway and private owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Caltrans said the encampment posed a serious health and safety risk, citing some 200 fires at the Wood Street encampment over the past two years. Since the restraining order was issued, another 12 fires have broken out on the site, Orrick said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/22267337-show_temp-1/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"U.S. District Court: Jackson Blain v. 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And, he ordered the state transportation agency to work with staff from the city of Oakland and from Alameda County to come up with a plan to relocate residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11923716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg\" alt='a sign that reads \"housing is a human right\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57341_027_KQED_WoodStreetEncampment_07192022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says 'Housing Is a Human Right' at the Cob on Wood Project 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 those plans were slow in coming. Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office publicly excoriated Oakland officials for failing to cooperate and threatened to withhold state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City’s suggestion that it has no responsibility for homeless individuals on state property unless there is a specific earmark is simply unacceptable,” Patterson wrote. “Under state law, working with homeless individuals to identify housing or shelter alternatives is a local, not a state, responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was clear at the hearing that the city, county and Caltrans still had not worked out a plan for a number of different issues related to the encampment's closure, including who would do the outreach to residents and where residents' belongings would be kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people at Wood Street live in RVs, cars and other vehicles. An attorney for the city said it doesn't have enough safe parking sites for everyone to bring their vehicles there. And Caltrans officials said the vehicles would be too difficult to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Orrick told the agencies to work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hese are vehicles of human beings,\" he said at the hearing, \"and they are not to be lost.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, residents at Wood Street say few officials have come to consult with them on relocation plans. Earlier this week, a coalition of residents wrote a public letter to state, city and county officials urging them to work with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They asked for resources to make the encampment safer, including access to dumpsters for trash removal, fire extinguishers, sand buckets, water hoses and assistance creating markers throughout the encampment so that emergency service providers could more easily navigate the area. Brigitte Nicoletti, an attorney assisting residents in their pro se lawsuit, reiterated that request at the hearing on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would allow the city and county to figure out their outreach programs so that there could be actual adequate outreach,” she said, “instead of a rushed approach that will lead to immense danger and harm to the residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Orrick said requiring Caltrans to provide those resources was beyond the scope of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things that are beyond what can be ordered in this case,” he said. “I stretched the point up until now in order to try to get to some sort of a place that recognizes the humanity of the people who've been talking to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate request earlier this month to halt Oakland workers from clearing parts of the encampment on land it owns was denied. In July the city began clearing an area between West Grand and 26th Street in Oakland in preparation for a shelter at the site, which would house approximately 50 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dale Riggins was 7 years old when, in 1968, his father began building the small Richmond apartment complex where Riggins now lives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day during the 10-month construction, he went to the site after school, dragging tools and two-by-fours on the sloped lot set against a small hill where the building began to rise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have touched everything in this building. I have painted every corner, put in every window,” Riggins said of the triplex he inherited. “This building was my parents’ life, and it became my life.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An old photo album showing a black and white photo of a family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Dale Riggins, his parents and a cousin in a photo album at his home in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins, 67, retired early from his career in construction and maintenance for the city of Richmond after a knee injury put him on disability in 2008. But, the income from his tenants helped keep him afloat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The building was in good shape, and I had good tenants,” Riggins said. “Everything was just happy. Until. Yeah, until.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins went through a divorce and sought a modification on his mortgage in 2019. While that was being considered, his lender foreclosed. Everything his parents had worked for seemed to slip through his fingers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That sent me through a great depression for a year,” he said. “When you do everything you can do, and it seems like it’s not enough, it’s like everything is against you.”\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Steve Boykin, locksmith, Thousand Oaks resident\"]‘I just feel betrayed by my government. You work your whole life. My whole retirement is in my equity, in my home. And these guys legally come and steal it from me.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ultimate buyer was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://scdhc-nso.com/about-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a limited partnership registered to an Encinitas, Calif., address. The general partner was a Virginia nonprofit, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scdhc.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was this partnership with a nonprofit that allowed the organization to buy the house under a 2020 California law, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1079\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1079\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It allows tenants of foreclosed homes, owner-occupants, governments and nonprofits an exclusive 45-day window to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840140/california-law-prioritizes-people-over-corporate-home-buyers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> match the winning bid\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a foreclosure auction. It was one of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://cert1.mail-west.com/m5Vyj5I/yuzjanmc7r/15Vgtm/ov4m4af7/5Vqvnq5V60iknp/vonuodf71/pogrlvoeu?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C17sqbhabiiyetbc&_ce=1601327807.e25c9081aeaaaa8fa1ce46db3a83a073\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">15 housing bills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> signed into law that year aimed at creating more affordable opportunities for renters and homeowners.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside’s website states its mission is “advocating for the needs of communities and families” to “stabilize communities throughout the United States.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And while that should have been a relief to Riggins, it wasn’t. He couldn’t understand why a nonprofit, nearly 3,000 miles away, had purchased his property. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11868037,news_11871064\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Why would they want to buy something in California?” Riggins wondered. “And I think that’s the part that just really has me just furious. Why would you want to invest in something that you have never seen?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two-story triplex, with its salmon-colored stucco and white trim, was one of at least 74 properties Southside Neighborhood Stabilization scooped up since it formed in early 2021. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The organization is one of at least three such entities created in California after SB 1079’s passage to purchase homes in partnership with nonprofits that have the stated goal of providing affordable housing to communities in need. But in a review of nearly 200 property records, and interviews with over a dozen homeowners and investors who’ve purchased properties from them, there’s little evidence these homes are actually being used as affordable housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re all just being flipped,” said Jeff Cagle, a Central California house flipper who’s lost dozens of foreclosure auction bids to purchasers who invoked SB 1079. “The whole idea was that if nonprofits bought this, this was supposed to benefit affordable housing, but none of them were being retained as affordable housing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Homes for homeowners, not corporations’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) first introduced SB 1079 in February 2020 on the heels of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">powerful, two-month-long protest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that caught the nation’s attention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A group of unhoused mothers, called \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://moms4housing.