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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is excerpted from the preview episode of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.artsandmedia.net/cause/november-in-my-soul/\">\u003cem>November In My Soul\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a forthcoming podcast about mental Illness, confinement and liberty in California. It is co-produced and co-hosted by Lee Romney and Jenny Johnson. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Marlene Baker’s untreated mental illness kept her on the streets, hustling to stay warm and stay fed. Local law enforcement would pick her up for minor offenses — drinking in public or hitchhiking — then book her into the overcrowded jail and release her right back to the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you and you do things,” Baker, now 58, said in a 2019 interview at her tiny studio apartment in the Siskiyou County town of Weed. “I didn’t trust my mind for a long time. Still, I’ll wake up sometimes in the middle of the night screaming, like, is there a ghost in here or something? And then I just take my medicine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories of our colliding criminal justice and mental health systems play out across the country. That crisis is most visible, and most commonly reported, in urban areas. But Baker’s is a rural story, full of profound rural challenges. Siskiyou County, which abuts the Oregon border, spans 6,000 square miles and is home to just shy of 44,000 people. Community mental health resources are thin. Public transportation is almost nonexistent, housing is scarce and recruiting mental health clinicians nearly impossible. [aside tag=\"mental-health,criminal-justice\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Baker was too ill to voluntarily seek help for her condition. If she committed a more serious crime, she could receive the mental health treatment she needed. That’s because a felony charge would finally compel her to accept care provided through the criminal justice system. Recent data from Siskiyou County indicate the jail is often the landing place for people with serious mental illness: About half the inmates are \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20514156-jail_mentalhealth_jpsreport_02-03-2020#document/p8/a2022750\">prescribed psychiatric meds\u003c/a>, more than double the state median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental illness plays a role in a high number of criminal cases here. What to do once those people enter the system, said Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus, is a vexing question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got a community that wants to be protected,” he said. “But you also have a person who needs intervention and not necessarily the kind of intervention that we have to offer. It’s a massive problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Baker’s case, though, despite those rural challenges — in some ways because of them — a number of key people took some risks and bent some rules to help her heal in the community, with her freedom intact. And her success is helping to bring about some bold changes in the way Siskiyou County confronts its mental health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker, now 58, fills her small studio apartment with tapestries and artwork to make it homey. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘I grew up normal’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker is petite with a penchant for fashion and perfect dusky eye makeup. Her apartment, separated from Interstate 5 by a flimsy chain-link fence, can be loud. But Baker has spruced it up inside “to make it homey” with tapestries and artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her journey began in a “you-blink-you-miss-it” Central Valley town where, Baker said, “I grew up normal. We had a nice house. We had money. I went to school, graduated.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had two kids, got divorced and headed to her parents’ vacation home in Mount Shasta, where she landed a job in the front office of a local eye doctor. Then: an accident. Baker stepped out of her car onto black ice, taking her “whole spine out from the neck down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Marlene Baker']‘I’d get hysterical and not know what’s really going around and verbally say stuff that didn’t make sense’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple surgeries followed, and Baker gave her kids to their dad to raise as her bones healed. There was a complication, though: A surgical tear in her spinal covering had left her brain stem dry for four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d get hysterical and not know what’s really going around,” she said, “and verbally say stuff that didn’t make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene had yet to get her diagnosis — schizoaffective disorder. She didn’t know about the underlying brain injury that likely caused her illness. She didn’t know she was ill, but her life was falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker wound up homeless in and around Mount Shasta, where winters are cold and bears and mountain lions wander through town at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the guys would watch over me while I slept at night,” she said, “and I’ve lost about four or five of them right now. The other ones, they’re still going in and out of mental hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s parents had now moved to Mount Shasta, too, and they’d see her panhandling. They didn’t understand her angry outbursts and erratic behavior any better than she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were embarrassed,” Baker said. “They didn’t know what to do with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This went on for more than 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Not a single crisis bed’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even in big cities, where services are not as hard to come by, people often slip through the cracks of the voluntary mental health system. So, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=5150\">Welfare and Institutions Code 5150\u003c/a> serves as an important tool to help people like Baker, who don’t know that they’re sick. Under that civil statute, anyone deemed a danger to themselves or others, or gravely disabled, can be temporarily committed to a locked psychiatric facility for treatment. There’s just one problem — there \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20515636-cha-psych-bed-data-report-sept-2018#document/p12/a2022952\">are no facilities like that in Siskiyou County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone has a psychotic break, they go to a hospital that is hours and hours away,” said Siskiyou County Public Defender Lael Kayfetz. “You have to leave your family. You have to leave your support system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker was hospitalized just once under a 5150 hold: A case worker drove her 260 miles south to Sacramento. Mostly, though, Baker cycled in and out of the jail and back to the streets. Until 2013. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘I’m going to kill you’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker’s family rarely invited her over, but as a gesture of good will, they welcomed her to stay the night after a Thanksgiving meal. They woke up to her screams. She was in a psychosis — delusional and hallucinating. She thought an intruder had sliced her chest with a knife. She didn’t recognize her own family. And, in the chaos, she told her mom, “I’m going to kill you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her mom was scared,” said Kayfetz, who would represent Baker in connection with the incident. “So, they called law enforcement not understanding what they were setting in motion. There was no putting the brakes on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney charged Baker with Penal Code Section 422: making criminal threats. When it’s charged as a felony, as it was in Baker’s case, “it’s a strike under the three strikes law,” Kayfetz said. “It changes everything about how you’re treated in the system, how you’re treated by law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A felony conviction can also make it difficult — or impossible — to get government-subsidized housing, for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Siskiyou County Public Defender Lael Kayfetz']‘By some miracle she made it to her next court appearance and that is the thing that saved her’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker was still psychotic. And she was clearly “incompetent to stand trial” — that means you can’t follow the proceedings, understand the charges or help your attorney. The process of regaining competency usually involves a trip to a state mental hospital, often after long waits in a jail cell. But for Baker, there was a hitch: Siskiyou County’s jail has so few beds for women that even those charged with felonies are often quickly set free. Baker was already out, with instructions in court for her first hearing in the case. If she failed to show up, the judge would likely issue a warrant for her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By some miracle she made it to her next court appearance,” Kayfetz said, “and that is the thing that saved her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bending the Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it takes an exception to create a new rule, and Baker became a test case. The judge, the public defender, county mental health officials and even the prosecutor, came to an agreement. Instead of returning her to jail or sending her to a state hospital hundreds of miles away, they’d try to help Baker on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two psychologists who had to evaluate her competency arranged to do it at Kayfetz’s office, “something,” she said, “that had never been done before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, how Baker was going to keep complying with court demands — given her lack of housing and the county’s spotty public transportation — was not at all clear. If she had an address, county behavioral health workers could fetch her for her appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lael told me, ‘You need [to get] off the street,’ ” Baker recalled. “Getting off the street was key to my healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s case worker began to search, placing her first in a series of motels before, finally, a permanent home. It was small and noisy, but with four walls and a door with a lock. On her first night, Baker said, “I had a backpack for a pillow” and a comforter her case worker grabbed from the office. Still, she missed the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You breathe all the fresh air all night long, you’re under God’s heavens. It’s hard to stop being homeless,” she said. “You’re free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker’s tiny studio apartment, in a rundown former motel, is separated from Interstate 5 by a chain-link fence. On this day in September 2019, she shows off the old-fashioned pantaloons she’s hung there to dry. