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And we also want to make sure that Californians are not saddled with this rental debt moving into the future,” said Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who also chairs the Assembly’s housing committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11864513 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4386433-1020x638.jpg']“Our housing situation in California was a crisis before COVID, and the pandemic has only made it worse — this extension is key to making sure that more people don’t lose the safety net helping them keep their home,” said Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego. “While our state may be emerging from the pandemic, in many ways, the lingering financial impact still weighs heavily on California families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify, people may only earn 80% or less of their area’s median income and must have been affected by the pandemic — a nondescript requirement everyone can meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who will face a recall election later this year fueled by criticism of his handling of the pandemic, said in a news release he is thankful for the legislative proposal, “which I am eager to sign into law as soon as I receive it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal needs two-thirds support from the Legislature to pass. A vote is expected on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the most expensive rent in the country and has a housing shortage. About 25% of California’s renters pay at least half of their income on housing costs, a figure that includes rent and utilities, according to the California Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877600/thousands-of-renters-and-landlords-await-state-aid-as-eviction-moratorium-set-to-expire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the state has struggled to spend $5.2 billion in federal rent relief\u003c/a>. So far, the state has handed out less than 10% of the money applied for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"eviction-moratorium\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The extension gives state officials more time to disburse that money. A report from the California Department of Housing and Community Development showed the state had received $490 million in requests but had paid just $32 million covering 2,500 households as of May 31. That figure does not include some of the state’s larger cities, which run their own rental assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Apartment Association CEO Tom Bannon said California would not have to extend the eviction moratorium if it were able to spend the money faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unacceptable that state and local governments have distributed less than 15% of the billions of dollars earmarked for California rental assistance,” said Bannon, whose organization represents landlords. “California has got to distribute these dollars faster so that the eviction moratorium being introduced is the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Molly Solomon contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to say that people who make less than 80% of the area median income do not have to pay any portion of what they owe to be eligible for the money.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Candidates\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> jousting in a special election\u003c/a> to represent Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro in the state Assembly could provide key votes later this year on contentious housing proposals currently moving through the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leading contenders in the 18th District, Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mia Bonta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janani Ramachandran and Malia Vella\u003c/a>, have all vowed to prioritize solutions to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818184/bay-area-housing-post-pandemic-whats-in-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state and regional housing crisis\u003c/a> if they emerge victorious in a June 29 special election or a potential Aug. 31 runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their contrasting approaches on the issue of housing can be seen in their stances on Senate Bills 9 and 10, two proposals aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making it easier to build duplexes\u003c/a> and small apartment buildings across the state. The bills have reignited familiar debates over how or whether to maintain local decision-making and prioritize low-income housing in the quest to add units to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s lagging supply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bills have received quite a bit of pushback, especially from other regions in the state and I think it’s really important that the Bay Area continues to show leadership on working on these issues,” said Sidharth Kapur, a member of YIMBY Action East Bay, a group advocating for greater housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 9 would allow 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>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 10 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>The bills are far less sweeping than recent zoning reforms pushed in the Legislature — namely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 50\u003c/a>, a failed effort last session to force cities to allow more dense construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the fate of the two proposals now hinging on votes in the Assembly, opponents have ramped up their attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a longtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741896/racially-charged-ad-puts-l-a-aids-group-back-in-middle-of-housing-debates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opponent of bills to increase housing density\u003c/a>, has launched a statewide mail campaign asking voters to contact their assemblymember and urge a no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878986\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-800x608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-1536x1168.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mailer from Housing is a Human Right, the advocacy arm of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, urges assemblymembers to reject Senate Bills 9 and 10. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hope for supporters of the bills, like Kapur, is that a candidate in favor of the legislation can win the District 18 seat before the bills come to the Assembly floor. The seat has been vacant since Rob Bonta, Mia Bonta’s husband, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870739/california-confirms-rob-bonta-as-first-filipino-american-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed as the state attorney general\u003c/a> in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YIMBY Action has endorsed Vella, the current vice mayor of Alameda. Kapur cited her commitment to increasing multifamily housing in Alameda, and her unqualified support of Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve seen sometimes is this tendency to get into situations where we’re trying to correct and deal with every single issue in one piece of legislation,” Vella said. “And I think with housing, we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, the vice mayor of Alameda, poses for a portrait in Alameda on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All three contenders in the eight candidate field have cited the specter of evictions — either in their neighborhoods or own lives — as a motivation for entering the race. But Bonta and Ramachandran said that if elected, they’ll push to change the two key housing bills to add protections for renters and low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the only renter of the three, Ramachandran said her experience of providing legal assistance to tenants during the pandemic demonstrated the need for “true tenant warriors” in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Janani is the one candidate in the race right now, that if you are a tenant, you should feel confident that she will have your back,” said Mark Dias, co-chair of the Oakland Tenants Union, which endorsed Ramachandran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said she wants changes to Senate Bill 10 requiring that any apartment complex built in newly upzoned land — land rezoned for more dense construction — have units dedicated to affordable housing. [pullquote]All three contenders in the eight candidate field have cited the specter of evictions — either in their neighborhoods or own lives — as a motivation for entering the race.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to upzone, but we can’t do it without a tenant rights lens,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bills say the status quo does nothing to make housing more affordable: Neighborhoods currently zoned for single-family housing have no state requirement for affordability, and barriers to upzoning prevent cities from approving denser housing at any income level. They fear opposition to the legislation plays into the hands of the principle opponents of zoning reform: local governments and groups that don’t want any construction of dense housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to build housing for middle-income residents, said Kapur, “if our strategy is that we only want to pass housing bills that are specifically geared towards affordable housing, like large, large projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta said her childhood experience of constant moves and interactions with “some unkind and poorly acting landlords” have convinced her that requirements for affordability and tenant rights can’t be divorced from efforts to spur development. 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I think SB 10 has some additional work that it needs to do in order to be able to get my vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, both SB 9 and SB 10 passed the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills face at least one more committee hearing before they can be debated by the full Assembly, which could take place in the weeks before the Sept. 10 deadline to pass legislation.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Candidates\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> jousting in a special election\u003c/a> to represent Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro in the state Assembly could provide key votes later this year on contentious housing proposals currently moving through the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leading contenders in the 18th District, Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mia Bonta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janani Ramachandran and Malia Vella\u003c/a>, have all vowed to prioritize solutions to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818184/bay-area-housing-post-pandemic-whats-in-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state and regional housing crisis\u003c/a> if they emerge victorious in a June 29 special election or a potential Aug. 31 runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their contrasting approaches on the issue of housing can be seen in their stances on Senate Bills 9 and 10, two proposals aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making it easier to build duplexes\u003c/a> and small apartment buildings across the state. The bills have reignited familiar debates over how or whether to maintain local decision-making and prioritize low-income housing in the quest to add units to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s lagging supply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bills have received quite a bit of pushback, especially from other regions in the state and I think it’s really important that the Bay Area continues to show leadership on working on these issues,” said Sidharth Kapur, a member of YIMBY Action East Bay, a group advocating for greater housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 9 would allow 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 10 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>The bills are far less sweeping than recent zoning reforms pushed in the Legislature — namely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 50\u003c/a>, a failed effort last session to force cities to allow more dense construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the fate of the two proposals now hinging on votes in the Assembly, opponents have ramped up their attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a longtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741896/racially-charged-ad-puts-l-a-aids-group-back-in-middle-of-housing-debates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opponent of bills to increase housing density\u003c/a>, has launched a statewide mail campaign asking voters to contact their assemblymember and urge a no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878986\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-800x608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut-1536x1168.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50110_IMG_3119-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mailer from Housing is a Human Right, the advocacy arm of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, urges assemblymembers to reject Senate Bills 9 and 10. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hope for supporters of the bills, like Kapur, is that a candidate in favor of the legislation can win the District 18 seat before the bills come to the Assembly floor. The seat has been vacant since Rob Bonta, Mia Bonta’s husband, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870739/california-confirms-rob-bonta-as-first-filipino-american-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed as the state attorney general\u003c/a> in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YIMBY Action has endorsed Vella, the current vice mayor of Alameda. Kapur cited her commitment to increasing multifamily housing in Alameda, and her unqualified support of Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve seen sometimes is this tendency to get into situations where we’re trying to correct and deal with every single issue in one piece of legislation,” Vella said. “And I think with housing, we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, the vice mayor of Alameda, poses for a portrait in Alameda on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All three contenders in the eight candidate field have cited the specter of evictions — either in their neighborhoods or own lives — as a motivation for entering the race. But Bonta and Ramachandran said that if elected, they’ll push to change the two key housing bills to add protections for renters and low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the only renter of the three, Ramachandran said her experience of providing legal assistance to tenants during the pandemic demonstrated the need for “true tenant warriors” in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Janani is the one candidate in the race right now, that if you are a tenant, you should feel confident that she will have your back,” said Mark Dias, co-chair of the Oakland Tenants Union, which endorsed Ramachandran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said she wants changes to Senate Bill 10 requiring that any apartment complex built in newly upzoned land — land rezoned for more dense construction — have units dedicated to affordable housing. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The value statement is tenant protections, housing affordability have to drive any kind of housing production offerings that we put forward in the state Legislature,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On SB 9, I’m going to be looking for and wanting to see explicit indications and commitments to affordability,” added Bonta, who said SB 10 “undermines affordable housing requirements in small apartment complexes and also doesn’t have the kind of tenant protections that it needs to. I think SB 10 has some additional work that it needs to do in order to be able to get my vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, both SB 9 and SB 10 passed the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills face at least one more committee hearing before they can be debated by the full Assembly, which could take place in the weeks before the Sept. 10 deadline to pass legislation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 80% of large metropolitan regions in the United States, including the Bay Area, have become more racially segregated in recent decades, with detrimental economic, health and educational outcomes for many communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to findings from a \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism\">UC Berkeley housing study and map\u003c/a> released Monday that uses a new methodology to determine the degree of racial segregation in local and regional areas throughout the country. The report goes on to identify vast disparities in income and poverty levels, home values, rent prices and life expectancy between highly segregated communities of color and white communities.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Stephen Menendian, assistant director of the Other and Belonging Institute\"]‘All of the visible forms of racial inequality that we now recognize, they all map to and function because of racial residential segregation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the board, segregated white neighborhoods fared the best while segregated Black and Latino neighborhoods fared the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, for example, life expectancy in largely white neighborhoods (84 years) is more than five years greater than in highly segregated Black and Latino neighborhoods (79 years), the report notes, citing figures from a separate \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area-part-4\">2019 study\u003c/a>, while household incomes and home values are more than double.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new report also emphasizes that when Black or Latino people grow up in largely segregated, wealthier white neighborhoods, their life outcomes often improve significantly, underscoring that environment, not race, is in most cases the key determinant of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the visible forms of racial inequality that we now recognize — wealth disparities, health disparities, abusive policing, all the disparities in the criminal justice system — they all map to and function because of racial residential segregation,” said report lead author Stephen Menendian, assistant director of the UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-8.36.32-PM-e1624333298534.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878879 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-8.36.32-PM-e1624333298534.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the project’s interactive segregation map, showing segregation “scores” by census tract in the Bay Area, based on 2010 data. Scores can be viewed by metropolitan area, city or census tract. See the full map \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/#2010\">here\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Othering and Belonging Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 brought that into stark relief, he noted. The pandemic disproportionately impacted people in highly segregated communities of color, who are more likely to be low-income front-line workers living in crowded housing conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you didn’t have racial residential segregation, most of those forms of racial inequality could be pretty straightforwardly dealt with,” added Menendian, who is white. “It’s something that has persisted and really not gone away for 50 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding flies in the face of the prevailing narrative that the United States has grown increasingly \u003cem>less\u003c/em> segregated since the civil rights era, when discrimination in housing was technically outlawed by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. And while the U.S. has grown significantly more racially diverse in the last half-century — largely due to the rapid growth of Latino and Asian populations — it has also become more racially segmented, Menendian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, what we have basically in almost every metropolitan area is a sort of balkanization patchwork of enclaves,” he said, noting that political polarization also tends to increase in more segregated regions. “What’s different from the 1960s is that there are very few single-race neighborhoods anymore. There are almost no all-white or all-Black neighborhoods. But what has happened is that because of our increased diversity, it’s masked the persistence of segregation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://test-othering-and-belonging-institute.pantheon.