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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-pride\">San Francisco Pride 2026\u003c/a> — one of the biggest LGBTQ+ celebrations in the world — is just a few days away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say that the event returns this year stronger than ever after facing some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031588/san-francisco-pride-struggles-secure-sponsorships-ahead-2025-parade\">financial challenges\u003c/a> last year. “San Francisco Pride \u003cem>is \u003c/em>going to happen,” said executive director Suzanne Ford. “Come to San Francisco’s Civic Center for the street fair, the celebration, all the music — and it’s all free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford added that this year’s theme, “Resistance in Action,” will be on display in both the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/celebration/\">Pride celebration at Civic Center\u003c/a> — which takes place on both Saturday and Sunday — and \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/parade/\">Sunday’s Pride parade\u003c/a> down Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride has also partnered with the progressive grassroots group \u003ca href=\"https://indivisiblesf.org/\">Indivisible SF\u003c/a>, the organizers behind \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedykemarch.org/\">SF Dyke March\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://juanitamore.com/about-peoples-march-rally\">People’s March\u003c/a>, and the motorcycle group \u003ca href=\"https://www.dykesonbikes.org/\">Dykes on Bikes\u003c/a> to host a \u003ca href=\"https://indivisiblesf.org/events/2026/06/27/trans-ally-rally\">Trans Ally Rally\u003c/a> on Saturday morning that will start at Embarcadero Plaza and end at Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#WhendoesSFPride2026start\">When does SF Pride 2026 start?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Pride weekend comes at a time when LGBTQ+ organizations nationwide are continuing to push back against \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-trump-ended-democrats-transgender-for-everybody-insanity/\">policies\u003c/a> from President Donald Trump’s administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/overview-of-president-trumps-executive-actions-impacting-lgbtq-health/\">targeting\u003c/a> transgender and nonbinary people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001\">new rules\u003c/a> that would block federal agencies from funding anything related to transgender people — a move the administration has called “ending government sponsorship of gender ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt='A white person kisses another person on the cheek while holding a smartphone with other people holding signs that say \"Haney\" in rainbow lettering.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two individuals rejoice during the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want allies to come out in the street and show their support for trans people,” Ford said of SF Pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And all over the Bay Area, there are protests, parties and workshops scheduled throughout the weekend. As you make your Pride plans, keep this guide handy to know what’s happening in downtown San Francisco and elsewhere — and see what public health officials are recommending to stay safe while having fun this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhendoesSFPride2026start\">\u003c/a>When is SF Pride 2026?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, SF Pride falls on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s happening when? The SF Pride Celebration is a free two-day event in the city’s Civic Center that includes several block parties and musical performances from noon–6 p.m. on both days. On Sunday, the main stage will be hosted by political activist and drag performer Honey Mahogany and Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and will feature performances by Oakland rapper Kamaiyah, the pop duo Aly & AJ and the ballroom collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13968489/bay-area-ballroom-vogueing-oakland-to-all-ball\">Oakland to All\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026-160x175.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026-1408x1536.jpg 1408w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026-1877x2048.jpg 1877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the SF Pride parade route for Sunday, June 28, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SF Pride’s legendary Pride Parade takes place at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday and will move through Market Street. The parade starts at the intersection of Beale and Market streets and ends at Civic Center Plaza. Community members can also be part of the parade by \u003ca href=\"http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdajgPcR3VBDAqPArT2uHfjc06nkVDus95Ilf_4QZbEhDB8mw/viewform\">joining SF Pride’s “Resistance in Action!” contingent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers have also planned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vip-party-at-asian-art-museum-tickets-1987280776298?aff=oddtdtcreator\">“VIP Party” on Sunday\u003c/a> inside the Asian Art Museum, right in front of Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two additional major events taking place in SF Pride week, which aren’t produced by SF Pride: The Trans March \u003ca href=\"https://transmarch.org/\">will take place\u003c/a> on Friday at Dolores Park, and the Dyke March is \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedykemarch.org/\">scheduled for Saturday\u003c/a> and will also start at Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What streets will be closed for the SF Pride parade and celebration?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Multiple street closures will begin even before the celebrations start. On Thursday at 7 p.m., Grove Street will be closed between Polk and Larkin streets, and reopen on Monday at 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the following streets will be closed and reopen on Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fulton between Hyde and Larkin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grove between Van Ness and Hyde\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 12:01 a.m., Polk between McAllister and Grove, and at 8 p.m., Polk between Golden Gate and Hayes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 12:01 a.m., Larkin between McAllister and Market, and at 8 p.m., Larkin between Golden Gate and Grove\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 8 p.m., McAllister between Van Ness and Leavenworth\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 8 p.m., Hyde between Golden Gate and Market\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The 5 Fulton, 6 Hayes/Parnassus, 19 Polk and 27 Bryant Muni bus lines will also be partially rerouted around the Civic Center area. SFMTA has provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/san-francisco-pride-festival-weekend-saturday-sunday-june-27-28-2026\">a full list\u003c/a> of which stops will be skipped and where passengers can board their bus instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will I be able to find parking at SF Pride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you plan to park near Market Street on Sunday for the SF Pride Parade, you may want to rethink that strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086537/paying-for-parking-in-san-francisco-make-sure-youre-using-the-right-apps\"> a public parking spot in downtown San Francisco\u003c/a> is already difficult on any other day of the year and nearly impossible during Pride. If you’re determined to drive into the city that weekend, there are private parking lots downtown, but bear in mind that they can be pricey, usually charging at least $30-$40 per hour, and likely more during big events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people wearing colorful clothing stand next to each other behind a barricade.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd watches the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, you may need to drive to pretty far-off neighborhoods to find a spot. Or you can reserve a parking spot ahead of time \u003ca href=\"https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=37.793301236424945&longitude=-122.39645940189274&%243p=a_hasoffers&%24affiliate_json=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.spothero.com%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D1%26aff_id%3D1433%26file_id%3D28%26source%3Dsfpridestartline%26aff_sub2%3Dparkingpage%26format%3Djson&_branch_match_id=1326649323374618505&utm_source=Partnerships&utm_campaign=Tune_Platform&utm_medium=paid+advertising&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA32SwU7EIBCGn6bc7LZA260JMSbq0Yvx3MxSusVlCwI18e0dtnWzrsaEy%2FzDzPzzwRijC7ebTXA2jsrbHJzLjZ4OmxhKR5%2FfX1R5d9BTL6DvvQqBGIg6zr0SrMmblrGipKzmlLe8IsZO%2ByV5U1Kas7bmVcuLctvShpOMcuYEdCMEOwzKh6TAMGijIaruLdhJjOgnY%2FcZfcITPUicvc%2FP7qQ9oo41nczY06lLp%2FuMPZQZrZO8BJwxjLGxWgS6xTDY2UuFURic170KEXzEVdVaGuYdxawDn2Y62KfEYP0RIsrJHZm9OTkMZ4u%2FuCXbZ3LoMaNVWhs7XCyOja%2B8Z82jNFoeVqWgTVNx4JzSpq4L2FY71ZYVg%2B1OFut1G2InZ%2B%2FVJD%2Bx5vXl4SLxAWZOu66Xg5J26sF%2Fdm7eGR3QMiYTlBG68xOs0j%2Bc9hZMgkRJkKM6qoUGGXGk%2BIWCOIij%2BAHkjz9waiko%2BQYiSrI4ENfzyQUk8T8icg1IIB7yA44ovgD2DmjT%2FAIAAA%3D%3D&view=dl\">using SpotHero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is to drive to a BART station outside the city, park there, and take BART to any of the downtown San Francisco stations on Market Street (Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero). That way, you’ll avoid the weekend traffic coming into the city on the Bay Bridge or Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there things I can’t bring to San Francisco Pride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are usually security checkpoints to get into both the Pride parade and the celebrations at the Civic Center. Event organizers \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/safety/\">strongly recommend\u003c/a> people travel light and bring their ID, cell phone, sunscreen, and an empty reusable water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride is discouraging attendees from bringing any kind of bag to speed up entry into the event, but will allow some bags to pass through, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clear plastic, vinyl, or PVC bags that do not exceed 12″ x 6″ x 12″\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small clutch bags or purses no larger than 4.5″ x 6.5″\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fanny packs or crossbody bags smaller than 12″ × 6″ × 4″\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The following items will not be allowed during Pride weekend:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Weapons of any kind (regardless of permit)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcoholic beverages or outside food\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drones or remote-control aircraft\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bikes or hoverboards\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chairs of any kind\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Selfie sticks or professional camera equipment without media credentials\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets (service animals welcome)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/safety/\">Check out the full list of banned items at SF Pride.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the weather like in San Francisco during Pride weekend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service has an optimistic forecast for Pride weekend: mostly sunny and temperatures in the high 60s on both Friday and Saturday, and a sunny Sunday in the low 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember that this is San Francisco, where the weather can change very quickly. Even on a sunny day, it’s normal for the weather to still feel chilly, thanks to the strong winds pushing in from the bay. And nighttime temperatures throughout this week are predicted to be in the 50s — so it’s a good idea to bring a warm jacket along if you’re staying after the celebrations to party some more in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to know about accessibility at SF Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Pride parade has a free accessible viewing area, which organizers say provides an “unobstructed parade viewing at no cost for you and one guest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to request a spot, you’ll need to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsSAMJ_jH4mwg3hMMClLSsVuwqPqqTEn4kYIA1RIBA11igEQ/viewform\">complete an online form\u003c/a>, but organizers add that space is limited and spots will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an elaborate dress walks in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siam Phusri, a Thai drag performer, marches in the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SF Pride also offers American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and a special seating platform at the Civic Center celebration on both days. To access this service, you’ll need to pick up a wristband at the SF Pride information booth at Fulton and Larkin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re taking BART to Pride, all BART stations have accessible elevators, but keep in mind that technical issues with these elevators are unfortunately common. You can sign up for BART alerts to be notified if the elevator at your station breaks down, or you can also call 510-834-LIFT to check the status of the elevator at any station.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping each other safe at SF Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, Pride in San Francisco has been a time when LGBTQ+ people have come together to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/resource-library/sfaf-history/\">advocate\u003c/a> for the health needs of their community. Part of celebrating Pride is honoring that legacy and protecting our own sexual health and that of our partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Talk with your partners and provider about when you last tested for an STI (sexually transmitted infection) and make testing part of your regular health routine,” a spokesperson for the San Francisco Department of Public Health told KQED.[aside postID=news_12061805 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/1.png']If you have insurance, call your health care provider and share that you need to know your status ahead of Pride weekend. And if you are uninsured, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082251/after-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-free-clinics-are-stepping-up\">multiple clinics\u003c/a> and LGBTQ+ community centers around the Bay Area offer free or low-cost STI testing, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/cityclinic\">San Francisco City Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sffc.org/\">San Francisco Free Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.clinicbythebay.org/\">Clinic by the Bay\u003c/a> (San Francisco)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/sti-testing\">Berkeley Free Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.defrankcenter.org/hiv-testing\">Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center\u003c/a> (San José)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishfreeclinic.org/scheduling-hours\">Jewish Community Free Clinic\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties can also request \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebgtz.org/get-tested-treated/\">at-home HIV tests\u003c/a> mailed to the address of their choice for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials also advise that folks learn about doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/cityclinic-get-doxypep\">doxy-PEP\u003c/a> — an antibiotic taken after sex that research has shown to be highly effective at preventing syphilis and chlamydia. As for HIV prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis — or PrEP — can help protect folks from an HIV infection and can be taken as a pill or an injection. Vaccines are also available to help prevent hepatitis A, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus (HPV), meningitis, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080320/mpox-clade-i-san-francisco-2026-symptoms-rash-where-to-find-monkeypox-vaccine\">mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) infections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preventing a dangerous overdose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking party drugs (molly, cocaine, ketamine or 2C-B, also known as tusi or pink cocaine ) has become more dangerous in recent years, as these drugs are now being laced with fentanyl \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/14/1199396794/fentanyl-mixed-with-cocaine-or-meth-is-driving-the-4th-wave-of-the-overdose-cris\">more frequently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health advocates recommend that anyone who plans to consume drugs should test them ahead of time for fentanyl. The nonprofit FentCheck provides \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs-1\">a list of bars and other community spaces\u003c/a> that offer fentanyl test strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to consider bringing with you when going out: Narcan, the brand name for a naloxone nasal spray that is administered to someone when they are experiencing an opioid overdose (including from fentanyl).