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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> teachers will go on strike Monday for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071181/san-francisco-teachers-union-moves-closer-to-a-historic-strike-first-in-more-than-50-years\">first time in half a century\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Educators of San Francisco gave formal notice to members and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> on Thursday that they will be on the picket lines next week as 11 months of contract negotiations come to a close without a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not come to this decision lightly,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said at a press conference on Thursday morning. “We want to be in our classrooms and our school sites with all of our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since last March. Educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Thursday evening for the first time since declaring an impasse and entering mediation in October, and could still avert a work stoppage through a last-minute agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis,” Curiel said. “If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike, which would be the city’s first since 1979, comes as teachers’ unions across the state gear up for their own shutdowns: the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a strike \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/los-angeles-san-francisco-teachers-unions-vote-to-authorize-a-strike\">last weekend\u003c/a> and San Diego will hold a one-day work stoppage later this month. Oakland’s union has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/18/oakland-unified-teachers-union-contract-negotiations-oea/\">indicated\u003c/a> it is not far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">more than 30 California unions\u003c/a> launched a coordinated bargaining focused on stabilizing schools through smaller class sizes, special education changes and better wages and benefit coverage meant to attract and retain educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has requested full benefit coverage for educators and their dependents and wage increases ranging from 9% to 14% for teachers and paraeducators, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district can’t not afford to invest in stabilizing staffing,” said Teanna Tillery, UESF’s vice president of paraeducators. “With almost 400 educator vacancies and health care increasing by 20%, the writing’s on the wall. SFUSD needs to invest in all of its educators or risk losing most of us.”[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']The district has maintained that it’s hamstringed by a financial crisis and remains under state oversight. It said meeting the union’s wage and benefit demands is unfeasible and would be rejected by fiscal advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the impasse, the district had proposed a 2% raise for each of the next three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">with concessions\u003c/a> from educators. Superintendent Maria Su has repeatedly said that the district has also offered a “creative” way to fund health care, but hasn’t shared details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to families after the strike was called, Su said that she wants to avert a strike, and that the district plans to present a proposal that “meets many of our educators’ requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what that offer contains. Earlier this week, a neutral panel released a “fact-finding report” — the final step of mediation — that included recommended compromises on the union’s top demands. That suggested 6% raises over two years and fully funded family health care for three years using temporary parcel tax money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has not said whether it would agree to the report’s recommendations, but Curiel said they “do not go far enough.” Paraeducators need more significant raises, and health care funding should be permanent, the union said in a written dissent following the fact-finding report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a strike goes forward on Monday, campus operations will be significantly impacted, and Su said schools could be forced to close. To operate, schools need an administrator and custodial services, along with staff to supervise and provide instruction for students, and food service workers to distribute meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I determine that I cannot open school safely because we do not have the staff to open school safely, then we cannot,” Su said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, which represents custodians, clerks and lunchroom helpers, has announced its members will hold a sympathy strike and won’t cross the picket lines. The United Administrators of San Francisco is voting through midday Friday to determine if it will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closed campuses could leave families of SFUSD’s 50,000 students scrambling to find alternative child care come Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard moment for families,” said Meredith Dodson, who heads the nonprofit San Francisco Parents Coalition. For parents who “are working jobs where they don’t have flexibility, they’re trying to figure out alternative plans for where their kids will be on Monday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said about a quarter of the 700 families that the organization surveyed this week said they would have to miss work if their kids’ schools close. Just 4% said private childcare would be an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“It’s most worrying for those who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Dodson said. “We’re also hearing a lot of concerns, especially from families with children in the special ed system. Especially the ones with one-on-one paraeducator support. It’s really hard to get those needs met without our schools open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that she’s working with after-school care providers to extend services for a small number of the district’s most vulnerable students, and would prioritize extremely low-income and unhoused students, as well as those receiving special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she estimated that might only cover a couple of hundred and up to 1,000 kids, a fraction of the number of SFUSD students who might be in a vulnerable position during a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a third of the students experience housing insecurity or food insecurity,” said Nelson Barry, the president of Urban Angels SF, which serves unhoused and at-risk youth. “They come from families that are living at or near the poverty level, so when there’s a strike, it’s going to affect these children in great numbers, not just a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that he has been in contact with the union and district and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table and avoid a work stoppage. He’s also said he’s in contact with city partners to prepare to support families if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that our schools remain open,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielluriesf/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>. “Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco saw an educator strike was September 1979, when teachers took to picket lines for more than six weeks, delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strike, which was sparked by mass teacher layoffs in the wake of Proposition 13, shuttered some schools for more than two weeks and threw the city into chaos. Then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein was integral in striking a deal between the parties, which resulted in a 15.5% pay raise and a promise to rehire hundreds of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said Thursday that he still believes the parties could come to an agreement before Monday, “even if it defers a real solution on some issues [especially health care] for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, if there’s little or no possibility of an agreement, it might only take one meeting to determine that,” he wrote via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel said the union is willing to hear a proposal from the district, but the clock is ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s 11:59 p.m,” she said, and “the homework is due at midnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Shareyourstory\">\u003c/a>California is expensive. Share your story of how you get by\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Thursday evening for the first time since declaring an impasse and entering mediation in October, and could still avert a work stoppage through a last-minute agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to the district to come [to the bargaining table] with a serious proposal to solve the stability crisis,” Curiel said. “If not, it will be up to the thousands of educators of UESF to do what few of us have done before and take the next step onto the picket lines on Monday morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The strike, which would be the city’s first since 1979, comes as teachers’ unions across the state gear up for their own shutdowns: the Los Angeles Unified School District authorized a strike \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/los-angeles-san-francisco-teachers-unions-vote-to-authorize-a-strike\">last weekend\u003c/a> and San Diego will hold a one-day work stoppage later this month. Oakland’s union has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/18/oakland-unified-teachers-union-contract-negotiations-oea/\">indicated\u003c/a> it is not far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands'\">more than 30 California unions\u003c/a> launched a coordinated bargaining focused on stabilizing schools through smaller class sizes, special education changes and better wages and benefit coverage meant to attract and retain educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has requested full benefit coverage for educators and their dependents and wage increases ranging from 9% to 14% for teachers and paraeducators, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district can’t not afford to invest in stabilizing staffing,” said Teanna Tillery, UESF’s vice president of paraeducators. “With almost 400 educator vacancies and health care increasing by 20%, the writing’s on the wall. SFUSD needs to invest in all of its educators or risk losing most of us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The district has maintained that it’s hamstringed by a financial crisis and remains under state oversight. It said meeting the union’s wage and benefit demands is unfeasible and would be rejected by fiscal advisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the impasse, the district had proposed a 2% raise for each of the next three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066097/sfusd-teachers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-authorize-the-first-strike-in-49-years\">with concessions\u003c/a> from educators. Superintendent Maria Su has repeatedly said that the district has also offered a “creative” way to fund health care, but hasn’t shared details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to families after the strike was called, Su said that she wants to avert a strike, and that the district plans to present a proposal that “meets many of our educators’ requests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear what that offer contains. Earlier this week, a neutral panel released a “fact-finding report” — the final step of mediation — that included recommended compromises on the union’s top demands. That suggested 6% raises over two years and fully funded family health care for three years using temporary parcel tax money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has not said whether it would agree to the report’s recommendations, but Curiel said they “do not go far enough.” Paraeducators need more significant raises, and health care funding should be permanent, the union said in a written dissent following the fact-finding report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a strike goes forward on Monday, campus operations will be significantly impacted, and Su said schools could be forced to close. To operate, schools need an administrator and custodial services, along with staff to supervise and provide instruction for students, and food service workers to distribute meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, if I determine that I cannot open school safely because we do not have the staff to open school safely, then we cannot,” Su said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, which represents custodians, clerks and lunchroom helpers, has announced its members will hold a sympathy strike and won’t cross the picket lines. The United Administrators of San Francisco is voting through midday Friday to determine if it will do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closed