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker had gained a different kind of freedom. But she was still facing a felony charge. To retain her liberty, she’d have to engage fully with treatment — something she had resisted for years. Now though, thanks to Siskiyou County’s only practicing psychiatrist, she built a bond and began to trust. They spoke about medicinal plants and healthy foods, and Baker agreed to long-acting injections of an anti-psychotic medication that cleared her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was time to enter a plea. Kayfetz knew a guilty plea would jeopardize Baker’s housing — and her stability. But there was another option — she could plead \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1026.&lawCode=PEN\">not guilty by reason of insanity.\u003c/a> That plea almost always means you go to a state mental hospital for a minimum of six months and often much longer. Baker had to stand up in court and say she understood she might spend the rest of her life there. Because Kayfetz had a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her client was thriving. Sending her hundreds of miles away to a state hospital, she argued, wasn’t necessary or humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk Andrus, the district attorney, balked. But the judge agreed with Kayfetz. If Baker complied with her treatment, the felony charge would eventually be dismissed. For years, though, she’d have to check in regularly with the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her progress exceeded expectations. Four years after that fateful Thanksgiving, Baker received training to work as a peer facilitator for a weekly mental health support group. Dipping into her meager disability checks, she prepped healthy stews and soups for the group in her tiny kitchen and brought in Bingo prizes she bought at the Dollar General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker prepares lentil stew in September 2019 in the tiny kitchen of her studio apartment. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her relationship with her family healed, too, especially with her mom and sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, on a sweltering August day in 2019, her case came up on the Siskiyou County Superior Court calendar for the very last time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Baker got to the courthouse in a crushed velvet spaghetti-strap dress and lavender eye makeup. She hadn’t slept. She was too nervous. The judge congratulated her and declared her “restored” — as in restored to sanity. Within minutes, her long ordeal in the criminal justice system was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Loss and Hope\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanity cannot stave off hardship. Within months of her court victory, Baker’s longtime case worker died unexpectedly. Then came COVID-19 and deep isolation. Baker’s peer group has technically been allowed to meet. But “nobody wants to go because it’s 6 feet apart and you can’t eat in there,” she said, “and that’s why they always came. I would bring them good food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s visits with her psychiatrist are no longer in person, just phone calls. So the long-acting injections are out, too. She has to remember to take her pills each morning. And last fall, more loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom died, and two months later, my dad died,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all that, Kayfetz said, the fact that Baker is still housed and plugged in to mental health services is a victory. Beyond that, Baker’s success has helped bring about broader change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after her six-year fight to shed her felony charge came to an end, Siskiyou County launched what’s known as a behavioral health court. It wipes the criminal charges off the records of participants who complete treatment. Every inmate who arrives at the jail now takes an iPad questionnaire to determine if they need mental health services or would be good candidates for the new court. If they are, they get that treatment right here in the community, with their liberty intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker was still psychotic. And she was clearly “incompetent to stand trial” — that means you can’t follow the proceedings, understand the charges or help your attorney. The process of regaining competency usually involves a trip to a state mental hospital, often after long waits in a jail cell. But for Baker, there was a hitch: Siskiyou County’s jail has so few beds for women that even those charged with felonies are often quickly set free. Baker was already out, with instructions in court for her first hearing in the case. If she failed to show up, the judge would likely issue a warrant for her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By some miracle she made it to her next court appearance,” Kayfetz said, “and that is the thing that saved her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bending the Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it takes an exception to create a new rule, and Baker became a test case. The judge, the public defender, county mental health officials and even the prosecutor, came to an agreement. Instead of returning her to jail or sending her to a state hospital hundreds of miles away, they’d try to help Baker on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two psychologists who had to evaluate her competency arranged to do it at Kayfetz’s office, “something,” she said, “that had never been done before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, how Baker was going to keep complying with court demands — given her lack of housing and the county’s spotty public transportation — was not at all clear. If she had an address, county behavioral health workers could fetch her for her appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lael told me, ‘You need [to get] off the street,’ ” Baker recalled. “Getting off the street was key to my healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s case worker began to search, placing her first in a series of motels before, finally, a permanent home. It was small and noisy, but with four walls and a door with a lock. On her first night, Baker said, “I had a backpack for a pillow” and a comforter her case worker grabbed from the office. Still, she missed the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You breathe all the fresh air all night long, you’re under God’s heavens. It’s hard to stop being homeless,” she said. “You’re free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker’s tiny studio apartment, in a rundown former motel, is separated from Interstate 5 by a chain-link fence. On this day in September 2019, she shows off the old-fashioned pantaloons she’s hung there to dry. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker had gained a different kind of freedom. But she was still facing a felony charge. To retain her liberty, she’d have to engage fully with treatment — something she had resisted for years. Now though, thanks to Siskiyou County’s only practicing psychiatrist, she built a bond and began to trust. They spoke about medicinal plants and healthy foods, and Baker agreed to long-acting injections of an anti-psychotic medication that cleared her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was time to enter a plea. Kayfetz knew a guilty plea would jeopardize Baker’s housing — and her stability. But there was another option — she could plead \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1026.&lawCode=PEN\">not guilty by reason of insanity.\u003c/a> That plea almost always means you go to a state mental hospital for a minimum of six months and often much longer. Baker had to stand up in court and say she understood she might spend the rest of her life there. Because Kayfetz had a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her client was thriving. Sending her hundreds of miles away to a state hospital, she argued, wasn’t necessary or humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk Andrus, the district attorney, balked. But the judge agreed with Kayfetz. If Baker complied with her treatment, the felony charge would eventually be dismissed. For years, though, she’d have to check in regularly with the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her progress exceeded expectations. Four years after that fateful Thanksgiving, Baker received training to work as a peer facilitator for a weekly mental health support group. Dipping into her meager disability checks, she prepped healthy stews and soups for the group in her tiny kitchen and brought in Bingo prizes she bought at the Dollar General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker prepares lentil stew in September 2019 in the tiny kitchen of her studio apartment. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her relationship with her family healed, too, especially with her mom and sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, on a sweltering August day in 2019, her case came up on the Siskiyou County Superior Court calendar for the very last time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Baker got to the courthouse in a crushed velvet spaghetti-strap dress and lavender eye makeup. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur Bay Curious audience is a reliable source of questions about transportation, whether we’re talking about walking, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708992/10-things-to-know-about-bike-theft-in-san-francisco-2\">bicycling\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11030282/why-are-bart-trains-so-loud\">riding on public transit\u003c/a> or driving on local highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, we’ve got two questions — both voted up by you, the people — that come from the world of Bay Area freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Herb Masters, a San Carlos resident, asked what was up with what we’ll call for now “a ghost freeway” that appears to have been started, but never finished, on the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And second, we have a question from Daniel Huertas of San Francisco, who wants to know: Why is there so much trash on our freeways? And is it just him, or are Bay Area freeways really getting dirtier?