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That’s what this population is,” said Big Wave Project board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/kim-gainza/\">Kim Gainza\u003c/a>, mother of Emmy, who will live at Big Wave. “They support each other and help each other, and if somebody makes a basket, everybody in the gym is cheering,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gainza summarized those conversations about the future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Well, what’s your plan for Joey when you’re no longer here?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Well, I don’t know.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘What’s your plan for Emmy when you’re no longer here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An idea takes root\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Peck bought a windy, grassy plot of land, about 20 acres, across from the Half Moon Bay Airport. At the time, he was mainly interested in providing a comfortable place for sports, with a little farming on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rows of crops here: strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. Colorful chickens go about their business in a large coop. Big Wave sells fresh eggs, mainly to their families. To raise money, they also sell baskets of goodies from their garden — lavender products, flowers and eggs every second and fourth Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A bed of strawberry plants grows.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave sells produce like strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the parents’ ambition for the place grew. Today, it includes plans for apartments, a community café staffed by residents, and office space to rent out for income. The idea is to provide a place where their adult children and other residents who join will soon be able to live independently, in a community of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want your child to be safe, but you want your child to have opportunity, a community. You want them to have a full life,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating an intentional community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is no small feat. Peck did well for himself as a contractor, which allowed him to buy this land 20 years ago. But it’s taken numerous hearings, environmental reviews and permit applications to get to the point where Big Wave could break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, there were vociferous, local objections to the development. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sabrina Brennan\u003c/a>, a former San Mateo County harbor commissioner who opposed the project, said they ran the gamut\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\">: \u003c/strong>from concerns about the property being in a \u003ca href=\"///Users/pollystryker/Downloads/Skelly%20BigWaveWelness%202021%2010.18.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tsunami inundation zone\u003c/a> (mitigated in consultation with the county) and too close to \u003ca href=\"http://fitzgeraldreserve.org/visit\">Fitzgerald Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, to concerns that Big Wave’s residents would be too far away from social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major point of contention was Big Wave’s original proposal to build a large office park nearby, the proceeds of which would support the nonprofit, according to Gainza. Big Wave eventually dropped those plans to get approval from the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> and San Mateo County for the mixed-use development now under construction, with permits approved in 2018 and 2020. Loans, donations and grants will cover costs instead. Concerns raised in a lawsuit by a local sanitary district were settled in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn a statement, Big Wave spokesperson Sarah Sherwood wrote that Big Wave “has been through years of examination and regulation, including the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and full approval and permits from the California Coastal Commission (2015), which Big Wave supports, as it advocates for adults with disabilities, the environment and the natural beauty of the Coast.” She added, “100 percent of all profits from farm sales, and any mom and pop businesses on the property go directly to our nonprofit, to serve the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, such as (autism), Down’s (syndrome) and brain injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green light finally came during the pandemic. Now 68, Peck knows he has a limited window of time to establish something financially sustainable that can outlast him and the other original parents. “All of the revenue from these commercial assets [will] go to keep the operating costs low,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core group of families paid about $60,000 each for their adult child to have a place at Big Wave, although costs have risen with construction prices and county requirements, like a traffic light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 57 apartments where Elizabeth and other adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, there will be office space for rent, with some tenants already slated, like a martial arts academy, a florist, a culinary academy and a public café. The café will be overseen by Julie and Paul Shenkman, who run the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.samschowderhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam’s Chowder House\u003c/a> nearby. They’re Big Wave parents, too, and their child Sam will live at Big Wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a breakfast-lunch café. It’ll be muffins and coffee and sandwiches and soups. It will provide a place for the kids to have a job,” Julie Shenkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model is kind of like a co-op, or an intentional community or commune, with a board — including residents — to run it all. Peck knows this is a big, expensive experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life’s work,” he said. “When you have children that look at the world differently, you get an insight into life and death and history and spirituality and wisdom that you wouldn’t get otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Support for kids, but not for adults \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> serves more than 350,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a sizable — and vulnerable — population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This state is more generous than many others. But still, parents have to know how to work the system, according to Michelle Garcia Winner, a San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>-based speech language pathologist who’s worked with people on the autism spectrum for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there are plenty of programs for \u003cem>kids\u003c/em> with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but fewer that are available for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever see our government being able to manage the needs of adults in a meaningful way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Winner said overcoming isolation and finding purpose is very important for the IDD community, just as it is for the rest of us. “Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Lawrence Fung, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the proud father of a neurodiverse teenager. He directs the \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project\u003c/a>, which runs several programs including a specialized employment program for people with autism called \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neurodiversity at Work\u003c/a>. It pairs people on the autism spectrum with jobs well-suited to their skill sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of neurodiverse people have significant strengths that can contribute much to society, if they are discovered,” Fung said. He added that it’s important for people like his son to be able to find work and build a strong sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tale of two brothers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two boys grin as they show off toy airplanes in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-800x591.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1020x754.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-2048x1513.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1920x1419.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew (left) and Daniel Hearn as children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nancy Cadigan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Cadigan Hearn is in his mid-30s, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with wavy brown hair and black-rimmed glasses. He’s also just 11 months older than his brother Daniel, one of the family members who keeps a close eye on Matthew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asperger’s was the term … that Matt was diagnosed with until they kind of changed it to being on the autistic spectrum,” Daniel said. The two of them have been a part of the Big Wave Project for more than a decade. Daniel coaches the Cougars, one of four teams at Big Wave. “Some of them can’t catch the ball thrown at full speed and some can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt is the big man on the court. He is there to get rebounds and blocks and hopefully throw the ball back up if he catches a rebound,” said Daniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what position he likes to play, Matt said, “Due to my height, I was either a power forward or center, so I was having to get in the scrimmage and be a bit of a punching bag at times.” Matthew floats through the teams and is thinking about becoming a coach himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel knows the fear of what could happen to his brother Matthew one day, if the brothers get separated or, worse, if Daniel dies. Matthew lives now with an uncle in South San Francisco, but those who don’t have family willing to step up can face grim alternatives, like group homes that can feel institutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said people like his brother shouldn’t be warehoused in grim assisted-living facilities, as they often are in California. “What is schizophrenia? What is autism? What is Down syndrome?” he asks. “These [are] things that affect the community and shouldn’t be hidden away, you know? Something that’s so public … and accepting and welcoming [like Big Wave] is just so awesome,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave, Daniel said, has given Matthew an opportunity to explore and grow as a member of a community. “Matt has his own social circle here, people asking for advice and him really just holding his own audience when talking to a group of people. It was cool to walk into a situation where it’s not, ‘Oh, this is Daniel’s brother.’ It’s like, ‘No, I’m Matt’s brother. This is his space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave meets people where they are. It’s OK here for Matthew to work out issues he’s struggling with, without being condemned or dismissed or patronized, said Daniel. “He’s started a bad habit of slapping his forehead when playing basketball. He’ll miss a shot and get really angry and call himself, ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? Why are you doing that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A weather beaten sign outdoors says, \"Welcome to Bid Wave: Join Us Saturday Mornings, 2nd + 4th\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave has been a place for members to gather for two decades. The farm portion of the land sells eggs, lavender, vegetables and cut flowers. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel said he’s grateful to Matthew for teaching him more empathy and patience. But it’s also important, Daniel said, that Matthew have a space where he gets to be the big brother. Matthew has training as a peer counselor, something he uses with this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if someone’s having a bad day, he’ll go over and chat with them,” Daniel said. “He’ll usually take them aside or have that kind of conversation to see how they’re doing and see how they’re feeling and talk it out, help them kind of process what they’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers share a lot of history, much of it traumatic. Their mother died of brain cancer in 2009. Daniel guides Matthew through the grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He still feels that same kind of guilt, like, ‘Oh, I wish I could have been more supportive of things,’ and I just have to reinforce that ‘I feel the same way. You know, it’s totally fine that you feel that way. And that just means that you’re a good person.’” [aside tag=\"disability, community\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew gets philosophical when thinking about his mother. “Not that I’m a big religion person, but I do like to think that some part of us that makes us unique does move on when our time here passes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After their mother died, their father went through alcohol and opioid addiction. He was eventually institutionalized. And then, he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matthew has similar guilt [about] my mom [and] my dad of, ‘Oh, maybe I could have talked him out of drinking,’” Daniel said. “We did the best we could. And it’s stuff we talk about, you know? Guilt is there. And it’s OK to be guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave has been a critical solace and support to the brothers, and Daniel said he hopes to move into one of the planned caretaker apartments, to help his brother transition to independent living. He’s looking forward to helping Matthew do things like navigate his first fire drill, and cooking for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does Matthew hope for, as he gets ready to move into Big Wave once construction is finished?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am just hoping I can be a part of a community that accepts me for what I am, and not having me be something I am not,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As families sat in the bleachers over the years, the parents began to wonder whether these friendships could develop into something more permanent, a self-sustaining community of some kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all different levels of ability on the basketball court, and the higher, better players would help the lesser players. That’s what this population is,” said Big Wave Project board member \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigwaveproject.org/kim-gainza/\">Kim Gainza\u003c/a>, mother of Emmy, who will live at Big Wave. “They support each other and help each other, and if somebody makes a basket, everybody in the gym is cheering,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gainza summarized those conversations about the future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Well, what’s your plan for Joey when you’re no longer here?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘Well, I don’t know.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘What’s your plan for Emmy when you’re no longer here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An idea takes root\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Peck bought a windy, grassy plot of land, about 20 acres, across from the Half Moon Bay Airport. At the time, he was mainly interested in providing a comfortable place for sports, with a little farming on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rows of crops here: strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. Colorful chickens go about their business in a large coop. Big Wave sells fresh eggs, mainly to their families. To raise money, they also sell baskets of goodies from their garden — lavender products, flowers and eggs every second and fourth Saturday of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A bed of strawberry plants grows.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_7059-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave sells produce like strawberries, peas, lettuce, squash and lavender. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the parents’ ambition for the place grew. Today, it includes plans for apartments, a community café staffed by residents, and office space to rent out for income. The idea is to provide a place where their adult children and other residents who join will soon be able to live independently, in a community of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want your child to be safe, but you want your child to have opportunity, a community. You want them to have a full life,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating an intentional community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is no small feat. Peck did well for himself as a contractor, which allowed him to buy this land 20 years ago. But it’s taken numerous hearings, environmental reviews and permit applications to get to the point where Big Wave could break ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, there were vociferous, local objections to the development. \u003ca href=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.smharbor.com/commissioner-sabrina-brennan\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Sabrina Brennan\u003c/a>, a former San Mateo County harbor commissioner who opposed the project, said they ran the gamut\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\">: \u003c/strong>from concerns about the property being in a \u003ca href=\"///Users/pollystryker/Downloads/Skelly%20BigWaveWelness%202021%2010.18.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tsunami inundation zone\u003c/a> (mitigated in consultation with the county) and too close to \u003ca href=\"http://fitzgeraldreserve.org/visit\">Fitzgerald Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, to concerns that Big Wave’s residents would be too far away from social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major point of contention was Big Wave’s original proposal to build a large office park nearby, the proceeds of which would support the nonprofit, according to Gainza. Big Wave eventually dropped those plans to get approval from the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/7/th6/th6-7-2018-report.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> and San Mateo County for the mixed-use development now under construction, with permits approved in 2018 and 2020. Loans, donations and grants will cover costs instead. Concerns raised in a lawsuit by a local sanitary district were settled in 2009.