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Gavin Newsom already has signed some of the biggest housing bills in years, including a measure that allows more than one house to be built on the single-family lots that comprise the vast majority of California’s developable land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The housing affordability crisis is undermining the California Dream for families across the state, and threatens our long-term growth and prosperity,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/16/governor-newsom-signs-historic-legislation-to-boost-californias-housing-supply-and-fight-the-housing-crisis/\">Newsom said in a bill-signing statement \u003c/a>on Sept. 16 . “Making a meaningful impact on this crisis will take bold investments, strong collaboration across sectors and political courage from our leaders and communities to do the right thing and build housing for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Garcia, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley\"]‘Lawmakers are willing to take on the traditional sacred cows of housing and single-family zoning.’[/pullquote]Two days after Californians gave him a vote of confidence by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/california-recall-election-results/\">rejecting the recall\u003c/a>, Newsom chose to return to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/housing-costs-high-california/\">the state’s housing crisis as his first significant policy action\u003c/a>, with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">700-odd bills on his desk\u003c/a> awaiting action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what do these new laws mean for housing affordability in a state whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article253695308.html\">median home prices\u003c/a> have already shot past $800,000?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not as much as the governor promoted, according to Dan Dunmoyer, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://cbia.org/\">California Building Industry Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to build, like, 500,000 homes next year. We’re still going to build 100,000, and we need 180,000 just to break even,” he told CalMatters. “So as far as production moving enormously, that’s not going to happen, because there are so many other levers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s going to take a few years to translate the legislation into ramped-up construction, but this is a meaningful start, according to David Garcia, policy director for the \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/\">Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It signals that lawmakers are willing to take on the traditional sacred cows of housing and single-family zoning. From a political standpoint, that’s a pretty significant shift in the housing landscape,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities urged Newsom to veto these bills, calling them a “top-down mandate that disregards local voices and decision-making.” After the bill signing was announced, the league said it would “explore all options to ensure local governments have the necessary tools and resources to plan for the types of housing actually needed in their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents calling themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.communitiesforchoice.org/\">Californians for Community Planning\u003c/a> are already seeking to qualify a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/21-0016%20%28Local%20Land%20Use%29.pdf\">proposed constitutional amendment for the November 2022 ballot\u003c/a> to reassert local control over zoning and land-use decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More sweeping bills to reduce local control over zoning and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/03/california-affordable-housing-bills/\">create more affordable housing failed in 2018, 2019 and 2020\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the new laws?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a> — introduced by Senate leader Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, as the centerpiece of her affordable housing package — will allow most homeowners to build two homes or a duplex on a plot zoned for a single house and, in some cases, split their lot and build two additional homes, starting on Jan. 1. The total number of units on a single lot is limited to four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11864513\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/pexels-karolina-grabowska-4386433-1536x960.jpg\"]“It shows the governor is walking the walk as it relates to this housing crisis,” said Kendra Noel Lewis, executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance, who has been campaigning to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article248544635.html\">allow duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes\u003c/a> throughout the city. “This takes a little pressure off at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of criteria for eligible homes is pretty lengthy, and notably excludes those in environmentally sensitive areas and in historic districts, as well as those that are subject to deed restrictions or rent control, or that have been occupied by a tenant in the last three years. To split a lot, neither of the parcels can be smaller than 1,200 square feet, and the homeowner must sign an affidavit that they will remain in the house for the subsequent three years — designed as a guardrail against potential speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a city could deny some projects, specifically those that pose a threat to health or safety, it would have to issue findings that meet a whole host of criteria, too, according to Moira O’Neill, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given current land and construction costs, the Terner Center estimates the new law could lead to about\u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SB-9-Brief-July-2021-Final.pdf\"> 660,000 new housing units across the state over several years\u003c/a> — a sizable fraction of the 1.8 million to 3.5 million units that experts say California needs to meet its housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it would be up to eligible homeowners to decide to turn their houses into duplexes or fourplexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite opponents’ warnings that the law will radically remake the traditional single-family neighborhoods the state is so famous for, the same study estimates less than 5% of the state’s 7.5 million single-family lots will be changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ritu Raj Sharma, DAHLIN Group Architecture Planning\"]‘[SB 9] will give [older homeowners] an opportunity to stay in the same neighborhoods without having to move out, because previously, the option was you would cash out and move to a different neighborhood or a different state.’[/pullquote]Ritu Raj Sharma, a senior planner with Bay Area-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.dahlingroup.com/\">DAHLIN Group Architecture Planning\u003c/a>, predicts that mostly older homeowners will take advantage of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give them an opportunity to stay in the same neighborhoods without having to move out, because previously, the option was you would cash out and move to a different neighborhood or a different state,” Sharma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new law doesn’t cap the cost of the new units, leading vocal opponents to argue it will only exacerbate the state’s affordability crisis. 