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herb’s question first. His specific query was: “I’d like to hear about the unused on and off ramps from the freeways. In particular the ones at the intersection of Interstate 280 and Interstate 380. I suspect they were planning on a freeway to the coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the uninitiated, Interstate 280 is the freeway that runs from San Francisco’s South of Market on the north end to the outskirts of downtown San Jose on the south. The highway, routed through the Peninsula hills and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805469/why-arent-any-billboards-on-280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">devoid of billboards\u003c/a>, has long been called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/03/14/roadshow-is-i-280-truly-the-worlds-most-beautiful-freeway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the world’s most beautiful freeway\u003c/a>.” (Yes — some people think a freeway \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be beautiful.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interstate 380, by contrast, is a simple 1.7-mile connector that links I-280 to U.S. 101 adjacent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11526958/where-do-airport-codes-come-from\">San Francisco International Airport\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out Masters’ “suspicion” about I-380 is spot on. The freeway was conceived of as something much more than it is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the formative years of Bay Area freeways, highway planners envisioned the freeway continuing west beyond I-280, across San Bruno’s Crestmoor Canyon, up over Sweeney Ridge, descending to meet Highway 1 somewhere in Pacifica, perhaps in the Sharp Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans confirms that history. The best single account of the plan, though a brief one, appeared in the San Mateo Daily Journal in 2014. Titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/the-interstate-380-controversy/article_8507a35c-f4a6-5d33-a5f1-a6a189b9799e.html\">“The Interstate 380 Controversy,”\u003c/a> the Journal’s piece characterized opposition to the freeway among San Bruno and Pacifica residents this way: “The public was outraged. The pristine watershed would be violated with gas-belching cars and smoke diesel 16-wheelers. No way would they allow this to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This piece of Interstate 380 is just one of several freeways that planners dreamed up for the Bay Area just before and after World War II that did not get built. An extensive freeway system was envisioned for San Francisco, for instance, that was famously derailed by what’s remembered now as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Freeway_Revolt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Freeway Revolt\u003c/a>” of the late 1950s and early ’60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What prompted Herb Masters to ask about I-380 is a visible remnant of the original “freeway-to-Pacifica” plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always seen where it was clearly designed for 380 to continue west,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to miss the clue he’s talking about because you can see it best from the freeway, and if you’re driving you have only seconds to ponder what you’re seeing as you approach the 280 interchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s what to look for: As you head west on I-380 from 101, you’ll pass an exit for El Camino Real. After that exit, you’ll see signs for the highway splitting ahead: right lanes for northbound I-280 to San Francisco, left lanes for southbound I-280 to San Jose. As you approach the split, the median widens dramatically and is fenced in. That part of the road — straight ahead — marks the spot where I-380 was intended to carry through to the west. On the west side of I-280, there’s a large, apparently excavated area that’s been used as a golf driving range in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o much for our Peninsula ghost road. Now let’s talk freeway garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Huertas’ specific question, which got a solid plurality from Bay Curious voters, was this: “Why has there been an accumulation of garbage along Bay Area highways in recent years?” He expanded on that when we called him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like in general, there’s just trash all over the roadside,” Huertas says. “As I drive, I think, ‘Is this related to a homeless encampment, or is this just months and years of people throwing fast-food wrappers out of the door?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks things have gotten worse over time. “I grew up in the Bay Area, and it used to be quite clean,” Huertas says. “I honestly don’t know why they’re not cleaning up our roads anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the answer to Huertas’ query is pretty easy to answer. Caltrans, the agency responsible for the rights of way along freeways and state highways, says there’s no doubt that there’s more debris and trash along the roads these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/public-affairs/mile-marker/fall-2020/litter-removal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report last summer\u003c/a>, the agency said that Caltrans workers, volunteers and crews from a program to aid parolees and veterans had picked up about 359,000 cubic yards of garbage from the state’s roadways in the most recent year for which data is available, fiscal 2018-19. Caltrans workers were responsible for cleaning up about 186,000 cubic yards of that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much is 186,000 cubic yards?” the Caltrans report asks. “Enough that if stacked one yard high and one yard wide, the line of garbage would extend for approximately 105 miles — from, for example, Santa Ana to Tijuana, or Roseville (north of Sacramento) to San Francisco. It is the approximate equivalent of 1,302,000 bags of trash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Caltrans says the cost to pick up all that trash is staggering: $102 million in 2018-19. Also staggering: How quickly the volume of garbage and associated cleanup costs have grown. The agency says in 2016-17, the highway trash total was about 330,000 cubic yards, swept up at a cost of $65 million. That means the overall cost of cleaning up roadsides went up nearly 60% in just two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor driving the cost higher, Caltrans says, is that it’s more expensive to deal with litter associated with the encampments of unsheltered people — camps that have sprung up with greater frequency as the state’s housing affordability crisis has intensified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll get to the issue of what role the encampments play in the litter issue in a minute, because the camps certainly are not the only factor or even necessarily the most important factor in California’s highway trash problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of us play a part in fouling the roadside. To prove it, Caltrans produced a time-lapse video showing a freshly cleaned up freeway in Sacramento and how little time it took — just a few days — for the area to become strewn with cast-off wrappers, paper, boxes and other junk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnCoZqT5b4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sources of the trash appear to be the tens of thousands of people passing by this spot. Some of the stuff that winds up on the roadside may come from loads that aren’t securely tied down; some of it may come from people who are done with their to-go food containers and pitch them out the window. (Which raises the eternal question, when you throw something away, where is “away?” But we’re only going to tackle one existential trash issue at a time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the ongoing challenges of highway trash, Caltrans said cleanups were complicated in the past year by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following guidance from public health authorities, the agency pulled crews off the roads when stay-at-home orders were imposed a year ago. Work began again in early June, but the agency says it’s still working to catch up with accumulated debris in some areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, we did ask Caltrans about the challenges it faces dealing with trash and debris at encampments for the unhoused, and the agency emailed us a response. Here’s the key piece of the message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regarding the volume of trash coming from encampments:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consistent with CDC guidance to prevent community spread of COVID-19, Caltrans is proceeding with encampment cleanups if there is an immediate safety concern or threat to critical infrastructure. We will continue to work with cities and other partners to move people into safer situations as available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediate hazards may include severe fire risk that poses a threat to the encampment, the community and the infrastructure. It also may include the potential for loss of life due to its proximity to traffic or by blocking access to Caltrans and CHP personnel attempting to protect and maintain critical infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since June, when state guidance permitted Caltrans to resume trash combatting efforts, we have been working to clear trash from the perimeter of encampments and throughout the entire transportation system. Trash accumulated rapidly during the stay at home order, but crews and partners are making every effort to make headway.