campuses could leave families of SFUSD’s 50,000 students scrambling to find alternative child care come Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard moment for families,” said Meredith Dodson, who heads the nonprofit San Francisco Parents Coalition. For parents who “are working jobs where they don’t have flexibility, they’re trying to figure out alternative plans for where their kids will be on Monday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said about a quarter of the 700 families that the organization surveyed this week said they would have to miss work if their kids’ schools close. Just 4% said private childcare would be an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“It’s most worrying for those who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Dodson said. “We’re also hearing a lot of concerns, especially from families with children in the special ed system. Especially the ones with one-on-one paraeducator support. It’s really hard to get those needs met without our schools open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that she’s working with after-school care providers to extend services for a small number of the district’s most vulnerable students, and would prioritize extremely low-income and unhoused students, as well as those receiving special education services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she estimated that might only cover a couple of hundred and up to 1,000 kids, a fraction of the number of SFUSD students who might be in a vulnerable position during a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About a third of the students experience housing insecurity or food insecurity,” said Nelson Barry, the president of Urban Angels SF, which serves unhoused and at-risk youth. “They come from families that are living at or near the poverty level, so when there’s a strike, it’s going to affect these children in great numbers, not just a few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070970 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-SIGNATUREKICKOFF00606_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that he has been in contact with the union and district and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table and avoid a work stoppage. He’s also said he’s in contact with city partners to prepare to support families if schools close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crucial that our schools remain open,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielluriesf/?hl=en\">social media\u003c/a>. “Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed. Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed. Schools are the foundation that makes daily life possible and helps every family in San Francisco thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time San Francisco saw an educator strike was September 1979, when teachers took to picket lines for more than six weeks, delaying the start of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strike, which was sparked by mass teacher layoffs in the wake of Proposition 13, shuttered some schools for more than two weeks and threw the city into chaos. 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That process ended Wednesday with a fact-finding report issued by a panel that includes one representative each from the union and the district, along with a neutral mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The report does not go far enough — and the recommendations here alone will not solve the stability crisis in our district,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said in a statement. “Now is the time for the district to come to the table with real solutions and show the community that they are fully committed to funding the classrooms and schools our students and communities deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is meant to offer an analysis of the merits of both the district’s and the union’s proposals, as well as nonbinding recommendations for a settlement. It recommends the district give union members a 3% raise for each of the next two years and fully fund health benefits for the next three years through existing parcel tax money. After that, the report said, the district should look into the possibility of extending full health care coverage through a different source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the district concurred with the report’s findings, the union dissented in part. UESF argued that paraeducators, who are among the lowest paid in the union, need more than a 3% annual raise and that health benefit coverage should be ongoing, not limited to the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has proposed 9% raises for teachers and 14% for paraeducators over two years, along with fully funded health care and a written commitment to the district’s sanctuary immigration policy and emergency shelter program for unhoused families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has said that such a raise isn’t feasible given its current budget crisis, and it countered with an offer for a 2% raise for each of the next three years in October. Last month, it said it could fund Kaiser Permanente health care benefits through existing parcel tax funding until it expires in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said SFUSD rejected its sanctuary and housing proposals, which the district argued should be determined through district policy, not labor contracts. According to the fact-finding report, there are “significant challenges” associated with adding the language to educators’ contracts, which it said “imposes onerous responsibilities on the District as a landlord, job trainer, and legal advocate,” and opens SFUSD up to significant liability.[aside postID=news_12072028 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240827_SFUSDPROTEST_GC-6-KQED-1020x634.jpg']The district did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the report’s release, Superintendent Maria Su said she believed the district and union were close to a deal and could avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at the table; we want to continue and finish this conversation,” she said on Tuesday. “I know that we will be able to get to an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said in a statement that its bargaining team is prepared to negotiate on Thursday and Friday, though it is unlikely to back down on its core demands. UESF has repeatedly said that it will not sign a deal without fully funded health care coverage, and it’s not clear if it will accept the current temporary proposal. UESF said it hasn’t seen that proposal in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a dissent issued with the fact-finding report, Angela Su, who represented the union on the committee, said: “I agree that the district should tap into the resources available to fully fund dependent benefits … but dissent that it should be anything other than ongoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has said its members’ health care costs are rising exponentially, noting that as of 2026, a family of four pays more than $1,500 a month for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just this January, educators got a 20% increase in our health care costs,” Curiel said Wednesday on KQED’s Forum. “Folks that are teaching … are going to have to go home today and make tough decisions about whether or not they can afford other things for the rest of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on social media, Mayor Daniel Lurie said his office is in contact with both the district and union, urging them to “keep talking so kids can keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that if a strike goes forward, he’s working with city departments to ensure there are options for students in case classrooms close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su has repeatedly said that closing campuses is a last resort, but could be necessary if they do not have sufficient staffing to open safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our working parents can’t afford to stay home if schools are closed,” Lurie said. “Our special needs students can’t afford to lose access to vital services that help them succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district could return to the bargaining table as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Although it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area-weather\">winter\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area, it almost feels like spring, as this week the region sees some of its highest temperatures in months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the National Weather Service, the South Bay could reach 80 degrees on Wednesday, while San Francisco and other coastal regions will hit the high 60s and low 70s. NWS meteorologist Scott Rowe said there wasn’t a cloud in the sky in often-foggy Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today looks like it will be the warmest day for many communities, some of which will be very close to their daily record highs,” Rowe told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In true February fashion, cooler temperatures and even a chance of rain could return ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071772/where-to-watch-super-bowl-2026-san-francisco-bay-area-levis-stadium-bad-bunny-green-day-larussell-santa-clara\">Super Bowl weekend\u003c/a> — but through Friday, warm weather should continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highest temperatures will be south of San Francisco, Rowe said, with San José’s high at around 76 degrees. Farther south, Monterey County and the Salinas Valley are seeing temperatures in the 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is expected to hit 69 degrees, while Oakland could reach 71 degrees. Thursday’s temperatures are shaping up to match that warmth, before the area begins cooling off on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10966379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10966379 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/4701949351_679877b7f2_o-e1464127740764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revelers enjoy Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco in 2019. San Francisco is expected to hit 69 degrees on Thursday. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/8auHJg\" target=\"_blank\">Mik Scheper/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The warm weather is the result of high atmospheric pressure over the region, which by Friday afternoon will clear and make way for a band of low pressure. Temperatures will drop a few degrees through the weekend, though they will remain in the average range for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Sunday, chances for rain will be on the forecast for several days, though Rowe said it won’t be a “washout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Precipitation amounts look to be quite minor,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay will likely see less than a quarter inch of rain early next week, he said, while San Francisco could receive up to a half inch of precipitation. Coastal mountain ranges in Marin and Sonoma counties will get the highest amounts, at upwards of an inch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not very high totals, especially compared to what we’ve seen earlier this winter,” Rowe said.