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Yet church leaders and a small group of advocates are persevering in hopes that the housing can serve as a proof of concept project to be replicated by other faith communities across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are branding their initiative “Yes in God’s Backyard,” or YIGBY — a play on the YIMBY, or “yes in my backyard,” movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houses of worship are in a good position to help alleviate the affordable housing shortage, said Jon Doolittle, senior pastor at Clairemont Lutheran Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have the property, they have the ability to provide the space and the place for these kinds of structures to be built,” he said. “Jesus told us to clothe the naked, to provide shelter for the homeless. So here we are doing that in a real tangible way, making sure that our resources are put to good use as part of the ministry for the good of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Bnu7eRv4Ubg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans to build housing on the church’s property have hit several roadblocks, including the city’s parking regulations. The church envisions putting between 16 and 21 apartments on top of its parking lot, which typically sits mostly empty except for a few hours on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But city code includes a formula dictating how many parking spaces a church needs based on square inches of pew space. City officials told Doolittle even without the loss of parking created by the new homes, the church had a parking deficit and would have to conduct a study to quantify its parking use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a month, congregants counted all the vacant parking spaces in the church lot and the surrounding neighborhood four times a day. Doolittle said their study determined they had a parking surplus but that city officials still were not satisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been one frustrating meeting after another,” Doolittle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Clairemont Lutheran Church got help from Tom Theisen and Monica Ball, two housing advocates who had already been putting together a YIGBY initiative. Theisen is a retired attorney and former chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rtfhsd.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Task Force on the Homeless San Diego\u003c/a>, and Ball is a real estate agent and board member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.upliftsandiego.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UPLIFT San Diego\u003c/a>, a faith-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11752823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/06062019_Clairemont-Lutheran-Church-San-Diego-YIGBY-affordable-housing-pastor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/06062019_Clairemont-Lutheran-Church-San-Diego-YIGBY-affordable-housing-pastor.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/06062019_Clairemont-Lutheran-Church-San-Diego-YIGBY-affordable-housing-pastor-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/06062019_Clairemont-Lutheran-Church-San-Diego-YIGBY-affordable-housing-pastor-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Jon Doolittle stands in the sanctuary of Clairemont Lutheran Church in San Diego on May 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Andrew Bowen/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theisen said the genesis for YIGBY came from San Diego County Tax Collector Dan McAllister, who had compiled a list of more than 1,100 properties zoned for religious use. Together, they represent more than 2,000 acres of land across the county, much of it also zoned for housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot tell you how many faith communities have come to me and said, ‘What can we do to address homelessness?’ ” said Theisen. “And I have a real hard time telling them to go out, hand out blankets or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or that type of stuff. They’re looking for a way to be relevant and to do something that really makes a difference, and building housing really makes a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jon Doolittle, senior pastor, Clairemont Lutheran Church']‘Jesus told us to clothe the naked, to provide shelter for the homeless. So here we are doing that in a real tangible way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>To save time and money on construction, the YIGBY team is suggesting faith communities consider modular homes made of recycled shipping containers rather than traditional wood frame housing. And they are exploring private financing models to avoid the difficult and lengthy process of applying for government tax credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith communities could be the perfect test drivers of less conventional construction models that traditional affordable housing developers have been wary of, Ball said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should construction delays occur for whatever reason, that could potentially compromise their entire finance structure for the project,” she said. “So that’s too big a risk for the traditional affordable housing developers really to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Ball and Theisen presented their YIGBY proposal to the Community Planners Committee, which represents San Diego’s neighborhood planning groups. Wally Wulfeck, of the committee, said the presentation was well received and members were interested in the initiative’s progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last week, Ball and Theisen met with San Diego city staffers to discuss how the city can speed up approval of housing on religious properties. Planning Department director Mike Hansen said in an email that the city welcomes the support of faith leaders in addressing the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside tag='affordable-housing' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>“This is a promising concept and the city is in discussions with the YIGBY team as well as other affordable housing stakeholders about how the city can make the process easier, faster and less expensive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doolittle hesitated to predict when the housing might be complete, given the number of roadblocks the church has already hit. But he said he is not expecting serious resistance from neighbors, in part because of the small scale of their housing plans and the church’s decades-long relationship with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our calling, it’s our responsibility to be neighbors to those who are around us and to be neighborly to those who need a hand up,” Doolittle said. “As God always says yes to God’s people, we too need to say yes to those who are in need.