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"content": "\u003cp>After a nearly 16-hour standoff, a woman barricaded inside an Oakland motel room left peacefully Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stefani Echeverría-Fenn had chained herself to security bars outside a window at the Palms Motel in Oakland to protest the lack of hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness. Supporters glued the door shut and used furniture to block the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and supporters have been paying to house 14 homeless people in hotels for the past few weeks, including many who are older and have serious health conditions. But their money was running out, and they want the city of Oakland to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have had a small army of volunteers trying to access the hotel rooms that the city claims are available for unhoused folks,\" Echeverría-Fenn said, \"but the bureaucratic red tape is immense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11820453\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_10_WEB-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activist Stefani Echeverría-Fenn chained herself to a window in one of the rooms at the motel to call attention to the need for more hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Justin Berton, a spokesman for Mayor Libby Schaaf's office, said it's Alameda County — not the city of Oakland — that is in charge of housing homeless residents in hotels. But he did note that Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-oakland-opens-trailers-to-house-more-than-130-people/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently opened trailers for 130 homeless residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council unanimously approved a resolution on March 24 requesting the city administrator acquire facilities, such as hotels, to house people experiencing homelessness and to seek reimbursement for those facilities from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berton said the mayor has no power to \"commandeer\" hotels or private properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s important for our residents to know that underneath the demand for officials to overtake a private property,\" he said, \"there is no legal authority or power to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists disagree, citing powers \u003ca href=\"https://d5935193-09b4-4849-ba30-cb49f200cad3.filesusr.com/ugd/a2f81c_d85a2c77ab284485acc392caaf6d89ad.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explicitly laid out\u003c/a> in the city's Code of Ordinances, which state the city administrator can, in times of emergency, \"obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property ... and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 20, county officials said homeless residents occupied 411 rooms in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/04/03/alameda-county-mobilizes-to-get-at-risk-homeless-residents-into-hotels/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotels the county has leased\u003c/a>, including some rooms with more than one person. The rooms are available to people who have nowhere to self-isolate and have tested positive for COVID-19, are awaiting test results, or are medically vulnerable to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Jerri Applegate Randrup, a spokesperson for the county, said there are no more rooms available for people who are elderly or have underlying health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know the need is far greater than our resources,\" Applegate Randrup said in an email to KQED, \"and we're working tirelessly to secure more rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3861px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11820454 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_11_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3861\" height=\"2574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_11_WEB.jpg 3861w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_11_WEB-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_11_WEB-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_11_WEB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_11_WEB-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3861px) 100vw, 3861px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hung signs outside the Palms Motel in Oakland on Friday, May 22, 2020. (Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the demonstration wasn't successful in forcing the city to pay for more rooms, Echeverría-Fenn said it spurred people to donate money, which allowed the 14 people already in hotel rooms — plus some others who wandered upon the demonstration and sought help from the group — to stay one more night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Clemente and her husband, Martin Clemente, natives of San Francisco and Oakland, respectively, were staying at a shelter in Berkeley before the pandemic hit. But Rachel Clemente said she didn't feel safe there because the beds were too close together and there wasn't enough space to socially distance. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"—Talya Husbands-Hankins, organizer with Love and Justice in the Streets\"]'We have thousands of people in Oakland right now who don't have the ability to shelter in place because they are living in encampments, cars and RVs.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had tried to get into one of the county hotel rooms, but hadn't moved off a waiting list, they said. At 47, she has health problems that make her especially vulnerable to the virus. The couple had been using Rachel Clemente's disability checks to pay for motel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been spending $85 here, $85 there, but now,\" Martin Clemente said, stopping short. His wife finished his sentence: \"Now we don't have nowhere to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple met up with organizers outside the Palms Motel, where they helped get the Clementes a room for the night. Later that evening, the organizers did the same for a man and his young son, who also happened upon the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have thousands of people in Oakland right now who don't have the ability to shelter in place because they are living in encampments, cars and RVs,\" said Talya Husbands-Hankins, an organizer with Love and Justice in the Streets, an advocacy organization for people experiencing homelessness. \"This is a life and death emergency, and what we need is to save people's lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3861px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11820447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3861\" height=\"2574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB.jpg 3861w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/200522-37MLK-Palms-Motel-Takeover_04_WEB-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3861px) 100vw, 3861px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Romelita Bautista, a homeless resident of Oakland who lives at 37MLK, joined in a demonstration outside the Palms Motel in Oakland on Friday, May 22, 2020. Activist Stefani Echeverría-Fenn chained herself to a window in one of the rooms at the motel to call attention to the need for more hotel rooms. (Erin Baldassari/KQED) \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Echeverría-Fenn cut through the chain link fence bordering a vacant lot at 37th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in West Oakland, where she lives. The lot used to hold a gas station but had sat fallow for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started helping unhoused neighbors move into the lot. Dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/how-unhoused-elder-black-women-their-neighbor-created-a-community-in-oakland-7cf3c8392864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">37MLK\u003c/a>, or \"The Garden,\" it serves as home for around two dozen people. Unlike many encampments that line major thoroughfares in Oakland, the lot is neat and organized, has port-a-potties and a solar shower. It's home to primarily older women who grew up in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then one of the resident's boyfriends tested positive for the coronavirus, putting all the other residents at risk, and supporters of the encampment moved to get people into rooms, where they could better self-isolate. [aside tag=\"housing, coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They raised around $4,000, Echeverría-Fenn said, including about $2,000 of her own money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Aikens is an Oakland native who has been living in his car for the past year. Although he doesn't sleep at 37MLK, he often comes by to take advantage of donations distributed there and was one of the people Echeverría-Fenn helped put up in hotel rooms. 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One question they’re considering: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801176/what-would-housing-as-a-human-right-look-like-in-california\">How can the Golden State guarantee housing as a right?\u003c/a> This week, state legislators looked at two different approaches that tackle the legal right to housing and how the coronavirus pandemic is shaping the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Right to Housing for Families and Children\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A California bill to create a “right to housing” mandate for families and children easily passed out of the Housing and Community Development committee on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2405\">Assembly Bill 2405\u003c/a>, introduced by Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, D-Inglewood, would declare a right to housing and force state agencies to house children and families at risk of falling into homelessness. The state would need to provide rental assistance, eviction defense or emergency shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke’s legislation specifically focuses on children and families, which she says was inspired by her legislative work on child poverty. Her research led her to the idea that a right to housing was essential to halting the cycle of poverty for California families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco\"]‘It’s the moral thing to do. It’s a humane thing to do. It’s also, during this pandemic, the right thing to do for public health.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her bill is a revived version of Assembly Bill 22, which died in the Appropriations Committee earlier this year. The current legislation does not include an estimate of the potential cost for carrying out a right to housing, something that could prove difficult in a state that is grappling with a massive housing shortage and a homeless population of about 150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After introducing her bill to the committee Wednesday, Burke added that the coronavirus pandemic “has created a realization of how many families are truly one paycheck away from being homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, and the chair of the Housing Committee, has signed on as a co-author for the new bill. Chiu said addressing housing was already a top priority this year, but the coronavirus pandemic has only made it more urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the moral thing to do. It’s a humane thing to do. It’s also, during this pandemic, the right thing to do for public health,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Amending the Constitution on Hold for Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another bill that would have taken the idea of a right to housing even further didn’t make the cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal from Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, would have encoded housing as a human right in the state’s constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Bonta introduced the constitutional amendment, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ACA10\">the Housing is a Human Right Act\u003c/a>, that would “ensure access to adequate housing for all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe we need to do something that meets the problem in scope and scale and in boldness,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801176/what-would-housing-as-a-human-right-look-like-in-california\">A constitutional amendment\u003c/a> has been in the works for months after conversations began in February between Bonta’s office and Moms 4 Housing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787750/two-homeless-moms-occupy-vacant-house-to-protest-oakland-housing-crisis\">a group of homeless women and children who took over a vacant home in West Oakland\u003c/a> to protest investors driving up home prices and leaving properties empty amid a homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll Fife, the director of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/about\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helped organize Moms 4 Housing, says their call to action has only grown louder amid the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of all of the things that we have to worry about in the world, the primary need for shelter — for safe, dignified shelter — should not be one of the things that keep you up at night,” Fife said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other advocates for housing as a human right lauded Bonta’s proposal as an important step toward meeting California’s housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long we’ve known that housing hasn’t been recognized as a human right and certainly hasn’t been implemented as a human right,” said Eric Tars, legal director at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11818462,news_11818184,news_11816648\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tars has spent much of his career researching housing and human rights law, and believes a legal right to housing is critical to address California’s affordability crisis and growing homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s being held accountable, and people keep kicking the can down the road and the situation keeps getting worse,” Tars said. “By making housing a human right, it means the state can’t just do nothing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Real estate experts around the Bay Area knew the region’s red-hot housing market was due for a cool down, but few expected the deep freeze brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">shelter-in-place orders\u003c/a> were issued, the Bay Area’s roaring housing machine ground to a halt. More than 10% of renters haven’t paid rent, and the number of homes for sale has fallen in every Bay Area market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one was prepared for this,” said Gustavo Lopez, a realtor and property manager for a dozen rentals in the San Francisco Bay Area. “No one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does that mean for an industry in overdrive? We spoke to 10 real estate experts, including economists, affordable- and market-rate housing developers, and rental property owners, to hear what they predict will be in store for the Bay Area’s housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The conversations have been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rents Will Soften\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carol Galante, faculty director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> You're likely going to see some softening of rents, or concessions, particularly in the upper end of the market, because, they're just going to want to start to lease those properties as soon as things do go back to some level of normalcy. In order to do that, they're probably going to have to make adjustments in their rents to get people to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Ghielmetti, founder and president of Signature Housing Development\"]'I do believe the Bay Area will weather this better than most of the country as well. That does not say that there hasn't and won't be pain felt by individuals and businesses.