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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. 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. 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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. 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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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom made a single issue the focus of his second state of the state speech Wednesday morning: homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending the first few minutes before the Legislature playing up California’s economic accomplishments, Newsom pivoted to an issue he said represents an “institutional failure,” one that disproportionally impacts black and Latino Californians — and one that he said must be the top priority of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No amount of progress can camouflage the most pernicious crisis in our midst, the ultimate manifestation of poverty, screaming for our attention: homelessness,” he said. “Let’s call it what it is — a disgrace — that the richest state in the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors, is failing to properly house, heal and humanely treat so many of its own people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s focus underscores both the magnitude of the crisis and the potential political consequences if he doesn’t tackle it. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/interactive-californians-views-on-homelessness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recent polling \u003c/a>shows homelessness as one of the top concerns among Californians. At \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last official count\u003c/a>, there were over 151,000 homeless people in California, more than 108,000 of whom were living in unsheltered conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. 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Newsom said he wants to expand on laws implemented last year to streamline the permitting and review process for navigation centers statewide, and exempt shelters and homeless housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the governor said, lawmakers should expand those exemptions to include all homeless shelters and supportive housing statewide. 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. Historically speaking, both are right. It’s time to stop pointing fingers and join hands in a transformational solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called for a more integrative health care approach — one that links health care to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. 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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. 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.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A strike held by University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students who work as teaching assistants is now in its second week, as protesters continued to picket on Tuesday in a bid for higher wages, despite warnings by university officials that their jobs could be in peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing they do not make enough to be able to afford the steep cost of living in Santa Cruz, students have refused to teach, hold office hours or conduct research and, since December, have withheld grades for the classes they teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions flared on Feb. 12, after striking students and their supporters linked arms at an intersection at the main entrance to campus and refused police orders to disperse. 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. Moreover, and more importantly, the approach taken by our striking graduate student employees is having a significant negative impact on the emotional well-being and academic success of our undergraduate students, our dedicated staff who have gone above and beyond to mitigate the consequences, and the very mission of our campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are demanding $1,412 more per month. Currently, graduate students who work as teaching assistants earn about $2,434 before taxes, according to the graduate student association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students like Gilichinskaya insist the 3% annual cost of living increases in the current contract are not enough to be able to afford the increasing cost of housing in Santa Cruz, where monthly rents often exceed $2,000 . Roughly 70% of her salary currently goes to rent, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KAZU’s Erika Mahoney contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Activists with a group of women that took over a vacant house in Oakland want to make the protest chant, ‘housing is a human right’ a reality by changing the California constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, Moms 4 Housing, is having preliminary conversations with East Bay Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta to introduce legislation that would “establish a fundamental human right to housing,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, an attorney representing the group. Details about what exactly would be in the proposed legislation or when it would be introduced are still being worked out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dominique Walker, cofounder of Moms 4 Housing\"]'We believe that housing is a human right and we’re going to fight for that.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrase has recently been on the lips of housing justice activists and some local lawmakers, especially after Dominique Walker and other mothers facing homelessness in November occupied the West Oakland house, which is owned by a Southern California-based real estate investment firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that housing is a human right and we’re going to fight for that,” said Walker, a founder of the group Moms 4 Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rallying cry is both protest and petition in a bid to urge government leaders and corporations to address the widening equity gap in housing and provide for people forced to live in shelters, on the streets or in overcrowded homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Does 'Housing as a Human Right' Mean?