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can buy Narcan at a pharmacy without needing a prescription, and you can also get it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/location/behavioral-health-access-center-bhac\">free of charge\u003c/a> at the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Health Services pharmacy at 1380 Howard St. The pharmacy is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#WhendoesSFPride2026start\">When does SF Pride 2026 start?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Pride weekend comes at a time when LGBTQ+ organizations nationwide are continuing to push back against \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-trump-ended-democrats-transgender-for-everybody-insanity/\">policies\u003c/a> from President Donald Trump’s administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/overview-of-president-trumps-executive-actions-impacting-lgbtq-health/\">targeting\u003c/a> transgender and nonbinary people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, White House officials proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2026-0034-0001\">new rules\u003c/a> that would block federal agencies from funding anything related to transgender people — a move the administration has called “ending government sponsorship of gender ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11992644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt='A white person kisses another person on the cheek while holding a smartphone with other people holding signs that say \"Haney\" in rainbow lettering.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240630_Pride_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two individuals rejoice during the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want allies to come out in the street and show their support for trans people,” Ford said of SF Pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And all over the Bay Area, there are protests, parties and workshops scheduled throughout the weekend. As you make your Pride plans, keep this guide handy to know what’s happening in downtown San Francisco and elsewhere — and see what public health officials are recommending to stay safe while having fun this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhendoesSFPride2026start\">\u003c/a>When is SF Pride 2026?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, SF Pride falls on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s happening when? The SF Pride Celebration is a free two-day event in the city’s Civic Center that includes several block parties and musical performances from noon–6 p.m. on both days. On Sunday, the main stage will be hosted by political activist and drag performer Honey Mahogany and Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and will feature performances by Oakland rapper Kamaiyah, the pop duo Aly & AJ and the ballroom collective \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13968489/bay-area-ballroom-vogueing-oakland-to-all-ball\">Oakland to All\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026-160x175.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026-1408x1536.jpg 1408w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PRIDE-MAP-2026-1877x2048.jpg 1877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the SF Pride parade route for Sunday, June 28, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SF Pride’s legendary Pride Parade takes place at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday and will move through Market Street. The parade starts at the intersection of Beale and Market streets and ends at Civic Center Plaza. Community members can also be part of the parade by \u003ca href=\"http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdajgPcR3VBDAqPArT2uHfjc06nkVDus95Ilf_4QZbEhDB8mw/viewform\">joining SF Pride’s “Resistance in Action!” contingent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers have also planned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vip-party-at-asian-art-museum-tickets-1987280776298?aff=oddtdtcreator\">“VIP Party” on Sunday\u003c/a> inside the Asian Art Museum, right in front of Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two additional major events taking place in SF Pride week, which aren’t produced by SF Pride: The Trans March \u003ca href=\"https://transmarch.org/\">will take place\u003c/a> on Friday at Dolores Park, and the Dyke March is \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedykemarch.org/\">scheduled for Saturday\u003c/a> and will also start at Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What streets will be closed for the SF Pride parade and celebration?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Multiple street closures will begin even before the celebrations start. On Thursday at 7 p.m., Grove Street will be closed between Polk and Larkin streets, and reopen on Monday at 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the following streets will be closed and reopen on Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fulton between Hyde and Larkin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grove between Van Ness and Hyde\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 12:01 a.m., Polk between McAllister and Grove, and at 8 p.m., Polk between Golden Gate and Hayes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 12:01 a.m., Larkin between McAllister and Market, and at 8 p.m., Larkin between Golden Gate and Grove\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 8 p.m., McAllister between Van Ness and Leavenworth\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Starting at 8 p.m., Hyde between Golden Gate and Market\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The 5 Fulton, 6 Hayes/Parnassus, 19 Polk and 27 Bryant Muni bus lines will also be partially rerouted around the Civic Center area. SFMTA has provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/san-francisco-pride-festival-weekend-saturday-sunday-june-27-28-2026\">a full list\u003c/a> of which stops will be skipped and where passengers can board their bus instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will I be able to find parking at SF Pride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you plan to park near Market Street on Sunday for the SF Pride Parade, you may want to rethink that strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086537/paying-for-parking-in-san-francisco-make-sure-youre-using-the-right-apps\"> a public parking spot in downtown San Francisco\u003c/a> is already difficult on any other day of the year and nearly impossible during Pride. If you’re determined to drive into the city that weekend, there are private parking lots downtown, but bear in mind that they can be pricey, usually charging at least $30-$40 per hour, and likely more during big events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"Several people wearing colorful clothing stand next to each other behind a barricade.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd watches the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, you may need to drive to pretty far-off neighborhoods to find a spot. Or you can reserve a parking spot ahead of time \u003ca href=\"https://spothero.com/search?kind=address&latitude=37.793301236424945&longitude=-122.39645940189274&%243p=a_hasoffers&%24affiliate_json=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.spothero.com%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D1%26aff_id%3D1433%26file_id%3D28%26source%3Dsfpridestartline%26aff_sub2%3Dparkingpage%26format%3Djson&_branch_match_id=1326649323374618505&utm_source=Partnerships&utm_campaign=Tune_Platform&utm_medium=paid+advertising&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA32SwU7EIBCGn6bc7LZA260JMSbq0Yvx3MxSusVlCwI18e0dtnWzrsaEy%2FzDzPzzwRijC7ebTXA2jsrbHJzLjZ4OmxhKR5%2FfX1R5d9BTL6DvvQqBGIg6zr0SrMmblrGipKzmlLe8IsZO%2ByV5U1Kas7bmVcuLctvShpOMcuYEdCMEOwzKh6TAMGijIaruLdhJjOgnY%2FcZfcITPUicvc%2FP7qQ9oo41nczY06lLp%2FuMPZQZrZO8BJwxjLGxWgS6xTDY2UuFURic170KEXzEVdVaGuYdxawDn2Y62KfEYP0RIsrJHZm9OTkMZ4u%2FuCXbZ3LoMaNVWhs7XCyOja%2B8Z82jNFoeVqWgTVNx4JzSpq4L2FY71ZYVg%2B1OFut1G2InZ%2B%2FVJD%2Bx5vXl4SLxAWZOu66Xg5J26sF%2Fdm7eGR3QMiYTlBG68xOs0j%2Bc9hZMgkRJkKM6qoUGGXGk%2BIWCOIij%2BAHkjz9waiko%2BQYiSrI4ENfzyQUk8T8icg1IIB7yA44ovgD2DmjT%2FAIAAA%3D%3D&view=dl\">using SpotHero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is to drive to a BART station outside the city, park there, and take BART to any of the downtown San Francisco stations on Market Street (Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero). That way, you’ll avoid the weekend traffic coming into the city on the Bay Bridge or Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there things I can’t bring to San Francisco Pride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are usually security checkpoints to get into both the Pride parade and the celebrations at the Civic Center. Event organizers \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/safety/\">strongly recommend\u003c/a> people travel light and bring their ID, cell phone, sunscreen, and an empty reusable water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride is discouraging attendees from bringing any kind of bag to speed up entry into the event, but will allow some bags to pass through, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Clear plastic, vinyl, or PVC bags that do not exceed 12″ x 6″ x 12″\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Small clutch bags or purses no larger than 4.5″ x 6.5″\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fanny packs or crossbody bags smaller than 12″ × 6″ × 4″\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The following items will not be allowed during Pride weekend:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Weapons of any kind (regardless of permit)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcoholic beverages or outside food\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drones or remote-control aircraft\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bikes or hoverboards\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chairs of any kind\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Selfie sticks or professional camera equipment without media credentials\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets (service animals welcome)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/safety/\">Check out the full list of banned items at SF Pride.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the weather like in San Francisco during Pride weekend?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service has an optimistic forecast for Pride weekend: mostly sunny and temperatures in the high 60s on both Friday and Saturday, and a sunny Sunday in the low 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember that this is San Francisco, where the weather can change very quickly. Even on a sunny day, it’s normal for the weather to still feel chilly, thanks to the strong winds pushing in from the bay. And nighttime temperatures throughout this week are predicted to be in the 50s — so it’s a good idea to bring a warm jacket along if you’re staying after the celebrations to party some more in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to know about accessibility at SF Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Pride parade has a free accessible viewing area, which organizers say provides an “unobstructed parade viewing at no cost for you and one guest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to request a spot, you’ll need to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsSAMJ_jH4mwg3hMMClLSsVuwqPqqTEn4kYIA1RIBA11igEQ/viewform\">complete an online form\u003c/a>, but organizers add that space is limited and spots will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an elaborate dress walks in the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-SFPrideParade-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siam Phusri, a Thai drag performer, marches in the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SF Pride also offers American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and a special seating platform at the Civic Center celebration on both days. To access this service, you’ll need to pick up a wristband at the SF Pride information booth at Fulton and Larkin streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re taking BART to Pride, all BART stations have accessible elevators, but keep in mind that technical issues with these elevators are unfortunately common. You can sign up for BART alerts to be notified if the elevator at your station breaks down, or you can also call 510-834-LIFT to check the status of the elevator at any station.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Keeping each other safe at SF Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, Pride in San Francisco has been a time when LGBTQ+ people have come together to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfaf.org/resource-library/sfaf-history/\">advocate\u003c/a> for the health needs of their community. Part of celebrating Pride is honoring that legacy and protecting our own sexual health and that of our partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Talk with your partners and provider about when you last tested for an STI (sexually transmitted infection) and make testing part of your regular health routine,” a spokesperson for the San Francisco Department of Public Health told KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you have insurance, call your health care provider and share that you need to know your status ahead of Pride weekend. And if you are uninsured, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082251/after-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-free-clinics-are-stepping-up\">multiple clinics\u003c/a> and LGBTQ+ community centers around the Bay Area offer free or low-cost STI testing, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/cityclinic\">San Francisco City Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sffc.org/\">San Francisco Free Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.clinicbythebay.org/\">Clinic by the Bay\u003c/a> (San Francisco)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/sti-testing\">Berkeley Free Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.defrankcenter.org/hiv-testing\">Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center\u003c/a> (San José)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishfreeclinic.org/scheduling-hours\">Jewish Community Free Clinic\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties can also request \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebgtz.org/get-tested-treated/\">at-home HIV tests\u003c/a> mailed to the address of their choice for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials also advise that folks learn about doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/cityclinic-get-doxypep\">doxy-PEP\u003c/a> — an antibiotic taken after sex that research has shown to be highly effective at preventing syphilis and chlamydia. As for HIV prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis — or PrEP — can help protect folks from an HIV infection and can be taken as a pill or an injection. Vaccines are also available to help prevent hepatitis A, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus (HPV), meningitis, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080320/mpox-clade-i-san-francisco-2026-symptoms-rash-where-to-find-monkeypox-vaccine\">mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) infections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preventing a dangerous overdose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking party drugs (molly, cocaine, ketamine or 2C-B, also known as tusi or pink cocaine ) has become more dangerous in recent years, as these drugs are now being laced with fentanyl \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/14/1199396794/fentanyl-mixed-with-cocaine-or-meth-is-driving-the-4th-wave-of-the-overdose-cris\">more frequently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health advocates recommend that anyone who plans to consume drugs should test them ahead of time for fentanyl. The nonprofit FentCheck provides \u003ca href=\"https://fentcheck.org/check-your-drugs-1\">a list of bars and other community spaces\u003c/a> that offer fentanyl test strips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to consider bringing with you when going out: Narcan, the brand name for a naloxone nasal spray that is administered to someone when they are experiencing an opioid overdose (including from fentanyl).