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Ghielmetti, founder and president of Signature Development Group, a residential and commercial property developer based in Oakland:\u003c/strong> I think there has been a lot of supply — not near as much as needed to satisfy the housing demand — but there's been, relatively speaking, a lot of supply in the Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, San Jose markets, which is a good thing for consumers. And there ought to be some really good deals in the next year or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gustavo Lopez, realtor:\u003c/strong> It used to be that renters were moving fast to get a place, and they were also overbidding and sometimes they were coming over [saying], “I will pay six months in advance if I get this place.” Now, it's all the opposite, and the landlords are saying, “Hey, I’ll give you free utilities for six months or I discount $2,000 from these rentals for three months or four months.” So, it’s that level of desperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11811558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11811558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS27919_GettyImages-74418004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS27919_GettyImages-74418004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS27919_GettyImages-74418004-qut-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS27919_GettyImages-74418004-qut-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS27919_GettyImages-74418004-qut-1020x657.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of houses stand June 6, 2007 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Housing Prices May Not Come Down\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issi Romem, economist and founder of MetroSight, and affiliated researcher at the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies:\u003c/strong> A lot of people kind of presume prices are going to fall now because everything is bad in the economy and people aren't buying. But that's not actually what we're seeing. What could make them fall are the real effects on the economy. If people are out of jobs and can't afford to buy houses, that will affect housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Igor Popov, chief economist at Apartment List:\u003c/strong> There's still a lot of optimism for home values going forward. That's going to be compounded by really tight inventory. In these moments of tight inventory, which I think we'll see, at least in the short run, I don't think the home values will actually fall all that much, because the buyers that are still out there are still going to be the ones that are really bullish on their local economies and their ability to bounce back from this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Income Inequality Will Grow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Schwartz, president and CEO of the California Housing Partnership:\u003c/strong> People who were previously not in need of assistance are now going to need it. People who previously needed some assistance are going to need more, at least for an interim period. That's something we're all very concerned about. We had around \u003ca href=\"https://chpc.net/resources/2020-statewide-housing-needs-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.4 to 1.3 million households \u003c/a>who were living without an affordable place in California. Now that number is going to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Igor Popov:\u003c/strong> Right now what we're finding in our data is the best predictor of who's able to pay their housing costs, who's able to keep working, is the ability to work remotely. There are some people who can carry about their jobs because their jobs are relying on emails, on phone calls, on meetings that can be held virtually. Whereas people who work jobs that require face-to-face interaction are really being left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big problem is that those two kinds of jobs correlate really strongly with income. High earners are much more likely to be able to be working from home right now and are much more likely to continue to make their salary, afford their housing, whereas those occupations that cannot work from home are also disproportionately high poverty occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Working From Home May Change Where We Live\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issi Romem:\u003c/strong> I think mostly employers are going to realize that they have a lot to gain by allowing people to work from home, even if that's not fully working from home the whole time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ian Winters, executive director of the Northern California Land Trust\"]'We are in this moment where there is an opportunity to put things back together a little bit different or a whole lot different.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's going to allow people to live in different places than they used to. If you only have to get to work twice a week instead of five days a week, you can handle a longer commute. That could re-energize sprawl. In a place like California, where we are, that could mean that communities out in the Bay Area or the L.A. mega-regions could see more pressure on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think this is the end of the city, the way that some people are prognosticating. I think we will have a temporary backlash against dense urban places. The fundamental forces that keep cities in place and the pro-city tilt in public opinion of the last 30 years are probably going to survive this.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>New Housing Construction May Slow\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sid Lakireddy, president of the California Rental Housing Association:\u003c/strong> New development tends to taper off in a recession, and they won't be so quick to start new housing projects. But it was that pressure release valve that was needed because the cost of construction had gotten so high, that it did not make sense for a lot of projects to be built anymore. You saw a lot of projects in San Francisco not being built right before this happened. So, yes, I think you're going to see a cooling off in construction, unfortunately, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Ghielmetti:\u003c/strong> We have one building we were hoping to start sometime this summer or fall, and we still hope to do that. We’re working with prospective lenders and partners to try to actually start that. I think overall, there are a number of projects that were in the pipeline already, so the amount of supply in the balance of 2020 and into 2021 will still be a healthy amount, which will benefit consumers and tenants. And then, I think the amount of new starts will go down because of the economic climate and the reduced availability of capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42470_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco houses\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42470_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42470_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42470_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42470_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of houses in the Mission District of San Francisco on March 31, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Bay Area Economy Is Likely to Recover More Quickly Than Others\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Ghielmetti:\u003c/strong> In the Bay Area, we weathered the financial crisis of 12 years ago relatively well, against the backdrop of the balance of the country. And I do believe the Bay Area will weather this better than most of the country as well. That does not say that there hasn't and won't be pain felt by individuals and businesses. It will be terrible. But I think we will weather it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Margaret O’Mara, history professor at the University of Washington and affiliated researcher at the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies:\u003c/strong> The Bay Area is a resilient economy. It's had many lives. It is a boom and bust economy. I think that downturns create opportunities that can go a lot of different directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sort of opportunity does this moment create for addressing the problems that were around before this moment, the problems that the Bay Area has been wrestling with in terms of affordable housing, in terms of equity, in terms of maintaining economic and socioeconomic diversity across different communities and not forcing people to have these mega-commutes from Salinas in order to be part of the Bay Area economy?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who Will Benefit?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issi Romem:\u003c/strong> Those players that are deep pocketed — think large private equity firms or pension funds or tech companies that have enough piles of cash that can last for years — will be seeking opportunities. And if I think about development, that could mean buying land on better terms that could be developed 10 years down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gustavo Lopez:\u003c/strong> Investors — the ones at the top, that have the money in reserve — those guys are basically just going to come over and buy for cheap. Those guys are the guys that will win, and they always win because they have the resources, they have the money, they have the reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11818196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS14289_Mission-Coop_JRaff-5-of-7-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS14289_Mission-Coop_JRaff-5-of-7-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS14289_Mission-Coop_JRaff-5-of-7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS14289_Mission-Coop_JRaff-5-of-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS14289_Mission-Coop_JRaff-5-of-7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes in San Francisco's Mission District. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>It Doesn’t Have to Be Just the Big Investors Who Win\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ian Winters, executive director of the Northern California Land Trust:\u003c/strong> We are in this moment where there is an opportunity to put things back together a little bit different or a whole lot different. It's pretty clear we need to have an equitable economic structure that takes care of people and also shares the risk of what's happening across society rather than concentrating it. We have an opportunity to change that. And we have a lot of work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11809833,news_11809099\" label=\"What You Need to Know About Rent\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Schwartz:\u003c/strong> We are now at historically low interest rates. There is no better time for the state to borrow than today. So we want the state to think big about this, to think big about what it can get from Congress and what it can repurpose, but also to think about borrowing against the future. Because in moments of crisis like this, we cannot be bound completely by the requirement of a balanced budget or we will fail at addressing this crisis. We will have tens of thousands of new homeless folks who should never have become homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carol Galante:\u003c/strong> There’s been a lot of effort to house the unsheltered. And because there's a lot of money being spent putting people in hotels, putting people in temporary housing, what are we going to do when this is over? Are we just going to let everybody go back out on the street? And it seems to me like maybe there's an opportunity that people will say, “We've got to keep people housed.” I'm not saying that will happen, but I think there's impetus there to not go backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Real estate experts around the Bay Area knew the region’s red-hot housing market was due for a cool down, but few expected the deep freeze brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">shelter-in-place orders\u003c/a> were issued, the Bay Area’s roaring housing machine ground to a halt. More than 10% of renters haven’t paid rent, and the number of homes for sale has fallen in every Bay Area market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one was prepared for this,” said Gustavo Lopez, a realtor and property manager for a dozen rentals in the San Francisco Bay Area. “No one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does that mean for an industry in overdrive? We spoke to 10 real estate experts, including economists, affordable- and market-rate housing developers, and rental property owners, to hear what they predict will be in store for the Bay Area’s housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The conversations have been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rents Will Soften\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carol Galante, faculty director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley:\u003c/strong> You're likely going to see some softening of rents, or concessions, particularly in the upper end of the market, because, they're just going to want to start to lease those properties as soon as things do go back to some level of normalcy. In order