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism\">report\u003c/a> uses a new measurement called the “divergence index,” based on U.S. Census Bureau data, to compare the racial makeup of a small geographic area, like a census tract, with that of a larger surrounding region, like a county or metropolitan area. Applying that methodology, the study ranks \u003ca href=\"https://test-othering-and-belonging-institute.pantheon.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities-regions\">all major U.S. cities and metropolitan areas\u003c/a> by their levels of segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That approach, Menendian argues, yields a much clearer illustration of racial segregation at the local level than more commonly used measurements that typically compare only a few racial groups within a single larger isolated geographic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more accurate because it captures more racial groups and gives you a better sense of the actual level of segregation in a region. And it’s more precise because it’s more granular. It can give you [segregation] scores in a much smaller level of geography,” Menendian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland for instance, is among the most racially diverse cities in the country. But zoom in on the map to specific neighborhoods, and a much different picture emerges of racial isolation in many communities, making it the 14th most segregated city in the country based on the study’s metric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the accompanying \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/#2010\">mapping tool\u003c/a>, users can view segregation rates throughout the country between 1980 and 2019 by state, metropolitan region, city, all the way down to census tract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to common perceptions of the United States, the report finds the most segregated regions in the country are in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic, followed by the West Coast — most typically in Democratic strongholds like Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. By contrast, segregation rates are more often lower in more conservative, less urban regions like the Plains, the Mountain West and parts of the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11878864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1.png 610w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a red state or red metro or red city problem exclusively,” said Craig Gurian, a long-time civil rights lawyer and executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center. “In fact, blue areas of the country in terms of political affiliation come out quite vividly in terms of high segregation. It’s just about everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, cities with nearby military bases — like Colorado Springs and Killeen, Texas — tend to be the most racially integrated areas in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are places where people are brought together in a sustained, deliberate way,” Menendian said. “Because the structures of segregation and racial inequality are so deeply rooted in our society that it takes a sort of deliberate effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report stops short of directly explaining the underlying causes of residential segregation or proposing specific solutions. It also does not mention certain unintended consequences that have resulted from some integration efforts, such as gentrification and displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in explaining his findings, Menendian repeatedly alludes to the more than a century of local and federal exclusionary housing policies that have made racial segregation such a deeply entrenched aspect of America’s landscape. In the first half of the 20th century, he said, racial covenants and government-promoted discriminatory bank lending practices, known as redlining, emerged largely in reaction to the rapidly growing Black population in many northern cities during the Great Migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once those blatant forms of discrimination were ostensibly outlawed by the Fair Housing Act in 1968, scores of state and local governments adopted subtler but equally restrictive policies like land preservation ordinances and exclusionary zoning laws, Menendian said. The measures tamped down development, often barring the construction of affordable housing projects. In the Bay Area alone, he added, more than 80% of residential land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11840548,news_11839409,lowdown_18486\"]“After the enactment of the Fair Housing Act, municipalities had to find other ways to maintain their racial and economic exclusivity because they could no longer simply permit discrimination on the basis of race,” Menendian said. “So you have all of these alternative mechanisms that have been affirmed by the courts that screen people on the basis of socioeconomic status and perpetuate previous patterns of segregation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the initially successful (but ultimately fleeting) effort to integrate schools in the decades after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation, “there was never really the same concerted effort to desegregate neighborhoods,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also notes that in recent decades many people of color have moved out of cities and into suburban communities that were previously largely off limits to them. But that transformation has taken place as the much of the white population of those places has also relocated, leaving many of those communities — places like Ferguson, Missouri, and Antioch in the East Bay — racially segregated and under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s been a tremendous evolution in what racial residential segregation looks like,” Menendian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America’s sharp racial inequalities won’t be remedied by simply pouring resources into disadvantaged areas, he said, underscoring that the only real fix is more integration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wouldn’t have these resource disparities in the first place,” he said. “And instead of concentrating people who have lots of needs, you would intersperse them and they would have more resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menendian said the report is intended to “arm” policymakers and advocates, in the hopes they push for more inclusive housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What matters is whether the policies and politicians we support are making decisions that may even unintentionally perpetuate segregation,” he said. “The uprisings of the last few years are not going to die down as long as we have a deeply racially unjust and racially segregated society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than 80% of large metropolitan regions in the United States, including the Bay Area, have become more racially segregated in recent decades, with detrimental economic, health and educational outcomes for many communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to findings from a \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism\">UC Berkeley housing study and map\u003c/a> released Monday that uses a new methodology to determine the degree of racial segregation in local and regional areas throughout the country. The report goes on to identify vast disparities in income and poverty levels, home values, rent prices and life expectancy between highly segregated communities of color and white communities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the board, segregated white neighborhoods fared the best while segregated Black and Latino neighborhoods fared the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, for example, life expectancy in largely white neighborhoods (84 years) is more than five years greater than in highly segregated Black and Latino neighborhoods (79 years), the report notes, citing figures from a separate \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area-part-4\">2019 study\u003c/a>, while household incomes and home values are more than double.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new report also emphasizes that when Black or Latino people grow up in largely segregated, wealthier white neighborhoods, their life outcomes often improve significantly, underscoring that environment, not race, is in most cases the key determinant of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the visible forms of racial inequality that we now recognize — wealth disparities, health disparities, abusive policing, all the disparities in the criminal justice system — they all map to and function because of racial residential segregation,” said report lead author Stephen Menendian, assistant director of the UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-8.36.32-PM-e1624333298534.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878879 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-8.36.32-PM-e1624333298534.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the project’s interactive segregation map, showing segregation “scores” by census tract in the Bay Area, based on 2010 data. Scores can be viewed by metropolitan area, city or census tract. See the full map \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/#2010\">here\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Othering and Belonging Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 brought that into stark relief, he noted. The pandemic disproportionately impacted people in highly segregated communities of color, who are more likely to be low-income front-line workers living in crowded housing conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you didn’t have racial residential segregation, most of those forms of racial inequality could be pretty straightforwardly dealt with,” added Menendian, who is white. “It’s something that has persisted and really not gone away for 50 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That finding flies in the face of the prevailing narrative that the United States has grown increasingly \u003cem>less\u003c/em> segregated since the civil rights era, when discrimination in housing was technically outlawed by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. And while the U.S. has grown significantly more racially diverse in the last half-century — largely due to the rapid growth of Latino and Asian populations — it has also become more racially segmented, Menendian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so, what we have basically in almost every metropolitan area is a sort of balkanization patchwork of enclaves,” he said, noting that political polarization also tends to increase in more segregated regions. “What’s different from the 1960s is that there are very few single-race neighborhoods anymore. There are almost no all-white or all-Black neighborhoods. But what has happened is that because of our increased diversity, it’s masked the persistence of segregation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://test-othering-and-belonging-institute.pantheon.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism\">report\u003c/a> uses a new measurement called the “divergence index,” based on U.S. Census Bureau data, to compare the racial makeup of a small geographic area, like a census tract, with that of a larger surrounding region, like a county or metropolitan area. Applying that methodology, the study ranks \u003ca href=\"https://test-othering-and-belonging-institute.pantheon.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities-regions\">all major U.S. cities and metropolitan areas\u003c/a> by their levels of segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That approach, Menendian argues, yields a much clearer illustration of racial segregation at the local level than more commonly used measurements that typically compare only a few racial groups within a single larger isolated geographic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more accurate because it captures more racial groups and gives you a better sense of the actual level of segregation in a region. And it’s more precise because it’s more granular. It can give you [segregation] scores in a much smaller level of geography,” Menendian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland for instance, is among the most racially diverse cities in the country. But zoom in on the map to specific neighborhoods, and a much different picture emerges of racial isolation in many communities, making it the 14th most segregated city in the country based on the study’s metric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the accompanying \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/#2010\">mapping tool\u003c/a>, users can view segregation rates throughout the country between 1980 and 2019 by state, metropolitan region, city, all the way down to census tract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to common perceptions of the United States, the report finds the most segregated regions in the country are in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic, followed by the West Coast — most typically in Democratic strongholds like Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. By contrast, segregation rates are more often lower in more conservative, less urban regions like the Plains, the Mountain West and parts of the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11878864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1.png 610w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/segregation_map_preview_image_4x3-1-160x120.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a red state or red metro or red city problem exclusively,” said Craig Gurian, a long-time civil rights lawyer and executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center. “In fact, blue areas of the country in terms of political affiliation come out quite vividly in terms of high segregation. It’s just about everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, cities with nearby military bases — like Colorado Springs and Killeen, Texas — tend to be the most racially integrated areas in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are places where people are brought together in a sustained, deliberate way,” Menendian said. “Because the structures of segregation and racial inequality are so deeply rooted in our society that it takes a sort of deliberate effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report stops short of directly explaining the underlying causes of residential segregation or proposing specific solutions. It also does not mention certain unintended consequences that have resulted from some integration efforts, such as gentrification and displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in explaining his findings, Menendian repeatedly alludes to the more than a century of local and federal exclusionary housing policies that have made racial segregation such a deeply entrenched aspect of America’s landscape. In the first half of the 20th century, he said, racial covenants and government-promoted discriminatory bank lending practices, known as redlining, emerged largely in reaction to the rapidly growing Black population in many northern cities during the Great Migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once those blatant forms of discrimination were ostensibly outlawed by the Fair Housing Act in 1968, scores of state and local governments adopted subtler but equally restrictive policies like land preservation ordinances and exclusionary zoning laws, Menendian said. The measures tamped down development, often barring the construction of affordable housing projects. In the Bay Area alone, he added, more than 80% of residential land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/06/extension-moratoria-de-desalojo-de-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the third time during the pandemic, California legislators have pushed off a huge, looming question to the last minute: Will the state shield tenants from eviction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, most likely, is yes, but for how long and under what terms is still up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday morning, several stakeholders told CalMatters they hadn’t yet reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a planned floor session Friday, the vote would now most likely occur on Monday — two days before eviction protections are set to expire, after June 30. That would mean putting a plan to paper by Friday at the latest, as bills need to be in print for 72 hours before they can be voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rental assistance is the key here: The state has been doling out $2.6 billion it’s sitting on at a snail’s pace, while figuring out what to do with an additional $2.6 billion from the federal government. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature passed the last round of eviction protections in late January, the state has distributed only about $50 million of its $1.4 billion pot, and received applications for only about half of that money. While centralized data is unavailable for the cities’ and counties’ $1.2 billion share, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-distributed-less-than-10-of-32-million-in-rental-aid-as-sta/\">similar reports\u003c/a> of a slow rollout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brian Augusta, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation\"]‘In my mind, it would be a travesty to end these eviction protections before we get every dollar out the door.’[/pullquote]Key legislators are concerned about ending eviction protections before the bulk of those dollars have entered the pockets of the Californians who need it most, so they’re mostly hammering out new rules on eligibility and applications to make sure more rent relief gets out quicker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to allow evictions, when there are still billions of dollars available that could prevent those very evictions,” said Assemblymember David Chiu, a Democrat from San Francisco who leads the Assembly Housing Committee and helped craft the original eviction moratorium last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal-making to extend the eviction moratorium has been slow and secretive. Tenant and landlord groups told CalMatters they have been shut out of negotiations, which are taking place between Assembly and Senate leaders and the governor’s office — similar to the last two rounds of negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers have been pulled in many directions, but I’m hopeful that the right conversations are happening, and we’re going to make progress before June 30,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key decision points that will determine the fate of thousands and thousands of California renters: \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-long-will-new-protections-last\">\u003cstrong>How Long Would New Protections Last?