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone can buy Narcan at a pharmacy without needing a prescription, and you can also get it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/location/behavioral-health-access-center-bhac\">free of charge\u003c/a> at the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Health Services pharmacy at 1380 Howard St. The pharmacy is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José State University must reinstate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988162/sjsu-professor-who-was-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-protests-speaks-out\">Sang Hea Kil\u003c/a>, a professor fired for actions related to pro-Palestinian activism, with full back pay after an arbitrator on Monday decided the school went too far with its sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move ends a two-year institutional standoff and represents a significant win for Kil and her advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the recommendation of a faculty panel, SJSU fired Kil late last year, citing her involvement in three on-campus demonstrations spanning the spring of 2024, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">student activism over the war in Gaza\u003c/a> gripped university campuses nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, the former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, is one of the first tenured professors \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests\">fired\u003c/a> from a public U.S. university over on-campus demonstrations in connection with the recent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel what happened to me was to silence any pro-Palestinian solidarity in academia and also in this nation,” Kil told KQED on Monday. “I fought as hard as I possibly can with the support and solidarity of my colleagues and social justice groups. We won, and it’s a victory for academic freedom on campus and pro-Palestine speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment, citing “ongoing personnel matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-1159x1536.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sang Hea Kil at a protest at SJSU in February 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sang Hea Kil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the arbitrator stated that while the California State University system was able to meet the burden of proving that Kil engaged in unprofessional conduct, it could not prove a failure or refusal to perform her job duties as a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the third-party review concluded that dismissal was an “excessive and disproportionate” sanction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To determine a proportionate sanction for such misconduct, the surrounding circumstances, the harm that resulted, and the likelihood of recurrence must be considered,” arbitrator Howard Pearlman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to faculty review documents and arbitration hearing records obtained by KQED, the case against Kil began in February 2024, when she planned to attend a public guest lecture by Jeffrey Blutinger, director of the Jewish Studies program at Cal State University Long Beach, on a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aware that some pro-Palestinian students were organizing to protest the event, university administrators, faculty organizers and campus police testified that they had moved the talk to a private classroom less than an hour before the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil testified that she and several dozen demonstrators who showed up at the library eventually learned of the new location and made their way to the classroom hallway, still unaware that the lecture was no longer public. She said when they were denied entry at the door, the group sat, chanted and stomped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, school officials notified Kil that she was under investigation for allegedly violating school rules around professional responsibility and time, place and manner — policies that govern where and how sanctioned campus protests can take place.[aside postID=news_12087836 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061626CSU-Labor_GH_003-KQED.jpg']The following month, the university expanded its probe and placed Kil on paid administrative leave for “directing and encouraging” students to join encampments and violate university policies — which Kil and her representation disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a year of suspension, SJSU fired Kil, who then opted for her right to appeal via a panel of her peers to publicly review the university’s case against her — a rarely invoked step. The faculty panel recommended no further sanction beyond the yearlong suspension Kil had already completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2025, the university upheld her termination anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SJSU’s agreement with its faculty’s union, a five-day arbitration hearing would be Kil’s final chance to appeal her firing. During those March 2026 proceedings, CSU lawyers justified the dismissal by emphasizing the “totality” of her alleged unprofessional conduct and refusal to perform her duties as a professor during the spring events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administrators argued that Kil’s “lack of remorse” indicated a lack of “rehabilitative potential” — something Pearlman told lawyers he “had a hard time believing” given her 17-year employment and clean record. In 2018, the Justice Studies professor \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.sjsu.edu/chhs/2018/10/25/2018-chhs-service-awards-recipients/#:~:text=This%20past%20year%2C%20Sang%20served,outreach%20to%20students%20and%20retention.\">earned\u003c/a> the College of Health and Human Sciences Department’s lifetime achievement award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, a self-described “scholar-activist,” and her union representatives alleged that university administrators bypassed standard disciplinary procedure and terminated her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240403_SJSUFILE_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tower Hall at San José State University on April 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her team also argued her punishment was unfair, given examples of other professors who’d received \u003ca href=\"https://calcoastnews.com/2025/06/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo-pro-palestinian-professor-suspended/\">lighter\u003c/a> discipline for more serious \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/d951a6c5af1d449f9244cecb68562b13\">conduct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/systemwide-academic-congress/speakers/henry-reichman.html\">Henry Reichman\u003c/a>, California State University, East Bay professor emeritus and academic freedom expert, testified that the “worst thing [Kil] did was engage in noisemaking that was already happening.” He went on to offer a blistering rebuke of the school’s disregard for progressive discipline and tenure, which he said would have a chilling effect on academic freedom and free speech throughout the CSU system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Kil said she’s excited to return to the classroom after two years away, she’s worried for her safety. She said she’s faced backlash, describing hateful graffiti threatening violence against Asians, Jews and Muslims scrawled on her office building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have been targeted for anti-genocide or pro-Palestine speech, once they’ve been fired, they’re blacklisted,” she said. “If they had won, I would never have gotten an academic job in the U.S.A. ever again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil, the former faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine, is one of the first tenured professors \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests\">fired\u003c/a> from a public U.S. university over on-campus demonstrations in connection with the recent protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel what happened to me was to silence any pro-Palestinian solidarity in academia and also in this nation,” Kil told KQED on Monday. “I fought as hard as I possibly can with the support and solidarity of my colleagues and social justice groups. We won, and it’s a victory for academic freedom on campus and pro-Palestine speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment, citing “ongoing personnel matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1551\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SJSU-Gaza-02-KQED-1159x1536.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sang Hea Kil at a protest at SJSU in February 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sang Hea Kil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the arbitrator stated that while the California State University system was able to meet the burden of proving that Kil engaged in unprofessional conduct, it could not prove a failure or refusal to perform her job duties as a professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, the third-party review concluded that dismissal was an “excessive and disproportionate” sanction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To determine a proportionate sanction for such misconduct, the surrounding circumstances, the harm that resulted, and the likelihood of recurrence must be considered,” arbitrator Howard Pearlman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to faculty review documents and arbitration hearing records obtained by KQED, the case against Kil began in February 2024, when she planned to attend a public guest lecture by Jeffrey Blutinger, director of the Jewish Studies program at Cal State University Long Beach, on a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aware that some pro-Palestinian students were organizing to protest the event, university administrators, faculty organizers and campus police testified that they had moved the talk to a private classroom less than an hour before the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kil testified that she and several dozen demonstrators who showed up at the library eventually learned of the new location and made their way to the classroom hallway, still unaware that the lecture was no longer public. She said when they were denied entry at the door, the group sat, chanted and stomped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, school officials notified Kil that she was under investigation for allegedly violating school rules around professional responsibility and time, place and manner — policies that govern where and how sanctioned campus protests can take place.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He discovered around 700 San Francisco Police Department drone flights in February, a rundown of city-owned tech, and separate private cameras, all swarming amidst a push for even more surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubin has since published those findings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.foglinesf.com/p/a-walking-tour-of-surveillance-infrastructure-in-san-francisco\">\u003cem>The Fogline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an independent site he runs with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just where trends are heading, and thinking about where to draw the line on what makes people safe versus where it starts to get a little invasive,” Kubin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubin’s research included scrutiny of the around 400 Flock Safety automated license plate readers that SFPD uses. Police Chief Derrick Lew\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088076/san-francisco-police-audit-shows-feds-accessed-license-plate-data-hundreds-of-times\"> said last week \u003c/a>that out-of-state and federal law enforcement agencies had “improperly” accessed the data, after the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center queried the system hundreds of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident prompted SFPD to stop sharing Flock data with NCRIC and another agency, the Western States Information Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088321\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/st-francis-wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/st-francis-wood.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/st-francis-wood-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flock Safety automated license plate readers in the St. Francis Wood neighborhood in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Larry Kubin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first of the city’s problems with Flock. 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Some SFPD personnel also appeared to make searches on behalf of federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety\">Santa Cruz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072077/as-california-cities-grow-wary-of-flock-safety-cameras-mountain-views-shuts-its-off\">Mountain View\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ccpulse.org/2026/05/07/el-cerrito-becomes-first-in-county-to-drop-flock-after-unauthorized-searches/\">El Cerrito\u003c/a> and the town of Los Altos Hills have canceled Flock contracts over similar concerns surrounding improper data sharing, after each city discovered that their own data had been searched in similar ways. Santa Clara County also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074467/santa-clara-county-leaders-cut-out-flock-safety-in-new-surveillance-policy\">iced the company out\u003c/a>, and Berkeley council members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082887/berkeley-extends-surveillance-contract-with-flock-safety-but-rejects-major-expansion\">last month approved \u003c/a>a contract extension, but not an expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock’s attention in the media, plus a 2019 look at Seattle’s surveillance infrastructure, was part of Kubin’s inspiration for the tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to look more into that because my initial reaction was, like, ‘Oh, reading a license plate, that’s not so bad,’” Kubin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he started spotting cameras in “postcard views” of the city and places where people relax. He said it feels like a much different world than the one he grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t have to need this much technology,” Kubin said. “We shouldn’t need a police surveillance technology inventory that’s continuing to expand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/painted-ladies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/painted-ladies.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/painted-ladies-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A public safety camera, at right, on the same street as the Painted Ladies in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Larry Kubin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kubin partly blamed the city’s voter-approved Proposition E. The 2024 ballot measure gave SFPD the green light to roll out new surveillance technology for a full year without an official policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just picturing where we are now and whether it can become like a sci-fi TV show, right?” Kubin said. Kubin said that with the “new powers of things like Proposition E, the checks and balances are a bit looser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure have defended it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977185/police-want-drones-in-car-chases-how-sfs-prop-e-could-affect-that\">with a former spokesperson for the Yes on E campaign saying \u003c/a>officers are “highly trained and should be trusted to make smart decisions” regarding the use of drones in high-speed chases.