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That plan also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">includes $12 billion to create more than 44,000 new housing units\u003c/a> and treatment beds for people experiencing homelessness.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1438683084765888519\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">SB 10\u003c/a>, authored by Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Welcome to America!” That’s how Mohammad, a special immigrant visa (SIV) holder, remembers being greeted upon his arrival in the Bay Area from Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fondly recalls the volunteers and others from \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a> who first greeted him when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will always remember that,” he says. “My kids remember and ask, ‘Where is that lady?’ ” It was one of the volunteers from JFCS who first welcomed him and his family to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the Taliban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028117811/taliban-takeover-kabul-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">takeover of Kabul in mid-August\u003c/a>, JFCS has resettled 77 Afghans in the East Bay – about as many people as it typically resettles in six months. JFCS said in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">update\u003c/a> that it expects September to be about the same. The organization has received an outpouring of community support for Afghan refugees in the form of volunteers, with 2,800 people in the Bay Area signing up to support resettlement efforts, from greeting families at the airport to connecting families to needed services – everything that goes into creating a new life in a new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mohammad, SIV holder now living in Concord\"]‘We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights.’[/pullquote]Mohammad, whose name KQED has changed due to fears of violence against his family still in Afghanistan, is now based in Concord with his wife, a former teacher, and their three kids. Prior to coming to the U.S., he worked as a technical advisor for an international organization doing development work in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked a lot to build our country,” he told KQED. “We struggled to develop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the last year, Mohammad said the security situation was very bad. His organization was attacked and he was stopped several times and asked who he worked for. While he says he might have been able to continue working, Mohammad wanted to provide a better life for his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to immigrate here. We are now happy that at least my kids will have a bright future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Others are arriving in the early stages of the visa application or via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit-parole-for-individuals-outside-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a>, which means they may need legal assistance in addition to support for basic needs since humanitarian parolees are \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/uscri-snapshot-humanitarian-parole-for-afghan-evacuees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ineligible for food assistance services like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885170 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51188_GettyImages-1336534302-qut-1020x681.jpg\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885908 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Demonstrators-Marching-East-on-Thorton-Ave-copy-1020x574.jpg']Christopher Cambises, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/racial-equity/immigrant-affairs/afghanistan-refugee-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immigrant affairs manager at the Office of Racial Equity\u003c/a> for the city of San Jose, helps ensure refugees and immigrants are welcomed and able to connect to services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now a major need is housing, and everyone recognizes that housing is a challenge in Silicon Valley, in California as a whole,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond housing, there’s a need for everything else that comes with starting a new life in a new country — getting kids into schools, getting connected to mental health resources, and basic furniture and household goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambises, himself an immigrant from the United Kingdom, said there’s a shared sense of belonging amid displacement. “This is a city that has an extremely long history of welcoming refugees from around the world and fostering that sense of community belonging for new arrivals,” he said. “We’re tied together by a shared sense of displacement, relocation and resettlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From California to Afghanistan, and back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“When I think about refugee resettlement, I think about housing,” said Shawn VanDiver, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanproject.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truman National Security Project\u003c/a> San Diego chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a major housing crisis here,” VanDiver said. “But also California is a welcoming place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver, a 12-year Navy veteran, said he wants to make sure Afghans, specifically those who served the U.S., are welcomed. One of the people he worked with on civic engagement projects is a former Afghan interpreter named Lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky, a nickname given to him because he survived two improvised explosive device blasts (he prefers this name, for fear of what the Taliban might do to his family still in Afghanistan), received his SIV in 2016 after working as an interpreter for the U.S. for nearly 10 years. He now has a green card. Lucky had been living in San Diego for the past several years, but went back to Afghanistan in May to see his aging mother and to help her with care. While visiting his mother in the hospital, his brother told him the Taliban were attempting to take their village. Around Aug. 13, he went to help. Without enough people or ammunition to support the village, he said they had to surrender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stuck there,” Lucky said. He ended up pretending to be a truck driver to make his way back to Kabul, and then spent 12 hours at the airport, waiting for a flight with his wife and their 4-year-old and 7-month-old children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, with the assistance of \u003ca href=\"https://afghanevac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Evac\u003c/a>, a San Diego-based initiative started by veterans, Lucky arrived back in the U.S. at the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids, they just can’t sleep,” he said. “They have nightmares. … My daughter, she’s not letting me go. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Officials say due to budget constraints, the city will continue incrementally shutting down hotels through the end of the program, slated for June 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,400 people are still staying in the remaining hotels, said Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, adding that the program does not have the capacity to continue accepting new people off the street. Doing so would also slow down efforts to rehouse people already in the program, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very full because we are moving very deliberately and intentionally to ensure that people are linked to permanent solutions,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said almost 600 people have been placed in permanent housing since the program started. However, it’s unclear where many of the more than 1,500 people who have left hotels over the course of the program have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Advocates for people experiencing homeless argue that the city can afford to keep the hotels open longer, pointing to the Biden administration’s recent commitment to reimburse cities for certain COVID-19-related expenses, including hotel rooms, through the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cohen said San Francisco’s program is also reliant on the city’s general fund, which precludes keeping the hotels open past next June. The city, she added, is closing the hotels gradually to avoid “a humanitarian and logistical nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes significant city and nonprofit staffing to move people from the hotels into housing,” Cohen said. “It’s not a quick process. And so we really need to have the capacity and the workers to do this process. Any delays will just result in a tremendous crisis at the end of the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said she understands why the city would want to phase out the program gradually, but that right now, “lives are on the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have folks that are elders that are out there on the street still that have severe health conditions that would greatly benefit from being able to shelter in place inside a hotel,” she said. “They need the respite. It’s been a really transformative experience for the folks inside [the hotels]. The mortality rates have decreased significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominique Griffin, who helped organize Tuesday’s protest, participated in a related shelter-in-place program after losing her job early on in the pandemic. She and her two children were able to stay for free for a year at the Oasis Inn near City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for that hotel, I’d be out on the streets in a tent as well, with my children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Griffin and her family are moving into a subsidized two- bedroom apartment in the East Bay city of Pittsburg, an arrangement set up for her by a San Francisco housing case manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she wants other people in need to have the same steadying experience she was able to have over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the funding is there, the need is always going to be there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here, and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least the rats aren’t all over me in here,” the 59-year-old Oakland native said on a bright August afternoon, stretching her arm to grab the zipper to her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot inside and the stench of wildfire smoke hung in the air. Still, after sleeping on a nearby bench for the better part of a year, she felt safer here, Hunter explained as she rolled a joint she’d use to ease the pain from also living with what she said is untreated pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with no hair sits in door of a tent on a bedframe, looking tired.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Hunter lives in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood surrounded by upscale apartments and hip eateries. She can’t find a place she can afford on the $930 per month she receives in federal disability payments. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hunter has been hospitalized repeatedly, including once last summer after she overdosed on alcohol and lay unconscious on a sidewalk until someone stopped to help. But she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, California’s health insurance program for low-income and disabled people, largely because it would force her to leave her tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My stuff keeps on getting taken when I’m not around and, besides, I’m waiting until I got a place to live to start taking my medication again,” Hunter said, tearing up. “I can’t get anything right out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s long and complex list of ailments, combined with her mistrust of the health care system, make her an incredibly difficult and expensive patient to treat. But she is exactly the kind of person California intends to prioritize under an ambitious experiment to move Medi-Cal beyond traditional doctor visits and hospital stays into the realm of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents alongside a cement sidewalk in an urban park surrounded by buildings.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staying in a tent in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood has been a safer experience for Eugenia Hunter than sleeping on a nearby bench, which was her living situation for most of the year. However, she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, largely because it would force her to leave her tent. When she has left her tent in the past, her belongings have been stolen. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries. And they will receive \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">services that aren’t typically covered by health insurance plans\u003c/a>, such as getting security deposits paid, receiving deliveries of fruits and vegetables, and having toxic mold removed from homes to reduce asthma flare-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, California is plowing nearly $6 billion in state and federal money into the plan, which will target just a sliver of the 14 million low-income Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal: unhoused individuals or those at risk of losing their homes; heavy users of hospital emergency rooms; children and seniors with complicated physical and mental health conditions; and people in — or at risk of landing in — expensive institutions like jails, nursing homes or mental health crisis centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is trumpeting the first-in-the-nation initiative as the centerpiece of his ambitious health care agenda — and vows it will help fix the mental health and addiction crisis on the streets and get people into housing, all while saving taxpayer money. His top health care advisers have even \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">cast it as an antidote to California’s worsening homelessness crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first-term Democrat, who faces a Sept. 14 recall election, is making a risky bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not have the evidence to prove this approach will work statewide, nor the workforce or infrastructure to make it happen on such a large scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11883165\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/041021_FacebookVaccine_AW_09-1020x680.jpeg\"]Critics also fear the program will do nothing to improve care for the millions of other Medi-Cal enrollees who won’t get help from this initiative. Medi-Cal has been slammed for failing to provide basic services, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2018-111.pdf\">including vaccinations for kids\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2018-122.pdf\">timely appointments for rural residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/Newsom_begins_mental_health_care_crackdown_with_county_sanctions.pdf\">adequate