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That question is at the heart of the debate. Tenant advocates want to extend protections for as long as possible, while landlord groups want the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, said the tenant side has asked the state to tie the end date to distribution of all available rental relief funds — which at the current pace would take several months, at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my mind, it would be a travesty to end these eviction protections before we get every dollar out the door,” Augusta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more eviction-related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]Landlord advocates are concerned about the same issue, but want protections to end by September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d rather not have an extension at all, but we need to get the money out,” said Debra Carlton, executive vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/\">California Apartment Association\u003c/a>. “That’s our number one focus. If that means a short, short-term extension, so be it. But the focus has to be on getting the money out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another point of contention: The association wants the law to protect from eviction only those who have applied and are eligible for funds, while tenant advocates want blanket protections that also cover those who have struggled to learn about and apply for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augusta, on the tenants’ side, is fearful that sunsetting the protections while the Legislature is out of session — \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/sites/assembly.ca.gov/files/2021_legislative_calendar_revision_121820.pdf\">between Sept. 10 and Jan. 3\u003c/a> — would mean no one will be around to reassess and fix the rent relief program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates are also pushing to link protections to an improved economy with lower unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concept is: Do people have their jobs back? Because if people don’t have their jobs back, they’re not going to be able to pay rent,” said Shanti Singh, communications and legislative director for Tenants Together, a statewide advocacy coalition. “It’s not rocket science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state has now reopened and life for many in California is returning to normal, many employees in lower-wage sectors are still out of work. Last month, CalMatters reported California still has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/05/newsom-economy-unemployment-rate-recall-california/\">the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate\u003c/a> and has regained only 48% of jobs lost during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the economy is coming back, there are still millions of struggling families, and we need to make sure that they’re not going to be evicted while there’s still money available to help them,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-much-will-rent-relief-cover\">\u003cstrong>How Much Rent Relief Would Be Covered?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The most recent round of rent relief allowed landlords to collect aid totaling \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">80% of unpaid rent\u003c/a> through March 2021, as long as they forgave the rest. If a landlord turned down that deal, the tenant could receive 25% of the rent owed and have the rest of the debt relegated to small claims court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants have argued that the formula gave them the short end of the stick, should landlords choose to turn down the money. The 25% payment guaranteed only that a renter wouldn’t be evicted, but could still be saddled with debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11878830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-800x544.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-1020x693.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-160x109.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-1536x1044.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his May budget proposal, which legislators are now hashing out, Newsom called for state dollars to cover the full amount of missed rent — a proposal both tenant and landlord groups have welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also suggested that money could go directly to tenants — as opposed to waiting until landlords accept the aid. That’s something the landlord groups are less than thrilled about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there will be huge abuse,” said Carlton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chiu said the money could only be used to pay rental debt: “The two implications from that are: The landlord would not have to forgive any of that debt, and the tenant would receive coverage for everything that they owe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current protections, tenants who have moved out to save on rent are ineligible for relief, as it was designed only to keep current tenants housed. Advocates are hopeful that will change in the new bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another gaping gray area is whether renters who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/04/california-rent-relief-tenants/\">took out loans from friends\u003c/a>, banks or payday lenders, and therefore don’t have a direct debt to their landlords, can still qualify for the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why Has it Taken So Long to Distribute Rental Assistance?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The existing moratorium laid out several ways the money would reach residents: The state would distribute it; cities or counties could do it themselves using the state’s rules; or the jurisdiction could distribute its share of federal dollars with its own rules, and let the state distribute the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/ccd2371c-cae3-49da-9f88-24bea2cec38d?src=embed\" title=\"Rent relief rollout\" width=\"800\" height=\"1556\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by PolicyLink, an Oakland-based research group, suggests that \u003ca href=\"https://nationalequityatlas.org/rent-debt\">about 758,000 households in California\u003c/a> are behind on rent and owe a total of $3.5 billion. A newly released survey by the Terner Center at UC Berkeley — of 8,605 families renting from one of the state’s biggest nonprofit affordable housing developers — found that the number of \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/paying-the-rent-in-a-pandemic/?mc_cid=0560c9622e&mc_eid=cef0c46a71\">tenants who couldn’t pay rent more than doubled during the pandemic\u003c/a>, with Black and single-parent households hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why the disconnect between the need and the response? A recent survey \u003ca href=\"https://33ca17a8-78c9-4350-a719-06b2fad1b8ac.usrfiles.com/ugd/33ca17_aca4d7c49f4841c18ef9c97abe79d300.pdf\">of 177 tenant advocates \u003c/a>found several culprits: trouble applying in languages other than English and Spanish, a lack of digital proficiency and difficulty gathering documentation to prove eligibility for the relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/05/california-simplify-rent-relief-application/\">pledged this month to address those issues\u003c/a>, with eased documentation requirements and expanded language availability for the relief application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state’s Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, said the daily average of people applying for rent relief skyrocketed by 70% the week of June 11, when his agency simplified the application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s working,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Singh identified another reason for the slow rollout: “A lot of the burden of the outreach basically is on structurally underfunded and understaffed community organizations, and so a lot of people just don’t know” that rent relief is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities that handled their own rent relief funds, including San Francisco, programs got underway \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/san-francisco-distribute-90-million-rent-relief\">less than a month ago\u003c/a>, most because many were working out who would be eligible for the limited funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Riverside County also came up with its own rules, but earlier in the process, and decided tenants and landlords would get 100% of the rent owed — a move some lawmakers are hoping to replicate at the statewide level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has sent more than $21 million to about 2,600 households, according to Mike Walsh, deputy director of the Riverside County Housing Authority, where applications exceed available dollars. He has a different ask for the Legislature: “Can you just please make this simple?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walsh said that he’s heard that landlords’ attorneys were not thrilled with the state’s 80% deal, so it took effort to get the word out that his county’s program was different. But as soon as the county runs out of funds, the state is supposed to step in with its own program. Walsh hopes for some streamlining to avoid the confusion of separate rent relief efforts with changing rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-why-are-evictions-still-happening\">\u003cstrong>Why Are Evictions Still Happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates say the current eviction protections aren’t really a moratorium because evictions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/08/californians-evicted-coronavirus-pandemic/\">have been ongoing\u003c/a>. Singh, from Tenants Together, said her organization has been flooded with more calls this year than at any other time in the organization’s 13-year history. It brought on two more staff members just to handle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s staffers, volunteers and lawyers say they have seen an uptick in informal evictions brought on by landlord harassment and legal cases over nuisances and renovations. That’s because the law only prevented landlords from kicking out tenants over missed rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be additional protections to protect tenants from eviction, period, because we know that there’s lots and lots of other ways that people can be forced out,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, her organization has heard of pre-emptive threats of eviction: “Come July 1, you’re gone,” she said tenants have reported their landlords telling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes the Legislature will change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes additional reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/06/extension-moratoria-de-desalojo-de-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the third time during the pandemic, California legislators have pushed off a huge, looming question to the last minute: Will the state shield tenants from eviction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, most likely, is yes, but for how long and under what terms is still up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday morning, several stakeholders told CalMatters they hadn’t yet reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a planned floor session Friday, the vote would now most likely occur on Monday — two days before eviction protections are set to expire, after June 30. That would mean putting a plan to paper by Friday at the latest, as bills need to be in print for 72 hours before they can be voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rental assistance is the key here: The state has been doling out $2.6 billion it’s sitting on at a snail’s pace, while figuring out what to do with an additional $2.6 billion from the federal government. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature passed the last round of eviction protections in late January, the state has distributed only about $50 million of its $1.4 billion pot, and received applications for only about half of that money. While centralized data is unavailable for the cities’ and counties’ $1.2 billion share, there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-distributed-less-than-10-of-32-million-in-rental-aid-as-sta/\">similar reports\u003c/a> of a slow rollout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Key legislators are concerned about ending eviction protections before the bulk of those dollars have entered the pockets of the Californians who need it most, so they’re mostly hammering out new rules on eligibility and applications to make sure more rent relief gets out quicker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to allow evictions, when there are still billions of dollars available that could prevent those very evictions,” said Assemblymember David Chiu, a Democrat from San Francisco who leads the Assembly Housing Committee and helped craft the original eviction moratorium last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal-making to extend the eviction moratorium has been slow and secretive. Tenant and landlord groups told CalMatters they have been shut out of negotiations, which are taking place between Assembly and Senate leaders and the governor’s office — similar to the last two rounds of negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers have been pulled in many directions, but I’m hopeful that the right conversations are happening, and we’re going to make progress before June 30,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key decision points that will determine the fate of thousands and thousands of California renters: \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-long-will-new-protections-last\">\u003cstrong>How Long Would New Protections Last?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That question is at the heart of the debate. Tenant advocates want to extend protections for as long as possible, while landlord groups want the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, said the tenant side has asked the state to tie the end date to distribution of all available rental relief funds — which at the current pace would take several months, at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my mind, it would be a travesty to end these eviction protections before we get every dollar out the door,” Augusta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Landlord advocates are concerned about the same issue, but want protections to end by September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d rather not have an extension at all, but we need to get the money out,” said Debra Carlton, executive vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/\">California Apartment Association\u003c/a>. “That’s our number one focus. If that means a short, short-term extension, so be it. But the focus has to be on getting the money out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another point of contention: The association wants the law to protect from eviction only those who have applied and are eligible for funds, while tenant advocates want blanket protections that also cover those who have struggled to learn about and apply for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augusta, on the tenants’ side, is fearful that sunsetting the protections while the Legislature is out of session — \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/sites/assembly.ca.gov/files/2021_legislative_calendar_revision_121820.pdf\">between Sept. 10 and Jan. 3\u003c/a> — would mean no one will be around to reassess and fix the rent relief program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates are also pushing to link protections to an improved economy with lower unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concept is: Do people have their jobs back? Because if people don’t have their jobs back, they’re not going to be able to pay rent,” said Shanti Singh, communications and legislative director for Tenants Together, a statewide advocacy coalition. “It’s not rocket science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state has now reopened and life for many in California is returning to normal, many employees in lower-wage sectors are still out of work. Last month, CalMatters reported California still has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/05/newsom-economy-unemployment-rate-recall-california/\">the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate\u003c/a> and has regained only 48% of jobs lost during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the economy is coming back, there are still millions of struggling families, and we need to make sure that they’re not going to be evicted while there’s still money available to help them,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-how-much-will-rent-relief-cover\">\u003cstrong>How Much Rent Relief Would Be Covered?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The most recent round of rent relief allowed landlords to collect aid totaling \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">80% of unpaid rent\u003c/a> through March 2021, as long as they forgave the rest. If a landlord turned down that deal, the tenant could receive 25% of the rent owed and have the rest of the debt relegated to small claims court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants have argued that the formula gave them the short end of the stick, should landlords choose to turn down the money. The 25% payment guaranteed only that a renter wouldn’t be evicted, but could still be saddled with debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11878830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-800x544.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-1020x693.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-160x109.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/050621_rentstrike_AW_sized_01-1536x1044.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his May budget proposal, which legislators are now hashing out, Newsom called for state dollars to cover the full amount of missed rent — a proposal both tenant and landlord groups have welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also suggested that money could go directly to tenants — as opposed to waiting until landlords accept the aid. That’s something the landlord groups are less than thrilled about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there will be huge abuse,” said Carlton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chiu said the money could only be used to pay rental debt: “The two implications from that are: The landlord would not have to forgive any of that debt, and the tenant would receive coverage for everything that they owe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current protections, tenants who have moved out to save on rent are ineligible for relief, as it was designed only to keep current tenants housed. Advocates are hopeful that will change in the new bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another gaping gray area is whether renters who \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/04/california-rent-relief-tenants/\">took out loans from friends\u003c/a>, banks or payday lenders, and therefore don’t have a direct debt to their landlords, can still qualify for the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why Has it Taken So Long to Distribute Rental Assistance?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The existing moratorium laid out several ways the money would reach residents: The state would distribute it; cities or counties could do it themselves using the state’s rules; or the jurisdiction could distribute its share of federal dollars with its own rules, and let the state distribute the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/ccd2371c-cae3-49da-9f88-24bea2cec38d?src=embed\" title=\"Rent relief rollout\" width=\"800\" height=\"1556\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis by PolicyLink, an Oakland-based research group, suggests that \u003ca href=\"https://nationalequityatlas.org/rent-debt\">about 758,000 households in California\u003c/a> are behind on rent and owe a total of $3.5 billion. A newly released survey by the Terner Center at UC Berkeley — of 8,605 families renting from one of the state’s biggest nonprofit affordable housing developers — found that the number of \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/paying-the-rent-in-a-pandemic/?mc_cid=0560c9622e&mc_eid=cef0c46a71\">tenants who couldn’t pay rent more than doubled during the pandemic\u003c/a>, with Black and single-parent households hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why the disconnect between the need and the response? 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"content": "\u003cp>Shireen McSpadden took the helm last month as the director of San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. McSpadden is coming to the department at a pivotal time. At last count, the city had more than \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8,000 people\u003c/a> experiencing homelessness, and experts have predicted that number could grow as a result of pandemic-related job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s overseeing a department with a budget that’s grown more than 60% to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HSH-FY21-23-Budget-Deck_LHCB_6.7.2021_corrected.