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The occupiers, who called themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868037/grandma-challenges-real-estate-giant-in-early-test-of-new-california-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED investigation\u003c/a> found that despite the controversy, a global pandemic and mass unemployment, Wedgewood continued to buy homes across California — scooping up at least 276 properties through a network of shell companies between the start of the pandemic in mid-March 2020 and March of this year. All but 15 of those properties were single-family homes, like the three-bedroom home Foreman was renting in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Wedgewood CEO Greg Geiser said he didn’t know much about Foreman’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we know is we bought a house, and it is occupied,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the company planned to evict Foreman or keep her on as a tenant, Geiser said in an interview with KQED they would do their best to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds like this woman is in a special situation, and we will deal with her,” he said. “We will come to a resolution with this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foreman doesn’t have to worry now about what that resolution would entail, or about being forced to leave the house. 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A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-surpasses-other-large-California-cities-14271160.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> analysis found that Oakland and San Francisco had the highest rates of homelessness per capita, compared to other large cities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/coc-homeless-populations-and-subpopulations-reports/\">more than 8,000 people\u003c/a> experienced homelessness in San Francisco on any given night, and the vast majority — more than 5,100 — were unsheltered. That is, they spent the night either sleeping on the street or in cars, tents and RVs. And if we count the entire nine-county Bay Area, there were more than 35,000 homeless people in 2020. Nearly three-quarters of them lived outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But comparing San Francisco and the greater Bay Area to other cities around the world is not as simple as comparing numbers on a chart. That’s because there’s no international definition for what it means to be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not apples to apples\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen it comes to defining who is homeless, countries stick to three broad categories, according to Marissa Plouin, a housing researcher at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international policy group. The first category is for “rough sleepers,” or people who sleep in tents, on sidewalks or park benches. The second category covers people who are living in temporary institutional settings, like emergency shelters, mental health facilities or jails, but don’t have a home to return to when they leave. And finally, the third category includes people who are couch surfing with family or friends, or are otherwise living in crowded, unstable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Encampments and motor homes in West Oakland\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encampments and motor homes near 24th and Wood streets in West Oakland on March 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some countries — like Australia and New Zealand — use the broadest definition, counting all three categories, Plouin said. Others, like Japan, count only rough sleepers and people in certain types of institutions. Plouin said the United States is somewhere in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not really comparing, in all cases, apples to apples and oranges to oranges,” Plouin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the U.S., it is easier to make comparisons between big cities. That’s because the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development requires a more uniform process for getting a snapshot of the number of people who are homeless. It’s called the point-in-time count, and it involves an inventory of who is living in shelters, as well as sending out volunteers to manually count people on the street on a given night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at those numbers, there are some startling differences between cities in California and other big cities across the country. Take New York City, where housing costs are as high — or sometimes higher — than in the Bay Area. But unlike in San Francisco, you won’t see sprawling homeless encampments in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/coc-homeless-populations-and-subpopulations-reports/\">latest count\u003c/a>, there were nearly 78,000 people experiencing homelessness in New York City in 2020, but the vast majority — nearly 71,000 — slept in shelters. Giselle Routhier, the policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, said a big reason for that stark contrast is a policy called the “right to shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Right to shelter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the late 1970s, mass homelessness as we know it today was just beginning to emerge across the country. A young lawyer in New York City, Robert Hayes, befriended a man experiencing homelessness who told him that he would have liked to get into the city’s shelters, but that he kept getting turned away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were no beds for him,” Routhier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11838323' label='More Reading']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Hayes sued the state and the city, arguing that the state constitution required the city to provide shelter for its residents. And, he won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a huge victory, Routhier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the shelter system is to provide a basic safety net,” she said, “so that people actually have a roof over their head, have access to food and bathrooms and space to be while they are homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the shelters first opened, they were massive, said Dr. Deborah Padgett, a professor of social work at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would take over a whole armory and then fill it with up to 900 men and beds and a huge open floor,” she said. “And that became sort of intolerable — just the size and the scale of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, Padgett said the shelters evolved and became smaller. The city introduced cluster apartments, where families would share a kitchen and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t solved homelessness in New York City, where \u003ca href=\"https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/3/22151208/nyc-is-home-to-more-than-111000-homeless-students-new-data-shows\">one in 10 public school children experience homlessness\u003c/a>. Instead, Padgett says it’s created an intensely bureaucratic shelter industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless.jpg\" alt=\"Families who are homeless wait to get into an emergency shelter in New York City.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless families try to keep their belongings dry while waiting for housing placement outside of the emergency overnight shelter intake center Oct. 11, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York City. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I call it an industry because there are dozens and dozens of nonprofits that get millions of dollars a year in contracts to run shelters,” she said. “And so you have thousands and thousands of people whose jobs depend on homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City spends \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-spending-on-homeless-hits-3-2-billion-this-year-11558562997#:~:text=Spending%20on%20homelessness%20in%20New,Wednesday%20by%20Comptroller%20Scott%20Stringer.\">more than $3 billion a year on homelessness\u003c/a>, but Padgett said moving from the shelter system into permanent, affordable housing is “almost a dream that never comes true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People spend years in shelters,” she said. “There’s this huge bottleneck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that New York is legally obligated to spend all of this money on shelters to comply with the right to shelter mandate. That leaves them with fewer resources to spend on housing, and like in the Bay Area, it’s incredibly expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Solving homelessness by giving people a home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a place an ocean away that has done the opposite of New York City and is now considered \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness\">a model for reducing homelessness\u003c/a>. In Finland, housing authorities tore down the country’s once vast shelter system and replaced it with affordable apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say that we stole the idea from the U.S.,” said Freek Spinnewijn, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.feantsa.org/en\">European Federation of National Organizations Working With the Homeless\u003c/a>, or FEANTSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, Sam Tsemberis, a homeless services provider in New York City, came up with a radically new concept when it came to addressing homelessness. He called it “Housing First.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was really simple: The solution to homelessness is housing. And in order for people to address the root causes of their homelessness — whether that’s getting sober, accessing mental health treatment, getting medical care or getting a job — they had to have a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, Finland looked a lot like New York City: The shelter system was a revolving door for the country’s 20,000 homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in 2008, a four-person working group — a politician, an activist, a sociologist and a bishop — got in a room together and devised a new plan to tackle homelessness. They also called it Housing First, and policymakers adopted it as Finland’s national policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not rocket science at all,” said Juha Kaakinen, CEO of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://ysaatio.fi/en/home\">Y-Foundation\u003c/a> and one of the original architects of Finland’s Housing First approach. “In Finnish society, we have this thinking that housing should be a basic human right, that society has to take care of its members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd/47846161552/in/photolist-25n1gT4-2fU16iE-2fU164S-2fU16Ys-2eLRS1W-25n1gEi-2ezEbRn-2fU17es-2ezEb4k-2fU15SE-2eLRRHG-25n1gXx-2ezEbsg-2eLRRLh-2ezEbbK-2fU15LN-2fU167N-2fU16MA-2ezEbVv-2fU15TS-2ezEc6a-2ezEcgv-2ezEc8e-2eLRRYw-2fU15Q5\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen.jpg\" alt=\"Juha Kaakinen\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juha Kaakinen speaking at 2019 OECD Housing Forum: Your Investment, My Home \u003ccite>(Andrew Wheeler / OECD/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd/47846161552/in/photolist-25n1gT4-2fU16iE-2fU164S-2fU16Ys-2eLRS1W-25n1gEi-2ezEbRn-2fU17es-2ezEb4k-2fU15SE-2eLRRHG-25n1gXx-2ezEbsg-2eLRRLh-2ezEbbK-2fU15LN-2fU167N-2fU16MA-2ezEbVv-2fU15TS-2ezEc6a-2ezEcgv-2ezEc8e-2eLRRYw-2fU15Q5\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Finland has 5,400 homeless people, a 40% reduction in homelessness since the Housing First policy was adopted. Street homelessness is almost nonexistent and only one 50-bed emergency shelter in the country remains. Finnish officials say the country is on track to end homelessness by 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spinnewijn attributed the country’s success to long-term commitment from political leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Finland, there is a consensus that Housing First is the way to go,” Spinnewijn said. “So they’re not afraid of the elections. Whatever political coalition comes into power, Housing First will continue. And so it allowed them to have a longer-term perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finland has invested heavily in supportive housing and permanently affordable apartments, also called social housing. Kaakinen’s Y-Foundation is the fourth-largest landlord in Finland, with 17,300 social housing units meant for low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are very good quality. That’s the special thing with social housing. If you go around in the housing area in Helsinki, you can’t make the difference which one is private housing and which one is social housing,” Kaakinen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But building new, permanently affordable housing isn’t cheap. Finland has spent about 350 million euros on Housing First since the policy began more than a decade ago. The bulk of that money is spent on building new affordable housing and buying rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Finnish officials argue the policy saves taxpayers around 15,000 euros a year, from fewer emergency room visits, encounters with police and other social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/budget/\">proposed budget\u003c/a> for its Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing for the upcoming year is a little more than $567 million. More than half, or about 54%, is dedicated to providing rent subsidies, operating permanent, supportive housing and building new housing. About 12% funds the city’s shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could San Francisco Follow Finland’s Lead?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a movement in San Francisco to build more permanently affordable housing as a long-term solution to homelessness. In 2018, voters approved Proposition C, a new tax that has so far \u003ca href=\"https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Our%20City%2C%20Our%20Home/OCOH%20Comm.%20Meeting%20One%20Final%20Presentation.pdf\">raised nearly $600 million, with another $300 million expected to come in this year\u003c/a>, and is primarily dedicated to creating new, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents are spaced for social distancing at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are spaced for social distancing at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition C nearly doubles the amount of money available annually to address homelessness, and represents a sea change in the city’s approach to solving homelessness, said Christin Evans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Prop. C funds are a game changer for the city,” said Evans, a local book store owner and one of the proponents of Proposition C. “It’s giving a significant amount of resources to service providers who have a proven track record in helping people exit homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco is only one of 101 cities across the Bay Area. And, it won’t be able to solve homelessness on its own. Many of the most impactful financial resources for housing programs come from state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/29/governor-newsom-announces-major-homekey-milestone-all-94-sites-closing-escrow-ahead-of-deadline/\">$800 million in funding last year\u003c/a> to create some 6,000 new units of permanent housing through a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\">Project Homekey\u003c/a>. And, he’s proposing doubling down on that program this year, with another $750 million. The 6,000 new units won’t be nearly enough to house everyone experiencing homelessness in California, but even so, it represents one of the largest expansions of affordable housing for formerly homeless residents in the state’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/biden-administration-will-bring-new-focus-on-housing-and-possibly-new-funding-as-well/\">declared housing a human right\u003c/a> — becoming the first president to do so since\u003cbr>\nFranklin D. Roosevelt. And, he has proposed vastly expanding the federal rental voucher program to prevent more people from becoming homeless, as well as doubling the amount of new funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order for these policies to be truly effective — and to put a significant dent in the Bay Area’s homeless population — they will need to outlive Newsom’s and Biden’s terms in office. The U.S. will have to learn from Finland’s example and commit to a policy that doesn’t change course with every election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too many countries try to solve homelessness or radically reduce it within one political mandate,” said FEANSTA’s Freek Spinnewijn. “And that’s not possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at just the numbers, the rate of homelessness in San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area is really high. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-surpasses-other-large-California-cities-14271160.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> analysis found that Oakland and San Francisco had the highest rates of homelessness per capita, compared to other large cities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/coc-homeless-populations-and-subpopulations-reports/\">more than 8,000 people\u003c/a> experienced homelessness in San Francisco on any given night, and the vast majority — more than 5,100 — were unsheltered. That is, they spent the night either sleeping on the street or in cars, tents and RVs. And if we count the entire nine-county Bay Area, there were more than 35,000 homeless people in 2020. Nearly three-quarters of them lived outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But comparing San Francisco and the greater Bay Area to other cities around the world is not as simple as comparing numbers on a chart. That’s because there’s no international definition for what it means to be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not apples to apples\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen it comes to defining who is homeless, countries stick to three broad categories, according to Marissa Plouin, a housing researcher at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international policy group. The first category is for “rough sleepers,” or people who sleep in tents, on sidewalks or park benches. The second category covers people who are living in temporary institutional settings, like emergency shelters, mental health facilities or jails, but don’t have a home to return to when they leave. And finally, the third category includes people who are couch surfing with family or friends, or are otherwise living in crowded, unstable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Encampments and motor homes in West Oakland\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS42267_001_KQED_Oakland_CoronavirusHomelessRelief_03252020_0007-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encampments and motor homes near 24th and Wood streets in West Oakland on March 25, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some countries — like Australia and New Zealand — use the broadest definition, counting all three categories, Plouin said. Others, like Japan, count only rough sleepers and people in certain types of institutions. Plouin said the United States is somewhere in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not really comparing, in all cases, apples to apples and oranges to oranges,” Plouin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the U.S., it is easier to make comparisons between big cities. That’s because the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development requires a more uniform process for getting a snapshot of the number of people who are homeless. It’s called the point-in-time count, and it involves an inventory of who is living in shelters, as well as sending out volunteers to manually count people on the street on a given night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at those numbers, there are some startling differences between cities in California and other big cities across the country. Take New York City, where housing costs are as high — or sometimes higher — than in the Bay Area. But unlike in San Francisco, you won’t see sprawling homeless encampments in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/coc-homeless-populations-and-subpopulations-reports/\">latest count\u003c/a>, there were nearly 78,000 people experiencing homelessness in New York City in 2020, but the vast majority — nearly 71,000 — slept in shelters. Giselle Routhier, the policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, said a big reason for that stark contrast is a policy called the “right to shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Right to shelter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the late 1970s, mass homelessness as we know it today was just beginning to emerge across the country. A young lawyer in New York City, Robert Hayes, befriended a man experiencing homelessness who told him that he would have liked to get into the city’s shelters, but that he kept getting turned away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were no beds for him,” Routhier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Hayes sued the state and the city, arguing that the state constitution required the city to provide shelter for its residents. And, he won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a huge victory, Routhier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of the shelter system is to provide a basic safety net,” she said, “so that people actually have a roof over their head, have access to food and bathrooms and space to be while they are homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the shelters first opened, they were massive, said Dr. Deborah Padgett, a professor of social work at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would take over a whole armory and then fill it with up to 900 men and beds and a huge open floor,” she said. “And that became sort of intolerable — just the size and the scale of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, Padgett said the shelters evolved and became smaller. The city introduced cluster apartments, where families would share a kitchen and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t solved homelessness in New York City, where \u003ca href=\"https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/3/22151208/nyc-is-home-to-more-than-111000-homeless-students-new-data-shows\">one in 10 public school children experience homlessness\u003c/a>. Instead, Padgett says it’s created an intensely bureaucratic shelter industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless.jpg\" alt=\"Families who are homeless wait to get into an emergency shelter in New York City.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/NYC-homeless-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless families try to keep their belongings dry while waiting for housing placement outside of the emergency overnight shelter intake center Oct. 11, 2007 in the Bronx borough of New York City. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I call it an industry because there are dozens and dozens of nonprofits that get millions of dollars a year in contracts to run shelters,” she said. “And so you have thousands and thousands of people whose jobs depend on homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City spends \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-spending-on-homeless-hits-3-2-billion-this-year-11558562997#:~:text=Spending%20on%20homelessness%20in%20New,Wednesday%20by%20Comptroller%20Scott%20Stringer.\">more than $3 billion a year on homelessness\u003c/a>, but Padgett said moving from the shelter system into permanent, affordable housing is “almost a dream that never comes true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People spend years in shelters,” she said. “There’s this huge bottleneck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that New York is legally obligated to spend all of this money on shelters to comply with the right to shelter mandate. That leaves them with fewer resources to spend on housing, and like in the Bay Area, it’s incredibly expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Solving homelessness by giving people a home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>here is a place an ocean away that has done the opposite of New York City and is now considered \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness\">a model for reducing homelessness\u003c/a>. In Finland, housing authorities tore down the country’s once vast shelter system and replaced it with affordable apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could say that we stole the idea from the U.S.,” said Freek Spinnewijn, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.feantsa.org/en\">European Federation of National Organizations Working With the Homeless\u003c/a>, or FEANTSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, Sam Tsemberis, a homeless services provider in New York City, came up with a radically new concept when it came to addressing homelessness. He called it “Housing First.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was really simple: The solution to homelessness is housing. And in order for people to address the root causes of their homelessness — whether that’s getting sober, accessing mental health treatment, getting medical care or getting a job — they had to have a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1980s, Finland looked a lot like New York City: The shelter system was a revolving door for the country’s 20,000 homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in 2008, a four-person working group — a politician, an activist, a sociologist and a bishop — got in a room together and devised a new plan to tackle homelessness. They also called it Housing First, and policymakers adopted it as Finland’s national policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not rocket science at all,” said Juha Kaakinen, CEO of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://ysaatio.fi/en/home\">Y-Foundation\u003c/a> and one of the original architects of Finland’s Housing First approach. “In Finnish society, we have this thinking that housing should be a basic human right, that society has to take care of its members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd/47846161552/in/photolist-25n1gT4-2fU16iE-2fU164S-2fU16Ys-2eLRS1W-25n1gEi-2ezEbRn-2fU17es-2ezEb4k-2fU15SE-2eLRRHG-25n1gXx-2ezEbsg-2eLRRLh-2ezEbbK-2fU15LN-2fU167N-2fU16MA-2ezEbVv-2fU15TS-2ezEc6a-2ezEcgv-2ezEc8e-2eLRRYw-2fU15Q5\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen.jpg\" alt=\"Juha Kaakinen\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/JuhaKaakinen-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juha Kaakinen speaking at 2019 OECD Housing Forum: Your Investment, My Home \u003ccite>(Andrew Wheeler / OECD/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd/47846161552/in/photolist-25n1gT4-2fU16iE-2fU164S-2fU16Ys-2eLRS1W-25n1gEi-2ezEbRn-2fU17es-2ezEb4k-2fU15SE-2eLRRHG-25n1gXx-2ezEbsg-2eLRRLh-2ezEbbK-2fU15LN-2fU167N-2fU16MA-2ezEbVv-2fU15TS-2ezEc6a-2ezEcgv-2ezEc8e-2eLRRYw-2fU15Q5\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Finland has 5,400 homeless people, a 40% reduction in homelessness since the Housing First policy was adopted. Street homelessness is almost nonexistent and only one 50-bed emergency shelter in the country remains. Finnish officials say the country is on track to end homelessness by 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spinnewijn attributed the country’s success to long-term commitment from political leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Finland, there is a consensus that Housing First is the way to go,” Spinnewijn said. “So they’re not afraid of the elections. Whatever political coalition comes into power, Housing First will continue. And so it allowed them to have a longer-term perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finland has invested heavily in supportive housing and permanently affordable apartments, also called social housing. Kaakinen’s Y-Foundation is the fourth-largest landlord in Finland, with 17,300 social housing units meant for low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are very good quality. That’s the special thing with social housing. If you go around in the housing area in Helsinki, you can’t make the difference which one is private housing and which one is social housing,” Kaakinen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But building new, permanently affordable housing isn’t cheap. Finland has spent about 350 million euros on Housing First since the policy began more than a decade ago. The bulk of that money is spent on building new affordable housing and buying rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Finnish officials argue the policy saves taxpayers around 15,000 euros a year, from fewer emergency room visits, encounters with police and other social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/budget/\">proposed budget\u003c/a> for its Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing for the upcoming year is a little more than $567 million. More than half, or about 54%, is dedicated to providing rent subsidies, operating permanent, supportive housing and building new housing. About 12% funds the city’s shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could San Francisco Follow Finland’s Lead?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>here is a movement in San Francisco to build more permanently affordable housing as a long-term solution to homelessness. In 2018, voters approved Proposition C, a new tax that has so far \u003ca href=\"https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Our%20City%2C%20Our%20Home/OCOH%20Comm.