to do that, they're probably going to have to make adjustments in their rents to get people to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is set to enact a homelessness solution it once thought unthinkable: city-sanctioned open-air encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, San Francisco police have ordered tents removed from city streets, even at times \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/shotwell-tents-destroyed-as-friends-mourn-homeless-man-shot-by-sfpd/\">slashing them with knives themselves\u003c/a>. Public Works employees have tossed the ever-ubiquitous nylon homes of desperate people into dump trucks on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, however, San Francisco will launch the first of five planned “Safe Sleeping Sites,” KQED News has confirmed, with the hope that unhoused people will be kept socially distant amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a controlled location, replete with services like showers and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tents, once an ultimate bogeyman of San Francisco’s government, will be revered as lifesaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first location was announced Wednesday by Mayor London Breed: an encampment of roughly 90 tents piled nearly on top of each other near the Asian Art Museum – on City Hall’s front doorstep – will be officially sanctioned and allowed to expand onto Fulton Street, between the museum and the Main Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe, healthy, social distance will finally come to Civic Center’s homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second city-sanctioned safe sleeping site is already under operation by a local nonprofit, Mother Brown’s Dining Room in the Bayview, at a park known locally as MLK Park, on Third Street and Armstrong Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now it’s a rogue operation, but later this week the official OK from San Francisco City Hall will see services, showers and other resources blow in like a breeze under the sails of that existing effort, Gwendolyn Westbrook, Mother Brown’s executive director told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wrap-around services are planned for all of the city-sanctioned sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went into the park and set up the tents,” said Westbrook, who had help from Bayview advocates Gloria Berry and Michelle Pierce. “The city left us alone, and now, as a matter of fact, they’re going to help us a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other sites are now under various phases of negotiation to potentially become San Francisco’s next wave of safe sleeping sites, public documents and City Hall insiders confirmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The former Temporary Transbay Terminal at Howard and Main streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Everett Middle School on Church Street\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A former McDonald’s restaurant on Haight and Stanyan streets near an entrance to Golden Gate Park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1jjbKOIgxK7WIUAoDuTcW4FXVMbQgXMUM\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bayview Neighbors United\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mother Brown’s shelter, nestled on Jennings Street and Van Dyke Avenue in the Bayview, sees nearly 70 people sleeping in it nightly. Westbrook, the shelter’s proprietor, said homelessness has grown in the Bayview so precipitously that people sometimes sleep in Mother Brown’s dining room and hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has required many San Francisco establishments to close, or maintain strict social distancing, and Mother Brown’s shelter was no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gwendolyn Westbrook, director of Mother Brown's Dining Room in the Bayview\"]‘No one wants to die from this coronavirus. But if I had waited on the city, people out here might’ve been dead.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Westbrook and other women from the Bayview took matters into their own hands. They walked over to what locals call MLK Park – which on city documentation is called Bay View Park – and measured out the distance between plots themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A renegade camping site was born, from the community, serving the community, with roughly 60 souls sleeping there in tents for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came in early, they were all piled up in the [shelter’s] doorway … that wasn’t working for us,” Westbrook told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she set up the open-air encampment without city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wants to die from this coronavirus,” Westbrook said. “But if I had waited on the city, people out here might’ve been dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Tillman, 65, slipped his N95 respirator mask over and under his 49ers hat while sitting inside his blue tent on Tuesday. Tillman told KQED News that he is only a few years out of prison, where he was for “decades” after stealing cars in his troubled youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground - also known as MLK Park - on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground – also known as MLK Park – on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman was raised in the Bayview – it is his home – but his extended family is largely dead or gone. He also said he doesn’t want to “burden” his adult children with his own life choices. So Tillman has been living on the streets, slowly withering away, he said. Then he found the MLK Park encampment. It not only saved him from COVID-19, he said, but from his darkest thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t say I was going to kill myself. But I didn’t want to live,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he says he feels upbeat once again and is better prepared to find a job. Work is also a concern for Tasha Swift, 33, who is sleeping in a tent with her boyfriend on the other side of MLK Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift is an Oakland native who was living with her sister in San Francisco’s Sunnydale neighborhood so the pair could support each other financially. The two parted ways amid some acrimony, and Swift found herself living in her car while still working daily shifts at Split Bread, a San Francisco restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In early March, Swift was only one tantalizing paycheck away from saving enough money with her boyfriend to go apartment hunting. The cramped confines of her car would be a dreary distant memory, her locked-up knees could heal. They saved every penny, cut every expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know all the things ‘normal’ people do to make themselves happy? I couldn’t do them. I didn’t even get one soda. No eating out. I cut everything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then COVID-19 hit. The Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order was instituted March 17, and Split Bread furloughed its workers, at least, Swift still hopes, temporarily. She and her boyfriend reached into their savings to weather the financial storm, their housing dream dashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in her car was “really scary, I don’t like it. You never know when someone will come up to your window and rob you.” But at MLK Park she’s safer. Now she feels ready to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a whole home, but it feels like it,” Swift said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, more San Francisco neighborhoods could become homes for other folks who’ve been sheltering in cars, doorways and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Citywide Sites in the Works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three sites across San Francisco are in the works to become safe sleeping sites like MLK Park. While not locked down as moving forward – various entities are still negotiating these safe sleep sites – KQED News has confirmed they are under consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the furthest along in planning stages is the former site of the Temporary Transbay Terminal. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6883382-Safe-Sleeping-Site-License-Agmt-Temp-Terminal-4.html\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which holds the lease to that parcel, and the City and County of San Francisco outlines the city’s right to operate it as a safe sleeping site. The document is dated April 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a neighborhood group represented by lobbyist Chris Gruwell has not formally announced opposition, sources close to the matter say it spells a threat to the Temporary Transbay Terminal safe sleep site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sitting on an open space in the Temporary Transbay Center is basically the same thing as being in a shelter,” said Gloria Li, a neighbor in South of Market who sits on the citizen advisory committee of the TJPA, and wrote to the agency to voice her concerns. “They’re sharing common space. It will be a train wreck for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the South of Market neighborhood where the former Temporary Transbay Terminal resides, does not support the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we should bring people into hotel rooms,” Haney said. “That’s safer, more cost-effective and better for public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everett Middle School is another site in the works. After a non-binding resolution authored by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman called for safe sleeping sites, Mandelman called for Everett Middle School’s parking lot to be open to homeless folks sleeping there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These makeshift encampments lack adequate social distancing as well as access to hygiene and sanitation, creating a public health hazard for encampment occupants and neighbors,” Mandelman said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1254884450330001408?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Sanchez, president of the San Francisco Board of Education, agrees. He crafted a resolution for the school board allowing the San Francisco Unified School District to enter into an agreement with the city to allow school property to be used for safe sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he emphasized that Everett was not yet a done deal, he did say the district is looking at only “one site” – Everett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does look like it will be a good site because of the growing number of people on the streets in that area,” he said, adding that ultimately it will need more outreach to neighbors and a vote by the Board of Education to enact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last site in the works is probably the least far along: a former McDonald’s site in the Haight neighborhood, near Golden Gate Park, on Haight and Stanyan streets. Supervisor Dean Preston has publicly touted the site, but did not respond to KQED News to speak about the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Camp Breed’ Echoes Loma Prieta Past\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At City Hall’s front door, just past its grand lawn, lies a homeless encampment of roughly 90 tents sitting nearly on top of one another, bunched together in a nearly textbook example of how not to socially distance safely amid a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That worries Kelley Cutler, a human rights organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness. San Francisco police have parked at the encampment, and barricades have gone up, keeping people sleeping in tents penned into a tight area next to the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still being contained in these small areas so they can’t socially distance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A woman named Stephanie, who declined to give her last name, is from Daly City but went to high school in San Francisco. She had an apartment in San Francisco before falling into a drug habit and becoming homeless. She lives in the encampment near the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie wishes San Francisco would bring more services into the encampment. She spent time in a local hospital for a newly discovered diabetes diagnosis, and said navigating city services to get shelter is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had highs and lows. I’ve had five years of sobriety,” Stephanie said. Now, though, she wishes she could have “harm reduction services, support services, just easy access to vocational training,” so she can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Conrad, 29, from Pacifica, also struggles with a drug problem. His mother thinks he has housing, and he doesn’t want to tell her he’s homeless. He’s trying to help himself, but wishes the city could give him a leg up to stay safe from COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t give the shelter. They won’t give us no hotel vouchers because not everybody here has a so-called chronic diagnosis,” he said. “You know, we’re just kind of stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without adequate staffing, Conrad said, the encampment is “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps its most disturbing feature is a single bathroom for its 200 homeless dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred tents and just one porta-potty in it? The bathrooms are all the way filled up with, you know, remains. It’s just disgusting. Absolutely disgusting,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the homeless community talking to Cutler have come up with a new name for the encampment Stephanie and Conrad live in, due to its proximity to City Hall: “Camp Breed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camp Breed is making it even more challenging to provide needed resources for people,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That nickname is derived from “Camp Agnos,” the name given to a homeless encampment in front of City Hall that arose in 1989 after the Loma Prieta earthquake made San Francisco homeless shelters unlivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11765010 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/homeless-1020x663.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing homeless camps also torpedoed Mayor Art Agnos’ second mayoral run, as his political opponents laid the burgeoning homeless problem at his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Yogi Berra said famously, it’s deja vu all over again!” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnos likened the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on homeless people to what happened during his tenure, post-earthquake. Shelters were unavailable then, much as they are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is struggling with a much bigger number of people than I had to deal with,” he added. So will “Camp Breed” also torpedo Breed’s political future? Agnos didn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And touching on the fight between the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed – the former who wants the homeless to be housed in hotels, and the latter who is enacting safe sleeping sites while calling hotels for homeless unreasonable – Agnos was magnanimous to all involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are nuances between all their strategies, but they’re all working their asses off,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco is set to enact a homelessness solution it once thought unthinkable: city-sanctioned open-air encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, San Francisco police have ordered tents removed from city streets, even at times \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/shotwell-tents-destroyed-as-friends-mourn-homeless-man-shot-by-sfpd/\">slashing them with knives themselves\u003c/a>. Public Works employees have tossed the ever-ubiquitous nylon homes of desperate people into dump trucks on a weekly basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, however, San Francisco will launch the first of five planned “Safe Sleeping Sites,” KQED News has confirmed, with the hope that unhoused people will be kept socially distant amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a controlled location, replete with services like showers and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tents, once an ultimate bogeyman of San Francisco’s government, will be revered as lifesaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first location was announced Wednesday by Mayor London Breed: an encampment of roughly 90 tents piled nearly on top of each other near the Asian Art Museum – on City Hall’s front doorstep – will be officially sanctioned and allowed to expand onto Fulton Street, between the museum and the Main Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe, healthy, social distance will finally come to Civic Center’s homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43039_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second city-sanctioned safe sleeping site is already under operation by a local nonprofit, Mother Brown’s Dining Room in the Bayview, at a park known locally as MLK Park, on Third Street and Armstrong Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now it’s a rogue operation, but later this week the official OK from San Francisco City Hall will see services, showers and other resources blow in like a breeze under the sails of that existing effort, Gwendolyn Westbrook, Mother Brown’s executive director told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wrap-around services are planned for all of the city-sanctioned sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went into the park and set up the tents,” said Westbrook, who had help from Bayview advocates Gloria Berry and Michelle Pierce. “The city left us alone, and now, as a matter of fact, they’re going to help us a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other sites are now under various phases of negotiation to potentially become San Francisco’s next wave of safe sleeping sites, public documents and City Hall insiders confirmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The former Temporary Transbay Terminal at Howard and Main streets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Everett Middle School on Church Street\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A former McDonald’s restaurant on Haight and Stanyan streets near an entrance to Golden Gate Park\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1jjbKOIgxK7WIUAoDuTcW4FXVMbQgXMUM\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bayview Neighbors United\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mother Brown’s shelter, nestled on Jennings Street and Van Dyke Avenue in the Bayview, sees nearly 70 people sleeping in it nightly. Westbrook, the shelter’s proprietor, said homelessness has grown in the Bayview so precipitously that people sometimes sleep in Mother Brown’s dining room and hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has required many San Francisco establishments to close, or maintain strict social distancing, and Mother Brown’s shelter was no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Westbrook and other women from the Bayview took matters into their own hands. They walked over to what locals call MLK Park – which on city documentation is called Bay View Park – and measured out the distance between plots themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A renegade camping site was born, from the community, serving the community, with roughly 60 souls sleeping there in tents for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came in early, they were all piled up in the [shelter’s] doorway … that wasn’t working for us,” Westbrook told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she set up the open-air encampment without city approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wants to die from this coronavirus,” Westbrook said. “But if I had waited on the city, people out here might’ve been dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Tillman, 65, slipped his N95 respirator mask over and under his 49ers hat while sitting inside his blue tent on Tuesday. Tillman told KQED News that he is only a few years out of prison, where he was for “decades” after stealing cars in his troubled youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground - also known as MLK Park - on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43032_002_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Tillman stands outside his tent at Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground – also known as MLK Park – on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tillman was raised in the Bayview – it is his home – but his extended family is largely dead or gone. He also said he doesn’t want to “burden” his adult children with his own life choices. So Tillman has been living on the streets, slowly withering away, he said. Then he found the MLK Park encampment. It not only saved him from COVID-19, he said, but from his darkest thoughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t say I was going to kill myself. But I didn’t want to live,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he says he feels upbeat once again and is better prepared to find a job. Work is also a concern for Tasha Swift, 33, who is sleeping in a tent with her boyfriend on the other side of MLK Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swift is an Oakland native who was living with her sister in San Francisco’s Sunnydale neighborhood so the pair could support each other financially. The two parted ways amid some acrimony, and Swift found herself living in her car while still working daily shifts at Split Bread, a San Francisco restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816710\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. Jones Playground on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43038_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasha Swift sits inside her tent at the Bay View Park K.C. 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You never know when someone will come up to your window and rob you.” But at MLK Park she’s safer. Now she feels ready to get back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a whole home, but it feels like it,” Swift said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, more San Francisco neighborhoods could become homes for other folks who’ve been sheltering in cars, doorways and tents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Citywide Sites in the Works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three sites across San Francisco are in the works to become safe sleeping sites like MLK Park. While not locked down as moving forward – various entities are still negotiating these safe sleep sites – KQED News has confirmed they are under consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the furthest along in planning stages is the former site of the Temporary Transbay Terminal. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6883382-Safe-Sleeping-Site-License-Agmt-Temp-Terminal-4.html\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which holds the lease to that parcel, and the City and County of San Francisco outlines the city’s right to operate it as a safe sleeping site. The document is dated April 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Mark Sanchez, president of the San Francisco Board of Education, agrees. He crafted a resolution for the school board allowing the San Francisco Unified School District to enter into an agreement with the city to allow school property to be used for safe sleeping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he emphasized that Everett was not yet a done deal, he did say the district is looking at only “one site” – Everett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does look like it will be a good site because of the growing number of people on the streets in that area,” he said, adding that ultimately it will need more outreach to neighbors and a vote by the Board of Education to enact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last site in the works is probably the least far along: a former McDonald’s site in the Haight neighborhood, near Golden Gate Park, on Haight and Stanyan streets. Supervisor Dean Preston has publicly touted the site, but did not respond to KQED News to speak about the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Camp Breed’ Echoes Loma Prieta Past\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At City Hall’s front door, just past its grand lawn, lies a homeless encampment of roughly 90 tents sitting nearly on top of one another, bunched together in a nearly textbook example of how not to socially distance safely amid a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That worries Kelley Cutler, a human rights organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness. San Francisco police have parked at the encampment, and barricades have gone up, keeping people sleeping in tents penned into a tight area next to the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still being contained in these small areas so they can’t socially distance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43046_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line a gravel sidewalk off Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. On Wednesday, city staffers started drawing out socially distant spaces with chalk on the street for the tents to stay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A woman named Stephanie, who declined to give her last name, is from Daly City but went to high school in San Francisco. She had an apartment in San Francisco before falling into a drug habit and becoming homeless. She lives in the encampment near the Asian Art Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie wishes San Francisco would bring more services into the encampment. She spent time in a local hospital for a newly discovered diabetes diagnosis, and said navigating city services to get shelter is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had highs and lows. I’ve had five years of sobriety,” Stephanie said. Now, though, she wishes she could have “harm reduction services, support services, just easy access to vocational training,” so she can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Conrad, 29, from Pacifica, also struggles with a drug problem. His mother thinks he has housing, and he doesn’t want to tell her he’s homeless. He’s trying to help himself, but wishes the city could give him a leg up to stay safe from COVID-19 during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t give the shelter. They won’t give us no hotel vouchers because not everybody here has a so-called chronic diagnosis,” he said. “You know, we’re just kind of stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43042_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Conrad at a tent encampment where he currently lives on Fulton Street near City Hall on May 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without adequate staffing, Conrad said, the encampment is “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps its most disturbing feature is a single bathroom for its 200 homeless dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A hundred tents and just one porta-potty in it? The bathrooms are all the way filled up with, you know, remains. It’s just disgusting. Absolutely disgusting,” Conrad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the homeless community talking to Cutler have come up with a new name for the encampment Stephanie and Conrad live in, due to its proximity to City Hall: “Camp Breed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camp Breed is making it even more challenging to provide needed resources for people,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That nickname is derived from “Camp Agnos,” the name given to a homeless encampment in front of City Hall that arose in 1989 after the Loma Prieta earthquake made San Francisco homeless shelters unlivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing homeless camps also torpedoed Mayor Art Agnos’ second mayoral run, as his political opponents laid the burgeoning homeless problem at his feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Yogi Berra said famously, it’s deja vu all over again!” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agnos likened the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on homeless people to what happened during his tenure, post-earthquake. Shelters were unavailable then, much as they are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is struggling with a much bigger number of people than I had to deal with,” he added. So will “Camp Breed” also torpedo Breed’s political future? Agnos didn’t think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And touching on the fight between the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed – the former who wants the homeless to be housed in hotels, and the latter who is enacting safe sleeping sites while calling hotels for homeless unreasonable – Agnos was magnanimous to all involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are nuances between all their strategies, but they’re all working their asses off,” Agnos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>To prepare meals for her family these days, San Francisco Chinatown resident Tina Yu keeps a careful watch outside of her single room occupancy unit, or SRO, on Stockton Street. Yu monitors how many of her neighbors are in the building’s communal kitchen at one time: If there are more than two people inside, she will hold off cooking and wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the coronavirus pandemic, Yu would usually wait in a long line in order to use the communal kitchen, but with the city’s social distancing orders in place – and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814970/bay-area-shelter-in-place-orders-extended-through-may-31\">shelter-in-place orders extended through the end of May\u003c/a> – queuing in tight hallways and cooking shoulder-to-shoulder with neighbors is no longer a safe or viable option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, who shares the SRO with her husband and two young daughters, is one of roughly 13,000 residents in Chinatown who live in SROs. The one-room housing units are typically 80 square feet and make up about half of the neighborhood’s entire housing stock. As one of the last remaining affordable housing options in San Francisco, they are largely occupied by many senior residents and new Chinese immigrant families. There are no private kitchens or bathrooms. Despite being one of the densest residential neighborhoods in the nation, San Francisco Chinatown has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814026/how-san-franciscos-chinatown-avoided-covid-19-panic\">largely successful\u003c/a> in managing the coronavirus outbreak – but residents say cooking and eating at home often still feels like a daily gamble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One form of relief has come in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/feed-fuel-chinatown\">Feed + Fuel Chinatown\u003c/a>, a free cooked-meal program organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC)\u003c/a>, a nonprofit affordable housing organization. CCDC owns about 465 SRO units in the neighborhood, and its leaders realized early on that food security was a key vulnerability that needed to be addressed immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a week in [of the shelter-in-place order], we started hearing reports from SRO families that we’ve been working with, that they were starting to see a significant uptick in kitchen usage,” said Malcolm Yeung, CCDC’s executive director. He added that many SRO residents work in Chinatown’s restaurants – a common starter job for new Chinese immigrants – and because they recently lost their employment, they weren’t able to bring extra meals home from work. So cooking at home in risky communal kitchens became even more of a necessity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Malcolm Yeung, Chinatown Community Development Center executive director\"]‘We’re feeding the most vulnerable, we’re activating restaurants, but I think the most important thing we’re trying to do is just reduce the chances of transmission. That’s why we embarked on this effort.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeung said that although food programs that serve Chinatown are helpful, they utilize a food pantry model, which provides groceries that still need to be cooked. And so, by early March, CCDC sprung into action in an attempt to decrease kitchen usage. They pivoted their employees from their usual affordable housing work and came up with a strategy to feed their most vulnerable clients: about 300 elderly residents that live in nine of CCDC’s SRO buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a huge logistical effort, according to Yeung, and it required partnering with San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfhelpelderly.org/san-francisco\">Self-Help for the Elderly\u003c/a>, redeploying about 60 CCDC staff members and relying on about 100 volunteers to package meals and deliver them straight to the doorsteps of each senior resident’s SRO unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"CCDC community organzier Kitty Fong at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020. CCDC partnered with New Asia to form its community kitchen meal takeout program.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCDC community organzier Kitty Fong at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020. CCDC partnered with New Asia to form its community kitchen meal takeout program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kitty Fong, a CCDC community organizer, said the transition to prioritizing a food program – a whole new line of work for the organization – was tricky at first, but now the daily weekday process has become a smooth assembly line. Fong said elderly residents eagerly express enthusiasm and gratitude for their daily meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I get into the building, they rush out and welcome us, like, ‘Oh, you’re here, we’ve been waiting!’ They are just really welcoming, but at the same time, you’ll have to remind them: ‘OK, but please keep social distancing!’ ” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Helping Chinatown’s Anchor Businesses Stay Afloat\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After implementing the senior resident meal program successfully, CCDC looked at other ways of expanding the program to feed even more Chinatown SRO residents. As part of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfdbi.org/SRO\">SRO Families United Collaborative\u003c/a>, CCDC has a direct relationship with more than 350 Chinatown families who have children under the age of 18. Through fundraising and the support of philanthropic dollars, CCDC raised enough money to set up a takeout meal program, where SRO families can pick up two cooked meals – lunch and dinner – for each member of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program also has an additional benefit: CCDC reopened the doors of New Asia, one of Chinatown’s last two remaining large community banquet restaurants, and paid the restaurant’s owner to rehire some of his staff members to cook about 700 takeout meals for SRO families each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, New Asia looks like a shell of what it used to be: yellow tablecloths drape its table and furniture, and the lights remain mostly off until SRO families begin arriving by around 11:30 a.m. to pick up their boxed meals. Instead of its usual hectic environment, where waiters hustle in and out through its doors and cooks stir fry dishes on flaming hot woks, the kitchen is now a quiet assembly line. Last Friday afternoon, seven staff members scooped white rice, broccoli and chicken into takeout boxes, which were then placed into white “thank you” takeout bags that lined the tables at the restaurant’s entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia.jpg\" alt=\"Meals are distrubted at New Asia restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 5, 2020. A Chinatown housing nonprofit partnered with New Asia to form the Community Kitchen Meal Takeout Program, which provides 700 takeout meals per day to families living in SROs, 5 days a week.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meals are distrubted at New Asia restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown on April 5, 2020. A Chinatown housing nonprofit partnered with New Asia to form the Community Kitchen Meal Takeout Program, which provides 700 takeout meals per day to families living in SROs, 5 days a week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While restaurants in other communities have relied on a similar model to keep business going during the pandemic – by feeding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815327/jewish-deli-transforms-into-community-kitchen-to-feed-sacramentos-vulnerable\">vulnerable populations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810730/east-bay-restaurants-and-health-care-workers-are-hurting-this-grassroots-campaign-helps-them-both\">health care workers\u003c/a>, for example – Yeung said saving Chinatown restaurants was a deeply personal mission of the CCDC’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained that many of the restaurants were hit especially hard, even before shelter-in-place orders took place, because of misplaced blame and xenophobic attitudes towards the neighborhood. The potential permanent closures of key Chinatown businesses like New Asia would also mean a threat to traditions that are central to the Bay Area Chinese American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the unique cultural characteristics about Chinatown are the frequent number of banquets that we host, especially during the Chinese New Year’s period,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because New Asia is one of the only large restaurants in the city that can host so many parties at once – and at reasonable prices – Yeung said New Asia plays a critical role in keeping cultural practices alive in Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was particularly important to make sure that unique facilities like New Asia were able to survive this pandemic,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Meals are distributed at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meals are distributed at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During an average Chinese New Year celebration season – the restaurant’s busiest time of year – New Asia is normally packed and serves up to 10 full banquet tables each night of the week, said owner Hong So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this past Chinese New Year, which took place just as anxieties about the coronavirus were starting to ramp up in the Bay Area, New Asia suffered an 80% to 90% decline in revenue compared to a typical New Year season. According to So, New Asia has regained about 30% to 40% of that total revenue thanks to the meal program. Even though that’s not anywhere near where the restaurant is used to being financially this time of year, So said there is an added value in being able to serve Chinatown in a new way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chinese people have this unique characteristic that when people have shared difficulties, we want to help the community,” So said. “Especially the SRO tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the New Asia takeout program for families, Feed + Fuel Chinatown also manages the meal deliveries to Chinese elderly who live in public housing buildings through the \u003ca href=\"https://sfnewdeal.org/\">SF New Deal program\u003c/a>. In a similar revival, another banquet restaurant, the Far East Cafe, and Capital Restaurant, are cooking meals for an additional 300 Chinatown seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ruqiong Fang delivers meals to residents at Ping Yuen, a public housing building in Chinatown, on April 5, 2020. Fang volunteers five days a week to help deliver meals.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruqiong Fang delivers meals to residents at Ping Yuen, a public housing building in Chinatown, on April 5, 2020. Fang volunteers five days a week to help deliver meals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CCDC also wanted to reach Chinatown seniors who live in privately owned SROs and recently launched a new meal voucher program that leverages the staff and kitchens of 15 additional Chinatown legacy restaurants, businesses that have been around for at least 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Yeung estimated that the number of meals that CCDC helps manage and coordinate through the program’s different components adds up to more than 2,000 meals each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a huge and sudden shift for the housing organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, we went from zero meals as an organization to [this],” Yeung said. “We’re feeding the most vulnerable, we’re activating restaurants, but I think the most important thing we’re trying to do is just reduce the chances of transmission. That’s why we embarked on this effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree that it’s a worthy cause. CCDC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/donate/576781886525952/10107483608081244/\">raised more than $50,000\u003c/a>, which Facebook is matching with another $30,000. Yeung said it’s heartening to see the community’s response to CCDC’s efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve raised more money in the two-week period from individual donations than I think we ever have in the history of the organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For SRO Parents, a Free Meal Is Also a Respite\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As SRO residents stood on blue masking tape markers measured 6 feet apart outside New Asia, volunteers and staff ensured safety precautions: They each wore masks and gloves and some even procured face shields. Their work includes checking in residents, counting out the meals for each resident and diverting away other Chinatown residents and passersby who don’t qualify to receive a share of the meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the volunteers running the program are also SRO residents – in particular, mothers of young children who have been trained by CCDC to help organize and manage the needs of different SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such person is Yanyu Lin, who said CCDC’s takeout meals have the additional benefit of relieving the stress of stay-at-home parenting inside an SRO. Lin, who lives with her husband and 5-year-old daughter, recently lost her job at a laundromat. She said among her chief concerns about the pandemic is the mental toll it’s taking on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though I’m out of work right now, there is a lot for me to do and prepare at home with my child who has to still attend classes,” Lin said. “The meals from this program take one less worry off my plate so that I can tend to my daughter and her academics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816453\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42992_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers and city employees prepare meals at Lady Shaw Senior Center to be delivered to seniors living in Chinatown Community Development Center-owned SROs on April 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42992_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42992_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42992_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42992_005_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers and city employees prepare meals at Lady Shaw Senior Center to be delivered to seniors living in Chinatown Community Development Center-owned SROs on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonnie Zhao, a stay-at-home mom who lives in an SRO unit with her husband and 8-year-old