[aside postID=science_1999965 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/12/MonarchButterfly.jpg']Although atmospheric rivers dumped more than 4 inches of rain around the region this fall and early winter, most of January has been virtually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071010/will-the-bay-areas-dry-winter-flip-not-just-yet-but-storms-could-be-coming\">dry\u003c/a>, and so far, February forecasts aren’t showing signs of huge storms on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s reservoir levels are still sitting fairly high, at about 70% full, but snowpack in the Sierra is suffering after the warm, and dry, weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWS meteorologist Chris Johnston, who is based in Reno, said that the snow water equivalent in the Lake Tahoe Basin is low for this time of year, at 10.4 inches, compared with the average 18.6 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the return of wet weather early next week, there’s only about a 20% chance that there’ll be more than a foot of snow at Donner Pass, Johnston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, state water officials conducted an annual snowpack survey in the Sierra, finding that it sat at just 36% of California’s April 1 average. It’s about 56% of the annual average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnston said that’s “definitely a concern going into the spring season,” since snowpack makes up about a third of the state’s water supply. January is generally the state’s wettest month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Reising, manager of the state’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999949/californias-snowpack-is-shrinking-but-winter-isnt-over-yet\">told KQED last month\u003c/a> that despite huge storms in December and early January, more rain fell than snow at middle and lower elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t seen this much liquid running under the snowpack at this time of year,” Reising said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, this trend is spilling into February: This week, Truckee could hit 56 degrees, while South Lake Tahoe, at 6,200 feet, is expected to see temperatures in the 50s. On Monday, the low could drop to 24 degrees, below freezing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Although atmospheric rivers dumped more than 4 inches of rain around the region this fall and early winter, most of January has been virtually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071010/will-the-bay-areas-dry-winter-flip-not-just-yet-but-storms-could-be-coming\">dry\u003c/a>, and so far, February forecasts aren’t showing signs of huge storms on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s reservoir levels are still sitting fairly high, at about 70% full, but snowpack in the Sierra is suffering after the warm, and dry, weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWS meteorologist Chris Johnston, who is based in Reno, said that the snow water equivalent in the Lake Tahoe Basin is low for this time of year, at 10.4 inches, compared with the average 18.6 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the return of wet weather early next week, there’s only about a 20% chance that there’ll be more than a foot of snow at Donner Pass, Johnston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, state water officials conducted an annual snowpack survey in the Sierra, finding that it sat at just 36% of California’s April 1 average. It’s about 56% of the annual average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnston said that’s “definitely a concern going into the spring season,” since snowpack makes up about a third of the state’s water supply. January is generally the state’s wettest month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Reising, manager of the state’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999949/californias-snowpack-is-shrinking-but-winter-isnt-over-yet\">told KQED last month\u003c/a> that despite huge storms in December and early January, more rain fell than snow at middle and lower elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t seen this much liquid running under the snowpack at this time of year,” Reising said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, this trend is spilling into February: This week, Truckee could hit 56 degrees, while South Lake Tahoe, at 6,200 feet, is expected to see temperatures in the 50s. On Monday, the low could drop to 24 degrees, below freezing. But daytime temperatures are still in the mid-30s, which could mean fresh snow quickly melts away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As thousands of people descend upon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> this week for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl\u003c/a> LX, the city is looking to put on a sparkly show for tourists and locals alike — and telling unhoused individuals to move along to make way for activities downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to running existing interfaith winter shelters, the city is funding additional shelter beds specifically during the week of the Super Bowl, KQED has confirmed. Many homeless advocates and unhoused people say the efforts are merely pushing the issue out of view of Super Bowl fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to cover up a problem that, you know, exists. It’s dehumanizing. If you don’t have anywhere else to go, they’ll still tell you, ‘We don’t want you here,’ because it makes the city look bad,” said Jered Thomas, a 33-year-old who is homeless and recently was sleeping near the South of Market and Mission neighborhoods. “But I don’t really feel like they’re solving the problem by moving us around or policing us, making it illegal to be homeless. It just makes the problem even worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--point-time-count-dashboard\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a>, a biennial snapshot of the city’s unhoused population. Just over half of the people included in the count were unsheltered. While the city has made a number of changes to its policies for addressing homelessness, affordable housing and access to subsidies remain out of reach for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jered Thomas sits inside the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program provides guests a place to rest with no sign-in process and no one turned away. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, but it is expected to draw thousands of tourists from all over the globe to San Francisco, about 45 miles north. City leaders see the event, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071211/super-bowl-lx-promises-big-bucks-for-the-bay-area-cities-are-trying-to-cash-in\">projected to bring more than $600 million\u003c/a> to the region, as a catapult for the city’s post-pandemic economic rebound. Mayor Daniel Lurie has seized the opportunity to charm visitors and TV viewers, and change the negative narrative many conservative media pundits have spun about San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next month, we will once again welcome people from across the globe for Super Bowl LX,” Lurie said during his State of the City address in January. “And I have no doubt that our city will once again rise to the occasion as the spotlight of the world shines on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unexpected that San Francisco will clear sidewalks of encampments ahead of the major event, which also came to the Bay Area in 2016, when major sweeps took place around the Embarcadero and other areas where Super Bowl festivities were happening. The city took a similar approach with other events, like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, when high-security levels prompted the closure of several streets downtown and restricted foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the city is shutting down blocks downtown around the Moscone Center, where the NFL is hosting events for football fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Department of Emergency Management, which oversees the city’s street crews that respond to homeless encampments, said they are continuing with their regular schedule and are not ramping up enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day — regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,” a spokesperson from DEM said. “Neighborhood Street Teams are extending hours and proactively encouraging people to accept services, as they do every day. The message is simple: help is available, and today is a good day to come inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities in the Bay Area looking to lure tourists are also continuing to clear encampments ahead of the event and maintaining that they are not ramping up enforcement around any particular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These efforts are part of San José’s ongoing, year-round strategy to reduce homelessness with compassion, dignity and long-term solutions — not a one-time response tied to any single event,” said Sarah Fields, deputy director of public affairs for San José’s Housing Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tent clearings and citations for people sleeping outside have increased across San Francisco in the last year, especially after the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Grants Pass case that made it easier for cities to force homeless people to move, even if shelter is unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s certainly been an uptick in operations for months now,” said John Do, an ACLU attorney who worked on a lawsuit against San Francisco over how it conducted homeless sweeps. The $2.8 million settlement for the case was officially finalized in September 2025. “The city wants to hide their homelessness crisis by displacing people … But those are temporary measures, which don’t, of course, address the underlying issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl also comes as nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">400 residents remain on San Francisco’s waitlist\u003c/a> for a bed at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--shelter-and-crisis-interventions\">53 shelter sites\u003c/a>, while others struggle to obtain permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city opens up additional beds at Gubbio in the Mission District, it’s also winding down more than 100 beds at the Monarch and Adante hotels downtown. At the same time, dozens of displaced residents of a Tenderloin building that burned in December say they are struggling to find shelter even months after the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating an overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Shelters are full. All of the sudden, the city is providing additional beds when we have been asking for this for months,” said Gardenia Zuniga-Haro, an advocate for the residents who previously lived at the burned building. “It’s convenient for the mayor to make it look like everything is peaches and cream, but that’s not the case. 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The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake forms or barriers, emphasizing dignity, accessibility and safety. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rows of cot beds lined the inside of the church where the Gubbio Project is based, with soft sounds of snoring from those who had gone to sleep early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quiet shelter offered a place to finally relax for Joshua Wagner, who had been asked to move off the sidewalk on 11th Street in the South of Market neighborhood earlier that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and several people that I’ve been with were told that we were not allowed to be out when the Super Bowl is happening this week, whatever the hell that means. We’re homeless. How can we not be allowed out?” Wagner said. “I can’t even rest for five minutes without somebody telling me to get up and go. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,300 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--point-time-count-dashboard\">2024 Point-in-Time count\u003c/a>, a biennial snapshot of the city’s unhoused population. Just over half of the people included in the count were unsheltered. While the city has made a number of changes to its policies for addressing homelessness, affordable housing and access to subsidies remain out of reach for many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jered Thomas sits inside the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program provides guests a place to rest with no sign-in process and no one turned away. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, but it is expected to draw thousands of tourists from all over the globe to San Francisco, about 45 miles north. City leaders see the event, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071211/super-bowl-lx-promises-big-bucks-for-the-bay-area-cities-are-trying-to-cash-in\">projected to bring more than $600 million\u003c/a> to the region, as a catapult for the city’s post-pandemic economic rebound. Mayor Daniel Lurie has seized the opportunity to charm visitors and TV viewers, and change the negative narrative many conservative media pundits have spun about San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next month, we will once again welcome people from across the globe for Super Bowl LX,” Lurie said during his State of the City address in January. “And I have no doubt that our city will once again rise to the occasion as the spotlight of the world shines on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not unexpected that San Francisco will clear sidewalks of encampments ahead of the major event, which also came to the Bay Area in 2016, when major sweeps took place around the Embarcadero and other areas where Super Bowl festivities were happening. The city took a similar approach with other events, like the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference, when high-security levels prompted the closure of several streets downtown and restricted foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the city is shutting down blocks downtown around the Moscone Center, where the NFL is hosting events for football fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>California is an expensive place to live. Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Department of Emergency Management, which oversees the city’s street crews that respond to homeless encampments, said they are continuing with their regular schedule and are not ramping up enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s work to bring people indoors and improve street conditions is ongoing every day — regardless of whether a major event is happening in the Bay Area,” a spokesperson from DEM said. “Neighborhood Street Teams are extending hours and proactively encouraging people to accept services, as they do every day. The message is simple: help is available, and today is a good day to come inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities in the Bay Area looking to lure tourists are also continuing to clear encampments ahead of the event and maintaining that they are not ramping up enforcement around any particular event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These efforts are part of San José’s ongoing, year-round strategy to reduce homelessness with compassion, dignity and long-term solutions — not a one-time response tied to any single event,” said Sarah Fields, deputy director of public affairs for San José’s Housing Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260127-SUPERBOWLHOMELESSNESS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Public Works employees clean up debris after a sweep of an encampment on Merlin Street in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on Jan. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tent clearings and citations for people sleeping outside have increased across San Francisco in the last year, especially after the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Grants Pass case that made it easier for cities to force homeless people to move, even if shelter is unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s certainly been an uptick in operations for months now,” said John Do, an ACLU attorney who worked on a lawsuit against San Francisco over how it conducted homeless sweeps. The $2.8 million settlement for the case was officially finalized in September 2025. “The city wants to hide their homelessness crisis by displacing people … But those are temporary measures, which don’t, of course, address the underlying issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl also comes as nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">400 residents remain on San Francisco’s waitlist\u003c/a> for a bed at one of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--shelter-and-crisis-interventions\">53 shelter sites\u003c/a>, while others struggle to obtain permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city opens up additional beds at Gubbio in the Mission District, it’s also winding down more than 100 beds at the Monarch and Adante hotels downtown. At the same time, dozens of displaced residents of a Tenderloin building that burned in December say they are struggling to find shelter even months after the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests sleep on cots arranged throughout the sanctuary at St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, where the Gubbio Project is operating an overnight shelter during Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Shelters are full. All of the sudden, the city is providing additional beds when we have been asking for this for months,” said Gardenia Zuniga-Haro, an advocate for the residents who previously lived at the burned building. “It’s convenient for the mayor to make it look like everything is peaches and cream, but that’s not the case. 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Famous streamers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/thesketchreal\">Sketch\u003c/a>, who gained popularity by posting videos of himself playing the video game \u003cem>Madden NFL 24, \u003c/em>worked the crowd and took selfies with fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071306/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">who recently announced his candidacy in the race for California’s next governor\u003c/a>, was part of the welcome party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This week we’re uniting the Bay for Super Bowl 60,” Mahan said. “ We have been preparing for this big day, so we’ve been working hard to make sure we’re safe, clean and activated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players from both teams agreed on one thing: They looked forward to playing in the sunshine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072008 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Matt Mahan gives remarks during Super Bowl Opening Night at the San José Convention Center in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were out at practice today, just enjoying the sun. 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Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“ We’re getting ready to welcome everybody. 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Carter said she died two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I feel like the Seahawks are going to take it home, and so my sis will be looking down from the sky, cheering them on, and I’ll be cheering them on for her down here,” Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12072017 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-43-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-43-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-43-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SUPERBOWLOPENINGNIGHT-43-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders perform during Super Bowl Opening Night at the San José Convention Center in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dylan Lucas, a San Francisco 49ers fan from Los Gatos, came with his friend Landin Summerlan, a Seahawks fan who grew up in Seattle but now lives in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This is one of my best friends, and you can tell he’s a Seahawks fan,” Lucas said. “ I can’t let him be too happy while he’s here, so I gotta knock him down a little bit throughout the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas said that despite his team being knocked out of the playoffs — badly — by the Seahawks, he was still going to enjoy having the Super Bowl on home turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Who knows if the Super Bowl is going to come back here again, at least anytime soon, right? 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Are you feeling the pinch? \u003ca href=\"#Shareyourstory\">Share your story\u003c/a> with KQED by leaving us a voicemail at \u003ca href=\"tel:4155532115\">415-553-2115\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5v6Atf-zIWjJr8ZXgyOmDSRVu2kSdv4_RdPTIWLdBmnVoXg/viewform?usp=header\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“ We’re getting ready to welcome everybody. 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His credibility — and the degree to which federal investigators relied on his claims — has now become one of the central fault lines in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is widely assumed to be Oakland businessman and former city council candidate, Mario Juarez. Juarez declined KQED’s request for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the dispute is a question that could shape what evidence against Oakland’s former mayor a jury ultimately sees: Did federal agents rely too heavily on a deeply controversial informant to secure search warrants of the defendants’ homes, vehicles and businesses — or did they already have enough evidence without him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheng Thao, center, stands next to her attorney, Jeff Tsai, left, as he makes a statement outside of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As defense attorneys push to suppress evidence they say was tainted by incomplete information about Juarez’s credibility, the outcome could determine how much of the government’s case survives to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors last year charged Thao, Jones and David and Andy Duong with bribery, conspiracy and fraud. They allege Thao agreed to use her power to extend the Duongs’ recycling contract, commit the city to purchase homes from a housing company co-owned by the Duongs and appoint city officials selected by the Duongs and Co-Conspirator 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the Duongs financed negative campaign mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and paid Jones for a no-show job, prosecutors allege.[aside postID=news_12064908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. The case is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to trial in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, defense attorneys began raising questions about Juarez’s past. They described a decadeslong history of fraud, including instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez did the same in this case, they allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The origin of the present case is yet another [Co-Conspirator 1] fraud scheme gone wrong,” attorneys for Andy Duong wrote in a Dec. 4 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are now asking a judge to suppress evidence seized with search warrants they say rested heavily on Juarez’s claims and are calling for a hearing where they can question the FBI agents who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, say their evidence goes far beyond Juarez’s word. They argue investigators had already built a substantial case before Juarez ever spoke to the FBI — and that at least one judge was explicitly told his statements were not required to establish probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are set to make their arguments on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juarez’s alleged ‘counter-attack history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions around Juarez’s credibility first emerged in October when David Duong filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">a legal challenge called a Franks motion\u003c/a>, accusing the FBI of not disclosing the full picture of Juarez’s background in a June 2024 search warrant affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Franks motion is a way for a defendant to challenge a search warrant by arguing that a law enforcement officer intentionally or recklessly made false statements or left out important information in an affidavit supporting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, Juarez was sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners. They say those cases reveal a consistent tactic: accusing others of wrongdoing when business relationships collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even a cursory review of those matters and related press reports demonstrates that Co-Conspirator 1 has a history of diverting monies entrusted to him and accusing his business partners of misdeeds to try to discredit them and avoid paying his debts,” they wrote in the Oct. 31 motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example, the lawyers cite, attorney Sandra Raye Mitchell was working for a couple that owned a commercial real estate property in Oakland’s Fruitvale district in 2010. The clients were attempting to evict Juarez and others from the property and were suing them in federal court. During one of her visits to the property, Mitchell told police, Juarez hit her arm and ripped her jacket, causing buttons to come off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a request for a restraining order, Juarez alleged Mitchell had attacked \u003cem>him.\u003c/em> A woman claimed in a sworn statement that she had witnessed Mitchell hitting herself and ripping off her own clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge barred Juarez from harassing, striking or threatening Mitchell, but Juarez successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that the judge didn’t offer him or his witnesses an opportunity to speak at the hearing. Mitchell declined to comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys point to the episode as an early example of what they call Juarez’s “counter-attack” history — a pattern of alleging misconduct by others in response to accusations and lawsuits lodged against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, Juarez filed a restraining order against a man who sued him for fraud.