[aside postID=news_12067461 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-FILE-MD-02_qed.jpg']SFPD’s surveillance network has increased in recent years, opening its fully operational Real Time Investigation Center at its headquarters last year. Mayor Daniel Lurie touted it as an important resource in his efforts to keep the city safe and clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center houses a central hub that synthesizes real-time data from Flock cameras, drones and other public safety cameras. As of its reopening, the center helped make at least 800 arrests, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/how-sfpds-new-investigation-center-is-catching-criminals-faster-using-400-cameras-drones/18247811/\">according to ABC7\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation is a critic of the center and its origin story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EFF said that these centers, which other cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpd.org/about-us/organization/bureau-of-investigations/real-time-intelligence-center\">San José\u003c/a> also have, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/san-francisco-gets-invasive-billionaire-bought-surveillance-hq\">are \u003c/a>“basically control rooms that pull together all feeds from a vast warrantless digital dragnet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD’s center was funded partly through Proposition E, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">later additional backing \u003c/a>from crypto billionaire and Ripple CEO Chris Larsen. Larsen, through Ripple and his nonprofit San Francisco Police Community Foundation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042515/sf-crypto-billionaire-wants-to-donate-millions-for-police-drones-surveillance-efforts\">gifted $9.4 million\u003c/a> to the new headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen’s support was another source of inspiration for Kubin’s deep dive into surveillance. He said that, while Larsen’s “crypto billionaire” title was not enough to upset him, his name had come up a lot in funding for increasing police technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubin said that the introduction of each surveillance tool in isolation — Flock automated license plate reader cameras, drones, ShotSpotter technology and so on — might’ve made sense at the time for safety. 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Police Chief Derrick Lew\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088076/san-francisco-police-audit-shows-feds-accessed-license-plate-data-hundreds-of-times\"> said last week \u003c/a>that out-of-state and federal law enforcement agencies had “improperly” accessed the data, after the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center queried the system hundreds of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident prompted SFPD to stop sharing Flock data with NCRIC and another agency, the Western States Information Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088321\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/st-francis-wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/st-francis-wood.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/st-francis-wood-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flock Safety automated license plate readers in the St. Francis Wood neighborhood in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Larry Kubin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first of the city’s problems with Flock. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several longtime residents of a San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/chinatown\">Chinatown\u003c/a> building are facing eviction in what they believe is an effort to turn the units over so the new owner can charge higher rents. Now, they’re working together to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants at 1120 Jackson St. on the border of Nob Hill and Chinatown, including many Chinese immigrants who have lived in the building for decades, announced Monday they are forming a union and urging their new landlord to drop the eviction cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their struggle comes as rents in San Francisco are skyrocketing, largely driven by the artificial intelligence industry boom, and as evictions in the city are at the highest levels in nearly a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that the landlord of this building will hear our voice and stop this kind of harassment and eviction. Any planned evictions need to be stopped,” said Kin Wong, who has lived in the 16-unit building with his wife for more than 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the building was sold last summer, six residents have received eviction notices following apartment inspections and nuisance complaints about trash and clutter, according to Shelby Nacino, an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus who is representing tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one complaint obtained by KQED, a resident was dinged for having installed a washing machine “without permission,” but also cited for “unsanitary conditions” in the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Yan and others rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the residents are monolingual Chinese speakers and have struggled to get clear information about what is happening to them or their neighbors, Nacino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not normal to have six nuisance evictions in one building that are all very similar. The notices have slightly different language, but the gist of all six of them is that these people are so messy and so poor at maintaining their units that they’re causing a health and safety concern,” Nacino said. “What we’re really concerned about is the lack of communication. And so that’s why we’re here today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kit Ying Mak’s family is among them. She and her mother moved into the building in 2001 from Hong Kong, and she later married and raised her children in a separate unit in the building to remain close to care for her elderly mother.[aside postID=news_12087973 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-13-BL-KQED.jpg']“These inspections feel harassing, and all the while, I have not received any communications on what more I can do,” Mak said, adding that the previous owner and building manager never raised similar complaints about how they maintain their homes. “My kids are teens now. They have grown up in this building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Wong, have been hit with massive rent hikes that they say they can’t afford. For years under the previous building ownership, Wong’s wife worked as a resident manager at the rent-controlled property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That allowed them to maintain an exceptionally low rent around $210, Wong said. But after the building recently sold, the new owners began charging them $2,820 for the same one-bedroom where the couple raised their three children, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Wong, Kin Wong’s daughter, called the situation in her parents’ building a “shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It speaks to how difficult housing is in San Francisco,” she said. “My parents have said the only reason they have been able to save and put me and my siblings through college is because the building is rent-controlled and not eating up half of their income, especially as people who didn’t work in tech or medicine, but doing blue-collar labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kit Ying Mak speaks at a rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owners of the building, operating under a private LLC called Nabob Hill, said that they had documentation of every allegation of nuisance, which include “clutter and hoarding.” The owners also alleged that some tenants reside in other homes, which the tenants have denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The owners are confident that these matters will be resolved properly and lawfully, based upon their faith in the judicial process. At every stage, the owners have endeavored to act in full compliance with the law and have extended numerous courtesy notices to the tenants in an effort to address these issues amicably before pursuing further action,” Daniel Bornstein, who is legally representing Nabob Hill, LLC, said in an email on behalf of the owners. “The owners are pursuing these matters with the expectation that a resolution with the tenants will be fair, just, and equitable, considering the allegations of each particular matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average price for a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is currently around $5,800, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=2\">Zillow\u003c/a>, a 35% increase from one year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://vanguardproperties.com/home-search/listings/8540838278265249025-1120-1126-Jackson-Street\">online listing\u003c/a> for the property, now marked as closed, said that current rents in the building are significantly below-market, “with an estimated 224% rental upside achievable through unit turnover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the longtime residents in the building have been able to stay in San Francisco on fixed incomes due to the city’s rent-control policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Chiera, with Legal Assistance for the Elderly, speaks at a rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a charming older building along the cable car route, and was even pictured in a scene in \u003cem>The Princess Diaries\u003c/em> where Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis is pushing her scooter up a hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the real estate market around the current tech boom soars, tenants like Wong are increasingly feeling the pressure from building owners who want to cash in on the moment, said Molly Goldberg, director of San Francisco’s Anti-Displacement Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing is the anticipation of an ability to get higher rents from these buildings. We’re seeing speculators go after buildings that have large numbers of long-term rent control tenants,” Goldberg said. “Our rights don’t change when a building is for sale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Chiera, executive director of Legal Assistance to the Elderly, said that eviction notices have increased by roughly 25% in the last year and caseloads at her organization are spilling over. Statewide, seniors represent the fastest-growing demographic of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are turning seniors away because we do not have the capacity to take all of the evictions that seniors in San Francisco are facing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has stronger tenant protections and rent control policies than many other cities, but it’s often up to residents themselves to understand and assert those rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants told KQED they hope the union will allow them to share information and resources as they navigate their legal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am part of the Tenants Association because we feel that the landlord is trying to take us out one by one,” Mac said. “My neighbors’ support has given me strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that the landlord of this building will hear our voice and stop this kind of harassment and eviction. Any planned evictions need to be stopped,” said Kin Wong, who has lived in the 16-unit building with his wife for more than 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the building was sold last summer, six residents have received eviction notices following apartment inspections and nuisance complaints about trash and clutter, according to Shelby Nacino, an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus who is representing tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one complaint obtained by KQED, a resident was dinged for having installed a washing machine “without permission,” but also cited for “unsanitary conditions” in the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Yan and others rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the residents are monolingual Chinese speakers and have struggled to get clear information about what is happening to them or their neighbors, Nacino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not normal to have six nuisance evictions in one building that are all very similar. The notices have slightly different language, but the gist of all six of them is that these people are so messy and so poor at maintaining their units that they’re causing a health and safety concern,” Nacino said. “What we’re really concerned about is the lack of communication. And so that’s why we’re here today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kit Ying Mak’s family is among them. She and her mother moved into the building in 2001 from Hong Kong, and she later married and raised her children in a separate unit in the building to remain close to care for her elderly mother.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But after the building recently sold, the new owners began charging them $2,820 for the same one-bedroom where the couple raised their three children, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Wong, Kin Wong’s daughter, called the situation in her parents’ building a “shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It speaks to how difficult housing is in San Francisco,” she said. “My parents have said the only reason they have been able to save and put me and my siblings through college is because the building is rent-controlled and not eating up half of their income, especially as people who didn’t work in tech or medicine, but doing blue-collar labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kit Ying Mak speaks at a rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The owners of the building, operating under a private LLC called Nabob Hill, said that they had documentation of every allegation of nuisance, which include “clutter and hoarding.” The owners also alleged that some tenants reside in other homes, which the tenants have denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The owners are confident that these matters will be resolved properly and lawfully, based upon their faith in the judicial process. At every stage, the owners have endeavored to act in full compliance with the law and have extended numerous courtesy notices to the tenants in an effort to address these issues amicably before pursuing further action,” Daniel Bornstein, who is legally representing Nabob Hill, LLC, said in an email on behalf of the owners. “The owners are pursuing these matters with the expectation that a resolution with the tenants will be fair, just, and equitable, considering the allegations of each particular matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average price for a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is currently around $5,800, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=2\">Zillow\u003c/a>, a 35% increase from one year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://vanguardproperties.com/home-search/listings/8540838278265249025-1120-1126-Jackson-Street\">online listing\u003c/a> for the property, now marked as closed, said that current rents in the building are significantly below-market, “with an estimated 224% rental upside achievable through unit turnover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the longtime residents in the building have been able to stay in San Francisco on fixed incomes due to the city’s rent-control policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Chiera, with Legal Assistance for the Elderly, speaks at a rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a charming older building along the cable car route, and was even pictured in a scene in \u003cem>The Princess