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Gavin Newsom, it would make California the second state to provide such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11677380,news_11732880,news_11728558\" label=\"More on Renter Protections\"]“I’m thrilled that the Assembly has taken one step forward to providing some relief to millions of tenants one rent increase away from losing their homes,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, Democrat from San Francisco and author of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights group can rightfully celebrate today’s vote as an achievement—mostly because of the near-herculean effort it took to get a renter bill this far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&firstNav=tracking\">AB 1482\u003c/a> was significantly watered down to accommodate reluctant lawmakers and appease opposing interest groups: The proposed rent cap was raised from 5% to 7% plus inflation; it exempts landlords who own less than 10 single family homes; and it would expire in 2023. And it still just squeaked by the Assembly. The fate of a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1481&firstNav=tracking\">twin bill\u003c/a> that would have mandated landlords evict tenants only for “just cause”—which many argue is necessary for Chiu’s bill to be effective—remains uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d expect California’s 17 million renters to have more juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of Californians are tenants, including 12 million of voting age—a major swath of the potential electorate. Rents have soared to alarming highs, causing more than half the state’s tenants to meet the federal definition of “housing-cost burdened.” In one of his first addresses in office, the state’s new progressive governor called on a Democratic supermajority of state lawmakers to send him a package of tenant protection bill as soon as possible. This weekend a recently formed Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/renters-caucus-california-democratic-state-convention-2019-tickets-62122943396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“renters caucus”\u003c/a> will host an event at the state party convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, legislation aimed at helping California’s renters almost always has struggled to get through the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742791/bill-to-expand-rent-control-in-california-stalls-in-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bill that would have allowed California cities to expand rent control\u003c/a> to more residences was withdrawn by its author when it became clear the bill couldn’t even muster enough support to pass its first committee hearing. A proposal that would have created a \u003ca href=\"https://a15.asmdc.org/press-releases/20190318-california-lawmakers-announce-measures-protect-renters-and-combat-housing\">statewide rental database\u003c/a> to reliably track evictions and prices—data that’s hard to come by for anyone but landlords—was quietly buried before it could advance to a full floor vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Paul Mitchell, Political Data Inc\"]“When you think about renters, you’re looking at a lower socioeconomic status, younger people, people who move more often. That’s all negatively correlated to turnout.”[/pullquote]“We have in California in both houses a supermajority of Democrats, many of whom will tell you that they’re concerned about the housing crisis,” said Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and a lobbyist for tenant interests who has watched a handful of tenant protection bills die or get watered down in recent years. “And yet when we go to try to secure their vote for what seem like very reasonable policies, they’re not going up [to vote].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t tenant groups wield the political muscle you’d think their numbers would warrant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money is the easy answer: Landlords have it, renters don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have to have plausible arguments, and our arguments still have to resonate,” said Deb Carlton, lobbyist for the California Apartment Association.”A lot of these bills are extreme and they’re not willing to compromise on these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more to it than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>California renters are more likely to be lower income, younger and immigrants—all demographic blocs less likely to vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Who’s your typical California renter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture a Latina woman in her early 40s, making around $26,000 a year. There’s about a 1 in 3 chance that’s she’s foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast that to your typical California homeowner—white, ten years older, making about $12,000 more a year. There’s about a 25% chance she was born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of the demographic characteristics associated with homeownership—nativity, race and ethnicity, income level, age—make homeowners much more likely to vote than renters. And lawmakers are acutely aware of who votes and who doesn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/17564e7a-9f02-4e29-86e6-a30ac2d19a73?src=embed\" title=\"Renter v homeowner\" width=\"600\" height=\"860\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about renters, you’re looking at a lower socioeconomic status, younger people, people who move more often. That’s all negatively correlated to turnout,” said Paul Mitchell, a political consultant with Political Data Inc, which provides voter roll services to state political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite comprising more than 40% of the population, renters make up only about 20% of registered California voters, according to data analyzed by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, tenant advocates hoped that a rent control initiative put on the ballot would gin up turnout from renters who finally had a clear and compelling economic interest to show up to the polls. Although precise data on the rental status of voters is hard to obtain, an analysis of voters identified as renters by Political Data Inc. shows that registered homeowners were still about 25 percent more likely to vote than registered renters. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702293/early-results-show-rent-control-measure-trailing-at-polls\">rent control initiative lost\u003c/a> by an overwhelming margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>It’s not just what’s associated with being a renter that depresses turnout. Just being a renter, itself, makes you less likely to vote.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2016, simply owning a home in California meant you were nearly 6% more likely to be a registered voter than if you rented, even controlling for factors like ethnicity and level of education, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renting had roughly as strong an impact on your likelihood to register as being unemployed or being single. That disparity in renter-versus-homeowner registration and turnout has persisted election after election, in California and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you buy a house, you become settled in a community,” said Eric McGhee, research fellow at the institute. “When you’re settled in a community, you’re more likely to sign up and register to vote, and when you’re registered, you’re more likely to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11751072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-1020x1029.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-1020x1029.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-160x161.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM-800x807.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-9.07.42-AM.png 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>There are some very practical reasons renting keeps Californians from the ballot box. Renters tend to move more, meaning they need to re-register to vote at each new address. Political mailers and turn-out-the-vote campaigns can have a tough time infiltrating apartment complexes and keeping track of who moved where.