mental health treatment\u003c/a> for Californians in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the managed-care insurance companies responsible for most enrollees’ health will nonetheless be given massive new power as they implement this experiment. The insurers will decide which services to offer and which high-needs patients to target, likely creating disparities across regions and further contributing to an unequal system of care in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will leave a lot of people behind,” said Linda Nguy, a policy advocate at the Western Center on Law & Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen health plans excel in even providing basic preventative services to healthy people,” she said. “I mean, do your basic job first. How can they be expected to successfully take on these additional responsibilities for people with very high health needs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This revolution in Medi-Cal’s scope and mission is taking place alongside a parallel initiative to hold insurance companies more accountable for providing quality health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']If California’s experiment succeeds, other states will likely follow … but if the richest state in the country can’t pull off better health outcomes and cost savings, the movement to put health insurers into the business of social work will falter.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health officials are forcing Medi-Cal managed-care plans to reapply and meet stricter standards if they want to continue doing business in the program. Together, these initiatives will fundamentally reinvent the biggest Medicaid program in the country, which serves about one-third of the state population at a cost of $124 billion this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/CalAIM-Proposal-03-23-2021.pdf\">experiment succeeds\u003c/a>, other states will likely follow, national Medicaid experts say. But if the richest state in the country can’t pull off better health outcomes and cost savings, the movement to put health insurers into the business of social work will falter.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What it takes to provide ‘whole person care’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Newsom signed the “California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal” initiative into law in late July — “CalAIM” for short — he celebrated it as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to completely transform the Medicaid system in California.” He declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877000\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49414_028_SanRafael_ProjectHomekey_05172021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Beginning next year, public and private managed health care plans will pick high-needs Medi-Cal enrollees to receive nontraditional services from among \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/MCP-ECM-and-ILOS-Contract-Template-Provisions.pdf\">14 broad categories, including housing and food benefits, addiction care and home repairs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach is known as “whole person care,” and insurers will be required to assign patients a personal care manager to help them navigate the system. Insurers will receive incentive payments to offer new services and boost provider networks and, over time, the program will expand to more people and services. For instance, members of Native American tribes will eventually be eligible to receive treatment for substance use disorder, and incarcerated people will be enrolled in Medi-Cal automatically upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurers — currently 25 are participating — will focus most intensely on developing housing programs to combat the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">worsening homelessness epidemic\u003c/a>. The state was home to at least 162,000 unhoused people in 2020, a 6.8% increase since Newsom took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacey Cooper, director of Medicaid for California\"]‘If you generally focus on [the most vulnerable], you will be able to yield better health outcomes for those individuals and, ultimately, cost savings.’[/pullquote]Jacey Cooper, the state’s Medicaid director, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/MCQMD/CalAIM-Role-in-Addressing-Homelessness-Fact-Sheet-%26-Letter-4-9-21.pdf\">all Medi-Cal members will eventually be eligible for housing services\u003c/a>. Initially, though, they will be available only to the costliest patients. State Medi-Cal expenditure data shows that 1% of Medi-Cal enrollees, many of the unhoused patients who frequently land in hospitals, account for a staggering 21% of overall spending. And 5% account for 44% of the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really need to focus on your top 1% to 5% of utilizers — that’s your most vulnerable,” Cooper said. “If you generally focus on that group, you will be able to yield better health outcomes for those individuals and, ultimately, cost savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials do not have a savings estimate for the program, nor a projection of how many people will be enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, Cooper said, builds on more than \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">25 successful regional experiments underway since 2016\u003c/a>. From Los Angeles to rural Shasta, big and small counties have provided vulnerable Medi-Cal patients with different services based on their communities’ needs, from job placement services to providing a safe place for an unhoused person to get sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">interim data from the experiments\u003c/a> that showed patients hospitalized due to mental illness were more likely to receive follow-up care, obtain treatment for substance abuse, avoid hospitalizations and emergency department visits, and see improvements in chronic diseases like diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argued that data — even though it is not comprehensive — is enough to prove the initiative will work on a statewide scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11870625\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43040_011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]However, studies of similar programs elsewhere have yielded mixed results. New York provided housing services to high-cost Medicaid enrollees with chronic diseases and mental health and substance use disorders and found major reductions in hospital admissions and emergency department visits between 2012 and 2017, and saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/supportive_housing/evaluation.htm\">15% reduction in Medicaid spending.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Camden, New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/despite-new-doubts-hotspotting-help-for-heavy-health-care-users-marches-on/\">an early test of the “whole person care” approach\u003c/a> provided expensive Medicaid patients with intensive care coordination, but not nontraditional services. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1906848\">study concluded in 2020 that it hadn’t lowered hospital readmissions\u003c/a> — and thus didn’t save health care dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found we just couldn’t help people with housing as quickly as they needed help,” said Kathleen Noonan, CEO of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. “Many of these clients have bad credit, they may have a record, and they’re still using. Those are huge challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may find success where the coalition hadn’t because it will offer social services, she said, which the coalition has also started doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will take time. California will have five years to prove to the federal government it can save money and improve health care quality. Insurers will be required to track health outcomes and savings, and can boost services over time or drop programs that don’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the regional experiments have failed to serve low-income Black and Latino residents, according to the interim assessments conducted by Nadereh Pourat, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. She concluded that they have \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2020/wholepersoncare-report-jan2020.pdf\">primarily benefited white, English-speaking, middle-aged men\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11877585\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49286_002_LakeCounty_ProjectHomekey_05142021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Cooper said \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/CalAIM-Proposal-03-23-2021.pdf\">the statewide initiative will tackle “systemic racism,” \u003c/a>initially as it targets \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/resource/racial-inequalities-homelessness-numbers/\">unhoused individuals, who are disproportionately Black\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider Eugenia Hunter, who is African American, and whose many untreated mental and physical illnesses, intertwined with her addictions, mean it will take a herculean effort — and cost — to get her off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter has gone without a stable housing situation for at least three years. Or maybe it’s five; her mental illness clouds her memory, and she erupts in anger when pressed for details. She eases her frustration sometimes with sleep, sometimes by smoking crystal meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stack of unopened health insurance letters sat beside Hunter one evening in late August. Her eyes were glassy when she struggled to remember when she received a cancer diagnosis — if she ever did at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing stakeholders on board\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Health insurers will not be required to offer social services to patients like Hunter because federal law requires nontraditional Medicaid services to be optional. But California is enticing insurers with bigger payouts and higher state rankings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are asking the plans and providers to stretch. We’re asking them to reform,” Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jacey Cooper, director of Medicaid for California\"]‘We are asking the plans and providers to stretch. We’re asking them to reform.’[/pullquote]The state is urging insurers to start with the roughly 130,500 Medi-Cal patients already enrolled in the local experiments. To prepare, they are cobbling together networks of nonprofits and social service organizations to provide food, housing and other services — much as they do with doctors and hospitals contracted to deliver medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">Services will also vary by insurer and region.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inland Empire Health Plan, for example, will offer some patients home repairs that reduce asthma triggers, such as mold removal and installing air filters. But Partnership HealthPlan of California will not offer those benefits in its wildfire-prone Northern California region because it doesn’t have an adequate network of organizations equipped to provide those services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with nearly all of California’s Medi-Cal managed-care plans, executives said they support the dual goals of helping patients get healthier while saving money, but “it is a lot to take on,” said Richard Sanchez, CEO of CalOptima, which serves Orange County and will start modestly, primarily with housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Nearly all the health plans will offer housing services right away, focusing on three categories of aid: helping enrollees secure housing and rent subsidies; providing temporary rent and security deposit payments; and helping tenants stay housed.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last thing I want to do is make promises that we can do all these things and not come through,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all the health plans will offer housing services right away, focusing on three categories of aid: helping enrollees secure housing and rent subsidies; providing temporary rent and security deposit payments; and helping tenants stay housed, like intervening with a landlord if a patient misses rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Robert Moore, chief medical officer of Partnership HealthPlan\"]‘It’s a great deal of money for a small number of members … we are building something extraordinarily ambitious quickly, without the infrastructure in place to make it successful.’[/pullquote]Partnership HealthPlan, which serves 616,000 Medi-Cal patients in 14 Northern California counties, will prioritize its most at-risk enrollees with housing services, food deliveries and a “homemaker” benefit to help them cook dinner, do laundry and pay bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great deal of money for a small number of members and, frankly, there’s no guarantee it’s going to work,” said Dr. Robert Moore, the plan’s chief medical officer. “We are building something extraordinarily ambitious quickly, without the infrastructure in place to make it successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if offering new services costs more money than it saves, it’s a worthwhile investment, said John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest Medi-Cal plan, which serves more than 2 million patients in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When somebody has congestive heart failure, their diet should be structured around alleviating that chronic condition,” he said, explaining his plan to offer patients healthful food. “What are we going to do — let them eat ramen noodles for the rest of their lives?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, two plans are available to serve Hunter. The Alameda Alliance for Health, a public insurer established by the county, and Anthem Blue Cross, a private insurance company, will expand housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='healthcare, health care']“People like Eugenia Hunter are exactly who we want to serve, and we’re prepared to go out and help her,” said Scott Coffin, CEO of the Alameda Alliance for Health, who is also on a local street medicine team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they’d have to find her first — chaos and homeless encampment sweeps force her to move her tent frequently. And then they’d have to win her trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one moment, Hunter angrily described how health plans have tried to enroll her in services, but she declined, mistrustful of their motives. In the next moment, fighting back voices in her head, she said she desperately wants care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone is going to help me?” she asked. “All I want to do is pay my rent and succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kaiser Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at Kaiser Family Foundation, an endowed nonprofit providing information on health issues.