son, agreed. Like many SRO buildings, Zhao’s has the added challenge of not even having a communal kitchen – simple meals only can be quickly assembled inside her family’s room. But Zhao said that with her son staying at home from school, there isn’t much time for her to do even that while taking care of him. Zhao said the anxiety of living in a cramped building with her neighbors has started affecting her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest fear is if someone in the building became infected and spread it to the rest of us,” Zhao said. “Even now, my son hasn’t left the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tina Yu, who also volunteers each day for the takeout program, added that because it’s been so difficult to manage both her daughters’ school and play times in such a small room, CCDC’s meals provide a much needed peace of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11814026 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/image-1020x765.png']“It lessens the frequency of using the communal kitchen facilities, and I don’t have to worry about lunch,” Yu said. “In fact, I can eat a little bit of this meal and save some of it for breakfast the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Yu said it’s fulfilling to lend a hand to a program she directly benefits from. “Because I feel like I can relate to these families’ concerns, being able to help others is a joyful thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu’s husband works at night as a janitor, and she’s worried that her husband many contract the coronavirus and bring it back to their SRO home. “If he becomes infected, I’d have no idea where we’d go,” she said. “My biggest hope is that one day we can move out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeung admits that despite all the extensive and thorough efforts that CCDC and other Chinatown community members have made to prevent a coronavirus outbreak in the neighborhood, the fear never dissipates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re holding our breaths,” Yeung said. “I’m just waiting for, preparing for the moment that there is an outbreak … I hope it’s not inevitable, but I think we need to keep preparing as if it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To prepare meals for her family these days, San Francisco Chinatown resident Tina Yu keeps a careful watch outside of her single room occupancy unit, or SRO, on Stockton Street. Yu monitors how many of her neighbors are in the building’s communal kitchen at one time: If there are more than two people inside, she will hold off cooking and wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the coronavirus pandemic, Yu would usually wait in a long line in order to use the communal kitchen, but with the city’s social distancing orders in place – and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814970/bay-area-shelter-in-place-orders-extended-through-may-31\">shelter-in-place orders extended through the end of May\u003c/a> – queuing in tight hallways and cooking shoulder-to-shoulder with neighbors is no longer a safe or viable option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, who shares the SRO with her husband and two young daughters, is one of roughly 13,000 residents in Chinatown who live in SROs. The one-room housing units are typically 80 square feet and make up about half of the neighborhood’s entire housing stock. As one of the last remaining affordable housing options in San Francisco, they are largely occupied by many senior residents and new Chinese immigrant families. There are no private kitchens or bathrooms. Despite being one of the densest residential neighborhoods in the nation, San Francisco Chinatown has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814026/how-san-franciscos-chinatown-avoided-covid-19-panic\">largely successful\u003c/a> in managing the coronavirus outbreak – but residents say cooking and eating at home often still feels like a daily gamble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One form of relief has come in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/feed-fuel-chinatown\">Feed + Fuel Chinatown\u003c/a>, a free cooked-meal program organized by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC)\u003c/a>, a nonprofit affordable housing organization. CCDC owns about 465 SRO units in the neighborhood, and its leaders realized early on that food security was a key vulnerability that needed to be addressed immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeung said that although food programs that serve Chinatown are helpful, they utilize a food pantry model, which provides groceries that still need to be cooked. And so, by early March, CCDC sprung into action in an attempt to decrease kitchen usage. They pivoted their employees from their usual affordable housing work and came up with a strategy to feed their most vulnerable clients: about 300 elderly residents that live in nine of CCDC’s SRO buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a huge logistical effort, according to Yeung, and it required partnering with San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfhelpelderly.org/san-francisco\">Self-Help for the Elderly\u003c/a>, redeploying about 60 CCDC staff members and relying on about 100 volunteers to package meals and deliver them straight to the doorsteps of each senior resident’s SRO unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"CCDC community organzier Kitty Fong at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020. CCDC partnered with New Asia to form its community kitchen meal takeout program.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43015_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCDC community organzier Kitty Fong at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020. CCDC partnered with New Asia to form its community kitchen meal takeout program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kitty Fong, a CCDC community organizer, said the transition to prioritizing a food program – a whole new line of work for the organization – was tricky at first, but now the daily weekday process has become a smooth assembly line. Fong said elderly residents eagerly express enthusiasm and gratitude for their daily meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I get into the building, they rush out and welcome us, like, ‘Oh, you’re here, we’ve been waiting!’ They are just really welcoming, but at the same time, you’ll have to remind them: ‘OK, but please keep social distancing!’ ” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Helping Chinatown’s Anchor Businesses Stay Afloat\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After implementing the senior resident meal program successfully, CCDC looked at other ways of expanding the program to feed even more Chinatown SRO residents. As part of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfdbi.org/SRO\">SRO Families United Collaborative\u003c/a>, CCDC has a direct relationship with more than 350 Chinatown families who have children under the age of 18. Through fundraising and the support of philanthropic dollars, CCDC raised enough money to set up a takeout meal program, where SRO families can pick up two cooked meals – lunch and dinner – for each member of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program also has an additional benefit: CCDC reopened the doors of New Asia, one of Chinatown’s last two remaining large community banquet restaurants, and paid the restaurant’s owner to rehire some of his staff members to cook about 700 takeout meals for SRO families each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, New Asia looks like a shell of what it used to be: yellow tablecloths drape its table and furniture, and the lights remain mostly off until SRO families begin arriving by around 11:30 a.m. to pick up their boxed meals. Instead of its usual hectic environment, where waiters hustle in and out through its doors and cooks stir fry dishes on flaming hot woks, the kitchen is now a quiet assembly line. Last Friday afternoon, seven staff members scooped white rice, broccoli and chicken into takeout boxes, which were then placed into white “thank you” takeout bags that lined the tables at the restaurant’s entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia.jpg\" alt=\"Meals are distrubted at New Asia restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 5, 2020. A Chinatown housing nonprofit partnered with New Asia to form the Community Kitchen Meal Takeout Program, which provides 700 takeout meals per day to families living in SROs, 5 days a week.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Chinatown-Meal-Pickup-new-asia-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meals are distrubted at New Asia restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown on April 5, 2020. A Chinatown housing nonprofit partnered with New Asia to form the Community Kitchen Meal Takeout Program, which provides 700 takeout meals per day to families living in SROs, 5 days a week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While restaurants in other communities have relied on a similar model to keep business going during the pandemic – by feeding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815327/jewish-deli-transforms-into-community-kitchen-to-feed-sacramentos-vulnerable\">vulnerable populations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810730/east-bay-restaurants-and-health-care-workers-are-hurting-this-grassroots-campaign-helps-them-both\">health care workers\u003c/a>, for example – Yeung said saving Chinatown restaurants was a deeply personal mission of the CCDC’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explained that many of the restaurants were hit especially hard, even before shelter-in-place orders took place, because of misplaced blame and xenophobic attitudes towards the neighborhood. The potential permanent closures of key Chinatown businesses like New Asia would also mean a threat to traditions that are central to the Bay Area Chinese American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the unique cultural characteristics about Chinatown are the frequent number of banquets that we host, especially during the Chinese New Year’s period,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because New Asia is one of the only large restaurants in the city that can host so many parties at once – and at reasonable prices – Yeung said New Asia plays a critical role in keeping cultural practices alive in Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was particularly important to make sure that unique facilities like New Asia were able to survive this pandemic,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Meals are distributed at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43010_025_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meals are distributed at New Asia restaurant in Chinatown on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During an average Chinese New Year celebration season – the restaurant’s busiest time of year – New Asia is normally packed and serves up to 10 full banquet tables each night of the week, said owner Hong So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this past Chinese New Year, which took place just as anxieties about the coronavirus were starting to ramp up in the Bay Area, New Asia suffered an 80% to 90% decline in revenue compared to a typical New Year season. According to So, New Asia has regained about 30% to 40% of that total revenue thanks to the meal program. Even though that’s not anywhere near where the restaurant is used to being financially this time of year, So said there is an added value in being able to serve Chinatown in a new way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chinese people have this unique characteristic that when people have shared difficulties, we want to help the community,” So said. “Especially the SRO tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the New Asia takeout program for families, Feed + Fuel Chinatown also manages the meal deliveries to Chinese elderly who live in public housing buildings through the \u003ca href=\"https://sfnewdeal.org/\">SF New Deal program\u003c/a>. In a similar revival, another banquet restaurant, the Far East Cafe, and Capital Restaurant, are cooking meals for an additional 300 Chinatown seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ruqiong Fang delivers meals to residents at Ping Yuen, a public housing building in Chinatown, on April 5, 2020. Fang volunteers five days a week to help deliver meals.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43024_042_KQED_SanFrancisco_ChinatownMeals_05052020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruqiong Fang delivers meals to residents at Ping Yuen, a public housing building in Chinatown, on April 5, 2020. Fang volunteers five days a week to help deliver meals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CCDC also wanted to reach Chinatown seniors who live in privately owned SROs and recently launched a new meal voucher program that leverages the staff and kitchens of 15 additional Chinatown legacy restaurants, businesses that have been around for at least 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Yeung estimated that the number of meals that CCDC helps manage and coordinate through the program’s different components adds up to more than 2,000 meals each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a huge and sudden shift for the housing organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, we went from zero meals as an organization to [this],” Yeung said. “We’re feeding the most vulnerable, we’re activating restaurants, but I think the most important thing we’re trying to do is just reduce the chances of transmission. That’s why we embarked on this effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree that it’s a worthy cause. CCDC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/donate/576781886525952/10107483608081244/\">raised more than $50,000\u003c/a>, which Facebook is matching with another $30,000. Yeung said it’s heartening to see the community’s response to CCDC’s efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve raised more money in the two-week period from individual donations than I think we ever have in the history of the organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For SRO Parents, a Free Meal Is Also a Respite\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As SRO residents stood on blue masking tape markers measured 6 feet apart outside New Asia, volunteers and staff ensured safety precautions: They each wore masks and gloves and some even procured face shields. Their work includes checking in residents, counting out the meals for each resident and diverting away other Chinatown residents and passersby who don’t qualify to receive a share of the meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the volunteers running the program are also SRO residents – in particular, mothers of young children who have been trained by CCDC to help organize and manage the needs of different SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such person is Yanyu Lin, who said CCDC’s takeout meals have the additional benefit of relieving the stress of stay-at-home parenting inside an SRO. Lin, who lives with her husband and 5-year-old daughter, recently lost her job at a laundromat. 