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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Voters across the Bay Area will weigh in Tuesday on a spate of housing-related measures, including local tax increases to pay for homeless services and affordable housing construction, as well as proposals to slow office development and cap rent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, as the region’s severe housing shortage and affordability crisis continues, cities and counties turn to the ballot to address the issue. Here is a roundup of Bay Area measures related to housing costs and construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Jose: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/2020-elections/measure-e\">Measure E\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an effort to create ongoing funding for affordable housing production, the measure would establish a permanent tax on the sale or transfer of commercial and residential property in the city valued over $2 million, starting at a rate of 0.75%. For properties worth more than $5 million, the rate would increase to 1%, and up to 1.5% for properties worth more than $10 million. For example, if a home sold for $3 million, the tax owed would be $22,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure includes exemptions for properties sold or transferred through inheritance, gifts or divorce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed by a majority of voters, it would raise an estimated average of $50 million a year that would be used to build affordable housing for extremely low- to moderate-income residents and help steer homeless residents into shelters or permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oakland: \u003ca href=\"https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesforoakland/pages/1/attachments/original/1578603224/Measure_Q_Resolution.pdf?1578603224\">Measure Q\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The measure would establish an annual parcel tax — $148 on single-family residences and about $101 per unit on multi-family buildings — to pay for maintenance of Oakland’s roughly 130 parks and recreation facilities. Estimated to raise $21 million annually, the tax would expire after 20 years. Seniors and low-income residents would be exempt, and those in foreclosed single-family homes would be eligible for a rebate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In an ongoing struggle to balance housing needs with job creation, Proposition E would set the city’s low- to moderate-income housing target at 2,042 new units each year. If that goal isn’t met, construction permits for new office space would be limited by the same percentage the city failed to meet its housing goal. The measure was introduced by a progressive affordable housing developer. Opponents argue Proposition E, which needs a majority vote to pass, would stall economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mountain View: \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=31742\">Measure D\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mountain View’s long-standing debate over rent control returns to the ballot next week. Currently, the city’s rents are not allowed to climb higher than the annual rate of inflation or the consumer price index, which usually hovers around 3.5%. If Measure D is approved by the majority of voters, rent increases would be capped at 4% each year. The City Council-backed measure would also allow landlords to pass the costs of upgrading units onto tenants in the form of an annual rent increase of up to 10%. Mobile homes would not be impacted by the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because a family’s ability to pay rent or a mortgage is often tied to its ability to find affordable child care, we’ve included the following two measures in the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Emeryville: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/1328/Measure-F-Measure-for-a-Safer-Emeryville\">Measure F \u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>City officials in Emeryville are asking voters to approve a 0.25% sales tax increase, raising $2 million annually to hire more police officers and maintain fire department operations and the city’s child care development center. The measure needs a two-thirds majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Alameda County: \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_12_05_19/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/ROV_288363.pdf\">Measure C\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> About 32,000 children under the age of five in Alameda County qualify for child care subsidies but are not enrolled, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/ece/documents/AlamedaCounty-Unmet-Need-by-City-Age-12-12-2019.pdf\">according to the county\u003c/a>. Measure C proposes a half-percent sales tax, that sunsets in 20 years, to raise an estimated $150 million a year to fund child care vouchers for low-income parents, open more spots in early childhood education centers and increase wages for preschool educators. About 20% of the tax revenues would be used to expand access to free and reduced pediatric health care at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. The measure requires a two-thirds majority to pass. A similar proposal was narrowly defeated by voters in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a breezy Saturday afternoon on a street of elegant old Berkeley homes, Dan and Jenny Mulholland-Beahrs exited their car with provisions enough \"for a week in the desert,\" laughed Jenny. Together with their two elementary school kids, Callie and Joel, they began knocking on doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OK, kiddos. Your first canvassing experience,\" Jenny said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mulholland-Beahrs were stumping for Measure E on the March 3 ballot, which would raise local property taxes to fund raises for teachers in Berkeley Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/recruit-retain/\">Measure E\u003c/a> would levy an additional 12.4 cents per square foot on homes, with the aim to raise nearly $10 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Mulholland-Beahrs, it's a bread and butter issue: Dan has been teaching at Berkeley High for 11 years. The passage of Measure E would allow district teachers to get the remainder of a 12% raise over the course of two years that the teachers union negotiated with the district in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure's backers say it's been endorsed by every elected official in the city, but some residents are questioning whether it is one tax too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I slowly started getting involved when I realized that our property taxes are going steadily up,\" said homeowner Nick Zahariadis, who bought his Berkeley home 15 years ago. \"What I find is not very nuanced with this approach. It's a very blunt instrument on both ends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahariadis sees Measure E as taking from one middle class group — homeowners — to pay another — teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-800x719.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and Jenny Mulholland-Beahrs with their kids, Callie and Joel, go door to door in support of Measure E on the March 3 ballot, which would raise local property taxes to fund raises for teachers in Berkeley Unified School District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-800x719.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-160x144.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-1020x917.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan and Jenny Mulholland-Beahrs with their kids, Callie and Joel, go door to door in support of Measure E on the March 3 ballot, which would raise local property taxes to fund raises for teachers in Berkeley Unified School District. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One analysis by city staff found that the tax would amount to an additional $186 every year for a 1,500 square foot home. According to the school district, the average homeowner currently pays between 15% and 20% of their property tax bill to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure E would require a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters are also being asked to renew two other school funding measures: Measure G to continue the district's bond obligation to improve and remodel school facilities and Measure H to extend funding for ongoing maintenance of district facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Berkeley district schools began with more teacher vacancies than normal, according to Janine Waddell, vice president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waddell said improving teaching salaries would help the district be more competitive as it recruits and retains top quality teachers. If the measure passes, a starting teacher's salary would go from $53,274 to $58,428 in the coming school year, bringing them more in line with teachers in other East Bay school districts, according to BFT President Matt Meyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Mulholland-Beahrs knocked on doors, several people who answered said they intended to vote yes on Measure E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Rowe bought his home in Berkeley four years ago. Even though the three different school funding measures up for a vote could increase the schools' portion of his property tax bill by about 30%, Rowe said he's not hesitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are happy to support community taxes and in general feel that people who are not struggling for comforts and food should probably be paying more taxes in general,\" Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-800x673.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley homeowner Matt Rowe says he is likely to support paying more to support teachers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-800x673.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-1020x858.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley homeowner Matt Rowe says he is likely to support paying more to support teachers. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Zahariadis and others say, when it comes to calculating taxes, the devil is in the details: By his own calculations, Zahariadis thinks the portion of his tax bill that would go to schools would increase by $600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to understand, we're heading into November,\" he said. \"We know we're going to get mega bonds and other tax measures. This keeps going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Zahariadis and homeowner Isabelle Gaston met up at Cedar-Rose Park to share their concerns with KQED. They are part of an informal group of homeowners who have become friends as they've tried to decipher how their properties are being assessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaston says she and her husband are close to retirement and concerned about the snowballing effect of taxes as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took me a good 45 minutes to an hour to sit down and do all the math,\" she said. \"I'm looking at about a 42.5% increase or close to just under $900.