Diaries\u003c/em> where Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis is pushing her scooter up a hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the real estate market around the current tech boom soars, tenants like Wong are increasingly feeling the pressure from building owners who want to cash in on the moment, said Molly Goldberg, director of San Francisco’s Anti-Displacement Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing is the anticipation of an ability to get higher rents from these buildings. We’re seeing speculators go after buildings that have large numbers of long-term rent control tenants,” Goldberg said. “Our rights don’t change when a building is for sale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Chiera, executive director of Legal Assistance to the Elderly, said that eviction notices have increased by roughly 25% in the last year and caseloads at her organization are spilling over. Statewide, seniors represent the fastest-growing demographic of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are turning seniors away because we do not have the capacity to take all of the evictions that seniors in San Francisco are facing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260622-SF-CHINATOWN-TENANT-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People rally in front of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco to protest evictions and rent hikes proposed by the property’s new owner, on June 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has stronger tenant protections and rent control policies than many other cities, but it’s often up to residents themselves to understand and assert those rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants told KQED they hope the union will allow them to share information and resources as they navigate their legal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am part of the Tenants Association because we feel that the landlord is trying to take us out one by one,” Mac said. “My neighbors’ support has given me strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> city blocks pulsed with celebrations of Black culture and freedom today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floats of Black-led organizations, many draped in variations of the Pan African flag, and a group of Black cowboys. The buzz of a church choir and old cars. Juneteenth was in full swing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of many Bay Area cities holding Juneteenth celebrations this month, centering Black joy as they commemorate when enslaved Black Texans learned of their freedom in 1865.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s annual event, in its fourth year, started with a parade down Market Street and ended with an hours-long party at Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juneteenth, recognized officially on June 19 every year, has only been federally honored since 2021. But Black Americans have long recognized the day’s history, and, this year, the work that still needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincere Dow, a transit operator with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said that it’s important to never let the day die down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we have been going back in time it seems like, but it’s important that we remember the progress we have made and try and continue to make progress going forward,” Dow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transit operators gather for a photo before the San Francisco Juneteenth Parade begins on Saturday, June 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since President Donald Trump began his second term in 2025, his administration has taken steps \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034699/racial-justice-advocates-stay-course-dei-faces-mounting-attacks\">to dismantle policies\u003c/a> that aim to create more diverse and inclusive institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service no longer offers free-entry days for Juneteenth or Martin Luther King Jr. Day, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been cut, and the Pentagon’s observances of Juneteenth and Black History Month were paused last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodney Leggett said the Trump administration’s policies are exactly why history needs to be kept alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12088304 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette and Rodney Leggett at the fourth annual Juneteenth Parade in San Francisco, California, on Saturday, June 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to change the past,” said Leggett, who met his wife 42 years ago at a Juneteenth festival. “They can’t allow people to bury our history by banning books and things of that nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marie Hobs, who attended the parade in her 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, focused on unity as her reason for showing up. She said she came out for the generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To show that African Americans, other cultures and everyone can get together, have a good time and just celebrate excellence,” Hobs said. “Not just Black excellence, but all excellence of people, of being a human race here in America and trying to survive in this economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Hobs drives her car in San Francisco’s Juneteenth Parade on Saturday, June 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cities of Oakland and Antioch, home to some of the region’s largest share of Black residents, hosted their own events this week. At a Friday event put on by the Oakland Museum of California, attendees stressed the importance of honoring a Black history that’s often been erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell Drati told KQED at the event that he wanted to see reparations for Black Americans go further than just money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see concentrated efforts by the government to repair the damage they’ve systemically done to our communities,” Drati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxwell Drati. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Antioch Councilmember Monica Wilson, the city’s first Black woman to serve on the City Council, spoke at a city-sponsored event on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard work, the sweat and the tears to get to today,” Wilson said Friday. “We have so much more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities aren’t missing out on the celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo’s Juneteenth Parade and Festival and Berkeley’s Juneteenth Festival are also taking place this weekend, with other events in Healdsburg, San Jose, Menlo Park and Santa Rosa already having taken place this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lakshmi\">\u003cem>Lakshmi Sarah\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But Black Americans have long recognized the day’s history, and, this year, the work that still needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincere Dow, a transit operator with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said that it’s important to never let the day die down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know we have been going back in time it seems like, but it’s important that we remember the progress we have made and try and continue to make progress going forward,” Dow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088303\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transit operators gather for a photo before the San Francisco Juneteenth Parade begins on Saturday, June 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since President Donald Trump began his second term in 2025, his administration has taken steps \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034699/racial-justice-advocates-stay-course-dei-faces-mounting-attacks\">to dismantle policies\u003c/a> that aim to create more diverse and inclusive institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service no longer offers free-entry days for Juneteenth or Martin Luther King Jr. Day, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been cut, and the Pentagon’s observances of Juneteenth and Black History Month were paused last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodney Leggett said the Trump administration’s policies are exactly why history needs to be kept alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12088304 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette and Rodney Leggett at the fourth annual Juneteenth Parade in San Francisco, California, on Saturday, June 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to change the past,” said Leggett, who met his wife 42 years ago at a Juneteenth festival. “They can’t allow people to bury our history by banning books and things of that nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marie Hobs, who attended the parade in her 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, focused on unity as her reason for showing up. She said she came out for the generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To show that African Americans, other cultures and everyone can get together, have a good time and just celebrate excellence,” Hobs said. “Not just Black excellence, but all excellence of people, of being a human race here in America and trying to survive in this economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/Juneteenth-SF-6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Hobs drives her car in San Francisco’s Juneteenth Parade on Saturday, June 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cities of Oakland and Antioch, home to some of the region’s largest share of Black residents, hosted their own events this week. At a Friday event put on by the Oakland Museum of California, attendees stressed the importance of honoring a Black history that’s often been erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxwell Drati told KQED at the event that he wanted to see reparations for Black Americans go further than just money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see concentrated efforts by the government to repair the damage they’ve systemically done to our communities,” Drati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260619_Juneteenth_GC-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxwell Drati. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Antioch Councilmember Monica Wilson, the city’s first Black woman to serve on the City Council, spoke at a city-sponsored event on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard work, the sweat and the tears to get to today,” Wilson said Friday. “We have so much more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities aren’t missing out on the celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo’s Juneteenth Parade and Festival and Berkeley’s Juneteenth Festival are also taking place this weekend, with other events in Healdsburg, San Jose, Menlo Park and Santa Rosa already having taken place this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lakshmi\">\u003cem>Lakshmi Sarah\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Not long after my dad’s death in January of 1999, I was tasked with the inventorying and selling of his vast and varied collection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10559298/at-cupertinos-electronics-flea-market-yesterdays-high-tech-is-todays-treasure\">audio equipment\u003c/a>. While in a state of shock — he was only 59, I was only 29 — I surveyed his former audio domain: a garage studio that still smelled of his cigars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the age of synthesizers, and a huge mixing board dominated the room. Below it, an array of equipment racks blinked at me. Above, two black speakers the size of file drawers perched like sentinels of the advancing era of digital music production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father, Fred Myrow, was a talented composer following in the footsteps of multiple generations of talented musicians. He wrote avant-garde music. He was briefly the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic (\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@rmyrow20/ashes-ashes-we-all-fall-down-ddf305a74003\">until he met my mom\u003c/a> and blew a deadline by failing to finish a composition for which posters had already been put up around the city).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, he wrote\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVb9jC_El0\"> soundtracks\u003c/a> for movies like\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/\"> \u003cem>Phantasm\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\"> \u003cem>Soylent Green\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (I know, I know: “Soylent Green is people!”) He also wrote music for the theater; my favorites were his collaborations with the adventurous — and also gone-from-us-too-soon —\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Abdoh\"> Reza Abdoh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father’s four-decade career spanned multiple technologies. Some he borrowed, like the foot-pedal-powered\u003ca href=\"blank\"> Movieolas\u003c/a> that Hollywood studios lent him to support his soundtrack writing. When I was a small girl in the early 1970s, he would call me over to watch a silent scene with him on a Movieola’s tiny screen, singing out a melody in falsetto before marking the notes on score paper with colored pencils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A 1950s era West German radio features a wood cabinet and grille.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1999, KQED’s Rachael Myrow discovered her father’s Telefunken Opus 7. She wiped off decades of dust and plugged it in. After a slight delay, an orchestra filled the room with a warm, rich sound that took her breath away. Seconds later, the radio died and the air filled with the smell of burning dust. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, he bought other machines — and inevitably stored them as they became obsolete, including three \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12198994/how-bing-crosby-and-silicon-valley-revolutionized-radio-and-tv\">reel-to-reel tape machines\u003c/a> widely used for high-fidelity audio work from the 1940s through the end of the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used them myself at the beginning of my career in public radio at \u003cem>Marketplace\u003c/em>. Why he needed three of them, I’ll never know. Obviously, he had a hoarding problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of all the machines I found in that overstuffed garage, the most marvelous was a 1957 tabletop Telefunken Opus 7, a vintage radio covered in thick dust and buried in the back of a loft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many radios in the mid-20th century, it was housed in a handsomely crafted wooden cabinet, with a gorgeous grille above a glass panel featuring gold-painted tuning options — AM and FM, of course, but also shortwave, with helpful markers for Munich, Stuttgart, New York, Paris, Rome, even\u003ca href=\"https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html\"> Vatican Radio\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12043312 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CLAIRE-SCHWARTZ-L-AND-NINA-RAJ-WITH-A-CHILD_S-DRAWING-RECOVERED-BY-RAJ-AFTER-THE-EATON-FIRE-KQED-1020x765.jpg']I hauled the Opus 7 down, wiped off the surface dust and plugged it in. The lights behind its panel glowed softly and yellow. After a slight delay, an orchestra filled the room with a warm, rich sound. It took my breath away. Seconds later, the sound faded, followed by a crackle — and then the air filled with the smell of burning dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I opened the back of the Opus 7 and stared at the dust-covered metallic innards. I was a radio reporter, but I’d never seen the inside of a radio. To my untrained eye, the vacuum tubes looked burned out. So I’d need to replace them? I put them in a little box, but I didn’t have the vaguest idea where to find new tubes — nor the money or time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is to say, I had a lot to deal with after my dad died. Each time I moved in the years that followed — and I moved many times — I’d haul the radio with me, thinking, “I really should get this thing fixed.” The radio became a psychologically fraught loose end, one of many gathering dust in the recesses of my subconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years after his death, my career brought me from Los Angeles, where I grew up, to the San Francisco Bay Area. The radio sat in storage until I moved into a home with more space. So much time had passed — 16 years! — I’d forgotten all about it. Perched silently on top of a bureau, the radio seemed to rebuke me: “When will you fix me? When will my sound fill a room again?