%20Meeting%20One%20Final%20Presentation.pdf\">raised nearly $600 million, with another $300 million expected to come in this year\u003c/a>, and is primarily dedicated to creating new, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents are spaced for social distancing at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS43035_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents are spaced for social distancing at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposition C nearly doubles the amount of money available annually to address homelessness, and represents a sea change in the city’s approach to solving homelessness, said Christin Evans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Prop. C funds are a game changer for the city,” said Evans, a local book store owner and one of the proponents of Proposition C. “It’s giving a significant amount of resources to service providers who have a proven track record in helping people exit homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco is only one of 101 cities across the Bay Area. And, it won’t be able to solve homelessness on its own. Many of the most impactful financial resources for housing programs come from state and federal governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/29/governor-newsom-announces-major-homekey-milestone-all-94-sites-closing-escrow-ahead-of-deadline/\">$800 million in funding last year\u003c/a> to create some 6,000 new units of permanent housing through a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\">Project Homekey\u003c/a>. And, he’s proposing doubling down on that program this year, with another $750 million. The 6,000 new units won’t be nearly enough to house everyone experiencing homelessness in California, but even so, it represents one of the largest expansions of affordable housing for formerly homeless residents in the state’s recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the federal level, President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/biden-administration-will-bring-new-focus-on-housing-and-possibly-new-funding-as-well/\">declared housing a human right\u003c/a> — becoming the first president to do so since\u003cbr>\nFranklin D. Roosevelt. And, he has proposed vastly expanding the federal rental voucher program to prevent more people from becoming homeless, as well as doubling the amount of new funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order for these policies to be truly effective — and to put a significant dent in the Bay Area’s homeless population — they will need to outlive Newsom’s and Biden’s terms in office. The U.S. will have to learn from Finland’s example and commit to a policy that doesn’t change course with every election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too many countries try to solve homelessness or radically reduce it within one political mandate,” said FEANSTA’s Freek Spinnewijn. “And that’s not possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of tenants in San Francisco are eligible to apply for $2.6 billion in rent relief available in California, but many find it difficult — or even impossible — for one simple reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can’t read the application website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 organizations that help tenants stay housed are saying the state’s Housing Is Key rent relief \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/\">website\u003c/a> isn’t natively available in multiple languages, including Spanish and Cantonese. The advocates say it’s a failure by state officials, and are calling for an overhaul to make the website more accessible for renters and landlords who are monolingual in a language other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association']‘This rent relief access is an early warning sign of how important it is for all levels of government to make sure these relief programs really are taking into consideration racial inequities … It’s a bit shocking to have to have this conversation in 2021.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association, said the people who could be shut out of the rent relief application process by these barriers are those who need it most — people in Latino and Asian communities who often work in restaurants, hotels and other industries that bore the brunt of the pandemic-induced economic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This rent relief access is an early warning sign of how important it is for all levels of government to make sure these relief programs really are taking into consideration racial inequities and language access and cultural barriers,” she said. “It’s a little bit shocking to have to have this conversation in 2021.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations pushing to reform the website include the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, Causa Justa Just Cause, the Chinese Progressive Association, Chinatown Community Development Center, Tenants Together and the Bill Sorro Housing Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They jointly wrote to the California Department of Housing and Community Development on April 13, saying the barriers to the state’s application process “directly and indirectly discriminates against applicants who are not English proficient and the significant number of BIPOC households who lack reliable or consistent internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Naungayan, a spokesperson for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, which runs the Housing Is Key website, said they recognized many of the group’s concerns, which they said they had also identified internally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work was already underway to address these concerns,” Naungayan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes include providing paper applications in languages other than English for the first time and new language on the website encouraging people struggling with Google Translate to call in to the state for support. They’re also planning changes to the call-in center to include a welcome message in multiple languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California tenants owe between $400 million and $2 billion, according to different estimates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rent relief comes via federal funding, with a framework passed by state lawmakers in March, and is aimed at keeping people housed during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of March 15, landlords with low-income tenants who have fallen behind on rent because of the pandemic were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864513/rent-relief-in-california-how-to-apply-and-what-you-could-get\">able to apply for relief\u003c/a>. They are eligible to receive up to 80% of all back rent between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021. Landlords must also agree to forgive the remaining 20% of the rent, and they cannot try to collect the unpaid rent in small claims court or use it to justify an eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the process to work, both landlords and tenants need to navigate the Housing Is Key website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the website does offer limited access in multiple languages, advocates say it’s insufficiently integrated into the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of offering sections written in native languages, the website relies on a Google Translate pulldown menu, which reads “select language” in English. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jocelyn Foreman was full of nervous energy and dread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a crisp morning in early March. She arrived at the Pleasant Hill Community Center to find a handful of men and women in a semicircle outside the sandstone-colored building, clutching folders and holding cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were there for a foreclosure auction, poised to bid on the house that Foreman rents: a single-story, 1,500-square-foot tract home in Pinole. It’s a simple home — set back from the street — with a steep sloping backyard, worn carpets and a roof that leaks when it rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jocelyn Foreman\"]‘I thought I was breaking the cycle. And then I felt like my dreams and my memories were being auctioned away.’[/pullquote]A man with a clipboard started the bidding at $175,000. A woman in a maroon sweatshirt and another man offered competing bids. First $176,000. Then $177,000. Then $180,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept going higher and higher and higher,” Foreman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding finally stopped at $600,000. Foreman’s stomach dropped. “And I just thought, ‘Oh my God.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman had hoped she would be able to buy the house and continue living there thanks to a new state law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840140/california-law-prioritizes-people-over-corporate-home-buyers\">signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall\u003c/a>, that is designed to prevent pandemic profiteering — and give tenants like her a path to homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law, which allows tenants and nonprofits a 45-day window to match any bid made at a foreclosure auction, provides no money to fund the purchases. So that means Foreman will have to find a way to raise the money herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Foreman, 50, a Black mother of five and grandmother of three, the house in Pinole is much more than a place to rent. She’d been homeless for the better part of the past 20 years, and it was only after she began renting the home in 2018 that she had been able to pay her bills on time and find stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was breaking the cycle,” she said. “And then I felt like my dreams and my memories were being auctioned away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman chased after the woman with the winning bid, to find out who her new landlord would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said, “Wedgewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman knew the name. The Redondo Beach real estate firm drew national scrutiny last year after a group of Black homeless mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">occupied a vacant house the company owned in West Oakland\u003c/a>. The occupiers, who called themselves Moms 4 Housing, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite that controversy, and a global pandemic that’s caused mass unemployment, Wedgewood has continued to buy houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a review of public documents by KQED reveals the company went on a spending spree during the pandemic — funneling at least $152.6 million through a network of shell companies to purchase no fewer than 276 properties throughout California. All but 15 of those properties are single-family homes, like Foreman’s three-bedroom house in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-800x410.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1020x522.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-160x82.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1536x787.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>Some houses have been quickly flipped for a profit. For example, Wedgewood bought a single-story, shell-pink bungalow in North Berkeley last September for $1.15 million and then sold it for $1.71 million in March, after installing new appliances and slapping on a fresh coat of slate-gray paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the system we’re up against,” said Steve King, the executive director of the nonprofit Oakland Community Land Trust. “Trying to carve out ways that we can retain some of these properties in the community’s hands, that’s the real challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood declined multiple requests for a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we know is we bought a house and it is occupied,” company founder and CEO Greg Geiser wrote in an email. Geiser added that he knew someone wanted to match the firm’s offer, but that neither he, nor the company, knew who that was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood’s buying binge continued after the law went into effect in January, KQED found, with the company acquiring at least 102 homes. The properties were purchased across 22 California counties and, in almost every case, the company paid in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Berkeley in Sept. 2020. It was photographed on March 31, 2021. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That has left Foreman in a race against time. She has until April 18 to match Wedgewood’s bid on the house in Pinole. But the odds are not in her favor. With bad credit and no savings, she doesn’t qualify for a mortgage. Nor would the $2,100 she pays in rent cover the mortgage payments for a $600,000 home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she’s going to need cash — and a lot of it — or she’s afraid she’ll be forced to leave. Foreman reached out to a nonprofit legal aid organization who helped launch \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">an online fundraising effort\u003c/a> on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The House That Moms Built\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When they occupied the house in West Oakland, the women behind Moms 4 Housing argued Wedgewood’s rise was part of a fundamental shift in the housing market marked by a seismic transfer of wealth from individuals to corporations. That shift, they said, began in the wake of the Great Recession, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/end-sight-us-foreclosure-crisis#endnote1\">nearly 10 million people lost their homes\u003c/a> through foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]Cash-rich investors and Wall Street private-equity giants, like Blackstone, seized on the crisis as an opportunity to buy cheap, foreclosed homes. On the other side were homeowners, who lost an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://furmancenter.org/files/publications/HousingandtheGreatRecession.pdf\">$7 trillion in home equity\u003c/a> between 2006 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, deputy director of the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, said speculators “were the ones that had a lot of cash on hand at the time and who were realizing there was a great opportunity to make a lot of money even as people were suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After armed sheriffs’ deputies came to evict the moms, Wedgewood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">agreed to sell the home\u003c/a> to the Oakland Community Land Trust, a nonprofit created in the wake of the Great Recession to buy foreclosed homes and keep them permanently affordable. The home will soon become a transitional shelter for homeless mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy also inspired state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat who represents Oakland, to introduce legislation reforming the foreclosure process so tenants like Foreman would have the opportunity to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I introduced and passed SB 1079, my purpose was to give individual homeowners the ability to compete against corporate [purchasers],” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman pulls weeds from her front yard in Pinole on March 19, 2021. Foreman would like to landscape the yard if she is able to purchase the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the moms won their fight, there’s no guarantee the new law will help Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without any funding attached to the law, tenants of foreclosed properties must raise the entire amount themselves, or secure a traditional mortgage — something that can be difficult for someone with bad credit, little savings or who does not have the ability to borrow from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Properties Purchased by Wedgewood During the Pandemic\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Xdu2z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Xdu2z/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"780\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would-be homeowners could also partner with a nonprofit or land trust to buy the home, as the Oakland moms group did with the Oakland Community Land Trust. But Ian Winters, the executive director of the Northern California Community Land Trust, said that even for groups like his, raising the amount needed on short notice is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very, very, very few housing organizations and very few nonprofit organizations that are sitting on a giant pile of cash that can afford to regularly shell out $600,000 or $700,000 to purchase a property at auction,” he said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nMoney aside, Winters said, his organization still wants to help. So the land trust is working to secure financing to buy Foreman’s property and turn it into permanent, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this arrangement, Foreman would eventually secure a traditional mortgage to buy the home at an affordable price, but the trust would maintain ownership of the land. This way, if it’s ever sold, it would still be affordable for the next resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 5, however, the \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">$14,916 Foreman had raised online\u003c/a> was still a far cry from the $250,000 the land trust estimates it needs to keep the $600,000 home affordable for Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Legacy Lost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before Foreman moved in, the house in Pinole had been in the same family for more than 30 years. Reginald Mayfield, a longshoreman for 51 years, bought the house in 1984 and spent his retirement years there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the few years before his death in 2018, at age 82, he had planned a major rehab of the 1970s home, and took out a loan on the house. It was a project he planned to complete with his daughter, Rochelle Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent a lot of time going to stores, just doing a lot of window shopping, with him,” she said. “I would grumble, but it was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1020x1700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-160x267.