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moms for Housing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, had been occupying a vacant home in West Oakland in late 2019 and early 2020. The home was owned by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wedgewood\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Redondo Beach real estate firm that specializes in flipping foreclosed homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The moms’ protest intended to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said led to rising rents and growing homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And SB 1079 was Skinner’s response. She dubbed the bill “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homes for Homeowners, Not Corporations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The intention of SB 1079 was to give a fair chance for tenants, the homeowner who may have lost their home in the foreclosure, or affordable housing groups to be able to buy a foreclosed home at auction,” Skinner said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Moms for Housing in late December in front of the West Oakland house they occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women to move back in. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Great Recession between 2008 and 2010 left millions of homeowners in foreclosure, private equity investors began buying the devalued homes by the thousands. Today, Wall Street-backed corporations own \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/five-things-might-surprise-you-about-fastest-growing-segment-housing-market\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than 200,000 single-family homes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across the country. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Skinner’s bill made it illegal to bundle properties together at foreclosure auctions, to make it easier for individuals to bid on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She thought nonprofits would use the homes they purchased through SB 1079 to create more affordable housing, but the bill doesn’t specifically require it. Nor does it include any enforcement or accountability mechanisms to ensure that’s the case. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We thought we didn’t need to,” Skinner said. “We do a bill with the best intention, but we can’t always see exactly how it’s going to be put into practice.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new bill, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1837\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 1837\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, by Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) would mandate homes purchased by nonprofits be used to house residents with lower incomes for at least 30 years. The bill is expected to be voted on in the Senate this week, and return to the Assembly for a concurrence vote by the end of the month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We want to ensure that a nonprofit housing developer actually is the recipient of this particular opportunity,” Bonta said, “and that it doesn’t end up being a nonprofit that is kind of clothed in wolves’ clothing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opportunity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In many ways, the same economic forces that drove Moms for Housing’s protest also prompted a Richmond, Va., nonprofit to get into the business of buying foreclosed homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim Hayes is the director of distressed assets for that nonprofit, Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation. He said the Blackwell neighborhood where SCDHC was born was gentrifying, in part due to the organization’s work improving the community. The organization turned to local banks for loans to help purchase properties in the neighborhood and keep people from being priced out. But, the banks wouldn’t lend to them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Therefore private developers reaped the benefits of the years of SCDHC’s work,” Hayes said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in 2015, President Barack Obama \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://content.next.westlaw.com/3-610-4325?__lrTS=20210130035919415&transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to begin selling some of the foreclosed homes to verified nonprofits.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes saw an opportunity. SCDHC could buy the debt on homes going through foreclosure and sell the houses to homeowners, rather than allow investors to buy and rent them out. The sales would generate income for the nonprofit, which could help them expand their work developing affordable housing in and around Richmond, Va. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We had frustration with our community now being overtaken by developers,” Hayes said. “We go to the bank, they say no. HUD then says, ‘Hey, y’all might be able to work in this program. We think if done right, you can help people, but at the same time, you can make some money to help you expand your operations, to grow, develop.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SCDHC became certified through HUD’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://content.next.westlaw.com/3-610-4325?__lrTS=20210130035919415&transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">distressed asset stabilization program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and began buying non-performing loans on homes going through foreclosure across 33 states. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They partnered with Louis Amaya, the CEO and founder of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pemco-capital.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PEMCO Capital Management\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to help them comply with each state’s policies around buying distressed assets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1577px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1577\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page.jpg 1577w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-800x436.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-1020x556.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-1536x837.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1577px) 100vw, 1577px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PEMCO’s website explains its approach to asset management.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amaya didn’t respond to multiple requests for an interview. But his company’s website describes itself as “an institutional platform for investors to gain exposure in niche sectors within the distressed residential mortgage and real estate markets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There were certain expertises that we just didn’t have,” Hayes said. “We hired PEMCO to be part of the distressed asset sale team.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As soon as SB 1079 went into effect in 2021, SCDHC formed a limited partnership, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/2021-SNS-Limited-Partnership-Initial-Filing.pdf\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization\u003c/a>, with Amaya managing the properties. Hayes said it was an extension of their ongoing work in California and other states. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goal, Hayes said, is to help residents stay in their homes, either through refinancing or credit counseling. In instances where a tenant is living in the home, Hayes said Southside offers cash to help relocate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s always a balance, Hayes said. SCDHC partners with private investors to front the money to purchase the foreclosed homes. Those investors expect a return, he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What we attempt to do also is balance outcomes with returns,” Hayes said. “We endeavor to do what’s right, to allow people an opportunity to re\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">main in their homes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where are we going to go?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before Riggins’ mother, Susie Riggins, died in 2003, she told her son, “‘Whatever you do, try to keep the building because your father built it,'” Riggins said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s all she had to say,” he said. “And that’s what I set out to do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Riggins’ parents, the apartment building wasn’t just a source of rental income; it was an investment in the community. They had moved from Arkansas and Louisiana to Richmond, Ca., in the mid-1940s as part of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans moved from the South to the North and West in search of safer lives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins’ father, Clinton Riggins, took a job as a steelworker at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. And despite the lack of traditional mortgages available to Black residents, Clinton Riggins was able to buy a home in Richmond. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People didn’t have nothing back then in the ’30s and ’40s,” Riggins said. “But when (my father) got here, he was able to do it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins said his parents always instructed him to keep the rents low, and if he had to raise them, to do it gradually. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mother said, ‘Your father built this to help people, not to make money,’” Riggins said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s one reason Riggins’ tenants stayed so long and, in some cases, came back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person sitting outdoors near a home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Hernandez sits on her porch in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cynthia Hernandez first moved from the Mission District in San Francisco to Riggins’ building with her mom in 2009, when she was just 18 years old. She eventually left to live on her own as a young adult but returned in 2019, when she and her husband moved back in with her mom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were looking more towards buying a home in this area,” Hernandez said, “so we wanted to save a few bucks.