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A museum display of vacuum tubes from the 20th century.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the early days of radio, vacuum tubes, like these on display at the California Historical Radio Society in Alameda, California, amplified weak electromagnetic signals picked up by the antenna. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the recommendation of colleagues at KQED, I found the repair directory for the\u003ca href=\"https://californiahistoricalradio.com/repair-directory/\"> California Historical Radio Society\u003c/a> and got in touch with\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonsvintagerepair.com\"> Simon Favre\u003c/a>. I visited the retired Silicon Valley engineer in his Milpitas living room, which was filled with cabinet radios in various stages of repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like the style of the early-to-mid-20th-century radios,” he told me. “I guess it’s kind of nostalgia. There was a certain style to that era, you know, the 20s up to the 50s. It’s kind of my sweet spot for fixing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 72-year-old Favre, who worked in various roles for Silicon Valley companies, has been a “hardware guy” and a “tinkerer” since childhood. He diagnosed the problems with my Opus 7 and, for $200, replaced some capacitors, mended a plastic tuning wheel with super glue and baking soda, and yes, replaced the vacuum tubes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I plugged the radio in at home, there was a pause, then a rush of static. I turned the dial slightly, and orchestral strings once again filled the air. I jumped up and down with delight. If only Dad could see it — and hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A framed photograph of a young, smiling man.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Myrow as a young man, full of hope and confidence for his life and career. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was surprisingly easy to restore the physical radio. But the radio’s backstory remained a mystery. Did my father purchase it when he studied in the early 1960s at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.santacecilia.it/en/chi_siamo/accademia/storia.html\"> Santa Cecilia Academy of Music\u003c/a> in Rome? Was it a gift to him from my grandparents? A nostalgic find bought from a secondhand store?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time tears at the wiring that connects us to the people who fix us in space and time. As we age and those around us die, the connections and the stories burn out, one by one. Just a handful of people who knew my dad are still around — people, I thought, who just might know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I texted a photo of the radio to my godfather, the magnificent composer and arranger\u003ca href=\"https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/inimitable-legacy-van-dyke-parks-journey-song/\"> Van Dyke Parks\u003c/a>. He and my dad were like two peas in a pod, similar in talent and outlook. Van Dyke texted back to remind me that he didn’t meet my dad until 1967 or ’68. But remarkably, Van Dyke had bought that exact radio model in 1957 when he was a boy, while acting in a \u003cem>Heidi\u003c/em> film for RKO in Munich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Dyke rang me on the phone, his mind racing with memories. “You hit the heartstrings with that particular picture. So beautiful to behold,” he said. While he didn’t know the particulars of my dad’s radio or how he acquired it, Van Dyke recalled what the Opus 7 meant in a time before satellites and the internet accustomed us to tinny, compressed music on demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The insides of a 1957 radio feature dust covered speakers above a dust covered chassis of other radio parts.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view inside the unrepaired Telefunken Opus 7. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a big deal, shortwave,” he sighed, thinking back to happy hours spent listening to great European conductors like\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/arts/music/otto-klemperer-conductor.html\"> Otto Klemperer\u003c/a>. Then, being the strings specialist he is, Van Dyke praised the way tube amps make partials (higher-frequency vibrations) that you get from a rosin bow “really available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know what he means, even without having his classical training. In that brief moment back in 1999, when my dad’s radio surged to life, I responded most to the harmonic thrum of the string instruments. A quarter-century later, the memory of that sound rushed back, twinned with grief and nostalgia for my father and his music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet has afforded my father some posthumous appreciation, especially in the comments sections on YouTube clips of his soundtracks. I wish he were alive to read them, given how much he struggled when alive for his music to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people we love die before we do, leaving us \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13824126/the-dead-will-talk-to-you-now-or-at-least-listen-in-santa-cruz\">helplessly nostalgic\u003c/a>. My own nostalgia comes attached to the music my father left as his legacy, along with the equipment that fostered his creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I still have a number of microcassette tapes on which my dad recorded many notes to himself. A quarter-century later, it’s still too painful for me to listen to the sound of his voice, especially from the last years of his life. The white-hot grief I felt in 1999 comes rushing up, and I have to hit the stop button. The tapes sit in a box on a high shelf in my own home studio now, gathering their own dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I turn on that Telefunken Opus 7, with the dial set to the Bay Area’s classical station, KDFC, the panel glows with that warm, yellow light, the vacuum tubes engage, and an orchestra fills my room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My heart grows full as the music swells, and I can feel my dad wink at me from across an otherwise unbreachable expanse of space and time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, he wrote\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVb9jC_El0\"> soundtracks\u003c/a> for movies like\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/\"> \u003cem>Phantasm\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\"> \u003cem>Soylent Green\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (I know, I know: “Soylent Green is people!”) He also wrote music for the theater; my favorites were his collaborations with the adventurous — and also gone-from-us-too-soon —\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Abdoh\"> Reza Abdoh\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father’s four-decade career spanned multiple technologies. Some he borrowed, like the foot-pedal-powered\u003ca href=\"blank\"> Movieolas\u003c/a> that Hollywood studios lent him to support his soundtrack writing. When I was a small girl in the early 1970s, he would call me over to watch a silent scene with him on a Movieola’s tiny screen, singing out a melody in falsetto before marking the notes on score paper with colored pencils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A 1950s era West German radio features a wood cabinet and grille.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-02-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1999, KQED’s Rachael Myrow discovered her father’s Telefunken Opus 7. She wiped off decades of dust and plugged it in. After a slight delay, an orchestra filled the room with a warm, rich sound that took her breath away. Seconds later, the radio died and the air filled with the smell of burning dust. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, he bought other machines — and inevitably stored them as they became obsolete, including three \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12198994/how-bing-crosby-and-silicon-valley-revolutionized-radio-and-tv\">reel-to-reel tape machines\u003c/a> widely used for high-fidelity audio work from the 1940s through the end of the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used them myself at the beginning of my career in public radio at \u003cem>Marketplace\u003c/em>. Why he needed three of them, I’ll never know. Obviously, he had a hoarding problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of all the machines I found in that overstuffed garage, the most marvelous was a 1957 tabletop Telefunken Opus 7, a vintage radio covered in thick dust and buried in the back of a loft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many radios in the mid-20th century, it was housed in a handsomely crafted wooden cabinet, with a gorgeous grille above a glass panel featuring gold-painted tuning options — AM and FM, of course, but also shortwave, with helpful markers for Munich, Stuttgart, New York, Paris, Rome, even\u003ca href=\"https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html\"> Vatican Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I hauled the Opus 7 down, wiped off the surface dust and plugged it in. The lights behind its panel glowed softly and yellow. After a slight delay, an orchestra filled the room with a warm, rich sound. It took my breath away. Seconds later, the sound faded, followed by a crackle — and then the air filled with the smell of burning dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I opened the back of the Opus 7 and stared at the dust-covered metallic innards. I was a radio reporter, but I’d never seen the inside of a radio. To my untrained eye, the vacuum tubes looked burned out. So I’d need to replace them? I put them in a little box, but I didn’t have the vaguest idea where to find new tubes — nor the money or time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is to say, I had a lot to deal with after my dad died. Each time I moved in the years that followed — and I moved many times — I’d haul the radio with me, thinking, “I really should get this thing fixed.” The radio became a psychologically fraught loose end, one of many gathering dust in the recesses of my subconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years after his death, my career brought me from Los Angeles, where I grew up, to the San Francisco Bay Area. The radio sat in storage until I moved into a home with more space. So much time had passed — 16 years! — I’d forgotten all about it. Perched silently on top of a bureau, the radio seemed to rebuke me: “When will you fix me? When will my sound fill a room again?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A museum display of vacuum tubes from the 20th century.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-09-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the early days of radio, vacuum tubes, like these on display at the California Historical Radio Society in Alameda, California, amplified weak electromagnetic signals picked up by the antenna. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the recommendation of colleagues at KQED, I found the repair directory for the\u003ca href=\"https://californiahistoricalradio.com/repair-directory/\"> California Historical Radio Society\u003c/a> and got in touch with\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonsvintagerepair.com\"> Simon Favre\u003c/a>. I visited the retired Silicon Valley engineer in his Milpitas living room, which was filled with cabinet radios in various stages of repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like the style of the early-to-mid-20th-century radios,” he told me. “I guess it’s kind of nostalgia. There was a certain style to that era, you know, the 20s up to the 50s. It’s kind of my sweet spot for fixing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 72-year-old Favre, who worked in various roles for Silicon Valley companies, has been a “hardware guy” and a “tinkerer” since childhood. He diagnosed the problems with my Opus 7 and, for $200, replaced some capacitors, mended a plastic tuning wheel with super glue and baking soda, and yes, replaced the vacuum tubes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I plugged the radio in at home, there was a pause, then a rush of static. I turned the dial slightly, and orchestral strings once again filled the air. I jumped up and down with delight. If only Dad could see it — and hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A framed photograph of a young, smiling man.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-03-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Myrow as a young man, full of hope and confidence for his life and career. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was surprisingly easy to restore the physical radio. But the radio’s backstory remained a mystery. Did my father purchase it when he studied in the early 1960s at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.santacecilia.it/en/chi_siamo/accademia/storia.html\"> Santa Cecilia Academy of Music\u003c/a> in Rome? Was it a gift to him from my grandparents? A nostalgic find bought from a secondhand store?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time tears at the wiring that connects us to the people who fix us in space and time. As we age and those around us die, the connections and the stories burn out, one by one. Just a handful of people who knew my dad are still around — people, I thought, who just might know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I texted a photo of the radio to my godfather, the magnificent composer and arranger\u003ca href=\"https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/inimitable-legacy-van-dyke-parks-journey-song/\"> Van Dyke Parks\u003c/a>. He and my dad were like two peas in a pod, similar in talent and outlook. Van Dyke texted back to remind me that he didn’t meet my dad until 1967 or ’68. But remarkably, Van Dyke had bought that exact radio model in 1957 when he was a boy, while acting in a \u003cem>Heidi\u003c/em> film for RKO in Munich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Dyke rang me on the phone, his mind racing with memories. “You hit the heartstrings with that particular picture. So beautiful to behold,” he said. While he didn’t know the particulars of my dad’s radio or how he acquired it, Van Dyke recalled what the Opus 7 meant in a time before satellites and the internet accustomed us to tinny, compressed music on demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The insides of a 1957 radio feature dust covered speakers above a dust covered chassis of other radio parts.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-RADIO-RADIO-RM-08-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view inside the unrepaired Telefunken Opus 7. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a big deal, shortwave,” he sighed, thinking back to happy hours spent listening to great European conductors like\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/arts/music/otto-klemperer-conductor.html\"> Otto Klemperer\u003c/a>. Then, being the strings specialist he is, Van Dyke praised the way tube amps make partials (higher-frequency vibrations) that you get from a rosin bow “really available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know what he means, even without having his classical training. In that brief moment back in 1999, when my dad’s radio surged to life, I responded most to the harmonic thrum of the string instruments. A quarter-century later, the memory of that sound rushed back, twinned with grief and nostalgia for my father and his music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet has afforded my father some posthumous appreciation, especially in the comments sections on YouTube clips of his soundtracks. I wish he were alive to read them, given how much he struggled when alive for his music to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people we love die before we do, leaving us \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13824126/the-dead-will-talk-to-you-now-or-at-least-listen-in-santa-cruz\">helplessly nostalgic\u003c/a>. My own nostalgia comes attached to the music my father left as his legacy, along with the equipment that fostered his creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I still have a number of microcassette tapes on which my dad recorded many notes to himself. A quarter-century later, it’s still too painful for me to listen to the sound of his voice, especially from the last years of his life. The white-hot grief I felt in 1999 comes rushing up, and I have to hit the stop button. The tapes sit in a box on a high shelf in my own home studio now, gathering their own dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I turn on that Telefunken Opus 7, with the dial set to the Bay Area’s classical station, KDFC, the panel glows with that warm, yellow light, the vacuum tubes engage, and an orchestra fills my room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My heart grows full as the music swells, and I can feel my dad wink at me from across an otherwise unbreachable expanse of space and time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A few times a week, I FaceTime my dad to check in. He’s in Boston; I’m in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, I’ve been trying to speak to him in his native language, Mandarin Chinese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wǎn shàng hǎo,” I say. \u003cem>Good evening\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He answers quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nǐ zài gàn shénme?” he asks. \u003cem>What are you doing?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know what I want to say: “I’m doing homework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve learned that word before, but it disappears the moment I need it. I can feel him waiting while I rack my brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, I stumble through the sentence in a mixture of Chinese and English: Chinglish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been wondering for a long time why I never learned to speak my heritage language fluently. I’m trying my best, but I can’t help but feel like I’m a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking complete sentences in Mandarin is new for me. Until a few months ago, I could barely do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou and her dad, Zou Yongan, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during their first visit to China in 2003. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Zou)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My mom is a white American. My dad is from a small town in Hubei Province, China. After meeting my mom while they were both teaching English at Yangtze University, he moved to the U.S. in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were expecting me, my dad imagined raising a bilingual child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the roots in Chinese culture,” he would say. “Ideally, I expect you to be in both cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few years of my life, my dad spoke to me exclusively in Mandarin. However, like many other American-born children of immigrants, my dad said we ran into one roadblock.[aside postID=news_12086123 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/1.png']“When I would speak Chinese to you, even when you understood, you were always responding in English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He assumed I would become bilingual naturally. Instead, I resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, I obviously didn’t understand what I was rejecting. I felt out of place at weekend Chinese school as the only biracial kid in class. The other students’ parents were both native Mandarin speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, I wanted to fit in with the kids from my elementary school, whose parents were both native English speakers. They spent their weekends playing instead of memorizing characters. To me, learning Chinese was an onerous obligation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my earliest memories is sitting on my dad’s lap in the back of a Chinese school classroom, crying over a textbook I couldn’t understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember feeling embarrassed, like I was already failing at something I was supposed to inherit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I got older, my dad stopped speaking Mandarin to me altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We then communicated mostly in English, talking about practical things like rides or schedules. But now that I’m in my twenties and my dad is getting older, I’ve started wanting something more: a closer relationship with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou speaks in Mandarin with her father on a FaceTime call from her home in Berkeley on June 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes I wondered if my rejection of his language felt, to him, like a rejection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last semester, while attending graduate school at UC Berkeley, I enrolled in a Chinese for Heritage Speakers course. The class was designed for students who grew up hearing Mandarin at home but never fully learned to read or write it. For some students, it’s an easy A. For me, it was anything but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One assignment required us to record two-minute video blogs in Mandarin. For the first vlog, I did more than 30 takes — I kept mixing up shū, meaning “book,” and shù, meaning “tree.” Every mistake felt like proof that I was light-years behind everyone else in the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my professor, Cai Weisi, known to her students as Cai Laoshi — “Teacher Cai” — said many of her heritage speaker students share similar feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086578\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou sits at her home in Berkeley on June 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After more than 15 years of teaching the course, she’s heard countless stories from students who grew up resenting weekend language schools or feeling ashamed of not speaking fluently. They’ve shaped how she’s raising her own daughter to learn Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the very beginning, I already decided to not send her to any Chinese school,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing children too hard, she said, can sometimes drive them away from their heritage languages altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that felt validating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086583\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou holds a photo of her grandparents at her home in Berkeley on June 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t the only one struggling. One of Cai Laoshi’s past students, Sofia Guo, told me her first Mandarin vlogs mortified her. But as her language skills improved, she said her relationship with her parents did too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see my parents as people, adults who have their own personalities and they express themselves better in Chinese than in English. Of course, they could say all those same things in English … but you can see it on their faces. They light up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listening to her, I realized I wasn’t just missing a connection with my dad. I was missing a connection with an entire side of my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, whenever my dad called relatives in China, I was too ashamed of my Mandarin to chat. Three months into my class, I decided to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087639\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou (right) with her dad’s older sister, or Gugu, at her house in their hometown of Songzi, China during the summer of 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Zou)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad called his older sister, my gūgu, who still lives in our family’s hometown of Songzi. Her internet connection was spotty, and her accent is different from the Mandarin I learned in school. But for the first time in a while, I could understand enough to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her I wanted to visit China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huānyíng nǐ huí jiā,” she said. We will welcome you back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always knew Songzi was where my family came from. What surprised me was realizing that my relatives there considered it my home, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we hung up, my aunt told me my Chinese sounded good, and my dad agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED-1536x1044.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou on her dad’s shoulders at a traditional Chinese courtyard hotel in Beijing, 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Zou)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad and I are far from having deep philosophical conversations in Mandarin. I’m still a beginner — I forget words and mispronounce tones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my dad said something has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a while, I felt like we were a little distant,” he told me. “Now I feel like you’re getting closer to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Father’s Day, I’ll tell my dad something I’ve never been able to tell him before in his native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>爸爸，父亲节快乐。bābā, fùqīn jié kuàilè\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Father’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A few times a week, I FaceTime my dad to check in. He’s in Boston; I’m in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, I’ve been trying to speak to him in his native language, Mandarin Chinese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wǎn shàng hǎo,” I say. \u003cem>Good evening\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He answers quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nǐ zài gàn shénme?” he asks. \u003cem>What are you doing?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know what I want to say: “I’m doing homework.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve learned that word before, but it disappears the moment I need it. I can feel him waiting while I rack my brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, I stumble through the sentence in a mixture of Chinese and English: Chinglish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been wondering for a long time why I never learned to speak my heritage language fluently. I’m trying my best, but I can’t help but feel like I’m a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking complete sentences in Mandarin is new for me. Until a few months ago, I could barely do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-tiananmen-square-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou and her dad, Zou Yongan, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during their first visit to China in 2003. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Zou)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My mom is a white American. My dad is from a small town in Hubei Province, China. After meeting my mom while they were both teaching English at Yangtze University, he moved to the U.S. in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they were expecting me, my dad imagined raising a bilingual child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the roots in Chinese culture,” he would say. “Ideally, I expect you to be in both cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few years of my life, my dad spoke to me exclusively in Mandarin. However, like many other American-born children of immigrants, my dad said we ran into one roadblock.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When I would speak Chinese to you, even when you understood, you were always responding in English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He assumed I would become bilingual naturally. Instead, I resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, I obviously didn’t understand what I was rejecting. I felt out of place at weekend Chinese school as the only biracial kid in class. The other students’ parents were both native Mandarin speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simultaneously, I wanted to fit in with the kids from my elementary school, whose parents were both native English speakers. They spent their weekends playing instead of memorizing characters. To me, learning Chinese was an onerous obligation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my earliest memories is sitting on my dad’s lap in the back of a Chinese school classroom, crying over a textbook I couldn’t understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember feeling embarrassed, like I was already failing at something I was supposed to inherit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I got older, my dad stopped speaking Mandarin to me altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We then communicated mostly in English, talking about practical things like rides or schedules. But now that I’m in my twenties and my dad is getting older, I’ve started wanting something more: a closer relationship with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou speaks in Mandarin with her father on a FaceTime call from her home in Berkeley on June 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes I wondered if my rejection of his language felt, to him, like a rejection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last semester, while attending graduate school at UC Berkeley, I enrolled in a Chinese for Heritage Speakers course. The class was designed for students who grew up hearing Mandarin at home but never fully learned to read or write it. For some students, it’s an easy A. For me, it was anything but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One assignment required us to record two-minute video blogs in Mandarin. For the first vlog, I did more than 30 takes — I kept mixing up shū, meaning “book,” and shù, meaning “tree.” Every mistake felt like proof that I was light-years behind everyone else in the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my professor, Cai Weisi, known to her students as Cai Laoshi — “Teacher Cai” — said many of her heritage speaker students share similar feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086578\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou sits at her home in Berkeley on June 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After more than 15 years of teaching the course, she’s heard countless stories from students who grew up resenting weekend language schools or feeling ashamed of not speaking fluently. They’ve shaped how she’s raising her own daughter to learn Mandarin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the very beginning, I already decided to not send her to any Chinese school,” she told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing children too hard, she said, can sometimes drive them away from their heritage languages altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that felt validating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086583\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260605-FathersDay-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou holds a photo of her grandparents at her home in Berkeley on June 5, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t the only one struggling. One of Cai Laoshi’s past students, Sofia Guo, told me her first Mandarin vlogs mortified her. But as her language skills improved, she said her relationship with her parents did too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see my parents as people, adults who have their own personalities and they express themselves better in Chinese than in English. Of course, they could say all those same things in English … but you can see it on their faces. They light up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listening to her, I realized I wasn’t just missing a connection with my dad. I was missing a connection with an entire side of my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, whenever my dad called relatives in China, I was too ashamed of my Mandarin to chat. Three months into my class, I decided to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087639\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-gugu-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou (right) with her dad’s older sister, or Gugu, at her house in their hometown of Songzi, China during the summer of 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Zou)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad called his older sister, my gūgu, who still lives in our family’s hometown of Songzi. Her internet connection was spotty, and her accent is different from the Mandarin I learned in school. But for the first time in a while, I could understand enough to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told her I wanted to visit China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huānyíng nǐ huí jiā,” she said. We will welcome you back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always knew Songzi was where my family came from. What surprised me was realizing that my relatives there considered it my home, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we hung up, my aunt told me my Chinese sounded good, and my dad agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/me-and-dad-in-beijing2-KQED-1536x1044.