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The variables for how the tax hike would be calculated include when someone purchased their home, whether they've paid off their mortgages and even how the square footage of their home is calculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeowners have benefited from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, which went into effect in 1978 and has since restricted the rate of property tax increases to 2% annually. According to U.S. census data, about 18% of Berkeley homeowners bought their homes more than 30 years ago and presumably pay relatively little in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahariadis and his friends were also surprised to find that the city's records often don't match the square footage listed on a property when it was purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natasha Beery, director of the Berkeley Schools Excellence Program agrees that it's tough to determine the increased cost to an average homeowner if Measures E, G and H were to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beery pointed to three similarly sized homes on the same street that she said could sell for about the same price. Her research found these homeowners are paying wildly different property taxes: $7,000, $15,000 and $26,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one with the lowest bill is actually the largest house,\" she wrote in an email. \"It was purchased before Prop. 13, the owners are seniors in their late 70s, their kids are grown, their mortgage is presumably paid off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beery said the home with the highest tax bill was purchased within the last 10 years by parents with kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more elections coverage\" tag=\"election2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure E includes exemptions for people on Supplemental Security Income for disability and Social Security Disability Insurance and for low-income seniors who earn less than $49,500 for a two-person household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of Berkeley seniors who are homeowners \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF\">are paying over 30% of household income toward housing costs\u003c/a>, according to the American Community Survey released in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Mary Behm-Steinberg is disabled and receives SSDI, and her income combined with that of her husband's only totals $71,000, she said. But that's not low enough to qualify for a tax exemption from the city of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behm-Steinberg said she strongly supports more money for schools, but that bond measures are not the way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we should really be striving for is a sustainable way to combat the root of the financial problems we're facing, and that means addressing income inequality in a real and substantial way,\" she said. \"We should be taxing large corporations at a robust level, both on income and property, as well as imposing a robust income tax on the highest income earners, and a Robin Hood tax on stock trades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Berkeley Property Owners Association, Executive Director Krista Gulbransen said she's worried about the squeeze that additional taxes will put on Berkeley's middle class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are middle class people who scraped together in the past five years and purchased a property and have a higher assessed value,\" she said. \"I think what we are seeing across the United States is the crunch and sort of suffocation of the middle class.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as long as Proposition 13 remains in effect, many residents say that local taxes and other measures are necessary, like longtime Berkeley resident and retired teacher Brooks Geiken, who still coaches track at Berkeley High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools are about the future,\" he said. \"Older generations need to give it up and invest in the kids. You can’t think about yourself in this particular case. You have to think about how are the kids down the line going to benefit from this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters have a strong track record of approving tax hikes for its schools, Brooks pointed out. It's part of what has made the district a desirable place to live for families with children, he added, noting that good schools help boost everyone's property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the campaign headquarters for Measures E, G and H on University Avenue, a steady stream of teachers and volunteers were signing up to pound the pavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hundreds of volunteers have been going door to door every Saturday,\" BFT's Waddell said. \"Our community has been incredibly supportive. We know in Berkeley our schools are very successful and a huge part of what makes Berkeley so great. We're feeling confident about Election Day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note, this story was changed to reflect the Berkeley teachers raise over two years is 12%, not 12.5% as originally reported in this story. We regret the error.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It's a very blunt instrument on both ends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahariadis sees Measure E as taking from one middle class group — homeowners — to pay another — teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-800x719.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and Jenny Mulholland-Beahrs with their kids, Callie and Joel, go door to door in support of Measure E on the March 3 ballot, which would raise local property taxes to fund raises for teachers in Berkeley Unified School District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-800x719.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-160x144.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut-1020x917.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41589_IMG_1164_crop-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan and Jenny Mulholland-Beahrs with their kids, Callie and Joel, go door to door in support of Measure E on the March 3 ballot, which would raise local property taxes to fund raises for teachers in Berkeley Unified School District. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One analysis by city staff found that the tax would amount to an additional $186 every year for a 1,500 square foot home. According to the school district, the average homeowner currently pays between 15% and 20% of their property tax bill to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure E would require a two-thirds majority to pass. Voters are also being asked to renew two other school funding measures: Measure G to continue the district's bond obligation to improve and remodel school facilities and Measure H to extend funding for ongoing maintenance of district facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Berkeley district schools began with more teacher vacancies than normal, according to Janine Waddell, vice president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waddell said improving teaching salaries would help the district be more competitive as it recruits and retains top quality teachers. If the measure passes, a starting teacher's salary would go from $53,274 to $58,428 in the coming school year, bringing them more in line with teachers in other East Bay school districts, according to BFT President Matt Meyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Mulholland-Beahrs knocked on doors, several people who answered said they intended to vote yes on Measure E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Rowe bought his home in Berkeley four years ago. Even though the three different school funding measures up for a vote could increase the schools' portion of his property tax bill by about 30%, Rowe said he's not hesitating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are happy to support community taxes and in general feel that people who are not struggling for comforts and food should probably be paying more taxes in general,\" Rowe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-800x673.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley homeowner Matt Rowe says he is likely to support paying more to support teachers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-800x673.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut-1020x858.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41590_IMG_1180_crop-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley homeowner Matt Rowe says he is likely to support paying more to support teachers. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Zahariadis and others say, when it comes to calculating taxes, the devil is in the details: By his own calculations, Zahariadis thinks the portion of his tax bill that would go to schools would increase by $600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to understand, we're heading into November,\" he said. \"We know we're going to get mega bonds and other tax measures. This keeps going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Zahariadis and homeowner Isabelle Gaston met up at Cedar-Rose Park to share their concerns with KQED. They are part of an informal group of homeowners who have become friends as they've tried to decipher how their properties are being assessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaston says she and her husband are close to retirement and concerned about the snowballing effect of taxes as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took me a good 45 minutes to an hour to sit down and do all the math,\" she said. \"I'm looking at about a 42.5% increase or close to just under $900.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The variables for how the tax hike would be calculated include when someone purchased their home, whether they've paid off their mortgages and even how the square footage of their home is calculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeowners have benefited from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, which went into effect in 1978 and has since restricted the rate of property tax increases to 2% annually. According to U.S. census data, about 18% of Berkeley homeowners bought their homes more than 30 years ago and presumably pay relatively little in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahariadis and his friends were also surprised to find that the city's records often don't match the square footage listed on a property when it was purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natasha Beery, director of the Berkeley Schools Excellence Program agrees that it's tough to determine the increased cost to an average homeowner if Measures E, G and H were to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beery pointed to three similarly sized homes on the same street that she said could sell for about the same price. Her research found these homeowners are paying wildly different property taxes: $7,000, $15,000 and $26,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one with the lowest bill is actually the largest house,\" she wrote in an email. \"It was purchased before Prop. 13, the owners are seniors in their late 70s, their kids are grown, their mortgage is presumably paid off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beery said the home with the highest tax bill was purchased within the last 10 years by parents with kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure E includes exemptions for people on Supplemental Security Income for disability and Social Security Disability Insurance and for low-income seniors who earn less than $49,500 for a two-person household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of Berkeley seniors who are homeowners \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF\">are paying over 30% of household income toward housing costs\u003c/a>, according to the American Community Survey released in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Mary Behm-Steinberg is disabled and receives SSDI, and her income combined with that of her husband's only totals $71,000, she said. But that's not low enough to qualify for a tax exemption from the city of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behm-Steinberg said she strongly supports more money for schools, but that bond measures are not the way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we should really be striving for is a sustainable way to combat the root of the financial problems we're facing, and that means addressing income inequality in a real and substantial way,\" she said. \"We should be taxing large corporations at a robust level, both on income and property, as well as imposing a robust income tax on the highest income earners, and a Robin Hood tax on stock trades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Berkeley Property Owners Association, Executive Director Krista Gulbransen said she's worried about the squeeze that additional taxes will put on Berkeley's middle class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are middle class people who scraped together in the past five years and purchased a property and have a higher assessed value,\" she said. \"I think what we are seeing across the United States is the crunch and sort of suffocation of the middle class.