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-922x1536.jpg 922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1229x2048.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of Reginald Mayfield, far left, was taken in 1960. He was part of a men’s club called The Notables. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Rochelle Mayfield.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she didn’t grow up at the house, Rochelle said it represented one piece of the legacy her grandparents left for her. They moved to the Bay Area from Texas and Louisiana, as part of the Great Migration, when millions of Southern Black families migrated to the North and West in search of better lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayfield’s grandparents settled in Oakland and Berkeley, picking up war-time jobs and starting their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that both sets of grandparents had in common was that they bought property,” Mayfield said. “And for Black folks at that time to be able to do that, it’s extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Foreman and her teenage children were couch surfing — something they had done on and off since 2002 — when she first heard about the Pinole house. A coworker told her that his uncle, Reginald Mayfield, had just passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman at the time had two jobs. The first was at the Berkeley Unified School District, connecting families in need with food, employment or housing resources. She was also moonlighting as an in-home caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she still couldn’t find a place to live that would accommodate her teenage children and didn’t require a brutal commute to her job and to her kids’ school in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about the vacant home, she contacted Rochelle Mayfield, who was sympathetic to Foreman’s plight and agreed to rent to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a chance on her,” Mayfield said, “when she needed someone to take a chance on her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman met Mayfield in Oct. 2018 in the parking lot of a Whole Foods to hand over the deposit. Foreman’s car payment was due the same day, so she had to choose: give up her car or put the deposit down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She handed over the check, and then, after Mayfield left, opened the trunk of her car. There, in neat stacks, were all of her belongings. She took a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because in my mind,” Foreman said, “this was going to be the last time I was doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Foreman said she hasn’t looked back: “I’ve been on my feet ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After handing over the deposit in 2018 for the house she was preparing to rent, Jocelyn Foreman took a picture of the trunk of her car. There, in bags, were all of her belongings. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Jocelyn Foreman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is, until she got a notice, in February 2020, posted on the front door of her home, saying the house would be sold at a foreclosure auction the following month. Mayfield had been having a hard time making the mortgage payments on both the Pinole home and a house in Richmond she inherited from her mother, where she also lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the pandemic, the house in Pinole didn’t actually sell until March, 2021, when Wedgewood made the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to answer questions about whether it intends to resell Foreman’s house or rent it out. California law prevents evictions for nonpayment of rent during the pandemic, but it won’t protect Foreman if Wedgewood decides to sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the company said that, in general, Wedgewood sells the homes it buys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a real estate company that buys distressed housing and then heavily invests in renovating and restoring the homes as needed,” Wedgewood said in an emailed statement. “We then sell, in partnership with agents throughout the state, to new homeowners, the majority of which are owner-occupants, who have a vested interest in their home and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving Up Prices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.” The company was founded in 1985 by Geiser with a fix-and-flip business model of buying up cheap foreclosed homes and selling them for a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDisy8SWak&ab_channel=WedgewoodLLC\">At a Florida real estate conference in 2015\u003c/a>, Geiser called house flipping “hot and sexy” and claimed his company had bought and sold 3,000 homes in the past year, averaging about 250 foreclosure home purchases a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day we cover every foreclosure sale from Denver to Seattle up through Idaho down to San Diego,” he told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Geiser bristles at the suggestion that his firm is driving up housing prices by flipping property: “That view is just plain inaccurate,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California-based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Oakland in July 2020. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the houses the company has bought in the last year is a 1912 Victorian on a quiet residential street in North Oakland. Like the house in Pinole, the previous owners’ heirs lost it to the bank after the homeowner passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood repainted the tan and brown house in sage green with a golden yellow trim and installed new appliances. But when the new homeowners moved in, they discovered a host of other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the homeowners, who declined to give her name, said new lighting fixtures had been installed incorrectly and had to be reinstalled. The electrical wiring had to be updated so the house was safe to inhabit. The chimney was caving in and had to be removed. And the foundation also needed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 2, public records linked Wedgewood to at least 143 properties it has purchased in the Bay Area and 719 across the state, the majority of which are single-family homes. The homes are, on average, about 60 years old, and often located in more affordable cities or more affordable neighborhoods, including many communities of color, where residents have seen rents and home prices grow astronomically in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company operates using an extensive network of shell companies, including Catamount Properties 2018, LLC, which flipped the North Oakland property. It’s one of at least 40 active entities in California controlled by Wedgewood, according to the California Secretary of State’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bidders place offers on a house in Castro Valley at a foreclosure auction at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland on Thursday, March 25, 2021. A representative for Wedgewood bid aggressively on the home, but it ultimately sold to another bidder. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent foreclosure auction in Oakland, a woman in sneakers and a gray sweatshirt represented the company. She bid aggressively on a single-family home in Castro Valley. It ultimately sold to another bidder for $661,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some bidders shook their heads at the eye-popping price, others, like Robert Kramer, a veteran at foreclosure sales, said it doesn’t matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market (for single-family homes) is going up,” Kramer said. “By the time you get them fixed up and back on the market, there’s typically a pretty healthy profit there — 20% or more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foreclosure rate in California is significantly down from its peak in 2010, and has even declined during the pandemic, largely because of a federal moratorium on foreclosures for federally-backed mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kramer said that means bidders are pushing the prices for foreclosed homes even higher, which makes it difficult for would-be homeowners like Foreman, as well as nonprofit affordable housing providers and community land trusts, to match the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way foreclosure auctions are structured in California, it’s like the Wild Wild West,” said King, of the Oakland Community Land Trust. “The system is plainly not set up for those properties to be transitioned to some community use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Plea for Funding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winters, of the Northern California Community Land Trust, says that in order for Skinner’s SB 1079 to be effective, there needs to be funding. Most properties that go to foreclosure have deferred maintenance issues that need to be resolved to ensure the house continues to be livable, not to mention the accumulated cost of unpaid taxes and other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there needs to be a subsidy, he says, to ensure that those homes are affordable to would-be homeowners, like Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There does need to be a revolving pool of money that helps the nonprofit housing sector acquire the property, stabilize it, get it back into use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s network of community land trusts is lobbying the Legislature for dedicated funding to implement SB 1079 over the next five years. And Sen. Skinner is hoping to create a fund to enable those purchases through this year’s budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868041\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman stands on the front porch of her house in Pinole, arms open wide in appreciation, on March 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without a subsidy from the state, Winters is relying on the community to come together to fundraise for a subsidy for Foreman’s house, which will ensure it can remain affordable. And even though the land trust has agreed to help Foreman, it hasn’t secured the loan yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those details are being worked out, Foreman is guardedly optimistic. She doesn’t like thinking about where she and her family will go if they can’t raise the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve said repeatedly to myself, ‘I’m not going anywhere,’” she said. “My grandson is not sleeping on somebody’s floor. That’s not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jocelyn Foreman was full of nervous energy and dread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a crisp morning in early March. She arrived at the Pleasant Hill Community Center to find a handful of men and women in a semicircle outside the sandstone-colored building, clutching folders and holding cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were there for a foreclosure auction, poised to bid on the house that Foreman rents: a single-story, 1,500-square-foot tract home in Pinole. It’s a simple home — set back from the street — with a steep sloping backyard, worn carpets and a roof that leaks when it rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A man with a clipboard started the bidding at $175,000. A woman in a maroon sweatshirt and another man offered competing bids. First $176,000. Then $177,000. Then $180,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept going higher and higher and higher,” Foreman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding finally stopped at $600,000. Foreman’s stomach dropped. “And I just thought, ‘Oh my God.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman had hoped she would be able to buy the house and continue living there thanks to a new state law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840140/california-law-prioritizes-people-over-corporate-home-buyers\">signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall\u003c/a>, that is designed to prevent pandemic profiteering — and give tenants like her a path to homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the law, which allows tenants and nonprofits a 45-day window to match any bid made at a foreclosure auction, provides no money to fund the purchases. So that means Foreman will have to find a way to raise the money herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Foreman, 50, a Black mother of five and grandmother of three, the house in Pinole is much more than a place to rent. She’d been homeless for the better part of the past 20 years, and it was only after she began renting the home in 2018 that she had been able to pay her bills on time and find stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was breaking the cycle,” she said. “And then I felt like my dreams and my memories were being auctioned away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman chased after the woman with the winning bid, to find out who her new landlord would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said, “Wedgewood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman knew the name. The Redondo Beach real estate firm drew national scrutiny last year after a group of Black homeless mothers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">occupied a vacant house the company owned in West Oakland\u003c/a>. The occupiers, who called themselves Moms 4 Housing, sought to spotlight increasing corporate ownership of housing, which they said had led to rising rents and growing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite that controversy, and a global pandemic that’s caused mass unemployment, Wedgewood has continued to buy houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a review of public documents by KQED reveals the company went on a spending spree during the pandemic — funneling at least $152.6 million through a network of shell companies to purchase no fewer than 276 properties throughout California. All but 15 of those properties are single-family homes, like Foreman’s three-bedroom house in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-800x410.