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Zou on her dad’s shoulders at a traditional Chinese courtyard hotel in Beijing, 2007. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Zou)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad and I are far from having deep philosophical conversations in Mandarin. I’m still a beginner — I forget words and mispronounce tones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my dad said something has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a while, I felt like we were a little distant,” he told me. “Now I feel like you’re getting closer to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Father’s Day, I’ll tell my dad something I’ve never been able to tell him before in his native language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>爸爸，父亲节快乐。bābā, fùqīn jié kuàilè\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Father’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> officials are looking to remove a 12% spending cap on short-term rental subsidies, which offer adults assistance for two years, in what they say is a bid to keep people off the streets. But the move is drawing criticism from some advocates for homelessness services in San Francisco who say the city should instead be investing in longer-term solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal comes as San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085729/with-layoffs-ahead-san-francisco-mayor-lurie-unveils-17-billion-city-budget\">finalizing its nearly $16 billion budget\u003c/a>, against a backdrop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">rising rates of homelessness among families\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want them to lift the cap. We instead want them to use funds to do ongoing rental assistance, given that many of the households are on fixed incomes and won’t be able to take over the rent after a couple years,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the reallocation say putting more money toward short-term subsidies will allow more people to move into housing faster. The plan would create around 800 new rental subsidies, including 350 slots for families, 250 slots for adults and 200 slots for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidies are funded by new Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax revenue, which is generated through a ballot initiative voters passed in 2018. 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Of those, 1,673 are for adults, 749 are for families and 503 are for transitional-aged youth, according to the Budget and Legislative Analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED-1536x969.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment near Polk Street in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The 12% is really quite limiting,” said Emily Cohen, deputy director for communications and legislative affairs at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, at a budget committee hearing on Wednesday. “We really see this as an opportunity to drive more investments toward families and adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget committee unanimously passed the ordinance proposal on Wednesday, and it heads to the full Board of Supervisors on July 14. Changes to the gross receipts tax require two-thirds of the board to approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Salinas lives in transitional housing with her three children and has navigated the city’s homelessness system for years. She was recently offered a short-term rental subsidy that would help cover about $1,400 per month on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas arrives at The Salvation Army Harbor House, a temporary shelter, with her daughter Ranea, 4, in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But she said that would hardly cover rent for a two-bedroom, which costs $5,600 per month on average in San Francisco, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a family of four, where am I going to find a place to live? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the reallocation say putting more money toward short-term subsidies will allow more people to move into housing faster. The plan would create around 800 new rental subsidies, including 350 slots for families, 250 slots for adults and 200 slots for youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidies are funded by new Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax revenue, which is generated through a ballot initiative voters passed in 2018. The proposed ordinance would lift the cap on short-term subsidy spending for the second year of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081593/homeless-funding-plan-raises-concerns-as-san-francisco-looks-to-narrow-budget-deficit\">proposed budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May 2026, the city is funding 2,925 rapid rehousing rental subsidies. Of those, 1,673 are for adults, 749 are for families and 503 are for transitional-aged youth, according to the Budget and Legislative Analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GETTYIMAGES-2197492442-KQED-1536x969.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment near Polk Street in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The 12% is really quite limiting,” said Emily Cohen, deputy director for communications and legislative affairs at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, at a budget committee hearing on Wednesday. “We really see this as an opportunity to drive more investments toward families and adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget committee unanimously passed the ordinance proposal on Wednesday, and it heads to the full Board of Supervisors on July 14. Changes to the gross receipts tax require two-thirds of the board to approve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Salinas lives in transitional housing with her three children and has navigated the city’s homelessness system for years. She was recently offered a short-term rental subsidy that would help cover about $1,400 per month on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas arrives at The Salvation Army Harbor House, a temporary shelter, with her daughter Ranea, 4, in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But she said that would hardly cover rent for a two-bedroom, which costs $5,600 per month on average in San Francisco, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a family of four, where am I going to find a place to live? It’s impossible,” Salinas said. She was able to increase the subsidy to $3,200, which she described as a “blessing.” But she’s already thinking about what she will have to do at the end of the short-term subsidy period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, it feels good, but then after two years, where are we going to be?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another concern from advocates is that the majority of residents who receive rental subsidies often have to look outside the city for landlords who will accept them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly there’s also a capacity issue,” Supervisor Connie Chan said at Wednesday’s meeting. “There are times that we could offer a voucher, but then they end up being outside of San Francisco, and a lot of families want to stay in San Francisco, and we want them to stay.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He said the organization plans to file a separate suit over the new findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty-1536x1080.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, an automated license plate reader is seen mounted on a pole on June 13, 2024, in San Francisco, California. The city of San Francisco has installed 100 automated license plate readers across the city and plans to install 300 more in the coming weeks as officials look to technology to help combat crime in the city. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Civil liberties organizations have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080233/san-jose-residents-sue-city-saying-flock-safety-cameras-allow-mass-surveillance\">sued San José\u003c/a> related to its Flock cameras, alleging that the technology creates an unconstitutional “mass surveillance system.” Critics fear the data could be used against immigrants and women seeking reproductive care, as the Trump administration moves to expand deportations and limit abortion access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock advertises its data-sharing offerings, which allow customers to share camera data with other contracted agencies on either a national, state or one-to-one sharing level. In part, the tool is intended to increase coordination between neighboring departments, such as being able to track a suspect vehicle that travels from one jurisdiction to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many Bay Area agencies have said that they do not participate in the “National Lookup,” and instead share their data on a one-to-one basis with neighboring departments, some have alleged that the wider sharing setting was reactivated by Flock without their knowledge, allowing out-of-state agencies to access their information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, SFPD allowed NCRIC to access its data, but said that the partner organization gave access to analysts from a third-party group, the West States Information Network, “during night hours.” SFPD Chief Derrick Lew said analysts from WSIN, an agency that provides law enforcement coordination and analytical support, conducted the searches on behalf of other agencies and did not know about California’s state law prohibiting data sharing out of state. The department has since disabled both NCRIC and WSIN’s access to the city’s camera network, Lew said.[aside postID=news_12082887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/050726BERKELEY-FLOCK-RALLY_GH_010-KQED.jpg']Hofer said Secure Justice has been warning about illegal inquiries for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was always a known speculative concern, and for the last two-and-a-half years of doing audits, it’s been a proven concern,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NCRIC Executive Director Mike Sena said the organization’s protocol is not to share data with federal and out-of-state agencies. He said that was not part of WSIN’s protocol before the audit, but that its policies have been “corrected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a Flock spokesperson said the breach “was not the result of a software malfunction, platform issue, unauthorized access or any failure of the Flock system. It involved searches conducted by authorized users at a California state agency that were later determined to be inconsistent with California’s ALPR data-sharing requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear, according to Lew, if any of the outside organizations accessed any SFPD data. Not every query “hits,” or leads to relevant information, he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the searches, he said, were queries related to criminal activity and “serious” crime, including homicide, child sexual abuse and drug and gun trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lew said the “queries of concern” conducted by NCRIC don’t include any that reference immigration enforcement or reproductive rights. He confirmed that the department is not aware of data being accessed by ICE or the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hofer said that doesn’t guarantee the searches weren’t conducted for a related purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just stopped putting things in writing,” he said. “Before all these public record requests and scandals started blowing up, people were actually honest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the revelations from the audit have already drawn renewed scrutiny of the partnership — after cities across the Bay Area have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082887/berkeley-extends-surveillance-contract-with-flock-safety-but-rejects-major-expansion\">reconsidered\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety\">terminated contracts\u003c/a> in the last year following reports that some customers’ data had been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/\">illegally accessed by out-of-state agencies\u003c/a>, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, without their knowledge and in violation of California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a 2015 state law, California public agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with federal and out-of-state agencies, and they are subject to strict privacy policies on such information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local law enforcement continue not to care, not [to] pay attention to these sensitive databases that we have,” said Brian Hofer, whose nonprofit, Secure Justice, sued Oakland over reports of illegal data sharing last year. He said the organization plans to file a separate suit over the new findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty-1536x1080.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, an automated license plate reader is seen mounted on a pole on June 13, 2024, in San Francisco, California. The city of San Francisco has installed 100 automated license plate readers across the city and plans to install 300 more in the coming weeks as officials look to technology to help combat crime in the city. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Civil liberties organizations have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12080233/san-jose-residents-sue-city-saying-flock-safety-cameras-allow-mass-surveillance\">sued San José\u003c/a> related to its Flock cameras, alleging that the technology creates an unconstitutional “mass surveillance system.” Critics fear the data could be used against immigrants and women seeking reproductive care, as the Trump administration moves to expand deportations and limit abortion access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock advertises its data-sharing offerings, which allow customers to share camera data with other contracted agencies on either a national, state or one-to-one sharing level. In part, the tool is intended to increase coordination between neighboring departments, such as being able to track a suspect vehicle that travels from one jurisdiction to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many Bay Area agencies have said that they do not participate in the “National Lookup,” and instead share their data on a one-to-one basis with neighboring departments, some have alleged that the wider sharing setting was reactivated by Flock without their knowledge, allowing out-of-state agencies to access their information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, SFPD allowed NCRIC to access its data, but said that the partner organization gave access to analysts from a third-party group, the West States Information Network, “during night hours.” SFPD Chief Derrick Lew said analysts from WSIN, an agency that provides law enforcement coordination and analytical support, conducted the searches on behalf of other agencies and did not know about California’s state law prohibiting data sharing out of state. The department has since disabled both NCRIC and WSIN’s access to the city’s camera network, Lew said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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