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Each person placed will pay their rent with the help of a rental subsidy, which means Liu gets a guaranteed monthly payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's a business woman, but at the same time she has a huge heart and cares,” Yohai said. “Meilin was able to understand that people change and ... she believes in [second chances], with the proper support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852540\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Yohai stands in front of an apartment building.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Building that relationship with landlords is really the important piece to our success in being able to house our clients,' Jasmine Yohai said. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>From Hotels to Apartments\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The need to find additional housing is urgent in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic began, thousands of homeless seniors and medically vulnerable people have been placed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a> hotels to help protect them from the virus. But that was always meant to be a temporary solution. Now, Bay Area officials and service providers are scrambling to transition people to more permanent housing \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\">so they don’t end up back on the streets or in a shelter.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a shortage of affordable housing options, so recruiting more landlords like Liu is a top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County maintains a database of landlords who have available units and has added 65 names to the list since September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county coordinates with nonprofit agencies, who help match clients staying in Project Roomkey hotels with a new place to live. The agencies include Bay Area Community Services, where Jasmine Yohai works, and Abode Services, a homeless service provider that operates in six Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Vivian Wan, chief operating officer at Abode Services']'We're seeing that the market opened up a little more, you know, because our rents are a sure thing. We look a little bit better than maybe we once did.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian Wan is the chief operating officer at Abode Services. Her organization has been able to increase the number of apartments rented thanks to pandemic relief funding from the state and federal government. The softening rental market means they can compete for places that were once out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing that the market opened up a little more, you know, because our rents are a sure thing. We look a little bit better than maybe we once did,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wan says Abode used to rent one place at a time as the need arose, but now they’re renting units in larger numbers, sometimes paying landlords upfront to hold their availability. That way they can quickly place people who are ready to leave the hotels. She says the program has tripled its acquisition of rental properties in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've engaged higher level real estate specialists who are really working with bigger property management companies to secure deals with them,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could access those vacant units, if those are made available to us and not sitting off the market for one reason or another, then we could really move the needle, not only for the folks in these hotels now, but more long term for homelessness,” Wan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that since September, 174 people in Alameda County have been housed through this program. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>More Than Rent\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>People who get housed through one of these programs pay 30% of whatever income they have for rent, and the subsidy they receive picks up the rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the subsidy does more than that — it pays for wraparound services as well. That could include help with grocery shopping, budgeting or moving expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person also gets a case manager who helps them access those services, and serves as a liaison between the tenant and the landlord if any problems arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not just moving someone in and then abandoning them right there,” said Stephany Ashley, Northern California director of housing services for the nonprofit Brilliant Corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"affordable-housing\" label=\"more affordable housing coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's going to be someone working around the clock to make sure that this housing match is successful for everybody involved,” Ashley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Brilliant Corners teamed up with the city of San Francisco and philanthropic donors to create an $11 million fund to pay for rent subsidies and support services. Ashley said the goal is to move 200 people from hotels into market-rate apartments by the end of January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley said the current rental market has created a lot of choices for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can say, 'Hey, where do you want to live? Is it Bernal Heights? Bayview? Do you want to live in North Beach or do you like the Tenderloin?' People get that level of choice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic started, Ashley said an influx of landlords and property owners began reaching out to Brilliant Corners wanting to partner with them. A guaranteed rent payment has become more desirable in a struggling economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like now is the moment to end homelessness for a whole bunch of people,” Ashley said. “The need is great and the opportunity is great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who have moved from the hotels into their own apartment, the program has been life changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11852578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person standing outside of an apartment building, clasping their hands together\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46471_009_KQED_Berkeley_ProjectRoomkey_12222020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mina at her home in North Berkeley on Dec. 22, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mina, who only wanted to share her first name for privacy reasons, was living in an emergency homeless shelter in Berkeley earlier this year when the pandemic hit. She had become homeless after she lost her job as a part-time caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, I was so worried,” said Mina, who was also getting chemotherapy treatments after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “My immune system is very weak. I was afraid I might get COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Mina']'It's like I'm still dreaming. I have my own housing again, I’m so proud ... All I have to do now is take care of myself.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of her medical condition, she was moved into a Project Roomkey hotel and connected to a case manager. Since she was recovering from cancer, Mina had specific housing needs. She wanted to be near a major bus line and needed a first-floor apartment, because walking up stairs was too difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always crying, crying,” Mina said. “I thought I’m never going to find housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last month she got the good news: She was getting her own place in North Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mina got her keys and moved into the one-bedroom apartment with the help of Jasmine Yohai from Bay Area Community Services. After living at a homeless shelter for years, Mina said having her own place doesn’t feel real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's like I'm still dreaming. I have my own housing again, I’m so proud,” she said. “All I have to do now is take care of myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Jan. 26, 2021\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851195/como-negociar-una-disminucion-de-renta-con-su-arrendatario-durante-la-pandemia\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t have time to read the whole guide? Here’s a quick breakdown. Click on the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#research\">Research the rent in your neighborhood to compare prices\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#negotiate\">Make sure to negotiate in writing (i.e., no “handshake” deals)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#consider\">Consider recruiting your fellow tenants to join you in asking for a rent decrease\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#offer\">Offer to pay a lump sum — or leave — if your landlord will forgive a portion of your back rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#petition\">If your landlord is breaking the lease, petition your local rent board or take it to court\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Rent was already \u003cem>too damn high\u003c/em>, and then the pandemic hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between layoffs, furloughs and a shrinking economy, scores of tenants in California have come to dread the first day of every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, tenants' rights advocate\"]‘I think it would be foolish for any tenant not to ask for their rent to be lowered right now.