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as long as Proposition 13 remains in effect, many residents say that local taxes and other measures are necessary, like longtime Berkeley resident and retired teacher Brooks Geiken, who still coaches track at Berkeley High.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools are about the future,\" he said. \"Older generations need to give it up and invest in the kids. You can’t think about yourself in this particular case. You have to think about how are the kids down the line going to benefit from this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters have a strong track record of approving tax hikes for its schools, Brooks pointed out. It's part of what has made the district a desirable place to live for families with children, he added, noting that good schools help boost everyone's property values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the campaign headquarters for Measures E, G and H on University Avenue, a steady stream of teachers and volunteers were signing up to pound the pavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hundreds of volunteers have been going door to door every Saturday,\" BFT's Waddell said. \"Our community has been incredibly supportive. We know in Berkeley our schools are very successful and a huge part of what makes Berkeley so great. We're feeling confident about Election Day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But it gets at what the measure’s sponsor wants to do — offer a stick instead of the carrot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would call it more of an incentive to ensure that everybody from developers to city government are prioritizing affordable housing as we’ve never done before,” said Jon Jacobo, director of engagement and public policy at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.todco.org/about\">Tenants and Owners Development Corporation\u003c/a> (Todco), the affordable housing manager that put Proposition E on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, TODCO\"]‘We need to take a very serious look at how we’re growing and what we are putting our resources behind.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially named the San Francisco Balanced Development Act, it sets a goal of producing 2,042 new housing units per year for low-to-moderate income households in the city, based on a target established by a regional planning agency. Under the measure, if San Francisco doesn’t meet that goal, the amount of new office space approved would be limited by the same percentage the city came in short on housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If, for example, the city produced 1,532 new affordable units in one year, missing its housing target by 25%, it would also have to reduce office development by 25%, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Economic%20Analysis/balanced_development_economic_impact_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">economic impact report\u003c/a> from the San Francisco Controller’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And based on recent history, the measure would more than likely dampen new office construction: In the past decade, San Francisco has built an average of just 712 affordable housing units per year — or 35% of the target — according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, however, a caveat in the measure that allows some projects to bypass those restrictions if their developers promise to include a certain amount of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the backing of a coalition of progressive affordable housing developers and advocacy groups, including the Council of Community Housing Organizations and the San Francisco Tenants Union, Todco has raised about $407,000 in support of Proposition E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]Proponents of it have long criticized city officials for prioritizing jobs and office development over affordable housing production, which they say increases demand for housing, inflates prices and displaces low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to take a very serious look at how we’re growing and what we are putting our resources behind,” said Jacobo, who also sits on the San Francisco Building Inspection Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics argue the measure lacks adequate incentives and does not actually require the city to build more affordable housing, aside from the threat of limiting office development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E opponents — including San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the city’s Chamber of Commerce — warn of rising office rents that could displace small businesses and nonprofits, while slowing economic and job growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the premise of Prop. 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A separate pool is set aside for small office projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition M was spurred in reaction to the building boom of the 1960s and 1970s that gave rise to San Francisco’s skyline. The measure’s supporters rallied to stop what they called the “Manhattanization” of downtown that blocked bay views, cast shadows and attracted hordes of commuting office workers.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nick Josefowitz, director of policy at SPUR\"]‘I think the premise of Prop. E is flawed. The way to deliver more affordable housing for working San Franciscans is to make it easier to build.’[/pullquote]“High rises mean high rents,” read one pamphlet in support of the measure at the time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ahead of California’s Super Tuesday election on March 3, the residents of Mountain View are debating over a popular topic in the Bay Area: rent control. Proponents of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/clerk/election/default.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure D\u003c/a> say it will protect renters, but not all renters agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Measure D’s Rent Cap\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For now, rent hikes in Mountain View are directly tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), also known as the rate of inflation. It typically fluctuates between 2 to 5%, but for now, it’s at 3.5%. One of Measure D’s main features is that it would cap annual rent increases at 4%. Mountain View Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga supports this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s more predictability on both sides, frankly — from the landlords’ side and the tenants’ side,” Abe-Koga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it “reasonable rent control.” She argues that, even if landlords increase rents by 0.5% to 4%, a Google employee making over $100,000 a year should be able to afford that compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel doesn’t agree. As an outspoken advocate for affordable housing, Siegel said a 0.5% increase to the rent cap could price out people already living paycheck to paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of software engineers who moved here to work for Google and other places. Well, they have cafeteria workers to feed them. If there’s no place for the cafeteria workers [to live], who’s going to feed the Google employees?” Siegel said. “If teachers can’t afford to live here, how’re the kids of the more affluent residents — how’re they going to be taught?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut.jpg\" alt=\"mountain view housing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing being built in Mountain View, California on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Price of Upgrading an Apartment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can be an affluent renter and still feel that high rents can make living in Mountain View tenuous. Sabah Munawar moved to Mountain View about three years ago when her husband got a job at Nokia. They landed in a cozy, sunlit one bedroom apartment downtown they pay about $3,100 each month for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar’s apartment is across from City Hall, downtown and the public library, which was a big selling point for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my apartments or my parents’ house has been walking distance from the library. That’s how it’s supposed to be,” Munawar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar has been politically active since high school, but for the first time, she’s been knocking on doors campaigning against Measure D. The rent cap isn’t her main concern — she is more nervous about another part of the measure which allows landlords to pass along the cost of improving a unit up to a 10% hike on the annual rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be displaced,” Munawar said. “We’d have to actually think about either moving or looking for other jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Eg2VCn5zDjCGyrwzh9UTXd?domain=jointventure.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> historically high rents\u003c/a> in Silicon Valley, many landlords have dragged their feet upgrading the properties they own. For example, hundreds of soft-story apartment buildings remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=15284\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seismically unfit\u003c/a> to withstand an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from tenants who want upgrades who have been told ‘no’ because property owners don’t have a guarantee of cost recovery,” Mayor Abe-Koga said. She believes this provision in Measure D might encourage landlords to make these adjustments if they know they can pass along some of the cost to the renter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measure D would exclude mobile home renters from the proposed rent cap. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Mobile Home Protections, or Lack Thereof\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Then there’s one group that is caught in the middle of this battle: mobile home renters. Right now, rent hikes for mobile homes aren’t covered under rent control and remain unregulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bee Hanson moved to Santiago Villa, a large mobile home community near Google’s campus, more than 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"affordable-housing\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people in this park are seniors or disabled people that came in years and years ago in the ’60s when it was just a really low-cost place to live,” Hanson said. “And they’re kind of stuck now because they’re on fixed incomes and once they get a raise on rent, Social Security is not keeping up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure D specifically excludes mobile home renters from the rent cap. Abe-Koga plans to create a separate ordinance that would regulate rent hikes on mobile homes, but Alex Brown, another renter in Santiago Villa, is nervous that the eventual ordinance will offer weak protections against mobile home park owners. Brown wants mobile home parks to be included in the rent cap Measure D provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would close off an opportunity to get the protections offered to apartment residents in units built before 1995 in all of Mountain View,” Brown said. “And that’s tough because we have no other protections that are guaranteed or that look likely yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Campaign Spending: A David vs. Goliath Fight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The optics on who supports Measure D versus who doesn’t might look skewed as many local tenants rights groups have come out against the measure, compared to the California Apartment Association (CAA) and other landlord-backed organizations that support it. The CAA has raised \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/RequestPDF.aspx?id=187077226\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$193,000\u003c/a> since the start of the year to back to “Yes On Measure D” campaign, while the opposition had been largely funded by Mountain View residents, totaling about $7,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was until \u003ca href=\"https://mv-voice.com/news/2020/02/20/mobile-home-park-owner-raises-94k-to-fight-measure-d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Feb.