[aside postID=news_12061916 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-2-KQED.jpg']Mauro and Hilda Bucio alleged in an August 2011 lawsuit that Juarez, who had been their real estate agent, had failed to repay $220,000 the couple had loaned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez filed a restraining order against Mauro Bucio the following year, alleging that he followed him at an event and hit him, causing Juarez to fear for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Martinez, an Emeryville-based attorney who represented the Bucios in their claim against Juarez, told KQED the assault didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My client didn’t do any of that,” he said. “I think it was an anaemic attempt to gain an advantage in our litigation, but he didn’t follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a third example, Juarez in 2024 accused then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price of charging him with passing bad checks in retaliation for refusing to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez alleged that Price had pulled him aside at a gathering and said that, as DA, she could help Juarez, but that he would “need to show love and support to her” in the form of a $25,000 donation to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was ridiculous to me, the allegation,” Price said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez was eventually dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He is a very disingenuous, deceitful person who will say anything to avoid responsibility. That’s what he does. He defrauds people all the time,” Price added. “And so one would be wise to make sure that you have evidence to support anything, that you can verify what he says. And I presume that they have done that,” she said, referring to the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 14 filing, federal prosecutors pointed out that, in fact, they did have evidence to verify what Juarez had told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The government’s investigation revealed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the FBI began its investigation in early 2023 of the alleged bribery scheme involving Thao and the others — long before agents began speaking with Juarez. They argue that Juarez did not initiate the case, but rather entered an investigation that was already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, agents began investigating Juarez after learning he had failed to pay for a negative campaign mailer targeting Thao’s rivals in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Juarez and the Duongs at that point had gone into business together on Evolutionary Homes, a company that aimed to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless and sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a May 2024 911 call, Juarez alleged that a member of the Duong family had ordered a group of 10 men to assault him. Andy Duong later told a district attorney inspector a different story about that incident: that his family had walked away from their investment after Juarez only delivered two homes. Juarez, he said, had shown up at California Waste Solutions and held him and his father for hours, demanding money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Juarez spoke to the FBI pursuant to a proffer agreement, which allows an individual to speak with the government and not have their statements used against them in court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the spring of 2024, the government had amassed a significant amount of documentary evidence tying each of the Defendants and Co-Conspirator 1 to the conspiracy, including incriminating text messages, Apple notes, calendar entries, financial records showing the corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication among Defendants at key points relating to the agreements and payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this evidence alone, they wrote, two separate judges had signed off on four previous warrants for the defendants’ iCloud accounts, email accounts and cell phone location data. The government presented the same evidence when it sought the June 2024 residential search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-Conspirator 1’s statements were included for merely ‘context and completeness,’ and explicitly informed the magistrate judge that these statements to law enforcement were not necessary to a finding of probable cause,” they wrote.[aside postID=news_12052003 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty.jpg']In a legal filing this week, Thao’s attorneys pushed back on that argument, saying that the documentary chain of evidence establishing Thao’s involvement in the scheme relies on Juarez’s text messages and notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also pointed out they had warned the magistrate judge in a multipage footnote about information relevant to Juarez’s credibility, and described his possible motivations for cooperating with the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the affidavit made clear that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be … motivated by revenge against the Duongs and a desire to obtain protection from law enforcement from the Duongs, among any number of other potential personal motivations he may have” and also that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be talking ‘with the hope of obtaining some form of leniency in exchange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Juarez’s past that defendants claim the FBI left out of the affidavit consisted in part of “decades-old unsworn civil complaints,” news articles and other information, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those complaints and other materials, at most, establish “that Co-Conspirator 1 has been repeatedly \u003cem>accused\u003c/em> of fraud in civil litigation over the years,” they argued. “It is a far cry, however, from the ‘decadeslong pattern of repeatedly being found liable for defrauding business partners,’ that Defendants purport it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors admit that the FBI agent who wrote the June 14, 2024, affidavit was not aware of every detail of Juarez’s past legal issues when it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they argue, he was not responsible for doing the additional investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants “cite no precedent for the suggestion that agents must search and disclose all court records related to civil lawsuits related to informants, nor could they,” the filing reads. What’s more, they argue, given the information the government did disclose, not including every detail of Juarez’s civil litigation history, “cannot be considered to be reckless or material” — a key element of meeting the Franks standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 2024 shooting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Defendants also accuse the FBI of leaving out key information about a June 9, 2024, shooting that took place in front of Juarez’s Fruitvale home three days after he first spoke with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, the June 14 search warrant affidavit had framed the shooting as a possible attempt to murder Juarez, orchestrated by the Duongs because they had learned he was cooperating with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, FBI agents believed at the time that the shooting could have been a targeted attack by the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11992169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland, California. A campaign finance investigation into the city’s curbside recycling contractor has received renewed attention since the FBI raids. \u003ccite>(Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Given that the shooting occurred three days after Co-Conspirator 1 spoke to federal law enforcement, Co-Conspirator 1’s prior allegations that the Duongs had directed an assault on him, as well as suspicious phone tolls leading up to the shooting, the FBI believed that Co-Conspirator 1 may have been part of a targeted attack instigated by the Duongs,” the government’s filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Duong’s attorneys allege Juarez lied to law enforcement about what happened that night in an attempt to incriminate the Duongs and save himself from his own legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affidavit omits evidence, collected by the FBI immediately after the shooting, that suggests the shooting was not an assassination attempt but a botched car burglary,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the government’s filing, Juarez had initially reported to OPD and the FBI that he confronted two individuals breaking into this vehicle, one of whom shot at him, and he returned fire. Months later, FBI agents ascertained through analysis of Juarez’s interview after the shooting, surveillance footage and Shot Spotter reports that Juarez likely shot first, rather than returning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they interviewed him again, he changed his story, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong talks with attendees after a private screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 stated that he shot first after another individual pointed a firearm at him, and he believed his life was in danger,” the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez said he couldn’t recall what he initially told OPD about the shooting and that he might have miscommunicated about the sequence of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 continued to state that he believed the shooting was orchestrated by the Duongs,” the filing states.[aside postID=news_12070619 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251022_Bobby-Seale-Way_AA_023_qed.jpg']Despite that, prosecutors argue that even if the FBI agent had known Juarez shot first, it would not have undermined his belief that the shooting was targeted, since it took place three days after the FBI interviewed Juarez and because of Juarez’s allegation that he had been previously assaulted in an attack orchestrated by the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that Juarez’s inconsistent statements about the shooting and the other details about his “stale civil allegations of fraud” would not have changed the judge’s decision to sign off on the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge grants the Franks hearing, in order for the evidence to be suppressed, attorneys would need to prove that it’s more likely than not that the information left out was material to a finding of probable cause and that the FBI agent did not include it intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not sufficient to show that the agent made a simple mistake, Stanford criminal law professor Robert Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough to show that the [FBI agent] goofed,” Weisberg said. “It’s not enough to show that he was negligent in doing so. Rather, you have to show that the FBI agent at least strongly suspected that he was not giving information that was clearly relevant to the question of probable cause, and maybe sort of was gambling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event there is a Franks hearing, both sides could present evidence and witnesses in open court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why Frank’s hearings can be dramatic,” he said. “It comes pretty close to calling the FBI agent a liar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. The case is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to trial in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, defense attorneys began raising questions about Juarez’s past. They described a decadeslong history of fraud, including instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez did the same in this case, they allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The origin of the present case is yet another [Co-Conspirator 1] fraud scheme gone wrong,” attorneys for Andy Duong wrote in a Dec. 4 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are now asking a judge to suppress evidence seized with search warrants they say rested heavily on Juarez’s claims and are calling for a hearing where they can question the FBI agents who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, say their evidence goes far beyond Juarez’s word. They argue investigators had already built a substantial case before Juarez ever spoke to the FBI — and that at least one judge was explicitly told his statements were not required to establish probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are set to make their arguments on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juarez’s alleged ‘counter-attack history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions around Juarez’s credibility first emerged in October when David Duong filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">a legal challenge called a Franks motion\u003c/a>, accusing the FBI of not disclosing the full picture of Juarez’s background in a June 2024 search warrant affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Franks motion is a way for a defendant to challenge a search warrant by arguing that a law enforcement officer intentionally or recklessly made false statements or left out important information in an affidavit supporting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, Juarez was sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners. They say those cases reveal a consistent tactic: accusing others of wrongdoing when business relationships collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even a cursory review of those matters and related press reports demonstrates that Co-Conspirator 1 has a history of diverting monies entrusted to him and accusing his business partners of misdeeds to try to discredit them and avoid paying his debts,” they wrote in the Oct. 31 motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example, the lawyers cite, attorney Sandra Raye Mitchell was working for a couple that owned a commercial real estate property in Oakland’s Fruitvale district in 2010. The clients were attempting to evict Juarez and others from the property and were suing them in federal court. During one of her visits to the property, Mitchell told police, Juarez hit her arm and ripped her jacket, causing buttons to come off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a request for a restraining order, Juarez alleged Mitchell had attacked \u003cem>him.