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Living unmedicated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Eugenia Hunter has a hard time recalling how long she’s been staying in the tent she calls home at the bustling intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Craft coffee shops and weed dispensaries are plentiful here, and one-bedroom apartments push $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least the rats aren’t all over me in here,” the 59-year-old Oakland native said on a bright August afternoon, stretching her arm to grab the zipper to her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hot inside and the stench of wildfire smoke hung in the air. Still, after sleeping on a nearby bench for the better part of a year, she felt safer here, Hunter explained as she rolled a joint she’d use to ease the pain from also living with what she said is untreated pancreatic cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887857 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with no hair sits in door of a tent on a bedframe, looking tired.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Hunter lives in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood surrounded by upscale apartments and hip eateries. 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But she is exactly the kind of person California intends to prioritize under an ambitious experiment to move Medi-Cal beyond traditional doctor visits and hospital stays into the realm of social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887890 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg\" alt=\"A row of tents alongside a cement sidewalk in an urban park surrounded by buildings.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Hunter06-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staying in a tent in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood has been a safer experience for Eugenia Hunter than sleeping on a nearby bench, which was her living situation for most of the year. However, she is reluctant to see a doctor or use Medi-Cal, largely because it would force her to leave her tent. When she has left her tent in the past, her belongings have been stolen. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the program, vulnerable patients like Hunter will be assigned a personal care manager to coordinate their health care treatments and daily needs, like paying bills and buying groceries. And they will receive \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/09/CalAIM-Nontraditional-Services-2022.pdf\">services that aren’t typically covered by health insurance plans\u003c/a>, such as getting security deposits paid, receiving deliveries of fruits and vegetables, and having toxic mold removed from homes to reduce asthma flare-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, California is plowing nearly $6 billion in state and federal money into the plan, which will target just a sliver of the 14 million low-income Californians enrolled in Medi-Cal: unhoused individuals or those at risk of losing their homes; heavy users of hospital emergency rooms; children and seniors with complicated physical and mental health conditions; and people in — or at risk of landing in — expensive institutions like jails, nursing homes or mental health crisis centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Bill Schaeffer has been unhoused, on and off, for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just two weeks ago, in a stroke of luck, a local support group for unhoused people helped him move into a small affordable unit in town.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Chelsea Cunningham, South Lake Tahoe resident\"]‘If it burns, then I can’t afford to live in Tahoe anymore, which is unfortunate, because I was born and raised there.’[/pullquote]“It was like hitting the lottery to find a place for $350 a month, which I can afford on my social security check,” said Schaeffer, 68, who first settled by the lake nearly 50 years ago. “Bought a lot of things to fix it up. Hopefully it’ll still be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin\">the Caldor Fire\u003c/a> burning in the Tahoe basin, Schaeffer is once again temporarily without a home. Since Monday, when all 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to leave, he’s been staying at an evacuation center in Carson City, across the border in Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I lose my place to live, then I’m going to probably be forced back to being homeless again,” he said, noting that rents here, like elsewhere throughout California, have risen to be “sky high.” While tiny by big-city standards, the \u003ca href=\"https://6cb80729-440c-4afe-b99d-5ce53610bec0.filesusr.com/ugd/f089b3_c27be1a605434fd894ff1cd5cdcb5234.pdf\">unhoused population in and around South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a> has increased with the rents, numbering roughly 110 at last official count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1898px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887574 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man with long gray hair and beard reclines on a grassy lawn, facing the camera and holding a cellphone.\" width=\"1898\" height=\"1760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1.jpg 1898w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x742.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x946.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1424.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Lake Tahoe resident Bill Schaeffer, 68, who was formerly unhoused, evacuated on Monday, just two weeks after moving into an affordable housing unit in town. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tahoe is known for its million-dollar ski villas and sleek Airbnbs — and, more recently, as a pandemic escape for city dwellers. But thousands of lower-income workers live here year round, keeping this tourist destination operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if their homes are lost in the fire, many fear they won’t have the luxury of moving back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concern was evident this week among some residents staying in the evacuation center in Carson City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is José Mora, a 37-year-old construction worker from South Lake Tahoe\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> who waited until Monday’s evacuation order to flee in his car with just a bag of clothes. Mora moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, a region many of South Lake’s Latino residents come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">The Latino community here\u003c/a>, which has grown markedly in recent years, now makes up more than 30% of the city’s population. Many work low-wage construction and service jobs, which only since the pandemic have more widely come to be recognized as “essential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mora says if the area is hit hard by the fire, he’ll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it burns, it’s going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it’s not going to be the same,” he said. “It’s going to take years to be where we’re at right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887577 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Four people, one holding a dog, stand on a grassy island alongside a parking lot in front of a large camping tent.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-2048x1509.