\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://mv-voice.com/news/2020/02/20/mobile-home-park-owner-raises-94k-to-fight-measure-d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 20\u003c/a> when the “No on Measure D” campaign got a $94,000 contribution. 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Mountain View Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga supports this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s more predictability on both sides, frankly — from the landlords’ side and the tenants’ side,” Abe-Koga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it “reasonable rent control.” She argues that, even if landlords increase rents by 0.5% to 4%, a Google employee making over $100,000 a year should be able to afford that compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel doesn’t agree. As an outspoken advocate for affordable housing, Siegel said a 0.5% increase to the rent cap could price out people already living paycheck to paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of software engineers who moved here to work for Google and other places. Well, they have cafeteria workers to feed them. If there’s no place for the cafeteria workers [to live], who’s going to feed the Google employees?” Siegel said. “If teachers can’t afford to live here, how’re the kids of the more affluent residents — how’re they going to be taught?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut.jpg\" alt=\"mountain view housing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41395_002_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3308-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing being built in Mountain View, California on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Price of Upgrading an Apartment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can be an affluent renter and still feel that high rents can make living in Mountain View tenuous. Sabah Munawar moved to Mountain View about three years ago when her husband got a job at Nokia. They landed in a cozy, sunlit one bedroom apartment downtown they pay about $3,100 each month for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar’s apartment is across from City Hall, downtown and the public library, which was a big selling point for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my apartments or my parents’ house has been walking distance from the library. That’s how it’s supposed to be,” Munawar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar has been politically active since high school, but for the first time, she’s been knocking on doors campaigning against Measure D. The rent cap isn’t her main concern — she is more nervous about another part of the measure which allows landlords to pass along the cost of improving a unit up to a 10% hike on the annual rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be displaced,” Munawar said. “We’d have to actually think about either moving or looking for other jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Eg2VCn5zDjCGyrwzh9UTXd?domain=jointventure.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> historically high rents\u003c/a> in Silicon Valley, many landlords have dragged their feet upgrading the properties they own. For example, hundreds of soft-story apartment buildings remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=15284\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seismically unfit\u003c/a> to withstand an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from tenants who want upgrades who have been told ‘no’ because property owners don’t have a guarantee of cost recovery,” Mayor Abe-Koga said. She believes this provision in Measure D might encourage landlords to make these adjustments if they know they can pass along some of the cost to the renter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measure D would exclude mobile home renters from the proposed rent cap. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Mobile Home Protections, or Lack Thereof\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Then there’s one group that is caught in the middle of this battle: mobile home renters. 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"content": "\u003cp>TELL US BELOW: How can our property tax system be more fair to all Californians?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED wants to hear your views on California’s state property tax system that was set by Proposition 13 back in 1978. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote on your peers’ statements about how they would make the law more fair, or submit your own idea. The more you speak, the better we can understand where we find agreement. Give it a try. Join the conversation. Need more background on Proposition 13? Keep scrolling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[polis id=”2r5dcbp4ky”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much people pay in property taxes is a question some in California might consider taboo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">KQED gathered neighbors from a single block in Oakland\u003c/a> to ask them just that, and the answers were striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one man who bought his house in 1976, the answer was $1,800. For a woman who bought her house in 2016? It was $13,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for this variance: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792662/walking-tour-attempts-to-explain-proposed-changes-to-prop-13\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>. That’s the voter-led initiative passed in 1978, which tied property tax rates to the purchase price of a home or business, and limited how much tax bills could grow. It substantially changed California by slashing revenue that cities, counties and school districts use to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all timely, because in November, you and other California voters will decide whether the tax cap should be lifted for certain commercial properties. This is called the “split roll” initiative and, if approved, it would deliver revenue for cities, counties and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many believe Proposition 13 would continue to create unequal tax burdens, even if the split roll initiative passes. Others say it protects people on fixed incomes who bought their homes decades ago, and who would be financially incapable of paying current property tax rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So… how do you think our property tax system could be more fair to all Californians?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED journalists will moderate the submissions. They will read each statement submitted and use journalistic ethical standards to offer quality control and civility for the experiment. Offensive and racist language will not be tolerated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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He also called for more accountability when it comes to how — or if — counties spend state money aimed at helping the mentally ill and building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has lost patience, you have all lost patience and so have I,” he said, noting that 40 counties have left $160 million in mental health funds just sitting in the bank, unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My message is this: Spend your mental health dollars by June 30th or we’ll make sure they get spent for you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a theme he returned to throughout the speech: holding cities and counties to account, while calling for partnerships between localities and state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, our imperative must be bringing governments together as working partners, not sparring partners in a court of law. So instead we are proposing strict accountability, comprehensive audits and a ‘do-it-or-lose-it’ policy to hold local governments responsible for results,” he said. “Take action or lose access to this new funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also tried to put the crisis in historical context, particularly around the issue of chronically homeless people who have what he called “complex behavioral health needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]Newsom noted that while federal and state governments shut down mental health institutions en masse five decades ago, there was never adequate investment in community mental health needs, and that changes in law made it more difficult for government to compel mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients and their families were left with inadequate options to get the mental health care they needed,” he said. “In a politically polarized world, liberals and conservatives blame one another for these failures. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom made homelessness the focus of his State of the State address Wednesday, reflecting not only \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/press-release/sanders-biden-and-warren-lead-in-californias-primary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians’ top concern\u003c/a> but also nearly 20 years of wrangling on an issue that’s followed him from San Francisco City Hall to the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No amount of progress can camouflage the most pernicious crisis in our midst,” Newsom said, “the ultimate manifestation of poverty: homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Press-Release-USC-Price-USC-Schwarzenegger-Institute-Homelessness-Poll.pdf\">recent statewide poll\u003c/a> showed homelessness and housing are top of mind for likely California voters ahead of the state’s March 3 primary election. About 42% of those surveyed said they see many tents and encampments in the public places and streets where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his address, Newsom called for new and ongoing revenue sources to pay for homeless services and new housing. He warned that cities and counties would be held accountable to ensure they spend state health care dollars on homeless people suffering from mental illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social services advocate Jennifer Friedenbach with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness said she’s thrilled Newsom is taking the issue seriously, but that the state must focus deeply on investment or else these will only be temporary fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks with severe mental health issues that are out on the streets are victims of a system,” she said. “They feel that the system is resistant to helping them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a San Francisco supervisor in 2002, Newsom drew national attention with his “Care Not Cash” ballot initiative that diverted public assistance from homeless residents to pay landlords for shelter, instead. The program rankled advocates and challenged the city’s status as a progressive stronghold. It also helped get him elected mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen years later, Newsom has again made homelessness one of his top priorities as the number of people experiencing homelessness in California \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grew to more than 151,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some people who followed Newsom’s early career are optimistic about his willingness to attach his name to such a thorny issue — going so far as to say he’ll “own homelessness” in California, a state with more than a quarter of the nation’s unhoused people — others aren’t sure he’ll focus on the kind of solutions needed to right this societal wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Care Not Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Care Not Cash went to the ballot in 2002, homelessness had reached peak levels. There were 8,640 residents without homes on a given night in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a biennial survey\u003c/a> for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s about 8 percent more than the 8,011 homeless residents counted during the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same survey in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the decade, Dot-Com companies were swarming San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, while elsewhere in the city, rents rose and evictions spiked. The average two-bedroom apartment in 2001 was going for about $3,500 in today’s dollars, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/1862-sfhousingdatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a 2002 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of progressive politicians, many without prior political experience, had swept the Board of Supervisors in 2000 — a citizen revolt to the pro-development Mayor Willie Brown, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University. Newsom was seen then as somewhat of a pariah, DeLeon said, a centrist who had been hand-picked by Brown to fill a mid-term vacancy on the board in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Dot Com bubble burst and office spaces in the city’s South of Market neighborhood started becoming vacant. Care Not Cash, Newsom’s signature issue, became a test of the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other city officials claimed out-of-towners were coming into San Francisco to get public assistance checks. And those that were here were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-ewEmPwhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely using that money for drugs and alcohol\u003c/a>. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television ad\u003c/a> for Care Not Cash, a series of disheveled men speak directly into the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take your cash, and I buy drugs,” the commercial begins, “crack, heroin, alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was pretty harmful to public sentiment around supporting real solutions,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters sided with Newsom, and the measure won with \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/N/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent\u003c/a> approval. It was the boost Newsom needed to launch his mayoral campaign a few months later, De Leon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It put him on the map, politically,” DeLeon said. “It certainly put a spotlight on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, who has served as the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency since 2000 and oversaw the implementation of Care Not Cash, remembers a young supervisor and later mayor who seemed to genuinely care about the plight of homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer received so many requests for information from Supervisor Newsom that he set up weekly meetings. Reports that Rhorer gave him would return dog-eared and highlighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have these two-hour sessions … and the meetings would just go on and on and on,” Rhorer recalled. “When he left the office, [Newsom] knew more about homelessness than I did, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony's Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony’s Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Not Cash officially launched in May 2004, reducing the amount of money homeless residents received from a maximum of $410 per month to $59. In exchange, program enrollees got food and a guaranteed bed at a shelter or in a single-room occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city updated its homeless survey in 2005, it saw a 2\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8 percent reduction\u003c/a> in the number of homeless people compared to 2002. Friedenbach believes it’s unlikely Care Not Cash contributed to that reduction since the program didn’t create any new housing. Newsom’s predecessor, Mayor Brown, approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-political-history-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of new affordable housing units\u003c/a>, which Friedenbach said had just finished construction around that time and probably made more of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhorer says ending homelessness was never the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about welfare reform,” Rhorer said. And in that way, it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Care Not Cash began in the spring of 2004, the city immediately saw a reduction in the number of homeless people claiming benefits. In December 2003, there were 2,632 people who received assistance, which dropped to 642 in December 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Newsom’s Wake\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of people experiencing homelessness then remained relatively stable during Newsom’s tenure until it began to increase again in 2011, right around the time he left to become lieutenant governor, growing from nearly 5,700 people to more than 8,000 in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Newsom’s leadership would have helped stem the increase is impossible to know, but Bevan Dufty thinks it would have helped. Dufty, now a BART board director, served on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors with Newsom. He later served as Mayor Ed Lee’s head of homeless policy.[aside label='Related Coverage' postID=news_11801313,news_11796428,news_11795888 ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin was mayor during a lot of years when the cupboard was dry,” when the Great Recession hit, Dufty said. “I think San Francisco’s homeless problem would seem very different because he wouldn’t be afraid, if he had had the resources, to put them to use to house people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much has changed about Care Not Cash since its inception, Rhorer said, except that now, the city uses a more sophisticated screening matrix to prioritize people who are disabled, chronically homeless or have other special needs — and the amount of public assistance has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Newsom had also launched an ambitious 10-year plan in 2004 to end chronic homelessness and pledged to build 3,000 new units of supportive housing. By 2014, San Francisco built 2,669 of the units that Newsom pledged as mayor but homelessness still rose — climbing to 6,775 people by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade after Newsom left the mayor’s office, homelessness is a bigger issue than ever, with solutions seeming more out of reach than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He kicked off the year with a proposal to direct \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794687084/california-governor-pushes-1-4-billion-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1.4 billion of the state budget\u003c/a> to pay for rent subsidies, board and care homes, health services and affordable housing, and then went on a statewide tour of emergency shelters and mental health care centers. And he started distributing the first two dozen of 100 former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796428/newsom-to-unveil-travel-trailers-for-homeless-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FEMA trailers and tents\u003c/a> to provide immediate housing for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Newsom said the state would make available 286 state-owed properties such as vacant lots, fairgrounds, armories and other state buildings for potential shelter options that local governments can use for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed up construction of affordable housing and shelters, Newsom said he would like to bypass state environmental reviews, which are sometimes used to block and delay projects. He also urged the Legislature to reform land use laws to eliminate delays on affordable housing projects around transit hubs and downtown areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect local control, but not at the cost of creating a two-class California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach, a staunch critic of Newsom’s tenure in San Francisco, is hopeful. She was pleased to see Newsom’s executive order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801313/newsom-offers-vacant-land-for-homeless-shelters-but-local-officials-worry-who-will-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use surplus state land for emergency shelters\u003c/a> and his push to provide significant one-time funds to address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a big believer in redemption,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Care Not Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Care Not Cash went to the ballot in 2002, homelessness had reached peak levels. There were 8,640 residents without homes on a given night in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a biennial survey\u003c/a> for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s about 8 percent more than the 8,011 homeless residents counted during the \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same survey in 2019\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the decade, Dot-Com companies were swarming San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, while elsewhere in the city, rents rose and evictions spiked. The average two-bedroom apartment in 2001 was going for about $3,500 in today’s dollars, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/1862-sfhousingdatabook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a 2002 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of progressive politicians, many without prior political experience, had swept the Board of Supervisors in 2000 — a citizen revolt to the pro-development Mayor Willie Brown, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University. Newsom was seen then as somewhat of a pariah, DeLeon said, a centrist who had been hand-picked by Brown to fill a mid-term vacancy on the board in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Dot Com bubble burst and office spaces in the city’s South of Market neighborhood started becoming vacant. Care Not Cash, Newsom’s signature issue, became a test of the city’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other city officials claimed out-of-towners were coming into San Francisco to get public assistance checks. And those that were here were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-ewEmPwhY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely using that money for drugs and alcohol\u003c/a>. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usyn5yg6ejk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">television ad\u003c/a> for Care Not Cash, a series of disheveled men speak directly into the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I take your cash, and I buy drugs,” the commercial begins, “crack, heroin, alcohol.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Usyn5yg6ejk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Usyn5yg6ejk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“That was pretty harmful to public sentiment around supporting real solutions,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters sided with Newsom, and the measure won with \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sf/meas/N/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent\u003c/a> approval. It was the boost Newsom needed to launch his mayoral campaign a few months later, De Leon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It put him on the map, politically,” DeLeon said. “It certainly put a spotlight on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, who has served as the executive director of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency since 2000 and oversaw the implementation of Care Not Cash, remembers a young supervisor and later mayor who seemed to genuinely care about the plight of homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer received so many requests for information from Supervisor Newsom that he set up weekly meetings. Reports that Rhorer gave him would return dog-eared and highlighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have these two-hour sessions … and the meetings would just go on and on and on,” Rhorer recalled. “When he left the office, [Newsom] knew more about homelessness than I did, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony's Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/SF-Homeless-2002.