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8% of adults in California are considered “housing insecure” right now, according to an ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=HIR&mapAreaSelector=msa&barChartAreaSelector=msa&s_state=00006&s_metro=41860\">U.S. Census survey\u003c/a>. That’s more than 1.1 million people who are “not current” on rent or mortgage payments. And roughly 126,000 of them live in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state and federal rules are temporarily protecting some tenants from being evicted – on Jan. 25, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856932/california-plans-to-extend-eviction-protections-through-june\">announced an agreement\u003c/a> to extend California’s current eviction protections through the end of June, 2021 – many still face the question of how to pay rent now or in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With them in mind, KQED talked to seasoned\u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/\"> tenants’ rights attorney Joseph Tobener\u003c/a>, longtime Los Angeles landlord Mike Werner and \u003ca href=\"http://hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a> Executive Director Fred Sherburn-Zimmer for their advice on how best to negotiate down rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be foolish for any tenant not to ask for their rent to be lowered right now,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"research\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Research Rent in Your Neighborhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to negotiating your rent, it’s important to do your homework about comparative rents in your area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there has been a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/san-francisco-apartment-rents-drop-35-as-tech-embraces-remote-work-during-covid\">noise in the news about tech workers fleeing the Bay Area and causing rents to fall\u003c/a> — sometimes by as much as 35% — that data only tells half the story, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the biggest misconception people have right now: that housing is scarce and rent is dropping,” he said. “That’s not universally true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, vacancies are often concentrated in “those sky-rise apartments” in places like downtown San Francisco. Plummeting rents in a city’s pricey urban cores can make it look like rent is dropping more than it is in, say, San Francisco’s more moderately priced Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tobener recommends carefully surveying the local rental market when preparing to negotiate with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up local rents by ZIP codes \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca-94118/rentals/1-1_beds/1.0-_baths/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-122.48343922206726%2C%22east%22%3A-122.43794895717468%2C%22south%22%3A37.765702637187104%2C%22north%22%3A37.79575453329095%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A97572%2C%22regionType%22%3A7%7D%5D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22fsba%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fsbo%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22nc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fore%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22cmsn%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22auc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pmf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fr%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22beds%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%2C%22max%22%3A1%7D%2C%22baths%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A14%7D\">on Zillow,\u003c/a> among other online services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, the Los Angeles landlord, said to make sure when looking up comparison prices to consider various factors. One of his tenants, for instance, lived in a luxury one-bedroom unit overlooking a beach, but “they compared it to an apartment blocks away that looked down onto an alley. Not all one-bedrooms, even on the same block, are created equal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tenants make the mistake of only mentioning their personal hardships, Tobener said. And that is rarely persuasive, at least at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tenant needs to be ready to talk from a landlord’s perspective,” Tobener said, which starts by knowing the cold, hard numbers.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"negotiate\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Negotiate in Writing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the most common mistakes Sherburn-Zimmer sees is for a tenant to accept a landlord’s rent-break offer verbally, only to have the landlord subsequently waffle on the specifics of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get everything in writing,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do make a deal verbally, it can help to send a follow-up email saying something like, ” ‘We talked on the phone yesterday. Thanks for agreeing to A, B and C!’ If you don’t do that afterward, it doesn’t matter what you agree to,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other frequent mistakes, too, like signing agreements that are too complicated to understand without a lawyer, feeling pressure to agree to something right away or simply packing up and leaving without exhausting all rental protection options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also good to start the negotiation process early, as it can take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Werner, the landlord, recommends keeping the negotiations cordial if possible, remembering that many landlords are facing mounting losses themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]Werner, for instance, said as more people are staying at home during the day, his trash and water bills are rising. He’s also down roughly $100,000 in rent because of tenants who haven’t been able to pay since the pandemic started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant really has a need and can say ‘I have a need, because …’ that’s really helpful versus ‘You have to do this for me,’ ” Werner said. “It opens it up to a partnership and trying to approach things, instead of this brinkmanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the potential legal challenges of negotiating a rent decrease may seem daunting, you may want to do the initial negotiating yourself before calling in a lawyer, said Tobener (who, yes, \u003cem>is a lawyer\u003c/em>). In fact, bringing in the legal big guns may sour talks with your landlord, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about the relationship. Getting an attorney right away erodes that relationship,” Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once you have your deal all set, that’s when an attorney or tenants’ rights group may come in handy. “Any of the tenants’ groups can look over that final letter you make in your negotiations and make sure all the legal things have T’s crossed and I’s dotted,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find a long list of tenants’ rights organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/member-organizations-0\">here at Tenants Together\u003c/a>. Another group, \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/what-we-do/stability/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>, has offices across the region.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"consider\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Don’t Go It Alone — Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you live in a multi-unit building, organizing with your neighbors can be an effective path to successfully negotiating a rent decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the wealthiest people in your building who moved in and pay $4,000 a month in rent may have lost work, too. It’s worth putting a note under everyone’s door,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think collective proposals work very well, everyone in the building asking for a 10% or a 20% reduction,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. That can mean organizing a building-wide rent payment postponement, or even a rent strike.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“It’s like going into your boss’ office and asking for a raise versus forming a union and asking for a raise collectively,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. “You have so much more leverage and somewhat more protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmy Li shares a San Francisco apartment with two friends in the South of Market neighborhood. After the pandemic hit, both of his roommates were struggling to pay rent — one was unemployed, the other got hit with a significant pay cut and ended up moving out before the lease was up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After talking with other tenants in the building, Li learned his household wasn’t alone. Three neighbors in another unit had all been laid off because of the pandemic. “It was just a pretty dire situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Li and his fellow tenants decided to collectively approach their landlord and ask for a rent reduction. They sent an email and explained their financial situation, and the landlord agreed to a 15% reduction for one year. That brought the monthly rent of Li’s three-bedroom apartment down to $3,400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all felt really energized. All of us learned a lot about being able to ask collectively,” Li said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Werner cautioned that tenants should only consider attempting this a last resort, as it may make a landlord feel under attack and lawyer-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would escalate the crap out of it,” Werner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as Li experienced firsthand, sometimes it works.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"offer\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Promise to Pay, Promise to Leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You may not need to go as far as a rent strike, however, if you negotiate the right numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tactic Sherburn-Zimmer has seen tenants successfully employ is paying lump sums in exchange for forgiving some rent debt. If you can save some money and pay thousands of dollars of owed rent in one fell swoop, Sherburn-Zimmer said, you may be able to convince the landlord to forgive part of your debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do you save that money? “Sometimes those tenants do some rent withholding, due to COVID, until they settle some of the back debt,” Sherburn-Zimmer suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, who owns four properties in West Hollywood, agreed. But he cautioned that proportionality matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a tenant asks to pay $1,000 on $10,000 in back rent and have the rest forgiven, “the answer is ‘no,’ ” Werner said. But if a tenant offers to pay $7,500 on $10,000 owed rent and have the rest forgiven, then, “we’ll move forward. How could you not do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s at that point that describing some of your pandemic-related financial hardships can help — that is, if you describe a legitimate and concrete inability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I’m not going to be able to pay the rent, you’re not going to be able to collect it,” Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another last-ditch tactic for negotiations: Promise to leave in exchange for a rent break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you agree to X rent for the next six months, the landlord gets possession” at an agreed-upon date, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agreement can be especially attractive to a landlord. Eviction protections have some landlords spooked that they’ll \u003cem>never\u003c/em> be able to collect back rent, even though the law says they’re entitled to do so.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joseph Tobener, tenants' rights lawyer\"]‘The tenant needs to be ready to talk from a landlord’s perspective.’