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn a statement, Big Wave spokesperson Sarah Sherwood wrote that Big Wave “has been through years of examination and regulation, including the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and full approval and permits from the California Coastal Commission (2015), which Big Wave supports, as it advocates for adults with disabilities, the environment and the natural beauty of the Coast.” She added, “100 percent of all profits from farm sales, and any mom and pop businesses on the property go directly to our nonprofit, to serve the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, such as (autism), Down’s (syndrome) and brain injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green light finally came during the pandemic. Now 68, Peck knows he has a limited window of time to establish something financially sustainable that can outlast him and the other original parents. “All of the revenue from these commercial assets [will] go to keep the operating costs low,” said Peck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A core group of families paid about $60,000 each for their adult child to have a place at Big Wave, although costs have risen with construction prices and county requirements, like a traffic light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 57 apartments where Elizabeth and other adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities will live, there will be office space for rent, with some tenants already slated, like a martial arts academy, a florist, a culinary academy and a public café. The café will be overseen by Julie and Paul Shenkman, who run the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.samschowderhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam’s Chowder House\u003c/a> nearby. They’re Big Wave parents, too, and their child Sam will live at Big Wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a breakfast-lunch café. It’ll be muffins and coffee and sandwiches and soups. It will provide a place for the kids to have a job,” Julie Shenkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model is kind of like a co-op, or an intentional community or commune, with a board — including residents — to run it all. Peck knows this is a big, expensive experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life’s work,” he said. “When you have children that look at the world differently, you get an insight into life and death and history and spirituality and wisdom that you wouldn’t get otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Support for kids, but not for adults \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Developmental Services\u003c/a> serves more than 350,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a sizable — and vulnerable — population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This state is more generous than many others. But still, parents have to know how to work the system, according to Michelle Garcia Winner, a San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>-based speech language pathologist who’s worked with people on the autism spectrum for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there are plenty of programs for \u003cem>kids\u003c/em> with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), but fewer that are available for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever see our government being able to manage the needs of adults in a meaningful way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Winner said overcoming isolation and finding purpose is very important for the IDD community, just as it is for the rest of us. “Humans are born to contribute to something greater than themselves. If a person only has a five-minute attention span and they can help for five minutes, that’s awesome, right? Because they feel like they’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Lawrence Fung, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the proud father of a neurodiverse teenager. He directs the \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Neurodiversity Project\u003c/a>, which runs several programs including a specialized employment program for people with autism called \u003ca href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/NaW.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neurodiversity at Work\u003c/a>. It pairs people on the autism spectrum with jobs well-suited to their skill sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of neurodiverse people have significant strengths that can contribute much to society, if they are discovered,” Fung said. He added that it’s important for people like his son to be able to find work and build a strong sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tale of two brothers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Two boys grin as they show off toy airplanes in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-800x591.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1020x754.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-160x118.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1536x1135.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-2048x1513.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MatthewL_DanielR-by-Nancy-Cadigan-2-1920x1419.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew (left) and Daniel Hearn as children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nancy Cadigan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Cadigan Hearn is in his mid-30s, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with wavy brown hair and black-rimmed glasses. He’s also just 11 months older than his brother Daniel, one of the family members who keeps a close eye on Matthew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asperger’s was the term … that Matt was diagnosed with until they kind of changed it to being on the autistic spectrum,” Daniel said. The two of them have been a part of the Big Wave Project for more than a decade. Daniel coaches the Cougars, one of four teams at Big Wave. “Some of them can’t catch the ball thrown at full speed and some can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matt is the big man on the court. He is there to get rebounds and blocks and hopefully throw the ball back up if he catches a rebound,” said Daniel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what position he likes to play, Matt said, “Due to my height, I was either a power forward or center, so I was having to get in the scrimmage and be a bit of a punching bag at times.” Matthew floats through the teams and is thinking about becoming a coach himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel knows the fear of what could happen to his brother Matthew one day, if the brothers get separated or, worse, if Daniel dies. Matthew lives now with an uncle in South San Francisco, but those who don’t have family willing to step up can face grim alternatives, like group homes that can feel institutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel said people like his brother shouldn’t be warehoused in grim assisted-living facilities, as they often are in California. “What is schizophrenia? What is autism? What is Down syndrome?” he asks. “These [are] things that affect the community and shouldn’t be hidden away, you know? Something that’s so public … and accepting and welcoming [like Big Wave] is just so awesome,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave, Daniel said, has given Matthew an opportunity to explore and grow as a member of a community. “Matt has his own social circle here, people asking for advice and him really just holding his own audience when talking to a group of people. It was cool to walk into a situation where it’s not, ‘Oh, this is Daniel’s brother.’ It’s like, ‘No, I’m Matt’s brother. This is his space.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Wave meets people where they are. It’s OK here for Matthew to work out issues he’s struggling with, without being condemned or dismissed or patronized, said Daniel. “He’s started a bad habit of slapping his forehead when playing basketball. He’ll miss a shot and get really angry and call himself, ‘Stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And I’m like, ‘Where did that come from? Why are you doing that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A weather beaten sign outdoors says, \"Welcome to Bid Wave: Join Us Saturday Mornings, 2nd + 4th\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Big-Wave-sign-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Wave has been a place for members to gather for two decades. The farm portion of the land sells eggs, lavender, vegetables and cut flowers. \u003ccite>(KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel said he’s grateful to Matthew for teaching him more empathy and patience. But it’s also important, Daniel said, that Matthew have a space where he gets to be the big brother. Matthew has training as a peer counselor, something he uses with this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, if someone’s having a bad day, he’ll go over and chat with them,” Daniel said. “He’ll usually take them aside or have that kind of conversation to see how they’re doing and see how they’re feeling and talk it out, help them kind of process what they’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers share a lot of history, much of it traumatic. Their mother died of brain cancer in 2009. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of students at California State University may lose out on affordable housing because the Cal State system misread the fine print of a new state student housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The error — uncovered by CalMatters and acknowledged by Cal State officials — is straightforward but costly. In filling out paperwork required to get its portion of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/09/affordable-student-housing/\">$2 billion Gov. Gavin Newsom set aside for student housing\u003c/a>, Cal State incorrectly assumed that it could use that money — and only that money — to build dorms and apartments for lower-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, state rules allow Cal State to combine this limited pot of state money with outside funds, such as dollars from bonds the university regularly issues. Using a mix of funds allows a campus to either build larger structures to include more beds or combine projects to house more students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequence for Cal State’s blunder: Unless state lawmakers intervene, as many as 3,000 students will be deprived of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters discovered the discrepancy by reviewing building applications, official correspondence and other documents related to the three-year, $2 billion Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program that the Legislature approved in this year’s state budget. Over that three-year period, Cal State is slated to receive $600 million from the grant program to build housing at low rents for students.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Phil Ting\"]‘If CSU erroneously submitted their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The error comes after a Cal State vice chancellor implored the state to change the rules to accommodate more flexible spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state housing program is seen as one way to defray much of the costs of college attendance. More than half of Cal State and UC students from California don’t pay for tuition, but campus rent can tack on as much as $11,000 a year for Cal State students, though federal grants can help cover those expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably hundreds of thousands of California university and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/09/affordable-student-housing/\">community college students struggle to afford a stable place to live\u003c/a>. University housing is typically cheaper than off-campus housing in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-fixing-cal-state-s-snafu-may-be-difficult\">Fixing Cal State’s snafu may be difficult\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Cal State paperwork snafu directly affects the initial $150 million portion of funds carved out for the university system in this year’s state budget. Applications for using the funds were due by Oct. 31. Because the deadline came and went, a do-over for Cal State is tricky, said Rebecca Kirk, a project manager at the Department of Finance, an agency of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that is overseeing management of the student housing grant money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because that initial filing round had an established deadline of October 31, that was kind of the cutoff on the initial rounds,” she said in an interview. Fixing the error would be “a pretty significant potential change” to the proposals, Kirk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has until March 1 of next year to submit to the Legislature a list of recommended housing projects the state should fund. From there, lawmakers and the governor will ultimately decide what gets funded in either the state’s budget process or a standalone bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether lawmakers could allow Cal State to come up with new construction plans to make better use of the money. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB169\">The law governing these funds\u003c/a> is silent on whether lawmakers can deviate from what campuses initially proposed in their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If CSU erroneously submitted their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco who is chair of the Assembly’s budget committee, one of the two committees that will receive the Department of Finance’s recommendations. “Student housing is too important of an issue to let bureaucracy stand in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed at which the decisions have to be made is intentional: The law prioritizes affordable student housing projects that can start construction by the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal State system owned up to its error when asked by CalMatters. The university “misinterpreted” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Higher-Education-Student-Housing-Grant-Program-FAQs.pdf\">the guidance that the Department of Finance gave campuses\u003c/a> as “intending for the program to fund the student housing grant project in its entirety,” Vi San Juan, Cal State’s vice chancellor in charge of construction, wrote in a statement. The Department of Finance’s guidance, shared with the state’s public higher education systems Oct. 7, said that “proposals that include funding contributions from other sources will be considered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk said the system could revise its remaining proposals that aren’t funded in the first year of the program in the funding rounds for 2022 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-mixing-state-and-outside-funds-can-mean-more-student-housing\">Mixing state and outside funds can mean more student housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The potentially massive setback for students comes as a result of a misunderstanding of the rules by the Cal State system that has persisted for weeks. On Nov. 8, Robert Eaton, the Cal State vice chancellor who oversees financing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108/video?time%5Bassembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108%5D=7177.313904\">mistakenly told lawmakers in a public hearing that the student housing grant program’s funds cannot be combined with other money\u003c/a>. He then urged lawmakers to change the program’s rules to allow for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so “would spread the grant dollars over a larger number of projects, thereby potentially providing affordability benefits to an even greater number of students,” Eaton said. The Cal State system can easily borrow money through its existing construction bond program. Eaton said that already about a third of Cal State’s $8.8 billion construction bond debt is for financing student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say now’s an especially ripe time to plan for housing construction because borrowing rates are so low. The savings from near-zero interest plus state housing dollars drive down the cost of construction, which leads to student savings because campuses can charge less for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack McGrory, a Cal State trustee, said in an interview that if the system were allowed to use a mix of funds, it could build 5,000 to 6,000 beds rather than the roughly 3,300 it proposed. McGrory, a building developer in San Diego, spoke with CalMatters before it became clear that the flexibility Cal State sought was already built into the state student housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tactic the University of California knew to pursue in its state student housing applications. UCLA, for example, wants to use $35 million in state grant money and $29 million of its own \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCLA-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">to build 179 doubles with private bathrooms\u003c/a>. Because of the new housing grant’s affordability rules, rents per student will be $600 a month when the project is completed in 2025 — about a third of what UCLA typically charges for such accommodations, the UC application said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCB-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">UC Berkeley plans to use $100 million in state housing money\u003c/a> in conjunction with about $200 million in UC bond money to bring down the rents students will eventually pay. Mixing the two pots of funds would allow the campus to add 300 additional beds at rents of $1,100 — about a third less than what other campus students pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community college system, California’s largest public university system, does not typically build student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-a-history-of-housing-shortages\">A history of housing shortages\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s foray into financing student housing is new. Previously, lawmakers approved some money for campuses to cover short-term rent or hotel fees for students experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers’ growing interest in student housing is a reflection of their bid to have the UC and Cal State enroll more California students. The state plans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">up enrollment by 15,000 students at the two systems next year\u003c/a> — and more students means more pressure to house them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/11/uc-housing-crisis-students-hotels/\">UC students have resorted to living in hotels\u003c/a> because campuses have no space for them and nearby apartments off-campus are either too expensive or unavailable. Eight UC campuses this fall had \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Nov%208%20LAO%20Student%20Housing%20Handout.pdf\">7,500 students on housing wait lists\u003c/a>. The Cal State system reported 8,700 students wait-listed for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two UC campuses — at Davis and Santa Cruz — are locked into legally binding deals with their local governments to expand enrollment only if they can add an equal amount of new beds. Legal disputes such as these have led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108/video?time%5Bassembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108%5D=10149.975537\">housing construction delays at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/08/24/judge-freezes-uc-berkeleys-student-enrollment-at-2020-21-levels\">outright ban on expanding enrollment at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing squeeze exists despite the fact that Cal State and UC combined have built enough new housing for some 36,000 students since 2015 and plan to add another 21,000 slots in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-another-student-housing-solution\">Another student housing solution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the same November hearing where Cal State’s Robert Eaton incorrectly interpreted housing financing rules, the UC told lawmakers that it would benefit from a program in which the state gives the university system interest-free loans to build housing as another way to expand the affordable student housing stock. An influential lawmaker in higher education, Sacramento Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, proposed such a bill this year but it was heavily revised and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1377&cversion=20210AB137798AMD\">excluded the loan aspect when it finally passed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said his campus would benefit from added state investment because it’s coming close to maxing out the amount of money it can borrow from the bond market. UC San Diego wants to build enough student housing to offer a four-year housing guarantee to all undergraduates with rents that are at least 20% below market rate. The campus has been in a construction frenzy to get there: Khosla said the campus has built 6,000 new beds since 2013 and plans another 10,000 by 2030. A “revolving loan” from the state at 0% interest would lead to enough savings for UC San Diego to reduce campus rents to 38% below market rate for the campus’s lowest-income students, Khosla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other campuses are running out of land to build more housing. That may mean tearing down existing buildings to build taller ones. It’s another scenario in which the state’s increasing footprint in campus housing may play a key role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4472\">another year of record-high tax revenue appearing likely next year\u003c/a>, the state’s lawmakers will have a lot of options to fund a new batch of big projects.