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most advocates for tenants rights and homeless people believe housing is essential, much like food or water. “It has to begin with the recognition of what it takes to be a human being,” said Osha Neumann, an attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center and longtime defender of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone has a right to life, someone has a right to what is required to live that life,” Neumann said. “And housing, shelter is certainly one of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations identifies adequate housing as a fundamental human right, defining it as “the right to live somewhere in security, peace and dignity.” It further clarifies these rights to include security of tenure, adequate conditions, protection against forced evictions and access to affordable housing, according to the UN's \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cescr.aspx\">International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A right to adequate housing is not a requirement that states build free housing for the entire population, said Eric Tars, legal director at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Rather, he said, it devotes resources and protective measures to prevent homelessness, discrimination and promote permanent stable housing. That could take the form of more public housing and vouchers, incentives to develop affordable housing, rent control and inclusionary zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that looks like at the local level is a lot of things that our country is doing already, but it needs to be brought to a fuller scale,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tars has spent most of his career researching housing and human rights law, and said it will take a bold move, like a legal right to housing, to address the country’s affordability crisis and growing homeless population. And time and political pressure is needed to shift housing policy at a local and national level toward a rights-based paradigm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]“I'm hopeful that we're laying the rhetorical framework to envision housing as a right so that we can then build the political momentum to actually implement it,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing a legal or human right to housing could give advocates, tenants and people experiencing homelessness a tool to hold landlords legally responsible for spiking rents high or to sue cities that are not building sufficient affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enforcing a right to housing would also be difficult given the high cost of affordable housing production, especially in a region as pricey as the San Francisco Bay Area. 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Later, during the civil rights movement, groups like the NAACP began using a universal human rights framework as a tool to fight Jim Crow racism, violence and segregation against African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's part of why we want to use the language of human rights and the human rights framework to talk about this,” Tars said. “These are our fellow human beings and everybody deserves to be able to live with dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Have Any Countries Adopted Right to Housing Policies?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>France, Scotland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sahrc.org.za/home/21/files/Fact%20Sheet%20on%20the%20right%20to%20adequate%20housing.pdf\">South Africa\u003c/a> have all included a right to housing in their constitutions or enacted similar legislation. In 2003, \u003ca href=\"https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Great_Scot.pdf\">Scotland passed a comprehensive housing law\u003c/a> that mandated local governments to find permanent housing for all homeless individuals within 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of small local governments in the U.S. have also adopted related measures, including Dane County in Wisconsin, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.forwardlookout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/res292.clean-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a resolution\u003c/a> was passed in 2012 acknowledging a right to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dane County Supervisor Heidi Wegleitner says the board has used this language to budget for homeless services, create an affordable housing fund and open the county’s first homeless navigation system. “If we don't say it in that language, if we don't frame it in that way, it really loses a sense of urgency,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Osha Neumann, attorney with the East Bay Law Center\"]'The right to housing in this society comes when you have the money. If you don't show them the money, you don't have a right to housing.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right to housing laws in the U.S. are rare; some local governments have instead adopted a “right to shelter,” including Massachusetts, \u003ca href=\"https://wamu.org/story/17/12/27/weather-gets-frigid-d-c-guarantees-shelter-people-need/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington, D.C.\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/wealth-poverty/behind-new-yorks-right-shelter-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York\u003c/a>. Critics, however, say a right to shelter doesn’t go far enough and simply brings homeless people indoors to stay in temporary shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Might it Work in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are considering potential policies, including amending the state Constitution that would create a legally enforceable mandate to reduce the state’s massive unsheltered homeless population of more than 108,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the number one political and quality-of-life issue in our state, and yet everything we do is optional,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, co-chair of the Council of Regional Homeless Advisors, a 13-member task force appointed by Gov. 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It can help drive the debate and it can help change the agenda,” he said. “But if it isn't accompanied by an actual law that makes it so, then housing might be a human right in California, but in name only.