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One important note to keep in mind about Caltrans encampment cleanups: The agency is walking a fine legal line in dealing with this issue. That’s the result of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/20/hundreds-seek-payouts-in-lawsuit-over-caltrans-homeless-camp-sweeps/\">a lawsuit brought against the agency\u003c/a> on behalf of camp residents who lost property, including medicine, food, clothing and other belongings, during past Caltrans camp sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of a settlement announced a little over a year ago, Caltrans is paying out a total of $1.3 million to those whose property was destroyed in the sweeps. A reported 1,300 people have sought compensation so far, according to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the ACLU of Northern California, which brought the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as part of the settlement agreement, Caltrans agreed to take steps to avoid destroying camp residents’ property in the future. Those measures include giving 48 hours’ advance notice before clearing camps and storing seized belongings for at least 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The highway, routed through the Peninsula hills and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805469/why-arent-any-billboards-on-280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">devoid of billboards\u003c/a>, has long been called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/03/14/roadshow-is-i-280-truly-the-worlds-most-beautiful-freeway/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the world’s most beautiful freeway\u003c/a>.” (Yes — some people think a freeway \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be beautiful.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interstate 380, by contrast, is a simple 1.7-mile connector that links I-280 to U.S. 101 adjacent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11526958/where-do-airport-codes-come-from\">San Francisco International Airport\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out Masters’ “suspicion” about I-380 is spot on. The freeway was conceived of as something much more than it is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the formative years of Bay Area freeways, highway planners envisioned the freeway continuing west beyond I-280, across San Bruno’s Crestmoor Canyon, up over Sweeney Ridge, descending to meet Highway 1 somewhere in Pacifica, perhaps in the Sharp Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans confirms that history. The best single account of the plan, though a brief one, appeared in the San Mateo Daily Journal in 2014. Titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/the-interstate-380-controversy/article_8507a35c-f4a6-5d33-a5f1-a6a189b9799e.html\">“The Interstate 380 Controversy,”\u003c/a> the Journal’s piece characterized opposition to the freeway among San Bruno and Pacifica residents this way: “The public was outraged. The pristine watershed would be violated with gas-belching cars and smoke diesel 16-wheelers. No way would they allow this to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This piece of Interstate 380 is just one of several freeways that planners dreamed up for the Bay Area just before and after World War II that did not get built. An extensive freeway system was envisioned for San Francisco, for instance, that was famously derailed by what’s remembered now as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Freeway_Revolt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Freeway Revolt\u003c/a>” of the late 1950s and early ’60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What prompted Herb Masters to ask about I-380 is a visible remnant of the original “freeway-to-Pacifica” plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always seen where it was clearly designed for 380 to continue west,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to miss the clue he’s talking about because you can see it best from the freeway, and if you’re driving you have only seconds to ponder what you’re seeing as you approach the 280 interchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s what to look for: As you head west on I-380 from 101, you’ll pass an exit for El Camino Real. After that exit, you’ll see signs for the highway splitting ahead: right lanes for northbound I-280 to San Francisco, left lanes for southbound I-280 to San Jose. As you approach the split, the median widens dramatically and is fenced in. That part of the road — straight ahead — marks the spot where I-380 was intended to carry through to the west. On the west side of I-280, there’s a large, apparently excavated area that’s been used as a golf driving range in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>o much for our Peninsula ghost road. Now let’s talk freeway garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Huertas’ specific question, which got a solid plurality from Bay Curious voters, was this: “Why has there been an accumulation of garbage along Bay Area highways in recent years?” He expanded on that when we called him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like in general, there’s just trash all over the roadside,” Huertas says. “As I drive, I think, ‘Is this related to a homeless encampment, or is this just months and years of people throwing fast-food wrappers out of the door?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks things have gotten worse over time. “I grew up in the Bay Area, and it used to be quite clean,” Huertas says. “I honestly don’t know why they’re not cleaning up our roads anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the answer to Huertas’ query is pretty easy to answer. Caltrans, the agency responsible for the rights of way along freeways and state highways, says there’s no doubt that there’s more debris and trash along the roads these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/public-affairs/mile-marker/fall-2020/litter-removal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report last summer\u003c/a>, the agency said that Caltrans workers, volunteers and crews from a program to aid parolees and veterans had picked up about 359,000 cubic yards of garbage from the state’s roadways in the most recent year for which data is available, fiscal 2018-19. Caltrans workers were responsible for cleaning up about 186,000 cubic yards of that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much is 186,000 cubic yards?” the Caltrans report asks. “Enough that if stacked one yard high and one yard wide, the line of garbage would extend for approximately 105 miles — from, for example, Santa Ana to Tijuana, or Roseville (north of Sacramento) to San Francisco. It is the approximate equivalent of 1,302,000 bags of trash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Caltrans says the cost to pick up all that trash is staggering: $102 million in 2018-19. Also staggering: How quickly the volume of garbage and associated cleanup costs have grown. The agency says in 2016-17, the highway trash total was about 330,000 cubic yards, swept up at a cost of $65 million. That means the overall cost of cleaning up roadsides went up nearly 60% in just two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor driving the cost higher, Caltrans says, is that it’s more expensive to deal with litter associated with the encampments of unsheltered people — camps that have sprung up with greater frequency as the state’s housing affordability crisis has intensified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll get to the issue of what role the encampments play in the litter issue in a minute, because the camps certainly are not the only factor or even necessarily the most important factor in California’s highway trash problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of us play a part in fouling the roadside. To prove it, Caltrans produced a time-lapse video showing a freshly cleaned up freeway in Sacramento and how little time it took — just a few days — for the area to become strewn with cast-off wrappers, paper, boxes and other junk.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OQnCoZqT5b4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OQnCoZqT5b4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The sources of the trash appear to be the tens of thousands of people passing by this spot. Some of the stuff that winds up on the roadside may come from loads that aren’t securely tied down; some of it may come from people who are done with their to-go food containers and pitch them out the window. (Which raises the eternal question, when you throw something away, where is “away?” But we’re only going to tackle one existential trash issue at a time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the ongoing challenges of highway trash, Caltrans said cleanups were complicated in the past year by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following guidance from public health authorities, the agency pulled crews off the roads when stay-at-home orders were imposed a year ago. Work began again in early June, but the agency says it’s still working to catch up with accumulated debris in some areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, we did ask Caltrans about the challenges it faces dealing with trash and debris at encampments for the unhoused, and the agency emailed us a response. Here’s the key piece of the message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regarding the volume of trash coming from encampments:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consistent with CDC guidance to prevent community spread of COVID-19, Caltrans is proceeding with encampment cleanups if there is an immediate safety concern or threat to critical infrastructure. We will continue to work with cities and other partners to move people into safer situations as available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediate hazards may include severe fire risk that poses a threat to the encampment, the community and the infrastructure. It also may include the potential for loss of life due to its proximity to traffic or by blocking access to Caltrans and CHP personnel attempting to protect and maintain critical infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since June, when state guidance permitted Caltrans to resume trash combatting efforts, we have been working to clear trash from the perimeter of encampments and throughout the entire transportation system. Trash accumulated rapidly during the stay at home order, but crews and partners are making every effort to make headway.