\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The error comes after a Cal State vice chancellor implored the state to change the rules to accommodate more flexible spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state housing program is seen as one way to defray much of the costs of college attendance. More than half of Cal State and UC students from California don’t pay for tuition, but campus rent can tack on as much as $11,000 a year for Cal State students, though federal grants can help cover those expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably hundreds of thousands of California university and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/09/affordable-student-housing/\">community college students struggle to afford a stable place to live\u003c/a>. University housing is typically cheaper than off-campus housing in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-fixing-cal-state-s-snafu-may-be-difficult\">Fixing Cal State’s snafu may be difficult\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Cal State paperwork snafu directly affects the initial $150 million portion of funds carved out for the university system in this year’s state budget. Applications for using the funds were due by Oct. 31. Because the deadline came and went, a do-over for Cal State is tricky, said Rebecca Kirk, a project manager at the Department of Finance, an agency of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that is overseeing management of the student housing grant money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because that initial filing round had an established deadline of October 31, that was kind of the cutoff on the initial rounds,” she said in an interview. Fixing the error would be “a pretty significant potential change” to the proposals, Kirk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has until March 1 of next year to submit to the Legislature a list of recommended housing projects the state should fund. From there, lawmakers and the governor will ultimately decide what gets funded in either the state’s budget process or a standalone bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether lawmakers could allow Cal State to come up with new construction plans to make better use of the money. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB169\">The law governing these funds\u003c/a> is silent on whether lawmakers can deviate from what campuses initially proposed in their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If CSU erroneously submitted their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco who is chair of the Assembly’s budget committee, one of the two committees that will receive the Department of Finance’s recommendations. “Student housing is too important of an issue to let bureaucracy stand in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed at which the decisions have to be made is intentional: The law prioritizes affordable student housing projects that can start construction by the end of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal State system owned up to its error when asked by CalMatters. The university “misinterpreted” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Higher-Education-Student-Housing-Grant-Program-FAQs.pdf\">the guidance that the Department of Finance gave campuses\u003c/a> as “intending for the program to fund the student housing grant project in its entirety,” Vi San Juan, Cal State’s vice chancellor in charge of construction, wrote in a statement. The Department of Finance’s guidance, shared with the state’s public higher education systems Oct. 7, said that “proposals that include funding contributions from other sources will be considered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk said the system could revise its remaining proposals that aren’t funded in the first year of the program in the funding rounds for 2022 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-mixing-state-and-outside-funds-can-mean-more-student-housing\">Mixing state and outside funds can mean more student housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The potentially massive setback for students comes as a result of a misunderstanding of the rules by the Cal State system that has persisted for weeks. On Nov. 8, Robert Eaton, the Cal State vice chancellor who oversees financing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/media/assembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108/video?time%5Bassembly-budget-subcommittee-2-education-finance-20211108%5D=7177.313904\">mistakenly told lawmakers in a public hearing that the student housing grant program’s funds cannot be combined with other money\u003c/a>. He then urged lawmakers to change the program’s rules to allow for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so “would spread the grant dollars over a larger number of projects, thereby potentially providing affordability benefits to an even greater number of students,” Eaton said. The Cal State system can easily borrow money through its existing construction bond program. Eaton said that already about a third of Cal State’s $8.8 billion construction bond debt is for financing student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say now’s an especially ripe time to plan for housing construction because borrowing rates are so low. The savings from near-zero interest plus state housing dollars drive down the cost of construction, which leads to student savings because campuses can charge less for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack McGrory, a Cal State trustee, said in an interview that if the system were allowed to use a mix of funds, it could build 5,000 to 6,000 beds rather than the roughly 3,300 it proposed. McGrory, a building developer in San Diego, spoke with CalMatters before it became clear that the flexibility Cal State sought was already built into the state student housing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tactic the University of California knew to pursue in its state student housing applications. UCLA, for example, wants to use $35 million in state grant money and $29 million of its own \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCLA-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">to build 179 doubles with private bathrooms\u003c/a>. Because of the new housing grant’s affordability rules, rents per student will be $600 a month when the project is completed in 2025 — about a third of what UCLA typically charges for such accommodations, the UC application said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UCB-SB169-Suppl-App.pdf\">UC Berkeley plans to use $100 million in state housing money\u003c/a> in conjunction with about $200 million in UC bond money to bring down the rents students will eventually pay. Mixing the two pots of funds would allow the campus to add 300 additional beds at rents of $1,100 — about a third less than what other campus students pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community college system, California’s largest public university system, does not typically build student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-a-history-of-housing-shortages\">A history of housing shortages\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s foray into financing student housing is new. Previously, lawmakers approved some money for campuses to cover short-term rent or hotel fees for students experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers’ growing interest in student housing is a reflection of their bid to have the UC and Cal State enroll more California students. The state plans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">up enrollment by 15,000 students at the two systems next year\u003c/a> — and more students means more pressure to house them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/11/uc-housing-crisis-students-hotels/\">UC students have resorted to living in hotels\u003c/a> because campuses have no space for them and nearby apartments off-campus are either too expensive or unavailable. Eight UC campuses this fall had \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Nov%208%20LAO%20Student%20Housing%20Handout.pdf\">7,500 students on housing wait lists\u003c/a>. The Cal State system reported 8,700 students wait-listed for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two UC campuses — at Davis and Santa Cruz — are locked into legally binding deals with their local governments to expand enrollment only if they can add an equal amount of new beds. 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An influential lawmaker in higher education, Sacramento Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, proposed such a bill this year but it was heavily revised and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1377&cversion=20210AB137798AMD\">excluded the loan aspect when it finally passed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said his campus would benefit from added state investment because it’s coming close to maxing out the amount of money it can borrow from the bond market. UC San Diego wants to build enough student housing to offer a four-year housing guarantee to all undergraduates with rents that are at least 20% below market rate. The campus has been in a construction frenzy to get there: Khosla said the campus has built 6,000 new beds since 2013 and plans another 10,000 by 2030. 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He returned to the top job in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Twitter founder stepped into brewing tensions over homelessness in 2018 when he publicly quarreled with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The two were on opposite sides of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101867937/sfs-prop-c-would-tap-big-business-to-pay-for-homeless-services\">a ballot proposition to enact a gross receipts tax on businesses that make more than $50 million in gross annual receipts to fund support for those who are homeless\u003c/a>. Benioff supported and largely funded Proposition C, whereas Dorsey was against it, citing Mayor London Breed and state Sen. Scott Wiener’s opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about me supporting Mayor @LondonBreed for *the* reason she was elected. The Mayor doesn’t support Prop C, and we should listen to her. 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Twitter was caught up in the heated political atmosphere leading up to the 2020 election, particularly when it banned former President Donald Trump following his incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Dorsey defended the move, saying Trump’s tweets after the event resulted in a risk to public safety and created an “extraordinary and untenable circumstance” for the company. Trump sued the company, along with Facebook and YouTube, in July for alleged censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argued that Twitter took too long to address hate speech, harassment and other harmful activity on its platform, particularly during the 2020 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’s actually stepping away from Twitter this time, Dorsey leaves behind a mixed legacy,” said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. “A platform that’s useful and potent for quick communication but one that’s been exploited by a range of bad actors, including former President Donald Trump, who did his best on Twitter to undermine democracy — until Dorsey’s people finally had enough and shut him down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early days of Twitter began with a tweet sent by Dorsey on March 21, 2006, that read “just setting up my twttr.” Twitter went through a period of robust growth during its early years, but as its expansion slowed the San Francisco company began tweaking its format in a bid to make it easier and more engaging to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey became Twitter CEO in 2007, but was forced out the following year. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new complex of tiny homes near Lake Merritt in Oakland opened its doors this week to a small group of unhoused residents, part of the city's effort to address its ongoing homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven people who moved into Lakeview Village, at 2nd Avenue and E 12th Street, on Wednesday are the first of about 65 residents the site will soon accommodate on a temporary basis, with additional small groups expected to move in over the coming weeks. Another set of pallet shelters on the same site, but separately managed, will temporarily house an additional 16 people.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nikki Fortunato Bas, Oakland City Council president\"]'We are using public land for public good, for interim homeless solutions to rapidly improve the living conditions of our unhoused neighbors.'[/pullquote]The stark, white-walled cabins are arranged in neat rows on a small plot of city-owned land that will likely soon be developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A waiting list has already formed, with unhoused residents in the immediate vicinity — including in the encampment that abuts the site — offered first priority, according to city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the tiny cabins is equipped with electric heat, a locking door, smoke and carbon monoxide monitors, a fire extinguisher and some storage space. The complex also provides drinking water, showers and onsite security to residents. It will also offer three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upgraded tiny home shelters ... are critical to addressing homelessness in Oakland, especially with the rains upon us and winter approaching,\" Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said earlier this month, during a media tour of the complex, which is located on the edge of her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896243 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent encampment with miscellaneous items all over the ground. In the far background behind a row of trees is Oakland's skyline.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment bordering Lakeview Village near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bas called the village a \"supportive shelter project\" because residents will be offered help with a range of services, including health, employment, public benefits, criminal record clearance, housing applications and credit repair. They also won't have strict move-out deadlines, and can bring in pets and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are using public land for public good, for interim homeless solutions to rapidly improve the living conditions of our unhoused neighbors,\" Bas added.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]With more than 4,000 unhoused people currently living in Oakland, and nowhere near enough permanent supportive housing options to accommodate the vast majority of them, the city is increasingly turning to complexes of tiny homes as a means to provide more immediate shelter and services — albeit on a temporary basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike permanent housing, which often takes years to approve and build, and can be prohibitively expensive, temporary tiny home villages can be erected within weeks, at less than $8,000 per cabin — and easily relocated if the vacant land they sit on is eventually developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland spent roughly $2.4 million to prepare and build the sites at Lakeview Village, as well as a nearby site at 3rd and Peralta streets that is expected to soon accommodate 40 additional people, Bas's office said. The city will pay the Housing Consortium of the East Bay, an Oakland nonprofit, $1.3 million a year — mostly from federal emergency pandemic funds — to operate the Lake Merritt site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Vann, who lives close to the new site and helped start Oakland's Homeless Advocacy Working Group several years ago, called the new complex \"critical to improving the dignity, security, and living conditions of our unsheltered neighbors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896241 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside a tiny cabin. In the photo there is a mattress and a shelf with three levels holding a white plastic bag, a plate, bowl and fire extinguisher. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of one of the Lakeview Village tiny cabins. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vann said he sees no way to meet the demand for housing by only providing traditional housing options, which can cost up to $600,000 per unit and take up to five years to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, his working group advocates for an \"accommodations immediately\" policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lakeview Village comes close to achieving that aim,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates of the unhoused, however, argue that while these new tiny home complexes are a significant step up from the heatless \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/oaklands-tuff-shed-program-by-the-numbers-2-1/\">converted garden sheds that the city erected in 2017\u003c/a>, they still fall short of addressing the bigger issue of housing insecurity in the city and wider region — and the urgent need to build much more permanent housing for low-income people.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lisa Gray-Garcia, housing activist\"]'The tiny homes will not solve or be a solution to trauma, poverty and racism — the multiple abuses that lead to people being on the streets.'[/pullquote]\"The tiny homes will not solve or be a solution to trauma, poverty and racism — the multiple abuses that lead to people being on the streets,\" said Lisa \"Tiny\" Gray-Garcia, the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.poormagazine.org\">Poor Magazine\u003c/a>, a nonprofit group that offers resources and media access to people experiencing poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray-Garcia said she's also concerned the new temporary housing projects will give the city additional license to continue aggressively clearing tent encampments, even as it fails to provide suitable alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/21/oakland-passes-controversial-new-homeless-encampment-policy/\">the Oakland City Council unanimously approved a controversial encampment ban\u003c/a> that prohibits setting up tents in certain places near schools, homes and businesses, and authorizes officials to tear down camps in those restricted areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yay, they're doing something, but how about you stop sweeping us?\" said Gray-Garcia, who until recently was unhoused herself, and called the city's enforcement actions \"violent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Gray-Garcia's group raised almost $90,000 to buy an empty lot on MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland, and built a duplex that she and her son and four other residents eventually moved into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896286 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52381_009_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tiny 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The stark, white-walled cabins are arranged in neat rows on a small plot of city-owned land that will likely soon be developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A waiting list has already formed, with unhoused residents in the immediate vicinity — including in the encampment that abuts the site — offered first priority, according to city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the tiny cabins is equipped with electric heat, a locking door, smoke and carbon monoxide monitors, a fire extinguisher and some storage space. The complex also provides drinking water, showers and onsite security to residents. It will also offer three free meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Upgraded tiny home shelters ... are critical to addressing homelessness in Oakland, especially with the rains upon us and winter approaching,\" Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said earlier this month, during a media tour of the complex, which is located on the edge of her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896243 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent encampment with miscellaneous items all over the ground. In the far background behind a row of trees is Oakland's skyline.