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pandemic hit, the unit next door became vacant, so she and her husband moved in. And it was around this time that she said their relationship with Riggins changed from a typical tenant-landlord relationship to one that was more familiar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We got a lot closer,” Hernandez said. “We were helping each other out with groceries, with toilet paper, with all the essentials.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After he separated from his wife, Riggins said he worked with the community group Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services to fill out mortgage modification forms required by his lender, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/business/economy/15norris.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Savings Bank\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He couldn’t understand why the company, in the midst of that process, started to foreclose. Riggins has since hired a lawyer that’s suing the servicer on the loan, Rushmore Loan Management Services, for allegedly violating the state’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — a set of laws that protect homeowners facing foreclosure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the notice of default on the mortgage appeared, speculators began bombarding the house with flyers, letters and calls. So Hernandez began looking for help — both to understand what was happening and to figure out what her rights were if she faced eviction. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I freaked out,” Hernandez said. “Where are we going to go? Like, what can we do?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person's hands are on a desk alongside paperwork.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Hernandez looks through paperwork she collected during the foreclosure of the building where she lives with her family on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hernandez eventually found \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.richmondland.org/potowski-av\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond Land\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a new community land trust based in Richmond, Ca., that was looking for its first project. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By this point, Southside had already purchased the property, and had served the residents with eviction papers. Hayes said the company first offered the residents $5,000, but didn’t get a response, so they proceeded with the eviction process. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We made it clear to (Southside) that what was happening was problematic,” said Mia Carbajal, director of place-keeping at Richmond Land, “and that we are really interested in stopping the eviction by purchasing the building.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization eventually agreed to sell the building to Richmond Land for $600,000 — which is $59,000 more than the $541,000 it paid to purchase it. The amount barely covered Southside’s expenses, Hayes said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking back, Carbajal said she doesn’t begrudge Southside for wanting a return on the purchase, or its practice of buying foreclosed homes as a way of generating income for the nonprofit’s work in Richmond, Va. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think it just really speaks to our nation’s austerity, our disinvestment in housing,” Carbajal said, “and organizations that are in the business of affordable housing, doing what they need to do to cover their expenses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding the hands of a child to lift them up in the air.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Hernandez walks with her family on the street in front of her home in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, it all worked out for Hernandez and Riggins: They got to stay in their homes and will eventually have the opportunity to buy the building. Richmond Land will maintain ownership of the land itself, ensuring the property is sold at an affordable price to all future buyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But others who dealt with Southside were less satisfied with the results. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Neighborhood stabilization\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization shelled out nearly $29 million to purchase 74 properties under SB 1079. So far, more than half — 47 — have already been sold for a total of about $6 million in gross revenue, according to property records. Of those, 32 are now owner-occupied. The rest have gone to investors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside requires its buyers to sign an affidavit, attesting that they will either live in the property or sell to someone who will. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes said that’s because the organization’s goal is to create more homeownership opportunities, which is also a stated goal of SB 1079. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We view ourselves as a holistic organization, but also realizing that most wealth accumulation comes from homeownership,” Hayes said. “And when I can never access homeownership, it then limits so many things, let alone generational wealth transfers. So, that’s the mission that we really have.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some of the homeowners and investors who have encountered Southside question whether their practices actually make it easier for people to afford their homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A home with a tanned rooftop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Boykin paid $239,000 to Southside to get the deed to his home back, property records show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Steve Boykin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Thousand Oaks, Steve Boykin paid Southside Neighborhood Stabilization nearly a quarter of a million dollars just to get the deed to his home back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boykin, a locksmith and lifelong Thousand Oaks resident, had taken out a home equity line of credit in 2007 for $150,000, though he says he only used about $44,000 of it. The loan was sold to another company, which then charged him a higher interest rate. Boykin got a lawyer to dispute the new charges, and in the meantime, the bank foreclosed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization bought the debt on his property for $166,100. Boykin negotiated to pay them $239,000 to buy it back, according to property records. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I had to pay them, I didn’t have a choice,” he said. “They’re holding (the deed) over my head. You know, ‘We’re going to sell your house. We have the deed to the house, and we can sell it.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes said Boykin’s case was “an amazing outcome.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Rather than being evicted, we allowed the owner to remain in their home,” he said. “All processes can be improved. However, it continues to feel as if SCDHC — on an incredibly small sample — is being painted as a bad actor, and we are not.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Boykin didn’t see it that way. He sold two plots of land in Paso Robles, where he had planned to build his retirement home, to pay Southside. At 63, he expected to retire in two years. Now, he knows he’ll be working much longer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just feel betrayed by my government,” Boykin said. “You work your whole life. My whole retirement is in my equity, in my home. And these guys legally come and steal it from me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other investors and homeowners who purchased homes from Southside said the sales felt like typical flips and questioned what kind of value the nonprofit added. The homes often needed major repairs, but they weren’t sold at a discount. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lauren Every-Wortman purchased a home near Joshua Tree National Park in January for $453,000 — about $100,000 higher than the current median-priced home there, according to Zillow — even though it needed a new roof and floors, a new irrigation system and a new deck.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every-Wortman’s boyfriend dug into the property records and found that Southside purchased the home for $295,000.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s inflating the market,” Every-Wortman said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes said the organization is transparent about the conditions of the homes it sells.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We could fix everything,” Hayes said, “but the reality of it is that then changes the price point.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They also have to absorb costs, Hayes said, from the real estate agents to lawyers, to closing and filing costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the fall of 2021, Hayes said Southside decided to stop purchasing properties through SB 1079. They had gotten some inquiries about its activities, he said, and they didn’t want to continue “until the Legislature can create more clarity about what we’ve done.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We began to get more inquiries that were trying to paint us in a certain picture,” Hayes said. “And in Tim Hayes terminology, we’re like, ‘Screw this. We’ve done too much to now all of a sudden to be backed into a corner.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to property records, Southside’s last two purchases in California were made on January 4. But while Southside began winding down its operations, other nonprofits were just getting started. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Corporations clothed as nonprofits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the summer of 2021, two California-based house-flipping corporations created their own affordable housing nonprofits and began using SB 1079 to purchase and flip foreclosed homes, according to public records. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the groups, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">called the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20220818-Articles-of-Incorporation-CV-Neighborhood-Stabilization-Foundation-later-Dove-Street.pdf\">CV Neighborhood Stabilization Foundation\u003c/a>, says its mission is to “create and implement programs for the development of and preservation of affordable housing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The foundation later\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210907-CV-Neighborhood-Stablization-Foundation-name-change-to-Dove-Street-Housing-Foundation.pdf\"> changed its name to Dove Street Housing Foundation \u003c/a>and formed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20220218-DS-Housing-AHP-Title-Holdings-LP.pdf\">number\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210921-DS-HOUSING-CCCRR-01-LP-with-Dove-Street-Housing-Foundation.pdf\">different\u003c/a> limited \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210921-DS-HOUSING-AHP-01-LP.pdf\">partnerships, \u003c/a>which together purchased at least 68 properties since November. At least 12 of them used SB 1079, according to property records. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dove Street’s nonprofit status is what enables the partnerships to use SB 1079 to match foreclosure auction bids.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1485px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1485\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res.jpg 1485w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res-800x170.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res-1020x217.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res-160x34.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1485px) 100vw, 1485px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ClearVue Real Estate Services’ website.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The foundation’s president, Matt Regan, is also the co-founder, president and COO of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://clearvueres.com/about-us/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ClearVue Real Estate Services\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> LLC, which, according to its website, “specializes in the acquisition, management, and disposition of residential REO [real estate owned] properties and targeted whole loans nationwide.” Regan did not respond to requests for comment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the 34 properties Dove Street has already sold, property records show 25 have gone to other investors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those investors was Gerry Ochoa, a small-time landlord who purchased a property in Bakersfield from one of Dove Street’s limited partnerships. A fire had gutted the two manufactured homes on the lot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He expects he’ll spend upward of $380,000 to demolish the homes and construct a five-unit building in their place, which he plans to market as luxury units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m targeting more of these young folks that work at home nowadays,” Ochoa said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923402\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-800x370.jpg\" alt=\"Real estate signs on a lawn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-800x370.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-1020x471.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When William Rawls purchased his Tulare home, the sign in the front lawn directed him to Capitol Real Estate Group. Property records show the owner of the property was actually RMMC LP, a limited partnership with an affordable housing nonprofit, called Affordable Housing NFP Inc., listed as the general partner. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of William Rawls)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Tulare, William Rawls had just gone through a divorce when, earlier this year, he began looking for a new home. He bought a beige, one-story tract home from \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210706-cert-of-LP-for-RMMC-general-partnership-with-Affordable-Housing-NFP-Inc.pdf\">RMMC LP\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rawls was surprised to learn that RMMC is a limited partnership with an affordable housing nonprofit, called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210604-Articles-of-Incorporation-Nonrprofit-Affordable-Housing-NFP-Inc.pdf\">Affordable Housing NFP Inc.\u003c/a>, listed as the general partner, and property records show they used SB 1079 to buy the home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They just slapped lipstick on a pig,” Rawls said, adding that he’s in the process of replacing all the floors that had grown mold due to leaking pipes. “It was a gut job.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">RMMC LP formed in July 2021 and bought its first property in November. So far, it’s purchased at least 56 mostly single-family homes, and property records show that at least 22 of the buys were SB 1079 purchases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nonprofit’s president, Armando Banuelos, is also the CEO of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://capitolreg.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capitol Real Estate Group\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A recent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/bakersfield-real-estate-investing-meetup-group-reitribe/events/287601283/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bakersfield meetup\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> described Banuelos as a specialist in “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fix-n-flip, rentals” and other real estate ventures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banuelos and other representatives from the company didn’t respond to requests for comment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the front lawn of Rawls’ eventual home, Capitol had posted signs directing buyers to their company. Rawls said there was never any mention of using the homes as affordable housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it’s supposed to be affordable housing, then they lied,” Rawls said. “What a farce.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Closing the loophole\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Bonta’s new bill, AB 1837, properties purchased by nonprofits under SB 1079 would carry deed restrictions that mandate the housing remains affordable for at least 30 years. And nonprofits would have to have board members with California addresses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several people involved in the house-flipping industry said the changes would help close the loophole in SB 1079, but the new legislation may not go as far as the author intends. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreclosure auctions typically involve all-cash buys. And it’s unlikely that owners or tenants of foreclosed properties have the hundreds of thousands of dollars on hand to compete. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The idea that regular people are just going to (use) this,” said Jeff Cagle, the Central California house flipper, “it’s not going to happen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dale Riggins stands outside his home in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonprofits may stand a better chance at matching the auction prices, and last year, the Legislature approved a $500 million revolving fund, called the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/foreclosure-intervention-housing-preservation-program#:~:text=FIHPP%20was%20added%20to%20California%27s,funds)%20to%20manage%20the%20program.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to help them do just that. Those funds are expected to be available sometime this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But even with this fund, Hayes said few nonprofits have the capacity to operate at scale, which is why he thinks partnerships with private investors are so effective. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re just concerned that it’s being guided in the path of some unique outcomes that will not really impact all nonprofits. It may connect a sliver of nonprofits,” he said, adding that the vast majority of foreclosed homes will be purchased by “the same people that have always done it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Bonta, however, the goal of her legislation is more narrowly focused on reforming SB 1079 and ensuring that if nonprofits buy the homes, they use them as affordable housing for residents with low incomes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re trying to make sure that the intention of our legislation,” she said, “matches the actual implementation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dale Riggins was 7 years old when, in 1968, his father began building the small Richmond apartment complex where Riggins now lives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day during the 10-month construction, he went to the site after school, dragging tools and two-by-fours on the sloped lot set against a small hill where the building began to rise.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have touched everything in this building. I have painted every corner, put in every window,” Riggins said of the triplex he inherited. “This building was my parents’ life, and it became my life.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An old photo album showing a black and white photo of a family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57846_004_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Dale Riggins, his parents and a cousin in a photo album at his home in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins, 67, retired early from his career in construction and maintenance for the city of Richmond after a knee injury put him on disability in 2008. But, the income from his tenants helped keep him afloat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The building was in good shape, and I had good tenants,” Riggins said. “Everything was just happy. Until. Yeah, until.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins went through a divorce and sought a modification on his mortgage in 2019. While that was being considered, his lender foreclosed. Everything his parents had worked for seemed to slip through his fingers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That sent me through a great depression for a year,” he said. “When you do everything you can do, and it seems like it’s not enough, it’s like everything is against you.