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1020x522.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-160x82.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/4ItCA-as-the-pandemic-wore-on-wedgewood-kept-buying-1-1536x787.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>Some houses have been quickly flipped for a profit. For example, Wedgewood bought a single-story, shell-pink bungalow in North Berkeley last September for $1.15 million and then sold it for $1.71 million in March, after installing new appliances and slapping on a fresh coat of slate-gray paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the system we’re up against,” said Steve King, the executive director of the nonprofit Oakland Community Land Trust. “Trying to carve out ways that we can retain some of these properties in the community’s hands, that’s the real challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood declined multiple requests for a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we know is we bought a house and it is occupied,” company founder and CEO Greg Geiser wrote in an email. Geiser added that he knew someone wanted to match the firm’s offer, but that neither he, nor the company, knew who that was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood’s buying binge continued after the law went into effect in January, KQED found, with the company acquiring at least 102 homes. The properties were purchased across 22 California counties and, in almost every case, the company paid in cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48333_Wedgewood-Properties_04-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Berkeley in Sept. 2020. It was photographed on March 31, 2021. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That has left Foreman in a race against time. She has until April 18 to match Wedgewood’s bid on the house in Pinole. But the odds are not in her favor. With bad credit and no savings, she doesn’t qualify for a mortgage. Nor would the $2,100 she pays in rent cover the mortgage payments for a $600,000 home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she’s going to need cash — and a lot of it — or she’s afraid she’ll be forced to leave. Foreman reached out to a nonprofit legal aid organization who helped launch \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">an online fundraising effort\u003c/a> on her behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The House That Moms Built\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When they occupied the house in West Oakland, the women behind Moms 4 Housing argued Wedgewood’s rise was part of a fundamental shift in the housing market marked by a seismic transfer of wealth from individuals to corporations. That shift, they said, began in the wake of the Great Recession, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/end-sight-us-foreclosure-crisis#endnote1\">nearly 10 million people lost their homes\u003c/a> through foreclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cash-rich investors and Wall Street private-equity giants, like Blackstone, seized on the crisis as an opportunity to buy cheap, foreclosed homes. On the other side were homeowners, who lost an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://furmancenter.org/files/publications/HousingandtheGreatRecession.pdf\">$7 trillion in home equity\u003c/a> between 2006 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Stein, deputy director of the advocacy group California Reinvestment Coalition, said speculators “were the ones that had a lot of cash on hand at the time and who were realizing there was a great opportunity to make a lot of money even as people were suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After armed sheriffs’ deputies came to evict the moms, Wedgewood \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797001/moms-4-housing-group-reaches-agreement-to-buy-vacant-house\">agreed to sell the home\u003c/a> to the Oakland Community Land Trust, a nonprofit created in the wake of the Great Recession to buy foreclosed homes and keep them permanently affordable. The home will soon become a transitional shelter for homeless mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy also inspired state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat who represents Oakland, to introduce legislation reforming the foreclosure process so tenants like Foreman would have the opportunity to compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I introduced and passed SB 1079, my purpose was to give individual homeowners the ability to compete against corporate [purchasers],” Skinner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48044_009_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman pulls weeds from her front yard in Pinole on March 19, 2021. Foreman would like to landscape the yard if she is able to purchase the property. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the moms won their fight, there’s no guarantee the new law will help Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without any funding attached to the law, tenants of foreclosed properties must raise the entire amount themselves, or secure a traditional mortgage — something that can be difficult for someone with bad credit, little savings or who does not have the ability to borrow from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Properties Purchased by Wedgewood During the Pandemic\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Xdu2z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Xdu2z/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"780\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would-be homeowners could also partner with a nonprofit or land trust to buy the home, as the Oakland moms group did with the Oakland Community Land Trust. But Ian Winters, the executive director of the Northern California Community Land Trust, said that even for groups like his, raising the amount needed on short notice is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very, very, very few housing organizations and very few nonprofit organizations that are sitting on a giant pile of cash that can afford to regularly shell out $600,000 or $700,000 to purchase a property at auction,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nMoney aside, Winters said, his organization still wants to help. So the land trust is working to secure financing to buy Foreman’s property and turn it into permanent, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this arrangement, Foreman would eventually secure a traditional mortgage to buy the home at an affordable price, but the trust would maintain ownership of the land. This way, if it’s ever sold, it would still be affordable for the next resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 5, however, the \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/berkeley-public-schools-fund/planting-seeds-with-jocelyn-foreman\">$14,916 Foreman had raised online\u003c/a> was still a far cry from the $250,000 the land trust estimates it needs to keep the $600,000 home affordable for Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Legacy Lost\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before Foreman moved in, the house in Pinole had been in the same family for more than 30 years. Reginald Mayfield, a longshoreman for 51 years, bought the house in 1984 and spent his retirement years there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the few years before his death in 2018, at age 82, he had planned a major rehab of the 1970s home, and took out a loan on the house. It was a project he planned to complete with his daughter, Rochelle Mayfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent a lot of time going to stores, just doing a lot of window shopping, with him,” she said. “I would grumble, but it was fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868044\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11868044\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-800x1333.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1020x1700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-160x267.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-922x1536.jpg 922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-1229x2048.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48340_Reginald-Mayfield-The-Notables-qut-scaled.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of Reginald Mayfield, far left, was taken in 1960. He was part of a men’s club called The Notables. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Rochelle Mayfield.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she didn’t grow up at the house, Rochelle said it represented one piece of the legacy her grandparents left for her. They moved to the Bay Area from Texas and Louisiana, as part of the Great Migration, when millions of Southern Black families migrated to the North and West in search of better lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayfield’s grandparents settled in Oakland and Berkeley, picking up war-time jobs and starting their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that both sets of grandparents had in common was that they bought property,” Mayfield said. “And for Black folks at that time to be able to do that, it’s extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Foreman and her teenage children were couch surfing — something they had done on and off since 2002 — when she first heard about the Pinole house. A coworker told her that his uncle, Reginald Mayfield, had just passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman at the time had two jobs. The first was at the Berkeley Unified School District, connecting families in need with food, employment or housing resources. She was also moonlighting as an in-home caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she still couldn’t find a place to live that would accommodate her teenage children and didn’t require a brutal commute to her job and to her kids’ school in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she heard about the vacant home, she contacted Rochelle Mayfield, who was sympathetic to Foreman’s plight and agreed to rent to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a chance on her,” Mayfield said, “when she needed someone to take a chance on her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreman met Mayfield in Oct. 2018 in the parking lot of a Whole Foods to hand over the deposit. Foreman’s car payment was due the same day, so she had to choose: give up her car or put the deposit down?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She handed over the check, and then, after Mayfield left, opened the trunk of her car. There, in neat stacks, were all of her belongings. She took a picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because in my mind,” Foreman said, “this was going to be the last time I was doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Foreman said she hasn’t looked back: “I’ve been on my feet ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48344_jocelyn-foreman-car-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After handing over the deposit in 2018 for the house she was preparing to rent, Jocelyn Foreman took a picture of the trunk of her car. There, in bags, were all of her belongings. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Jocelyn Foreman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is, until she got a notice, in February 2020, posted on the front door of her home, saying the house would be sold at a foreclosure auction the following month. Mayfield had been having a hard time making the mortgage payments on both the Pinole home and a house in Richmond she inherited from her mother, where she also lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the pandemic, the house in Pinole didn’t actually sell until March, 2021, when Wedgewood made the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to answer questions about whether it intends to resell Foreman’s house or rent it out. California law prevents evictions for nonpayment of rent during the pandemic, but it won’t protect Foreman if Wedgewood decides to sell the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the company said that, in general, Wedgewood sells the homes it buys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a real estate company that buys distressed housing and then heavily invests in renovating and restoring the homes as needed,” Wedgewood said in an emailed statement. “We then sell, in partnership with agents throughout the state, to new homeowners, the majority of which are owner-occupants, who have a vested interest in their home and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Driving Up Prices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On its website, Wedgewood describes itself as a “leading acquirer of distressed residential real estate.” The company was founded in 1985 by Geiser with a fix-and-flip business model of buying up cheap foreclosed homes and selling them for a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDisy8SWak&ab_channel=WedgewoodLLC\">At a Florida real estate conference in 2015\u003c/a>, Geiser called house flipping “hot and sexy” and claimed his company had bought and sold 3,000 homes in the past year, averaging about 250 foreclosure home purchases a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day we cover every foreclosure sale from Denver to Seattle up through Idaho down to San Diego,” he told the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Geiser bristles at the suggestion that his firm is driving up housing prices by flipping property: “That view is just plain inaccurate,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48334_Wedgewood-Properties_05-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Southern California-based real estate investment corporation, Wedgewood, purchased this home in Oakland in July 2020. It’s one of more than 200 properties the company purchased throughout the state during the coronavirus pandemic, even as prices for single-family homes soared. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the houses the company has bought in the last year is a 1912 Victorian on a quiet residential street in North Oakland. Like the house in Pinole, the previous owners’ heirs lost it to the bank after the homeowner passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedgewood repainted the tan and brown house in sage green with a golden yellow trim and installed new appliances. But when the new homeowners moved in, they discovered a host of other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the homeowners, who declined to give her name, said new lighting fixtures had been installed incorrectly and had to be reinstalled. The electrical wiring had to be updated so the house was safe to inhabit. The chimney was caving in and had to be removed. And the foundation also needed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 2, public records linked Wedgewood to at least 143 properties it has purchased in the Bay Area and 719 across the state, the majority of which are single-family homes. The homes are, on average, about 60 years old, and often located in more affordable cities or more affordable neighborhoods, including many communities of color, where residents have seen rents and home prices grow astronomically in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company operates using an extensive network of shell companies, including Catamount Properties 2018, LLC, which flipped the North Oakland property. It’s one of at least 40 active entities in California controlled by Wedgewood, according to the California Secretary of State’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48343_Oakland-foreclosure-auction-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bidders place offers on a house in Castro Valley at a foreclosure auction at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland on Thursday, March 25, 2021. A representative for Wedgewood bid aggressively on the home, but it ultimately sold to another bidder. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a recent foreclosure auction in Oakland, a woman in sneakers and a gray sweatshirt represented the company. She bid aggressively on a single-family home in Castro Valley. It ultimately sold to another bidder for $661,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some bidders shook their heads at the eye-popping price, others, like Robert Kramer, a veteran at foreclosure sales, said it doesn’t matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market (for single-family homes) is going up,” Kramer said. “By the time you get them fixed up and back on the market, there’s typically a pretty healthy profit there — 20% or more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foreclosure rate in California is significantly down from its peak in 2010, and has even declined during the pandemic, largely because of a federal moratorium on foreclosures for federally-backed mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kramer said that means bidders are pushing the prices for foreclosed homes even higher, which makes it difficult for would-be homeowners like Foreman, as well as nonprofit affordable housing providers and community land trusts, to match the winning bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way foreclosure auctions are structured in California, it’s like the Wild Wild West,” said King, of the Oakland Community Land Trust. “The system is plainly not set up for those properties to be transitioned to some community use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Plea for Funding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Winters, of the Northern California Community Land Trust, says that in order for Skinner’s SB 1079 to be effective, there needs to be funding. Most properties that go to foreclosure have deferred maintenance issues that need to be resolved to ensure the house continues to be livable, not to mention the accumulated cost of unpaid taxes and other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there needs to be a subsidy, he says, to ensure that those homes are affordable to would-be homeowners, like Foreman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There does need to be a revolving pool of money that helps the nonprofit housing sector acquire the property, stabilize it, get it back into use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s network of community land trusts is lobbying the Legislature for dedicated funding to implement SB 1079 over the next five years. And Sen. Skinner is hoping to create a fund to enable those purchases through this year’s budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868041\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48038_003_Pinole_JocelynForeman_03192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Foreman stands on the front porch of her house in Pinole, arms open wide in appreciation, on March 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without a subsidy from the state, Winters is relying on the community to come together to fundraise for a subsidy for Foreman’s house, which will ensure it can remain affordable. And even though the land trust has agreed to help Foreman, it hasn’t secured the loan yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those details are being worked out, Foreman is guardedly optimistic. She doesn’t like thinking about where she and her family will go if they can’t raise the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve said repeatedly to myself, ‘I’m not going anywhere,’” she said. “My grandson is not sleeping on somebody’s floor. That’s not going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When he was preparing to be released from San Quentin State Prison, Joseph Krauter thought it would be a good idea to get paroled to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of a lightweight fantasy. Like, I’m going to get out, I’m going to do this program, I’m going to get an apartment, I’m going to have a sweet job, and then everything is going to be great,” he said. “It was not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had served 15 years for second-degree murder. The day he got out, he got $450. That included the money he’d made working in the prison library, plus the $200 that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/09/10/what-gate-money-can-and-cannot-buy\">has given to parolees\u003c/a> since 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had told the parole board that he wanted to go to San Francisco so he could access more services for his autism, and escape some of the demons he’d left back in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was set up at a halfway house, the Taylor Street Center run by the GEO Group in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. However, after six months there and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, “the director told me, ‘we need your bed space, you have to leave.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had made some money working a contract job, but he knew he didn’t have enough for an apartment. In classes at the transitional center, they’d told him he’d need to make at least $30 an hour to live comfortably in San Francisco, and he knew he wasn’t even close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told the job counselor, ‘I’m not ready to leave yet. I’m going to need the extension, at least for a few more months so I can save more money,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter was scared he’d end up in a temporary group shelter, or have to live far away from the few programs and job prospects he’d found in the city. He didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew and Joseph Krauter talk in the backyard at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Double Whammy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, many people getting out of prison have a hard time finding an affordable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best-case scenario, somebody has social and material support and so they can go live with parents or significant other or other family members,” said Dallas Augustine, a research associate with AMEND at UCSF, a group that works to improve health in prisons. “But for those who don’t have that type of material support, then they need to find housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the double whammy of a lack of state support and decreasing housing supply has created a housing crisis for formerly incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2020/01/201812_DataPoints.pdf\">released\u003c/a> about 37,000 people. In 2018, it released about 38,400. The state was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/U-S-ruling-State-must-cut-prison-population-3221869.php\">ordered in 2009 to reduce overcrowding\u003c/a> — an issue it’s still dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/03/Tpop1d210324.pdf\">today\u003c/a>, so the number of releases is expected to stay high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the housing side, it is well known that California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666284/5-reasons-californias-housing-costs-are-so-high\">does not have\u003c/a> enough affordable housing to meet the need, and landlords are often reluctant to rent to people with a criminal record. In addition, parolees often don’t have the option to leave the state to find more affordable housing. For the duration of their parole, most people aren’t allowed to leave the state where they served time. [aside tag=\"prison,incarceration\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities and counties are not making it any easier. In the Bay Area, some cities regulate where parolees can live. For example, in 2018, after considering banning parolees entirely, the East Bay city of Clayton banned two or more people on parole living together everywhere \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/25/clayton-bans-homes-for-released-inmates-everywhere-except-for-two-areas/\">except for two areas in the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of all these factors, former inmates are almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to be homeless than the general public, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in most cases, parole agents aren’t required to make sure people are housed. However, they may voluntarily refer some people to long-term housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last August, recognizing the stress that the COVID-19 pandemic was putting on the prison system, the state \u003ca href=\"https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/partnership-launched-support-returning-citizens-california-urgently-reduces-prison-populations-covid-19/\">teamed up\u003c/a> with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and other philanthropies to provide $30 million to reentry nonprofits. A spokesperson for CDCR said some of that money went toward providing temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are looking for a way to address the problem. In January, Bay Area Democratic Assemblymembers David Chiu, Buffy Wicks and Ash Kalra \u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/20210127-assemblymember-chiu-introduces-bill-shift-state-prison-savings-reentry\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> to fund more reentry housing. They hope that as the state continues to reduce its prison population, those savings could be redirected to expand existing housing programs. The bill is expected to get a hearing this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augustine said in the meantime she’s seen more and more community groups stepping up to get people in stable housing. One is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/how-homecoming-project-houses-former-prisoners/603373/\">Homecoming Project\u003c/a>, which has been compared to an Airbnb for formerly incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More commonly, volunteer reentry groups find housing solutions for community members independently. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Life and Sanity Saver’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of those groups is called Second Life, which is based in San Francisco. That’s where Joseph Krauter’s clinician sent him when he told her he was anxious about leaving his transitional center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.secondlifeproject.net/spaces\">The Second Life Project\u003c/a> was started by neuroscientist Zarinah Agnew. A few years ago, Agnew met some people who had recently been released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew reads in a room at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I asked them what they needed, and they were like, we just don’t have anywhere to hang out. We don’t have anywhere to be and we want to play [Dungeons and Dragons],” they said. “And so we started to play DnD and we started to have a potluck dinner together and friendships blossomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew saw that more than just a place to be, their friends needed a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew had already been working to set up communal living spaces as an executive director of the nonprofit District Commons, and was in a good place to help the group rent and buy two houses in San Francisco. The houses are communal, fit in with conditions for people’s probation and parole, and rent is often cheaper than market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Krauter lives in one of the homes, called Sigil, with five other people, some of whom have been to prison and some who haven’t. He cooks lasagna and empanadas for the house, and calls the opportunity a “life and sanity saver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew turns a sign that indicates whether the cat that they share is home at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I may not get along with the entire community,” he said, “but the people I do get along with, I care about a whole bunch. They are fantastic, intelligent, fun-to-be-around people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew lives at the other home, called Template House. It’s a colorful Victorian walk-up on Haight Street. Agnew said when people hear they live with formerly incarcerated people, they get uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when you come here, it’s so cozy and beautiful,” they said. “Dinners are wonderful. Everyone takes care of each other. The wisdoms of this group of people are so extraordinary. I would trust this group of people to raise my child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is a bit of a fixer-upper, but the residents are up for the project. One of the main helpers is resident Eldridge Cruse. Cruse was one of Template’s first residents. He was exonerated under changes to the felony murder rule in 2019, after almost three decades inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bert Perla (L) and Eldridge Cruse (R) talk in the backyard at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every evening, he tries to do some work in the garden. He envisions that in the next year the backyard will have a jacuzzi, a vegetable patch and a study area. It’ll be somewhere for the house cat, BARK, whose name stands for Bad Ass Revolutionary Kitty, to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that I’ve been looking for my whole life,” Cruse said. “We all look for someplace to belong, someplace where we’re wanted, someplace where we’re needed. And this right here, being in this community, this is what I found,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Life only has places for a dozen people, but efforts are underway across the Bay Area to create similar communities. Reentry experts say the need is only going to get greater, and there should be a better system in place on a state and county level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the state is going to incarcerate our community members, they also should continue to support them following release and to uphold the mission of rehabilitation, rather than pass that piece off and hope that it gets picked up,” Augustine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That included the money he’d made working in the prison library, plus the $200 that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/09/10/what-gate-money-can-and-cannot-buy\">has given to parolees\u003c/a> since 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had told the parole board that he wanted to go to San Francisco so he could access more services for his autism, and escape some of the demons he’d left back in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was set up at a halfway house, the Taylor Street Center run by the GEO Group in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. However, after six months there and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, “the director told me, ‘we need your bed space, you have to leave.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krauter had made some money working a contract job, but he knew he didn’t have enough for an apartment. 