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52383_012_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tent encampment bordering Lakeview Village near Lake Merritt on Nov. 3, 2021. The tiny home community will provide transitional housing for unhoused people in the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bas called the village a \"supportive shelter project\" because residents will be offered help with a range of services, including health, employment, public benefits, criminal record clearance, housing applications and credit repair. They also won't have strict move-out deadlines, and can bring in pets and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are using public land for public good, for interim homeless solutions to rapidly improve the living conditions of our unhoused neighbors,\" Bas added.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With more than 4,000 unhoused people currently living in Oakland, and nowhere near enough permanent supportive housing options to accommodate the vast majority of them, the city is increasingly turning to complexes of tiny homes as a means to provide more immediate shelter and services — albeit on a temporary basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike permanent housing, which often takes years to approve and build, and can be prohibitively expensive, temporary tiny home villages can be erected within weeks, at less than $8,000 per cabin — and easily relocated if the vacant land they sit on is eventually developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland spent roughly $2.4 million to prepare and build the sites at Lakeview Village, as well as a nearby site at 3rd and Peralta streets that is expected to soon accommodate 40 additional people, Bas's office said. The city will pay the Housing Consortium of the East Bay, an Oakland nonprofit, $1.3 million a year — mostly from federal emergency pandemic funds — to operate the Lake Merritt site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Vann, who lives close to the new site and helped start Oakland's Homeless Advocacy Working Group several years ago, called the new complex \"critical to improving the dignity, security, and living conditions of our unsheltered neighbors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11896241 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside a tiny cabin. In the photo there is a mattress and a shelf with three levels holding a white plastic bag, a plate, bowl and fire extinguisher. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52376_006_Oakland_LakeviewVillageTinyHomes_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of one of the Lakeview Village tiny cabins. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vann said he sees no way to meet the demand for housing by only providing traditional housing options, which can cost up to $600,000 per unit and take up to five years to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, his working group advocates for an \"accommodations immediately\" policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lakeview Village comes close to achieving that aim,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates of the unhoused, however, argue that while these new tiny home complexes are a significant step up from the heatless \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/oaklands-tuff-shed-program-by-the-numbers-2-1/\">converted garden sheds that the city erected in 2017\u003c/a>, they still fall short of addressing the bigger issue of housing insecurity in the city and wider region — and the urgent need to build much more permanent housing for low-income people.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The first time William Joseph Brown filled out a survey to try to get into permanent housing, he was living beside a highway. That was December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August this year, when California’s transportation agency cleared him from the same strip of land tucked behind the San Clemente off-ramp on the northbound Interstate 5, he still had nowhere to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans removed Brown and about 20 other campers due to the “immediate safety threat of fire,” as they were “using open flames to cook near dry vegetation,” a spokesperson told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said six of those people were matched to permanent housing. Brown said he got a voucher for a hotel room for about a week, and then another, which recently expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s still waiting on the permanent housing voucher he was promised two years ago. Brown said none of his friends exited homelessness since they were removed from the camp, either: “They’re just in a different place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were on the off-ramp because we were out of the way,” he said. “People don’t want to see homeless people. A lot of us were there because that was the last place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1556px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png\" alt=\"A man stands wearing a backpack and jacket around his next while holding a pole outdoors.\" width=\"1556\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png 1556w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-1536x1021.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Brown, 42 , in the woods in San Clemente on Nov. 6, 2021. Brown said he lost $1,000 worth of belongings while being removed from an encampment on Caltrans property and was left with only a backpack and bag. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is spending more than ever before on homelessness — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/HousingandHomelessness.pdf\">$12 billion between 2021 and 2023\u003c/a> — which also means there’s more pressure to make an impact. The bulk of that money will go to creating more living spaces and providing mental health resources for people who are now on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the money is being used by Caltrans in a ramped-up effort to move people like Brown off the state’s bustling freeways in the name of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with homelessness,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at the 2021 California Economic Summit in Monterey on Nov. 9. “We’ve got to deal with cleaning the state, the streets, cleaning up our thoroughfares, our underpasses, our overpasses, removing graffiti, dealing with encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=homelessness\"]Reducing homelessness is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2021/\">top of mind for many voters.\u003c/a> And it’s likely to be a big campaign issue in 2022, as it was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/newsom-recall-republicans-homelessness/\">for the Sept. 14 election on whether to recall Newsom.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while it may be good politics to move homeless people out of visible public locations, experts say it’s just moving the problem somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spending state money on harassing people who are struggling under the impacts of local, state and federal policy failures is counterproductive,” said Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. “I would present the radical idea of taking the perspective of the people living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There aren’t enough beds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time volunteers and local officials counted the number of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">people experiencing homelessness in California\u003c/a> was on a January night in 2020. They came across more than 161,000 people, in and out of shelters. That is the largest number in the nation, but the tally is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2020/01/homeless-point-in-time-count-california-inaccurate-politicized-fresno/\">widely considered an underestimate,\u003c/a> and it doesn’t take into account the economic devastation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic that started two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 36% of those people had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">homeless for at least a year,\u003c/a> which means the other two-thirds were newly homeless, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No beds for the night?\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-F8U77\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/F8U77/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0px; border: none; min-width: 100% !important; width: 800;\" height=\"800\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, cities and counties across California reported last year a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2020.pdf\">53,000 beds in either an emergency shelter or transitional housing\u003c/a> — or fewer than one bed for every three people. In some areas, the ratio is as high as five people per bed; no county has at least one full bed per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, however, some shelter beds — in churches for example — that aren’t counted in these official statistics because they don’t receive any money from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot more beds became available in California during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">in hotel and motel rooms leased or bought by the state\u003c/a> at a record clip. Project Roomkey has provided temporary shelter to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/main-recoverylab-cities-la-sros-518602?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">more than 48,000 people\u003c/a> during the pandemic, and Project Homekey temporarily sheltered thousands more across 94 hotels that created about 6,000 permanent housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the latter program was tripled in the most recent budget, from $846 million to $2.75 billion. Another $2.2 billion over the next three years will go to create behavioral health facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, officials found that between the loss in warehouse-style shelter capacity brought on by COVID safety measures, and the gain mostly in motel rooms made available by the state, total shelter capacity in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">didn’t vary significantly between 2020 and 2021.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say achieving a one-to-one ratio on shelter beds for people shouldn’t be the ultimate goal. Running shelters can be very expensive, and while it treats the problem temporarily, it can be a dead end when there’s no permanent housing on the other side. The Los Angeles Housing Authority, for example, found it \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">needed more than triple\u003c/a> the existing permanent supportive housing supply to match demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, many people say they don’t want to go into congregate shelters, where they often are not only \u003ca href=\"https://archive.kpcc.org/news/2018/05/09/82908/rats-roaches-bedbugs-mold-why-thousands-of-las-hom/\">exposed to substandard living conditions,\u003c/a> but potential assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you offer traumatized people to be in a huge shelter where there can be violence, where there can be no end in sight, where your things will get stolen, or could get stolen, that’s not really an offer,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Brown’s camp by I-5, he said he and two other campers were offered a shelter bed, but turned it down. He suffers from a degenerative eye condition that blocks his peripheral vision, and said he had his belongings stolen multiple times at shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s in the budget for Caltrans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Transportation.pdf\">$1.1 billion for a project called Clean California,\u003c/a> with most of the money going to litter pickup and beautification. Newsom has said it will add \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-08/newsom-1-billion-statewide-cleanup-plan\">about 11,000 jobs over three years,\u003c/a> with at-risk youth and people who were formerly homeless or incarcerated getting priority. Caltrans is also using a small portion of the funding to clear homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation with encampments in California is unacceptable,” Newsom said in a recent statement. “I refuse to accept the status quo — our fellow Californians suffering in tents, under highway overpasses, exposed to the elements, and living in unsanitary conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the economic summit, the governor said that his office had identified 100 encampments as top priorities and was working with Caltrans to clear them “in a thoughtful and strategic way” — a promise he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWHkjlIsbk\">made multiple times.\u003c/a>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom at the Nov. 9 Economic Summit']‘We’ve got to deal with cleaning the state, the streets, cleaning up our thoroughfares, our underpasses, our overpasses, removing graffiti, dealing with encampments.’[/pullquote]But so far his office and Caltrans have declined to identify the locations, citing privacy and security concerns for the campers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are we supposed to know what’s happening with these resources?” asked Christopher Martin, policy director at Housing California, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It’s very behind closed doors, and I think that’s a little bit frightening because we need some accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans also got an additional $2.7 million this fiscal year for homeless coordinators to mitigate safety risks at encampments, clean trash and debris, and connect people living in these camps to support services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to CalMatters, Caltrans said it spent more than $15 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and projects to spend nearly $36 million in the next year specifically on homeless camp cleanups. It conducted just 19 encampment relocations in all of 2020, when federal health officials advised against them during the pandemic. This year, Caltrans has completed 347 through mid-October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the agency deals with the shortage of shelter and housing units, Caltrans officials said they “coordinate with cities and social service providers, which can connect people experiencing homelessness with services. However, on high priority encampments where an immediate threat to safety or to essential infrastructure has been identified, the department must proceed with the encampment clearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/29/california-launches-encampment-resolution-grant-program/\">$50 million in new grants\u003c/a> to help local governments deal with encampments. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/encampment_rfa.pdf\">applications opened recently,\u003c/a> and the money will be distributed next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that money will fund encampment clearings, according to Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. Instead, he said, grantees will get funds to provide services tailored to the needs of people in those camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimerich directed any questions about the Caltrans cleanups to the transportation agency, while Caltrans directed questions about the encampment service programs to the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. Both declined multiple requests for phone interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said the apparent lack of coordination between the programs was “a little concerning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s state auditor in February \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\">raised concerns about a lack of coordination\u003c/a> between the multiple agencies dealing with homelessness in California: “At least nine state agencies administer and oversee 41 different programs that provide funding to mitigate homelessness, yet no single entity oversees the State’s efforts or is responsible for developing a statewide strategic plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new programs raise a bigger question for Josh Barocas, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado who studies homelessness and substance use: Why is transportation money going toward clearing homeless camps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t actually take into account the long-term health effects of those being displaced and doing the displacement, and their future needs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a computer modeling study that did not undergo peer review, Barocas found that in Boston, disbanding a homeless camp was more likely to drive up overdoses, hospitalizations and mortality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what I would call social theater,” he said. “It’s showing your neighborhood that you are trying to do something by literally sweeping the problem away….The only way to actually fix this problem is to get at the social and structural issues that are perpetuating poverty, perpetuating homelessness in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Barocas doesn’t believe in clearing encampments, he said there is value in continued community outreach, even when the housing isn’t there yet. “Bringing resources to where people are, and literally meeting them where they’re at, never loses utility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eve Garrow, a homelessness policy analyst and advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, said many of the people now camping alongside California’s highways were originally in safer spots such as parks with restrooms. But they’ve moved into the fringes because of law enforcement harassment, often brought on by calls to service made by their housed neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The answer is simple,” she said. “Stop criminalizing people.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Josh Barocas, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado']‘It’s what I would call social theater.It’s showing your neighborhood that you are trying to do something by literally sweeping the problem away.’[/pullquote]In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/outsidethelaw-aclufdnsca-report.pdf\">recent report,\u003c/a> Garrow and her colleagues argue housing status should be a protected social group, a policy Martin’s group and the Western Center on Law and Poverty hope to advance in the Legislature’s next session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking stable shelter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who is 42, said he had worked with several county health workers to get on the waitlist for a permanent housing voucher, but all of them had since quit. “It just seems like nobody can even give me an answer as to why it’s not moving forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The voucher would subsidize Brown’s housing so he has to spend only a third of his disability check on rent. But he’ll still need to find a landlord willing to rent to a man who’s been homeless for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he wants to be able to host his grandmother, which he couldn’t do on the side of a freeway. He also wants a cure for his vision; he learned about a clinical trial when he was living in the camp, but said it was very difficult for him to consider the option if he had to take medication, as it would likely get stolen. And he wants to stop worrying about getting his stuff stolen every night, when he can barely see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1552px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM.png\" alt=\"A man wearing a hat and backpack with a sheath for a knife holds a paddle while kneeling on a raft on a creek.