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, an effort led by Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, D-Inglewood, to adopt legislation that would mandate a right to housing for California children and families \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article239576043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died in committee \u003c/a>in January. Burke said she plans to reintroduce a similar bill by the end of this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their monthslong occupation of the West Oakland home, Moms 4 Housing activists effectively amplified the concept of housing as a human right, using it as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11793704/west-oakland-housing-human-right-moms4housing\">moral argument\u003c/a> for why they should be allowed to live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795944/moms-4-housing-members-evicted-from-oakland-home-4-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evicted\u003c/a> by heavily armed sheriff's deputies in January, the group announced it had reached an agreement with the property owner, Wedgewood Inc., to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798392207/moms-4-housing-celebrate-win-in-battle-over-vacant-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchase the home\u003c/a> through a local land trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But members of the group argue that saving one house is not enough; they want to use the momentum they’ve built to start a larger movement, such as changing the state Constitution to include housing as a human right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A constitutional amendment would require approval from two-thirds of both legislative houses by June 25 to be placed on the November ballot. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was two hours after dusk in Santa Ana, and the temperature had dropped 10 degrees since sundown. A line of men and women bundled against the chill curled past the National Guard Armory’s entrance, around the side of the building and into the parking lot, about 150 in all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the layout looked like something provided to evacuees after a disaster: row after row of black sleeping pads, lined up edge to edge. But for the people staying here, this is not temporary shelter: Each year for the last decade, from mid-December until the funding runs out in April or May, the same group calls the concrete floor and five bathrooms home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Orange County’s answer to its growing, highly concentrated homeless population. On this day in January, the elderly, people with disabilities and a family were let in early and picked out their sleeping mats first. A trio of men, lined up at least an hour before the shelter doors opened, trickled in with camping gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every December, when the shelter opens, “I’m always amazed. It’s like the first day of school,” said Larry Haynes, executive director of Mercy House, the nonprofit that operates the 10,000-square foot armory shelter. “Everyone says hello like they’re old friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shelter — on state land, run by a nonprofit agency — should serve as the basic model of what Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 8, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EO-N-23-20-Homelessness-Crisis-01.08.2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom issued an executive order\u003c/a> that tasked state agencies with evaluating excess land for use as possible emergency homeless shelters. A state \u003ca href=\"https://cadgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=392e5e687e9041bb8f20e3acc5b211c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map \u003c/a>created last year shows more than 1,000 parcels, ranging from a quarter-acre near a San Diego freeway to 70 acres next to a minimum-security prison in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Santa Ana armory has become a harbinger of the problems that mayors and county executives foresee with new emergency shelters in their backyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Pushback from Local Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a federal judge lauded Orange County for a cooperative plan to avoid arresting homeless people while directing them toward county housing and health services. The judge called the agreement between the county and homeless activists a model for the rest of the state, if not the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace barely lasted into the new year. Santa Ana, the county’s poorest city, \u003ca href=\"https://local.nixle.com/alert/7760866/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed suit in January,\u003c/a> alleging that three other Orange County cities are dropping off their homeless population at the armory in a community that already has a disproportionate amount of shelters. The county has a 400-bed shelter in downtown Santa Ana, with plans to expand it, and the city has a 200-bed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In recent years, the city of Santa Ana has been compelled to spend millions of dollars from its general fund to address health and safety concerns attributable to the homeless population now living here,” the city said in the lawsuit. “That money would otherwise have been spent on providing core services to residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several cities and counties contacted by CalMatters, local leaders expressed concern about the governor’s plan to open land for shelters in their jurisdictions. Some see it as ineffective and unfair — offering state land but not paying for the costs associated with a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Richmond Mayor Tom Butt\"]‘The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this. I think that’s just wrong.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elected leaders say they’ve received little information about how the shelters will operate or who will operate them. They don’t know how people will get to and from the sites. They don’t know how neighbors might react. And they’re still unclear who will pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unlikely the governor is going to come to the city of Oceanside and say, here’s several million dollars to go build a new sobering center, or a new shelter. Just because the governor orders something doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen,” said Peter Weiss, mayor of Oceanside, in northern San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s goals may run into the same not-in-my-backyard resistance that faces nearly every local plan for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a small piece of excess land in the Bay Area city of Richmond, next to Interstate 80, that could be an emergency shelter. But Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said he’s “not optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor’s task force on homelessness decided that cities and counties should be responsible for this,” Butt said. “I think that’s just wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects to make 100 parcels available this year to governments that apply to use the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801334\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41320_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-1-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will, who provided his first name only, sits on the sidewalk across the street from LAC+USC Medical Center to panhandle for money until he has enough to go to McDonalds down the block. Will has been homeless since he arrived in Los Angeles from Chicago in 1982. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>State Land, Local Burden\u003c/strong>:\u003cstrong> Each Shelter Costs Millions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nothing can compel a city or county to use the state land as a shelter; they would have to apply for permission to use the land. But if they do, the burden of operating it falls on their own shoulders. That includes food, bedding and transportation, liability arising from fire or violence and the cost of administrators and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration says the excess land plan will help offset shelter costs for cities and counties — at least, those willing to seek the help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local government has a responsibility to put their hands up and be part of the solution,” said Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness. “A good number at the county and city level are answering the call by leaning forward and embracing solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some state funding is available to local governments, and more is on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jason Elliott, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s senior counselor on housing and homelessness\"]‘The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Newsom pledged $650 million to cities, counties and regional associations called Continuums of Care to fight homelessness. Of that, Newsom has made \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/hcfc/documents/hhap_allocations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$500 million\u003c/a> available; the other $150 million will be disbursed once the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development certifies the 2019 “point in time” count of homeless people. Newsom is asking the Legislature for another $750 million in this year’s budget, some of which would go to shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has made available a historic amount of resources, in addition to the money that naturally goes to cities and counties for homelessness and mental health resources,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opening and running a homeless shelter for even just a short time can cost millions. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235394812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tent shelter underneath a bridge\u003c/a> for 420 people cost Modesto $1.6 million during the 10 months it was open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230135694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A shelter in Sacramento\u003c/a> with services focused on finding temporary or permanent housing cost the city $5 million in public and private money over 17 months, raising hackles on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say that the shelters will reduce the cost of jails, emergency room visits and other services that would result from people living outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to bring people indoors,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is co-chair of the governor’s council on homelessness. “I view this as all new opportunity. Land is costly, and if the state’s willing to partner with us and provide land, I only have two words: thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reducing homelessness and its associated issues, including mental health, are big challenges, said Weiss, mayor of Oceanside. Many residents have negative perceptions of homeless people because of crime, litter and frequent calls for police, so they may oppose a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said he would welcome a new shelter — but not the associated costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a 17-acre parcel of excess land south of State Route 76 in Oceanside, but Weiss said he doesn’t know how the city or county would pay for a shelter there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/2015-CoC-Application.pdf\">Richmond and Contra Costa County homeless coalition\u003c/a> will be allocated one-time funding of up to $2.7 million in emergency homeless aid from the state, along with another $2.5 million that’s available directly to the county as part of the state’s $650 million going directly to cities, counties and regional care associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Richmond’s mayor says that’s not nearly enough when counts show his city alone has at least 400 unsheltered people at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re either gonna continue to put Band-Aids on it and push these people into shelters and Tuff Sheds and that, or the state is going to pay up. California’s rich enough to afford it, the United States is rich enough to afford it,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read this thing that the problem’s gonna get pushed down to cities and counties, that’s just crazy and it makes no sense. We’re either gonna solve it or we’re gonna keep pushing it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Whatever-It-Takes Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, Sacramento’s mayor, said the counties and regions could work together to solve the homeless crisis, but they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one would ask the counties or cities to do what they can’t do, but we are in whatever-it-takes mode,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and first vice president of the California State Association of Counties, said there could be electoral consequences for officials that push forward with shelter plans. “Diving into homelessness and affordable housing is a good way for elected officials to get voted out of office in a world run by NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard),” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gore