\u003c/em> A woman claimed in a sworn statement that she had witnessed Mitchell hitting herself and ripping off her own clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge barred Juarez from harassing, striking or threatening Mitchell, but Juarez successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that the judge didn’t offer him or his witnesses an opportunity to speak at the hearing. Mitchell declined to comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys point to the episode as an early example of what they call Juarez’s “counter-attack” history — a pattern of alleging misconduct by others in response to accusations and lawsuits lodged against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, Juarez filed a restraining order against a man who sued him for fraud.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mauro and Hilda Bucio alleged in an August 2011 lawsuit that Juarez, who had been their real estate agent, had failed to repay $220,000 the couple had loaned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez filed a restraining order against Mauro Bucio the following year, alleging that he followed him at an event and hit him, causing Juarez to fear for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Martinez, an Emeryville-based attorney who represented the Bucios in their claim against Juarez, told KQED the assault didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My client didn’t do any of that,” he said. “I think it was an anaemic attempt to gain an advantage in our litigation, but he didn’t follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a third example, Juarez in 2024 accused then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price of charging him with passing bad checks in retaliation for refusing to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez alleged that Price had pulled him aside at a gathering and said that, as DA, she could help Juarez, but that he would “need to show love and support to her” in the form of a $25,000 donation to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was ridiculous to me, the allegation,” Price said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez was eventually dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He is a very disingenuous, deceitful person who will say anything to avoid responsibility. That’s what he does. He defrauds people all the time,” Price added. “And so one would be wise to make sure that you have evidence to support anything, that you can verify what he says. And I presume that they have done that,” she said, referring to the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 14 filing, federal prosecutors pointed out that, in fact, they did have evidence to verify what Juarez had told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The government’s investigation revealed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the FBI began its investigation in early 2023 of the alleged bribery scheme involving Thao and the others — long before agents began speaking with Juarez. They argue that Juarez did not initiate the case, but rather entered an investigation that was already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, agents began investigating Juarez after learning he had failed to pay for a negative campaign mailer targeting Thao’s rivals in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Juarez and the Duongs at that point had gone into business together on Evolutionary Homes, a company that aimed to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless and sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a May 2024 911 call, Juarez alleged that a member of the Duong family had ordered a group of 10 men to assault him. Andy Duong later told a district attorney inspector a different story about that incident: that his family had walked away from their investment after Juarez only delivered two homes. Juarez, he said, had shown up at California Waste Solutions and held him and his father for hours, demanding money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Juarez spoke to the FBI pursuant to a proffer agreement, which allows an individual to speak with the government and not have their statements used against them in court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the spring of 2024, the government had amassed a significant amount of documentary evidence tying each of the Defendants and Co-Conspirator 1 to the conspiracy, including incriminating text messages, Apple notes, calendar entries, financial records showing the corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication among Defendants at key points relating to the agreements and payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this evidence alone, they wrote, two separate judges had signed off on four previous warrants for the defendants’ iCloud accounts, email accounts and cell phone location data. The government presented the same evidence when it sought the June 2024 residential search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-Conspirator 1’s statements were included for merely ‘context and completeness,’ and explicitly informed the magistrate judge that these statements to law enforcement were not necessary to a finding of probable cause,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a legal filing this week, Thao’s attorneys pushed back on that argument, saying that the documentary chain of evidence establishing Thao’s involvement in the scheme relies on Juarez’s text messages and notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also pointed out they had warned the magistrate judge in a multipage footnote about information relevant to Juarez’s credibility, and described his possible motivations for cooperating with the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the affidavit made clear that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be … motivated by revenge against the Duongs and a desire to obtain protection from law enforcement from the Duongs, among any number of other potential personal motivations he may have” and also that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be talking ‘with the hope of obtaining some form of leniency in exchange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Juarez’s past that defendants claim the FBI left out of the affidavit consisted in part of “decades-old unsworn civil complaints,” news articles and other information, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those complaints and other materials, at most, establish “that Co-Conspirator 1 has been repeatedly \u003cem>accused\u003c/em> of fraud in civil litigation over the years,” they argued. “It is a far cry, however, from the ‘decadeslong pattern of repeatedly being found liable for defrauding business partners,’ that Defendants purport it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors admit that the FBI agent who wrote the June 14, 2024, affidavit was not aware of every detail of Juarez’s past legal issues when it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they argue, he was not responsible for doing the additional investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants “cite no precedent for the suggestion that agents must search and disclose all court records related to civil lawsuits related to informants, nor could they,” the filing reads. What’s more, they argue, given the information the government did disclose, not including every detail of Juarez’s civil litigation history, “cannot be considered to be reckless or material” — a key element of meeting the Franks standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 2024 shooting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Defendants also accuse the FBI of leaving out key information about a June 9, 2024, shooting that took place in front of Juarez’s Fruitvale home three days after he first spoke with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, the June 14 search warrant affidavit had framed the shooting as a possible attempt to murder Juarez, orchestrated by the Duongs because they had learned he was cooperating with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, FBI agents believed at the time that the shooting could have been a targeted attack by the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11992169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland, California. 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Months later, FBI agents ascertained through analysis of Juarez’s interview after the shooting, surveillance footage and Shot Spotter reports that Juarez likely shot first, rather than returning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they interviewed him again, he changed his story, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong talks with attendees after a private screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 stated that he shot first after another individual pointed a firearm at him, and he believed his life was in danger,” the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez said he couldn’t recall what he initially told OPD about the shooting and that he might have miscommunicated about the sequence of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 continued to state that he believed the shooting was orchestrated by the Duongs,” the filing states.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the Bay Area gears up to host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl LX\u003c/a>, cities across the region are looking for ways to cash in on one of the biggest annual sporting events in the world, this time happening in their backyard at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Host Committee projects that football fans could generate up to $630 million across the region, including nearly $16 million in revenues directly to local governments. But those dollars won’t be distributed equally, leaving some cities feeling shortchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a bigger slice of the pie, obviously,” said Christine Lawson, CEO of Discover Santa Clara, the city’s marketing organization. “There’s a monetary and economic impact factor, which every city is eager to get their part of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Santa Clara will host the big game between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots on Feb. 8, the city is projected to rake in just a fraction of what San Francisco will claim. And after losing several major sports teams in recent years, Oakland and the East Bay are projected to get even less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 Super Bowl – the first held at Levi’s – brought an estimated $240 million to the entire Bay Area, according to \u003ca href=\"https://levisstadium.com/2016/08/study-super-bowl-50-brought-240-million-boost-to-bay-area-economy/\">one analysis\u003c/a>, which factored in everything from hotel and restaurant bookings to transit ridership. More than 57% of that revenue went to San Francisco; 12.3% went to San Jose; 7.2% went to Santa Clara; 7.1% went to areas near San Francisco International Airport; and 3.7% went to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255009703-scaled-e1769191193398.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255009703-scaled-e1769191193398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A general overall aerial view of Levi’s Stadium on Dec.3, 2025, in Santa Clara, California. \u003ccite>(Kirby Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, the Bay Area Host Committee, a nonprofit established by the 49ers, estimates that San Francisco could receive up to $440 million, while Santa Clara County could bring in around $160 million and other counties such as Alameda and Contra Costa could collectively see about a $30 million boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders across the Bay Area are working furiously to draw tourists, and their dollars, to their downtowns with live events, food tours and celebrity appearances. San José is slated to host a weekend of concerts, including by Bay Area-born hip-hop star Kehlani, along with a lineup of free activities in San Pedro Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made it a point to have as many experiences that are free or low cost so that people can experience the Super Bowl even without a ticket to the big game,” said Frances Wong, director of marketing for Visit San José, which promotes tourism to the Silicon Valley hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong hopes the widely accessible public events will draw people to the South Bay, as events the NFL plans to host in San Francisco will cost money this year, a shift from many of the offerings around the Embarcadero and Union Square during the 2016 Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you’re just walking down the street and you see a bar cheering over a football game, you’re invited to grab a drink and watch with everybody else and create great memories that way,” Wong said.