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He didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47795_010_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew and Joseph Krauter talk in the backyard at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Double Whammy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, many people getting out of prison have a hard time finding an affordable place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best-case scenario, somebody has social and material support and so they can go live with parents or significant other or other family members,” said Dallas Augustine, a research associate with AMEND at UCSF, a group that works to improve health in prisons. “But for those who don’t have that type of material support, then they need to find housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the double whammy of a lack of state support and decreasing housing supply has created a housing crisis for formerly incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2020/01/201812_DataPoints.pdf\">released\u003c/a> about 37,000 people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cities and counties are not making it any easier. In the Bay Area, some cities regulate where parolees can live. For example, in 2018, after considering banning parolees entirely, the East Bay city of Clayton banned two or more people on parole living together everywhere \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/25/clayton-bans-homes-for-released-inmates-everywhere-except-for-two-areas/\">except for two areas in the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of all these factors, former inmates are almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">10 times more likely\u003c/a> to be homeless than the general public, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in most cases, parole agents aren’t required to make sure people are housed. However, they may voluntarily refer some people to long-term housing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last August, recognizing the stress that the COVID-19 pandemic was putting on the prison system, the state \u003ca href=\"https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/partnership-launched-support-returning-citizens-california-urgently-reduces-prison-populations-covid-19/\">teamed up\u003c/a> with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and other philanthropies to provide $30 million to reentry nonprofits. A spokesperson for CDCR said some of that money went toward providing temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are looking for a way to address the problem. In January, Bay Area Democratic Assemblymembers David Chiu, Buffy Wicks and Ash Kalra \u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/20210127-assemblymember-chiu-introduces-bill-shift-state-prison-savings-reentry\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> to fund more reentry housing. They hope that as the state continues to reduce its prison population, those savings could be redirected to expand existing housing programs. The bill is expected to get a hearing this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Augustine said in the meantime she’s seen more and more community groups stepping up to get people in stable housing. One is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/how-homecoming-project-houses-former-prisoners/603373/\">Homecoming Project\u003c/a>, which has been compared to an Airbnb for formerly incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More commonly, volunteer reentry groups find housing solutions for community members independently. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A few years ago, Agnew met some people who had recently been released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47811_026_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew reads in a room at Template House in the Lower Haight of San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I asked them what they needed, and they were like, we just don’t have anywhere to hang out. We don’t have anywhere to be and we want to play [Dungeons and Dragons],” they said. “And so we started to play DnD and we started to have a potluck dinner together and friendships blossomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew saw that more than just a place to be, their friends needed a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew had already been working to set up communal living spaces as an executive director of the nonprofit District Commons, and was in a good place to help the group rent and buy two houses in San Francisco. The houses are communal, fit in with conditions for people’s probation and parole, and rent is often cheaper than market rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Krauter lives in one of the homes, called Sigil, with five other people, some of whom have been to prison and some who haven’t. He cooks lasagna and empanadas for the house, and calls the opportunity a “life and sanity saver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47786_001_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zarinah Agnew turns a sign that indicates whether the cat that they share is home at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I may not get along with the entire community,” he said, “but the people I do get along with, I care about a whole bunch. They are fantastic, intelligent, fun-to-be-around people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnew lives at the other home, called Template House. It’s a colorful Victorian walk-up on Haight Street. Agnew said when people hear they live with formerly incarcerated people, they get uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when you come here, it’s so cozy and beautiful,” they said. “Dinners are wonderful. Everyone takes care of each other. The wisdoms of this group of people are so extraordinary. I would trust this group of people to raise my child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Template House is a bit of a fixer-upper, but the residents are up for the project. One of the main helpers is resident Eldridge Cruse. Cruse was one of Template’s first residents. He was exonerated under changes to the felony murder rule in 2019, after almost three decades inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS47792_007_SanFrancisco_IntentionalCommunity_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bert Perla (L) and Eldridge Cruse (R) talk in the backyard at Template House in San Francisco on March 12, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every evening, he tries to do some work in the garden. He envisions that in the next year the backyard will have a jacuzzi, a vegetable patch and a study area. It’ll be somewhere for the house cat, BARK, whose name stands for Bad Ass Revolutionary Kitty, to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that I’ve been looking for my whole life,” Cruse said. “We all look for someplace to belong, someplace where we’re wanted, someplace where we’re needed. And this right here, being in this community, this is what I found,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second Life only has places for a dozen people, but efforts are underway across the Bay Area to create similar communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>A state Senate bill that would require all of California's quarter million contractors to carry workers' compensation insurance is moving ahead with strong support from both parties — and backing from regulators, industry and workers groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials and industry leaders say the bill is aimed at closing a loophole in state law. They say thousands of companies lie to regulators by telling them they do not employ anyone when they actually do. That allows them to avoid buying insurance that's crucial to helping workers who get injured on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bill will greatly curb the underground economy,\" Skip Daum, a lobbyist for the the American Subcontractors Association of California, told lawmakers this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are more than 230,000 contractors with active licenses in California, according to the agency that regulates the state's construction industry. The Contractors State License Board says more than half of those firms — 53% — say they are exempt from carrying insurance because they have no employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many contractors are falsely making that claim,\" state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, the bill's author, said at a committee hearing in early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many contractors who claim to be exempt actually have employees, state regulators say. When those workers are injured or killed on the job, that exemption leaves them and their families unprotected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This drives up the cost of workers' compensation insurance for the good actors and puts workers at risk,\" Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those abuses are at the heart of a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780384/employer-in-key-wildfire-gig-economy-trial-from-soberanes-blaze-found-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED stories\u003c/a> on the deaths of bulldozer operators and water tender drivers employed by contractors hired by Cal Fire to help fight wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those cases were the deaths of three heavy equipment operators killed during wildfires in 2016, 2017 and 2018. After their deaths, state officials learned that the contractors who sent them to fight the fires lacked workers' comp insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Veena Dubal, professor, UC Hastings College of the Law\"]'Failure to carry workers' compensation has had devastating impacts for workers (and their families) who are injured on the job.'[/pullquote]Every year the Contractors State License Board issues hundreds of stop-work orders to companies that are found to have employees and an workers' compensation exemption on file with the agency, according to Mike Jamnetski, the board's chief of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that disciplinary action \"has not moved the proverbial needle,\" Jamnetski said at the March 8 hearing before the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractors board does not have enough staff to audit the 123,000 contractors who claim they do not employ people, Jamnetski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd's proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 216\u003c/a>, is sponsored by the state contractors board. It would require all concrete, heating, air conditioning and tree service contractors to buy workers' comp right away. By 2025, all licensed contractors in California would be required to purchase coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faces no apparent opposition in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee passed the bill in a 14-0 vote after members of nine associations representing contractor groups, unions and lawyers who handle workers' comp cases voiced support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11780384,news_11405049,news_11367902 label='Related Coverage']Daum, the lobbyist with the subcontractors association, said contractors who try to hide the fact they have employees and neglect their responsibility to get workers' comp have an unfair advantage over those who follow the rules: Without paying for insurance, their costs are lower, allowing them to make lower bids on project contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill does not require a set level of workers' comp coverage. Currently, about half of California's construction companies that have the benefit have chosen what are called minimum policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many contractors who have not claimed employees in the past are expected to choose such plans, which range from $500 to $5,000 a year, according to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, one of California's leading providers of the benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost range depends on the industry in which the contractor works, how many people they employ and their claims history, the fund's chief risk officer, Ken Van Laar, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we've seen, failure to carry workers' compensation has had devastating impacts for workers (and their families) who are injured on the job,\" said Veena Dubal, a UC Hastings College of the Law professor specializing in employment law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes and contractors do not get workers' comp, the state could suspend their license and they could be charged with a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubal raised concerns that not complying with the potential new rules could lead to criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's really troubling,\" Dubal said. \"Addressing workplace violations through criminal law is a trend that, I'm afraid, will be used to disproportionately impact small business, racial minorities and immigrant contractors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Dubal's concerns, Natalie Watmore, a CSLB representative, noted that the bill does not change the existing criminal penalties for contractors who lack workers' comp. It just expands the existing regulations to more industries and cuts out exemptions for companies that do not claim employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watmore said the agency does not expect to refer a significant number of cases for criminal enforcement. She emphasized that the proposed regulations apply to all contractors regardless of their background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 216 was recently placed in the Senate Committee on Appropriations' suspense file and is expected to face its next hearing in late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, state officials say they plan to make sure contractors are aware of the new rules by posting them on a CSLB \u003ca href=\"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Resources/Newsletters/winter-2021-CLC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newsletter\u003c/a>, industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/media_room/industry_bulletins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bulletins\u003c/a>, social media posts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Media_Room/consumer_education/licensing_workshops.