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One important note to keep in mind about Caltrans encampment cleanups: The agency is walking a fine legal line in dealing with this issue. That’s the result of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/20/hundreds-seek-payouts-in-lawsuit-over-caltrans-homeless-camp-sweeps/\">a lawsuit brought against the agency\u003c/a> on behalf of camp residents who lost property, including medicine, food, clothing and other belongings, during past Caltrans camp sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of a settlement announced a little over a year ago, Caltrans is paying out a total of $1.3 million to those whose property was destroyed in the sweeps. A reported 1,300 people have sought compensation so far, according to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the ACLU of Northern California, which brought the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as part of the settlement agreement, Caltrans agreed to take steps to avoid destroying camp residents’ property in the future. 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Maria Elena Durazo, calls for all arrest records that don’t result in a conviction to be sealed so they are not publicly accessible. It would also allow records to be sealed for people convicted of felonies who have subsequently finished their prison or jail time and parole or probation, and stayed out of trouble for two years. The measure would exclude sex offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of the labor movement, to me, the key is a good job. It’s the way to build a better life. It’s a way to protect and support our loved ones,” said Durazo, a Democrat, noting that current law requires the state to keep someone’s record on file for 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These men and women have completed the sentence they were given. Many of them took classes, enrolled in counseling while they were incarcerated. They pursued rehabilitation work to be ready for their reentry after their release. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2009, East Bay resident Lisa Teague lost their home. Eighteen months later – after living with a friend in Albany and moving between different motels in Oakland – they were able to secure housing through a Section 8 lottery. Teague’s new home was located near People’s Park, a few blocks from the UC Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park quickly became a beacon of comfort and community for them. Teague was able to make connections with the unhoused residents of the park and pick up meals or other donated resources. The park community also helped Teague immensely by welcoming them into a safe space. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was really shaky, I had a tough time,\" Teague said. \"The park community and the resources helped more than I can say until I got it together.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2018 – when UC Berkeley announced plans to build a student housing development on the park's location – that Teague decided to join local organizers as a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/savepeoplespark/\">People's Park Committee\u003c/a>, a group dedicated to taking care of the park grounds and its residents by distributing meals in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayfoodnotbombs.org/about/\">East Bay Food Not Bombs\u003c/a>. Teague said the university has done little to acknowledge the communal significance behind the park. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that if they wanted to have a relationship with the city that they would respect the fact that People’s Park is a Berkeley landmark. It has been since 1984,” Teague said. “It’s a precious area to the city and they don’t seem to see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Teague receives a plate of food from the volunteer-run kitchen at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The history of People’s Park dates back to its creation in 1969 by Berkeley residents after a first attempt by UC Berkeley to build student housing on the site fizzled and the lot, which the university owns, was left deserted. On May 15, 1969 – which would become known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/People-s-Park-Bloody-Thursday-50-years-later-13845759.php\">Bloody Thursday\u003c/a> – police and sheriff’s deputies moved in, made arrests and sealed off the park's perimeter. Mass protests followed that action as students and members of the Berkeley community clashed with police. Dozens of people were injured, and a \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/newfound-photos-mark-50th-anniversary-of-the-day-peoples-park-turned-deadly\">25-year-old bystander died days later after being hit by a police shotgun blast\u003c/a>. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard the following day. Students and faculty eventually voted to keep the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 52 years later, UC Berkeley is again determined to reclaim the park, pointing to a dire need for student housing. The proposed development is expected to be up to 17 stories high and house over 1,000 students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alecia Harger, UC Berkeley student participating in the current People's Park occupation\"]'A lot of people have considered the development of People’s Park to be an unfortunate inevitability. And we are showing that it is not an inevitability and that we have the ability to push back.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the university put up fencing, sectioning off areas of the park in order to conduct soil analysis — a process to determine the land’s seismic safety. In a response echoing 1969, students and local residents tore down the fencing, carried it four blocks and dumped it outside Sproul Hall. After the university was quick to resurrect the fencing, an occupation began at the park on Feb. 8, organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/peoplesparkberkeley/?igshid=1kis8zt5skpm3\">Save People’s Park Movement\u003c/a>. It continues on as students set up shifts in groups of 20 to 30 people to occupy alongside the park's residents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alecia Harger, a UC Berkeley undergraduate student participating in the occupation, said the movement has gained more attention as videos and photos from the occupation and park events continue to be shared on Instagram. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that within the Berkeley community a lot of people have considered the development of People’s Park to be an unfortunate inevitability,” Harger said. “And we are showing that it is not an inevitability and that we have the ability to push back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week, open meetings are planned and donations are distributed to residents of the park and other unhoused folks by volunteers and members of the People's Park Committee. Gardening events and film screenings are also frequently organized. The rise in student solidarity is also a result of heightened community organizing that reaches beyond the Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been one of the most powerful community-building experiences that I’ve had, certainly since the pandemic started and maybe in my life,” said Romeo Channer, a Mills College student. “Just the bonds formed in that space and the real immediate connections people make through mutual aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reads, 'Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings' at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The editorial board of The Daily Californian \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/16/a-park-by-and-for-the-people/\">published a piece\u003c/a> last week rejecting the current development plans and in support of the movement to preserve People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the importance of supportive housing in Berkeley cannot be discounted, People’s Park — built for and by Berkeleyans — has never been, and never will be, a place for campus to do its bidding. The park should remain at the will of those who have the most stake in its future,\" said the editorial board of the student-run paper. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kyle Gibson, director of communications for capital strategies at UC Berkeley, the development would also include supportive housing for low-income and formerly homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also committed to revitalizing a significant portion of the park as open space that will be inviting, safe and responsive to student and community needs and interests,” said Gibson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harger said she isn’t convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is claiming to help unhoused people, claiming to help low-income people by building affordable housing, when they are the main driving forces of gentrification in our city,” Harger said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the university have either been gentrified between 2000-2018 or are vulnerable to gentrification, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/san-francisco/sf-bay-area-gentrification-and-displacement\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>. UC Berkeley currently \u003ca href=\"http://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">has the lowest percentage\u003c/a> of beds for its student body in the entire UC system. And in 2019, Berkeley's homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf\">increased by 14%\u003c/a> within the span of two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a campus-wide email with a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/02/22/an-update-from-chancellor-christ-on-two-uc-berkeley-student-housing-projects/\">student housing update.\u003c/a> Christ claimed that the People's Park housing development would benefit both the greater Berkeley community and the university's needs, and urged students and community members to review the plans on the \u003ca href=\"https://capitalstrategies.berkeley.edu/peoples-park-housing\">project website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we can and will serve the interests of all,\" Christ wrote. \"We deeply appreciate and share the concern so many of you have for unhoused people in our community, and that concern is at the heart of all that we currently do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The People's Park Committee quickly \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/10NzHFVWR2Q7ILLxlBUm62JceYmbSKAzS/view\">posted a response\u003c/a> defending their movement and counter-arguing each statement made by the chancellor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The University’s narrative is predicated upon alleviating the student housing crisis, supporting Berkeley’s homeless community, and reducing crime in Berkeley. For numerous reasons, this is a manipulative facade,\" the People's Park Committee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction is not slated to begin until 2022. The UC Regents will have final say on the housing project later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2009, East Bay resident Lisa Teague lost their home. Eighteen months later – after living with a friend in Albany and moving between different motels in Oakland – they were able to secure housing through a Section 8 lottery. Teague’s new home was located near People’s Park, a few blocks from the UC Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park quickly became a beacon of comfort and community for them. Teague was able to make connections with the unhoused residents of the park and pick up meals or other donated resources. The park community also helped Teague immensely by welcoming them into a safe space. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was really shaky, I had a tough time,\" Teague said. \"The park community and the resources helped more than I can say until I got it together.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2018 – when UC Berkeley announced plans to build a student housing development on the park's location – that Teague decided to join local organizers as a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/savepeoplespark/\">People's Park Committee\u003c/a>, a group dedicated to taking care of the park grounds and its residents by distributing meals in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayfoodnotbombs.org/about/\">East Bay Food Not Bombs\u003c/a>. Teague said the university has done little to acknowledge the communal significance behind the park. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that if they wanted to have a relationship with the city that they would respect the fact that People’s Park is a Berkeley landmark. It has been since 1984,” Teague said. “It’s a precious area to the city and they don’t seem to see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47352_018_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Teague receives a plate of food from the volunteer-run kitchen at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The history of People’s Park dates back to its creation in 1969 by Berkeley residents after a first attempt by UC Berkeley to build student housing on the site fizzled and the lot, which the university owns, was left deserted. On May 15, 1969 – which would become known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/People-s-Park-Bloody-Thursday-50-years-later-13845759.php\">Bloody Thursday\u003c/a> – police and sheriff’s deputies moved in, made arrests and sealed off the park's perimeter. Mass protests followed that action as students and members of the Berkeley community clashed with police. Dozens of people were injured, and a \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/newfound-photos-mark-50th-anniversary-of-the-day-peoples-park-turned-deadly\">25-year-old bystander died days later after being hit by a police shotgun blast\u003c/a>. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard the following day. Students and faculty eventually voted to keep the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 52 years later, UC Berkeley is again determined to reclaim the park, pointing to a dire need for student housing. The proposed development is expected to be up to 17 stories high and house over 1,000 students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The rise in student solidarity is also a result of heightened community organizing that reaches beyond the Berkeley campus. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been one of the most powerful community-building experiences that I’ve had, certainly since the pandemic started and maybe in my life,” said Romeo Channer, a Mills College student. “Just the bonds formed in that space and the real immediate connections people make through mutual aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reads, 'Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings' at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The editorial board of The Daily Californian \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/16/a-park-by-and-for-the-people/\">published a piece\u003c/a> last week rejecting the current development plans and in support of the movement to preserve People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the importance of supportive housing in Berkeley cannot be discounted, People’s Park — built for and by Berkeleyans — has never been, and never will be, a place for campus to do its bidding. The park should remain at the will of those who have the most stake in its future,\" said the editorial board of the student-run paper. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kyle Gibson, director of communications for capital strategies at UC Berkeley, the development would also include supportive housing for low-income and formerly homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also committed to revitalizing a significant portion of the park as open space that will be inviting, safe and responsive to student and community needs and interests,” said Gibson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harger said she isn’t convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is claiming to help unhoused people, claiming to help low-income people by building affordable housing, when they are the main driving forces of gentrification in our city,” Harger said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862394\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47362_028_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men play chess at People's Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the university have either been gentrified between 2000-2018 or are vulnerable to gentrification, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/san-francisco/sf-bay-area-gentrification-and-displacement\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/a>. UC Berkeley currently \u003ca href=\"http://evcp.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/housing_master_plan_task_force_final_draft_january_2017.pdf\">has the lowest percentage\u003c/a> of beds for its student body in the entire UC system. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ernie Sandoval was awestruck as he stared at a mural painted on the side of a brightly colored tiny house in East Oakland last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That used to be me,” Sandoval said while taking in the dynamic city scene depicted in the mural. “I used to sleep on the bus, on abandoned roofs, sleeping behind the dumpster, that was my bed for the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny house is part of a new village of tiny homes for unhoused youth that welcomed Sandoval and 10 other residents on Feb. 19. The village will eventually house a total of 22 young residents from Oakland and Berkeley who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sean Williams-McCreary, community organizer and live-in resident assistant at Tiny House Empowerment Village\"]‘We’re trying to build a familial environment. So I have to be that backbone for them, I have to be that support that I wish I had.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be the first time the 22-year-old has had stable housing since he was kicked out of his home at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no words to describe how good it feels to be here,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://youthspiritartworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/YSA_Overview.pdf\">Tiny House Empowerment Village\u003c/a> on Hegenberger Road just south of the Oakland Coliseum will operate as a transitional housing center for young people ages 18-25 in 26 tiny houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youthspiritartworks.org/\">Youth Spirit Artworks\u003c/a>, a Berkeley-based nonprofit arts and job training program for low-income youth, spearheaded the tiny house project since planning began in 2017. Artists, activists and over 2,000 volunteers from the community and faith-based organizations built the village over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1702px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11862025 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"1241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2.jpg 1702w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Sandobal-Tiny-House-2-1536x1120.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1702px) 100vw, 1702px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘That used to be me. I used to sleep on the bus, on abandoned roofs, sleeping behind the dumpster, that was my bed for the night,’ said Ernie Sandoval, who moved into the Tiny House Empowerment Village in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sean Williams-McCreary, 20, a community organizer for YSA, has been involved in the planning and building of the village since its inception. As someone who has faced homelessness and housing insecurity since he was 11 years old, he said finally seeing the village completed is overwhelming and cathartic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like watching a seed grow, and people that care a whole lot water it,” said Williams-McCreary, who will live on-site at the village as a resident assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to build a familial environment,” he said. “So I have to be that backbone for them, I have to be that support that I wish I had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/MCreary-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Williams-McCreary, community organizer for Youth Spirit Artworks, stands outside the Tiny House Empowerment Village for unhoused youth on Feb. 19, 2021 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each tiny house measures 8 feet by 10 feet, and includes a pull-out bed, a desk and chair, closet space, electricity and heating. Shared bathrooms, communal kitchens, gardens and community spaces within the village are part of the services on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Transportation Working Group donated bicycles for all the residents. Residents will be able to stay for up to two years and receive opportunities for employment and jobs training from YSA programs. Four resident assistants, including Williams-McCreary, will also live in the village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/its_mjj/status/1364732438878953472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval said his dream is to one day be a film editor, and that he spoke with a case manager from YSA about applying to film school. But his first