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$672 million\u003c/a>. The dramatic increase is a result of newly released funding from Proposition C, a tax on corporate revenues that voters approved in 2018, to fund new housing and services for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, McSpadden takes over from Abigail Stewart-Kahn, who served as interim director of the department during the pandemic after former Director Jeff Kositsky stepped down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, McSpadden toured one of San Francisco’s newest permanent supportive housing sites, the Post Hotel, operated by Episcopal Community Services and Caritas Management Corporation. The converted hotel will provide housing for 89 adults and couples, including 18 existing tenants. Residents will pay no more than 30% of their income toward rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McSpadden said the hotel represents “a great example” of Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-plan-fund-homelessness-recovery-plan-prioritizing-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homelessness Recovery Plan\u003c/a>, which includes placing 4,500 households in permanent housing with supportive services onsite over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50026_004_SanFrancisco_PostHotel_06172021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878669\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50026_004_SanFrancisco_PostHotel_06172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50026_004_SanFrancisco_PostHotel_06172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50026_004_SanFrancisco_PostHotel_06172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50026_004_SanFrancisco_PostHotel_06172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50026_004_SanFrancisco_PostHotel_06172021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shireen McSpadden, director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, visiting a room at the Post Hotel in San Francisco on June 17, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McSpadden spoke with KQED about her vision and priorities for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for clarity and length.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Policy Implementation Might Look Like\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You mentioned the Post Hotel is a good example of what the mayor’s plan on homelessness will look like. 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One of them is there's such an equity piece to homelessness. We know that close to 40% of the people who are homeless are African American. And the city has a history of not doing well by the African American population, a horrible history. It's part of making sure that people who've been displaced in San Francisco actually have a home to go to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a chance for us to think about ways that we serve our residents better across the city. So, we're not only thinking about having supportive housing in this area, we're thinking about how we do this across the city so that there's a geographical equity piece to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, it's just really exciting to come into the department at this time when we have an unprecedented amount of resources. We're also building up the department, so that we will really be able to respond to the needs of people, get our contracts out the door quicker and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's just a lot happening at once. There's a confluence of federal, state and local resources that are finally coming together in a way that makes sense and that really will help us make a much larger dent in this issue than we've been able to do in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Department Priorities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>There’s a lot that needs to get done. What are your priorities for the department?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a really good framework at this department. We have really good interventions, whether it's problem solving and prevention or it's housing people and all the other things that we do.\u003cbr>\nBut I think we still have a lot of gaps even within those buckets. Trying to tease out what those are and figuring out how do we create a better system for people to enter? Can we make things quicker?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can look at certain populations and see if we can do a better job. Again, equity is a huge thing and it's a huge thing for us to tackle because we have such an inequity in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big things for this department is that it's new. It was formed in 2016 by bringing together staff from a couple of different departments. It's been under-resourced, and we're in the process now of really building up our capacity and building up our staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important because with all this money, we have to be able to be the engine that gets it out the door, ultimately to get people housed. And we're challenged by that right now because we're in building mode. 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Our team is working fast and furiously to hire all of these positions that we have. We have new positions in our budget. Right now, I think we have about 130 staff and we've got something like 80 positions that we will be hiring for, which is a ton when you think about the size of the department. And so we're doing that as quickly as we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>At this point, Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the department, chimed in to add that the department’s budget is growing by 62%.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Cohen:\u003c/strong> In terms of operationalizing that, tracking it, accountability, ensuring we have due diligence and public process to get it out the door, we want to have the highest level of integrity in everything we do. It turns out that takes capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shireen McSpadden:\u003c/strong> The other thing is we want to be able to communicate our success. We want to be able to show that we're moving the needle. We hear a lot of frustration in the community about what's not being done. We want to be able to show what we are doing and how many people really have been housed. So we're going to be working on that. Certainly we track information, and we have data but we continuously want to improve that process. We also want to think about how we communicate to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bridging the Equity Gap\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You talked a little bit earlier about gap in equity. I'm just wondering, could you give me an example of some things where there might be gaps, or disconnects, that you're looking to bridge?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are challenged a little bit by our process in being able to reach specific populations. And I'll give one example, and that's because I came from the Department of Disability and Aging. One example is older people. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated June 28, 4 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#qualify\">Do I qualify for California rent relief?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#undocumented\">Are undocumented tenants eligible?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#howto\">How do I apply for rent relief?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#landlords\">Are landlords required to apply for rent relief?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#amount\">How much money could I potentially get?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has been crushing for low-income tenants in California — and has caused financial strain on property owners who haven’t been able to collect rent and have their own bills to pay. Local and state eviction protections have helped many people stay housed but, eventually, the rent will be due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s rent relief program, called \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html\">Housing Is Key\u003c/a>, was established by state lawmakers in January when they passed Senate Bill 91, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850145/with-looming-threat-of-evictions-california-bill-would-extend-renter-protections-through-2021\">which also extended the statewide eviction moratorium\u003c/a> through June 30. As of June 28, 2021 Gov. Newsom and state legislative leaders have agreed upon a deal shielding tenants from evictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879548/californias-eviction-moratorium-extension-what-tenants-and-landlords-should-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">through Sept 30\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both tenants and landlords with low-income tenants who have fallen behind on rent because of the pandemic can apply for relief. The new bill, AB 832, allows tenants and landlords to receive 100% of the back rent. That’s an increase from the previous program, where landlords could only receive 80% of what they were owed, and had to agree to forgive the remaining 20%. Landlords or tenants who have already applied or received funding, will automatically have their payments go up to 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants can now also apply directly for relief if their landlord does not respond or chooses not to participate, if they swear under penalty of perjury that the money will go toward paying off rent debt. Before if a landlord refused to participate, tenants could only get 25% of their debt forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program to distribute $5.2 billion in federal funds opened for applications on March 15 – but that money has gone out extremely slowly. While billions have been available since January, the state has distributed only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article252289103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$61.6 million\u003c/a> in relief to a little more than 5,000 households so far. That’s just about 10% of the total aid that people have applied for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays in payment are due to problems with the Department of Housing and Community Development’s anti-fraud system and to ensure there were no duplicate payments, said Jessica Hayes, a program specialist with HCD. She said they first prioritized sending assistance to people with the lowest incomes, but have started expanding the program to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to increase the number of households that we’re processing through the application each week,” she said, “and we expect that to continue to ramp up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants have also complained of a clunky and cumbersome system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869250/a-discriminatory-barrier-californias-rent-relief-website-lacks-translations-advocates-say\">the lack of translation for non-English speakers\u003c/a> as factors inhibiting people from applying. In response, HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez said the state has now streamlined the application, making it more user friendly, and has added more languages, including simplified Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Tagalog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about applying for rent relief in California, with answers to these frequently asked questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"qualify\">\u003c/a>‘Do I qualify for rent relief?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The program is targeted at low-income renters and their landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be eligible for the aid, tenants must make less than 80% of the local median income. Median income varies widely from county to county, and also depends on how many people live in your household. Don’t know what your local area median income (or AMI) is? \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-and-federal-income-limits/docs/income-limits-2020.pdf\">Here’s a handy cheat sheet from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants must also have at least one person in the household who has lost a job or income during the pandemic and can show they are at risk of homelessness. A past-due rent or utility bill can be used to show a risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state wants to get relief as quickly as it can to the most vulnerable renters first, and is sending the first round of checks to households that are making 50% or below the area’s median income, or someone who has been unemployed for 90 days or more. People in higher-income tiers, but no more than 80% AMI, will receive aid next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cities like Oakland, who opted to run their own programs, are going even further and prioritizing households making less — 30 % AMI or below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"undocumented\">\u003c/a>‘Are undocumented tenants eligible?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. The federal government never made citizenship status a requirement to access rent relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the assistance is available to all renters who meet the eligible income levels, regardless of whether they are a legal resident or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850681\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Now Renting’ sign on an apartment building on Market Street in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"howto\">\u003c/a>‘How do I apply?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most landlords and tenants who qualify can apply through the state’s website, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html\">Housing Is Key\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants still have to submit a declaration saying they are unable to make full rent, and pay at least 25% of their monthly rent between Sept. 1, 2020 and June 2021, or in bulk, by Sept. 30, to avoid eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants and landlords each have a role to play. There are parts of the application to be filled out by both parties. If both a landlord and a tenant applied for funds, the money will go directly to the landlord. It will only go to the tenant if the landlord declines to participate in the program.\u003cbr>\nThe bill expands eligibility to tenants who may have moved out of their home during the pandemic, who were not covered previously. They can now apply for back rent owed to a previous landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a tenant applies first, the landlord will be notified and invited to participate. If a landlord applies first, the state will get in touch with the tenant to gather additional information, like their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association is urging property owners to get in touch with eligible tenants early to let them know you plan on applying for aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You and the tenant need to work together,” said Debra Carlton, executive vice president of state government affairs and compliance with the California Apartment Association, the state’s largest landlord group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco renter Jonas Di Gregorio says the rent relief can’t come soon enough. He lost his job as a restaurant server at the beginning of the pandemic and owes more than $10,000 to his landlord in back rent. He’s been able to continue paying 25% of his monthly rent on his studio to avoid eviction.[aside tag='housing' label='Latest Housing News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this rental assistance is very important,” Di Gregorio said in March. “I hope my landlord will apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also find answers on eligibility or get help applying through the state’s new hotline, (833) 430-2122.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need direct one-on-one assistance to fill out the application, the state can arrange an in-person appointment with an outreach worker. The list of local groups who will be providing assistance will be available through the hotline or \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/partner_resources.html\">the state’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Is the process the same for everyone in California?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not exactly. Like so many things that have to do with addressing the pandemic, it depends on where you live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some larger local governments got a slice of the federal stimulus money directly and are creating their own programs, and if you live in those places, your process may be a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the Bay Area’s largest cities and counties are among those with their own programs, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/housing/covid-19-resources/rental-assistance\">San Jose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/renthelp\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/housing-resources-erap-emergency-rental-assistance\">Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords and tenants in jurisdictions with a pending local program can start their application through the state portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on local rent assistance programs, check out this nifty map from the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/rental-assistance\">National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What documents or information will I need?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Landlords will need some documentation proving they are the property owner. That could include a deed, a mortgage note, property tax statements or a current lease agreement. If it is an informal living situation and there is no signed lease, bank statements that show rent is being collected are also accepted. Property managers can also apply on behalf of a landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eligible tenants have to have some financial impact from COVID-19. \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/pdf/covid19/tenant_checklist.pdf\">There is an opportunity to provide documentation\u003c/a>, like a recent pay stub or a termination letter, but it is not required — and a written attestation that they have been impacted is sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters must also demonstrate housing instability or risk of homelessness. This could be owed back rent or an overdue utility bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"landlords\">\u003c/a>‘If I am a landlord, am I required to apply for rent relief?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No, but if landlords want to start eviction proceedings after September 30, due to unpaid rent, they will need to show that they or their tenants have attempted to apply for rent relief. If they don’t receive word on their application from either the state or their tenant, or if their tenant doesn’t qualify or meet the income requirements, the landlord can proceed with the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘What if my landlord doesn’t want to participate?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With SB 91, some nonprofits that advocate for low-income tenants voiced concerns that landlords may pick and choose which of their tenants get to receive relief, since the program depended heavily on the willingness of landlords to voluntarily opt-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with AB 832, tenants will be able to apply on their own for \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/program_overview.html#renter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100% of back rent and up to three months of forward rent\u003c/a>. Previously, without landlord approval, a tenant was eligible for only 25% of missed rental payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"amount\">\u003c/a>‘How much money could I get?