[/pullquote]I’d think what’s more important, or equally important, to a landlord is getting paid. It’s security,” Werner said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"petition\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Play Hardball\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, should none of the above work, there are a handful of other tactics in the more confrontational realm that tenants can try. But, Tobener warns, doing so can lead to a rapid deterioration of the landlord-tenant relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those methods is threatening to demand a jury trial, should a landlord try to evict. Because the capacity of local courts has been significantly limited due to the pandemic, there is likely to be a “huge” backlog of cases, which can play in a tenant’s favor, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant keeps demanding a jury trial, the landlord is still not going to see their day in court,” he said. “You can drag it out, drag it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since KQED interviewed Tobener, a recent state budget proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-20/california-eviction-cases-slated-to-double-covid-19\">included additional funds\u003c/a> to help courts handle a potential wave of eviction cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords are well aware tenants can drag out eviction proceedings and other legal issues, Werner said. He once experienced that himself when trying to evict a tenant with a violent dog, ultimately offering her a buyout after she refused to leave, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants can also try looking for ways in which landlords are either breaking their lease agreements, such as limiting housing services (like heat) or \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantlawgroupsf.com/blog/2018/may/understanding-the-implied-covenant-of-quiet-enjo/\">breaching the “covenant of quiet enjoyment” \u003c/a>by failing to address certain noisy nuisances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner warned, though, that you can’t just break your own window and say the landlord failed to tend to the upkeep of your apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering if a landlord has breached your lease or failed to repair something they should have, “you throw it all at them” and itemize it, Tobener said. “No heat might be worth $100 a month,” he said, while losing yard access due to construction or lack of maintenance might be worth more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherburn-Zimmer agreed. “Send a letter to the landlord to remind them this is a big issue. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8% of adults in California are considered “housing insecure” right now, according to an ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=HIR&mapAreaSelector=msa&barChartAreaSelector=msa&s_state=00006&s_metro=41860\">U.S. Census survey\u003c/a>. That’s more than 1.1 million people who are “not current” on rent or mortgage payments. And roughly 126,000 of them live in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state and federal rules are temporarily protecting some tenants from being evicted – on Jan. 25, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11856932/california-plans-to-extend-eviction-protections-through-june\">announced an agreement\u003c/a> to extend California’s current eviction protections through the end of June, 2021 – many still face the question of how to pay rent now or in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With them in mind, KQED talked to seasoned\u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/\"> tenants’ rights attorney Joseph Tobener\u003c/a>, longtime Los Angeles landlord Mike Werner and \u003ca href=\"http://hrcsf.org/\">Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco\u003c/a> Executive Director Fred Sherburn-Zimmer for their advice on how best to negotiate down rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be foolish for any tenant not to ask for their rent to be lowered right now,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"research\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Research Rent in Your Neighborhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to negotiating your rent, it’s important to do your homework about comparative rents in your area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there has been a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/san-francisco-apartment-rents-drop-35-as-tech-embraces-remote-work-during-covid\">noise in the news about tech workers fleeing the Bay Area and causing rents to fall\u003c/a> — sometimes by as much as 35% — that data only tells half the story, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the biggest misconception people have right now: that housing is scarce and rent is dropping,” he said. “That’s not universally true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he said, vacancies are often concentrated in “those sky-rise apartments” in places like downtown San Francisco. Plummeting rents in a city’s pricey urban cores can make it look like rent is dropping more than it is in, say, San Francisco’s more moderately priced Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Tobener recommends carefully surveying the local rental market when preparing to negotiate with your landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up local rents by ZIP codes \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca-94118/rentals/1-1_beds/1.0-_baths/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-122.48343922206726%2C%22east%22%3A-122.43794895717468%2C%22south%22%3A37.765702637187104%2C%22north%22%3A37.79575453329095%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A97572%2C%22regionType%22%3A7%7D%5D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22fsba%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fsbo%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22nc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fore%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22cmsn%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22auc%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pmf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22pf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22fr%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22beds%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%2C%22max%22%3A1%7D%2C%22baths%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A1%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A14%7D\">on Zillow,\u003c/a> among other online services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, the Los Angeles landlord, said to make sure when looking up comparison prices to consider various factors. One of his tenants, for instance, lived in a luxury one-bedroom unit overlooking a beach, but “they compared it to an apartment blocks away that looked down onto an alley. Not all one-bedrooms, even on the same block, are created equal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most tenants make the mistake of only mentioning their personal hardships, Tobener said. And that is rarely persuasive, at least at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tenant needs to be ready to talk from a landlord’s perspective,” Tobener said, which starts by knowing the cold, hard numbers.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"negotiate\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Negotiate in Writing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the most common mistakes Sherburn-Zimmer sees is for a tenant to accept a landlord’s rent-break offer verbally, only to have the landlord subsequently waffle on the specifics of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get everything in writing,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do make a deal verbally, it can help to send a follow-up email saying something like, ” ‘We talked on the phone yesterday. Thanks for agreeing to A, B and C!’ If you don’t do that afterward, it doesn’t matter what you agree to,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other frequent mistakes, too, like signing agreements that are too complicated to understand without a lawyer, feeling pressure to agree to something right away or simply packing up and leaving without exhausting all rental protection options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also good to start the negotiation process early, as it can take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Werner, the landlord, recommends keeping the negotiations cordial if possible, remembering that many landlords are facing mounting losses themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Werner, for instance, said as more people are staying at home during the day, his trash and water bills are rising. He’s also down roughly $100,000 in rent because of tenants who haven’t been able to pay since the pandemic started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant really has a need and can say ‘I have a need, because …’ that’s really helpful versus ‘You have to do this for me,’ ” Werner said. “It opens it up to a partnership and trying to approach things, instead of this brinkmanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though the potential legal challenges of negotiating a rent decrease may seem daunting, you may want to do the initial negotiating yourself before calling in a lawyer, said Tobener (who, yes, \u003cem>is a lawyer\u003c/em>). In fact, bringing in the legal big guns may sour talks with your landlord, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about the relationship. Getting an attorney right away erodes that relationship,” Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once you have your deal all set, that’s when an attorney or tenants’ rights group may come in handy. “Any of the tenants’ groups can look over that final letter you make in your negotiations and make sure all the legal things have T’s crossed and I’s dotted,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find a long list of tenants’ rights organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/member-organizations-0\">here at Tenants Together\u003c/a>. Another group, \u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/what-we-do/stability/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>, has offices across the region.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"consider\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Don’t Go It Alone — Organize\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you live in a multi-unit building, organizing with your neighbors can be an effective path to successfully negotiating a rent decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the wealthiest people in your building who moved in and pay $4,000 a month in rent may have lost work, too. It’s worth putting a note under everyone’s door,” Sherburn-Zimmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think collective proposals work very well, everyone in the building asking for a 10% or a 20% reduction,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. That can mean organizing a building-wide rent payment postponement, or even a rent strike.