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "‘I just feel betrayed by my government. You work your whole life. My whole retirement is in my equity, in my home. And these guys legally come and steal it from me.’",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ultimate buyer was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://scdhc-nso.com/about-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a limited partnership registered to an Encinitas, Calif., address. The general partner was a Virginia nonprofit, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scdhc.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was this partnership with a nonprofit that allowed the organization to buy the house under a 2020 California law, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1079\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1079\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It allows tenants of foreclosed homes, owner-occupants, governments and nonprofits an exclusive 45-day window to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840140/california-law-prioritizes-people-over-corporate-home-buyers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> match the winning bid\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a foreclosure auction. It was one of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://cert1.mail-west.com/m5Vyj5I/yuzjanmc7r/15Vgtm/ov4m4af7/5Vqvnq5V60iknp/vonuodf71/pogrlvoeu?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C17sqbhabiiyetbc&_ce=1601327807.e25c9081aeaaaa8fa1ce46db3a83a073\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">15 housing bills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> signed into law that year aimed at creating more affordable opportunities for renters and homeowners.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside’s website states its mission is “advocating for the needs of communities and families” to “stabilize communities throughout the United States.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And while that should have been a relief to Riggins, it wasn’t. He couldn’t understand why a nonprofit, nearly 3,000 miles away, had purchased his property. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Why would they want to buy something in California?” Riggins wondered. “And I think that’s the part that just really has me just furious. Why would you want to invest in something that you have never seen?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two-story triplex, with its salmon-colored stucco and white trim, was one of at least 74 properties Southside Neighborhood Stabilization scooped up since it formed in early 2021. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The organization is one of at least three such entities created in California after SB 1079’s passage to purchase homes in partnership with nonprofits that have the stated goal of providing affordable housing to communities in need. But in a review of nearly 200 property records, and interviews with over a dozen homeowners and investors who’ve purchased properties from them, there’s little evidence these homes are actually being used as affordable housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re all just being flipped,” said Jeff Cagle, a Central California house flipper who’s lost dozens of foreclosure auction bids to purchasers who invoked SB 1079. “The whole idea was that if nonprofits bought this, this was supposed to benefit affordable housing, but none of them were being retained as affordable housing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Homes for homeowners, not corporations’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) first introduced SB 1079 in February 2020 on the heels of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">powerful, two-month-long protest\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that caught the nation’s attention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A group of unhoused mothers, called \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://moms4housing.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moms for Housing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, had been occupying a vacant home in West Oakland in late 2019 and early 2020. The home was owned by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wedgewood\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Redondo Beach real estate firm that specializes in flipping foreclosed homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The moms’ protest intended to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said led to rising rents and growing homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And SB 1079 was Skinner’s response. She dubbed the bill “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20200928-governor-signs-sb-1079-homes-homeowners-not-corporations\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homes for Homeowners, Not Corporations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The intention of SB 1079 was to give a fair chance for tenants, the homeowner who may have lost their home in the foreclosure, or affordable housing groups to be able to buy a foreclosed home at auction,” Skinner said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40613_IMG_2315-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the group Moms for Housing in late December in front of the West Oakland house they occupied for several months before being forcefully evicted in January. A community land trust has since agreed to purchase the house and allow the women to move back in. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Great Recession between 2008 and 2010 left millions of homeowners in foreclosure, private equity investors began buying the devalued homes by the thousands. Today, Wall Street-backed corporations own \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/five-things-might-surprise-you-about-fastest-growing-segment-housing-market\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than 200,000 single-family homes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across the country. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Skinner’s bill made it illegal to bundle properties together at foreclosure auctions, to make it easier for individuals to bid on them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She thought nonprofits would use the homes they purchased through SB 1079 to create more affordable housing, but the bill doesn’t specifically require it. Nor does it include any enforcement or accountability mechanisms to ensure that’s the case. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We thought we didn’t need to,” Skinner said. “We do a bill with the best intention, but we can’t always see exactly how it’s going to be put into practice.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new bill, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1837\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 1837\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, by Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) would mandate homes purchased by nonprofits be used to house residents with lower incomes for at least 30 years. The bill is expected to be voted on in the Senate this week, and return to the Assembly for a concurrence vote by the end of the month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We want to ensure that a nonprofit housing developer actually is the recipient of this particular opportunity,” Bonta said, “and that it doesn’t end up being a nonprofit that is kind of clothed in wolves’ clothing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opportunity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In many ways, the same economic forces that drove Moms for Housing’s protest also prompted a Richmond, Va., nonprofit to get into the business of buying foreclosed homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim Hayes is the director of distressed assets for that nonprofit, Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation. He said the Blackwell neighborhood where SCDHC was born was gentrifying, in part due to the organization’s work improving the community. The organization turned to local banks for loans to help purchase properties in the neighborhood and keep people from being priced out. But, the banks wouldn’t lend to them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Therefore private developers reaped the benefits of the years of SCDHC’s work,” Hayes said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in 2015, President Barack Obama \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://content.next.westlaw.com/3-610-4325?__lrTS=20210130035919415&transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to begin selling some of the foreclosed homes to verified nonprofits.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes saw an opportunity. SCDHC could buy the debt on homes going through foreclosure and sell the houses to homeowners, rather than allow investors to buy and rent them out. The sales would generate income for the nonprofit, which could help them expand their work developing affordable housing in and around Richmond, Va. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We had frustration with our community now being overtaken by developers,” Hayes said. “We go to the bank, they say no. HUD then says, ‘Hey, y’all might be able to work in this program. We think if done right, you can help people, but at the same time, you can make some money to help you expand your operations, to grow, develop.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SCDHC became certified through HUD’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://content.next.westlaw.com/3-610-4325?__lrTS=20210130035919415&transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">distressed asset stabilization program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and began buying non-performing loans on homes going through foreclosure across 33 states. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They partnered with Louis Amaya, the CEO and founder of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pemco-capital.