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There isn’t any cap on how much rent aid an individual can qualify for under the state’s program. And the state says it will keep accepting applications and sending out checks until the pool of money runs out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rules vary for programs run by local jurisdictions, including the city of Oakland which has a cap of $15,000 of assistance per tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, like if a landlord refuses to accept the funds, the tenant could use the money to cover future rent payments, but only after past due rent has been paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Erin Baldassari and CalMatters’ Manuela Tobias.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was first published on March 15. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated June 28, 4 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#qualify\">Do I qualify for California rent relief?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#undocumented\">Are undocumented tenants eligible?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#howto\">How do I apply for rent relief?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#landlords\">Are landlords required to apply for rent relief?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#amount\">How much money could I potentially get?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has been crushing for low-income tenants in California — and has caused financial strain on property owners who haven’t been able to collect rent and have their own bills to pay. Local and state eviction protections have helped many people stay housed but, eventually, the rent will be due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s rent relief program, called \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html\">Housing Is Key\u003c/a>, was established by state lawmakers in January when they passed Senate Bill 91, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850145/with-looming-threat-of-evictions-california-bill-would-extend-renter-protections-through-2021\">which also extended the statewide eviction moratorium\u003c/a> through June 30. As of June 28, 2021 Gov. Newsom and state legislative leaders have agreed upon a deal shielding tenants from evictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879548/californias-eviction-moratorium-extension-what-tenants-and-landlords-should-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">through Sept 30\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both tenants and landlords with low-income tenants who have fallen behind on rent because of the pandemic can apply for relief. The new bill, AB 832, allows tenants and landlords to receive 100% of the back rent. That’s an increase from the previous program, where landlords could only receive 80% of what they were owed, and had to agree to forgive the remaining 20%. Landlords or tenants who have already applied or received funding, will automatically have their payments go up to 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants can now also apply directly for relief if their landlord does not respond or chooses not to participate, if they swear under penalty of perjury that the money will go toward paying off rent debt. Before if a landlord refused to participate, tenants could only get 25% of their debt forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program to distribute $5.2 billion in federal funds opened for applications on March 15 – but that money has gone out extremely slowly. While billions have been available since January, the state has distributed only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article252289103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$61.6 million\u003c/a> in relief to a little more than 5,000 households so far. That’s just about 10% of the total aid that people have applied for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays in payment are due to problems with the Department of Housing and Community Development’s anti-fraud system and to ensure there were no duplicate payments, said Jessica Hayes, a program specialist with HCD. She said they first prioritized sending assistance to people with the lowest incomes, but have started expanding the program to more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been able to increase the number of households that we’re processing through the application each week,” she said, “and we expect that to continue to ramp up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants have also complained of a clunky and cumbersome system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869250/a-discriminatory-barrier-californias-rent-relief-website-lacks-translations-advocates-say\">the lack of translation for non-English speakers\u003c/a> as factors inhibiting people from applying. In response, HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez said the state has now streamlined the application, making it more user friendly, and has added more languages, including simplified Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Tagalog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about applying for rent relief in California, with answers to these frequently asked questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"qualify\">\u003c/a>‘Do I qualify for rent relief?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The program is targeted at low-income renters and their landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be eligible for the aid, tenants must make less than 80% of the local median income. Median income varies widely from county to county, and also depends on how many people live in your household. Don’t know what your local area median income (or AMI) is? \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-and-federal-income-limits/docs/income-limits-2020.pdf\">Here’s a handy cheat sheet from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tenants must also have at least one person in the household who has lost a job or income during the pandemic and can show they are at risk of homelessness. A past-due rent or utility bill can be used to show a risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state wants to get relief as quickly as it can to the most vulnerable renters first, and is sending the first round of checks to households that are making 50% or below the area’s median income, or someone who has been unemployed for 90 days or more. People in higher-income tiers, but no more than 80% AMI, will receive aid next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some cities like Oakland, who opted to run their own programs, are going even further and prioritizing households making less — 30 % AMI or below.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"undocumented\">\u003c/a>‘Are undocumented tenants eligible?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. The federal government never made citizenship status a requirement to access rent relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the assistance is available to all renters who meet the eligible income levels, regardless of whether they are a legal resident or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850681\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘Now Renting’ sign on an apartment building on Market Street in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"howto\">\u003c/a>‘How do I apply?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most landlords and tenants who qualify can apply through the state’s website, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html\">Housing Is Key\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants still have to submit a declaration saying they are unable to make full rent, and pay at least 25% of their monthly rent between Sept. 1, 2020 and June 2021, or in bulk, by Sept. 30, to avoid eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants and landlords each have a role to play. There are parts of the application to be filled out by both parties. If both a landlord and a tenant applied for funds, the money will go directly to the landlord. It will only go to the tenant if the landlord declines to participate in the program.\u003cbr>\nThe bill expands eligibility to tenants who may have moved out of their home during the pandemic, who were not covered previously. They can now apply for back rent owed to a previous landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a tenant applies first, the landlord will be notified and invited to participate. If a landlord applies first, the state will get in touch with the tenant to gather additional information, like their income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association is urging property owners to get in touch with eligible tenants early to let them know you plan on applying for aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You and the tenant need to work together,” said Debra Carlton, executive vice president of state government affairs and compliance with the California Apartment Association, the state’s largest landlord group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco renter Jonas Di Gregorio says the rent relief can’t come soon enough. He lost his job as a restaurant server at the beginning of the pandemic and owes more than $10,000 to his landlord in back rent. He’s been able to continue paying 25% of his monthly rent on his studio to avoid eviction.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘What if my landlord doesn’t want to participate?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With SB 91, some nonprofits that advocate for low-income tenants voiced concerns that landlords may pick and choose which of their tenants get to receive relief, since the program depended heavily on the willingness of landlords to voluntarily opt-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with AB 832, tenants will be able to apply on their own for \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/program_overview.html#renter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100% of back rent and up to three months of forward rent\u003c/a>. Previously, without landlord approval, a tenant was eligible for only 25% of missed rental payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"amount\">\u003c/a>‘How much money could I get?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There isn’t any cap on how much rent aid an individual can qualify for under the state’s program. And the state says it will keep accepting applications and sending out checks until the pool of money runs out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rules vary for programs run by local jurisdictions, including the city of Oakland which has a cap of $15,000 of assistance per tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, like if a landlord refuses to accept the funds, the tenant could use the money to cover future rent payments, but only after past due rent has been paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Erin Baldassari and CalMatters’ Manuela Tobias.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was first published on March 15. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cheyanne Wright felt stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 23-year-old was renting a room from her boyfriend’s mother in Stockton. Her relationship with the woman had soured during the coronavirus pandemic after an argument exploded over using the kitchen. Things became so tense that Wright no longer felt safe leaving the room she shared with her boyfriend and her 4-year-old son. Space got even tighter after she gave birth to their son, Romeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just wasn’t working and it was really stressful,” Wright said. “I just tried to stay positive as much as possible, because [kids] can feel your stress and when you’re unhappy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Stories From KQED's Homekey Series\" postID=\"news_11877000,news_11876745\"]Wright had lost her job as a resident assistant at an elder care home in early 2020. She was desperate for a better housing situation, but all the rentals she found were over $1,200 a month, which was out of her reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when you have a family, it makes it really, really hard because you have to buy the food. You have to buy their clothes or diapers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright grew up in the Mendocino County city of Ukiah, three hours from Stockton. She longed to return to rural Northern California to be closer to the redwood trees, the mountains — and to her tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright is Native American and an enrolled tribal member of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, and thought they might be able to help her find a new job and a pediatrician for her newborn. She reached out to her cousin, Joshua Ray, who is a social worker with the tribe, to see if he knew of any rooms opening up in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray said he had something better: Her own two-bedroom apartment in Lakeport — across the street from Clear Lake — where the Scotts Valley tribe is headquartered. And at $450 a month, the rent was something she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt blessed,” she said. “It really saved us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wright moved in mid-February, she was one of the first residents at the 10-unit apartment complex. The goal is to eventually rent out all the units to tribal members who are currently homeless or at risk of losing their housing. The tribe estimates that about 33 of its 302 enrolled members fit into this category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the second-floor deck of one of the units, you can see the edge of Clear Lake, once a rich resource for Pomo people to fish and hunt game. Tall tule reeds growing along the water’s edge were used to make baskets, boats and even entire homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small apartment building, which the tribe just this week named the Sugar Bowl Apartments, was purchased and remodeled using funding from \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey\u003c/a>, a statewide effort to quickly convert existing properties into temporary or permanent housing. Since launching in June 2020, the program has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877000/californias-homekey-is-revolutionizing-homeless-housing-but-can-it-last\">created nearly 6,000 new units statewide\u003c/a> for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake County project is one of three awarded to Northern California tribes during Homekey’s first year of funding. In Sonoma County, the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians are converting a Santa Rosa motel into 19 apartments for people who are chronically homeless. And in Humboldt County, the Yurok Tribe was awarded $2.2 million to purchase a Eureka motel and turn it into 18 units of permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877618 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Ray, a social worker with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, inside an apartment in Lakeport on May 14, 2021 that’s being remodeled for new tenants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray oversees the management and renovation of the Lakeport complex. The units were run-down when the building was purchased last year, he says, and have since been renovated with a fresh coat of paint, laminate wood flooring, a new roof and new appliances — including air conditioning. He hopes the complex will become a small modern-day village, with Native people lifting each other up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is for me to help you become better than you were when you moved in here. To get you a better job. You’re going to be saving money,” he said, money that could go toward a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for more tribal housing to reduce homelessness becomes abundantly clear when reviewing the statistics. Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2020/\">Native Americans have the second-highest rate of homelessness\u003c/a> among all racial groups, behind Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For American Indians living on reservation land, homelessness often translates into overcrowding. \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/HNAIHousingNeeds.pdf\">A 2017 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report\u003c/a> found 16% of tribal households were considered overcrowded, compared with only 2% of households nationwide. Without enough affordable, safe housing, two or three families sometimes live under one roof — like Wright did in Stockton — often a last resort before falling into street homelessness or staying at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lake County, Native Americans make up about 4% of the general population, but account for over 22% of the homeless population, according to the county’s 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.lakecoc.org/2021-pit-count-restults\">point-in-time homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a big tribe, but we do have a tribe that doesn’t have housing,” said Ray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also a tribe that doesn’t have land, he adds, which further exacerbates their housing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Land, No Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The story of how the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians lost their land is rooted in our country’s origin story. It’s a history of disenfranchisement, relocation and assimilation forged by European settlers and the federal government, with the goal of eliminating tribes and erasing native culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877627 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pomo dancers perform during a tribal youth event in Upper Lake, California, on May 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But two government policies, in particular, were most harmful to Ray’s tribe: the termination of tribal status and the voluntary relocation of Native people off their reservation and into urban cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For centuries, the Scotts Valley tribe roamed from the mountains surrounding Clear Lake to the Pacific coast and down to San Pablo Bay. After a series of false promises and broken treaties, the federal government, in 1911, purchased a 56-acre parcel of land near Lakeport for the tribe to live on. But the Sugar Bowl Rancheria, as it was named, lacked water and basic utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tribe then lost that land in 1965, when the government terminated its tribal status, along with that of over 100 other tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, government relocation programs ushered Native people to cities, promising good housing and steady jobs. But that didn’t always happen, and some people disappeared into poverty or homelessness.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Patricia Franklin, member of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians\"]‘It’s a tough thing when you don’t have a place to call home and lay your head. And I finally do at my house. But I want my tribe to have a home, too.’[/pullquote]As a result of these programs, about 70% of Scotts Valley tribal members had relocated to the Bay Area by the 1970s. After a years-long court battle, the tribe had their status restored in 1992, but their homeland was never replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very challenging because we don’t have a place to call home,” said Patricia Franklin, a Scotts Valley tribal member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Scotts Valley is a landless tribe, its members are spread out across Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Many members live about two hours away from the tribe’s offices in Lakeport, making it difficult to have centralized health and housing services and stay united as a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Native people, being homeless takes on a whole different meaning when you consider the legacy of racism, colonialism and land theft, says Colleen Echohawk, founder of the National Coalition to End Urban Indigenous Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can trace it back to the very first moments of colonization in this country,” she said, noting that there were no Native homeless people before Europeans arrived in 1492.