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"content": "\u003cp>More than a century ago, Berkeley pioneered rules prohibiting affordable, multifamily housing from certain areas, and with it, created a new class of neighborhoods reserved exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s one of a handful of cities in the country, and the latest in California, to challenge those rules as it seeks to tackle its housing affordability crisis and address decades of racial segregation in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing researchers and advocates for low-income residents warn that just allowing more housing in single-family neighborhoods is no panacea. To achieve truly inclusive communities, they say zoning changes have to be coupled with strong renter protections and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Vice Mayor Lori Droste \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/EvWI4yxxfO?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced the legislation\u003c/a> earlier this month to change the city’s zoning rules, and make it easier to build fourplexes throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council last month unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city, becoming the first city in the state to begin the process of removing barriers to small, multifamily housing in all of its residential neighborhoods. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/envision-san-jos-2040-general-plan/general-plan-4-year-review/opportunity-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a> are considering their own proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. In San Francisco, nearly three-quarters of all residential land is devoted to single-family homes and duplexes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it could soon be a policy that touches the entire state. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced a bill last year to allow up to two duplexes in most single-family neighborhoods. It passed both houses of the Legislature, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally ran out of time\u003c/a> before getting the final vote it needed to head to the governor’s desk. It’s back this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices,\" said David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. \"But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley']'It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices ... But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Droste said she felt morally compelled to do away with single-family zoning in Berkeley because of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist origins\u003c/a>. She represents the city's Elmwood neighborhood, which became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first neighborhood in the country\u003c/a>, in 1916, to adopt single-family zoning. The rules prohibit property owners from building more than one home on one lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started out as explicit racist policies to keep Chinese laundromats and African American dance halls out of Berkeley,” Droste told KQED. “And then later, it morphed into redlining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute found that Berkeley has some of the most segregated neighborhoods in Alameda County today. The neighborhoods that first adopted single-family zoning in Berkeley are more than 75% white, while the county as a whole is a little more than 31% white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you increase the percentage of single-families zoning, you really increase the percentage white, and the percentage Latinx or Black goes way down,” said Steve Menendian, director of research at the Othering and Belonging Institute. “So, there is a really strong exclusionary effect by race that's clearly related to single-family zoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1536x1062.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker stands on the roof of a home under construction at a new housing development on Nov. 17, 2016 in San Rafael, California. Despite what seems like a lot of apartments going up in the Bay Area, there are typically more single-family homes permitted each year than multifamily homes in California. \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers say the widespread use of single-family zoning has exacerbated California's housing shortage and contributed to skyrocketing rents and home prices by putting strict limits on what can be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, 82% of all residential land is dedicated solely to single-family homes, leaving just 18% available for duplexes, fourplexes or apartment buildings, \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a survey by the Othering and Belonging Institute\u003c/a>. [aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true not only in sprawling suburbs, but in big cities as well. In San Francisco, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/family-friendly-city/Housing_for_Families_with_Children_Report-011717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-quarters of the land\u003c/a> is restricted to single-family homes and duplexes. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s working on legislation to allow fourplexes on corner lots and within a half-mile from train stations, as a way to increase affordability in the wildly expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't want everybody who works in a school or a shop or who cleans the floors of the hospital, the folks who serve the food in the restaurant ... to all have to be commuting hours to get to their jobs in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “And I think most San Franciscans recognize that that means having more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his colleague on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, disagrees. Preston said merely allowing developers to build more homes on each lot is no guarantee that the homes will actually be affordable to low-wage and blue collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's a fantasy,” Preston said, adding it’s government-subsidized affordable housing that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston, along with other advocates for low-income residents, fear private developers will look first to low-income communities, which have relatively lower property values, to convert single-family homes into fourplexes. And that could displace renters who would be unlikely to afford the new housing, said Tony Roshan Samara, program director of land use and housing for the social justice advocacy organization Urban Habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default in this country is to go to market solutions,” Samara said, “even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.” [aside tag=\"soldout\" label=\"SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Tracy, a project manager for the city of Portland, Oregon, said the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/vol_3_appendix_b_displacement_risk_and_mitigation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looked at this question\u003c/a> when it was considering its own policy to allow fourplexes on most lots throughout the city, which was adopted last August. It found that enacting the zoning change would lower the risk of displacement for low-income renters by up to 28%. In other words, it would help retain low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy said allowing more homes to be built on one lot reduces the number of single-family homes that have to be demolished to make room for more housing, and it increases the amount of options available to renters across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A low-income renter who is displaced from a single-family home may not be able to afford one of the new units built in its stead, Tracy said. But they might be able to find affordable housing elsewhere within the city because there will be more homes available overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more units you allow, the fewer times you need redevelopment to occur,” he said. “You're creating more units at different prices, and that has a cascading effect on the competition for other housing types.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if only a small fraction of the property owners in California converted their single-family homes into duplexes or fourplexes, it would vastly expand the amount of housing available, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Tony Roshan Samara, the director of housing policy for Urban Habitat']'The default in this country is to go to market solutions, even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheer volume of land we have reserved for single-family homes means that we don't need to see too much of it actually turn into four units to actually realize a pretty significant impact on our housing supply,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-an-analysis-of-sb-1120/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tener Center study\u003c/a> that found nearly 6 million properties would be able to take advantage of SB 9, which would allow for up to two duplexes on lots where only one home existed before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill becomes law and just 5% of those property owners converted their single-family homes into duplexes, it would result in nearly 600,000 homes. For context, California cities and counties issued nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/433#:~:text=California%20housing%20permit%20activity%20picked,down%206%20percent%20from%202018.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">111,000 residential building permits in 2019\u003c/a>, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tracy and other city officials who have considered such strategies said it takes years for these kinds of zoning changes to result in building enough housing necessary to actually bring down the cost of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Minneapolis, which approved a policy to allow triplexes across the city in the fall of 2019, there were 42 applications to convert single-family homes into duplexes or triplexes in 2020, said Paul Mogush, the city’s manager of community planning. That’s out of about 3,000 to 5,000 permits for all kinds of housing types, including apartments and single-family homes alike, that are approved in any given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected this to be an incremental change,” Mogush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1536x974.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window July 8, 2009 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Samara said there will still be pressure on low-income renters facing rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of those suffering from housing insecurity are renters,” he said. “So you go there first and stabilize [renters]. That means renter protections: rent control, just cause for eviction protections, a right to organize, protection against landlord harassment, all that stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will help renters in the short term, Samara said, but those protections also have to be coupled with more funding from federal, state and local governments to increase the amount of subsidized affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Portland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/rip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zoning change included an incentive\u003c/a> intended to spur more affordable housing development. Builders have the option to add up to six housing units on a lot, if half are available to people who make 60% of the area median income or below. In 2020, that worked out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020-ami-rents-phb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$55,260 for a family of four\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unlikely that for-profit developers would take advantage of that provision, Tracy said the city heard from a number of nonprofit affordable housing developers who said the policy would help them develop affordable housing in neighborhoods where they hadn’t been able to do that before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard from our affordable housing providers saying, ‘Hey, you know, this helps us stretch our dollars further, provide more units and more places and gives us a sort of leg up on trying to compete for different parcels out in the city,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the proposed legislation would consider allowing developers to build more units in exchange for providing affordable housing to people making 80% of the area median income or below. The legislation also calls for the city to conduct anti-displacement risk analysis before the zoning changes are adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is considering a similar policy to include affordable housing as part of its strategy as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover Wehman-Brown, a spokesperson for East Bay Housing Organizations, said it’s possible to allow more housing to be built while also strengthening tenant protections and advocating for more funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be able to do those things in tandem,” Wehman-Brown said, adding that if that doesn’t happen, “We’ll get it wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Droste said she felt morally compelled to do away with single-family zoning in Berkeley because of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist origins\u003c/a>. She represents the city's Elmwood neighborhood, which became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first neighborhood in the country\u003c/a>, in 1916, to adopt single-family zoning. The rules prohibit property owners from building more than one home on one lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started out as explicit racist policies to keep Chinese laundromats and African American dance halls out of Berkeley,” Droste told KQED. “And then later, it morphed into redlining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute found that Berkeley has some of the most segregated neighborhoods in Alameda County today. The neighborhoods that first adopted single-family zoning in Berkeley are more than 75% white, while the county as a whole is a little more than 31% white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you increase the percentage of single-families zoning, you really increase the percentage white, and the percentage Latinx or Black goes way down,” said Steve Menendian, director of research at the Othering and Belonging Institute. “So, there is a really strong exclusionary effect by race that's clearly related to single-family zoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1536x1062.