priority is getting his basic needs met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good night’s sleep, a place where I don’t have to hold onto my backpack, that’s what I’m actually really looking forward to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf\">A 2019 study\u003c/a> on homelessness in Alameda County found that unhoused young people have a harder time accessing services including shelter, medical care and employment due to stigma and a lack of knowledge about available resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 8,022 people experiencing homelessness in Alameda County, 9% are transition-age youth, 18-24 years old, according to the 2019 point-in-time count. Williams-McCreary said that number has dramatically increased in 2020 due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and said that he hopes the village can be a template for other cities looking to provide housing for unhoused youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677912/inside-one-of-oaklands-tuff-shed-homeless-communities\">pioneered tiny houses\u003c/a> as a solution to homelessness in the past, with two other sites that use Tuff Sheds as transitional homes. These tiny home communities prioritize those who have been living at nearby encampments for the longest period of time and therefore do not often house young people. The city provided YSA with $360,000 in grants to run the village and the group has raised over $210,000 in donations for construction costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The village is a beacon of light for a lot of people,” said Reginald Gentry, assistant project manager for the village for YSA. “These tiny houses are affordable, they’re beautiful, they’re mobile and they’re innovative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']YSA commissioned artists from around the Bay Area to paint murals on the side of each tiny house. The group also delivered planks to schools and churches to be decorated with uplifting messages and artwork. The colorful planks make up the fence that surrounds the village. Gentry said the village was designed to be colorful and eye-catching so it could be a positive and transformative place for underserved youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley, a 23-year-old resident also moving into the village, said experiencing homelessness during the pandemic has been difficult for her mental health. She has been in shelters with restrictive guidelines that prevent her from staying inside during the day or keeping her dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is so positive here and seeing bright colors every day can really brighten up your mood,” she said. Ashley also said she’s overjoyed that her dog will be able to join her in the tiny house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For younger people this is an opportunity to get our lives back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of Ernie Sandoval’s name.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But in the meantime, we want to keep answering your questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So get in touch on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/e_baldi?lang=en\">@e_baldi\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/solomonout\">@solomonout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also email us at \u003ca href=\"mailto:msolomon@kqed.org\">msolomon@kqed.org\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"mailto:ebaldassari@kqed.org\">ebaldassari@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on some of the big stories we talked about last season:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Homeless Housing During COVID\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Our first episode, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Corona\u003c/a>,” looked at Project Roomkey, a state-led effort that ultimately housed 23,000 people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic, temporarily placing them in some 16,000 hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9791597532&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project Roomkey was always intended to be a temporary program, designed to protect people particularly vulnerable to the virus. But when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the program in April, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for more \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how many people who left the hotels actually got into permanent housing? We found that just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16% of the people in the Bay Area\u003c/a> who left the hotels moved into permanent housing. The remainder went on to live in temporary housing, moved in with family and friends or returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\" alt=\"Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 11,600 hotel rooms through California's Project Roomkey, which some homeless residents to safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. (Photo by Molly Solomon/KQED)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 16,000 hotel rooms through California’s Project Roomkey, a program to help some homeless residents safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, the governor’s senior housing policy director, acknowledged the real challenge of getting people into permanently affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t succeed 100% of the time,” Elliott told us. “This is a population with some potentially serious behavioral health challenges, and in many cases a long history of chronic homelessness. And that’s not an easy transition to make for a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the counties operating the hotels being used for this program had been planning on soon shutting them down, due to uncertainty over the continuation of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding. But that changed in a big way after President Biden stepped into office in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden announced FEMA would \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/01/president-biden-orders-100-percent-reimbursement-for-citys-covid-hotels/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reimburse 100% of the cost\u003c/a> of that program until the end of September 2021, and would also pay retroactively back to January 2020. As a result, many counties are now planning to keep their hotels open through at least the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Single-Family Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoning Out\u003c/a>” took a look at the racist history of single-family zoning in the country, which began in none other than true-blue, progressive Berkeley. The city’s rules prohibit affordable, multifamily housing in certain parts of the city by limiting development to one home per lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7736024153&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several California cities\u003c/a>, including Berkeley, have introduced legislation to allow fourplexes. Berkeley Councilmember and Vice Mayor Lori Droste called single-family zoning the “embodiment of racism in our zoning code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re Berkeley,” she told us. “We care about socioeconomic and racial diversity and equity. So we need to act on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 580px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11841205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Claremont neighborhood, then and now. The entrance gates were built to mark a dividing line — between the city’s white residents and everyone else. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council went one step further, \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\"> voting unanimously in January to approve a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city — the first in the state to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, California Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced statewide legislation to allow up to two duplexes on lots where only one home had previously been permitted. The bill \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\">died in the literal 11th hour of last year’s legislative session\u003c/a>, but it’s back again 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\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Biden: ‘Housing Is a Right in America’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first time since President Franklin D. Roosevelt did so nearly 80 years ago, an American president has declared housing a human right. That was a topic we dove into for our final episode of SOLD OUT, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Right to Housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2804177590&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a right in America and home ownership is an essential tool to wealth creation and to be passed down to generations,” Biden said in January, as he directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to redress historical racism in federal housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11847031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, back right, and Tolani King, right, outside a vacant home in West Oakland in December 2019. The women are part of a group called Moms 4 Housing, which fought against an eviction effort after occupying the vacant house on Magnolia Street to protest the rise of corporate ownership of housing at the expense of owner-occupants. Their slogan, ‘Housing is a human right,’ has filtered up to the federal government, with the inauguration of President Biden. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On day one of his presidency, Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-elect-bidens-day-one-executive-actions-deliver-relief-for-families-across-america-amid-converging-crises/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the federal eviction moratorium\u003c/a> through March 2021, and introduced a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2021/01/20/president-biden-announces-american-rescue-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stimulus package\u003c/a> that would extend it even further, through September. The package also calls for $25 billion in rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nBiden has also \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaigned on promises\u003c/a> to expand the Housing Choice Voucher Program, more commonly known as Section 8, to more Americans. Currently, only \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/its-time-reinforce-housing-safety-net-adopting-universal-vouchers-low-income-renters#:~:text=Households%20with%20an%20income%20of,are%20eligible%20for%20the%20program.