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that were coming into the West were like, ‘Hey, we want this land,’ ” she said. “And they moved us all into reservations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrival of European settlers brought diseases, forced assimilation and violent massacres of Native communities. Echohawk says many Native people today are still traumatized and distrustful of government involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve worked with elders who for years stuck outside, slept in tents, but did not want to go anywhere near a shelter. That’s because it triggered the trauma of boarding schools, those institutionalized systems that harmed them,” she said, referring to the Indian boarding schools that many Native children were sent to as part of the government’s drive to forcibly assimilate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875075 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque on the site of the Bloody Island massacre near Upper Lake, California. The plaque was installed by the Native Sons of the Golden West and downplays the murder of men, women and children here in 1850 at the hands of U.S. soldiers. It is covered with red paint to signify the blood spilled. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Off Highway 20 near Lakeport, a dirt road leads to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818362/marking-a-california-massacre-with-a-native-ceremony-of-forgiveness\">another site of loss and violence\u003c/a> specific to the Pomo people — a small hill past a large grassy field. It’s what remains of Bonopoti, an island where U.S. soldiers in 1850 killed nearly every man, woman and child — in what came to be known as Bloody Island. Every year, on May 15, the tribe holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\">a sunrise ceremony\u003c/a> at the site to remember the lives lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11874585 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony-1020x633.jpg']“It’s something that occurred to our people,” said Scotts Valley tribal member Jesse Gonzalez. “That, you know, our people never forgot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breaking the Cycle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192513X12447178?journalCode=jfia&\">growing body of research\u003c/a> has found that historical trauma in Native communities can be passed down through generations. Today, many Scotts Valley tribal members are plagued by poverty, depression and substance abuse, says Gabriel Ray, Joshua Ray’s uncle, who sits on the Scotts Valley tribal council. More than half of the tribe’s members are currently unemployed, he notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our members don’t even realize that their life has been so affected by historical trauma,” Gabriel Ray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal member Patricia Franklin, Gabriel Ray’s sister, knows this firsthand. She grew up poor and was homeless most of her childhood. She, Ray and their other siblings would sleep in their car near Hopland or camp along the banks of Lake Mendocino, sometimes even during the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You start to think, this is normal,” she said. “But your normal is totally different than the rest of the world’s normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Because they moved around a lot and didn’t have stable housing, Franklin and her siblings would often miss school for months at a time. She taught herself to read when she was 7 by sounding out the words she saw in her mom’s magazines. It wasn’t until she was an adult that she went back to school to learn math and how to write, eventually earning her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just surviving,” Franklin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin has had her own struggles with alcohol and methamphetamine addiction, and experienced homelessness again as an adult, staying at a local shelter on and off with her kids. She eventually got sober after reconnecting with her faith and her tribe, and she was later elected to the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11877628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49368_096_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49368_096_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49368_096_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49368_096_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49368_096_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49368_096_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Franklin performing with other Pomo dancers during a tribal youth event in Upper Lake, California, on May 14, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the Scotts Valley tribe received a $600,000 federal housing grant to help six families with their down payments. Franklin was one of the recipients, allowing her to buy a home in Ukiah, where she still lives with her husband Dino and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a home has helped her heal, she says, and allowed her to reconnect with her culture and identity. She’s started to dance again and is part of a group of Pomo weavers who are trying to revive traditional basket weaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tough thing when you don’t have a place to call home and lay your head. And I finally do at my house,” she said. “But I want my tribe to have a home, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Native-Led Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Lakeport apartments purchased under the Homekey program mark the most significant action to date the Scotts Valley tribe has taken to house its own members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand our own people,” said Franklin. “We always try to help. And so now we’re going to be able to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few other Native-led housing projects around the country, including several in Minnesota. In Seattle, Colleen Echohawk, the housing activist, spearheaded one that’s set to open in the fall. She says the 80-unit project will be decorated with Indigenous art, include a Native health care clinic, and offer housing and employment assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that it shows other Native organizations that culturally specific housing is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we build our own housing, when we own our own housing, when we run our own housing, we’re continuing to message that we are healing, that we are resilient,” Echohawk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877616 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A deck with views of Clear Lake at the new Homekey apartment complex in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The apartment complex in Lakeport is just part of the Scotts Valley tribe’s greater housing vision. That includes a safe house, alcohol and substance rehabilitation, and a plot of land where the tribe could one day build its own community with housing for families and elders. But to reach that goal, it will need more funding and more land, which is likely years in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Miller is on a waiting list to move into the Lakeport apartment site. She lost her job and her partner during the pandemic, and has since drained her savings to make the rent. She says getting into one of the apartments will help her get back on her feet, adding that the prospect of living among other Native people puts her at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My roots are here,” she said. “This is where we belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wright had lost her job as a resident assistant at an elder care home in early 2020. She was desperate for a better housing situation, but all the rentals she found were over $1,200 a month, which was out of her reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when you have a family, it makes it really, really hard because you have to buy the food. You have to buy their clothes or diapers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright grew up in the Mendocino County city of Ukiah, three hours from Stockton. She longed to return to rural Northern California to be closer to the redwood trees, the mountains — and to her tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright is Native American and an enrolled tribal member of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, and thought they might be able to help her find a new job and a pediatrician for her newborn. She reached out to her cousin, Joshua Ray, who is a social worker with the tribe, to see if he knew of any rooms opening up in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray said he had something better: Her own two-bedroom apartment in Lakeport — across the street from Clear Lake — where the Scotts Valley tribe is headquartered. And at $450 a month, the rent was something she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt blessed,” she said. “It really saved us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wright moved in mid-February, she was one of the first residents at the 10-unit apartment complex. The goal is to eventually rent out all the units to tribal members who are currently homeless or at risk of losing their housing. The tribe estimates that about 33 of its 302 enrolled members fit into this category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the second-floor deck of one of the units, you can see the edge of Clear Lake, once a rich resource for Pomo people to fish and hunt game. Tall tule reeds growing along the water’s edge were used to make baskets, boats and even entire homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small apartment building, which the tribe just this week named the Sugar Bowl Apartments, was purchased and remodeled using funding from \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey\u003c/a>, a statewide effort to quickly convert existing properties into temporary or permanent housing. Since launching in June 2020, the program has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877000/californias-homekey-is-revolutionizing-homeless-housing-but-can-it-last\">created nearly 6,000 new units statewide\u003c/a> for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake County project is one of three awarded to Northern California tribes during Homekey’s first year of funding. In Sonoma County, the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians are converting a Santa Rosa motel into 19 apartments for people who are chronically homeless. And in Humboldt County, the Yurok Tribe was awarded $2.2 million to purchase a Eureka motel and turn it into 18 units of permanent supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877618 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49293_009_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Ray, a social worker with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, inside an apartment in Lakeport on May 14, 2021 that’s being remodeled for new tenants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray oversees the management and renovation of the Lakeport complex. The units were run-down when the building was purchased last year, he says, and have since been renovated with a fresh coat of paint, laminate wood flooring, a new roof and new appliances — including air conditioning. He hopes the complex will become a small modern-day village, with Native people lifting each other up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is for me to help you become better than you were when you moved in here. To get you a better job. You’re going to be saving money,” he said, money that could go toward a down payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for more tribal housing to reduce homelessness becomes abundantly clear when reviewing the statistics. Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2020/\">Native Americans have the second-highest rate of homelessness\u003c/a> among all racial groups, behind Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For American Indians living on reservation land, homelessness often translates into overcrowding. \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/HNAIHousingNeeds.pdf\">A 2017 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report\u003c/a> found 16% of tribal households were considered overcrowded, compared with only 2% of households nationwide. Without enough affordable, safe housing, two or three families sometimes live under one roof — like Wright did in Stockton — often a last resort before falling into street homelessness or staying at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lake County, Native Americans make up about 4% of the general population, but account for over 22% of the homeless population, according to the county’s 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.lakecoc.org/2021-pit-count-restults\">point-in-time homeless count\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a big tribe, but we do have a tribe that doesn’t have housing,” said Ray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also a tribe that doesn’t have land, he adds, which further exacerbates their housing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Land, No Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The story of how the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians lost their land is rooted in our country’s origin story. It’s a history of disenfranchisement, relocation and assimilation forged by European settlers and the federal government, with the goal of eliminating tribes and erasing native culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877627 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49358_086_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pomo dancers perform during a tribal youth event in Upper Lake, California, on May 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But two government policies, in particular, were most harmful to Ray’s tribe: the termination of tribal status and the voluntary relocation of Native people off their reservation and into urban cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For centuries, the Scotts Valley tribe roamed from the mountains surrounding Clear Lake to the Pacific coast and down to San Pablo Bay. After a series of false promises and broken treaties, the federal government, in 1911, purchased a 56-acre parcel of land near Lakeport for the tribe to live on. But the Sugar Bowl Rancheria, as it was named, lacked water and basic utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tribe then lost that land in 1965, when the government terminated its tribal status, along with that of over 100 other tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, government relocation programs ushered Native people to cities, promising good housing and steady jobs. But that didn’t always happen, and some people disappeared into poverty or homelessness.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a result of these programs, about 70% of Scotts Valley tribal members had relocated to the Bay Area by the 1970s. After a years-long court battle, the tribe had their status restored in 1992, but their homeland was never replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very challenging because we don’t have a place to call home,” said Patricia Franklin, a Scotts Valley tribal member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Scotts Valley is a landless tribe, its members are spread out across Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Many members live about two hours away from the tribe’s offices in Lakeport, making it difficult to have centralized health and housing services and stay united as a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Native people, being homeless takes on a whole different meaning when you consider the legacy of racism, colonialism and land theft, says Colleen Echohawk, founder of the National Coalition to End Urban Indigenous Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can trace it back to the very first moments of colonization in this country,” she said, noting that there were no Native homeless people before Europeans arrived in 1492.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that were coming into the West were like, ‘Hey, we want this land,’ ” she said. “And they moved us all into reservations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrival of European settlers brought diseases, forced assimilation and violent massacres of Native communities. Echohawk says many Native people today are still traumatized and distrustful of government involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve worked with elders who for years stuck outside, slept in tents, but did not want to go anywhere near a shelter. That’s because it triggered the trauma of boarding schools, those institutionalized systems that harmed them,” she said, referring to the Indian boarding schools that many Native children were sent to as part of the government’s drive to forcibly assimilate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875075 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49203_069_UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony_05152021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque on the site of the Bloody Island massacre near Upper Lake, California. The plaque was installed by the Native Sons of the Golden West and downplays the murder of men, women and children here in 1850 at the hands of U.S. soldiers. It is covered with red paint to signify the blood spilled. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Off Highway 20 near Lakeport, a dirt road leads to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818362/marking-a-california-massacre-with-a-native-ceremony-of-forgiveness\">another site of loss and violence\u003c/a> specific to the Pomo people — a small hill past a large grassy field. It’s what remains of Bonopoti, an island where U.S. soldiers in 1850 killed nearly every man, woman and child — in what came to be known as Bloody Island. Every year, on May 15, the tribe holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874585/we-always-have-our-ancestors-within-us-scenes-from-bloody-islands-sunrise-ceremony\">a sunrise ceremony\u003c/a> at the site to remember the lives lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Because they moved around a lot and didn’t have stable housing, Franklin and her siblings would often miss school for months at a time. She taught herself to read when she was 7 by sounding out the words she saw in her mom’s magazines. It wasn’t until she was an adult that she went back to school to learn math and how to write, eventually earning her GED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just surviving,” Franklin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin has had her own struggles with alcohol and methamphetamine addiction, and experienced homelessness again as an adult, staying at a local shelter on and off with her kids. 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And so now we’re going to be able to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few other Native-led housing projects around the country, including several in Minnesota. In Seattle, Colleen Echohawk, the housing activist, spearheaded one that’s set to open in the fall. She says the 80-unit project will be decorated with Indigenous art, include a Native health care clinic, and offer housing and employment assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that it shows other Native organizations that culturally specific housing is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we build our own housing, when we own our own housing, when we run our own housing, we’re continuing to message that we are healing, that we are resilient,” Echohawk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877616 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49303_019_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A deck with views of Clear Lake at the new Homekey apartment complex in Lakeport. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The apartment complex in Lakeport is just part of the Scotts Valley tribe’s greater housing vision. That includes a safe house, alcohol and substance rehabilitation, and a plot of land where the tribe could one day build its own community with housing for families and elders. But to reach that goal, it will need more funding and more land, which is likely years in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Miller is on a waiting list to move into the Lakeport apartment site. She lost her job and her partner during the pandemic, and has since drained her savings to make the rent. She says getting into one of the apartments will help her get back on her feet, adding that the prospect of living among other Native people puts her at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My roots are here,” she said. “This is where we belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The application will eventually be available for download on the website. In the meantime, people who want a paper application can call the state’s rent relief line at 1-833-430-2122.