said the governor’s shelter plan is urgently necessary, especially since local efforts haven’t been effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would look at my colleagues who are criticizing the governor and say the time for criticism is over. There was local control, and there haven’t been results,” he said. “For cities and counties that think they don’t have enough money, they have a reckoning coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Steinberg said, is how Californians think about the word “shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter has been and in many ways continues to be a pejorative term,” Steinberg said. “It implies to people who are skeptics that the only kind of shelter is a long-term, dusty, mis-run facility where people are helpless without the ability to get long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a stereotype and it may have been an accurate stereotype at one point. But now, when we say shelter, we’re talking about navigation centers, where the point is to gain stability to get off the streets permanently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on August 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what kind of shelters would be built on excess state land. The governor’s office has mandated that they all have “service provisions” such as housing assistance and medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing yet compels cities and counties to work together to resolve their homelessness crises, but the Steinberg-led governor’s coalition wants to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/gavin-newsom-homelessness-task-force/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under a coalition proposal,\u003c/a> the state could sue cities and counties that fail to house the majority of their homeless population. The Legislature would have to design the plan, and it would have to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is pushing even further with the idea of turning government land into shelter space. On Jan. 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Newsom-asks-to-have-surplus-federal-land-used-for-14995834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor asked \u003c/a>U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to “match our commitment by similarly providing surplus federal land to local governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shelter 1.0: A Roof and a Bathroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Haynes, who runs the National Guard Armory shelter in Santa Ana, describes it as a “shelter 1.0,” which are deliberately temporary. “Here’s a roof, here’s a door, here’s a bathroom, do the best you can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"homelessness\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the armories are used by the Guard during the day, everything has to be picked up — and cleaned to military standards — by 8 a.m. daily. That means a predawn wake-up call for the people laid out elbow-to-elbow on the floor of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it difficult to get them up? It’s \u003cem>awful\u003c/em>,” Haynes said. “But that’s not our call. It’s got to be mopped, broomed, like no one was ever here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for this model [of shelter] to sunset. There are a lot of options out there. I think there’s a growing frustration with the lack of space, the lack of privacy, and as someone who operates this shelter, I can say, I get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters of more recent vintage, or in more permanent locations, afford better privileges. Some have bunk beds instead of mats. People have a designated spot so they don’t have to line up before the shelter opens. Some have housing assistance programs and a medical clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes gazed around at the 150 people inside the armory, shuffling from dinner — that day it was chicken noodle soup, bread and a salad — to the tightly packed mats on the concrete floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, whether there’s going to be legal persuasion or not, at some point in time a policymaker — whether it’s a councilmember, a board of [supervisors] member, a governor, whatever — is going to have to take the heat for making the decision to have a shelter sited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nigel Duara is a reporter at CalMatters. This article is part of\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A\u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235394812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tent shelter underneath a bridge\u003c/a> for 420 people cost Modesto $1.6 million during the 10 months it was open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article230135694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A shelter in Sacramento\u003c/a> with services focused on finding temporary or permanent housing cost the city $5 million in public and private money over 17 months, raising hackles on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say that the shelters will reduce the cost of jails, emergency room visits and other services that would result from people living outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to bring people indoors,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who is co-chair of the governor’s council on homelessness. “I view this as all new opportunity. Land is costly, and if the state’s willing to partner with us and provide land, I only have two words: thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reducing homelessness and its associated issues, including mental health, are big challenges, said Weiss, mayor of Oceanside. Many residents have negative perceptions of homeless people because of crime, litter and frequent calls for police, so they may oppose a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss said he would welcome a new shelter — but not the associated costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans identified a 17-acre parcel of excess land south of State Route 76 in Oceanside, but Weiss said he doesn’t know how the city or county would pay for a shelter there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/h3/coc/pdf/2015-CoC-Application.pdf\">Richmond and Contra Costa County homeless coalition\u003c/a> will be allocated one-time funding of up to $2.7 million in emergency homeless aid from the state, along with another $2.5 million that’s available directly to the county as part of the state’s $650 million going directly to cities, counties