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“It’s like going into your boss’ office and asking for a raise versus forming a union and asking for a raise collectively,” Sherburn-Zimmer said. “You have so much more leverage and somewhat more protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmy Li shares a San Francisco apartment with two friends in the South of Market neighborhood. After the pandemic hit, both of his roommates were struggling to pay rent — one was unemployed, the other got hit with a significant pay cut and ended up moving out before the lease was up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After talking with other tenants in the building, Li learned his household wasn’t alone. Three neighbors in another unit had all been laid off because of the pandemic. “It was just a pretty dire situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Li and his fellow tenants decided to collectively approach their landlord and ask for a rent reduction. They sent an email and explained their financial situation, and the landlord agreed to a 15% reduction for one year. That brought the monthly rent of Li’s three-bedroom apartment down to $3,400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all felt really energized. All of us learned a lot about being able to ask collectively,” Li said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Werner cautioned that tenants should only consider attempting this a last resort, as it may make a landlord feel under attack and lawyer-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would escalate the crap out of it,” Werner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as Li experienced firsthand, sometimes it works.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"offer\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Promise to Pay, Promise to Leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You may not need to go as far as a rent strike, however, if you negotiate the right numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tactic Sherburn-Zimmer has seen tenants successfully employ is paying lump sums in exchange for forgiving some rent debt. If you can save some money and pay thousands of dollars of owed rent in one fell swoop, Sherburn-Zimmer said, you may be able to convince the landlord to forgive part of your debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do you save that money? “Sometimes those tenants do some rent withholding, due to COVID, until they settle some of the back debt,” Sherburn-Zimmer suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner, who owns four properties in West Hollywood, agreed. But he cautioned that proportionality matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a tenant asks to pay $1,000 on $10,000 in back rent and have the rest forgiven, “the answer is ‘no,’ ” Werner said. But if a tenant offers to pay $7,500 on $10,000 owed rent and have the rest forgiven, then, “we’ll move forward. How could you not do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s at that point that describing some of your pandemic-related financial hardships can help — that is, if you describe a legitimate and concrete inability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I’m not going to be able to pay the rent, you’re not going to be able to collect it,” Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another last-ditch tactic for negotiations: Promise to leave in exchange for a rent break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you agree to X rent for the next six months, the landlord gets possession” at an agreed-upon date, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agreement can be especially attractive to a landlord. Eviction protections have some landlords spooked that they’ll \u003cem>never\u003c/em> be able to collect back rent, even though the law says they’re entitled to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I’d think what’s more important, or equally important, to a landlord is getting paid. It’s security,” Werner said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"petition\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Play Hardball\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, should none of the above work, there are a handful of other tactics in the more confrontational realm that tenants can try. But, Tobener warns, doing so can lead to a rapid deterioration of the landlord-tenant relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those methods is threatening to demand a jury trial, should a landlord try to evict. Because the capacity of local courts has been significantly limited due to the pandemic, there is likely to be a “huge” backlog of cases, which can play in a tenant’s favor, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a tenant keeps demanding a jury trial, the landlord is still not going to see their day in court,” he said. “You can drag it out, drag it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since KQED interviewed Tobener, a recent state budget proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-20/california-eviction-cases-slated-to-double-covid-19\">included additional funds\u003c/a> to help courts handle a potential wave of eviction cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlords are well aware tenants can drag out eviction proceedings and other legal issues, Werner said. He once experienced that himself when trying to evict a tenant with a violent dog, ultimately offering her a buyout after she refused to leave, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants can also try looking for ways in which landlords are either breaking their lease agreements, such as limiting housing services (like heat) or \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantlawgroupsf.com/blog/2018/may/understanding-the-implied-covenant-of-quiet-enjo/\">breaching the “covenant of quiet enjoyment” \u003c/a>by failing to address certain noisy nuisances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Werner warned, though, that you can’t just break your own window and say the landlord failed to tend to the upkeep of your apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering if a landlord has breached your lease or failed to repair something they should have, “you throw it all at them” and itemize it, Tobener said. “No heat might be worth $100 a month,” he said, while losing yard access due to construction or lack of maintenance might be worth more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherburn-Zimmer agreed. “Send a letter to the landlord to remind them this is a big issue. Say under COVID, the access to the yard is a big hardship. The rent board will eventually give you a court date, and an administrative judge will rule on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if they don’t give you a rent break, Sherburn-Zimmer said, “it will freak your landlord out so much it’ll make them take care of the yard in the next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED housing reporter Molly Solomon contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook will focus $150 million to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing as part of the social media company’s pledge in October 2019 to spend \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> on affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook says this new Community Housing Fund would be the largest of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, Apple and Google have each invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year alone to finance the restoration and construction of affordable housing in the Bay Area, after pledging last year to spend billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google was first to pledge $1 billion in June of 2019, and while Apple was the last of the three with an announcement in November of that year, it upped the ante significantly by pledging $2.5 billion. All three tech titans employ tens of thousands of employees, and tens of thousands more through subcontractors. The latter especially struggle to afford to live anywhere in the region, let alone in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time when phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-world-in-2018-from-the-economist-highlights-key-global-themes-to-watch-for-next-year-300558659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech lash\u003c/a>” was gaining currency in publications across the globe, the companies were also sensitive to growing criticism at home that the booming tech sector was responsible in large part for the housing crisis here. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pledging Big Money Just the Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Step one for all the tech titans has been to sit down with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world, including other financiers, local governments, community activists and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>, a public-private partnership fighting homelessness in Santa Clara County, which is contributing an additional $5 million to Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/facebook-invests-150-million-in-affordable-housing-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Housing Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that have the expertise are the folks that have boots on the ground, right? Where is it where we can play a role? It takes partnerships,” said Juan Salazar, director of local policy and community engagement at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png\" alt=\"The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.\" width=\"692\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-160x39.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-687x167.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving says that, for her, the most exciting part of Facebook’s latest housing announcement is the fact it’s focused on extremely low-income individuals and families making less than 30% of a region’s median income. For example, in the Bay Area, a family of four making under $45,000 a year or less would meet that threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s families who are minimum wage employed. It’s seniors on fixed income, individuals on disability. They might be paying 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of their income just on rent every single month, which puts them in a ridiculously precarious position of becoming homeless, and we’re seeing that now more than ever with the effects of COVID,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that any entity trying to build affordable housing faces an uphill battle given the housing market in the Bay Area. Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. 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Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. Geoff Morgan, president and CEO of the nonprofit affordable housing developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstcommunityhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Community Housing\u003c/a>, would like to see the tech giants offer more outright grants than low-cost loans to affordable-housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds me. There’s some high-tech companies that, what they are doing is the reason why we’re able to move forward on a lot of our projects. I just think [grants] would mean we could get deeper levels of affordability for the people that need it most — and we could build more housing units,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyathome.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley at Home\u003c/a>']‘Our communities are not places we want to live and where employees want to to locate if we don’t have housing for everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Morgan praises another tech giant, San Jose-based networking hardware maker Cisco Systems, both because the company was one of the first to commit substantial resources to help solve the housing crisis, and because it’s done so with direct donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked with Cisco Systems to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a>. That property is the very first 100% permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in San Jose,” Morgan said. “Cisco really led the way and perhaps encouraged a lot of other high-tech companies by their actions to publicly donate even more funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that he isn’t excited about the multifarious commitments from Apple, Facebook and Google rolling out this year. “You just can’t ignore that. That’s a phenomenal accomplishment for them to have the will to do it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s also a selfish reason that corporations might be interested in making these commitments, said Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyathome.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley at Home (SV@Home).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our communities are not places we want to live and where employees want to to locate if we don’t have housing for everybody,” Corsiglia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facebook will focus $150 million to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing as part of the social media company’s pledge in October 2019 to spend \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> on affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook says this new Community Housing Fund would be the largest of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, Apple and Google have each invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year alone to finance the restoration and construction of affordable housing in the Bay Area, after pledging last year to spend billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google was first to pledge $1 billion in June of 2019, and while Apple was the last of the three with an announcement in November of that year, it upped the ante significantly by pledging $2.5 billion. All three tech titans employ tens of thousands of employees, and tens of thousands more through subcontractors. The latter especially struggle to afford to live anywhere in the region, let alone in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time when phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-world-in-2018-from-the-economist-highlights-key-global-themes-to-watch-for-next-year-300558659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech lash\u003c/a>” was gaining currency in publications across the globe, the companies were also sensitive to growing criticism at home that the booming tech sector was responsible in large part for the housing crisis here. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pledging Big Money Just the Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Step one for all the tech titans has been to sit down with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world, including other financiers, local governments, community activists and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>, a public-private partnership fighting homelessness in Santa Clara County, which is contributing an additional $5 million to Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/facebook-invests-150-million-in-affordable-housing-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Housing Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that have the expertise are the folks that have boots on the ground, right? Where is it where we can play a role? It takes partnerships,” said Juan Salazar, director of local policy and community engagement at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png\" alt=\"The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.\" width=\"692\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-160x39.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-687x167.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving says that, for her, the most exciting part of Facebook’s latest housing announcement is the fact it’s focused on extremely low-income individuals and families making less than 30% of a region’s median income. For example, in the Bay Area, a family of four making under $45,000 a year or less would meet that threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s families who are minimum wage employed. It’s seniors on fixed income, individuals on disability. They might be paying 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of their income just on rent every single month, which puts them in a ridiculously precarious position of becoming homeless, and we’re seeing that now more than ever with the effects of COVID,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that any entity trying to build affordable housing faces an uphill battle given the housing market in the Bay Area. Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. Facebook has also invested in local companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://factoryos.com/press/factory_os-joins-forces-with-technology-and-finance-leaders-to-solve-the-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factory_OS\u003c/a>, which builds modular housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg\" alt=\"Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley.\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Apple)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Apple, Google and Cisco Spending, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, Apple has allocated more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-allocates-more-than-400-million-to-combat-california-housing-crisis/\">$500 million\u003c/a> toward building affordable housing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784720/apple-pledges-2-5-billion-to-fight-housing-crisis-in-california\">$2.5 billion\u003c/a> it pledged to fight the housing crisis in 2019. Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#tax\">How to pay the Shuumi land tax\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the past two decades, since the Bay Street Mall was first built on ancestral burial ground in Emeryville, Corrina Gould and fellow Indigenous activists and community members have gathered there to pray the day after Thanksgiving — Black Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sacred site is the Emeryville Shellmound: one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">hundreds of shellmounds around the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shellmounds are created by my ancestors as ceremonial places and as burial sites,” Gould \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">told KQED\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley archeologist Nels Nelson estimates that in 1909 there were 425 such shellmounds around the Bay Area — and almost certainly many more that had been worn away by water, time and development.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Corrina Gould, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust co-founder\"]‘What has this history taught us about men being in charge of land? They have done things to the land that is unthinkable … Because of colonization there has been an imbalance, and it’s time to bring it back into balance.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gould is the tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone, which is one of the many indigenous groups in the Bay Area. She is also the co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sogorea Te’ Land Trust:\u003c/a> an urban, woman-led land trust working to “rematriate” land by returning Indigenous land like the Emeryville Shellmound to Indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people show up every year at the Black Friday action in Emeryville “for a peaceful prayer gathering and educating the public about the history of that land and the importance of it,” said Ariel Luckey, who works alongside Gould at the Land Trust. “It’s been a really beautiful and powerful gathering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, there will not be an official ceremony at the Emeryville Shellmound due to safety considerations during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Gould has been working for many years to educate young and old alike, in an effort to “come in right relationship” through Sogorea Te’, and provide a \u003ca href=\"#tax\">concrete way for non-Indigenous allies to support this work\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>About the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gould officially established the land trust in 2015 with co-founder Johnella LaRose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sogorea Te’ refers to the Ohlone name of an ancestral site in Vallejo. It’s the place that the pair’s first organization — Indian People Organizing for Change — occupied for 109 days in 2011. This action was in protest against the city’s plans to pave over parts of the shellmound by developing a recreational public park. The experience “changed me in a physical, spiritual and emotional way,” Gould said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6npOgmxAJM&fbclid=IwAR0yVw4diRCTYDCBdIStB2mJ5JNt0VvY40ZyvQAC3Oa732Rv68dk8OjrPyg\">a recent talk \u003c/a>on colonization, decolonization and rematriation on Ohlone land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe the Bay Area is magic. I believe that there are so many things that have been created here in the Bay Area — movements, technology and ideas. My ancestors have been putting down prayers on this land for thousands of years,” Gould said during the talk. “As human beings, we are just a bridge between the past and the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sogorea Te’ colleague Luckey said “there are 473,000 acres in Alameda County and less than five of them are owned by Ohlone people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land trust does not yet own land outright, but is actively stewarding three plots in different parts of the East Bay, as part of a broader effort to provide a place where remains, such as shellmounds — which have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kept in museums around the Bay Area\u003c/a> — can be returned. “That’s one of the main things this land trust is about: getting those ancestors returned to us and put back into the ground so that we can all heal,” said Gould in \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/purpose-and-vision/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the organization’s mission statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their work also encompasses the cultivation of Indigenous plants and efforts to revitalize Indigenous language and cultural practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CGIxrONBC8c/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gould also emphasizes the importance of it being an Indigenous women-led organization. “What has this history taught us about men being in charge of land? 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(Shuumi means gift in the Ohlone language Chochenyo.