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PEMCO Capital Management\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to help them comply with each state’s policies around buying distressed assets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1577px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1577\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page.jpg 1577w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-800x436.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-1020x556.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/PemCo-About-Us-page-1536x837.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1577px) 100vw, 1577px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PEMCO’s website explains its approach to asset management.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amaya didn’t respond to multiple requests for an interview. But his company’s website describes itself as “an institutional platform for investors to gain exposure in niche sectors within the distressed residential mortgage and real estate markets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There were certain expertises that we just didn’t have,” Hayes said. “We hired PEMCO to be part of the distressed asset sale team.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As soon as SB 1079 went into effect in 2021, SCDHC formed a limited partnership, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/2021-SNS-Limited-Partnership-Initial-Filing.pdf\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization\u003c/a>, with Amaya managing the properties. Hayes said it was an extension of their ongoing work in California and other states. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goal, Hayes said, is to help residents stay in their homes, either through refinancing or credit counseling. In instances where a tenant is living in the home, Hayes said Southside offers cash to help relocate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s always a balance, Hayes said. SCDHC partners with private investors to front the money to purchase the foreclosed homes. Those investors expect a return, he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What we attempt to do also is balance outcomes with returns,” Hayes said. “We endeavor to do what’s right, to allow people an opportunity to re\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">main in their homes.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where are we going to go?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before Riggins’ mother, Susie Riggins, died in 2003, she told her son, “‘Whatever you do, try to keep the building because your father built it,'” Riggins said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That’s all she had to say,” he said. “And that’s what I set out to do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Riggins’ parents, the apartment building wasn’t just a source of rental income; it was an investment in the community. They had moved from Arkansas and Louisiana to Richmond, Ca., in the mid-1940s as part of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans moved from the South to the North and West in search of safer lives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins’ father, Clinton Riggins, took a job as a steelworker at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. And despite the lack of traditional mortgages available to Black residents, Clinton Riggins was able to buy a home in Richmond. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People didn’t have nothing back then in the ’30s and ’40s,” Riggins said. “But when (my father) got here, he was able to do it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riggins said his parents always instructed him to keep the rents low, and if he had to raise them, to do it gradually. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mother said, ‘Your father built this to help people, not to make money,’” Riggins said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s one reason Riggins’ tenants stayed so long and, in some cases, came back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person sitting outdoors near a home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57859_016_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Hernandez sits on her porch in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cynthia Hernandez first moved from the Mission District in San Francisco to Riggins’ building with her mom in 2009, when she was just 18 years old. She eventually left to live on her own as a young adult but returned in 2019, when she and her husband moved back in with her mom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were looking more towards buying a home in this area,” Hernandez said, “so we wanted to save a few bucks.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the pandemic hit, the unit next door became vacant, so she and her husband moved in. And it was around this time that she said their relationship with Riggins changed from a typical tenant-landlord relationship to one that was more familiar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We got a lot closer,” Hernandez said. “We were helping each other out with groceries, with toilet paper, with all the essentials.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After he separated from his wife, Riggins said he worked with the community group Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services to fill out mortgage modification forms required by his lender, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/business/economy/15norris.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">World Savings Bank\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He couldn’t understand why the company, in the midst of that process, started to foreclose. Riggins has since hired a lawyer that’s suing the servicer on the loan, Rushmore Loan Management Services, for allegedly violating the state’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/hbor\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homeowner Bill of Rights\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — a set of laws that protect homeowners facing foreclosure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the notice of default on the mortgage appeared, speculators began bombarding the house with flyers, letters and calls. So Hernandez began looking for help — both to understand what was happening and to figure out what her rights were if she faced eviction. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I freaked out,” Hernandez said. “Where are we going to go? Like, what can we do?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"A person's hands are on a desk alongside paperwork.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57860_014_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Hernandez looks through paperwork she collected during the foreclosure of the building where she lives with her family on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hernandez eventually found \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.richmondland.org/potowski-av\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond Land\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a new community land trust based in Richmond, Ca., that was looking for its first project. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By this point, Southside had already purchased the property, and had served the residents with eviction papers. Hayes said the company first offered the residents $5,000, but didn’t get a response, so they proceeded with the eviction process. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We made it clear to (Southside) that what was happening was problematic,” said Mia Carbajal, director of place-keeping at Richmond Land, “and that we are really interested in stopping the eviction by purchasing the building.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization eventually agreed to sell the building to Richmond Land for $600,000 — which is $59,000 more than the $541,000 it paid to purchase it. The amount barely covered Southside’s expenses, Hayes said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking back, Carbajal said she doesn’t begrudge Southside for wanting a return on the purchase, or its practice of buying foreclosed homes as a way of generating income for the nonprofit’s work in Richmond, Va. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think it just really speaks to our nation’s austerity, our disinvestment in housing,” Carbajal said, “and organizations that are in the business of affordable housing, doing what they need to do to cover their expenses.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding the hands of a child to lift them up in the air.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57863_019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Hernandez walks with her family on the street in front of her home in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, it all worked out for Hernandez and Riggins: They got to stay in their homes and will eventually have the opportunity to buy the building. Richmond Land will maintain ownership of the land itself, ensuring the property is sold at an affordable price to all future buyers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But others who dealt with Southside were less satisfied with the results. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Neighborhood stabilization\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization shelled out nearly $29 million to purchase 74 properties under SB 1079. So far, more than half — 47 — have already been sold for a total of about $6 million in gross revenue, according to property records. Of those, 32 are now owner-occupied. The rest have gone to investors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside requires its buyers to sign an affidavit, attesting that they will either live in the property or sell to someone who will. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes said that’s because the organization’s goal is to create more homeownership opportunities, which is also a stated goal of SB 1079. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We view ourselves as a holistic organization, but also realizing that most wealth accumulation comes from homeownership,” Hayes said. “And when I can never access homeownership, it then limits so many things, let alone generational wealth transfers. So, that’s the mission that we really have.