\" width=\"1552\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM.png 1552w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.44-PM-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1552px) 100vw, 1552px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Lowe, 32, made a raft out of longboards and wood to cross the San Mateo Creek and reach where he has been staying in San Clemente. Lowe moved to the woods with his dog after an encampment on Caltrans property was removed on Aug. 27. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since getting kicked out of the camp, Brown connected with another service provider who’s scheduled to call him to sort out his case. Staying in a hotel with his friend, Megan, provided some much-needed stability. “I got very used to that, and then we were told we had to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and three of his fellow campers wrote a letter urging elected leaders, public officials, and service providers involved in the camp clearing to be honest about the plight of many homeless people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Admit that the process of getting assistance is lengthy, that there is not enough housing for everyone who qualifies for it, and that there are people on the street who do want help and are doing what they’re supposed to do to receive it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The first time William Joseph Brown filled out a survey to try to get into permanent housing, he was living beside a highway. That was December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August this year, when California’s transportation agency cleared him from the same strip of land tucked behind the San Clemente off-ramp on the northbound Interstate 5, he still had nowhere to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans removed Brown and about 20 other campers due to the “immediate safety threat of fire,” as they were “using open flames to cook near dry vegetation,” a spokesperson told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said six of those people were matched to permanent housing. Brown said he got a voucher for a hotel room for about a week, and then another, which recently expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s still waiting on the permanent housing voucher he was promised two years ago. Brown said none of his friends exited homelessness since they were removed from the camp, either: “They’re just in a different place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were on the off-ramp because we were out of the way,” he said. “People don’t want to see homeless people. A lot of us were there because that was the last place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1556px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11896553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png\" alt=\"A man stands wearing a backpack and jacket around his next while holding a pole outdoors.\" width=\"1556\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM.png 1556w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-17-at-12.16.17-PM-1536x1021.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Brown, 42 , in the woods in San Clemente on Nov. 6, 2021. Brown said he lost $1,000 worth of belongings while being removed from an encampment on Caltrans property and was left with only a backpack and bag. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is spending more than ever before on homelessness — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/HousingandHomelessness.pdf\">$12 billion between 2021 and 2023\u003c/a> — which also means there’s more pressure to make an impact. The bulk of that money will go to creating more living spaces and providing mental health resources for people who are now on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the money is being used by Caltrans in a ramped-up effort to move people like Brown off the state’s bustling freeways in the name of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with homelessness,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at the 2021 California Economic Summit in Monterey on Nov. 9. “We’ve got to deal with cleaning the state, the streets, cleaning up our thoroughfares, our underpasses, our overpasses, removing graffiti, dealing with encampments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reducing homelessness is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2021/\">top of mind for many voters.\u003c/a> And it’s likely to be a big campaign issue in 2022, as it was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/newsom-recall-republicans-homelessness/\">for the Sept. 14 election on whether to recall Newsom.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while it may be good politics to move homeless people out of visible public locations, experts say it’s just moving the problem somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spending state money on harassing people who are struggling under the impacts of local, state and federal policy failures is counterproductive,” said Margot Kushel, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. “I would present the radical idea of taking the perspective of the people living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There aren’t enough beds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time volunteers and local officials counted the number of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\">people experiencing homelessness in California\u003c/a> was on a January night in 2020. They came across more than 161,000 people, in and out of shelters. That is the largest number in the nation, but the tally is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2020/01/homeless-point-in-time-count-california-inaccurate-politicized-fresno/\">widely considered an underestimate,\u003c/a> and it doesn’t take into account the economic devastation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic that started two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 36% of those people had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">homeless for at least a year,\u003c/a> which means the other two-thirds were newly homeless, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No beds for the night?\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-F8U77\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/F8U77/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0px; border: none; min-width: 100% !important; width: 800;\" height=\"800\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, cities and counties across California reported last year a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_State_CA_2020.pdf\">53,000 beds in either an emergency shelter or transitional housing\u003c/a> — or fewer than one bed for every three people. In some areas, the ratio is as high as five people per bed; no county has at least one full bed per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, however, some shelter beds — in churches for example — that aren’t counted in these official statistics because they don’t receive any money from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot more beds became available in California during the pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">in hotel and motel rooms leased or bought by the state\u003c/a> at a record clip. Project Roomkey has provided temporary shelter to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/main-recoverylab-cities-la-sros-518602?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">more than 48,000 people\u003c/a> during the pandemic, and Project Homekey temporarily sheltered thousands more across 94 hotels that created about 6,000 permanent housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the latter program was tripled in the most recent budget, from $846 million to $2.75 billion. Another $2.2 billion over the next three years will go to create behavioral health facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, officials found that between the loss in warehouse-style shelter capacity brought on by COVID safety measures, and the gain mostly in motel rooms made available by the state, total shelter capacity in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">didn’t vary significantly between 2020 and 2021.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say achieving a one-to-one ratio on shelter beds for people shouldn’t be the ultimate goal. Running shelters can be very expensive, and while it treats the problem temporarily, it can be a dead end when there’s no permanent housing on the other side. The Los Angeles Housing Authority, for example, found it \u003ca href=\"https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5503-2021-hic-and-shelter-count-presentation\">needed more than triple\u003c/a> the existing permanent supportive housing supply to match demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, many people say they don’t want to go into congregate shelters, where they often are not only \u003ca href=\"https://archive.kpcc.org/news/2018/05/09/82908/rats-roaches-bedbugs-mold-why-thousands-of-las-hom/\">exposed to substandard living conditions,\u003c/a> but potential assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you offer traumatized people to be in a huge shelter where there can be violence, where there can be no end in sight, where your things will get stolen, or could get stolen, that’s not really an offer,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Brown’s camp by I-5, he said he and two other campers were offered a shelter bed, but turned it down. He suffers from a degenerative eye condition that blocks his peripheral vision, and said he had his belongings stolen multiple times at shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s in the budget for Caltrans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Transportation.pdf\">$1.1 billion for a project called Clean California,\u003c/a> with most of the money going to litter pickup and beautification. Newsom has said it will add \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-08/newsom-1-billion-statewide-cleanup-plan\">about 11,000 jobs over three years,\u003c/a> with at-risk youth and people who were formerly homeless or incarcerated getting priority. Caltrans is also using a small portion of the funding to clear homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation with encampments in California is unacceptable,” Newsom said in a recent statement. “I refuse to accept the status quo — our fellow Californians suffering in tents, under highway overpasses, exposed to the elements, and living in unsanitary conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the economic summit, the governor said that his office had identified 100 encampments as top priorities and was working with Caltrans to clear them “in a thoughtful and strategic way” — a promise he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWHkjlIsbk\">made multiple times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a sun-filled, fall day and Nicholas is strapped to an ambulance gurney near 8th and Market streets in downtown San Francisco, dazed and barely conscious. Plastic IV tubes snake around his left hand where L-O-V-E is tattooed just below his knuckles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nicholas, try to wake up a little bit for me, come on,” paramedic Paula Fartash coaxes, as she unsuccessfully tries to rouse him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas (we’re not using his last name because of the stigma of addiction) tells Fartash that when he started getting high in nearby U.N. 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However, it turned out that he was unknowingly consuming fentanyl as well. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco has among the highest per capita drug overdose death rates of any city in the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Faced with a stunning rise in drug overdose deaths the last few years, the vast majority tied to fentanyl, San Francisco has launched mobile teams made up of paramedics and nurses. The new Street Overdose Response Team (SORT), a collaboration between the city’s health and fire departments, aims to deliver a broad range of support and care directly following an overdose.[aside postID=\"news_11890421\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/fentanylteststrips_annelisefinney-1020x765.jpg\"]“Fentanyl is a game changer,” \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-new-director-behavioral-health-services-and-mental-health-sf\">Dr. Hillary Kunins\u003c/a>, the city’s director of behavioral and mental health services, says of the opioid that’s 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. “It requires a new way of thinking and resourcing.” It also, she says, “requires people to learn to work across disciplines and sometimes across organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunins previously led New York City’s response to its overdose and substance abuse crisis. She concedes they aren’t sure what combination of tools, ultimately, will work best here to not only reduce fentanyl- and other drug-related deaths but also to boost treatment success rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the street overdose pilot project is part of a broad and ambitious strategy of interventions across city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no single approach that’s going to solve this complex problem,” Kunins says. “What’s exciting and important about the work is that it is really part of a movement across the country to rethink how we address people who are at risk of overdose, who have ongoing other challenges: mental health, housing, food. And we must do this work to scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fentanyl forced city officials to change how they approached harm reduction\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Capt. Michael Mason, a paramedic, is the fire department’s point person on the new program. As he races to the call for Nicholas’s overdose, he’s simultaneously coordinating with other paramedics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting directly at the scene of this overdose, we can start trying to direct this guy’s care in the best direction possible,” Mason says.[aside postID=\"news_11874651\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48996_006_MountainView_RobinDosskey_05122021-qut.jpg\"]That direct engagement could include helping to find a shelter bed, reaching out to friends or a doctor, helping with food or, most importantly, seeing if a person wants to start treatment with buprenorphine or suboxone, a medication-assisted therapy for opioid dependence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get this individual suboxone, stabilize him at the [emergency department], by that afternoon they can be in a treatment program,” Mason says, “All in the context of a 911 incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many years San Francisco has championed a harm-reduction public health approach to lowering drug deaths and injury. The city, known for its relative tolerance of illicit drug use, was a trailblazer of clean syringe access and distribution of life-saving naloxone kits, as well as boosting access to the treatment drugs methadone and buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when fentanyl hit hard here starting a few years ago, the overdose crisis spiraled and the city was forced to rethink its approach. Free Narcan and syringes weren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fentanyl is in the drugs that you’re using, your risk of overdose triples,” Capt. Mason says, adding that the drug is now tainting most every street narcotic here: meth, cocaine, heroin and fake opioid pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1228px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895039 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg\" alt=\"A person knocks on the front door of an apartment on the second, outdoor floor of a multistory building.\" width=\"1228\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg 1228w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Department of Public Health nurses with the city’s new mobile outreach teams say following up with people who’ve recently survived a drug overdose is a key part of the program. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Surviving an overdose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pandemic isolation and lockdowns — people using alone with no one to administer life-saving Narcan — only partially explain the historic rise in overdose deaths here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports\">drug death rate, in fact, had been trending higher\u003c/a> well before that, city medical examiner data show. In mid-2018 the numbers began to skyrocket, reaching 441 deaths in 2019. And in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths#total-cases-and-deaths\">a whopping 712 people fatally overdosed\u003c/a>, more than double the number of people here who died from COVID-19 during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of those deaths — almost three-quarters —involved fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death toll would have been even higher if not for \u003ca href=\"https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/\">the wide availability of Narcan here\u003c/a>. Well over 3,000 people said they used Narcan in the city in 2020, a self-reported figure. Officials say the real figure is probably far higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health and fire department officials here, Mason says, noticed something else important: Almost half of all who died of an overdose were treated or revived by a paramedic crew in the days or weeks before their deaths, a big signal they were headed for repeat trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Surviving a nonfatal overdose is one of the best predictors of future mortality. Anyone who survives a nonfatal overdose is a huge red flag for us, and that is what this program is about,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key goal is trying to bring the clinic to the patients: rapid, face-to-face follow-up outreach on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out, we look for them, we say, ‘Hey, let’s talk about yesterday,'” says city health department nurse practitioner Kevin Lagor, as he drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood, where many of his clients live. He’s a program lead with SORT’s outreach arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to reach back out within 24 to 72 hours of an overdose to try to assist the person with everything from housing to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could be providing medical care to address their mental illness. Maybe they’re out of their meds, or maybe they want to start something to address their substance use disorder,” he says. “Just kind of, basically, meeting them where they are and seeing what they need and how we can help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to meet them where they are, the nurse teams first have to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge challenge. Many of them are unhoused, living in tents on the street or in and out of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overdose and substance use disorder crisis is directly linked to the city’s epic struggles with homelessness and related challenges including mental illness. Almost 30% of all overdose deaths here are among people experiencing homelessness or people “with no fixed address.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">SORT collaborates closely with the city’s other programs\u003c/a>, including street medicine and new mental health and homeless street crisis response units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in the middle of a crosswalk looking up the street and at a row of tents on each sidewalk.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People live in tents that line a side street in the Tenderloin District. More than 40% of all drug overdoses are in the Tenderloin and neighboring SoMa districts, according to city data. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City data shows that men were almost four times more likely to die of an accidental overdose than women. And unhoused people, older San Franciscans and communities of color were disproportionately affected by the death rate: Almost a quarter of all overdose deaths were among Black San Franciscans, who make up just under 6% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of all overdose deaths in the last year have been concentrated in two neighborhoods: the South of Market area and the Tenderloin, according to data from the city and county chief medical examiner’s office. Those areas make up just 7% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While drug deaths hit every sector of society, many who overdosed were found in city-funded hotel rooms for unhoused residents and in apartment buildings for those with low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that this is a social crisis at the intersection, particularly in San Francisco, of a housing crisis, of a mental health crisis, of people living at the margins of society,” says Dr. Dan Ciccarone, a professor and researcher at University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open-air drug use and dealing in the Tenderloin, an area long challenged by poverty, homelessness and addiction crises, has only worsened during the pandemic. It’s common, day or night, to see people smoking or shooting up opioids or nodding out from drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 32-year-old man named Neil (we’re not using his last name because of the stigma of addiction) says he’s been living on the streets, mainly in the Tenderloin, for three years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he uses fentanyl “to take the edge off” of his depression and chronic stomach pain. He occasionally sells drugs, he says, to get money to support his habit. He soon crushes a small amount of fentanyl into a piece of tinfoil and begins to smoke the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1229px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895055 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing face masks stand outside a white van parked alongside a mural as they look through papers and plastic bags in their hands. It looks like early morning.\" width=\"1229\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1229px) 100vw, 1229px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City public health department nurses Kevin Lagor and Louise Bisby, part of new mobile outreach teams, get supplies out of their SUV to bring to people who have recently survived a drug overdose. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Follow-up work by nurses is full of challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day, nurse Lagor has half a dozen clients listed on his clipboard. He can’t find a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’ll just kind of keep following up with the staff at the shelter,” he says in the lobby of one facility, having been unable to find a client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same happens at a makeshift tent encampment behind a local Best Buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside another shelter, Lagor and his team strike out again trying to find a young man they thought they were making progress with. They’d recently written him a prescription for a supply of buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He hasn’t been here in a couple of days,” Lagor says, disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a bad sign. Sometimes folks disappear for a couple days and then resurface,” he says. “Then they disappear, or it just falls apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it all falls apart, it can hit Lagor and the rest of his team hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of death and they’re not strangers. You know, we’ve had a couple of deaths this week and we’ve, we shed tears together,” Lagor says. “It’s hard not to care about someone when you’re really trying to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction and public health experts say these mobile, nonpolice teams mark a much-needed pivot for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bold and it’s innovative. I like it,” says Ciccarone, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and a leading expert on drug use, people who use drugs and heroin. “We need to bring in some innovations here because fentanyl is a wild card and it has caught us all by surprise. That’s what we need to do in a crisis situation: Think creatively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ciccarone cautions that the ravages of fentanyl and its complex stew of related challenges mean the city needs to scale up this new street overdose response program and continue to try to break down obstacles to treatment that include bureaucratic silos, turf battles and funding woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely not enough,” he says. “We have to make sure that harm reduction is adequately funded, that our mental health system, our substance treatment system, our housing systems are adequately funded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, just two months since the program’s launch, 10% of those encountered by the SORT teams who’ve overdosed are now getting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. That includes buprenorphine or suboxone in collaboration with city’s street medicine nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud of that number,” Capt. Mason says, “and I very much look forward to increasing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get that number even higher, the fire department has applied to the state EMS agency to allow paramedics to more easily administer and prescribe those treatment drugs directly in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a recent slight drop in monthly fatalities the city looks to end 2021 with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%2010_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">more than 700 overdose deaths for the second year in a row.\u003c/a> Unfortunately, Kunins, the city’s director of behavioral health services, says San Francisco is “on track to continue this really tragic loss of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895040 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg\" alt=\"A uniformed man in black pants, black boots, and a white short-sleeved shirt with a red-and-yellow insignia sewn on the sleeve opens the back door of an ambulance parked in the middle of a street.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Department Capt. Michael Mason with the city’s Street Overdose Response Team arrives at the scene of a reported drug overdose in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Paramedics on the team look for small victories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back on the street, another call comes in from the 911 dispatcher for a possible overdose. A middle-aged woman has been found slumped over in a McDonald’s bathroom across town in the Fillmore district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Mason’s occasional staccato siren squawks aren’t working on a handful of drivers and pedestrians in heavy rush-hour traffic. So he hits his lights and sirens full bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrive, the woman tells the paramedics she has relapsed after several months of sobriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heroin she bought, Mason says, was likely laced with fentanyl. Narcan saved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the ambulance, Mason says, the woman handed paramedics a crumpled, greasy brown fast-food bag and asked that they get rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some clean syringes in there and what appeared to be small bags of heroin,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason finds out she was already part of a medication-assisted treatment program using suboxone. He says she told them that she wants to get sober again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was feeling extreme shame from experiencing a relapse,” he says. “Substance use disorder impacts millions of Americans. There’s no shame in having a relapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes she restarts her suboxone treatment quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for today,” Mason says, “and as for surrendering those items and requesting they be disposed of, my hat’s off to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paramedics and nurses involved in this pilot project are dedicated to this difficult work. But all say working across multiple city agencies, treatment centers, health providers and nonprofits can be exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s complicated,” Mason says with a sigh, “it takes work from dozens of folks in a single encounter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does he handle the strain of 12-hour shifts filled racing from overdose to overdose, including to some who seemingly don’t want help and others who don’t survive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my own mental health, I have to kind of remain an optimistic warrior,” he says, driving his fire department pickup through rush hour traffic. “There’s a quote in the Talmud that says — I won’t get it exactly right — but essentially says, ‘You don’t have to end this work, but you do have to start it.'”\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>That direct engagement could include helping to find a shelter bed, reaching out to friends or a doctor, helping with food or, most importantly, seeing if a person wants to start treatment with buprenorphine or suboxone, a medication-assisted therapy for opioid dependence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get this individual suboxone, stabilize him at the [emergency department], by that afternoon they can be in a treatment program,” Mason says, “All in the context of a 911 incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many years San Francisco has championed a harm-reduction public health approach to lowering drug deaths and injury. The city, known for its relative tolerance of illicit drug use, was a trailblazer of clean syringe access and distribution of life-saving naloxone kits, as well as boosting access to the treatment drugs methadone and buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when fentanyl hit hard here starting a few years ago, the overdose crisis spiraled and the city was forced to rethink its approach. Free Narcan and syringes weren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If fentanyl is in the drugs that you’re using, your risk of overdose triples,” Capt. Mason says, adding that the drug is now tainting most every street narcotic here: meth, cocaine, heroin and fake opioid pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1228px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895039 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg\" alt=\"A person knocks on the front door of an apartment on the second, outdoor floor of a multistory building.\" width=\"1228\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3.jpg 1228w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Department of Public Health nurses with the city’s new mobile outreach teams say following up with people who’ve recently survived a drug overdose is a key part of the program. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Surviving an overdose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pandemic isolation and lockdowns — people using alone with no one to administer life-saving Narcan — only partially explain the historic rise in overdose deaths here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/resource/2020/ocme-accidental-overdose-reports\">drug death rate, in fact, had been trending higher\u003c/a> well before that, city medical examiner data show. In mid-2018 the numbers began to skyrocket, reaching 441 deaths in 2019. And in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths#total-cases-and-deaths\">a whopping 712 people fatally overdosed\u003c/a>, more than double the number of people here who died from COVID-19 during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of those deaths — almost three-quarters —involved fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death toll would have been even higher if not for \u003ca href=\"https://harmreduction.org/our-work/action/dope-project-san-francisco/\">the wide availability of Narcan here\u003c/a>. Well over 3,000 people said they used Narcan in the city in 2020, a self-reported figure. Officials say the real figure is probably far higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health and fire department officials here, Mason says, noticed something else important: Almost half of all who died of an overdose were treated or revived by a paramedic crew in the days or weeks before their deaths, a big signal they were headed for repeat trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Surviving a nonfatal overdose is one of the best predictors of future mortality. Anyone who survives a nonfatal overdose is a huge red flag for us, and that is what this program is about,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key goal is trying to bring the clinic to the patients: rapid, face-to-face follow-up outreach on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out, we look for them, we say, ‘Hey, let’s talk about yesterday,'” says city health department nurse practitioner Kevin Lagor, as he drives through the Tenderloin neighborhood, where many of his clients live. He’s a program lead with SORT’s outreach arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to reach back out within 24 to 72 hours of an overdose to try to assist the person with everything from housing to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could be providing medical care to address their mental illness. Maybe they’re out of their meds, or maybe they want to start something to address their substance use disorder,” he says. “Just kind of, basically, meeting them where they are and seeing what they need and how we can help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to meet them where they are, the nurse teams first have to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge challenge. Many of them are unhoused, living in tents on the street or in and out of shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overdose and substance use disorder crisis is directly linked to the city’s epic struggles with homelessness and related challenges including mental illness. Almost 30% of all overdose deaths here are among people experiencing homelessness or people “with no fixed address.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">SORT collaborates closely with the city’s other programs\u003c/a>, including street medicine and new mental health and homeless street crisis response units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895030 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands in the middle of a crosswalk looking up the street and at a row of tents on each sidewalk.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-5-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People live in tents that line a side street in the Tenderloin District. More than 40% of all drug overdoses are in the Tenderloin and neighboring SoMa districts, according to city data. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City data shows that men were almost four times more likely to die of an accidental overdose than women. And unhoused people, older San Franciscans and communities of color were disproportionately affected by the death rate: Almost a quarter of all overdose deaths were among Black San Franciscans, who make up just under 6% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of all overdose deaths in the last year have been concentrated in two neighborhoods: the South of Market area and the Tenderloin, according to data from the city and county chief medical examiner’s office. Those areas make up just 7% of the city’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While drug deaths hit every sector of society, many who overdosed were found in city-funded hotel rooms for unhoused residents and in apartment buildings for those with low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that this is a social crisis at the intersection, particularly in San Francisco, of a housing crisis, of a mental health crisis, of people living at the margins of society,” says Dr. Dan Ciccarone, a professor and researcher at University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open-air drug use and dealing in the Tenderloin, an area long challenged by poverty, homelessness and addiction crises, has only worsened during the pandemic. It’s common, day or night, to see people smoking or shooting up opioids or nodding out from drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 32-year-old man named Neil (we’re not using his last name because of the stigma of addiction) says he’s been living on the streets, mainly in the Tenderloin, for three years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he uses fentanyl “to take the edge off” of his depression and chronic stomach pain. He occasionally sells drugs, he says, to get money to support his habit. He soon crushes a small amount of fentanyl into a piece of tinfoil and begins to smoke the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1229px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895055 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing face masks stand outside a white van parked alongside a mural as they look through papers and plastic bags in their hands. It looks like early morning.\" width=\"1229\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-6-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1229px) 100vw, 1229px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City public health department nurses Kevin Lagor and Louise Bisby, part of new mobile outreach teams, get supplies out of their SUV to bring to people who have recently survived a drug overdose. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Follow-up work by nurses is full of challenges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day, nurse Lagor has half a dozen clients listed on his clipboard. He can’t find a single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’ll just kind of keep following up with the staff at the shelter,” he says in the lobby of one facility, having been unable to find a client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same happens at a makeshift tent encampment behind a local Best Buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside another shelter, Lagor and his team strike out again trying to find a young man they thought they were making progress with. They’d recently written him a prescription for a supply of buprenorphine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He hasn’t been here in a couple of days,” Lagor says, disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a bad sign. Sometimes folks disappear for a couple days and then resurface,” he says. “Then they disappear, or it just falls apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it all falls apart, it can hit Lagor and the rest of his team hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of death and they’re not strangers. You know, we’ve had a couple of deaths this week and we’ve, we shed tears together,” Lagor says. “It’s hard not to care about someone when you’re really trying to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction and public health experts say these mobile, nonpolice teams mark a much-needed pivot for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bold and it’s innovative. I like it,” says Ciccarone, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and a leading expert on drug use, people who use drugs and heroin. “We need to bring in some innovations here because fentanyl is a wild card and it has caught us all by surprise. That’s what we need to do in a crisis situation: Think creatively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ciccarone cautions that the ravages of fentanyl and its complex stew of related challenges mean the city needs to scale up this new street overdose response program and continue to try to break down obstacles to treatment that include bureaucratic silos, turf battles and funding woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely not enough,” he says. “We have to make sure that harm reduction is adequately funded, that our mental health system, our substance treatment system, our housing systems are adequately funded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, just two months since the program’s launch, 10% of those encountered by the SORT teams who’ve overdosed are now getting medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. That includes buprenorphine or suboxone in collaboration with city’s street medicine nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud of that number,” Capt. Mason says, “and I very much look forward to increasing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get that number even higher, the fire department has applied to the state EMS agency to allow paramedics to more easily administer and prescribe those treatment drugs directly in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a recent slight drop in monthly fatalities the city looks to end 2021 with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%2010_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">more than 700 overdose deaths for the second year in a row.