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Like many SRO buildings, Zhao’s has the added challenge of not even having a communal kitchen – simple meals only can be quickly assembled inside her family’s room. But Zhao said that with her son staying at home from school, there isn’t much time for her to do even that while taking care of him. Zhao said the anxiety of living in a cramped building with her neighbors has started affecting her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest fear is if someone in the building became infected and spread it to the rest of us,” Zhao said. “Even now, my son hasn’t left the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tina Yu, who also volunteers each day for the takeout program, added that because it’s been so difficult to manage both her daughters’ school and play times in such a small room, CCDC’s meals provide a much needed peace of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Quiver Watts, an organizer with Reclaim SF, said it’s “unforgivable” that so many units are vacant in San Francisco while thousands don’t have a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leaving people outside is a crisis in any moment,” Watts said, “but to do so during a global pandemic is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11797001,news_11796166,news_11795944\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts said Reclaim SF was inspired by the Moms 4 Housing protest, which involved a group of mothers experiencing homeless taking over a West Oakland home to protest speculation in the real estate market. The demonstration lasted for more two months and ended with the protesters reaching an agreement with the city of Oakland to buy the contested house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moms 4 Housing argued that housing is a human right — a principle Watts echoed on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our neighbors are dying on the streets and in congregate shelters,” Watts said. “They have nowhere to shelter in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home on 19th Street in San Francisco has been vacant for years, said Monica Covington, who was commissioned by the property’s former owners to sell the two-story walk-up. It was last listed at nearly $2.5 million, she said, but needed significant work to refurbish. That was about three to four years ago, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even then, it had been vacant for a number of years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covington wasn’t sure what happened to the property but said the investment group who had hired her, Citadel Real Estate, no longer owned it. 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Demonstrators called on landlords, mortgage holders and the government to suspend rent and mortgage payments during the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Erin Baldassari/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orona is a former San Francisco firefighter who is now disabled and can’t work. She said she has nowhere to go because San Francisco’s rents are astronomically high. According to the real estate website Apartment List, the average two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was $3,094 in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cold out here and there are no places for us to go,” Orona said. “Our city leaders and (Mayor) London Breed need to make something happen and make something happen now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists have been stepping up pressure on San Francisco Mayor London Breed to move more homeless residents into hotels to protect them from becoming ill during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday night, a few dozen people spread out in front of Breed’s home, staging a die-in to call her attention to the plight of people living in emergency shelters and transitional housing programs. More than 100 residents and staff at Multi-Service Center South, the city’s largest navigation center, tested positive for the virus, along with 22 residents and staff at Casa Quezada, a transitional housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it has secured leases for more than 2,700 hotel rooms, but only a little over 1,000 of those rooms are occupied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re continuing to move more people into these sites every day as we respond to this pandemic,” said Andy Lynch, a spokesperson for Breed’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an emergency ordinance last month demanding the city lease at least 8,500 rooms — a strategy Breed has called “unrealistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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California’s shelter-in-place order had been in effect for a little over a week, but Krueger was already thinking of the recession that was sure to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions would soon be out of work, so Krueger thought the next step would be to organize a rent strike — withholding rent as a form of protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here, of all the places, it seemed like rent strikes would be a life-preserving measure,” Krueger said. “I just don’t see how else you would get property owners to respond without that large level of collective action and solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nick Thacker, tenant organizer\"]‘For many people, the housing market was already a crisis in their lives. When the pandemic came down, it just brought that crisis much closer to many more people.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to start, Krueger decided to try to form a tenants’ council, an organization representing residents in a single building, or who share the same landlord, to bargain collectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krueger’s not alone. Tenants’ rights organizers say they are seeing more tenants, like Krueger, turn to collective action. And on Friday, hundreds of protests are planned across the country to decry high rents, mounting debt due to the pandemic and growing income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discontent over growing financial inequality had already been simmering since the Great Recession. Now activists say the pandemic could be the spark that ignites a nationwide movement for housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2608\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300.jpg 2608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-160x78.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-800x389.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-1020x496.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-1920x933.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2608px) 100vw, 2608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Krueger posted this note in late March inside the laundry room to connect to tenants. (Photo courtesy Jason Krueger)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick Thacker, a tenant organizer with the Bay Area Tenant and Neighborhood Councils, or Bay TANC, said his organization has grown tenfold, from 25 members to around 240, since shelter-in-place orders were issued last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the housing market was already a crisis in their lives,” Thacker said. “When the pandemic came down, it just brought that crisis much closer to many more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 18, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/newsroom.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 3.3 million Californians\u003c/a> had filed for unemployment insurance. And close to 11% of renters in the state weren’t able to pay rent at all in April, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/many-americans-couldnt-pay-april-rent/\">a recent Apartment List survey\u003c/a>, a figure that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812716/a-renters-market-power-shifts-from-landlords-to-tenants-with-evictions-off-the-table-in-california\">property managers in the Bay Area expect to double next month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, is one in a coalition of groups across the state organizing a campaign to withhold rent in May with the goal of getting 10,000 Californians to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Bulnes, who lives in East Oakland, is withholding her May rent as part of the strike. The early-childhood educator lost her job when the shelter-in-place order began. She and her husband rely on her income to pay their $2,600 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not enough to simply suspend evictions during the shelter in place, Bulnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for rent forgiveness,” she said, adding that without it, she and her husband could end up homeless. “We want to get back to a normal life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815355\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Bulnes’ children’s day care center, which she runs out of her East Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Cancel Rent\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rent strike is part of the so-called “cancel rent” movement, a national call to landlords, financial institutions and legislators to forgive rental or mortgage debt, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810140/coronavirus-rent-strike-in-the-bay-area-tenants-giving-the-governor-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continuation of similar strikes\u003c/a> that occurred on April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Zamudio, associate director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, said tenants shouldn’t be forced to take on a mountain of debt due to the shelter-in-place orders that are meant to keep everyone safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people get laid off, that’s 100% lost income,” Zamudio said. “It’s not deferred income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any effort to cancel rent entirely could run into legal roadblocks. UCLA law professor Scott Cummings said landlords could argue rent cancellation strips them of their property rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will invite challenges around taking property that landlords believe they have a vested interest in,” Cummings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cummings said it’s not clear if local, state or federal governments have the power to break contracts between renters and property owners, or between financial institutions and mortgage holders, even during times of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea of canceling rent is appealing politically and as a matter of solidarity,” he said. “But you do run into more significant legal problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42492_007_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42492_007_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42492_007_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42492_007_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42492_007_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra Thomas hangs a ‘Rent Strike’ banner at her apartment building in Oakland on April 1, 2020. Thomas is withholding her rent in April because she doesn’t think it’s fair to have to decide between rent and food. She said, “That’s a choice that a lot of people are having to make this month.” Organizers are hoping more tenants will join the strike in May. (Beth LaBerge/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cummings and others believe a more realistic — and legally feasible — option would be for the government to set up a renter relief fund, to provide financial support for tenants unable to make payments during shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Rental Housing Association, which represents landlords, is calling on the state to do just that. Landlords need rental income to pay property taxes and maintain their buildings, among other expenses, said Sid Lakireddy, the group’s president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we stop paying our bills, there will be huge ripple effects on the economy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/i/status/1256277955237408768\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the association has urged landlords to work with their tenants to get through the state of emergency. Jim Siegel, a property owner and owner of Distractions, a clothing store in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, has offered his tenants who were laid off or furloughed a 25% reduction in the rent, or the opportunity to repay the full balance within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Landlords are people, too,” Siegel said, “with expenses like everyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Aid on the Way?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, advocates are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to issue an executive order to forgive rent and mortgage debts, but he’s so far shown no signs he plans to do that. And legislators say it’s unlikely there will be support for a statewide fund to pay for missed rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does have a $20 billion “rainy day” fund, but state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said that money will likely be used to prop up schools, hospitals, homeless services, mental health care and other social welfare programs where residents rely on the state. Unlike the federal government, California’s constitution requires legislators to approve a balanced budget each year, meaning it can’t take on debt to provide temporary relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will have to make very, very hard choices,” Wiener said. “That’s why it’s all the more important for the federal government to step up with even more stimulus, including strong support for states that cannot deficit spend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42496_008_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42496_008_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42496_008_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42496_008_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42496_008_KQED_Oakland_RentStrike_04012020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ‘Oakland Rent Strike’ banner hangs in the window of a home in Oakland on April 1, 2020. Tenants’ rights groups are organizing a second round of protests for May 1, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, have co-authored legislation that would provide renters with some relief, while still acknowledging owners’ expenses. The bill offers a 25% rent reduction and calls on judges to impose a payment plan for tenants. It would only apply in cases where tenants are facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late March, Congress passed historic national emergency relief packages to fund hospitals, stabilize small businesses and bailout entire industries. But the 43 million Americans who rent their houses and apartments have so far been left out of those efforts. Needless to say, the $1,200 federal stimulus checks that many tenants are eligible for don’t go very far in the Bay Area: The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was $3,094 in April, according to Apartment List.