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker stands on the roof of a home under construction at a new housing development on Nov. 17, 2016 in San Rafael, California. Despite what seems like a lot of apartments going up in the Bay Area, there are typically more single-family homes permitted each year than multifamily homes in California. \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers say the widespread use of single-family zoning has exacerbated California's housing shortage and contributed to skyrocketing rents and home prices by putting strict limits on what can be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, 82% of all residential land is dedicated solely to single-family homes, leaving just 18% available for duplexes, fourplexes or apartment buildings, \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a survey by the Othering and Belonging Institute\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true not only in sprawling suburbs, but in big cities as well. In San Francisco, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/family-friendly-city/Housing_for_Families_with_Children_Report-011717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-quarters of the land\u003c/a> is restricted to single-family homes and duplexes. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s working on legislation to allow fourplexes on corner lots and within a half-mile from train stations, as a way to increase affordability in the wildly expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't want everybody who works in a school or a shop or who cleans the floors of the hospital, the folks who serve the food in the restaurant ... to all have to be commuting hours to get to their jobs in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “And I think most San Franciscans recognize that that means having more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his colleague on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, disagrees. Preston said merely allowing developers to build more homes on each lot is no guarantee that the homes will actually be affordable to low-wage and blue collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's a fantasy,” Preston said, adding it’s government-subsidized affordable housing that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston, along with other advocates for low-income residents, fear private developers will look first to low-income communities, which have relatively lower property values, to convert single-family homes into fourplexes. And that could displace renters who would be unlikely to afford the new housing, said Tony Roshan Samara, program director of land use and housing for the social justice advocacy organization Urban Habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default in this country is to go to market solutions,” Samara said, “even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tips\">Skip to: Tips for hard conversations with roommates\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Living with roommates isn’t always ideal. Especially since you’re usually choosing your roommates out of necessity and not desire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if you didn’t get along with roommates, at least before COVID-19 you’d have a place to \u003cem>go\u003c/em> to get away from them, like work or a coffee shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, those escape routes don’t exist anymore. You’re stuck with people you would have never expected — or even wanted — to get stuck with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This describes my living situation perfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My two roommates and I usually get along fine. When shelter-in-place started back in March 2020, one roommate’s boyfriend moved in indefinitely (and he’s still here) but we made it work. We created a more comprehensive cleaning schedule. And while we would occasionally share a meal, we generally kept to ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the holiday season hit, one roommate wanted to socialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When the Party Doesn’t Stop During COVID-19\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Spanning about four days at the end of December, there were a series of parties in our small apartment of seven to eight unmasked guests each night playing board games and drinking cocktails late into the night. My other roommate and I would stay in our respective rooms until the guests left and it felt safe to come out, but I was starting to get nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I confronted my roommate about the partying and asked her to stop hosting guests. Begrudgingly, she agreed to stop throwing parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the partying \u003cem>didn’t\u003c/em> stop. The very next night, I heard unfamiliar voices in our apartment. It was another party with about five people, throwing darts and drinking cocktails — all unmasked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I confronted my roommate again, but by then it was too late. A few days later, I tested positive for COVID-19. Then my roommate’s boyfriend tested positive. And then my roommate herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>How to Talk to Roommates About COVID-19\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karen Lipney, a mediator at the San Francisco-based conflict resolution center\u003ca href=\"https://communityboards.org/\"> Community Boards\u003c/a>, has been hearing stories like this from tenants and landlords since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of [the disagreements] are about security deposits and things, but most of them are about situations just like you’re describing,” Lipney said.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11825738\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you find yourself in a similar situation to me, what can you do? Here’s Lipney’s advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Get Communicating — and Sharing Your Goals\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the COVID-19 vaccine here, it seems likely that many of us will still be inside for several more months in 2021. And in that time, Lipney believes roommates should be sitting down with each other and making ground rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of ground rules would we like to establish for bringing people into the house?” Lipney suggested considering. “What is everyone’s goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, everyone’s goal could be to “stay safe,” but maybe the goals could be even more specific. For example, \u003cem>my\u003c/em> goal would be to keep my almost-90-year-old grandfather safe during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives in the Bay Area and I want to be available to take care of him. If I make that goal clear to my roommates, we can all work towards solutions that benefit that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Set Some Ground Rules With a House Meeting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipney says a house meeting is the most constructive thing roommates can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to be civil; we’re not going to interrupt each other,” Lipney said. “If we get escalated, we’ll take a breath and we’ll stop.”\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11826988\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we come to agreements, we’ll write them down and we’ll make sure we agree with them,” she said. “And if we need third-party assistance, we all agree that we’re going to find some third-party help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>…and Remember How You Express Yourself Matters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing ground rules, Lipney says a few things are important to keep in mind when phrasing concerns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Use “I” statements, focusing on your emotions and concerns without asserting responsibility or blame to one individual. \u003cem>Example: “I feel really uncomfortable when there are unmasked guests in the apartment, because I fear I will not be able to take care of my aging grandfather if I am exposed to COVID-19.”\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Introduce a safe word that people can use if things get too heated and they need to step away from the discussion. \u003cem>Example: if I say the word “peanut,” I’m getting tense and heated and I need to step away from the conversation to gather myself.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before having a discussion with roommates, make sure everyone is in a place to talk about their concerns. \u003cem>Example: “You’re giving the person permission to say ‘I hear what this is a problem, I’m not in a place to talk about it right now. Can we talk about it at another time?'” Lipney said. Then you should follow up with suggestions for when a good time might be to have that discussion.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask open-ended questions that elicit a narrative. \u003cem>Example: Instead of saying “You look like you’re getting angry” say “How are you feeling?” or “What’s going on for you right now?” That way the person can talk about their emotions, and you can possibly build empathy.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If the Worst Happens, \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Avoid the Blame Game \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is it important to avoid blame? Because it doesn’t really \u003cem>solve\u003c/em> anything, Lipney says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my case, yes: I could blame my roommate for partying and exposing me to COVID-19. But the truth is that I’ll never truly know how I got the coronavirus. And while I’m fairly certain it was from her parties, I don’t have any proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also doesn’t help me fix the problem, other than to provide me with a sense of control in a situation where I have none.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for me and my situation? A few weeks after my roommates and I recovered from COVID-19, my partying roommate decided to throw a birthday party for herself in our apartment — with the same unmasked guests from the holidays. I confronted my roommate with the concerns beforehand, but the party still happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can only control \u003cem>my\u003c/em> actions. So I booked a vacation rental for that weekend, and was able to stay safe and isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for what it’s worth… my roommate offered to pay for the rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is coming for the city's mansions, while also turning up the heat on housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His proposed legislation, announced this weekend, and set to be introduced at the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, would curtail the construction of oversized homes, sometimes nicknamed \"McMansions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land used for such giant homes, Mandelman argues, should go toward creating more units for more people to live in. 