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some of the homeowners and investors who have encountered Southside question whether their practices actually make it easier for people to afford their homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A home with a tanned rooftop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Steve-Boykin-Thousand-Oaks-home-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Boykin paid $239,000 to Southside to get the deed to his home back, property records show. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Steve Boykin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Thousand Oaks, Steve Boykin paid Southside Neighborhood Stabilization nearly a quarter of a million dollars just to get the deed to his home back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boykin, a locksmith and lifelong Thousand Oaks resident, had taken out a home equity line of credit in 2007 for $150,000, though he says he only used about $44,000 of it. The loan was sold to another company, which then charged him a higher interest rate. Boykin got a lawyer to dispute the new charges, and in the meantime, the bank foreclosed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southside Neighborhood Stabilization bought the debt on his property for $166,100. Boykin negotiated to pay them $239,000 to buy it back, according to property records. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I had to pay them, I didn’t have a choice,” he said. “They’re holding (the deed) over my head. You know, ‘We’re going to sell your house. We have the deed to the house, and we can sell it.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes said Boykin’s case was “an amazing outcome.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Rather than being evicted, we allowed the owner to remain in their home,” he said. “All processes can be improved. However, it continues to feel as if SCDHC — on an incredibly small sample — is being painted as a bad actor, and we are not.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Boykin didn’t see it that way. He sold two plots of land in Paso Robles, where he had planned to build his retirement home, to pay Southside. At 63, he expected to retire in two years. Now, he knows he’ll be working much longer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just feel betrayed by my government,” Boykin said. “You work your whole life. My whole retirement is in my equity, in my home. And these guys legally come and steal it from me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other investors and homeowners who purchased homes from Southside said the sales felt like typical flips and questioned what kind of value the nonprofit added. The homes often needed major repairs, but they weren’t sold at a discount. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lauren Every-Wortman purchased a home near Joshua Tree National Park in January for $453,000 — about $100,000 higher than the current median-priced home there, according to Zillow — even though it needed a new roof and floors, a new irrigation system and a new deck.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every-Wortman’s boyfriend dug into the property records and found that Southside purchased the home for $295,000.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s inflating the market,” Every-Wortman said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes said the organization is transparent about the conditions of the homes it sells.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We could fix everything,” Hayes said, “but the reality of it is that then changes the price point.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They also have to absorb costs, Hayes said, from the real estate agents to lawyers, to closing and filing costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the fall of 2021, Hayes said Southside decided to stop purchasing properties through SB 1079. They had gotten some inquiries about its activities, he said, and they didn’t want to continue “until the Legislature can create more clarity about what we’ve done.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We began to get more inquiries that were trying to paint us in a certain picture,” Hayes said. “And in Tim Hayes terminology, we’re like, ‘Screw this. We’ve done too much to now all of a sudden to be backed into a corner.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to property records, Southside’s last two purchases in California were made on January 4. But while Southside began winding down its operations, other nonprofits were just getting started. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Corporations clothed as nonprofits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the summer of 2021, two California-based house-flipping corporations created their own affordable housing nonprofits and began using SB 1079 to purchase and flip foreclosed homes, according to public records. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the groups, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">called the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20220818-Articles-of-Incorporation-CV-Neighborhood-Stabilization-Foundation-later-Dove-Street.pdf\">CV Neighborhood Stabilization Foundation\u003c/a>, says its mission is to “create and implement programs for the development of and preservation of affordable housing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The foundation later\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210907-CV-Neighborhood-Stablization-Foundation-name-change-to-Dove-Street-Housing-Foundation.pdf\"> changed its name to Dove Street Housing Foundation \u003c/a>and formed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20220218-DS-Housing-AHP-Title-Holdings-LP.pdf\">number\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210921-DS-HOUSING-CCCRR-01-LP-with-Dove-Street-Housing-Foundation.pdf\">different\u003c/a> limited \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210921-DS-HOUSING-AHP-01-LP.pdf\">partnerships, \u003c/a>which together purchased at least 68 properties since November. At least 12 of them used SB 1079, according to property records. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dove Street’s nonprofit status is what enables the partnerships to use SB 1079 to match foreclosure auction bids.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1485px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1485\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res.jpg 1485w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res-800x170.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res-1020x217.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/ClearVue-Res-160x34.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1485px) 100vw, 1485px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ClearVue Real Estate Services’ website.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The foundation’s president, Matt Regan, is also the co-founder, president and COO of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://clearvueres.com/about-us/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ClearVue Real Estate Services\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> LLC, which, according to its website, “specializes in the acquisition, management, and disposition of residential REO [real estate owned] properties and targeted whole loans nationwide.” Regan did not respond to requests for comment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the 34 properties Dove Street has already sold, property records show 25 have gone to other investors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those investors was Gerry Ochoa, a small-time landlord who purchased a property in Bakersfield from one of Dove Street’s limited partnerships. A fire had gutted the two manufactured homes on the lot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He expects he’ll spend upward of $380,000 to demolish the homes and construct a five-unit building in their place, which he plans to market as luxury units.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m targeting more of these young folks that work at home nowadays,” Ochoa said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923402\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-800x370.jpg\" alt=\"Real estate signs on a lawn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-800x370.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-1020x471.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/Capitol-Real-Estate-Group-sign-on-William-Rawls-front-lawn.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When William Rawls purchased his Tulare home, the sign in the front lawn directed him to Capitol Real Estate Group. Property records show the owner of the property was actually RMMC LP, a limited partnership with an affordable housing nonprofit, called Affordable Housing NFP Inc., listed as the general partner. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of William Rawls)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Tulare, William Rawls had just gone through a divorce when, earlier this year, he began looking for a new home. He bought a beige, one-story tract home from \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210706-cert-of-LP-for-RMMC-general-partnership-with-Affordable-Housing-NFP-Inc.pdf\">RMMC LP\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rawls was surprised to learn that RMMC is a limited partnership with an affordable housing nonprofit, called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/20210604-Articles-of-Incorporation-Nonrprofit-Affordable-Housing-NFP-Inc.pdf\">Affordable Housing NFP Inc.\u003c/a>, listed as the general partner, and property records show they used SB 1079 to buy the home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They just slapped lipstick on a pig,” Rawls said, adding that he’s in the process of replacing all the floors that had grown mold due to leaking pipes. “It was a gut job.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">RMMC LP formed in July 2021 and bought its first property in November. So far, it’s purchased at least 56 mostly single-family homes, and property records show that at least 22 of the buys were SB 1079 purchases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nonprofit’s president, Armando Banuelos, is also the CEO of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://capitolreg.