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one in five people\u003c/a> eligible for a Section 8 voucher receive one, and \u003ca href=\"https://local12.com/newsletter-daily/receiving-a-section-8-voucher-for-housing-is-compared-to-winning-the-lottery-cincinnati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waitlists can stretch on for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s plan calls for making rental assistance vouchers an entitlement program, meaning they would be available to anyone who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iUyW38fOMvoDE5Rb0tkcsAPA7__-X-N5/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We received tons of comments and questions from listeners, so we decided to sit down and answer some of them, and bring you an update episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re planning a second full season of SOLD OUT for this fall. But in the meantime, we want to keep answering your questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So get in touch on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/e_baldi?lang=en\">@e_baldi\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/solomonout\">@solomonout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also email us at \u003ca href=\"mailto:msolomon@kqed.org\">msolomon@kqed.org\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"mailto:ebaldassari@kqed.org\">ebaldassari@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on some of the big stories we talked about last season:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Homeless Housing During COVID\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Our first episode, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Corona\u003c/a>,” looked at Project Roomkey, a state-led effort that ultimately housed 23,000 people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic, temporarily placing them in some 16,000 hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9791597532&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project Roomkey was always intended to be a temporary program, designed to protect people particularly vulnerable to the virus. But when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the program in April, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for more \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how many people who left the hotels actually got into permanent housing? We found that just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847782/thousands-of-homeless-people-were-placed-in-hotels-due-to-covid-19-now-many-are-homeless-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16% of the people in the Bay Area\u003c/a> who left the hotels moved into permanent housing. The remainder went on to live in temporary housing, moved in with family and friends or returned to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11838473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg\" alt=\"Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 11,600 hotel rooms through California's Project Roomkey, which some homeless residents to safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. (Photo by Molly Solomon/KQED)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44965_IMG_6145-qut-e1600382038634-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonja Summerville Trotter looks out the window in her new studio apartment in downtown Oakland on July 29, 2020. Summerville Trotter was able to secure one of more than 16,000 hotel rooms through California’s Project Roomkey, a program to help some homeless residents safely shelter in place during the pandemic. Alameda County officials were later able to move her into permanent housing. \u003ccite>(Molly Solomon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jason Elliott, the governor’s senior housing policy director, acknowledged the real challenge of getting people into permanently affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t succeed 100% of the time,” Elliott told us. “This is a population with some potentially serious behavioral health challenges, and in many cases a long history of chronic homelessness. And that’s not an easy transition to make for a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the counties operating the hotels being used for this program had been planning on soon shutting them down, due to uncertainty over the continuation of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding. But that changed in a big way after President Biden stepped into office in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden announced FEMA would \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/01/president-biden-orders-100-percent-reimbursement-for-citys-covid-hotels/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reimburse 100% of the cost\u003c/a> of that program until the end of September 2021, and would also pay retroactively back to January 2020. As a result, many counties are now planning to keep their hotels open through at least the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Single-Family Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoning Out\u003c/a>” took a look at the racist history of single-family zoning in the country, which began in none other than true-blue, progressive Berkeley. The city’s rules prohibit affordable, multifamily housing in certain parts of the city by limiting development to one home per lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7736024153&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several California cities\u003c/a>, including Berkeley, have introduced legislation to allow fourplexes. Berkeley Councilmember and Vice Mayor Lori Droste called single-family zoning the “embodiment of racism in our zoning code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re Berkeley,” she told us. “We care about socioeconomic and racial diversity and equity. So we need to act on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 580px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11841205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Before-After-Claremont.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the Claremont neighborhood, then and now. The entrance gates were built to mark a dividing line — between the city’s white residents and everyone else. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council went one step further, \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\"> voting unanimously in January to approve a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city — the first in the state to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, California Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced statewide legislation to allow up to two duplexes on lots where only one home had previously been permitted. The bill \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\">died in the literal 11th hour of last year’s legislative session\u003c/a>, but it’s back again 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\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Biden: ‘Housing Is a Right in America’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the first time since President Franklin D. Roosevelt did so nearly 80 years ago, an American president has declared housing a human right. That was a topic we dove into for our final episode of SOLD OUT, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842392/how-moms-4-housing-changed-laws-and-inspired-a-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Right to Housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2804177590&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is a right in America and home ownership is an essential tool to wealth creation and to be passed down to generations,” Biden said in January, as he directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to redress historical racism in federal housing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11847031 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40615_IMG_2315-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharena Thomas, left, Carroll Fife, center, Dominique Walker, back right, and Tolani King, right, outside a vacant home in West Oakland in December 2019. The women are part of a group called Moms 4 Housing, which fought against an eviction effort after occupying the vacant house on Magnolia Street to protest the rise of corporate ownership of housing at the expense of owner-occupants. Their slogan, ‘Housing is a human right,’ has filtered up to the federal government, with the inauguration of President Biden. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On day one of his presidency, Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-elect-bidens-day-one-executive-actions-deliver-relief-for-families-across-america-amid-converging-crises/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extended the federal eviction moratorium\u003c/a> through March 2021, and introduced a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2021/01/20/president-biden-announces-american-rescue-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stimulus package\u003c/a> that would extend it even further, through September. The package also calls for $25 billion in rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBiden has also \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaigned on promises\u003c/a> to expand the Housing Choice Voucher Program, more commonly known as Section 8, to more Americans. Currently, only \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/its-time-reinforce-housing-safety-net-adopting-universal-vouchers-low-income-renters#:~:text=Households%20with%20an%20income%20of,are%20eligible%20for%20the%20program.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one in five people\u003c/a> eligible for a Section 8 voucher receive one, and \u003ca href=\"https://local12.com/newsletter-daily/receiving-a-section-8-voucher-for-housing-is-compared-to-winning-the-lottery-cincinnati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waitlists can stretch on for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s plan calls for making rental assistance vouchers an entitlement program, meaning they would be available to anyone who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iUyW38fOMvoDE5Rb0tkcsAPA7__-X-N5/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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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