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Gavin Newsom signed emergency legislation on Friday to extend California's eviction moratorium through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state can now also use $2.6 billion in federal stimulus money to pay off up to 80% of some tenants' unpaid rent — but only if landlords agree to forgive the remaining 20%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, which Newsom helped negotiate with the state's top lawmakers, is California's first major attempt to clear unpaid rents that have piled up during the pandemic, resulting from millions of people losing their jobs because of government-ordered business closures.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Toni Atkins, state Senate Pro Tempore\"]'We are painfully aware of the plight that California families are facing as they struggle to pay their rent or mortgages at no fault of their own because of the pandemic that we are in.'[/pullquote]“The issue of evictions, the issue of this moment and the economic anxiety that so many people are struggling and suffering through, \u003cem>is the issue\u003c/em>, and we have not lost sight of that,” Newsom said Friday before signing the pair of bills. “This is a significant moment. 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California — to a low of $400 million from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Newsom signed a law that banned tenants from being evicted for not paying their rent during the coronavirus, but only if they paid at least 25% of what they owed after Sept. 1. The move prevented what many feared would be an “eviction tsunami,\" but still required tenants to repay their debts, empowering landlords to take them to court to recoup their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those protections would have expired on Monday. SB 91 extends those protections through at least June 30 — retaining the 25% minimum requirement — while also giving landlords and tenants the opportunity for a clean slate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1355221268891459585\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are painfully aware of the plight that California families are facing as they struggle to pay their rent or mortgages at no fault of their own because of the pandemic that we are in,” said state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego. “So today we help Californians keep a roof over their head and keep their heads above water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom administration officials say California is so far the only state using federal stimulus dollars to entice landlords to forgive debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation goes beyond protections enacted in New York last month that freeze evictions and certain foreclosures for two months, or until May 1 for renters who assert that they've faced hardship from the coronavirus pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Share your pandemic housing story with KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Between 50 and 100 protesters gathered in front of the Santa Clara County Courthouse in San Jose on Wednesday morning, demanding stronger state and local eviction protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Betty Gabaldon, tenant organizer\"]‘Evictions are deadly. They’re telling us to stay home to fight COVID, but how are we going to do it if they are kicking us out?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six demonstrators sat in front of the courthouse doors, their arms linked, to prevent people from entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Torres was among those blocking the doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m tired of seeing families being evicted,” he said, “especially during a pandemic. It’s really just heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, 42, is a tenants’ rights organizer. He says he’s frustrated with loopholes in state and local law that allow evictions to continue during the coronavirus pandemic, despite moratoriums designed to prevent them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courthouse remained closed through most of the morning as the protest continued. After several hours, Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies removed the demonstrators who were blocking the doors, escorting them into the building in zip-tie handcuffs. Deputies then moved the remaining protestors out of the courtyard in front of the courthouse, which resulted in some scrimmages between law enforcement and protestors. Three other people were arrested, the sheriff’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of protestors appeared to be there for legitimate concerns, however there was a small group of individuals who were clearly there to incite violence and violate the Court Order,” Sgt. 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We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>At least 145 of those evictions — the most of any county in the region — took place in Santa Clara County. Tenants’ attorneys say that figure is an undercount, since most tenants leave or get locked out before law enforcement ever gets involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857361 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies clear anti-eviction demonstrators blocking the front doors of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are here to demand from the sheriff no evictions during the pandemic,” said Betty Gabaldon, a tenant organizer. She called on Superior Court Judge Deborah Ryan to “halt all eviction proceedings during the pandemic, and for Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass a stronger eviction moratorium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants\">Assembly Bill 3088\u003c/a>, which prevents tenants impacted by the pandemic from being immediately evicted for non-payment of rent — a protection that expires on Jan. 31. On Monday, Newsom and key legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/lawmakers-propose-extending-eviction-moratorium-until-june-30/\">introduced Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, which extends those protections through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill, like the previous one, requires tenants to continue paying at least 25% of their rent. It also permits evictions for various other reasons, including minor breaches of the lease, nuisance allegations, health and safety violations, and when properties are removed from the rental market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1477px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857359\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1477\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg 1477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1477px) 100vw, 1477px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An anti-eviction protester stands in front of Santa Clara County Superior Court on Jan. 27, 2021, during a demonstration calling for stronger statewide eviction protections. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]Kevin Matthew O’Malley, 58, happened to be at the courthouse on Wednesday to fight his own eviction. He said he had gotten into an argument with his friend, who was letting him stay in an outbuilding on his property, and who now wants him gone. But O’Malley says he has nowhere to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m homeless,” he said. “You’re kicking someone out during coronavirus. That should be a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\">A November study\u003c/a>, still awaiting peer review, by UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, linked the lifting of eviction moratoriums in 27 states to 433,000 new COVID-19 cases and 11,000 deaths. The researchers attributed those cases to an increased spread of the virus, the result of people searching for new housing, doubling up with friends or family, or becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evictions are deadly,” Gabaldon, the tenant organizer, said. “They’re telling us to stay home to fight COVID, but how are we going to do it if they are kicking us out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1539px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1539\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1539w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1539px) 100vw, 1539px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-eviction demonstrators stand with hands raised in front of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021, demanding stronger protections for renters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SB 91 outlines a complex scheme for distributing $2.6 billion in federal stimulus funding for rental assistance. Under the proposal, landlords can receive 80% of unpaid back rent for low-income renters — but only if they agree to permanently forgive the remaining 20% and not pursue eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the landlord doesn’t agree, however, the tenant is on the hook for coming up with 75% of the back rent owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, said he’s concerned about the ability of landlords to opt out of rent relief for their tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The power imbalance between tenants and landlords is real and it’s troubling,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857362\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-5-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tenants’ rights demonstrator is detained and led away by sheriff’s deputies during an anti-eviction protest in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Barulich, a tax attorney who was watching the demonstration from the sidelines, said his hearing had been canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It throws all the people in the courtroom off,” Barulich said. “I get the passion. I just don’t know how effective that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators, however, declared the protest a victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Urban_Habitat/status/1354584387162054664?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED staff writer Molly Solomon contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"share\">\u003c/a>Share Your Story\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEYwbLJZFt6TlGwoOQYPaHZfQhqM_BBj0XlVQuJoa4Po87mg/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six demonstrators sat in front of the courthouse doors, their arms linked, to prevent people from entering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eduardo Torres was among those blocking the doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m tired of seeing families being evicted,” he said, “especially during a pandemic. It’s really just heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, 42, is a tenants’ rights organizer. He says he’s frustrated with loopholes in state and local law that allow evictions to continue during the coronavirus pandemic, despite moratoriums designed to prevent them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courthouse remained closed through most of the morning as the protest continued. After several hours, Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies removed the demonstrators who were blocking the doors, escorting them into the building in zip-tie handcuffs. Deputies then moved the remaining protestors out of the courtyard in front of the courthouse, which resulted in some scrimmages between law enforcement and protestors. Three other people were arrested, the sheriff’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of protestors appeared to be there for legitimate concerns, however there was a small group of individuals who were clearly there to incite violence and violate the Court Order,” Sgt. Michael Low, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1555px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857382 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1555\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg 1555w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-6-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1555px) 100vw, 1555px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in front of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on the morning of Jan. 27, 2021, demanding stronger eviction protections in California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were at least 527 evictions in the Bay Area from the start of the statewide coronavirus lockdown on March 19 through the end of December, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856817/more-than-500-bay-area-residents-have-been-evicted-during-the-pandemic-despite-protections\">data collected by KQED and CalMatters\u003c/a> from sheriffs’ offices in the Bay Area’s nine counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Have you experienced eviction — or had landlord problems — during the pandemic? We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>At least 145 of those evictions — the most of any county in the region — took place in Santa Clara County. Tenants’ attorneys say that figure is an undercount, since most tenants leave or get locked out before law enforcement ever gets involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857361 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies clear anti-eviction demonstrators blocking the front doors of Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose on Jan. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are here to demand from the sheriff no evictions during the pandemic,” said Betty Gabaldon, a tenant organizer. She called on Superior Court Judge Deborah Ryan to “halt all eviction proceedings during the pandemic, and for Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass a stronger eviction moratorium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants\">Assembly Bill 3088\u003c/a>, which prevents tenants impacted by the pandemic from being immediately evicted for non-payment of rent — a protection that expires on Jan. 31. On Monday, Newsom and key legislators \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/lawmakers-propose-extending-eviction-moratorium-until-june-30/\">introduced Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, which extends those protections through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill, like the previous one, requires tenants to continue paying at least 25% of their rent. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Share your pandemic housing story with KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Jean Kendrick stood in the rain outside the duplex she had shared with her disabled son as movers wheeled boxes filled with their belongings onto a truck headed for storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a nightmare,” Kendrick said. “I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second week of December. Kendrick, 70, and her 42-year-old son, Stanley Jackson III, were being evicted from their home in Richmond, even as a deadly surge in coronavirus cases was sweeping through the Bay Area and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jean Kendrick\"]‘It was like a nightmare. I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of a pandemic, on a rainy Sunday morning, we wind up having to move,” Kendrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now spending nearly $900 a week for a room at a nearby Extended Stay America hotel, and Kendrick says she has already depleted most of her savings: “And we don’t know where we’re going to go when we run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick and her son are among at least 527 individuals and families in the Bay Area who were evicted between the start of the statewide coronavirus lockdown, on March 19, and the end of December. That’s according to data from sheriffs’ offices in the Bay Area’s nine counties, collected by KQED and CalMatters through public records requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those 527 evictions, however, represent only a fraction of the total number of people who were forced from their homes during that period. Tenants’ attorneys say many tenants leave or get locked out before sheriffs get involved. But the data does provide insight into who is most vulnerable to evictions and where those evictions are happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-800x351.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1020x448.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1536x674.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most evictions in the Bay Area during that time period — roughly half the total — were in Santa Clara County, with 145, and Contra Costa County, with 135. The largest clusters were in San Jose and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County, where Kendrick lives, also had one of the highest rates of evictions — 100 per 100,000 renter households — according to an analysis of the data by the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley, in partnership with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to some nearby counties: In San Francisco, sheriff’s deputies carried out only 17 evictions during those nine and a half months. And in Alameda County, only eight were carried out, the lowest in the region. Tenants’ advocates attribute the low numbers to the tenant protections those counties put in place during the pandemic, which are among the strongest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Have you experienced eviction — or had landlord problems — during the pandemic? We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>”The low level of evictions in San Francisco and Oakland, for example, is encouraging that these interventions actually work,” said Tim Thomas, research director for the Urban Displacement Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also points to ongoing racial disparities in evictions. Thomas and his colleagues estimate that Black renters, like Kendrick, were more than twice as likely to be evicted, as compared to white renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To predict the race of the person evicted, Thomas used an \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/data-and-methods.html\">algorithm that combines last names with neighborhood demographics\u003c/a>, and applied it to the 335 eviction records that included names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the findings were in keeping with earlier research in \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/index.html\">Seattle\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/maryland/report/baltimore.html\"> Baltimore\u003c/a> that showed higher rates of eviction for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evictions really are a civil rights issue,” he said. “It seems to fall on the backs of Black households more than any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following map was produced by Alex Ramiller and Tim Thomas of UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project, based on their analysis of eviction data collected by KQED and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://urban-displacement.github.io/eviction_maps/bay_area/pandemic_evictions.html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also shows that evictions have been happening in neighborhoods that are home to some of California’s most vulnerable renters. Those neighborhoods have higher poverty rates and higher levels of rent burden — meaning renters pay more than a third of their income toward rent — compared to neighborhoods where there were no evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters, many of whom were already struggling to afford the Bay Area’s high housing costs, have also been particularly \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/covid-19-and-californias-vulnerable-renters/\">hard hit by job losses from the pandemic\u003c/a>, because they tend to work in industries that have been shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Loopholes in the Law\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as evictions have continued, tenants’ attorneys across the Bay Area say rates have been well below what they normally see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the state has had some form of eviction protection in place since April, and some cities and counties have added stronger rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judicial Council, which oversees California courts, put a stop to most eviction cases between April and August. The state Legislature then passed Assembly Bill 3088, which prevents people from being evicted for non-payment of rent, at least until the end of January. Lawmakers on Monday introduced new legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, to extend the moratorium through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both pieces of legislation, tenants have to demonstrate that they’ve lost income due to the pandemic and must continue to pay at least 25% of their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pre-pandemic eviction numbers are not widely available, but in Contra Costa County, for example,\u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/docs/2020/BOS/20200414_1601/41623_Sheriff%27s%20Department%20Eviction%20Report.pdf\"> the Sheriff’s Office reported\u003c/a> enforcing roughly 30 evictions per week in the 18 months prior to the pandemic, as compared to an average of three per week, between March 19 and the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many landlords argue that even in a pandemic, they still need the option to evict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--800x319.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1020x406.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--160x64.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1536x612.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments and the U.S. Census Bureau. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenny Zhao owns three properties in San Jose and says she doesn’t want to evict any of her tenants. But her husband recently lost his job, and she doesn’t know how long she can keep paying the mortgage on one of her properties, where her tenants are already three months behind on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I don’t pay, I will lose my house,” Zhao said. “Whether I sell or foreclose, that means the tenant will eventually lose their home anyway, and then where do they go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ advocates, however, argue that nobody should be evicted while the state continues to restrict various business operations and activities, because displacement can threaten not only the health of individuals being evicted, but the entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has long shown that evictions lead to higher rates of physical and mental\u003ca href=\"https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mdesmond/files/desmondkimbro.evictions.fallout.sf2015_2.pdf\"> health problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]But during a global pandemic, they can also be deadly.\u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\"> A November study\u003c/a> by UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, that’s still awaiting peer review, linked the lifting of eviction moratoriums in 27 states to 433,000 new COVID-19 cases and 11,000 deaths. The researchers attributed those cases to an increased spread of the virus, as a result of people searching for new housing, doubling up with friends or family, or becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is one of the most fundamental things to stay healthy and stay alive,” said Kathryn Leifheit, a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and lead researcher on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why advocates in many counties are arguing for even stronger eviction protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moratoriums were good, but they haven’t gone far enough,” said Nadia Aziz, a housing attorney for the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, a legal services nonprofit. “There are loopholes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords in many counties can still evict tenants for a number of reasons, including things like owing back rent from before the pandemic started, submitting late paperwork declaring income loss or for minor breaches of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from sheriffs’ offices showing 527 lockouts in the Bay Area didn’t include reasons for the evictions and may include cases involving a health and safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aziz said nuisance claims made up a small portion of all evictions prior to the pandemic, but have become more common, in part because it’s one of the few ways property managers can now remove tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s things that are on the margins or could be something that the tenant has always done, but the landlord never really enforced it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the exception of San Francisco and Alameda counties, eviction moratoriums also don’t cover renters who were issued eviction notices prior to the pandemic and were waiting on a court date or for sheriff’s deputies to lock them out. That includes families like Jean Kendrick and her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46473_001_KQED_Richmond_Eviction_12222020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Kendrick and her son Stanley at Extended Stay America in Richmond, where they are renting a room following their eviction in December. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She received her first eviction notice in November 2019, after her son got into an argument with the property manager. Their case was delayed during the start of the lockdown, but resumed when courts started reopening. She got her final eviction notice last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are surviving off of Social Security and disability checks, but fear they could soon end up living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about that all the time,” said Kendrick, who has diabetes and hypertension — two underlying health conditions that put her at higher risk if she were to contract COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also needs a CPAP machine to help her breathe because of sleep apnea. And her son requires daily access to reliable electricity to charge his wheelchair.\u003cbr>\n“If we live on the street,” she said, “we’re dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gaps in Protection\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The varying strengths of local eviction moratoriums are one of the main reasons for the wide disparities in evictions across counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is what your county stepped up and did,” said Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, which offers legal services to tenants in Alameda and parts of Contra Costa counties.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nadia Aziz, housing attorney\"]‘The moratoriums were good, but they haven’t gone far enough. There are loopholes.’[/pullquote]As compared to the strict moratoriums in Alameda County and San Francisco, rules in counties like Contra Costa are more narrowly focused on protecting renters who have fallen behind on paying rent during the pandemic and can prove a financial loss because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda and San Francisco also have well-established tenants’ rights organizations that provide free legal support, including a right to counsel in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Contra Costa County supervisors voted to approve spending federal funding on emergency rental assistance, including $600,000 for tenant counseling and legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still need to do better,” said Diane Burgis, a Contra Costa County supervisor whose district includes Brentwood, Oakley and parts of Antioch, where evictions rates are comparatively high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said it can be difficult to reach people who are vulnerable to eviction, because the East Contra Costa area has fewer nonprofit outreach services than other parts of the Bay Area. Households who are low-income or are non-English speakers can be particularly vulnerable, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s probably some landlords that are taking advantage of certain ways to evict people who don’t have the resources or the understanding, or feel confident that they can get the help or know where to look,” Burgis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looming Debt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as moratoriums have protected many from eviction, there is mounting concern about the debt that has been building up, and the impact on both renters and landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.philadelphiafed.org/community-development/housing-and-neighborhoods/household-rental-debt-during-covid-19\">Multiple\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/103532/averting-an-eviction-crisis.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> estimate that renters in California could owe anywhere from \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312\">$400 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/research/analyses/COVID-19-evictions-california\">$3.6 billion\u003c/a> in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 91 — the bill to extend California’s eviction moratorium until the end of June — also calls for the distribution of $2.6 billion in federal relief funding for rental assistance. Landlords could receive 80% of the back rent owed by low-income renters, but only if they agree to permanently forgive the remaining amount, and not pursue eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has some tenants’ advocates worried that many people will be left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that landlords get to choose, and then if they decide not to do it, tenants are basically on the hook,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, a tenants’ attorney and member of the Berkeley Rent Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rent relief would be a big help for small landlords like Jenny Zhao and her tenants, who have lost work and owe her thousands of dollars in back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that the process to apply for rent forgiveness is simple enough for landlords and tenants to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It needs to be easy,” Zhao said. “Some of my tenants don’t speak good English and probably won’t have the ability to complete it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers approve the plan, the governor’s office hopes to begin distributing the aid by March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the debt relief won’t help renters like Jean Kendrick, who have already been evicted. While staying in the hotel with her son, she has been searching for another, more affordable housing option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she hasn’t had any luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"share\">\u003c/a>Share Your Story\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEYwbLJZFt6TlGwoOQYPaHZfQhqM_BBj0XlVQuJoa4Po87mg/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of a pandemic, on a rainy Sunday morning, we wind up having to move,” Kendrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now spending nearly $900 a week for a room at a nearby Extended Stay America hotel, and Kendrick says she has already depleted most of her savings: “And we don’t know where we’re going to go when we run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick and her son are among at least 527 individuals and families in the Bay Area who were evicted between the start of the statewide coronavirus lockdown, on March 19, and the end of December. That’s according to data from sheriffs’ offices in the Bay Area’s nine counties, collected by KQED and CalMatters through public records requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those 527 evictions, however, represent only a fraction of the total number of people who were forced from their homes during that period. Tenants’ attorneys say many tenants leave or get locked out before sheriffs get involved. But the data does provide insight into who is most vulnerable to evictions and where those evictions are happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-800x351.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1020x448.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-160x70.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/6XLdI-total-reported-evictions-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-1-1536x674.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most evictions in the Bay Area during that time period — roughly half the total — were in Santa Clara County, with 145, and Contra Costa County, with 135. The largest clusters were in San Jose and Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County, where Kendrick lives, also had one of the highest rates of evictions — 100 per 100,000 renter households — according to an analysis of the data by the Urban Displacement Project at UC Berkeley, in partnership with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark contrast to some nearby counties: In San Francisco, sheriff’s deputies carried out only 17 evictions during those nine and a half months. And in Alameda County, only eight were carried out, the lowest in the region. Tenants’ advocates attribute the low numbers to the tenant protections those counties put in place during the pandemic, which are among the strongest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Have you experienced eviction — or had landlord problems — during the pandemic? We want to hear your story.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>”The low level of evictions in San Francisco and Oakland, for example, is encouraging that these interventions actually work,” said Tim Thomas, research director for the Urban Displacement Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also points to ongoing racial disparities in evictions. Thomas and his colleagues estimate that Black renters, like Kendrick, were more than twice as likely to be evicted, as compared to white renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To predict the race of the person evicted, Thomas used an \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/data-and-methods.html\">algorithm that combines last names with neighborhood demographics\u003c/a>, and applied it to the 335 eviction records that included names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the findings were in keeping with earlier research in \u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/washington/index.html\">Seattle\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://evictions.study/maryland/report/baltimore.html\"> Baltimore\u003c/a> that showed higher rates of eviction for Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Evictions really are a civil rights issue,” he said. “It seems to fall on the backs of Black households more than any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following map was produced by Alex Ramiller and Tim Thomas of UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project, based on their analysis of eviction data collected by KQED and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://urban-displacement.github.io/eviction_maps/bay_area/pandemic_evictions.html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also shows that evictions have been happening in neighborhoods that are home to some of California’s most vulnerable renters. Those neighborhoods have higher poverty rates and higher levels of rent burden — meaning renters pay more than a third of their income toward rent — compared to neighborhoods where there were no evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters, many of whom were already struggling to afford the Bay Area’s high housing costs, have also been particularly \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/covid-19-and-californias-vulnerable-renters/\">hard hit by job losses from the pandemic\u003c/a>, because they tend to work in industries that have been shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Loopholes in the Law\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even as evictions have continued, tenants’ attorneys across the Bay Area say rates have been well below what they normally see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the state has had some form of eviction protection in place since April, and some cities and counties have added stronger rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Judicial Council, which oversees California courts, put a stop to most eviction cases between April and August. The state Legislature then passed Assembly Bill 3088, which prevents people from being evicted for non-payment of rent, at least until the end of January. Lawmakers on Monday introduced new legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\">Senate Bill 91\u003c/a>, to extend the moratorium through the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both pieces of legislation, tenants have to demonstrate that they’ve lost income due to the pandemic and must continue to pay at least 25% of their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pre-pandemic eviction numbers are not widely available, but in Contra Costa County, for example,\u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/docs/2020/BOS/20200414_1601/41623_Sheriff%27s%20Department%20Eviction%20Report.pdf\"> the Sheriff’s Office reported\u003c/a> enforcing roughly 30 evictions per week in the 18 months prior to the pandemic, as compared to an average of three per week, between March 19 and the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many landlords argue that even in a pandemic, they still need the option to evict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11857369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br-.png 1640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--800x319.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1020x406.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--160x64.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ED2Ud-evictions-per-100-000-renter-households-march-19-dec-31-2020-br-br--1536x612.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data from county sheriffs’ departments and the U.S. Census Bureau. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenny Zhao owns three properties in San Jose and says she doesn’t want to evict any of her tenants. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, Marquisse Moore lost his job, and it didn’t take long before he lost his home, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working as a forklift driver at a tortilla factory before being laid off in early April. New jobs were hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he realized he wouldn’t be able to continue paying rent on his Mountain View apartment, he told his landlord he would be moving out. For the next six months, he and his 6-year-old daughter bounced between family and friends’ couches. Sometimes he slept in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made sure my daughter always had a roof over her head, even if I didn’t,” he said. “It was a very big struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a leap of faith, he applied to a two-bedroom apartment in Oakland’s Fruitvale District in December. And to his surprise, the landlord was interested in renting to him even though he wasn’t working yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore had just been offered a job at Alameda Health Systems, working in its COVID-19 ward. But there was still another problem: He couldn’t afford the security deposit and first month’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the landlord connected him to a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a>. Since 2018, it has provided more than $11.5 million in direct financial assistance and legal counsel to nearly 5,000 households. Most of the money — 85% — comes from philanthropic donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It actually had me in tears,” Moore said, after finding out the program would foot the bill to help him move in. “It meant everything to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46547_008_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore looks out the window at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the program is simple, said Zoë Polk, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Community Law Center\u003c/a>: “Stop homelessness before it happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program began in 2018 as a three-year pilot program and is a partnership between the city of Oakland and local nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Zoë Polk, executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center\"]‘It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge even before COVID. And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in a place where they have been able to keep their family together.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people need legal support to fight an eviction, Polk said. That’s where the law center comes in. Others, like Moore, need direct rental assistance or housing. And for that, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a> intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some people need other kinds of help, Polk said, such as connecting to employment or health services. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a> takes care of that piece of the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be targeting people so they can stay where they currently are, stay in their homes,” Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed launched in response to a dramatic rise in both rents and homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for an apartment more than doubled between 2010 and 2019, from $1,396 to $2,905, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the apartment listing service RENTCafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing homelessness on any given night increased 85% between 2015 and 2019, growing from 2,191 people to 4,071, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge then even before COVID,” Polk said. “And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in place, where they have a place that they’re comfortable in, a place where they have been able to keep their family together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-wage workers and people of color who were already more at risk of eviction and homelessness have only seen those risks grow as a result of the pandemic, said Mary Cunningham, head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center\u003c/a> at the Urban Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/looming-eviction-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a study\u003c/a> showing that across the country, 9.5 million renters reported problems paying rent in September, including nearly 17% of Black and 23% of Latino renters, compared to 8% of white renters. Black and Latino renters were also four times more likely to have received an eviction notice from their landlords since the beginning of March last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mary Cunningham, vice president, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute\"]‘We know that Black and Latino households have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 … So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities.’[/pullquote]In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']The latest stimulus bill included $25 billion in federal rent relief, $2.6 billion of which was allocated to California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/06/governor-newsom-announces-golden-state-stimulus-a-budget-proposal-to-help-low-income-californians-through-600-rapid-cash-payments-and-calls-for-extension-of-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed urgency\u003c/a> in distributing that money quickly to low-income renters, affordable housing providers and small property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said it’s critical that local governments target that money to the lowest-income residents who have also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Black and Latino households, because they’re essential workers, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 both as a public health crisis and as an economic crisis,” she said. “So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marquisse Moore, the opportunity to get into stable housing and get back on his feet has been humbling, he said. The past six months of moving between friends’ and family’s houses took a toll on his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that she has her own place, she’s at peace,” Moore said. “She’s just enjoying being a kid and not having to worry about what’s going on around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Get Help Via Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/howtogethelp\">advises Oakland residents\u003c/a> who have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income and are experiencing a housing crisis to contact any of the three collaborative organizations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services (BACS)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-899-9289\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)\u003c/a>: For legal representation: 510-548-4040 (ask for housing intake)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay (CCEB)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-768-3100\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people need legal support to fight an eviction, Polk said. That’s where the law center comes in. Others, like Moore, need direct rental assistance or housing. And for that, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a> intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some people need other kinds of help, Polk said, such as connecting to employment or health services. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a> takes care of that piece of the puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be targeting people so they can stay where they currently are, stay in their homes,” Polk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed launched in response to a dramatic rise in both rents and homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for an apartment more than doubled between 2010 and 2019, from $1,396 to $2,905, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/renting-america-housing-changed-past-decade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the apartment listing service RENTCafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing homelessness on any given night increased 85% between 2015 and 2019, growing from 2,191 people to 4,071, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biennial survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard to remember, but our homelessness crisis was huge then even before COVID,” Polk said. “And, in light of COVID, it became even more imperative that people are able to stay in place, where they have a place that they’re comfortable in, a place where they have been able to keep their family together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In Oakland, Black residents make up 24% of the population but account for \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went into the pandemic with a pretty big, longstanding affordable housing crisis,” Cunningham said. “And now the pandemic has added additional stress and added more people to the pool of those who need help and who are at risk of eviction and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real public health concern\u003c/a> that housing instability can lead to higher coronavirus infections and deaths as people who lose their housing double up with friends or family or become homeless, Cunningham said. But even without the pandemic, homelessness is just expensive for taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Alliance to End Homelessness \u003ca href=\"http://naeh.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-Savings-from-PSH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that a person who has experienced homelessness longer than a year costs taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Those costs include emergency shelter, visits to the emergency room and interactions with police. Comparatively, a year of housing with supportive services on-site costs an average of $12,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing someone from losing their housing is even more cost-effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed provided each household it helped with an average of $2,149 in direct rental assistance in the latter half of 2019. That figure grew to an average of $3,309 between July and September of last year, according to The San Francisco Foundation, which administers the program on behalf of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Marquisse Moore smiles inside his home\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46557_012_Oakland_KeepOaklandHoused_01102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquisse Moore at his home in Oakland on Jan. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Polk says the third year of the pilot program will be pivotal in preventing an onslaught of evictions as moratoriums expire and months of back rent come due. The program still has $8 million available to assist residents this year. And Polk said that money will be crucial since the unemployment rate in California is still high at around 8%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the U.S. Department of Labor\u003c/a> – and many people remain out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very far away from universally people getting a vaccine,” Polk said. “So from our standpoint, Keep Oakland Housed has a lot of work to do in this next year making sure that we are not putting the cart before the horse in terms of trying to evict people while it’s still not safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The latest stimulus bill included $25 billion in federal rent relief, $2.6 billion of which was allocated to California. Gov. Gavin Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/01/06/governor-newsom-announces-golden-state-stimulus-a-budget-proposal-to-help-low-income-californians-through-600-rapid-cash-payments-and-calls-for-extension-of-eviction-moratorium/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed urgency\u003c/a> in distributing that money quickly to low-income renters, affordable housing providers and small property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said it’s critical that local governments target that money to the lowest-income residents who have also been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that Black and Latino households, because they’re essential workers, have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 both as a public health crisis and as an economic crisis,” she said. “So we need to make sure that rental assistance is addressing past housing inequities, but is also trying to provide assistance in a targeted way so we can address racial inequities moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Marquisse Moore, the opportunity to get into stable housing and get back on his feet has been humbling, he said. The past six months of moving between friends’ and family’s houses took a toll on his daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that she has her own place, she’s at peace,” Moore said. “She’s just enjoying being a kid and not having to worry about what’s going on around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How to Get Help Via Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Keep Oakland Housed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org/howtogethelp\">advises Oakland residents\u003c/a> who have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income and are experiencing a housing crisis to contact any of the three collaborative organizations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services (BACS)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-899-9289\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebclc.org/\">East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)\u003c/a>: For legal representation: 510-548-4040 (ask for housing intake)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay (CCEB)\u003c/a>: For emergency financial assistance and supportive services: 510-768-3100\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Local resources available to some Bay Area tenants who need help paying rent:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Santa Clara County: Contact Sacred Heart Community Services at (408) 926-8885 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org\">housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>San Francisco: Contact the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">Give2SF housing program \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>East Bay: Contact Catholic Charities at 510-768-3100; additional resources online \u003ca href=\"http://ebho.org/resources/covid19-get-support/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Efren Zavala and his wife, Maria Huerta, were high school sweethearts. When they were teens, the two lived in neighboring apartments in San Jose, and would catch glimpses of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finally meeting and falling in love, Zavala, now 26, moved into the three-bedroom apartment that Huerta, 24, had shared with her mom. The couple is now raising two young children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home\"]‘We had 32,000 families come to us for help in the first (few months) that we had this relief effort open. It was an avalanche like we have never seen before.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of 2020, they were on the cusp of the American dream: finally saving up enough money to buy a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was before the pandemic. In March, Zavala’s employer, a catering company, told its workers to stay home. The company continued to pay him, but it was unclear how long that would last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple was forced to consider using their savings — which they had reserved as the down payment for their first home — to keep up with rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, in the early weeks of the pandemic, Zavala and Huerta sat alone in their living room and put on “World War Z,” an apropos Brad Pitt action flick about a lethal virus. Zavala paused the movie. They held hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta was nervous about using their savings, but Zavala said he had done the math and thought it was their best choice to stay housed through the end of the year if he was unable to find new work. Otherwise, they would likely have to leave California and move in with his family in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put the movie back on, and there was a silent moment there. We didn’t know it was going to get more rough, you know, than we expected,” Zavala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala’s employer laid him off in June, and their additional savings — the nest egg — ran out by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Silicon Valley Strong Fund came in to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund, a public-private partnership run by the nonprofit groups Destination: Home and Sacred Heart Community Service, has covered rent and other survival funding for some 15,000 other tenants in Santa Clara County since the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund paid 100% of every recipients’ back rent owed from March to August, and 60% from September to January. Zavala and Huerta, whose rent is $2,600 a month, received that crucial crutch when they needed it most — from November to January — as well as an additional $2,500 in direct financial assistance to cover food and other bills — enough to keep them housed in their apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11855155 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEO Jennifer Loving, Chief Program Officer Chad Bojorquez and Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados, of Destination: Home, at work in their San Jose office on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fund has raised a staggering $43 million since March. About half of that is from the city of San Jose, Santa Clara County and the federal government’s first relief package. The other half comes from a small army of prominent Silicon Valley firms like Cisco, Google, Facebook and Qatalyst Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the fund has given out about $31 million in small grants, according to Destination: Home. But that just scratches the surface of the need in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had 32,000 families come to us for help in the first (few months) that we had this relief effort open. It was an avalanche like we have never seen before,” said Jennifer Loving, Destination: Home’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the people who knew about the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 750,000 people in California are “not current” on their rent or mortgage and face eviction or foreclosure “in the next two months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=EVR&s_state=00006&mapAreaSelector=st&barChartAreaSelector=st&s_metro=\">according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help bridge that gap, a growing number of like-minded Bay Area funds have emerged during the pandemic, and most have been similarly inundated with requests. They include San Francisco’s Give2SF, which secured $30 million for small-business support, tenant rental assistance and food security — but has \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">already received more applications\u003c/a> than it has funding for. Other nonprofit groups, like the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Compass Family Services — both in San Francisco — have created their own smaller funds that have also been quickly depleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We May Never Be Able to Raise Enough’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Loving said many of the families getting help may not qualify for unemployment or government stimulus aid. These are the Black or brown families working under-the-table jobs, often for cash, or those who are undocumented and wary of government aid for fear of being identified, she said.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"evictions\"]One \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">Santa Clara County \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">report\u003c/a> from July warns that roughly 40,000 county residents could face eviction when protections expire, greatly increasing the homeless population in what it describes as a potential “eviction time bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already knew why people were becoming homeless: not being able to pay the rent,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the funding became available, San Jose \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-city-council-eviction-moratorium-extension/\">on March 17\u003c/a> passed city rental protections to keep tenants from being evicted. Mayor Sam Liccardo said the protections and funding work hand in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jen came to me really before we saw much of this pandemic in the news, and we both agreed something very bad was going to be happening soon and we needed to do something to get in front of it,” Liccardo told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is we may never be able to raise enough money to address the need, but at least for, you know, a few hundred or thousand families, we could do something to help them stay afloat,” he said, noting that the city has contributed to the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund has gone into two pots: about two-thirds to direct cash assistance for people on the poverty line who have been hardest hit in the pandemic, and the other third to direct rental relief, paid to landlords of struggling tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That direct rent relief started as a response to Assembly Bill 3088, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, which now requires tenants to pay 25% of back rent through the end of January to be protected from eviction. To ensure that rent got paid, the fund compensated landlords directly and kept the receipts as proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cash aid component of the fund, by contrast, was more open-ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t say we know that the money that we’re raising is actually going to pay back rent. It could be paying for any of lots of necessities,” Liccardo said, pointing to things like food or medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mobilizing a Nonprofit Army\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In order to reach the people who needed help most, and get money to them as quickly as possible, Destination: Home recruited an army of about 70 nonprofits with ties to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of them had experience with housing, and that presented another challenge. Some, like Latinas Contra Cancer, which is geared toward medical care access, had to quickly get its small staff of five part timers up to speed on things they knew little about, like housing legalese and the strict regulations for disbursing rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a steep learning curve,” said Darcie Green, the group’s CEO. “But when you see this need, it’s not even an option. Like, you’re just like, this is where we have to go. This is what our clients need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcie Green, CEO of Latinas Contra Cancer, in San Jose on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the learning curve was worth it, Loving said. Those groups know the people who are losing their jobs, they know what they need, and they have their trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinas Contra Cancer, which normally runs bilingual Spanish-English awareness campaigns for the Latino community and works to increase access to cancer treatment, usually serves about 1,500 people across Santa Clara County, often in its most impoverished areas. The group served far fewer clients in 2020, Green said, but devoted more hours of work per person. That’s partly because many people have needed more help for longer stretches of time due to difficulties brought on by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how they met Irma Rodriguez Garcia, a restaurant worker taking care of her children along with her brother, who has throat cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez Garcia, who was laid off from her job during the pandemic, is raising three of her four children on her own in Mountain View. She now commutes to San Jose for a new job with fewer hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group helped arrange to pay Rodriguez Garcia’s October and November rent, allowing her to save up for January’s rent, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the pandemic hit, I didn’t know how I was going to pay for rent and how was I going to keep my family together and secure in one place,” she said in Spanish, through a translator. “And with this program, I’m so grateful that at least I’m able to pay my rent, because whatever I was earning without this help was basically just for food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While eviction protections alone would have kept her family housed, she would still owe back rent when those protections expired, putting her family in a precarious financial situation.