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond these structural barriers, there’s the thorny question of why more renters aren’t more politically organized and active, especially compared to homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the answer–many renters consider their identity as a tenant temporary, and aspire to be homeowners some day. Why spend time on something like campaigning for rent control if you won’t benefit from it in a few years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in America and certainly everyone in California, from when you’re born, the expectation is you rent until you have enough money to buy a house,” said Shanti Singh, communications director for Tenants Together, a statewide coalition of local tenants groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh likens the difficulty tenants unions have mobilizing renters to the difficulty labor unions have mobilizing workers who aspire to one day rise to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Brian Augusta, lobbyist for tenant interests\"]“That’s the question we’re always asking ourselves.”[/pullquote]“We’re like 20 to 30 years behind the labor movement, and even the labor movement is always trying to get people to understand their identity as workers,” said Singh. “We’re trying to do the same thing and kind of trying to follow that path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic may be changing as the cost of homeownership becomes less and less feasible for younger Californians, who may consider renting less a temporary station and more the only viable means of remaining in the state. In 1970, the average California home \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/digging-data-attainable-california-dream-today/\">cost about three times\u003c/a> the median income for a 25 to 34-year-old family. Today the average home costs about seven times a young family’s earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The money imbalance is important, but it doesn’t explain everything\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To many in the tenants rights movement, the answer to why pro-renter bills die in the Capitol is simple: Landlords and their allies have lots of money for campaign contributions, lobbying and independent political expenditures. Tenants don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Apartment Association, the primary interest group representing large landlords on statewide issues, poured $280,000 into general lobbying in the first three months of this year. The California Association of Realtors, a longtime political ally of the landlords and a staunch opponent of rent control, spent $418,000. In the last election cycle, those interest groups lavished nearly $1 million on campaign contributions to candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re doing your rounds on lobbying, it’s just sort of a black box when you have groups like the realtors and (landlords) on the other side,” said Augusta, the pro-tenant lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while certainly important, money doesn’t explain everything about why Democratic lawmakers shy away from tenant bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11741220\"]Many legislators who have not supported tenant legislation represent solidly blue legislative districts, and have little fear of losing to a Republican challenger funded by a punitive real estate lobby or a Democratic challenger in a primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the question we’re always asking ourselves,” said Augusta. “I don’t know the answer as to why they would run scared in a safe district from a bill that benefits their constituents even though it might upset groups from the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers could obviously be worried about rubbing the industry the wrong way if they seek higher office, or have other legislative priorities in need of industry support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another underlying reason tenant groups believe they have trouble resonating with lawmakers: Almost all the legislators are homeowners, and many are landlords \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741220/lawmakers-and-landlords-more-than-a-quarter-of-california-legislators-are-both\">themselves.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CALmatters could only identify one state lawmaker who was not a homeowner—Assemblyman Todd Gloria, Democrat from San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m thrilled that the Assembly has taken one step forward to providing some relief to millions of tenants one rent increase away from losing their homes,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, Democrat from San Francisco and author of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant rights group can rightfully celebrate today’s vote as an achievement—mostly because of the near-herculean effort it took to get a renter bill this far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&firstNav=tracking\">AB 1482\u003c/a> was significantly watered down to accommodate reluctant lawmakers and appease opposing interest groups: The proposed rent cap was raised from 5% to 7% plus inflation; it exempts landlords who own less than 10 single family homes; and it would expire in 2023. And it still just squeaked by the Assembly. The fate of a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1481&firstNav=tracking\">twin bill\u003c/a> that would have mandated landlords evict tenants only for “just cause”—which many argue is necessary for Chiu’s bill to be effective—remains uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d expect California’s 17 million renters to have more juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of Californians are tenants, including 12 million of voting age—a major swath of the potential electorate. Rents have soared to alarming highs, causing more than half the state’s tenants to meet the federal definition of “housing-cost burdened.” In one of his first addresses in office, the state’s new progressive governor called on a Democratic supermajority of state lawmakers to send him a package of tenant protection bill as soon as possible. This weekend a recently formed Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/renters-caucus-california-democratic-state-convention-2019-tickets-62122943396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“renters caucus”\u003c/a> will host an event at the state party convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, legislation aimed at helping California’s renters almost always has struggled to get through the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have in California in both houses a supermajority of Democrats, many of whom will tell you that they’re concerned about the housing crisis,” said Brian Augusta, legislative advocate for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and a lobbyist for tenant interests who has watched a handful of tenant protection bills die or get watered down in recent years. “And yet when we go to try to secure their vote for what seem like very reasonable policies, they’re not going up [to vote].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why can’t tenant groups wield the political muscle you’d think their numbers would warrant?