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Image-from-iOS-3-1-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cunningham family, who left their homes in South Lake Tahoe and Meyers on Monday, are waiting out the blaze at the Carson City evacuation center. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s the same possibility 34-year-old Chelsea Cunningham foresees. A South Lake Tahoe native, she lives with her husband in a trailer they rent for $600 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it burns, then I can’t afford to live in Tahoe anymore, which is unfortunate, because I was born and raised there,” she said. “Tahoe has changed drastically over the course of my time being there. And it makes me sad to say that I can’t live in the place where I was born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham evacuated earlier this week with her parents, who live in nearby Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11886903 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg']Her father, Clay Cunningham, says he’s frustrated fire managers didn’t expect the blaze to breach the summit and cascade into the basin, as it did Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that they just really were overly confident,” he said. “They really thought they had a handle on this. That’s what they kept saying on the news. 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And just nothing they told us really came out to be what was really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding, Cunningham credited the heroic work of fire crews, who have so far successfully steered the flames away from South Lake and protected scores of houses in neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he says, there’s a real possibility the blaze could wipe out a large chunk of the region’s increasingly scarce and pricey housing stock, leaves those on the lower end of the economic spectrum in the lurch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real housing shortage in Lake Tahoe,” he said. “So now when you get rid of this much more housing, where’s everybody gonna live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there are already plenty of restaurants and other businesses around town that can’t find enough employees to stay open full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna put a real damper on business in Lake Tahoe when there’s no housing — you’ll have no employees to take care of people when they come up here.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But thousands of lower-income workers live here year round, keeping this tourist destination operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if their homes are lost in the fire, many fear they won’t have the luxury of moving back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concern was evident this week among some residents staying in the evacuation center in Carson City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is José Mora, a 37-year-old construction worker from South Lake Tahoe\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> who waited until Monday’s evacuation order to flee in his car with just a bag of clothes. Mora moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, a region many of South Lake’s Latino residents come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">The Latino community here\u003c/a>, which has grown markedly in recent years, now makes up more than 30% of the city’s population. 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That ripped open a dramatic split between the White House and progressive Democrats who insisted the administration do more to prevent some 3.6 million Americans from losing their homes during the COVID-19 crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, tenants in California were still protected by the state’s own eviction moratorium, which has been extended until Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11879795\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1211479742-1020x676.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Biden said he pushed the CDC to again consider its options. But he still seemed hesitant as to whether the new moratorium could withstand lawsuits about its constitutionality, saying he has sought the opinions of experts as to whether the Supreme Court would approve the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster,” Biden said. “But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president added that the moratorium — even if it gets challenged in court — “will probably give some additional time” for states and city to release billions of dollars in federal relief to renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically, the extension could help heal a rift with liberal Democratic lawmakers who were calling on the president to take executive action to keep renters in their homes. The administration had spent the past several days scrambling to reassure Democrats and the country that it could find a way to limit the damage from potential evictions through the use of federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pressure mounted as key lawmakers said it was not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Democratic leaders joined Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, who has been camped outside the U.S. Capitol for several days. The freshman congresswoman once lived in her car as a young mother and pointed to that experience to urge the White House to prevent widespread evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On Friday night, I came to the Capitol with my chair. I refused to accept that Congress could leave for vacation while 11 million people faced eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 5 days, we’ve been out here, demanding that our government acts to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, our movement moved mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1422655455558516752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As she wiped her eyes before a crowd at the Capitol after the CDC’s announcement, Bush said she was shedding “joyful tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My God, I don’t believe we did this,” she said. “We just did the work, just by loving folks to keep millions in their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it was a day of “extraordinary relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The imminent fear of eviction and being put out on the street has been lifted for countless families across America. 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She provided data so that lawmakers could see how their districts and states are performing with distributing the relief, according to a person on the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The treasury secretary tried to encourage Democrats to work together, even as lawmakers said Biden should act on his own to extend the eviction moratorium, according to someone on the private call who insisted on anonymity to discuss its contents.\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\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yellen said on the call, according to this person, that she agrees “we need to bring every resource to bear” and that she appreciated the Democrats’ efforts and wants “to leave no stone unturned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC put the initial eviction ban in place as part of the COVID-19 response when jobs shifted and many workers lost income. 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Not only have the funds helped shelter the city’s unhoused residents, but they also provided the opportunity to invest in the transformation of Motel Drive, said Fresno Councilmember Miguel Arias in an interview with The Fresno Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Councilmember Miguel Arias\"]‘Project Homekey has been a saving grace for this city.’