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nKQED first interviewed Rodriguez Garcia just before Christmas. In January, she tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, her brother with cancer no longer has health insurance. And she’s also concerned that her 24-year-old son, who suffers from schizophrenia, will lose access to his medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very sad and worried that I was positive for COVID-19,” she said. “I ask God to give me a lot of strength that all this happened and soon that we are well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Rodriguez said she is able to quarantine at home thanks to the rental assistance from the fund, as well as local and state rental protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those protections, though, are set to expire in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Lessons for a Statewide Moratorium\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chiu recently introduced two bills to renew those statewide protections for millions of tenants like Garcia Rodriguez who have lost full-time work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sliccardo/status/1336776264363864064\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Liccardo and Loving think the state should also consider pairing eviction protections with funding for renters and landlords, a proposition touched on by Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854455/newsom-adds-billions-for-covid-19-relief-k-12-schools-in-new-budget\">budget proposal\u003c/a> would allow for one-time $600 payments to low-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“David Chiu’s bill is very important,” Liccardo said, “and needs to be extended beyond the point this pandemic will take us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the need may surpass the state’s ability to help, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take a much larger solution, likely at the federal level,” Liccardo said. “And until we get that, we’re going to do everything we can just to help folks hang on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to clarify a statement by Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving — that 32,000 recipients reached out in a matter of months, not days. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Local resources available to some Bay Area tenants who need help paying rent:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Santa Clara County: Contact Sacred Heart Community Services at (408) 926-8885 or \u003ca href=\"mailto:housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org\">housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>San Francisco: Contact the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">Give2SF housing program \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>East Bay: Contact Catholic Charities at 510-768-3100; additional resources online \u003ca href=\"http://ebho.org/resources/covid19-get-support/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Efren Zavala and his wife, Maria Huerta, were high school sweethearts. When they were teens, the two lived in neighboring apartments in San Jose, and would catch glimpses of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finally meeting and falling in love, Zavala, now 26, moved into the three-bedroom apartment that Huerta, 24, had shared with her mom. The couple is now raising two young children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of 2020, they were on the cusp of the American dream: finally saving up enough money to buy a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was before the pandemic. In March, Zavala’s employer, a catering company, told its workers to stay home. The company continued to pay him, but it was unclear how long that would last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple was forced to consider using their savings — which they had reserved as the down payment for their first home — to keep up with rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, in the early weeks of the pandemic, Zavala and Huerta sat alone in their living room and put on “World War Z,” an apropos Brad Pitt action flick about a lethal virus. Zavala paused the movie. They held hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta was nervous about using their savings, but Zavala said he had done the math and thought it was their best choice to stay housed through the end of the year if he was unable to find new work. Otherwise, they would likely have to leave California and move in with his family in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put the movie back on, and there was a silent moment there. We didn’t know it was going to get more rough, you know, than we expected,” Zavala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala’s employer laid him off in June, and their additional savings — the nest egg — ran out by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the Silicon Valley Strong Fund came in to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund, a public-private partnership run by the nonprofit groups Destination: Home and Sacred Heart Community Service, has covered rent and other survival funding for some 15,000 other tenants in Santa Clara County since the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund paid 100% of every recipients’ back rent owed from March to August, and 60% from September to January. Zavala and Huerta, whose rent is $2,600 a month, received that crucial crutch when they needed it most — from November to January — as well as an additional $2,500 in direct financial assistance to cover food and other bills — enough to keep them housed in their apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11855155 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46561_003_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEO Jennifer Loving, Chief Program Officer Chad Bojorquez and Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados, of Destination: Home, at work in their San Jose office on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fund has raised a staggering $43 million since March. About half of that is from the city of San Jose, Santa Clara County and the federal government’s first relief package. The other half comes from a small army of prominent Silicon Valley firms like Cisco, Google, Facebook and Qatalyst Partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, the fund has given out about $31 million in small grants, according to Destination: Home. But that just scratches the surface of the need in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had 32,000 families come to us for help in the first (few months) that we had this relief effort open. It was an avalanche like we have never seen before,” said Jennifer Loving, Destination: Home’s CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those are just the people who knew about the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, more than 750,000 people in California are “not current” on their rent or mortgage and face eviction or foreclosure “in the next two months,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=EVR&s_state=00006&mapAreaSelector=st&barChartAreaSelector=st&s_metro=\">according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help bridge that gap, a growing number of like-minded Bay Area funds have emerged during the pandemic, and most have been similarly inundated with requests. They include San Francisco’s Give2SF, which secured $30 million for small-business support, tenant rental assistance and food security — but has \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/update-covid-19-housing-stabilization-program\">already received more applications\u003c/a> than it has funding for. Other nonprofit groups, like the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Compass Family Services — both in San Francisco — have created their own smaller funds that have also been quickly depleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We May Never Be Able to Raise Enough’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Loving said many of the families getting help may not qualify for unemployment or government stimulus aid. These are the Black or brown families working under-the-table jobs, often for cash, or those who are undocumented and wary of government aid for fear of being identified, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">Santa Clara County \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829952/eviction-time-bomb-over-40000-santa-clara-county-renters-could-soon-face-eviction-new-report-warns#:~:text='Eviction%20Time%20Bomb'%3A%20Over,Face%20Eviction%2C%20New%20Report%20Warns&text=More%20than%2040%2C000%20tenants%20in,expire%2C%20a%20new%20report%20warns.\">report\u003c/a> from July warns that roughly 40,000 county residents could face eviction when protections expire, greatly increasing the homeless population in what it describes as a potential “eviction time bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already knew why people were becoming homeless: not being able to pay the rent,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the funding became available, San Jose \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-city-council-eviction-moratorium-extension/\">on March 17\u003c/a> passed city rental protections to keep tenants from being evicted. Mayor Sam Liccardo said the protections and funding work hand in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jen came to me really before we saw much of this pandemic in the news, and we both agreed something very bad was going to be happening soon and we needed to do something to get in front of it,” Liccardo told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is we may never be able to raise enough money to address the need, but at least for, you know, a few hundred or thousand families, we could do something to help them stay afloat,” he said, noting that the city has contributed to the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fund has gone into two pots: about two-thirds to direct cash assistance for people on the poverty line who have been hardest hit in the pandemic, and the other third to direct rental relief, paid to landlords of struggling tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That direct rent relief started as a response to Assembly Bill 3088, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, which now requires tenants to pay 25% of back rent through the end of January to be protected from eviction. To ensure that rent got paid, the fund compensated landlords directly and kept the receipts as proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cash aid component of the fund, by contrast, was more open-ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t say we know that the money that we’re raising is actually going to pay back rent. It could be paying for any of lots of necessities,” Liccardo said, pointing to things like food or medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mobilizing a Nonprofit Army\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In order to reach the people who needed help most, and get money to them as quickly as possible, Destination: Home recruited an army of about 70 nonprofits with ties to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of them had experience with housing, and that presented another challenge. Some, like Latinas Contra Cancer, which is geared toward medical care access, had to quickly get its small staff of five part timers up to speed on things they knew little about, like housing legalese and the strict regulations for disbursing rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a steep learning curve,” said Darcie Green, the group’s CEO. “But when you see this need, it’s not even an option. Like, you’re just like, this is where we have to go. This is what our clients need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11855149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46576_002_SanJose_LatinasContraCancer_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcie Green, CEO of Latinas Contra Cancer, in San Jose on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the learning curve was worth it, Loving said. Those groups know the people who are losing their jobs, they know what they need, and they have their trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinas Contra Cancer, which normally runs bilingual Spanish-English awareness campaigns for the Latino community and works to increase access to cancer treatment, usually serves about 1,500 people across Santa Clara County, often in its most impoverished areas. The group served far fewer clients in 2020, Green said, but devoted more hours of work per person. That’s partly because many people have needed more help for longer stretches of time due to difficulties brought on by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how they met Irma Rodriguez Garcia, a restaurant worker taking care of her children along with her brother, who has throat cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez Garcia, who was laid off from her job during the pandemic, is raising three of her four children on her own in Mountain View. 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