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not sure if you’re living on Lisjan Ohlone land? \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/\">There’s a map to check\u003c/a> (the area includes Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek and Vallejo). If you’re not sure how much to pay, the website provides \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/pay-the-shuumi-land-tax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this calculator\u003c/a> to make the estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"indigenous\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization says the land tax directly supports rematriation, establishing a cemetery to reinter stolen Ohlone ancestral remains and building spaces for current and future generations of Indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of it is a way to acknowledge the history and colonization of this land,” Luckey said. “It’s an opportunity to participate in the transformation and healing of history by supporting the work that Sogorea Te’ is doing now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While activists have been elevating conversations around Indigenous reparations and the “\u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/fix/indigenous-landback-movement-can-it-help-climate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">land back\u003c/a>” movement for years, the issue has taken on a new urgency after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/24805/the-significance-of-standing-rock-with-lesson-plan\">Standing Rock\u003c/a> — and the recent Black Lives Matter uprising this summer, which further amplified the national conversation on reparations and racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the past in a way that is “brutally honest,” as Luckey said, in regards to genocide and the colonization, slavery and the “cold-blooded murder that folks committed against Native people” is also an opportunity to highlight the work that Native people are leading in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Land acknowledgments are becoming popular, more Native leaders are becoming more visible,” Luckey affirms. “But there’s still a lot of work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust owned land outright, however they are currently stewarding the land.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> That’s old news to Nikki Beasley, executive director of Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, which largely serves Black communities in Oakland and Richmond. The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.richmondnhs.org/programs#164\">hosts homebuyer workshops\u003c/a> and tries to clear up common misconceptions among many first-time homebuyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People tend to be comfortable in the community they live,” she said. But as a former banker herself, Beasley says there is sometimes “bias” in the lending process. “I will admit, as bankers, you tend to assess based on what people look like, how they dress,” she said, noting that those judgements can be made inadvertently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placing more bank branches in traditionally underserved communities with employees from those communities can reduce that bias, Beasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With scarce access to loans from traditional banks, Beasley worries Black homebuyers with less income may face dauntingly steep interest rates — sometimes as high as 30% — from fintech loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People still say yes to that raw deal because it’s their only option, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, that, in my mind, is a predatory practice because they are targeting people that may not be able to get this particular loan or offer because of poor credit, overutilization of debt, or low income,” Beasley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To counter that, Beasley said her organization helped over 100 first-time homebuyers in her community in 2020 alone, putting her organization on track to secure about the same number of loans they closed in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring information to individuals, keep them encouraged and motivated,” Beasley said. “Because — there is a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three years of bouncing between shelters, relatives’ couches, a tent and other places, Gillette Christa and her 16-month-old dog, Shepherd, had finally gotten into stable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like taking a load off,” she said. “We were able to finally rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now her future is uncertain as she waits to hear where she will go next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like some 22,300 people across California, Christa was placed in a hotel in San Francisco as part of a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838323/heres-how-california-is-turning-hotels-into-housing-for-formerly-homeless-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Roomkey\u003c/a> – an effort to temporarily house seniors, and people who were medically vulnerable, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/03/at-newly-converted-motel-governor-newsom-launches-project-roomkey-a-first-in-the-nation-initiative-to-secure-hotel-motel-rooms-to-protect-homeless-individuals-from-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced the program in April\u003c/a>, the focus was on providing places for people experiencing homelessness to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825653/california-found-hotels-for-10000-homeless-residents-what-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safely shelter in place\u003c/a> during the pandemic. But, he also said it would be a jumping-off point for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just thinking short-term,” he said during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/282059655808032/videos/198302828289931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 3 press conference\u003c/a> outside a motel in Sacramento. “We’re also beginning to process an orientation of focus and energy around long-term supports, so that we can get people off the streets in a permanent way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But data from seven Bay Area counties, which was analyzed by KQED, show that nearly 16% of the people who have already been discharged from the hotels have made it into permanent housing, or 345 people out of 2,196.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 84% have gone on to emergency shelters, transitional housing, friends or family, other hotels paid for with private funds, drug rehab facilities, jail, or to tents, cars and encampments. At least 15 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data includes only people experiencing homelessness who stayed in hotels as part of a preventative measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It does not include hotel rooms set aside to isolate and quarantine people who had been exposed to the virus and whose stays were limited to 14 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People Who Moved Into Permanent Housing in the Bay Area\" aria-label=\"Grouped Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-i3X2l\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/i3X2l/9/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"714\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This data does not include Solano County or San Francisco, which has placed more than 3,300 people in hotel rooms or trailers since the start of the pandemic. Officials in San Francisco said they couldn’t provide data on where people went after they left the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Nov. 2 letter to county supervisors, Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said 49 households had been placed in permanent housing from the city’s shelter-in-place hotels, which she believes is an undercount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties across the state are beginning to close down some of those hotels. And advocates say the timing couldn’t be worse as temperatures drop, coronavirus infection rates surge and many congregate shelters remain closed or at reduced capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced another $62 million in grants for counties to help them transition more people into permanent housing, including $35 million to pay for rental subsidies, case management, help finding housing, and landlord incentives, among other things.\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=KQINC3528388264\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also doled out more than $800 million in grants for some of the hotels to be converted into permanent housing through a separate program, called Project Homekey. Newsom launched the program in June as a way to transition more people out of the temporary hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has awarded $305.3 million to the Bay Area’s nine counties for 21 projects. The projects will add more than 1,600 units of housing for formerly homeless people, according to an analysis of the awards by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still a small fraction of the need. More than 8,500 people have gotten temporary housing in Project Roomkey hotels in the Bay Area to date. Heather Freinkel, a managing attorney for the Homeless Action Center, said there’s just not enough housing to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how you look at it, the big picture is the big picture,” Freinkel said, adding that the Bay Area was facing a shortage of affordable housing before the pandemic. “There is not enough permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Clara County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-zzOPJ\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/zzOPJ/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"306\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the low percentage of people who’ve made it into housing so far, Freinkel still thinks Project Roomkey has been a success. Placing any number of people who have been homeless into permanent housing should be lauded, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point [of Project Roomkey] is an emergency intervention to prevent the most vulnerable people from being exposed to COVID-19,” she said. “Considering all the barriers and the lack of available housing, it’s a great accomplishment that even some people were able to obtain permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hotels Closing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco had planned to close seven its Project Roomkey hotels by Dec. 21, though a city spokesperson said the new state funding would provide more flexibility to keep them open longer if needed. Officials have not given a timeline for how long those hotels might stay open, and have said they plan to move forward with moving people out of the hotels. Those hotels currently have about 500 people staying in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to phase out its remaining 22 hotels by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Thursday urged officials to keep all the hotels open for as long as possible and said they planned to introduce legislation to mandate that everyone in the hotels gets placed into permanent housing. The press conference followed a small demonstration earlier this week, when dozens of homeless advocates took to the streets to protest the hotel closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847951\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sylvia-Hotels-Not-Hospitals-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Viviana, an organizer with Hotels not Hospitals, speaks at a protest in the Mission District in San Francisco on Nov, 16, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",null]'>“The weather is getting colder, COVID cases are surging, and we need to get this right,” Supervisor Matt Haney said Thursday. “The hotels are a critical tool to keep people off the streets.