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/its-time-reinforce-housing-safety-net-adopting-universal-vouchers-low-income-renters\">a report from the Urban Institute\u003c/a> estimates that struggling U.S. households with a job loss would need a boost of at least $100 billion to continue paying their rent during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’ll just continue to grow if we don’t find a permanent way of providing rental assistance to those renters that really need the assistance most,” said Urban Institute researcher Corianne Scally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11812716,news_11810140,news_11809833]U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, also recently introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6515?s=1&r=9\">Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act\u003c/a>, which would include a federally financed relief fund to compensate landlords and mortgage holders for missed rent, extending through the pandemic for up to a year. However, it’s unlikely the bill will get much traction with a Republican-controlled Senate and White House both previously been opposed to such measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Local Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, tenants are largely working building-by-building to organize and respond to the needs of their neighbors. In Alameda, Jason Krueger threatened to withhold rent in an effort to help negotiate rent forgiveness for another neighbor, a woman in her 70s whose catering business was forced to close during the shelter-in-place order. As a result, the woman didn’t have to pay rent in April and will have reduced rent payments in May and June, Krueger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krueger is working to convince neighbors to enter into a formal tenants’ council and then plans to pitch the idea to renters in the landlord’s 10 other buildings. Together, they might petition the landlord to remove the rental increase that was due to take place in April, Krueger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was wanting to take giant steps and do a strike and ask for a lot. But I learned that probably wasn’t the best approach,” Krueger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better to start with small steps, Krueger added, and build from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizer Nick Thacker thinks the pandemic could be a turning point for a more unified tenants’ rights movement both within California and across the nation. As more tenants become organized, they will demand larger concessions from landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contradictions in society are more apparent than ever before,” he said. “This is just the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to start, Krueger decided to try to form a tenants’ council, an organization representing residents in a single building, or who share the same landlord, to bargain collectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krueger’s not alone. Tenants’ rights organizers say they are seeing more tenants, like Krueger, turn to collective action. And on Friday, hundreds of protests are planned across the country to decry high rents, mounting debt due to the pandemic and growing income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discontent over growing financial inequality had already been simmering since the Great Recession. Now activists say the pandemic could be the spark that ignites a nationwide movement for housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2608px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815353\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2608\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300.jpg 2608w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-160x78.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-800x389.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-1020x496.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/IMG_1300-1920x933.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2608px) 100vw, 2608px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Krueger posted this note in late March inside the laundry room to connect to tenants. (Photo courtesy Jason Krueger)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick Thacker, a tenant organizer with the Bay Area Tenant and Neighborhood Councils, or Bay TANC, said his organization has grown tenfold, from 25 members to around 240, since shelter-in-place orders were issued last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people, the housing market was already a crisis in their lives,” Thacker said. “When the pandemic came down, it just brought that crisis much closer to many more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of April 18, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/newsroom.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 3.3 million Californians\u003c/a> had filed for unemployment insurance. And close to 11% of renters in the state weren’t able to pay rent at all in April, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/many-americans-couldnt-pay-april-rent/\">a recent Apartment List survey\u003c/a>, a figure that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812716/a-renters-market-power-shifts-from-landlords-to-tenants-with-evictions-off-the-table-in-california\">property managers in the Bay Area expect to double next month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, is one in a coalition of groups across the state organizing a campaign to withhold rent in May with the goal of getting 10,000 Californians to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Bulnes, who lives in East Oakland, is withholding her May rent as part of the strike. The early-childhood educator lost her job when the shelter-in-place order began. She and her husband rely on her income to pay their $2,600 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not enough to simply suspend evictions during the shelter in place, Bulnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for rent forgiveness,” she said, adding that without it, she and her husband could end up homeless. “We want to get back to a normal life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815355\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11815355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS25508__MG_2317-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Bulnes’ children’s day care center, which she runs out of her East Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Cancel Rent\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The rent strike is part of the so-called “cancel rent” movement, a national call to landlords, financial institutions and legislators to forgive rental or mortgage debt, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810140/coronavirus-rent-strike-in-the-bay-area-tenants-giving-the-governor-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continuation of similar strikes\u003c/a> that occurred on April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Zamudio, associate director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, said tenants shouldn’t be forced to take on a mountain of debt due to the shelter-in-place orders that are meant to keep everyone safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people get laid off, that’s 100% lost income,” Zamudio said. “It’s not deferred income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any effort to cancel rent entirely could run into legal roadblocks. 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"content": "\u003cp>A large picture of the Golden Gate Bridge hangs above the couch in Krystal McMorris’ living room, a nod to her hometown of San Francisco. Her walls are decorated with family photos of her fiance and his 13-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've made this a home,” McMorris, 29, said of their two-bedroom apartment in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third room serves as McMorris’ office, where she works as the on-site property manager for the complex Playa Del Alameda Apartments. As part of her employment package, she lives there rent free. In exchange, she collects rent and handles any resident concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because it's a small site, I pretty much did everything,” McMorris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all of that changed when she received notice that the company she had worked with for six years was laying her off. The notice was dated March 19, two days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">Bay Area counties began rolling out shelter-in-place orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was pretty shocked. It was a slap in the face, just being with a company for so long,” McMorris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also told her she had 30 days to move out. And she became afraid of having to look for a place, as fears of the coronavirus were ramping up. As California’s shelter-in-place order went into effect, McMorris was among millions of Californians who lost their jobs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">with many unable to pay rent\u003c/a>, as non-essential businesses were forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the end of March, right when everyone realized this is serious,” she said. “All this stuff is happening. I thought the least they could do is give me a little time to transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMorris wrote a personal plea to the company, FPI Management, a real-estate corporation with a portfolio of over 100,000 units nationwide. She told them she was 10 weeks pregnant with her first child and wanted more time to safely find housing after the COVID-19 health emergency had passed. She worried she would be putting herself, and her unborn child, at risk by attending open houses and interacting with strangers in the middle of a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, an Oakland-based tenant rights group\"]'Corporations are getting bailouts. Small businesses are getting bailouts. But tenants are still expected to make good on their financial obligations down to the penny.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afraid of what would happen to my family,” she said. “Just in the midst of us being uprooted so drastically, like there's no way we could have known this was coming at any point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But FPI Management refused to budge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email reply, her manager said the company could have kicked her out after three days because her housing was tied to her job, which she no longer had. They went on to threaten her with legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the courts are closed out of concern for public safety during the coronavirus pandemic, landlords are still starting the eviction process and threatening to remove tenants, according to housing rights advocates in the Bay Area. It’s unclear how many renters are facing eviction threats, but some attorneys say they’re getting concerned calls from tenants every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say this is the most egregious for sure, but there's definitely eviction activity going on, despite everything that's happening right now,” said Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the Eviction Defense Center, an Oakland-based tenant rights group representing McMorris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omura said landlords don’t have the legal right to enforce an eviction until the state’s moratorium is lifted, likely months from now. But that hasn’t stopped companies like FPI Management from trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Krystal McMorris\"]'I have to speak up and speak for what's right, or me and my family will be homeless.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMorris’ case even prompted the Alameda City Attorney’s Office to get involved. After several conversations with FPI, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/State-and-local-laws-limit-unnecessary-evictions-during-COVID-19-pandemic\">the city issued a press statement\u003c/a> that said, despite an unusual rent arrangement, McMorris is still protected under the local and state eviction moratoriums. “We managed to get them to understand the laws and that this person can’t be evicted in this moment,” City Attorney Yibin Shen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omura said McMorris, like other renters who are unable to pay, might be able to stay put for now. But the eviction moratoriums don’t prevent landlords from demanding back rent once those protections are lifted. Omura said that renters should be in line for some aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Corporations are getting bailouts. Small businesses are getting bailouts. But tenants are still expected to make good on their financial obligations down to the penny,” Omura said. “Nobody’s waiving a dime for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, FPI Management emailed McMorris saying they could charge her $3,030 a month in rent if she sticks around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"resource\" label=\"coronavirus resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FPI Management Chief Operating Officer David Divine said in an emailed statement to KQED, “FPI is compassionate to Ms. McMorris’ situation,” and has not forced her to pay April rent. “FPI’s actions have been and shall remain consistent with all applicable laws, orders and eviction moratoriums in effect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at her apartment, McMorris has started packing her belongings. Her walls are now bare, except for a black-and-white ultrasound photo from her first doctor’s appointment. 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