[/pullquote]“I’ve always had a plan since 2019 to clean up this whole corridor, but we’ve never had the resources,” said Arias, who in May of 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article237853109.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initiated an ordinance to require inspection of the neglected motels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then, the pandemic hit, and we found ourselves with no shelter beds,” said Arias, adding that Fresno historically only had 10 beds a year to shelter the city’s unhoused population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the city decided to use a majority of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article246807347.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$35 million in Project Homekey funds\u003c/a> to acquire four motels along Motel Drive, a stretch of motels on Parkway Drive along Highway 99 that city leaders have described as hotbeds for prostitution, drug and sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal CARES Act funds have also enabled the city to acquire and convert additional motels on Motel Drive for shelter and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Project Homekey has been a saving grace for this city,” said Arias. Without Homekey, Arias said, the city “wouldn’t have made a dent,” sheltering unhoused residents during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocacy groups that have long criticized the city’s sheltering efforts agree that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Project Homekey has been a success in Fresno but said the program remains too small and said local leaders need to do more to address homelessness and affordable housing in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Project Homekey Sites at Capacity in Fresno\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://fresnohousing.org/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresno Housing Authority\u003c/a> owns and manages four of the five Homekey sites, sheltering about 507 people as of this week. About 55 adults this week were living at Golden State Triage Center (formerly Parkside Inn), 135 adults at Sun Lodge (formerly Days Inn) and 83 adults at Journey Home (formerly Welcome Inn).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 adults and 134 children were staying in the transitional housing center, Step Up On 99 (formerly Motel 99), and the city has applied for another $3 million to finish the conversion of the complex, which will include more park space for the residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each community has 24-hour on-site security, laundry facilities, community rooms and private offices for on-site staff and residents to hold meetings. Case managers and social workers support residents that need mental health and drug rehabilitation services, and Fresno Unified School District educators provide homeless student services. Swimming pools have been converted into dog parks for residents with pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fifth Homekey project is located at The Crossroads Village shelter on Blackstone Avenue, managed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.rhcommunitybuilders.com/our-team-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RH Community Builders\u003c/a>, and is home to 165 households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a next step, the city will convert the renovated motels into affordable housing and operate the sites for the next five years. Due to the lack of affordable housing for residents, there’s no limit on the amount of time people can stay at the Homekey sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Arias and the Fresno Housing Authority confirmed that the available Project Homekey shelters are at or near 100% capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Federal Funds Used to Acquire More Motels on Motel Drive in Fresno\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Furthering the plan to transform Motel Drive, the city also acquired two additional motels using federal CARES Act funding: the Travel Inn & Suites and the Valley Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the Travel Inn opened 33 of its 57 units for emergency shelter under the management of RH Community Builders. The remaining 24 units will be available on Aug. 1, confirmed Arias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valley Inn, which is currently undergoing renovations, will also be available on Aug. 1 with approximately 80 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arias confirmed that negotiations are underway for the city to acquire two more motels on Motel Drive. Arias said, eventually, he hopes to see the city take over all of the motels on Motel Drive to convert them into affordable housing that will look “like any other apartment complex” that are part of the neighboring residential community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"project-homekey\" label=\"More on Project Homekey\"]But the choice to place all of the Homekey sites along Motel Drive has drawn criticism from local homeless advocates. Critics are concerned about the decision to place families in an area plagued with drugs and sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arias said he shares those concerns for residents’ safety and well-being and is aware of the illicit activity at the neighboring motels. He pointed out that the location of the family shelter, Step Up On 99, was intentionally secluded from the other motel locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help keep the area safe, Arias said that the city recently approved $250,000 for the police department to beef up patrols at night in the Motel Drive area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Affordable Housing Problems Plaguing Fresno, Rest of State\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While local leaders laud the city’s Project Homekey as a success, they acknowledge that the city needs to do more to support families and individuals experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The success [of Project Homekey] feels good, but we know we still have a lot of work to do,” said Doreen Eley, assistant director of Special Programs at Fresno Housing Authority, in an email to The Fresno Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patience Milrod, executive director of Central California Legal Services, said she applauds the city’s efforts to use state and federal dollars to “keep low-income renters housed, and to find homes for the un-housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Doreen Eley, assistant director of Special Programs at Fresno Housing Authority\"]‘The success [of Project Homekey] feels good, but we know we still have a lot of work to do.’[/pullquote]But, Milrod said, it’s not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Fresno is “long overdue” for “coherent, citywide policies that incentivize and support affordable housing.” She also said that an affordable housing strategy must “involve investment of the city’s own resources long into the foreseeable future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/?sfid=181&_sf_s=fresno&_sft_resources_type=housing-need+level-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021 Affordable Housing Needs Report\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article251989463.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 36,000 low-income households are without affordable housing\u003c/a> in Fresno County. 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