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stewart-Kahn told KQED the hotel program is not sustainable. Rooms cost roughly $260 per night, she said, compared to between $70 to $90 for other types of housing. The hotel rooms come with three meals a day, laundry service, wellness checks, security guards and case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extremely expensive compared to other solutions,” Stewart-Kahn said in an interview. “They were always intended to be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn said the city is committed to making sure everyone in the hotels would be transferred to “short, medium or long-term” placements when they leave and that she believes there is adequate capacity available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can try to wait until there is perfection, but we are never going to get there,” she said. “This is an opportunity to end homelessness for more people in San Francisco than anyone in our field has ever gotten the opportunity to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the governor’s announcement of more funding this week, Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said it wasn’t clear yet how much additional funding the city would get, or when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to incorporating these resources along with early learnings from the (rehousing) process to inform San Francisco’s rehousing plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christa said she expects to find out in the next week whether she will get a permanent home or temporary housing. She fractured her ankle in three places in August, she said, and it’s still healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the fear that there may not be a match,” Christa said. “And my ankle won’t be close to well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, she’s already met with a housing coordinator who is working to get her a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful, but I’m not counting chickens,” Christa said. “I’m waiting for them to hatch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Different Counties, Different Approaches\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While some counties are winding down their programs, others are keeping their hotels open. Officials in San Francisco, Alameda and Marin counties have all said they’re closing some hotels because they’re concerned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would stop reimbursing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA pays for 75% of the cost of running the hotels as part of the emergency response to the coronavirus. California counties have been relying on additional federal funding from the CARES Act, which is set to expire at the end of the year, as well as other state grants or local funding to make up the remaining 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Barker, a spokesman for FEMA, said the federal agency would continue providing reimbursement on a month-to-month basis for the emergency shelters as long as there is need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonoma County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-88Exl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/88Exl/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"354\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Contra Costa counties, which collectively have nine Project Roomkey sites, have both said they will keep those sites open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as we have the resources and capability, we want to keep the hotels,” said Michael Gause, Sonoma County’s Ending Homelessness program manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, 1,121 people are currently sheltering at nine hotels. But county officials say they plan to wind down six of them between December and February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really looking to try to take advantage to make sure everyone can exit the hotels into housing,” said Kerry Abbott, director of Alameda County’s Office of Homeless Care and Coordination. “But that’s obviously a pretty huge feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county plans to keep one hotel open through June for people who test positive for COVID-19 and need a place to safely quarantine. Unlike the other Project Roomkey hotels, which allow guests to stay as long as they need until they get placed into permanent housing, the quarantine facilities only allow guests to stay until they are no longer at risk of spreading the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also plans to convert two hotels into permanent housing, using the state’s Project Homekey funding. And, it’s working to recruit landlords to place people out of the hotels into private-market units paid for with rent subsidies, Abbott said. So far, they’ve signed up about three dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting those landlords to give us a call and identifying vacant units in the community is absolutely a priority right now,” Abbott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marin County: Where People Went After Project Roomkey\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-PS5yV\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PS5yV/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, all but seven people have transitioned out of its four Project Roomkey hotels. County officials said that 35 people have moved into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2020/10/01/san-rafael-board-approves-temporary-homeless-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened a new shelter\u003c/a> in San Rafael for people transitioning out of one of the hotels, said Ellen Hammerle, the vice president of client services for Catholic Charities, a nonprofit that managed two of the hotels in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']Homeward Bound will manage the Kerner Boulevard location as a temporary shelter for 45 people through April, 2022, which will allow social service providers more time to find permanent housing for them, Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited the successful placements on a high level of coordination between the community organizations involved, county officials and the organizations managing the hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us know the clients individually by name and really care about making sure they get housed and stay safe and get the care, or employment or whatever it is they’re working on,” Hammerle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said it’s also been difficult to find placements for people who need mental health services or who have other special needs. That’s a barrier that officials in Sonoma and Solano counties said they faced, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have mental health clinicians on site [at the hotels],” said Dawn La Bar, chairwoman of Community Action Partnership for the Solano Joint Powers Authority. “I don’t think we realized the extent of that need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Place to Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For those who have moved from Project Roomkey to more permanent housing, the program has been a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ellis and her 8-year-old son, King, lost their apartment in June. They were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the landlord raised their rent, she said. The apartment had bug infestations, the air conditioning stopped working for seven days during a heat spell, and the heat had stopped working during the previous winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis and her son King pose for a portrait on the back stairs of their apartment building on Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fight the landlord over the rent increase, Ellis decided to leave. She wanted a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like trying to get water out of a rock,” she said. “That’s why we had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is autistic, and she heard about programs in the Bay Area that might help him. So, they put all their belongings in storage and packed up their car and hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw the ‘Welcome to California’ sign,” Ellis said, “I started crying. It was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King was enrolled at a summer camp in San Francisco for the first week after they arrived. But soon, the money they budgeted for a hotel ran out. Ellis relied on friends to pitch in money for an Airbnb for a couple nights, but they also found themselves sleeping in their car, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 10 days without knowing where she would be able to find a place to live, Ellis got in touch with an intake worker at Catholic Charities who placed her and King at one of the Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Praise God,’” Ellis said. “For a single mom to know there were three meals a day I could come get, that was wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg\" alt=\"King takes his mom's temperature\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis has her temperature checked by her son King at their home in San Francisco. They regularly take their temperatures to monitor for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis and her son got keys to their new apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in September, which she pays for with a Section 8 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a little diamond in the rough,” she said. “It doesn’t have much of the things on my list … no garden, no bathtub, no parking spot … But, it’s secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving every year for the past seven years, Ellis said they finally have a place where they know they can stay for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where hopefully, King can be longer than a year,” she said, “and grow into this wonderful little boy he’s growing into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: This story includes updated statistics from Alameda County. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the low percentage of people who’ve made it into housing so far, Freinkel still thinks Project Roomkey has been a success. Placing any number of people who have been homeless into permanent housing should be lauded, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point [of Project Roomkey] is an emergency intervention to prevent the most vulnerable people from being exposed to COVID-19,” she said. “Considering all the barriers and the lack of available housing, it’s a great accomplishment that even some people were able to obtain permanent housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hotels Closing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco had planned to close seven its Project Roomkey hotels by Dec. 21, though a city spokesperson said the new state funding would provide more flexibility to keep them open longer if needed. Officials have not given a timeline for how long those hotels might stay open, and have said they plan to move forward with moving people out of the hotels. Those hotels currently have about 500 people staying in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city plans to phase out its remaining 22 hotels by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Thursday urged officials to keep all the hotels open for as long as possible and said they planned to introduce legislation to mandate that everyone in the hotels gets placed into permanent housing. 