\u003c/a> Unfortunately, Kunins, the city’s director of behavioral health services, says San Francisco is “on track to continue this really tragic loss of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1224px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895040 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg\" alt=\"A uniformed man in black pants, black boots, and a white short-sleeved shirt with a red-and-yellow insignia sewn on the sleeve opens the back door of an ambulance parked in the middle of a street.\" width=\"1224\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8.jpg 1224w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-8-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Department Capt. Michael Mason with the city’s Street Overdose Response Team arrives at the scene of a reported drug overdose in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Rachel Bujalski for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Paramedics on the team look for small victories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back on the street, another call comes in from the 911 dispatcher for a possible overdose. A middle-aged woman has been found slumped over in a McDonald’s bathroom across town in the Fillmore district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Mason’s occasional staccato siren squawks aren’t working on a handful of drivers and pedestrians in heavy rush-hour traffic. So he hits his lights and sirens full bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrive, the woman tells the paramedics she has relapsed after several months of sobriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heroin she bought, Mason says, was likely laced with fentanyl. Narcan saved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the ambulance, Mason says, the woman handed paramedics a crumpled, greasy brown fast-food bag and asked that they get rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some clean syringes in there and what appeared to be small bags of heroin,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason finds out she was already part of a medication-assisted treatment program using suboxone. He says she told them that she wants to get sober again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was feeling extreme shame from experiencing a relapse,” he says. “Substance use disorder impacts millions of Americans. There’s no shame in having a relapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes she restarts her suboxone treatment quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for today,” Mason says, “and as for surrendering those items and requesting they be disposed of, my hat’s off to her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paramedics and nurses involved in this pilot project are dedicated to this difficult work. But all say working across multiple city agencies, treatment centers, health providers and nonprofits can be exhausting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s complicated,” Mason says with a sigh, “it takes work from dozens of folks in a single encounter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does he handle the strain of 12-hour shifts filled racing from overdose to overdose, including to some who seemingly don’t want help and others who don’t survive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For my own mental health, I have to kind of remain an optimistic warrior,” he says, driving his fire department pickup through rush hour traffic. “There’s a quote in the Talmud that says — I won’t get it exactly right — but essentially says, ‘You don’t have to end this work, but you do have to start it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Beach Boulevard in Orange County is an eight-lane monster of a thoroughfare, packed full of decaying 1950s-era motels with names like the Jade Palace, the Robin Hood and the Riviera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half century ago these businesses were sleek symbols of America’s love affair with the open road, where families would pull in for a night or two while visiting nearby Disneyland or Knott’s Berry Farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that legacy has long since faded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, they are about sex, drugs and violence,” said Marleta, a motel guest, while standing in a parking lot along Beach Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marleta, who said she didn’t want to give her last name because she she's embarrassed about her living situation, is unhoused. When she has the money, she rents a room at one of the motels on this strip, where she can take a hot shower, lock her door, and sleep in a real bed — even though she never finds the stays very restful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of prostitution, a lot of drugs and a lot of violence going on, all at the same time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.-4-scaled-e1634590281949.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11892717 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.-4-scaled-e1634590281949.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with dirty knees, a headwrap, tank top, shorts, and boots poses in a parking lot next to an 8-lane road, with palm trees on the other side. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marleta, an unhoused Orange County resident, sometimes stays in motels on Beach Boulevard when she has enough money. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But those conditions could soon improve as a result of a statewide program aimed at dramatically reducing homelessness in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"project-roomkey\"]Through the initiative, called \u003ca href=\"https://homekey.hcd.ca.gov/\">Homekey\u003c/a>, the state is distributing funds to local governments and nonprofit developers to buy aging motels and other business properties and turn them into housing units for the unhoused. Since July 2020, the project has spurred the creation of roughly 6,000 affordable housing units statewide, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This coming fiscal year, the Newsom administration has said it wants to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/09/newsom-administration-announces-2-75-billion-expansion-of-homekey/\">spend nearly $3 billion to create housing for some 14,000 unhoused people\u003c/a> — in what would be the largest single investment in new housing for the unhoused in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamboree Housing Corporation, an Orange County nonprofit developer, recently received $26 million in Homekey funds to buy two motels along Beach Boulevard and turn them into long-term permanent housing for the unhoused, with on-site counseling services and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Massie, the group’s chief housing development officer, says the sheer quantity of aging motels in Orange County offers enormous opportunities for creating housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the motels already serve as a kind of short-term housing for unhoused people — but that conditions are often squalid and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11892718 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-scaled.jpg\" alt='View through a chain-link fence of boarded up two-story motel across a parking lot; a sign says, \"Private Property/No Trespassing.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boarded-up motel on Beach Boulevard in Orange County. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is often housing of last resort,” said Massie. “So when people can’t pull everything together to enter the housing market, they’ll use motels as a place to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to get additional money from another round of Homekey funding, Jamboree Housing is already eyeing 10 more distressed properties in the vicinity, many of them motels, to buy and develop into housing for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massie says cities increasingly see Homekey as both a way to fight homelessness and improve blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting phone calls and cities are calling us and asking, ‘How did you do that? How did you make that happen? 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She urges local and state officials to move fast and stick to ambitious plans, because the need is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I know it’s probably more complicated than that,” she said. “But it’s hard out here. They need to clean it up, and the first thing they need to do is give people somewhere to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was a collaboration between KQED and KCRW in Santa Monica.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Through the initiative, called \u003ca href=\"https://homekey.hcd.ca.gov/\">Homekey\u003c/a>, the state is distributing funds to local governments and nonprofit developers to buy aging motels and other business properties and turn them into housing units for the unhoused. Since July 2020, the project has spurred the creation of roughly 6,000 affordable housing units statewide, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This coming fiscal year, the Newsom administration has said it wants to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/09/newsom-administration-announces-2-75-billion-expansion-of-homekey/\">spend nearly $3 billion to create housing for some 14,000 unhoused people\u003c/a> — in what would be the largest single investment in new housing for the unhoused in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamboree Housing Corporation, an Orange County nonprofit developer, recently received $26 million in Homekey funds to buy two motels along Beach Boulevard and turn them into long-term permanent housing for the unhoused, with on-site counseling services and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Massie, the group’s chief housing development officer, says the sheer quantity of aging motels in Orange County offers enormous opportunities for creating housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the motels already serve as a kind of short-term housing for unhoused people — but that conditions are often squalid and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11892718 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-scaled.jpg\" alt='View through a chain-link fence of boarded up two-story motel across a parking lot; a sign says, \"Private Property/No Trespassing.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Beach-Blvd.3JPG-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boarded-up motel on Beach Boulevard in Orange County. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is often housing of last resort,” said Massie. “So when people can’t pull everything together to enter the housing market, they’ll use motels as a place to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to get additional money from another round of Homekey funding, Jamboree Housing is already eyeing 10 more distressed properties in the vicinity, many of them motels, to buy and develop into housing for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massie says cities increasingly see Homekey as both a way to fight homelessness and improve blight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting phone calls and cities are calling us and asking, ‘How did you do that? 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We have these motels as well,’” Massie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, whose city has many aging motel properties, is eager to get on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city just refurbished one such former motel — a project called Buena Esperanza, which predates Homekey — where 70 units of housing will soon be available to the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11892719 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Small one-room housing unit with bed, fridge, dresser and table.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Rehabbed-Motel-Room.-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the rehabbed housing units in Buena Esperanza, a former Anaheim motel that will soon be available to unhoused people. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sidhu says Anaheim can do many more of these conversions with funding from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to do as many as possible if the funding is available to get these people off the street and clean the neighborhood,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marleta, those projects can't come soon enough. 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"content": "\u003cp>Continuing their historic charge,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876194/first-in-the-us-californias-task-force-on-reparations-looks-at-harms-of-slavery\"> California’s Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first in the nation, will meet this Tuesday and Wednesday to hear testimony on housing and education segregation, the impacts of environmental racism, discrimination in banking and the wealth gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the fourth of at least 10 meetings as the group considers the history and impact of slavery in the state — and how best to repay Black Californians for those injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're moving more towards detailing some of the contemporary crimes against Black Americans — specifically, discrimination in public and private life,\" said Kamilah Moore, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who was elected chair of the task force in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this week's meetings, the task force will hear from experts such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/baradaran/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/baradaran/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ehrsa Baradaran\u003c/a>, a University of California Irvine law professor and author of \"The Color of Money.\" Detailing racism in banking against Black Americans also is on the schedule for Wednesday. [aside postID=news_11876194,news_11841801]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to experts, the task force will listen to testimony from people with direct personal experience, like Kawika Smith, a young Black man who was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.publiccounsel.org/press_releases?id=0138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plaintiff in a case against the University of California system\u003c/a> arguing that the use of the tests at UC campuses essentially create a two-tier system inaccessible to some students, and “rations access to public higher education on the bases of race, privilege, and wealth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Tuesday morning panel on housing and education will include testimony from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/bobby-seale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bobby Seale\u003c/a>, the co-founder and former chair of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, as well as author and researcher Stephen Menendian, who recently published a study called the \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots of Structural Racism Project\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>which aims to reveal the persistence of racial residential segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/members\">nine-member task force\u003c/a> has held meetings in June, July and September. But the September meetings marked the first in which witnesses presented personal and expert testimony. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kamilah Moore, lawyer and chair of California's Reparations Task Force\"]'This is the first-in-the-nation task force. We beat the federal government in this effort.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, created with the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 3121\u003c/a> last fall, is charged with making recommendations to the state of California on how to eliminate discrimination in existing state laws and policies, what an apology might look like as well as what a compensation package could be, and who would qualify. The text of the bill specifies special consideration for descendants of those enslaved in the United States. The task force has until July 2023 to make recommendations to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also is charged with determining how any potential compensation should be calculated and who would be eligible, as well as additional forms of reparations like rehabilitation or restitution. The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">two-day September meetings\u003c/a> covered national and international reparations efforts, the Great Migration and political disenfranchisement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the September meetings, the task force heard from well-known experts such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isabel Wilkerson\u003c/a>, author of the award-winning book \"Caste\" and another bestseller, \"The Warmth of Other Suns\" and academics such as \u003ca href=\"https://jmparman.people.wm.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John M. Parman\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/john-powell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">john a. powell\u003c/a>, law professor at UC Berkeley and director of the Othering and Belonging Institute. But they also heard from those who provided more personal testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had people come to testify like Dawn Basciano and Bertha Gorman, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ055ilIiN4\">the poet Amanda Gorman\u003c/a>'s grandmother, to talk about their experience living in California and the discrimination that they and their families faced over time,” Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gorman described how she grew up listening to the stories of enslaved people from her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.[aside label=\"KQED's Forum on Bay Area Segregation\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884131/how-3-decades-of-increased-segregation-in-the-bay-area-is-hurting-communities-of-color,How 3 Decades of Increased Segregation in the Bay Area Is Hurting Communities of Color\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she came to California, she lost her first job as a babysitter when she signed up to take a test for a clerk position with the state. But she was not allowed to take the test. \"It was 1959, and I was given every imaginable excuse — they had already given the test, they lost my application,\" she said. She was never allowed to take the test. \"At every step of the way, in my growth, and in my career and in my education, I have experienced discrimination, pay inequities, sexism, [and] sexual harassment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the personal testimonies proved powerful and brought some task force members to tears, communication between the Department of Justice staff and the task force appeared tense at times — notably, when the DOJ said they would be unable to accommodate a request for future Saturday meetings. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a slew of new legislation in recent weeks, ahead of Sunday’s deadline. That hefty stack of bills — among the hundreds that crossed his desk — touches nearly every policy area, including housing, health, education and wildfire mitigation. The measures stand to affect millions of California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The many noteworthy ones in the pile include \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/05/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-strengthen-state-unemployment-insurance-delivery-system/\">legislation to boost identity theft protection\u003c/a> at the state Employment Development Department, which may have paid out \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-edd-unemployment-crisis-explained/\">up to $31 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims\u003c/a> since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The governor also recently inked a bill adopting a universal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">vote-by-mail\u003c/a> ballot system for all future elections, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888891/bill-regulating-computer-driven-productivity-quotas-at-california-warehouses-lands-on-gov-newsoms-desk\">first-in-the-nation law aimed at protecting California workers in retail warehouses\u003c/a> like those run by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Newsom also has vetoed a number of bills, including one that would have, among other things, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AB-990-PDF.pdf\">established visitation as a civil right\u003c/a> to people who are incarcerated. Perhaps the biggest veto shocker so far this year has been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/california-paid-family-leave/\">his recent rejection of a bill that sought to increase pay rates during paid family leave\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-legislature\"]Below is a rundown of just some of the headline-grabbing legislation Newsom has recently signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Universal pre-K, dual-immersion language programs, college savings accounts, ethnic studies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article254772347.html\">signed a trio of bills\u003c/a>, part of a record-setting $124 billion investment in public schools. It includes about $2.7 billion to help create a universal pre-K program for 4-year-olds by 2025 and directs roughly $10 million to expand dual-immersion language programs. The package, a key part of Newsom’s long-touted California Comeback Plan, also includes $1.9 billion to help create college savings accounts of up to $1,500 for some students, as well as $170 million in ongoing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transferring to state universities and affordable student housing\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe following day, the governor also signed a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/newsom-signs-bills-to-ease-college-transfer-and-improve-student-housing/662048\">$47.1 billion higher education package of bills\u003c/a>, including one making it easier for community college students to transfer to the California State University and University of California systems. The legislation also includes $2 billion in funds to increase affordable housing for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ethnic studies curriculum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Friday signed the aptly numbered \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, making a one-semester ethnic studies class a graduation requirement for all California public high school students, beginning with the class of 2030. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">unexpectedly vetoed an initial version\u003c/a> of the bill last year, saying the model curriculum needed to be more inclusive. The bill was reintroduced in December after the curriculum had been thoroughly — and painstakingly — revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing wait times for mental health appointments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221\">SB 221\u003c/a>, a bill to require health insurers across the state to reduce wait times for mental health appointments to no more than 10 business days. While current state law requires insurers to provide initial mental health appointments in 10 days, there is no clear regulation around follow-up appointments, resulting in what state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the bill’s author, called “obscene delays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of Californians say they have to wait too long to see a mental health provider when they need one, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/californians-want-action-health-care-costs-mental-health-treatment/\">according to a survey by the California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>. At Kaiser Permanente specifically, 87% of therapists said weekly appointments were not available to patients who needed them, according to a survey by the \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/\">National Union of Healthcare Workers\u003c/a>, which represents Kaiser’s therapists and was the main sponsor of the bill. The bill passed both houses of the Legislature in a near-unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891049/california-bill-would-reduce-wait-times-for-mental-health-appointments\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 221.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>VETOED: Incentives for people to not use drugs\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNewsom on Friday vetoed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110\">SB 110\u003c/a>, a controversial bill which would have allowed Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to provide money or gift cards as incentives for people struggling with drug addiction to stay off drugs — with the goal of encouraging more treatment centers to offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to embrace this proven, effective approach to meth addiction, make it clearly legal and start reimbursing for it, so we can address this health epidemic,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">While suggesting he was open to the bill’s novel drug treatment approach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SB-110-1082021.pdf\">Newsom in his veto message said it was “premature,”\u003c/a> and called for further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854373/state-lawmakers-move-to-expand-effective-but-controversial-treatment-for-meth-addiction\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 110.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Streamlining housing approvals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom approved three major housing bills in September, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB8\">SB 8\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, which extends through 2030 an existing law that expedites the approval process for housing projects and reduces fee increases on local housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\">SB 9\u003c/a>, introduced by state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, which allows the development of up to two duplexes without local reviews or hearings, in neighborhoods in most cities that are currently zoned for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">SB 10\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, which offers cities the option to rezone certain land for the construction of as many as 10 units while bypassing an initial review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about these three laws from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889113/in-one-week-newsom-signed-three-major-housing-bills-heres-what-they-mean\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police reform\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed a slate of new police reform bills into law on Sept. 30, including creating higher education standards for officers, requiring officers to intervene if they see a colleague using excessive force, banning certain physical holds that cause asphyxiation and laying out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations. The bills include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB2\">SB 2\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, which lays out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations, including using excessive force, committing sexual assault, intimidating witnesses, making a false arrest or report or participating in a law enforcement gang. Other grounds include “demonstrating bias” based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or mental disability, among other criteria.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">SB 16\u003c/a>, which expands state Sen. Nancy Skinner’s 2018 landmark police transparency law, SB 1421, or “The Right to Know Act,” which opened up three narrow categories of police records: investigations into deadly or serious use of force by police, investigations that found officers committed sexual assault on duty or told official lies. SB 16 opens up three more categories of records: investigations into officers who were found to have engaged in bias or discrimination, made unlawful arrests or searches, or used excessive or unreasonable force.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB89\">AB 89\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, which raises the minimum age of eligibility to become a cop from 18 to 21 and expands education requirements for officers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB26\">AB 26\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, requires officers to intervene if they see a fellow officer using excessive force and protects them from retaliation if they report another officer for violating policy.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">Read KQED’s coverage of this slate of police reforms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Climate change, drought, wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Sept. 23 signed a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NATION-LEADING-15B-CLIMATE-PACKAGE.pdf\">$15 billion climate change package\u003c/a>, as part of the state’s record-high budget. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Below is a rundown of just some of the headline-grabbing legislation Newsom has recently signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Universal pre-K, dual-immersion language programs, college savings accounts, ethnic studies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article254772347.html\">signed a trio of bills\u003c/a>, part of a record-setting $124 billion investment in public schools. It includes about $2.7 billion to help create a universal pre-K program for 4-year-olds by 2025 and directs roughly $10 million to expand dual-immersion language programs. The package, a key part of Newsom’s long-touted California Comeback Plan, also includes $1.9 billion to help create college savings accounts of up to $1,500 for some students, as well as $170 million in ongoing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transferring to state universities and affordable student housing\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe following day, the governor also signed a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/newsom-signs-bills-to-ease-college-transfer-and-improve-student-housing/662048\">$47.1 billion higher education package of bills\u003c/a>, including one making it easier for community college students to transfer to the California State University and University of California systems. The legislation also includes $2 billion in funds to increase affordable housing for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ethnic studies curriculum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Friday signed the aptly numbered \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, making a one-semester ethnic studies class a graduation requirement for all California public high school students, beginning with the class of 2030. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">unexpectedly vetoed an initial version\u003c/a> of the bill last year, saying the model curriculum needed to be more inclusive. The bill was reintroduced in December after the curriculum had been thoroughly — and painstakingly — revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing wait times for mental health appointments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221\">SB 221\u003c/a>, a bill to require health insurers across the state to reduce wait times for mental health appointments to no more than 10 business days. While current state law requires insurers to provide initial mental health appointments in 10 days, there is no clear regulation around follow-up appointments, resulting in what state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the bill’s author, called “obscene delays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of Californians say they have to wait too long to see a mental health provider when they need one, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/californians-want-action-health-care-costs-mental-health-treatment/\">according to a survey by the California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>. At Kaiser Permanente specifically, 87% of therapists said weekly appointments were not available to patients who needed them, according to a survey by the \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/\">National Union of Healthcare Workers\u003c/a>, which represents Kaiser’s therapists and was the main sponsor of the bill. The bill passed both houses of the Legislature in a near-unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891049/california-bill-would-reduce-wait-times-for-mental-health-appointments\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 221.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>VETOED: Incentives for people to not use drugs\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNewsom on Friday vetoed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110\">SB 110\u003c/a>, a controversial bill which would have allowed Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to provide money or gift cards as incentives for people struggling with drug addiction to stay off drugs — with the goal of encouraging more treatment centers to offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to embrace this proven, effective approach to meth addiction, make it clearly legal and start reimbursing for it, so we can address this health epidemic,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">While suggesting he was open to the bill’s novel drug treatment approach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SB-110-1082021.pdf\">Newsom in his veto message said it was “premature,”\u003c/a> and called for further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854373/state-lawmakers-move-to-expand-effective-but-controversial-treatment-for-meth-addiction\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 110.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Streamlining housing approvals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom approved three major housing bills in September, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB8\">SB 8\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, which extends through 2030 an existing law that expedites the approval process for housing projects and reduces fee increases on local housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\">SB 9\u003c/a>, introduced by state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, which allows the development of up to two duplexes without local reviews or hearings, in neighborhoods in most cities that are currently zoned for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">SB 10\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, which offers cities the option to rezone certain land for the construction of as many as 10 units while bypassing an initial review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about these three laws from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889113/in-one-week-newsom-signed-three-major-housing-bills-heres-what-they-mean\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police reform\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed a slate of new police reform bills into law on Sept. 30, including creating higher education standards for officers, requiring officers to intervene if they see a colleague using excessive force, banning certain physical holds that cause asphyxiation and laying out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations. The bills include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB2\">SB 2\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, which lays out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations, including using excessive force, committing sexual assault, intimidating witnesses, making a false arrest or report or participating in a law enforcement gang. Other grounds include “demonstrating bias” based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or mental disability, among other criteria.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">SB 16\u003c/a>, which expands state Sen. 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SB 16 opens up three more categories of records: investigations into officers who were found to have engaged in bias or discrimination, made unlawful arrests or searches, or used excessive or unreasonable force.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB89\">AB 89\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, which raises the minimum age of eligibility to become a cop from 18 to 21 and expands education requirements for officers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB26\">AB 26\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, requires officers to intervene if they see a fellow officer using excessive force and protects them from retaliation if they report another officer for violating policy.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">Read KQED’s coverage of this slate of police reforms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Climate change, drought, wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Sept. 23 signed a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NATION-LEADING-15B-CLIMATE-PACKAGE.pdf\">$15 billion climate change package\u003c/a>, as part of the state’s record-high budget. It directs $3.9 billion over the next three years to expand use of electric vehicles in the state, in accordance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/cars/california-2035-zev-mandate/index.html\">Newsom’s mandate that only zero-emission new passenger cars and trucks be sold in California by 2035\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976869/heres-whats-inside-newsoms-whopping-15-billion-climate-spending-plan\">That pot\u003c/a> includes funding for new consumer rebates, the production of thousands of buses and heavy-duty trucks, and incentives for Californians with lower incomes to trade in their gas cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also will spend $3.7 billion to: prepare communities to deal with sea-level rise, fund energy-efficient homes, and invest in lower-income communities and communities of color, with the goal of improving air quality and reducing heat disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same package allots about $5.2 billion to immediate drought relief and water measures, including money for projects to boost water recycling, reduce flooding risks and clean up contaminated groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package also \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-science-business-california-gavin-newsom-f867c179fa49f32c0ed7098e98e33aeb\">earmarks about $1 billion\u003c/a> in new spending for fire breaks, tree thinning and other measures meant to prevent fires from burning out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it includes $19 million for the state to work with tribes on prescribed burns — up from just $1 million last year — as well as training for firefighters. 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