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money is the easy answer: Landlords have it, renters don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have to have plausible arguments, and our arguments still have to resonate,” said Deb Carlton, lobbyist for the California Apartment Association.”A lot of these bills are extreme and they’re not willing to compromise on these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more to it than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>California renters are more likely to be lower income, younger and immigrants—all demographic blocs less likely to vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Who’s your typical California renter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picture a Latina woman in her early 40s, making around $26,000 a year. There’s about a 1 in 3 chance that’s she’s foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast that to your typical California homeowner—white, ten years older, making about $12,000 more a year. There’s about a 25% chance she was born in another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of the demographic characteristics associated with homeownership—nativity, race and ethnicity, income level, age—make homeowners much more likely to vote than renters. 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That’s all negatively correlated to turnout,” said Paul Mitchell, a political consultant with Political Data Inc, which provides voter roll services to state political campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite comprising more than 40% of the population, renters make up only about 20% of registered California voters, according to data analyzed by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November, tenant advocates hoped that a rent control initiative put on the ballot would gin up turnout from renters who finally had a clear and compelling economic interest to show up to the polls. Although precise data on the rental status of voters is hard to obtain, an analysis of voters identified as renters by Political Data Inc. shows that registered homeowners were still about 25 percent more likely to vote than registered renters. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702293/early-results-show-rent-control-measure-trailing-at-polls\">rent control initiative lost\u003c/a> by an overwhelming margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>It’s not just what’s associated with being a renter that depresses turnout. Just being a renter, itself, makes you less likely to vote.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2016, simply owning a home in California meant you were nearly 6% more likely to be a registered voter than if you rented, even controlling for factors like ethnicity and level of education, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renting had roughly as strong an impact on your likelihood to register as being unemployed or being single. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-20190524/child.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"550\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"camp-fire\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Camp Fire raced into the Northern California town of Paradise on Nov. 8, destroying nearly 19,000 structures and claiming 85 lives, Chris Beaudis narrowly escaped. He drove out of the Sierra foothills in his Ford Bronco with only his pit bull. He lost everything and has no insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really stressful at times,” he says. “You think that it’s the end of the world, especially when everything you have is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Beaudis has for now is a 300-square-foot FEMA camper trailer. It is wedged into a corner of the fairgrounds in Yuba City, in the valley about 50 miles south of what’s left of Paradise. His is one of about 7,200 Camp Fire survivor households relying on direct federal aid, according to FEMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank God that I was finally able to get on the help list and receive help,” Beaudis says. “Since then it’s just been the biggest stress reliever of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With nowhere else to go, Beaudis is likely to stay in this trailer for another year before he can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-1_custom-2365c91b47c19485d8e6ab6ddd68be42da3dcb1d-s2500-c85-e1559082969314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750512 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-1_custom-2365c91b47c19485d8e6ab6ddd68be42da3dcb1d-s2500-c85-e1559082969314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Beaudis had been living in his Ford Bronco with his pit bull, Wall-E, after the Camp Fire destroyed his home last November. At the end of March, he moved into a FEMA trailer (right) camped in Yuba City. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that help list that Beaudis was able to get on is emblematic of a bigger problem in the way we respond to natural disasters: Disaster strikes, emergency help is deployed, checks are cut, communities are rebuilt — even in high-risk places. Many say that reactive response has to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1975\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Camp Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California’s history. The fire leveled homes in the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park, (top and bottom right), leaving behind debris as seen in these photos taken six months later. The Safeway at Old Town Plaza in Paradise (bottom left) was destroyed. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the federal government — through FEMA — has paid out more than $85 million in emergency aid for survivors. An additional $370 million in loans has been distributed by the Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One estimate put the Camp Fire as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-wildfire-was-world-s-costliest-natural-disaster-2018-insurer-n956376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most expensive disaster in the world \u003c/a>in 2018, racking up more than $16 billion in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1398\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png 1398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-800x663.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1020x845.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1200x994.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactionary mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As disasters like wildfires, floods and hurricanes increase in size, severity and frequency, experts who study our response to them are warning that events like the Camp Fire should be a wake-up call. One of the early lessons from Paradise is that we need to radically overhaul how to prepare for and respond to disasters in the era of climate change, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been very reactionary,” says Josh Sawislak, a climate resiliency adviser in the Obama administration. “The problem is that we’ve kind of gotten away with it for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew clears hazardous material from a property that burned in the fire. Household products like cleaning solutions, paint or batteries must be specially handled and disposed of following a fire, according to the EPA. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FEMA will typically respond to a disaster, arriving immediately on the ground, and then spend the next 18 months or so cleaning up, aiding communities and making the recovery process as easy as possible for disaster victims who want to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paradise, that mission started with cleaning up the rubble from destroyed homes, strip malls, gas stations, and the torched frames of cars being scooped up and hauled away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-03-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-03-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris removal alone is estimated to cost upwards of $1.7 billion, again mostly paid for by federal taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The quicker we remove the debris, the faster reconstruction can start,” says Bob Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, overseeing the California wildfire recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clean up the debris and rebuild — this has been the mindset for disaster recovery in the U.S. for decades, according to experts like Sawislak, who has worked in disaster relief and now studies the industry. We wait until something happens and then come in and fix it. This model is outdated and broken, Sawislak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews cut down burned trees off Clark Road in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending more and more money and it’s going to get even worse,” he says. “Climate change is going to force our hand to be smarter about how we do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak says it is standard operating procedure to cut checks after a disaster declaration. Just last week the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726237046/senate-reaches-deal-on-disaster-aid-package-as-trump-pivots-to-support-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate passed a $19.1 billion dollar disaster relief package\u003c/a> to aid farmers and communities as they recover from floods, hurricanes and wildfires. But every year the U.S. seems to be experiencing the biggest hurricane, the deadliest flood and the most catastrophic wildfires — like the Camp Fire — burning into whole cities that are built in and around overgrown, dry forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png 1368w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1200x925.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral scientist Kathleen Tierney says a lesson from Paradise is that staying the current course will bankrupt the federal Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be able to slow down the losses, but we can’t stop them,” she says. “This is the legacy; this is the bill that has come due.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Optimism bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-02-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-02-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tierney spent her career advising communities after disasters as the former director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. She says it’s a basic human instinct to want to rebuild, to return to normal after a traumatic event, even if it’s going home to an area we know is risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tendency that a lot of people have is to say, ‘We’ve had our disaster. We’re not going to have another one; all we have to do is go back,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenton, the FEMA administrator, has been thinking a lot about this, especially after Paradise. During the Obama administration, he led a committee to overhaul the way communities plan for catastrophes. He has been trying to move the needle toward persuading communities and states to do more before the inevitable disasters strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot of work over the years to help people respond or rebuild,” Fenton says. “But how do we get them to plan better, prepare better and mitigate against future disasters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1200x893.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: One home that survived the fire and one home (right) at the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park in Paradise that did not. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is not an easy task to turn this system around; there’s the ungainly federal budgeting process, political divisiveness and human nature, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disaster recovery reforms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, last fall, amid a record wildfire season in California, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/10/05/disaster-recovery-reform-act-2018-transforms-field-emergency-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disaster Recovery Reform Act\u003c/a>. It’s part of a sprawling set of disaster spending reforms that will, among other things, allow FEMA to send a portion of its disaster relief budget to states to use for pre-disaster mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak, who also served on the Hurricane Sandy recovery task force, says it’s a start toward avoiding massive rebuilding costs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t think it goes far enough,” he says. “We should be spending billions on protecting our infrastructure and communities, not millions or even hundreds of millions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vickie Brock (left) and Peggy Hunnings (center) serve lunch to people at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Since the fire, the church has been helping distribute free food and water. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Cuypers hands out free water to residents at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Private citizens and groups have been volunteering and providing food and water since the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, it is a small portion — about 6% — netting an estimated $300 million a year for pre-disaster mitigation programs. And it is unlikely any of those funds will be allocated in time for this year’s fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, federal officials like Fenton say the conversation is finally beginning in earnest around the West, where he says communities need to build — and rebuild — smarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities need to be aware of those risks when doing community planning and not build in very high hazard areas,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-04-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-04-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after Paradise, local governments in the West are continuing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tejon-ranch-decision-20181211-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approve development \u003c/a>in high-fire-risk places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise’s town council has pledged it will rebuild, while also insisting its new town will have a redesigned street grid and homes built with more fire-resistant materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to rebuild and our constituents all want to rebuild,” says Jody Jones, the mayor. “But we want to rebuild a more resilient, safe community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1989px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1989\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg 1989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1989px) 100vw, 1989px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, trucks carry tree debris down Clark Road in Paradise, which was heavily forested before the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, federal money is continuing to keep the recovery here going. The cleanup and debris removal alone is a monumental task, a fraction of