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workshops\u003c/a> for firms to get contractors' licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A state Senate bill that would require all of California's quarter million contractors to carry workers' compensation insurance is moving ahead with strong support from both parties — and backing from regulators, industry and workers groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials and industry leaders say the bill is aimed at closing a loophole in state law. They say thousands of companies lie to regulators by telling them they do not employ anyone when they actually do. That allows them to avoid buying insurance that's crucial to helping workers who get injured on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bill will greatly curb the underground economy,\" Skip Daum, a lobbyist for the the American Subcontractors Association of California, told lawmakers this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are more than 230,000 contractors with active licenses in California, according to the agency that regulates the state's construction industry. The Contractors State License Board says more than half of those firms — 53% — say they are exempt from carrying insurance because they have no employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many contractors are falsely making that claim,\" state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, the bill's author, said at a committee hearing in early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many contractors who claim to be exempt actually have employees, state regulators say. When those workers are injured or killed on the job, that exemption leaves them and their families unprotected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This drives up the cost of workers' compensation insurance for the good actors and puts workers at risk,\" Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Every year the Contractors State License Board issues hundreds of stop-work orders to companies that are found to have employees and an workers' compensation exemption on file with the agency, according to Mike Jamnetski, the board's chief of legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that disciplinary action \"has not moved the proverbial needle,\" Jamnetski said at the March 8 hearing before the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contractors board does not have enough staff to audit the 123,000 contractors who claim they do not employ people, Jamnetski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd's proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 216\u003c/a>, is sponsored by the state contractors board. It would require all concrete, heating, air conditioning and tree service contractors to buy workers' comp right away. By 2025, all licensed contractors in California would be required to purchase coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill faces no apparent opposition in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee passed the bill in a 14-0 vote after members of nine associations representing contractor groups, unions and lawyers who handle workers' comp cases voiced support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Daum, the lobbyist with the subcontractors association, said contractors who try to hide the fact they have employees and neglect their responsibility to get workers' comp have an unfair advantage over those who follow the rules: Without paying for insurance, their costs are lower, allowing them to make lower bids on project contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill does not require a set level of workers' comp coverage. Currently, about half of California's construction companies that have the benefit have chosen what are called minimum policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many contractors who have not claimed employees in the past are expected to choose such plans, which range from $500 to $5,000 a year, according to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, one of California's leading providers of the benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost range depends on the industry in which the contractor works, how many people they employ and their claims history, the fund's chief risk officer, Ken Van Laar, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we've seen, failure to carry workers' compensation has had devastating impacts for workers (and their families) who are injured on the job,\" said Veena Dubal, a UC Hastings College of the Law professor specializing in employment law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill passes and contractors do not get workers' comp, the state could suspend their license and they could be charged with a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubal raised concerns that not complying with the potential new rules could lead to criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's really troubling,\" Dubal said. \"Addressing workplace violations through criminal law is a trend that, I'm afraid, will be used to disproportionately impact small business, racial minorities and immigrant contractors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Dubal's concerns, Natalie Watmore, a CSLB representative, noted that the bill does not change the existing criminal penalties for contractors who lack workers' comp. It just expands the existing regulations to more industries and cuts out exemptions for companies that do not claim employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watmore said the agency does not expect to refer a significant number of cases for criminal enforcement. She emphasized that the proposed regulations apply to all contractors regardless of their background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 216 was recently placed in the Senate Committee on Appropriations' suspense file and is expected to face its next hearing in late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, state officials say they plan to make sure contractors are aware of the new rules by posting them on a CSLB \u003ca href=\"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Resources/Newsletters/winter-2021-CLC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newsletter\u003c/a>, industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/media_room/industry_bulletins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bulletins\u003c/a>, social media posts and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cslb.ca.gov/Media_Room/consumer_education/licensing_workshops.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workshops\u003c/a> for firms to get contractors' licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:05 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco residents living in the city's single room occupancy hotels are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, the city's Department of Public Health announced in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SF_DPH/status/1375188999086637060\">tweet\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon. SRO residents were previously not included under vaccine eligibility guidelines from the state, which nonetheless included residents of congregate settings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SF_DPH/status/1375188999086637060\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes in the wake of criticism from city leaders and SRO managers, who encouraged the city's health department to modify local vaccine priorities to include SRO dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 4 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco's new COVID-19 vaccination priorities aren't helping some of the city's most vulnerable communities, some local leaders say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State vaccination rules that took effect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#eligible\">on March 15 \u003c/a> prioritize people living in congregate settings like homeless shelters. But in a move that's leaving some confused and others outraged, those state rules leave out often-impoverished single room occupancy hotel dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's true people living in SROs do have a single room to a household, offering some COVID-19 protection, they often share kitchens and bathrooms with neighbors outside their household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders and SRO managers are questioning the San Francisco Department of Public Health's interpretation of state health orders regarding congregate settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's inexcusable to me [to leave SROs out of the vaccine priority],\" said Malcolm Yeung, executive director of the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown CDC operates 11 SRO buildings across the Tenderloin neighborhood and Chinatown, home to some of the city's most vulnerable tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been putting people’s lives in danger since day one,\" Yeung said. \"We need to get folks vaccinated in high congregate settings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's guidelines on how localities should distribute COVID-19 vaccines have been reworked a few times since they first debuted – and the current iteration does offer localities some leeway. The California Department of Public Health says local health care providers \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Provider-Bulletin-2-12-21.aspx\">may use their clinical judgement\u003c/a>\" to vaccinate people with high health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in its \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2020-12/COVID-19%20Vaccination%20Plan%20-%20City%20and%20County%20of%20SF.pdf\">vaccination planning document\u003c/a>, San Francisco argues it has control over \"just a portion of the vaccine\" coming to the city, compared to other localities, due to its unique structure as both a city and a county, and because there are so many health care providers in San Francisco not directly under city control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's health leadership at the COVID-19 Command Center say their hands are tied by state mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"According to the State, a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) building and its apartments are considered 'lower risk' and are not included as part of the vaccine eligibility criteria for March 15,\" a spokesperson for the city's COVID-19 Command Center wrote in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That said, we know that many residents of SROs in San Francisco live with chronic illness and/or disability and may be over the age of 65; therefore, they would meet the State’s expanding criteria and are eligible for the vaccine right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_2633-scaled-e1616624730302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A free COVID-19 testing program pioneered by Chinese Hospital aimed to prevent the virus' spread in crowded housing in Chinatown. Seen here, an SRO hotel resident is tested for COVID-19 at Waverly Place. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chinese Hospital)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State guidelines, however, have proved somewhat fungible in San Francisco during the pandemic — the city has at times decided to modify state orders to prioritize other groups in need. San Francisco has looser body mass index requirements for vaccinations, for instance, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-24/californias-vaccine-eligibility-is-expanding-if-you-live-in-the-right-places\">has made people living with HIV locally eligible\u003c/a> for vaccination even though that group is not on the state's list of highest-risk conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are roughly 500 SRO buildings in San Francisco, housing nearly 30,000 San Franciscans, from the Tenderloin to Chinatown and the Mission District among other neighborhoods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsroc.net/s-r-o-hotels-in-san-francisco/#:~:text=demolitions%20and%20conversions%2C%20S.R.O.'s,some%20estimates%20run%20much%20higher\">according to the Central City SRO Collaborative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Jian Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital\"]'I actually walked through the SROs, tears literally came out ... you have an entire floor of 16 or more living on one floor. You have one bathroom, one kitchen. How is it possible to social distance? There's no way.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the city has carved out specific protections to acknowledge the difficulty of quarantining from COVID-19 in SRO buildings, and offered janitorial services, cleaning supplies, face masks, hand sanitizer and toilet paper to SROs. The city also offers alternative housing like hotels to suspected and confirmed COVID-19-positive patients who can't quarantine well enough in SROs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, 1,209 people living in SROs have tested positive for COVID-19, spread across 264 SRO buildings, with 15 deaths as a result of the virus, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Cases-Deaths-in-SROs/j28y-d6d4/\">according to the city's COVID-19 dashboard\u003c/a>. About 400 people living in SROs have stayed at a city-provided isolation and quarantine site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jian Zhang is the CEO of Chinese Hospital, which has served Chinatown since 1925. While she acknowledged there has been a lot done to help SRO residents, she said those were also hard-fought wins by the community to obtain more help from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco's shelter-in-place order first began last year, she toured Chinatown SRO buildings to assess their pandemic vulnerability. Zhang began to imagine the possibility for viral spread in tight living quarters with little opportunity for quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually walked through the SROs, tears literally came out,\" Zhang said. \"You have an entire floor of 16 or more living on one floor. You have one bathroom, one kitchen. How is it possible to social distance? There's no way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwh748tA7A\">PBS NewsHour highlighted that effort\u003c/a> in July. SRO resident Yongfaz Zhu told reporters in Cantonese, through a translator, \"We have little space in here besides the bed. We don't have our own kitchen, we don't have our own restroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhang quickly wrote a grant proposal for free, robust testing in her community, including at SROs. While those efforts aided in preventing large community outbreaks, Zhang said prioritizing a vaccine is still necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody can predict which SRO will have it, or whether we can control it on a timely basis,\" Zhang said. \"Vaccines are the best way to prevent it from happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch PBS NewsHour coverage of the effort by Zhang and others to protect Chinatown from COVID-19 spread:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwh748tA7A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816116/chinatown-housing-group-feeds-vulnerable-sro-tenants-by-reviving-legacy-restaurants\">also organized a free cooked-meal program for SRO tenants\u003c/a> so they wouldn't have to gather in their kitchens and risk spreading COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials have noticed San Francisco health leadership's hesitance to modify local vaccine priorities for SRO dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It should be up to us to define what a congregate setting is in our city,\" said Supervisor Matt Haney. The need is urgent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added, \"If you look at a map, the Tenderloin has the highest case rate over the last 30 days. That's largely because people in this neighborhood live in tighter living environments like SROs that put them at greater risk of exposure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin agreed that the city should prioritize vaccinations for SRO residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think SROs are an incredibly obvious example of congregate living,\" Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't care if the state says we can't give them vaccines, DPH needs to do it,\" he said. \"Because of the state's guidance, California has become the equity laughing stock of the nation [in vaccination], it's time for DPH to take this into their own hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, Peskin said, \"What's Gavin Newsom gonna do, call the police?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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