[aside postID=news_12071347 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Moscone_Super_Bowl_closures.jpg']Compared with other Bay Area cities, San Francisco’s great advantage for the Super Bowl is its vast hotel market and ability to host tourists traveling in from Seattle, Boston and all over the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while city leaders may publicly bemoan the 49ers’ failure to make the Super Bowl this year, those looking at game revenue say teams traveling across state lines actually bring in more money than visitors from across the state’s bridges and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say a Southern California team gets in, that might be a two-night stay [for a fan], but if an East Coast team comes in, that’s a four- or five-night stay,” said Anna Marie Presutti, CEO of the San Francisco Travel Association. “The beauty of it is that they’ll come into the neighborhoods and become tourists before the big game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a think tank focused on the nine-county region, said “the real economic impacts” from Super Bowl 50 in 2016 were from “people that are outside of the region and outside of this state coming here to spend new dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Bay Area hosted the Super Bowl, San Francisco’s hotel occupancy rates reached nearly 90%, according to Presutti. But the city’s tourism industry took a hard hit during the pandemic. Now, she’s hoping the game will not only give the industry a much-needed boost, but that sparkly images of the city on TVs around the world will inspire skeptical travelers to visit the Bay Area in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants and other venues are already seeing bookings go up in the days leading up to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Ewell, NFL vice president of fan events and engagement, speaks with reporters during a media first look as the NFL begins transforming the Moscone Center into Super Bowl Experience ahead of Super Bowl LX, Jan. 30, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Business looks like it is going to be booming,” said Amy Cleary, director of public policy for the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleary expects smaller businesses will see some uptick in traffic around the game also. Unlike with some other major events, such as the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967004/thousands-are-coming-to-sf-next-week-heres-how-itll-affect-life-in-the-city\"> Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference\u003c/a>, when high-security levels prompted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966960/san-francisco-is-clearing-homeless-encampments-ahead-of-apec\">closure of several streets downtown\u003c/a> and blocked foot traffic to some local establishments, she’s projecting smaller coffee shops and other local staples will reap the benefits of more people around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is simpler than APEC. Then, you had certain areas in the city which you could not access. And if you obviously operated your business in those zones, that was really problematic,” Cleary said. Obviously there is security for Super Bowl-related things, but it is not at that level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all will be winners, however. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/16/super-bowl-lx-clean-zone/\">street vendors\u003c/a> in Santa Clara have already been told they must clear their regular trading posts to make way for Super Bowl activities, sending them to less busy parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security will also pose a significant cost to any city in the Bay Area that’s hoping to court tourists, whether they’re traveling from far away or across town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economists would pretty much agree on the one real down side for the city of Santa Clara: They confront the risk,” said Michael Kevane, professor of economics at Santa Clara University. “The city has to spend a lot of money on prevention, on disaster preparedness, overtime for police and fire to be prepared for that eventuality.”[aside postID=news_12071370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-SUPERBOWLFILE00037_TV-KQED.jpg']In August 2025, Santa Clara officials estimated that it would cost the city more than \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/super-bowl-lx-santa-clara-estimates-60th-anniversary-game-could-cost-63-million-when-levis-stadium-hosts-2026/17669428/\">$6 million\u003c/a> to host this year’s Super Bowl, primarily for event security and policing. The Bay Area Host Committee is reimbursing Santa Clara about $6.2 million to cover event expenses, according to their \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaraca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/88749/639034860541370000\">agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl comes during a particularly fraught time in big cities across the country, as demonstrations have escalated in recent weeks after federal immigration enforcement officials killed multiple protestors in Minneapolis. Ahead of the football game, Bay Area cities are preparing for the possibility of immigration officers and protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the reimbursements, some Santa Clara leaders have criticized the high cost of hosting the event, especially since the city takes in such a small portion of the regional revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara City Council passed an agreement with the Bay Area Host Committee and the stadium’s operations company, StadCo, last fall. But Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor and Vice Mayor Kelly Cox voted against the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we aren’t asking for a letter of credit for this. This is a massive risk,” Cox said at a \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.granicus.com/player/clip/2398?view_id=1&redirect=true\">meeting\u003c/a> in September 2025 when the agreement was approved. Gillmor echoed her concerns, saying, “The onerous system you have to go through to get reimbursed is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1983px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1983\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg 1983w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1983px) 100vw, 1983px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A forklift moves across the Moscone Center floor as preparations begin for Super Bowl Experience, Jan. 30, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even this year’s mind-boggling revenue estimates (which are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/97920/economist-challenges-estimates-on-super-bowl-benefits-to-the-bay-area\">not always agreed upon\u003c/a>) for cities who will claim a significant portion, like San Francisco, won’t close looming budget deficits (around $1 billion in the city’s case).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re not talking about dollars that’ll be big enough to fill budget gaps,” said Bellisario of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. “But the spending that does occur will have sales tax implications. Some people might be hired for a short amount of time. Maybe some people will be hired even for a longer amount of time. All of these things add to the economic vitality of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl is only the tip off for world-class sporting events taking place in the region. The Bay Area Host Committee estimates that the region will generate roughly $1.4 billion across all counties between the Super Bowl, last year’s NBA All Star Game and FIFA World Cup in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the first city in history to host both the Super Bowl and FIFA in the same year,” said Lawson of Discover Santa Clara. “We’re vying for everybody’s time and attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Compared with other Bay Area cities, San Francisco’s great advantage for the Super Bowl is its vast hotel market and ability to host tourists traveling in from Seattle, Boston and all over the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while city leaders may publicly bemoan the 49ers’ failure to make the Super Bowl this year, those looking at game revenue say teams traveling across state lines actually bring in more money than visitors from across the state’s bridges and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say a Southern California team gets in, that might be a two-night stay [for a fan], but if an East Coast team comes in, that’s a four- or five-night stay,” said Anna Marie Presutti, CEO of the San Francisco Travel Association. “The beauty of it is that they’ll come into the neighborhoods and become tourists before the big game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a think tank focused on the nine-county region, said “the real economic impacts” from Super Bowl 50 in 2016 were from “people that are outside of the region and outside of this state coming here to spend new dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Bay Area hosted the Super Bowl, San Francisco’s hotel occupancy rates reached nearly 90%, according to Presutti. But the city’s tourism industry took a hard hit during the pandemic. Now, she’s hoping the game will not only give the industry a much-needed boost, but that sparkly images of the city on TVs around the world will inspire skeptical travelers to visit the Bay Area in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants and other venues are already seeing bookings go up in the days leading up to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Ewell, NFL vice president of fan events and engagement, speaks with reporters during a media first look as the NFL begins transforming the Moscone Center into Super Bowl Experience ahead of Super Bowl LX, Jan. 30, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Business looks like it is going to be booming,” said Amy Cleary, director of public policy for the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleary expects smaller businesses will see some uptick in traffic around the game also. Unlike with some other major events, such as the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967004/thousands-are-coming-to-sf-next-week-heres-how-itll-affect-life-in-the-city\"> Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference\u003c/a>, when high-security levels prompted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966960/san-francisco-is-clearing-homeless-encampments-ahead-of-apec\">closure of several streets downtown\u003c/a> and blocked foot traffic to some local establishments, she’s projecting smaller coffee shops and other local staples will reap the benefits of more people around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is simpler than APEC. Then, you had certain areas in the city which you could not access. And if you obviously operated your business in those zones, that was really problematic,” Cleary said. Obviously there is security for Super Bowl-related things, but it is not at that level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all will be winners, however. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/16/super-bowl-lx-clean-zone/\">street vendors\u003c/a> in Santa Clara have already been told they must clear their regular trading posts to make way for Super Bowl activities, sending them to less busy parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security will also pose a significant cost to any city in the Bay Area that’s hoping to court tourists, whether they’re traveling from far away or across town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economists would pretty much agree on the one real down side for the city of Santa Clara: They confront the risk,” said Michael Kevane, professor of economics at Santa Clara University. “The city has to spend a lot of money on prevention, on disaster preparedness, overtime for police and fire to be prepared for that eventuality.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In August 2025, Santa Clara officials estimated that it would cost the city more than \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/super-bowl-lx-santa-clara-estimates-60th-anniversary-game-could-cost-63-million-when-levis-stadium-hosts-2026/17669428/\">$6 million\u003c/a> to host this year’s Super Bowl, primarily for event security and policing. The Bay Area Host Committee is reimbursing Santa Clara about $6.2 million to cover event expenses, according to their \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaraca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/88749/639034860541370000\">agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl comes during a particularly fraught time in big cities across the country, as demonstrations have escalated in recent weeks after federal immigration enforcement officials killed multiple protestors in Minneapolis. Ahead of the football game, Bay Area cities are preparing for the possibility of immigration officers and protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the reimbursements, some Santa Clara leaders have criticized the high cost of hosting the event, especially since the city takes in such a small portion of the regional revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara City Council passed an agreement with the Bay Area Host Committee and the stadium’s operations company, StadCo, last fall. But Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor and Vice Mayor Kelly Cox voted against the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we aren’t asking for a letter of credit for this. This is a massive risk,” Cox said at a \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.granicus.com/player/clip/2398?view_id=1&redirect=true\">meeting\u003c/a> in September 2025 when the agreement was approved. Gillmor echoed her concerns, saying, “The onerous system you have to go through to get reimbursed is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1983px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1983\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg 1983w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1983px) 100vw, 1983px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A forklift moves across the Moscone Center floor as preparations begin for Super Bowl Experience, Jan. 30, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even this year’s mind-boggling revenue estimates (which are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/97920/economist-challenges-estimates-on-super-bowl-benefits-to-the-bay-area\">not always agreed upon\u003c/a>) for cities who will claim a significant portion, like San Francisco, won’t close looming budget deficits (around $1 billion in the city’s case).