which had been completed even six months after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s time to rethink what the new Paradise will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living with fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Efseaff of the Paradise Recreation and Park District points to where the fire came over the ridge and into Paradise. Cal Fire determined that the fire started near the rural community of Pulga, east of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One morning at dawn, Paradise Recreation and Parks Director Dan Efseaff walks along a ridge on the eastern edge of town. To his right, a steep drop into the Little Feather River Canyon. To his left is a narrow road, full of houses, all leveled by the fire, built right up along the ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efseaff is floating an idea to buy out these properties and turn the land into open space. The land could be a park but also managed as a firebreak, a place where crews could safely park engines and take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1664\" height=\"1109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg 1664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1664px) 100vw, 1664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efseaff stands at the edge of the Drendel Circle neighborhood, which burned in the fire. Vegetation has begun to grow back in the area (right) that he wants to turn into defensible space. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The amount of resources that we spend during a disaster — it’s a million dollars a day, or it’s $10 million a day,” Efseaff says. “Yet I wish I had a million dollars for this next year to do vegetation work in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a provision — and money — in that new disaster reform bill for states to buy out private property in high-risk zones and turn it into green space. This has never been done before in high-fire-risk areas in the United States. But it could be the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California needs to figure out, how do we live with fire, how do we adapt to fire,” Efseaff says. “What we do in Paradise has huge implications for not only the state but the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-15_custom-35ff1865b3bedc8ca8d1734aaf9b3aa091b5b7ab-s2500-c85-e1559085203255.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-15_custom-35ff1865b3bedc8ca8d1734aaf9b3aa091b5b7ab-s2500-c85-e1559085203255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efseaff says this area of land could serve the community in the future as a park and a firebreak. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Camp Fire raced into the Northern California town of Paradise on Nov. 8, destroying nearly 19,000 structures and claiming 85 lives, Chris Beaudis narrowly escaped. He drove out of the Sierra foothills in his Ford Bronco with only his pit bull. He lost everything and has no insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been really stressful at times,” he says. “You think that it’s the end of the world, especially when everything you have is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Beaudis has for now is a 300-square-foot FEMA camper trailer. It is wedged into a corner of the fairgrounds in Yuba City, in the valley about 50 miles south of what’s left of Paradise. His is one of about 7,200 Camp Fire survivor households relying on direct federal aid, according to FEMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank God that I was finally able to get on the help list and receive help,” Beaudis says. “Since then it’s just been the biggest stress reliever of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With nowhere else to go, Beaudis is likely to stay in this trailer for another year before he can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-1_custom-2365c91b47c19485d8e6ab6ddd68be42da3dcb1d-s2500-c85-e1559082969314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11750512 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-1_custom-2365c91b47c19485d8e6ab6ddd68be42da3dcb1d-s2500-c85-e1559082969314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Beaudis had been living in his Ford Bronco with his pit bull, Wall-E, after the Camp Fire destroyed his home last November. At the end of March, he moved into a FEMA trailer (right) camped in Yuba City. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that help list that Beaudis was able to get on is emblematic of a bigger problem in the way we respond to natural disasters: Disaster strikes, emergency help is deployed, checks are cut, communities are rebuilt — even in high-risk places. Many say that reactive response has to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-grid_custom-915ede61ab5eb41d93a285eeff233a10fed2b806-s2500-c85-e1559083196554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1975\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Camp Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California’s history. The fire leveled homes in the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park, (top and bottom right), leaving behind debris as seen in these photos taken six months later. The Safeway at Old Town Plaza in Paradise (bottom left) was destroyed. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thus far, the federal government — through FEMA — has paid out more than $85 million in emergency aid for survivors. An additional $370 million in loans has been distributed by the Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One estimate put the Camp Fire as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-wildfire-was-world-s-costliest-natural-disaster-2018-insurer-n956376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most expensive disaster in the world \u003c/a>in 2018, racking up more than $16 billion in losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1398\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM.png 1398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-800x663.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1020x845.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.45.25-PM-1200x994.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactionary mode\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As disasters like wildfires, floods and hurricanes increase in size, severity and frequency, experts who study our response to them are warning that events like the Camp Fire should be a wake-up call. One of the early lessons from Paradise is that we need to radically overhaul how to prepare for and respond to disasters in the era of climate change, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been very reactionary,” says Josh Sawislak, a climate resiliency adviser in the Obama administration. “The problem is that we’ve kind of gotten away with it for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-16_custom-27724ff361faf07f5eaeea6caad149858c99961d-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew clears hazardous material from a property that burned in the fire. Household products like cleaning solutions, paint or batteries must be specially handled and disposed of following a fire, according to the EPA. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FEMA will typically respond to a disaster, arriving immediately on the ground, and then spend the next 18 months or so cleaning up, aiding communities and making the recovery process as easy as possible for disaster victims who want to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paradise, that mission started with cleaning up the rubble from destroyed homes, strip malls, gas stations, and the torched frames of cars being scooped up and hauled away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-03-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-03-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debris removal alone is estimated to cost upwards of $1.7 billion, again mostly paid for by federal taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The quicker we remove the debris, the faster reconstruction can start,” says Bob Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, overseeing the California wildfire recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clean up the debris and rebuild — this has been the mindset for disaster recovery in the U.S. for decades, according to experts like Sawislak, who has worked in disaster relief and now studies the industry. We wait until something happens and then come in and fix it. This model is outdated and broken, Sawislak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-7_custom-d231ab013d8adb4b106bf98f856bd58889efb136-s2500-c85-e1559084100573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews cut down burned trees off Clark Road in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re spending more and more money and it’s going to get even worse,” he says. “Climate change is going to force our hand to be smarter about how we do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak says it is standard operating procedure to cut checks after a disaster declaration. Just last week the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/726237046/senate-reaches-deal-on-disaster-aid-package-as-trump-pivots-to-support-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate passed a $19.1 billion dollar disaster relief package\u003c/a> to aid farmers and communities as they recover from floods, hurricanes and wildfires. But every year the U.S. seems to be experiencing the biggest hurricane, the deadliest flood and the most catastrophic wildfires — like the Camp Fire — burning into whole cities that are built in and around overgrown, dry forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM.png 1368w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-3.43.52-PM-1200x925.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral scientist Kathleen Tierney says a lesson from Paradise is that staying the current course will bankrupt the federal Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be able to slow down the losses, but we can’t stop them,” she says. “This is the legacy; this is the bill that has come due.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Optimism bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-02-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-02-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tierney spent her career advising communities after disasters as the former director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware and the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. She says it’s a basic human instinct to want to rebuild, to return to normal after a traumatic event, even if it’s going home to an area we know is risky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tendency that a lot of people have is to say, ‘We’ve had our disaster. We’re not going to have another one; all we have to do is go back,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fenton, the FEMA administrator, has been thinking a lot about this, especially after Paradise. During the Obama administration, he led a committee to overhaul the way communities plan for catastrophes. He has been trying to move the needle toward persuading communities and states to do more before the inevitable disasters strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot of work over the years to help people respond or rebuild,” Fenton says. “But how do we get them to plan better, prepare better and mitigate against future disasters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750517\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-10x_custom-271f6bebb9e7cfe5ba5f7071f8db464f1fe2f819-s1300-c85-1200x893.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: One home that survived the fire and one home (right) at the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park in Paradise that did not. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is not an easy task to turn this system around; there’s the ungainly federal budgeting process, political divisiveness and human nature, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disaster recovery reforms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, last fall, amid a record wildfire season in California, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/10/05/disaster-recovery-reform-act-2018-transforms-field-emergency-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disaster Recovery Reform Act\u003c/a>. It’s part of a sprawling set of disaster spending reforms that will, among other things, allow FEMA to send a portion of its disaster relief budget to states to use for pre-disaster mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawislak, who also served on the Hurricane Sandy recovery task force, says it’s a start toward avoiding massive rebuilding costs in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t think it goes far enough,” he says. “We should be spending billions on protecting our infrastructure and communities, not millions or even hundreds of millions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750519\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-13_custom-ce06cebef953b634e4768ae6fdfd2cb27a49c40f-s1300-c85-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vickie Brock (left) and Peggy Hunnings (center) serve lunch to people at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Since the fire, the church has been helping distribute free food and water. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1996px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85.jpg 1996w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-12_custom-8e9941af49e9ec39b2c119e220a4c489c531acf7-s2500-c85-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Cuypers hands out free water to residents at the Magalia Pines Baptist Church just outside Paradise. Private citizens and groups have been volunteering and providing food and water since the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, it is a small portion — about 6% — netting an estimated $300 million a year for pre-disaster mitigation programs. And it is unlikely any of those funds will be allocated in time for this year’s fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, federal officials like Fenton say the conversation is finally beginning in earnest around the West, where he says communities need to build — and rebuild — smarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities need to be aware of those risks when doing community planning and not build in very high hazard areas,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/paradise-drone-04-20190524/child.html?initialWidth=1114&childId=responsive-embed-paradise-drone-04-20190524&parentTitle=Rethinking%20Disaster%20Recovery%20After%20A%20California%20Town%20Is%20Leveled%20By%20Wildfire%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F05%2F28%2F724404528%2Frethinking-disaster-recovery-after-a-california-town-is-leveled-by-wildfire\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after Paradise, local governments in the West are continuing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tejon-ranch-decision-20181211-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approve development \u003c/a>in high-fire-risk places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise’s town council has pledged it will rebuild, while also insisting its new town will have a redesigned street grid and homes built with more fire-resistant materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to rebuild and our constituents all want to rebuild,” says Jody Jones, the mayor. “But we want to rebuild a more resilient, safe community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1989px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1989\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85.jpg 1989w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-6_custom-e3ae9375dc7a048f6cb5459abd2254ff91d6aa82-s2500-c85-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1989px) 100vw, 1989px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, trucks carry tree debris down Clark Road in Paradise, which was heavily forested before the fire. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, federal money is continuing to keep the recovery here going. The cleanup and debris removal alone is a monumental task, a fraction of which had been completed even six months after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s time to rethink what the new Paradise will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living with fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-8_custom-9c340f77b77cf7532554c0b5bc5b2fdf0d0a9460-s1300-c85-1200x796.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Efseaff of the Paradise Recreation and Park District points to where the fire came over the ridge and into Paradise. Cal Fire determined that the fire started near the rural community of Pulga, east of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One morning at dawn, Paradise Recreation and Parks Director Dan Efseaff walks along a ridge on the eastern edge of town. To his right, a steep drop into the Little Feather River Canyon. To his left is a narrow road, full of houses, all leveled by the fire, built right up along the ridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efseaff is floating an idea to buy out these properties and turn the land into open space. The land could be a park but also managed as a firebreak, a place where crews could safely park engines and take a stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1664\" height=\"1109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85.jpg 1664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-14_slide-005e307e643dbdf07a8d3b0cce8c0606da181419-s2500-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1664px) 100vw, 1664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efseaff stands at the edge of the Drendel Circle neighborhood, which burned in the fire. Vegetation has begun to grow back in the area (right) that he wants to turn into defensible space. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The amount of resources that we spend during a disaster — it’s a million dollars a day, or it’s $10 million a day,” Efseaff says. “Yet I wish I had a million dollars for this next year to do vegetation work in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a provision — and money — in that new disaster reform bill for states to buy out private property in high-risk zones and turn it into green space. This has never been done before in high-fire-risk areas in the United States. But it could be the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California needs to figure out, how do we live with fire, how do we adapt to fire,” Efseaff says. “What we do in Paradise has huge implications for not only the state but the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-15_custom-35ff1865b3bedc8ca8d1734aaf9b3aa091b5b7ab-s2500-c85-e1559085203255.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/paradise-rebuilding-15_custom-35ff1865b3bedc8ca8d1734aaf9b3aa091b5b7ab-s2500-c85-e1559085203255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efseaff says this area of land could serve the community in the future as a park and a firebreak. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Rethinking+Disaster+Recovery+After+A+California+Town+Is+Leveled+By+Wildfire+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We all see it … when we walk on the street and see people in misery,” Ronen said. “Every single day we see people being released onto the street with their hospital bands on who are still clearly in crisis and don’t know what to do and where to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would also expand residential treatment and housing services already operating in San Francisco for people with severe mental illness and substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen and Haney plan to put a separate measure on the fall ballot, dubbed the Excessive CEO Salary Tax, that would place an extra surcharge on businesses that have chief executives who make at least 100 times more than the firms’ typical workers. They believe the tax would generate about $80 million a year, adding to the city’s $370 million annual budget for mental health and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental Health SF would rely on some state money as well. The state Medi-Cal program covers half the cost of services to low-income Californians enrolled in the program. Ronen said San Francisco should draw down more funding from Proposition 63, a tax approved by voters in 2004 to fund services for Californians with serious mental illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would also use some funding from an IPO tax recently proposed by Supervisor Gordon Mar to raise the employer payroll tax on stock-based compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for a leading business lobbying group raised concerns about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s little question that we need to do a far better job of providing mental health care services. 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The mayor recently hired the city’s first ever director of mental health reform, Dr. Anton Nigusse Bland, who previously directed psychiatric emergency services at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now tasked with evaluating the city’s mental health and substance abuse treatment services, particularly for homeless people, and making recommendations for changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also participating in a pilot project overhauling the delivery of drug treatment services through Medi-Cal – a project that includes some features proposed in the Mental Health SF program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ronen says it’s not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen a single plan that comes out of the mayor’s office to deal with this crisis at the scale that we’re dealing with,” Ronen said. “We need a massive overhaul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To staff the program, Ronen believes the city can accomplish what the private health care industry can’t. Kaiser Permanente has been the target of numerous complaints about long wait times for mental health appointments, which clinicians there say is due to under staffing. Their union recently authorized a strike over the issue, following a five-day strike in December. Patients with Blue Shield coverage say when they call therapists listed on the insurer’s network, most are not taking new patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies routinely explain this by saying there is a shortage of clinicians. 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