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capitol Real Estate Group\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A recent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetup.com/bakersfield-real-estate-investing-meetup-group-reitribe/events/287601283/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bakersfield meetup\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> described Banuelos as a specialist in “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fix-n-flip, rentals” and other real estate ventures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banuelos and other representatives from the company didn’t respond to requests for comment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the front lawn of Rawls’ eventual home, Capitol had posted signs directing buyers to their company. Rawls said there was never any mention of using the homes as affordable housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it’s supposed to be affordable housing, then they lied,” Rawls said. “What a farce.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Closing the loophole\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Bonta’s new bill, AB 1837, properties purchased by nonprofits under SB 1079 would carry deed restrictions that mandate the housing remains affordable for at least 30 years. And nonprofits would have to have board members with California addresses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several people involved in the house-flipping industry said the changes would help close the loophole in SB 1079, but the new legislation may not go as far as the author intends. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreclosure auctions typically involve all-cash buys. And it’s unlikely that owners or tenants of foreclosed properties have the hundreds of thousands of dollars on hand to compete. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The idea that regular people are just going to (use) this,” said Jeff Cagle, the Central California house flipper, “it’s not going to happen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57856_012_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dale Riggins stands outside his home in Richmond on Aug. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonprofits may stand a better chance at matching the auction prices, and last year, the Legislature approved a $500 million revolving fund, called the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/foreclosure-intervention-housing-preservation-program#:~:text=FIHPP%20was%20added%20to%20California%27s,funds)%20to%20manage%20the%20program.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to help them do just that. Those funds are expected to be available sometime this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But even with this fund, Hayes said few nonprofits have the capacity to operate at scale, which is why he thinks partnerships with private investors are so effective. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re just concerned that it’s being guided in the path of some unique outcomes that will not really impact all nonprofits. It may connect a sliver of nonprofits,” he said, adding that the vast majority of foreclosed homes will be purchased by “the same people that have always done it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Bonta, however, the goal of her legislation is more narrowly focused on reforming SB 1079 and ensuring that if nonprofits buy the homes, they use them as affordable housing for residents with low incomes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re trying to make sure that the intention of our legislation,” she said, “matches the actual implementation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Days from the end of the legislative session, political observers are once again asking themselves whether a bitter, unresolved battle over labor standards will spell the end of California’s most ambitious proposal to solve its housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 2011, which would \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2011\">unlock commercial real estate\u003c/a> for residential use, \u003ca href=\"https://urbanfootprint.com/ab2011-analysis/\">potentially leading to more than 1 million apartments\u003c/a> across the state, has splintered organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While affordable housing developers, the state’s carpenters union and even the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2022/05/17/why-california-passes-laws-it-expects-to-get-struck-down-00032959\">largest unions representing teachers and health care workers\u003c/a> support the bill, it faces fiery opposition from the formidable Building and Construction Trades Council and the even bigger \u003ca href=\"https://calaborfed.org/\">California Labor Federation\u003c/a> behind them. The council, colloquially known as the trades, represents 450,000 workers in nearly every other construction industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922784,news_11813844\"]In years past, the fight over labor standards signaled early death knells for housing bills. But since the carpenters and a few nonconstruction labor groups joined hands with developers, this bill plowed through legislative hurdles its predecessors couldn’t. The two labor camps now have until Thursday — the last day to amend the bill — to come up with a compromise that would shield lawmakers from having to choose between alienating powerful labor allies or creating much-needed housing amid a historic crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The carpenters and the trades sat down for multiple Zoom calls in recent weeks at the behest of Senate leadership, led by Majority Leader Mike McGuire, to come up with a compromise, according to those at the negotiating table. McGuire’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the clock ticking, the groups are far from a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sen. McGuire is the most patient person in the California Senate,” said Erin Lehane, legislative director for the trades. “We’ve compromised on several if not many things and we’re waiting to see if the sponsors are willing to do the same. At this point it takes two to tango.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland\"]'This isn't a taking-on-labor fight. This is a solving-the-housing-crisis fight.'[/pullquote]At the heart of the argument is a shortage of at least 100,000 construction workers to build the millions of homes California needs. The groups disagree on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/06/california-affordable-housing-unions/\">how to grow the labor pool\u003c/a>. The trades are pushing for language that says a portion of the workforce for these projects must be graduates of an apprenticeship program, which effectively means union members. The carpenters say only a tiny fraction of home builders are unionized, and instead of waiting years for that pool to grow, legislation should simply \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/05/california-housing-crisis-unions/\">require higher wages, health benefits and tools\u003c/a> to enforce existing labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a tremendously valiant effort to try and find political common ground, but when you have two mutually exclusive positions in the marketplace, it’s a hard thing to do,” said Danny Curtin, director of the California Conference of Carpenters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, the Democrat from Oakland who authored the bill and leads the Assembly Housing Committee, said she feels confident in the labor language already in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a taking-on-labor fight. This is a solving-the-housing-crisis fight,” Wicks said. “I want to keep trying to reach a deal, and I’ll do everything I can to do that. But if a deal isn’t reached, many of the colleagues I’ve spoken to in the Senate are prepared to support the vote for solving this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters more complicated, Wicks’ bill isn’t the only big housing bill that would allow housing on commercial land. Senate Bill 6, introduced last year by Sen. Anna Caballero, a Salinas Democrat, would also make it easier to build housing on commercial corridors now zoned for parking, offices and retail. But instead of making the process by-right, like Wicks’ bill — whereby a developer can build as long as they check all the boxes — it remains discretionary. That means local governments can hold their usual hearings to determine whether a project fits in their community, but without the onerous process of changing the land’s designation from commercial to residential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills have advanced in tandem: Caballero’s with Wicks’ help, and vice versa. That’s very different from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/07/california-housing-bills-unions/\">what happened last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be real frank with you,” Caballero said. “This is a fight not only between the trades, but between the Assembly and the Senate. The Assembly held up our bills and didn’t do much to try and broker the compromise. It’s always best if people can come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another key difference between the bills: Caballero’s bill includes the labor language the trades proposed from the start. If the two groups do come up with a compromise, it’s unclear whether both bills will reflect that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Wetch, a lobbyist who represents about 150,000 electrical workers, plumbers and sheet metal workers within the trades and who opposes the bill, isn’t optimistic about an agreement. With dozens of lawmakers exiting the Legislature this year, the voting dynamics are much more unpredictable than in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local trades councils have contributed $1.5 million to political candidates, while carpenters groups have given $1.3 million, according to a CalMatters analysis of the 2022 races so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, I think it’s going to come down to a big, giant floor flight in the Senate,” Wetch said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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