and regional care associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Richmond’s mayor says that’s not nearly enough when counts show his city alone has at least 400 unsheltered people at any point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re either gonna continue to put Band-Aids on it and push these people into shelters and Tuff Sheds and that, or the state is going to pay up. California’s rich enough to afford it, the United States is rich enough to afford it,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read this thing that the problem’s gonna get pushed down to cities and counties, that’s just crazy and it makes no sense. We’re either gonna solve it or we’re gonna keep pushing it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Whatever-It-Takes Mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, Sacramento’s mayor, said the counties and regions could work together to solve the homeless crisis, but they haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one would ask the counties or cities to do what they can’t do, but we are in whatever-it-takes mode,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and first vice president of the California State Association of Counties, said there could be electoral consequences for officials that push forward with shelter plans. “Diving into homelessness and affordable housing is a good way for elected officials to get voted out of office in a world run by NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard),” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Gore said the governor’s shelter plan is urgently necessary, especially since local efforts haven’t been effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would look at my colleagues who are criticizing the governor and say the time for criticism is over. There was local control, and there haven’t been results,” he said. “For cities and counties that think they don’t have enough money, they have a reckoning coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Steinberg said, is how Californians think about the word “shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter has been and in many ways continues to be a pejorative term,” Steinberg said. “It implies to people who are skeptics that the only kind of shelter is a long-term, dusty, mis-run facility where people are helpless without the ability to get long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a stereotype and it may have been an accurate stereotype at one point. But now, when we say shelter, we’re talking about navigation centers, where the point is to gain stability to get off the streets permanently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801333\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on August 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41319_STATE-SHELTERS-photo-2-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Gonzalez keeps watch over a dozen shopping carts full of personal items belonging to a group of homeless individuals across the street from Los Angeles City Hall on Aug. 7, 2019. According to Gonzalez, someone must stay with the shopping carts at all times to avoid having their items taken away by authorities so he and the other participants take turns throughout the day never leaving the carts unattended. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what kind of shelters would be built on excess state land. The governor’s office has mandated that they all have “service provisions” such as housing assistance and medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing yet compels cities and counties to work together to resolve their homelessness crises, but the Steinberg-led governor’s coalition wants to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/gavin-newsom-homelessness-task-force/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Under a coalition proposal,\u003c/a> the state could sue cities and counties that fail to house the majority of their homeless population. The Legislature would have to design the plan, and it would have to go before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is pushing even further with the idea of turning government land into shelter space. On Jan. 21, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/amp/Newsom-asks-to-have-surplus-federal-land-used-for-14995834.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the governor asked \u003c/a>U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to “match our commitment by similarly providing surplus federal land to local governments across the state so they can build housing for the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Shelter 1.0: A Roof and a Bathroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Haynes, who runs the National Guard Armory shelter in Santa Ana, describes it as a “shelter 1.0,” which are deliberately temporary. “Here’s a roof, here’s a door, here’s a bathroom, do the best you can,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the armories are used by the Guard during the day, everything has to be picked up — and cleaned to military standards — by 8 a.m. daily. That means a predawn wake-up call for the people laid out elbow-to-elbow on the floor of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it difficult to get them up? It’s \u003cem>awful\u003c/em>,” Haynes said. “But that’s not our call. It’s got to be mopped, broomed, like no one was ever here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s time for this model [of shelter] to sunset. There are a lot of options out there. I think there’s a growing frustration with the lack of space, the lack of privacy, and as someone who operates this shelter, I can say, I get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters of more recent vintage, or in more permanent locations, afford better privileges. Some have bunk beds instead of mats. People have a designated spot so they don’t have to line up before the shelter opens. Some have housing assistance programs and a medical clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes gazed around at the 150 people inside the armory, shuffling from dinner — that day it was chicken noodle soup, bread and a salad — to the tightly packed mats on the concrete floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, whether there’s going to be legal persuasion or not, at some point in time a policymaker — whether it’s a councilmember, a board of [supervisors] member, a governor, whatever — is going to have to take the heat for making the decision to have a shelter sited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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