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of homeless people line up for a meal at St. Anthony’s Church on Dec. 6, 2002 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Care Not Cash officially launched in May 2004, reducing the amount of money homeless residents received from a maximum of $410 per month to $59. In exchange, program enrollees got food and a guaranteed bed at a shelter or in a single-room occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city updated its homeless survey in 2005, it saw a 2\u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/San_Francisco_Homeless_Count_2005_Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8 percent reduction\u003c/a> in the number of homeless people compared to 2002. Friedenbach believes it’s unlikely Care Not Cash contributed to that reduction since the program didn’t create any new housing. Newsom’s predecessor, Mayor Brown, approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-political-history-of-homelessness-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of new affordable housing units\u003c/a>, which Friedenbach said had just finished construction around that time and probably made more of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhorer says ending homelessness was never the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about welfare reform,” Rhorer said. And in that way, it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Care Not Cash began in the spring of 2004, the city immediately saw a reduction in the number of homeless people claiming benefits. 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Multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801554/striking-uc-santa-cruz-graduate-students-hold-picket-lines-after-police-arrest-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protesters were arrested\u003c/a>, with several reporting injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"uc-santa-cruz\" label=\"related coverage\"]Considered a so-called wildcat strike, the work stoppage has not been sanctioned by UAW Local 2865, the state union that represents graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/02/letter-president-unsanctioned-strike.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a letter\u003c/a> issued on Friday, University of California President Janet Napolitano said she was not willing to reopen the UC system’s existing contract with the union, as it would undercut the bargaining agreement. In effect through June 2022, the agreement includes a 3% annual wage increase, child care subsidies, a signing bonus and health care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In exchange for these guaranteed benefits, the University received a contractual promise that the TAs would not strike while the collective bargaining agreement was in effect,” Napolitano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consequently, the wildcat strike by UC Santa Cruz TAs, where a number of TAs have withheld or deleted fall grades and are refusing to teach classes, is unauthorized and in direct violation of the existing collective bargaining agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the release of the letter, UCSC officials notified teaching assistants that they must enter final grades by this coming Friday or face dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/payusmoreucsc/status/1229911492247592962?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a student press conference Tuesday, strike leaders urged officials to work toward a resolution rather than with “intimidation, police violence and threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current threat to fire graduate students en masse is the wrong move on the part of the administration,” said Veronica Hamilton, an official with the UCSC Graduate Students Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton said firing hundreds of graduate students participating in the strikes would “jeopardize the university’s own mission to provide quality education and innovative research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, UCSC’s International Student Advising Team warned students that participation in the strike could result in discipline or arrest and impact enrollment, potentially jeopardizing their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulia Gilichinskaya, co-president of the graduate student association, said international students who are dismissed from their teaching positions would have to pay out-of-pocket for tuition, health care and other expenses without being able to earn an income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effectively losing employment for international students means we cannot stay here,” said Gilichinskaya, an international student pursuing a Ph.D in film and digital media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she and other students said they were undeterred by the warnings, and planned to meet Tuesday evening to discuss next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“International students are an active and vital part of this campaign,” said Gilichinskaya during Tuesday’s student press conference. “We know the risks of striking and [we’re] doing it nonetheless to make it clear we are in a crisis and it needs to be resolved now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sohum Banerjea, an international graduate student who studies computer science, also criticized the university’s tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re using this power that they have constructed over us in order to try and force us to bend to their will,” said Banerjea. “That is not what I think a public university should be in the business of doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSC officials said in a followup statement that the message to international students was meant to give fair notice about possible repercussions of the strike but regretted inadvertently creating unnecessary anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/02/cpevc-graduate-student-strike-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter to faculty on Friday\u003c/a>, Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer said graduate students had already been offered additional support packages starting in the fall, as well as a need-based annual housing supplement of $2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite this overture that provides significant improvement in financial support, the grading strike did not come to an end, but escalated to a full teaching strike,” she said. “And while I understand the drivers, I do not support the approach. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent, unusually balmy winter morning, Jerry Womack ambles slowly across the spacious courtyard that separates the dining hall and dormitories of San Francisco’s newest navigation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a back badly hunched from years of hard living on the street, Womack eases himself slowly into one of the colorful chairs spread across the yard and flashes a largely toothless grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is one of the best places I have ever stayed in since being a homeless person,\" he said. \"The staff here really shows concern about your well-being.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Womack has been living on San Francisco’s streets for the past 10 years, a consequence, he said, of his longtime struggle with drug addiction. About a month ago, the city’s Homeless Outreach Team found him sleeping in a doorway near Van Ness Avenue and Market Street and encouraged him to come here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came back every day for about two or three weeks to check on me,\" he said. \"I didn’t even know this place existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Womack is among the first group of \"guests\" — as they're called — to stay at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center, a gleaming new multiservice homeless shelter on San Francisco's tourist-heavy Embarcadero. Improbably located in the shadow of a glistening glass condominium at the mouth of Bryant Street, the spacious fenced-in compound of three long fabric tent frames opened at the end of December\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/hotly-contested-embarcadero-navigation-center-opens-with-more-to-come/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to much fanfare among city officials\u003c/a>, despite fierce opposition from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801543\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Womack, among the first 'guests' at the Embarcadero navigation center, says he's been living on the street for 10 years. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 200 beds, it's the city's largest navigation center, built from scratch at a cost of nearly $12.5 million. Only about 90 of the beds are currently being used, with plans to ramp up to full capacity by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to most city shelters, navigation centers are open around-the-clock and accommodate families and pets. All guests are brought in by the city's Homeless Outreach Team — they can't just show up on their own. Along with beds, showers and storage bins for personal items, the centers offer a range of supportive services, including medical and mental health care and drug rehabilitation, with the overarching goal of fast-tracking people into stable housing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jerry Womack, Embarcadero navigation center guest\"]'I don't got no Social Security, I don't have no [public] assistance, I don't even have my ID.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And similar to the San Francisco's six other navigation centers, the Embarcadero site is designed to be temporary: The city is leasing the primely located lot from the San Francisco Port Commission for two years, with the option to extend for another two if things go smoothly before the site is permanently developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation centers are just one of the many strategies the city has deployed — including supportive housing programs and its extensive conventional shelter network — to tackle a seemingly intractable homeless crisis. But despite spending \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/24-hours-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upward of $300 million\u003c/a> a year on the issue, the homeless population has continued to grow, topping 8,000 \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at last count\u003c/a>, nearly 5,200 of whom live in unsheltered conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco unveiled its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-s-first-Navigation-Center-which-spawned-13359221.