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Latest Housing News' tag='housing']In addition to the $2.6 billion approved in December during the second round of federal stimulus, the American Rescue Plan passed in March allocated another $2.6 billion to California for past and future rent relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has also proposed another \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/05/14/california-roars-back-governor-newsom-presents-100-billion-california-comeback-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2 billion to pay for past-due utility bills\u003c/a>, said Jason Elliott, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Clyde Julian landed on Mountain View’s streets in November 2020. He used to live with his wife and two kids in Roseville, north of Sacramento, but after a domestic dispute, moved to the heart of Silicon Valley to stay with his brother in a trailer park community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the community had strict rules about long-term guests, and without other options to fall back on, Julian started living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living on the streets, not knowing if you’re going to wake up the next day, it was just hard sleeping on the outside, sometimes without blankets, in the freezing cold,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Stories From KQED's Homekey Series\" postID=\"news_11877585,news_11877000\"]Over the next six months, Julian gained 60 pounds and developed a myriad of health issues. But he caught a break after being referred to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lifemoves.org/\">LifeMoves\u003c/a>, a South Bay housing nonprofit. And in May, he was among the first to move into the organization’s new modular housing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just glad to be here. I mean, everything is great out here,” Julian said. “Better than staying out on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lifemoves.org/homekey/\">LifeMoves Mountain View\u003c/a>, as it’s called, is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey,\u003c/a> a statewide program that in just the last year has produced nearly 6,000 new units of housing at 94 different sites across the state. While the majority of the program’s new sites are hotel and motel conversions, they also include apartment buildings and tiny homes, in addition to former vacation rentals, mobile homes and single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LifeMoves worked with the city to build modular housing on an empty industrial parking lot. The prefabricated units were built in a factory and assembled on site. Joanne Price, LifeMoves’ vice president of real estate and operations, says modular housing was much cheaper and faster to build: The entire site came together in nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Hotels] still need renovation, so they may be built already, but then it’s really hard to modify hotels when you’re occupying them,” she said. “Rapid housing, like the modular [we built] with Homekey, can be purchased and installed within a matter of months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877272 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-scaled-e1623281916550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clyde Julian stands in front of his room on May 20, 2021 at a newly constructed Homekey site in Mountain View, where he is one of the first tenants. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christina Dickerson, who sits on the LifeMoves’ board, says the site is also more customizable than typical brick-and-mortar models, and its layout is optimized for the services LifeMoves offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So not only is it cost-effective, but it’s flexible, which allows cities that we partner with to redevelop as is needed or change the type of housing that is needed in a particular area,” Dickerson said. “Brick-and-mortar infrastructure is more expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site, which expects to receive ongoing funding from Santa Clara County and corporate donors after support from the state dries up, resembles neat rows of shipping containers. Close to the entrance are family units with private bathrooms, and a nearby playground. Behind that is a communal kitchen, which provides three meals a day, and a small hall where LifeMoves plans to offer job fairs, movie nights and other social activities for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit also provides access to supportive services, including mental health treatment, financial literacy and job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877276 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family housing unit still under construction at LifeMoves Mountain View contains a room with two bunk beds. The space provides temporary housing and resources to people who are currently unhoused in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every client that is homeless has got there by a different reason, and we need to unravel that reason and connect that client with the right resources,” Price said. “Be it health care, be it social services, be it connection to jobs, employment, reuniting with family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the back of the site are the single units — where Julian is now staying. Each one consists of a narrow room with a bed and a desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can just relax and be calm and see my next step,” Julian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s just a peace of mind for me to relax here and get my mind cleared up,” he added. “Next would be to get back to work, hopefully to get my own place and have my two little ones come live with me here.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Clyde Julian, LifeMoves Mountain View temporary resident\"]‘Right now, it’s just a peace of mind for me to relax here and get my mind cleared up.’[/pullquote]The site can house up to 124 people at a time, but only temporarily — intended as a launching point for those who need some help getting back on their feet. In contrast to some other Homekey sites, where tenants can stay for long periods, and in some cases, permanently, Julian will only be able to stay here for three to four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickerson says that short-term stay is by design. “There are people who are going to go from our place into permanent supportive housing because they will forever need the support,” she said. “But there’s a whole lot of people who will be able to live on their own again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of LifeMoves’ goal is to help its clients find permanent housing before they depart. But that concerns some housing advocates, like Lenny Siegel, Mountain View’s former mayor, who fears program participants will be forced to move elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A communal dining space at LifeMoves Mountain View, a modular housing community, on June 8, 2021. The space provides temporary housing and resources to people currently unhoused in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And elsewhere means far from Mountain View because housing in Mountain View is too expensive for people who don’t have an income,” Siegel said. “In Mountain View, whether you’re owning a home or even renting, you have to have a six-figure income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/preservation/living_in_vehicles_and_homeless_information.asp\">2019 survey\u003c/a> tallied more than 600 homeless people in Mountain View, including people living in RVs and oversized vehicles. Last November, voters in the city passed\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848619/mountain-view-voters-passed-measure-c-now-what-happens-to-rv-dwellers\"> Measure C\u003c/a>, which will soon ban most oversized vehicles from parking on the majority of the city’s residential streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Siegel is convinced the city’s homeless population has grown during the coronavirus pandemic, and says he’s concerned many in this group won’t benefit from the new Homekey site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think some people in the city expect that [the site’s] going to make a dent in our vehicle resident population, our motor-home population, and the evidence I’ve seen suggests it won’t work for that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View is also working on other permanent housing projects for low-income people, including refurbishing the\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/housing/active_projects/crestview_hotel/default.asp\"> Crestview Hotel\u003c/a> and developing the\u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/preservation/lot_12/lot_12_rfp.asp\"> Lot 12 project \u003c/a>on an empty parking lot downtown, which will include a six-story apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, LifeMoves officials say they want to house as many people as possible, and hope they can serve those living in RVs and oversized vehicles. But for now, they want to focus on helping people like Julian, who they say more urgently need shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Clyde Julian landed on Mountain View’s streets in November 2020. He used to live with his wife and two kids in Roseville, north of Sacramento, but after a domestic dispute, moved to the heart of Silicon Valley to stay with his brother in a trailer park community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the community had strict rules about long-term guests, and without other options to fall back on, Julian started living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living on the streets, not knowing if you’re going to wake up the next day, it was just hard sleeping on the outside, sometimes without blankets, in the freezing cold,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over the next six months, Julian gained 60 pounds and developed a myriad of health issues. But he caught a break after being referred to \u003ca href=\"https://www.lifemoves.org/\">LifeMoves\u003c/a>, a South Bay housing nonprofit. And in May, he was among the first to move into the organization’s new modular housing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just glad to be here. I mean, everything is great out here,” Julian said. “Better than staying out on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lifemoves.org/homekey/\">LifeMoves Mountain View\u003c/a>, as it’s called, is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey,\u003c/a> a statewide program that in just the last year has produced nearly 6,000 new units of housing at 94 different sites across the state. While the majority of the program’s new sites are hotel and motel conversions, they also include apartment buildings and tiny homes, in addition to former vacation rentals, mobile homes and single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LifeMoves worked with the city to build modular housing on an empty industrial parking lot. The prefabricated units were built in a factory and assembled on site. Joanne Price, LifeMoves’ vice president of real estate and operations, says modular housing was much cheaper and faster to build: The entire site came together in nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Hotels] still need renovation, so they may be built already, but then it’s really hard to modify hotels when you’re occupying them,” she said. “Rapid housing, like the modular [we built] with Homekey, can be purchased and installed within a matter of months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877272 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-scaled-e1623281916550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clyde Julian stands in front of his room on May 20, 2021 at a newly constructed Homekey site in Mountain View, where he is one of the first tenants. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christina Dickerson, who sits on the LifeMoves’ board, says the site is also more customizable than typical brick-and-mortar models, and its layout is optimized for the services LifeMoves offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So not only is it cost-effective, but it’s flexible, which allows cities that we partner with to redevelop as is needed or change the type of housing that is needed in a particular area,” Dickerson said. “Brick-and-mortar infrastructure is more expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site, which expects to receive ongoing funding from Santa Clara County and corporate donors after support from the state dries up, resembles neat rows of shipping containers. Close to the entrance are family units with private bathrooms, and a nearby playground. Behind that is a communal kitchen, which provides three meals a day, and a small hall where LifeMoves plans to offer job fairs, movie nights and other social activities for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit also provides access to supportive services, including mental health treatment, financial literacy and job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11877276 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49756_025_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family housing unit still under construction at LifeMoves Mountain View contains a room with two bunk beds. The space provides temporary housing and resources to people who are currently unhoused in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every client that is homeless has got there by a different reason, and we need to unravel that reason and connect that client with the right resources,” Price said. “Be it health care, be it social services, be it connection to jobs, employment, reuniting with family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the back of the site are the single units — where Julian is now staying. Each one consists of a narrow room with a bed and a desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can just relax and be calm and see my next step,” Julian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s just a peace of mind for me to relax here and get my mind cleared up,” he added. “Next would be to get back to work, hopefully to get my own place and have my two little ones come live with me here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The site can house up to 124 people at a time, but only temporarily — intended as a launching point for those who need some help getting back on their feet. In contrast to some other Homekey sites, where tenants can stay for long periods, and in some cases, permanently, Julian will only be able to stay here for three to four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickerson says that short-term stay is by design. “There are people who are going to go from our place into permanent supportive housing because they will forever need the support,” she said. “But there’s a whole lot of people who will be able to live on their own again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of LifeMoves’ goal is to help its clients find permanent housing before they depart. But that concerns some housing advocates, like Lenny Siegel, Mountain View’s former mayor, who fears program participants will be forced to move elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49741_010_MountainView_ProjectHomekey_06082021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A communal dining space at LifeMoves Mountain View, a modular housing community, on June 8, 2021. The space provides temporary housing and resources to people currently unhoused in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And elsewhere means far from Mountain View because housing in Mountain View is too expensive for people who don’t have an income,” Siegel said. “In Mountain View, whether you’re owning a home or even renting, you have to have a six-figure income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/preservation/living_in_vehicles_and_homeless_information.asp\">2019 survey\u003c/a> tallied more than 600 homeless people in Mountain View, including people living in RVs and oversized vehicles. Last November, voters in the city passed\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848619/mountain-view-voters-passed-measure-c-now-what-happens-to-rv-dwellers\"> Measure C\u003c/a>, which will soon ban most oversized vehicles from parking on the majority of the city’s residential streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Letta “Oneka” Glover checked into the shelter in San Rafael, she was exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s 50 and has bad knees, a condition made worse by sleeping in her car. That’s where she was living in February when she heard about the new shelter on Kerner Boulevard. She moved in a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was relief,” Glover said. “I felt like I could kind of let my shoulders down, you know, and not have to be so on guard about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Stories From KQED's Homekey Series\" postID=\"news_11877585,news_11876745\"]This shelter isn’t like others, where she’s stayed. It’s tucked into the third floor of an office building that was once home to a legal services company. But instead of desks and chairs inside the offices, there are cots. The old lobby is now a shared work space, with computers for residents to search for jobs and housing. Large windows line a common room, with views of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, temporary shelters are built in factories or warehouses, said Paul Fordham, deputy executive director of Homeward Bound of Marin, which is operating the shelter until it can be converted into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there’s so much light here,” he said. “It’s a very dignified, nice space to rebuild your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site is one of 94 projects funded through \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey\u003c/a>, a statewide program that’s created nearly 6,000 new units of housing. While the majority are hotel and motel conversions, they also include tiny homes and former vacation rentals, a college dormitory and single-family houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Homekey Sites\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-x4dU5\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/x4dU5/11/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"852\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Homekey is barely a year old, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a massive $7 billion, 46,000-unit expansion of the program. Half of the funding would be dedicated to housing for people with acute behavioral and mental health needs. It’s all part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873157/newsom-wants-12-billion-to-house-californias-homeless-residents-calling-situation-unacceptable\">$12 billion proposal\u003c/a> to combat homelessness over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy experts, service providers and others who work on homelessness in California have lauded Homekey as a monumental step in creating desperately needed new subsidized housing for the state’s more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">161,000 homeless residents\u003c/a>. But they’re only cautiously optimistic about its future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the projects will need additional money to convert to permanent housing, and they’ll also need ongoing funding to pay for services that are often critical for keeping people housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great concept,” said Ellen Hammerle, Catholic Charities’ chief programs officer. “My concern is that we need to sustain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, this new housing will need to produce a visible reduction in chronic homelessness, said Andrew Hening, co-founder of the nonprofit Opening Doors Marin. It’s an issue voters say is one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/04/bay-area-residents-are-fed-up-with-the-homelessness-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the public’s perception of this issue, if we don’t solve chronic homelessness, then it’s going to feel like nothing has been accomplished,” Hening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Herculean’ Task\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The idea of converting existing buildings into housing for people experiencing homelessness had been bandied about for years, said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing. But it had never been tried at this scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit California, Newsom’s administration first launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a>, an effort to temporarily house some 23,000 homeless seniors and medically vulnerable people in hotels and motels across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where would they all go\u003c/a> once those hotels close? Homekey was one answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the question is,” Elliott said, “how do you get housing open as quickly and cost effectively as possible?