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Rooms cost roughly $260 per night, she said, compared to between $70 to $90 for other types of housing. The hotel rooms come with three meals a day, laundry service, wellness checks, security guards and case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extremely expensive compared to other solutions,” Stewart-Kahn said in an interview. “They were always intended to be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn said the city is committed to making sure everyone in the hotels would be transferred to “short, medium or long-term” placements when they leave and that she believes there is adequate capacity available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can try to wait until there is perfection, but we are never going to get there,” she said. “This is an opportunity to end homelessness for more people in San Francisco than anyone in our field has ever gotten the opportunity to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45976_012_KQED_SanFrancisco_HotelsNotHospitalsProtest_11162020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign in the Mission in San Francisco on Nov, 16, 2020, calling for shelter-in-place hotel rooms to remain available for unhoused residents. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the governor’s announcement of more funding this week, Deborah Bouck, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said it wasn’t clear yet how much additional funding the city would get, or when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We look forward to incorporating these resources along with early learnings from the (rehousing) process to inform San Francisco’s rehousing plan,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christa said she expects to find out in the next week whether she will get a permanent home or temporary housing. 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That’s a barrier that officials in Sonoma and Solano counties said they faced, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have mental health clinicians on site [at the hotels],” said Dawn La Bar, chairwoman of Community Action Partnership for the Solano Joint Powers Authority. “I don’t think we realized the extent of that need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Place to Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For those who have moved from Project Roomkey to more permanent housing, the program has been a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ellis and her 8-year-old son, King, lost their apartment in June. They were living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the landlord raised their rent, she said. The apartment had bug infestations, the air conditioning stopped working for seven days during a heat spell, and the heat had stopped working during the previous winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45955_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_ProjectRoomkey_EllisFamily_11152020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis and her son King pose for a portrait on the back stairs of their apartment building on Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather than fight the landlord over the rent increase, Ellis decided to leave. She wanted a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t feel like trying to get water out of a rock,” she said. “That’s why we had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is autistic, and she heard about programs in the Bay Area that might help him. So, they put all their belongings in storage and packed up their car and hit the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw the ‘Welcome to California’ sign,” Ellis said, “I started crying. It was such a relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King was enrolled at a summer camp in San Francisco for the first week after they arrived. But soon, the money they budgeted for a hotel ran out. Ellis relied on friends to pitch in money for an Airbnb for a couple nights, but they also found themselves sleeping in their car, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 10 days without knowing where she would be able to find a place to live, Ellis got in touch with an intake worker at Catholic Charities who placed her and King at one of the Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, ‘Praise God,’” Ellis said. “For a single mom to know there were three meals a day I could come get, that was wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847945\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg\" alt=\"King takes his mom's temperature\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/King-Jessica-Ellis-Temp-Check-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Ellis has her temperature checked by her son King at their home in San Francisco. They regularly take their temperatures to monitor for COVID-19. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellis and her son got keys to their new apartment in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in September, which she pays for with a Section 8 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a little diamond in the rough,” she said. “It doesn’t have much of the things on my list … no garden, no bathtub, no parking spot … But, it’s secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving every year for the past seven years, Ellis said they finally have a place where they know they can stay for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a place where hopefully, King can be longer than a year,” she said, “and grow into this wonderful little boy he’s growing into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UPDATE: This story includes updated statistics from Alameda County. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Staff writer Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The funds from Prop. 19 will make a difference in fire protection and emergency response to safeguard millions of California homes and lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-laws-california-fires-property-taxes-eaabcbd7506c8cfbc1809216ca6b8ef6\">called the contest\u003c/a> Wednesday, after the measure received 51% of the more than 15.3 million votes cast. Its passage gives a big victory to the California Association of Realtors, which made major changes to a similar initiative in 2018 that voters rejected by 20 percentage points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters passed Proposition 19 because it is a win-win for California, providing needed housing and tax relief for seniors, wildfire victims, and generating much needed revenue for schools, fire districts, cities, and counties as they face budget shortfalls due to harmful economic impact of COVID-19,” said Jeanne Radsick, president of the California Association of Realtors in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revamped proposal, which includes tax hikes for property heirs, passed the state Legislature with bipartisan support and got the endorsement of Gov. 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The exemption is expected to fuel home sales by encouraging empty nesters and other homeowners to downsize to smaller homes without incurring a huge tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on Proposition 19\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-19-property-tax-break,Proposition 19: Should California seniors be allowed to transfer their low property taxes to new homes?' link2='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results#californiapropositions,Proposition 19: Live Election Results' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/KQED-Election-Updates.png]Proposition 19 would also expand those property tax benefits to homeowners who have lost property from natural disasters like wildfires or for those who have a severe disability. But those affected homeowners make up a tiny share, less than 1%, of the total number of households expected to benefit from Proposition 19, according to analysis from the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-proposition-19-property-tax-scheme/\">California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally when people in California buy a new home, their property taxes go through the roof. That’s because California assesses property taxes based on the value of your home when you bought it — not its current market value — and those taxes can only go up a certain amount each year. So the longer Californians have owned their homes, the less they pay in property taxes. This is the legacy of Proposition 13, which voters approved in 1978. That landmark measure froze property taxes at 1.1% of the sales price and capped increases at 2% a year for inflation until a property is sold, a system that can create huge savings for people whose homes greatly appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second piece of Proposition 19 would remove a tax break for people who inherit property, and opt to rent it out or keep it as a second home, instead of living in it. The nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/19/analysis.htm\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> estimates it would bring in tens of millions of dollars a year to state and local governments. A big chunk of that revenue would go to wildfire protection and local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pulliam, consultant for the Yes on 19 campaign, said the 2020 version had “much broader appeal” than the defeated 2018 measure, and resulted from backers of that measure taking into account changes that other groups wanted to the 1978 tax-setting rules, which are enshrined in the state constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about finding common ground, so you ultimately have a better result,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters raised $63.8 million, including $58.6 million from the California Association of Realtors and $4.9 million from the National Association of Realtors. Opponents raised less than $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advertising for the measure saturated airwaves leading up to the Election Day, with a message on how the money would aid in fighting wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also said removing these restrictions would encourage more home sales and free up inventory in a state with a severe housing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, though, argued that Proposition 19 would serve the interests of the real estate industry, which would benefit from the increase in home sales expected from this measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure, like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, also said it unfairly taxes heirs who receive property from their parents or grandparents. 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