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaugural navigation center\u003c/a> — the first of its kind in the country — in March 2015, shutting it down, as planned, three years later. Of the more than 5,000 homeless residents that have passed through the city's navigation centers, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">nearly half\u003c/a> have been placed in permanent housing or reunified with family or friends, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which oversees most of the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to have them come in and meet them where they are, help them figure out what their pathway is [to] housing, what their solution to homelessness is and then work with them so that they can stay here while they exit homelessness,\" said Abigail Stewart-Kahn, director of strategy and external affairs with DHSH. \"It's not always perfect, but that is the intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The courtyard between the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Womack arrived at the Embarcadero center nearly two weeks ago, he, like all guests, was scanned with a wand for weapons before being interviewed by a caseworker to determine his specific needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 70, getting back on his feet after a decade on the street means essentially re-enrolling in society, a formidable task that he says case managers here are working to guide him through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't got no Social Security, I don't have no [public] assistance, I don't even have my ID,\" Womack said. \"I have two meetings today where they're going to take me to get some of these things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard length of stay here is 30 days, but staff insist that residents won't be pushed out unless another shelter bed or housing option is available. The goal, however ambitious, is for these centers to be a springboard out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to put people back on the street,\" said center director Tony Chase of Five Keys, a nonprofit charter school operator contracted by the city to operate the site. \"So we always work to have another place for a person to go if they can't stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus is spare but cheerful, with scattered plantings and an outdoor patio space. That morning, residents wandered freely around the facility, some resting in one of the two sprawling dormitories or lounging in front of a large flat-screen TV in the dining area. A few used the handful of desktop computers available: one writing what appeared to be computer code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories, which together offer 200 beds. Unlike most traditional shelters, guests can sleep with their families and bring pets and personal belongings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calmness of the space belies the heated community battle that preceded it, and the political capital Mayor London Breed has invested in ensuring its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions flared immediately after Breed first proposed the center last March as part of her goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. A group of neighbors, calling themselves Safe Embarcadero for All, quickly mobilized against the project, claiming it would bring blight and crime to a neighborhood that it said didn't have much of a homeless problem to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a monthslong succession of rancorous community meetings that pitted neighbors against homeless advocates and the mayor, the group appealed to the city's Board of Supervisors to block the project. In a last-ditch effort to halt construction, the group then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788571/judge-rules-again-against-opponents-of-embarcadero-navigation-center-allowing-construction-to-proceed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsuccessfully sued\u003c/a> the city, alleging it had failed to get the necessary permissions from the state or conduct appropriate public outreach and environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a concession, the city agreed to initially fill only about 50 beds, leaving more than three-quarters of the facility empty, and gradually ramp up to full capacity by June. It also pledged to patrol the surrounding area to keep it clean and free of encampments, and give longtime homeless residents in the vicinity first access to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The covered entrance to the Embarcadero navigation center. All guests have to be brought in by the Homeless Outreach Team — walk-ins aren't allowed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn stressed that nearly all the center's current occupants had been found living on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood, (although that was apparently not the case for Womack), and said concerns that the center would attract homeless people from other areas were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our experience is that [navigation centers] don't become magnets,\" Stewart-Kahn said. \"You're not allowed to kind of be around the perimeter here. If you're camping outside, it's not going to get you access to the navigation center. And people who are homeless know that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More homeless coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]But Wallace Lee, who lives a block and a half from the center and leads Safe Embarcadero for All, said that doesn't square with some of the recent changes he's seen in the neighborhood as the center has begun to expand its capacity. That includes a handful of new encampments, the occasional pile of syringes and an increase in the number of \"distressed people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that there are no additional encampments because of the navigation center is clearly preposterous,\" Lee said. \"To give the people at the navigation center credit, they do respond and come out to clean it. But to pretend the problems aren't there is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last monthly neighborhood advisory group meeting in late January, Lee added, city officials even admitted they had reached the \"point of diminishing returns\" in their outreach efforts in the neighborhood and had started inviting homeless residents in other parts of the city to come here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, we want to hold the city accountable to its promises and bring attention to these problems,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801584\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests use computers provided in the Embarcadero navigation center's lounge and intake area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In touring the new facility, it's understandable why some neighbors are concerned about it drawing homeless people from other areas: As shelters go, it's a pretty plum destination, a safe, comfortable refuge from the street, flush with resources and amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been eating like a king,\" said Womack, noting that the kitchen is open 23 hours a day. \"Anytime, day or night, you can go in and get yourself something to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a laundry room where residents can drop off bags of dirty clothes and pick them up clean and folded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We literally want to treat the guests here like they're coming into a hotel,\" said Steve Goode, the head of Five Keys. \"Because if we don't treat them appropriately and treat them with dignity and respect, offer them something to eat and drink when they come in, they're not going to want to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navigation center staff Steve Hawkins (left) and James Bess help fold guests' laundry, a service that's offered daily. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that, of course, comes with a hefty price tag. The city spends more than $6 million, on average, to build each of its navigation centers and over $4 million per site on annual operating costs, according to \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and the Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing have both championed navigation centers as an effective way to get people off the streets and into housing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-mayor-poised-to-meet-1-000-shelter-bed-goal-14975392.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently proposed\u003c/a> opening two new ones at 33 Gough and 888 Post streets. But in an interesting twist, the department balked at \u003ca href=\"//www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-city-needs-to-be-pushed-SF-supe-wants-14911273.php\">\"proposed legislation\u003c/a> to open eight new centers in the next 2½ years, one in each of districts that don’t currently have any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seven navigation centers are clustered in just three of the city's 11 districts, and the plan, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes the Embarcadero site and two others, is intended to share the burden citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abigail Stewart-Kahn, Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing\"]'We want to have them come in and meet them where they are, help them figure out what their pathway is [to] housing, what their solution to homelessness is.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The proposed ordinance forces time, political capital, financial and personnel resources on expanding one component of our homelessness response,” Stewart-Kahn said at a recent hearing on the measure. “And it does this at the cost of [building more] housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Embarcadero navigation center, resident Joanna Shober said she had been camping near the Ferry Building before she came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was homeless, living on the street, and I got tired of it,\" she said. \"The first week they opened [the center], they started taking all of my homeless buddies down by the [Ferry Building]. So I know a lot of people here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shober said she got laid off from her long-time job about a decade ago and has been living on and off the streets since then. She now works seasonally for the Giants in guest services and as an occasional coat checker during events at the Moscone and Chase centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I got that job, I tried to pay rent, but I didn't make enough, and I made too much for GA,\" she said, referring to the state General Assistance Program. \"So I got cut off from GA and then I fell behind on rent, and it just spiraled down, and so I ended up on the street again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her most recent stint on the street, Shober had stayed for 30 days at the Bayshore Navigation Center — also run by Five Keys — and when no housing materialized was offered a 90-day spot in a traditional shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The shelter] was so bad that I actually had to leave,\" she said. \"I said, I'd rather be homeless than be in this place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41019_031_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7945-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanna Shober, a guest at the Embarcadero navigation center, said she works three part-time jobs, including guest services for the Giants, but still can't afford to pay rent in the city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shober has been impressed with this place so far, she said, and is optimistic things will be different this time around. She is even considering applying for a job here as a homeless ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They give you all information of what to do, where to go, who to see,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless people are often given a bad rap, she said, but many just need an opportunity to get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a problem with people that have not been homeless and then they talk about how bad the homeless are,\" she said. \"There's good homeless people out there. So, you know, they just need to give some people a chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Womack is among the first group of \"guests\" — as they're called — to stay at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center, a gleaming new multiservice homeless shelter on San Francisco's tourist-heavy Embarcadero. Improbably located in the shadow of a glistening glass condominium at the mouth of Bryant Street, the spacious fenced-in compound of three long fabric tent frames opened at the end of December\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/hotly-contested-embarcadero-navigation-center-opens-with-more-to-come/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> to much fanfare among city officials\u003c/a>, despite fierce opposition from neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801543\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41014_026_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7922-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Womack, among the first 'guests' at the Embarcadero navigation center, says he's been living on the street for 10 years. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With 200 beds, it's the city's largest navigation center, built from scratch at a cost of nearly $12.5 million. Only about 90 of the beds are currently being used, with plans to ramp up to full capacity by June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to most city shelters, navigation centers are open around-the-clock and accommodate families and pets. All guests are brought in by the city's Homeless Outreach Team — they can't just show up on their own. Along with beds, showers and storage bins for personal items, the centers offer a range of supportive services, including medical and mental health care and drug rehabilitation, with the overarching goal of fast-tracking people into stable housing situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And similar to the San Francisco's six other navigation centers, the Embarcadero site is designed to be temporary: The city is leasing the primely located lot from the San Francisco Port Commission for two years, with the option to extend for another two if things go smoothly before the site is permanently developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation centers are just one of the many strategies the city has deployed — including supportive housing programs and its extensive conventional shelter network — to tackle a seemingly intractable homeless crisis. But despite spending \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/24-hours-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upward of $300 million\u003c/a> a year on the issue, the homeless population has continued to grow, topping 8,000 \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at last count\u003c/a>, nearly 5,200 of whom live in unsheltered conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco unveiled its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-s-first-Navigation-Center-which-spawned-13359221.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaugural navigation center\u003c/a> — the first of its kind in the country — in March 2015, shutting it down, as planned, three years later. Of the more than 5,000 homeless residents that have passed through the city's navigation centers, \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/services/emergencyshelter/navigation-centers/\">nearly half\u003c/a> have been placed in permanent housing or reunified with family or friends, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which oversees most of the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to have them come in and meet them where they are, help them figure out what their pathway is [to] housing, what their solution to homelessness is and then work with them so that they can stay here while they exit homelessness,\" said Abigail Stewart-Kahn, director of strategy and external affairs with DHSH. \"It's not always perfect, but that is the intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS40997_005_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7827-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The courtyard between the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Womack arrived at the Embarcadero center nearly two weeks ago, he, like all guests, was scanned with a wand for weapons before being interviewed by a caseworker to determine his specific needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 70, getting back on his feet after a decade on the street means essentially re-enrolling in society, a formidable task that he says case managers here are working to guide him through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't got no Social Security, I don't have no [public] assistance, I don't even have my ID,\" Womack said. \"I have two meetings today where they're going to take me to get some of these things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard length of stay here is 30 days, but staff insist that residents won't be pushed out unless another shelter bed or housing option is available. The goal, however ambitious, is for these centers to be a springboard out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to put people back on the street,\" said center director Tony Chase of Five Keys, a nonprofit charter school operator contracted by the city to operate the site. \"So we always work to have another place for a person to go if they can't stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus is spare but cheerful, with scattered plantings and an outdoor patio space. That morning, residents wandered freely around the facility, some resting in one of the two sprawling dormitories or lounging in front of a large flat-screen TV in the dining area. A few used the handful of desktop computers available: one writing what appeared to be computer code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41007_017_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7862-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Embarcadero navigation center's two dormitories, which together offer 200 beds. Unlike most traditional shelters, guests can sleep with their families and bring pets and personal belongings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calmness of the space belies the heated community battle that preceded it, and the political capital Mayor London Breed has invested in ensuring its success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions flared immediately after Breed first proposed the center last March as part of her goal of creating 1,000 new shelter beds by the end of 2020. A group of neighbors, calling themselves Safe Embarcadero for All, quickly mobilized against the project, claiming it would bring blight and crime to a neighborhood that it said didn't have much of a homeless problem to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a monthslong succession of rancorous community meetings that pitted neighbors against homeless advocates and the mayor, the group appealed to the city's Board of Supervisors to block the project. In a last-ditch effort to halt construction, the group then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788571/judge-rules-again-against-opponents-of-embarcadero-navigation-center-allowing-construction-to-proceed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsuccessfully sued\u003c/a> the city, alleging it had failed to get the necessary permissions from the state or conduct appropriate public outreach and environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a concession, the city agreed to initially fill only about 50 beds, leaving more than three-quarters of the facility empty, and gradually ramp up to full capacity by June. It also pledged to patrol the surrounding area to keep it clean and free of encampments, and give longtime homeless residents in the vicinity first access to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801547\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41022_036_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7967-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The covered entrance to the Embarcadero navigation center. All guests have to be brought in by the Homeless Outreach Team — walk-ins aren't allowed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Kahn stressed that nearly all the center's current occupants had been found living on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood, (although that was apparently not the case for Womack), and said concerns that the center would attract homeless people from other areas were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our experience is that [navigation centers] don't become magnets,\" Stewart-Kahn said. \"You're not allowed to kind of be around the perimeter here. If you're camping outside, it's not going to get you access to the navigation center. And people who are homeless know that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Wallace Lee, who lives a block and a half from the center and leads Safe Embarcadero for All, said that doesn't square with some of the recent changes he's seen in the neighborhood as the center has begun to expand its capacity. That includes a handful of new encampments, the occasional pile of syringes and an increase in the number of \"distressed people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that there are no additional encampments because of the navigation center is clearly preposterous,\" Lee said. \"To give the people at the navigation center credit, they do respond and come out to clean it. But to pretend the problems aren't there is disingenuous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the last monthly neighborhood advisory group meeting in late January, Lee added, city officials even admitted they had reached the \"point of diminishing returns\" in their outreach efforts in the neighborhood and had started inviting homeless residents in other parts of the city to come here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, we want to hold the city accountable to its promises and bring attention to these problems,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801584\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41059_038_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7951-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests use computers provided in the Embarcadero navigation center's lounge and intake area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In touring the new facility, it's understandable why some neighbors are concerned about it drawing homeless people from other areas: As shelters go, it's a pretty plum destination, a safe, comfortable refuge from the street, flush with resources and amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been eating like a king,\" said Womack, noting that the kitchen is open 23 hours a day. \"Anytime, day or night, you can go in and get yourself something to eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a laundry room where residents can drop off bags of dirty clothes and pick them up clean and folded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We literally want to treat the guests here like they're coming into a hotel,\" said Steve Goode, the head of Five Keys. \"Because if we don't treat them appropriately and treat them with dignity and respect, offer them something to eat and drink when they come in, they're not going to want to stay here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11801544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41017_029_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7933-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navigation center staff Steve Hawkins (left) and James Bess help fold guests' laundry, a service that's offered daily. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that, of course, comes with a hefty price tag. The city spends more than $6 million, on average, to build each of its navigation centers and over $4 million per site on annual operating costs, according to \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2019HIRDReport_SanFrancisco_FinalDraft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and the Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing have both championed navigation centers as an effective way to get people off the streets and into housing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-mayor-poised-to-meet-1-000-shelter-bed-goal-14975392.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently proposed\u003c/a> opening two new ones at 33 Gough and 888 Post streets. But in an interesting twist, the department balked at \u003ca href=\"//www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-city-needs-to-be-pushed-SF-supe-wants-14911273.php\">\"proposed legislation\u003c/a> to open eight new centers in the next 2½ years, one in each of districts that don’t currently have any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seven navigation centers are clustered in just three of the city's 11 districts, and the plan, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes the Embarcadero site and two others, is intended to share the burden citywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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