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homekey \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/06/30/governor-newsom-visits-project-roomkey-site-in-bay-area-to-announce-homekey-the-next-phase-in-states-covid-19-response-to-protect-homeless-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched\u003c/a> in June 2020. To pay for it, the state relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/29/governor-newsom-announces-major-homekey-milestone-all-94-sites-closing-escrow-ahead-of-deadline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million\u003c/a> in federal CARES Act funding and nearly $100 million in state general funds and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-27/behested-payments-newsom-top-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philanthropic donations\u003c/a>. The federal money, however, had to be spent by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant cities and counties had to identify and evaluate sites, find service providers and development partners, get the projects approved and close escrow — all within a matter of months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Parra sits in a communal dining area in a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The timeline was “Herculean,” said Ashley Hart McIntyre, Marin County’s homelessness policy analyst. But it also helped the projects quickly clear hurdles that typically take years to overcome: The state Legislature waived some environmental reviews to speed projects along, and there was less time for community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the program has become a national model, said Diane Yentel, the president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest round of federal stimulus\u003c/a>, approved in March, Congress allocated $5 billion for states to create new affordable housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/08/homeless-hud-marcia-fudge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotel and motel conversions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we would have been able to be successful in getting Congress to put that $5 billion forward for this purpose if we hadn’t had states like California take that first step,” Yentel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many city and county officials also say Homekey helped overcome some of the bureaucracy that’s come to define \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s disjointed approach\u003c/a> to addressing homelessness. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scathing audit\u003c/a> published earlier this year found there are nine state agencies administering 41 separate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Mike Walsh, deputy director at the Riverside County Housing Authority, said his agency was able to apply to one large pot of money that was then used for multiple projects, including one for LGBTQ+ youth in downtown Riverside and another for immigrant farmworker communities in Oasis, Mecca and Thermal. To him, that was a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really allows us to be creative and come up with different types of projects,” he said. “That level of flexibility under one program creates efficiency without having to say, ‘OK, we apply for this bucket of money for the farmworkers, and this bucket of money for the LGBTQ youth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hidden Costs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In addition to the speed and flexibility of the initiative, Newsom’s administration has touted Homekey’s comparatively low cost. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/plans-reports/docs/hcd100_homekeyreport_v18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frequently highlight\u003c/a> the average amount of CARES Act funding spent on each of Homekey’s nearly 6,000 housing units — $129,254 — pointing out that it’s well below the \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statewide average of $480,000 per unit\u003c/a> for new affordable housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that lower per-unit cost belies two important caveats: Most of the projects required city and county matching funds, bringing the total average development cost to $226,000, according to data from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development. And many of the projects — like the Kerner Boulevard office building in San Rafael — will need additional funding to convert from temporary to permanent housing, which means the full costs are not yet known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Kerner Boulevard site, nonprofit developer Eden Housing is planning to apply for roughly $24 million in federal and state funding, plus a private loan, that will go toward seismic and Americans With Disabilities Act upgrades, as well as new interior walls, kitchenettes and bathrooms, said Andrea Osgood, the nonprofit’s vice president of real estate development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877009\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11877009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49433_047_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 41 units and a total development cost of around $31 million, including the initial Homekey funding, the final per-unit cost comes in at around $756,000 — a price comparable to new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Osgood said, Homekey’s real benefit is that it allowed her organization to quickly break through some of the biggest barriers affordable housing projects face: the permitting process and neighborhood opposition. Getting the building meant it could then be used to leverage other federal and state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Eden is working on another affordable housing project in San Rafael that will break ground around the same time as the Kerner Boulevard location. Osgood says she’s been working on that project for around seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Homekey money really helped us secure the opportunity and the building, and then operate it as a shelter in this interim phase,” Osgood said. “Just being able to have that site and also feel secure that housing is going to happen there — it’s huge.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Letta “Oneka” Glover, Homekey housing recipient\"]‘It was relief. I felt like I could kind of let my shoulders down, you know, and not have to be so on guard about everything.’[/pullquote]Oneka Glover has already moved out of the Kerner Boulevard shelter and into another nearby transitional housing program, which she said she really likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dorms are smaller and more private. There’s a garden. The kitchen has more food options and is open all day. And there are a ton of services onsite, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I go out for the day, I can’t wait to get back,” Glover said, “because I feel like I’m coming home, you know? Even though it’s not my home, I just feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, her goal is to move into a place that will be home. And that’s the goal of Homekey: to provide permanent housing for more people like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Kerner Boulevard, however, shows that creating it often takes time and can be complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other projects have a more straightforward path. Many of the hotel conversions won’t require as large of an investment, because they’ll only need kitchenettes installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some won’t need any additional funding. In Oakland, Bay Area Community Services purchased 17 single-family houses that will be used as group homes, with an average per-unit cost of around $102,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the homes were move-in ready,” said Jamie Almanza, the nonprofit’s CEO. “We were able to acquire all the homes within a three-month span of time, and then we did very minor improvements as needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homekey’s Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But buying the building is only the first step, and it’s still unclear where ongoing funding for onsite services and maintenance will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have the same question that many others in the field have, which is what’s a sustainable source of funding?” said Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the Center for Vulnerable Populations at UCSF. “Because it’s not a one-time expense. A one-time expense is necessary, but not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state required all of the applicants to submit plans for how they would pay for up to five years of operations. And, it’s also funding up to two years of operating expenses for some projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, once that funding expires, there aren’t many places for service providers to apply to get the money they would need to keep operating, said Catholic Charities’ Ellen Hammerle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we’re kind of in a creative process at the moment,” Hammerle said. “I would say, ‘It’s developing.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49418_032_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Daunte Floyd Beauchamp stands in his dorm room at an office space in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, Newsom’s housing adviser, said it was better to act quickly to get the money out the door and buy the buildings than wait for all the details to be worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a challenge that every affordable housing project faces at some level and in some time frame,” Elliott said. “But, I’d rather answer those questions with people under roofs than with them living under overpasses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Kushel says there is a danger in moving too quickly — that speed could come at the cost of equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state looks to expand Homekey, Kushel said special attention must be paid to ensure Homekey doesn’t perpetuate the systems that have failed so many people of color, particularly African Americans. Black people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6.5% of the general population\u003c/a> in California, but \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">31% of its homeless population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the application process, cities and counties had to explain how their proposed projects would address inequities in their communities. But it’s unclear whether the approved projects actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations\"]‘It has been so hard to separate the homelessness crisis from all of the impacts of structural racism.’[/pullquote]The state doesn’t yet have racial demographic data on who is benefiting from Homekey, said Housing and Community Development Department’s Zack Olmstead. But, he expects to have more data this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been so hard to separate the homelessness crisis from all of the impacts of structural racism,” Kushel said. “And I worry if we’re not being really intentional about it, you could wind up unintentionally replicating the racism or the disparities that we see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Kushel says, in the rush to house people quickly, there’s also the risk of leaving out people who need housing the most. People who have been homeless for years will need the most help transitioning into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people with the biggest impairments might not be able to walk through the door on the first day,” Kushel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office agrees. In his proposal to expand Homekey, the governor proposed $3.5 billion for board and care homes and other types of clinical residential facilities to specifically target people with acute behavioral and mental health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to make meaningful and sustainable change,” Elliott said. “The way to do that is through housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED staff reporters Molly Solomon and Adhiti Bandlamudi contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This shelter isn’t like others, where she’s stayed. It’s tucked into the third floor of an office building that was once home to a legal services company. But instead of desks and chairs inside the offices, there are cots. The old lobby is now a shared work space, with computers for residents to search for jobs and housing. Large windows line a common room, with views of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually, temporary shelters are built in factories or warehouses, said Paul Fordham, deputy executive director of Homeward Bound of Marin, which is operating the shelter until it can be converted into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there’s so much light here,” he said. “It’s a very dignified, nice space to rebuild your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site is one of 94 projects funded through \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/homekey.shtml\">Homekey\u003c/a>, a statewide program that’s created nearly 6,000 new units of housing. While the majority are hotel and motel conversions, they also include tiny homes and former vacation rentals, a college dormitory and single-family houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Homekey Sites\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-x4dU5\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/x4dU5/11/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"852\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Homekey is barely a year old, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a massive $7 billion, 46,000-unit expansion of the program. Half of the funding would be dedicated to housing for people with acute behavioral and mental health needs. It’s all part of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873157/newsom-wants-12-billion-to-house-californias-homeless-residents-calling-situation-unacceptable\">$12 billion proposal\u003c/a> to combat homelessness over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy experts, service providers and others who work on homelessness in California have lauded Homekey as a monumental step in creating desperately needed new subsidized housing for the state’s more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">161,000 homeless residents\u003c/a>. But they’re only cautiously optimistic about its future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the projects will need additional money to convert to permanent housing, and they’ll also need ongoing funding to pay for services that are often critical for keeping people housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great concept,” said Ellen Hammerle, Catholic Charities’ chief programs officer. “My concern is that we need to sustain it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, this new housing will need to produce a visible reduction in chronic homelessness, said Andrew Hening, co-founder of the nonprofit Opening Doors Marin. It’s an issue voters say is one of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/04/bay-area-residents-are-fed-up-with-the-homelessness-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the public’s perception of this issue, if we don’t solve chronic homelessness, then it’s going to feel like nothing has been accomplished,” Hening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Herculean’ Task\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The idea of converting existing buildings into housing for people experiencing homelessness had been bandied about for years, said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing. But it had never been tried at this scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit California, Newsom’s administration first launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a>, an effort to temporarily house some 23,000 homeless seniors and medically vulnerable people in hotels and motels across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where would they all go\u003c/a> once those hotels close? Homekey was one answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the question is,” Elliott said, “how do you get housing open as quickly and cost effectively as possible?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homekey \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/06/30/governor-newsom-visits-project-roomkey-site-in-bay-area-to-announce-homekey-the-next-phase-in-states-covid-19-response-to-protect-homeless-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched\u003c/a> in June 2020. To pay for it, the state relied on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/29/governor-newsom-announces-major-homekey-milestone-all-94-sites-closing-escrow-ahead-of-deadline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$750 million\u003c/a> in federal CARES Act funding and nearly $100 million in state general funds and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-27/behested-payments-newsom-top-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philanthropic donations\u003c/a>. The federal money, however, had to be spent by the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant cities and counties had to identify and evaluate sites, find service providers and development partners, get the projects approved and close escrow — all within a matter of months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49392_006_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Parra sits in a communal dining area in a former office building in San Rafael that was recently converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The timeline was “Herculean,” said Ashley Hart McIntyre, Marin County’s homelessness policy analyst. But it also helped the projects quickly clear hurdles that typically take years to overcome: The state Legislature waived some environmental reviews to speed projects along, and there was less time for community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the program has become a national model, said Diane Yentel, the president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest round of federal stimulus\u003c/a>, approved in March, Congress allocated $5 billion for states to create new affordable housing, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/08/homeless-hud-marcia-fudge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotel and motel conversions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think we would have been able to be successful in getting Congress to put that $5 billion forward for this purpose if we hadn’t had states like California take that first step,” Yentel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many city and county officials also say Homekey helped overcome some of the bureaucracy that’s come to define \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California’s disjointed approach\u003c/a> to addressing homelessness. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2020-112/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scathing audit\u003c/a> published earlier this year found there are nine state agencies administering 41 separate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Many of the hotel conversions won’t require as large of an investment, because they’ll only need kitchenettes installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some won’t need any additional funding. 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