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re not talking about dollars that’ll be big enough to fill budget gaps,” said Bellisario of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. “But the spending that does occur will have sales tax implications. Some people might be hired for a short amount of time. Maybe some people will be hired even for a longer amount of time. All of these things add to the economic vitality of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl is only the tip off for world-class sporting events taking place in the region. The Bay Area Host Committee estimates that the region will generate roughly $1.4 billion across all counties between the Super Bowl, last year’s NBA All Star Game and FIFA World Cup in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the first city in history to host both the Super Bowl and FIFA in the same year,” said Lawson of Discover Santa Clara. “We’re vying for everybody’s time and attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the last three years, Robin Franklin has been a fixture of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> Food Pantry’s thrice-weekly distributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without fail, she can be found on the bottom floor of the Berkeley Friends Quaker Church on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, running the operation’s cold bag assembly like a well-oiled machine, loading paper sacks onto a queue of rolling carts to be wheeled out to the church parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t used to do it like this. They didn’t use the carts,” Franklin said Wednesday as she packed macaroni salad — a premium “extra” — into bags filled with eggs and chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bags get done by a morning group. They get them all set up on the table. I load the carts, and then when we start getting down, if we still have a lot of people coming in, I start making more bags,” Franklin said as a line formed around the block. “If there’s any that aren’t given away, then I have to break them down, put stuff back in the refrigerators, in the freezer, so it doesn’t spoil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about to change, though, after the pantry shut its doors for good on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 56 years, it operated out of the Berkeley Friends Church in North Berkeley, providing fresh produce and groceries to more than 4,000 Berkeley and Albany residents a month. But since July, Franklin and the pantry’s community of more than 100 volunteers — along with its shoppers and three part-time employees — have known changes, at the least, were on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071484\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer with the Berkeley Food Pantry grabs a grocery bag to distribute to community members on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the operation expands beyond the church’s capacity, and its congregation ages, Berkeley Friends Church \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyfoodpantry.org/2025-july-newsletter\">announced over the summer\u003c/a> that the pantry would merge with the larger Berkeley Food Network, which serves about 6,500 residents a week in West Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pantry said at the time that beginning this year, it would be managed and overseen by the Berkeley Food Network, but its food distribution program would continue to operate at the church site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in December, the groups jointly announced that negotiations had fallen through, and the Berkeley Food Pantry would shutter at the end of January. A group of regular volunteers is still trying to figure out a way to keep the pantry open elsewhere, but it’s unclear whether that will be possible.[aside postID=news_12058985 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/EastBayFoodBankGetty1.jpg']“It’s incredibly sad,” said Marice Ash, who has volunteered every Wednesday for three and a half years. “It just feels like a very mutual, self-help community coming together. I’m going to miss it … and people need this. That’s hard, too, knowing that we’re closing when there’s so much need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ash said that other food banks nearby will likely absorb the organization’s stock and customers, but the pantry has always felt different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a little anarchic,” she said, laughing. “It’s a creative place, and we’re not stuck in narrow jobs. If you see a job that needs to get done, you can jump in and do it. And the clients are jumping in all the time, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of people who’ve been here for years and years — in fact, some people … are still working here every day,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ash remembers when Franklin first volunteered: For years, she rummaged through the church’s garbage bins for cracked eggs and spoiled produce to feed her chickens. One day, she came by during a distribution and noticed that the crew was short-staffed, so she locked up her bike and offered to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never missed a day since,” Franklin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers Kris Starr’Witort (right) and Carter Mehl embrace outside the Berkeley Food Pantry on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. The pantry is set to close on Friday after 56 years in operation. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Becky Cooper mans the “milk area,” directing clients to the right food bags from behind a small plastic table on Wednesdays. She said she started volunteering about nine months ago, when she came to pick up groceries for a neighbor on a day that they didn’t have a lot of help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘[Do] you want me to put my groceries in the car and then I’ll come help?’ That’s how that happened,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a nice interaction with the people, and it makes me smile,” she said. “If you can smile on Wednesday, you can make it to Friday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pantry was founded by a Berkeley Friends Church member in 1969, and it still operates under the church’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071491 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prepped paper bags line the walls inside Berkeley Friends Church on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. The church has housed the Berkeley Food Pantry for years and will host its final distribution on Friday. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But last month, as the church and the Berkeley Food Network tried to negotiate the future of the pantry, it became clear that neither organization had the capacity to transition and keep the pantry running, “particularly in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064126/snap-benefits-hung-in-limbo-for-weeks-it-was-a-peek-at-life-under-long-term-cuts\">impacts of the government shutdown\u003c/a> and surging needs for food assistance,” they said in a joint statement. “This mutual conclusion reflects a commitment to responsible stewardship of community resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said that when the partnership with Berkeley Food Network fell through, a group of volunteers had hoped to find another nonprofit that might take in their operation. They identified two in the fall; one didn’t have a physical space large enough, but the other, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, already runs a bi-weekly pantry on Saturdays, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Berkeley Friends Church didn’t seem open to those options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Sims, the presiding clerk for Berkeley Friends Church, said that the church is aware that some volunteers are trying to relocate the operation elsewhere and plans to meet with them in February to share their knowledge and give input. He said the pantry has volunteer and donor lists it could share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marice Ashe, a longtime volunteer and public health advocate, pauses while preparing grocery bags inside Berkeley Friends Church on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. The church has housed the pantry for years and will host its final distribution on Friday. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kind of take a fallow period to catch our breath, and then we’re going to do some discernment about what should be done with residual resources,” he said. The new operation wouldn’t operate under the same name, he said, but “if the new pantry is something that looks like it’s a viable operation and would be a responsible use of that money that still remains, we could contribute to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But running the pantry out of the church is no longer an option, after it grew rapidly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic while the congregation dwindled in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just didn’t have the capacity to run that big of an organization,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the community they built over several years, volunteers said the pantry’s closure also means losing longstanding relationships that people who’ve worked at the pantry for more than a decade have formed with local grocery stores and nonprofits. Most of that food will be redirected to other organizations, like Berkeley Food Network, but Franklin said some of these deals were unique, like one that a volunteer had struck up with the local Trader Joe’s for their damaged egg cartons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A van marked with the Berkeley Food Pantry logo is parked as two people pass by on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She takes out the cracked ones and repackages the good eggs into new dozens — setting aside the broken ones for Franklin’s chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Target delivers diapers and toiletries, and Tim Tang, who travels more than two miles by bike and bus to reach the pantry from South Berkeley, said he can sometimes get a rare assortment of specialty foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can pick up stuff that they usually don’t give out at food banks, like fermented foods … kimchi or some kombucha, or a bread that’s not made from wheat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers can get four bags once a month — two of produce, along with one of grains and another with meat and eggs — and can come back a second time for two more, Cooper said. But Tang shows up on almost every distribution day because of another unconventional fixture of the pantry’s operation: the sharing table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_005-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_005-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_005-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_005-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two community members reach for a can of soup at a food swap table outside the Berkeley Food Pantry on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the back corner of the church parking lot, people gather around two plastic folding tables, discarding and grabbing items they don’t want to schlep home or likely won’t eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general idea is that if you don’t want it, you put it on the table, and then there’s always other people like us vultures kind of circling around,” he said, eyeing a can of corn that’d just been put up for grabs. “It’s just kind of, so they don’t have to haul it home and throw it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said when the pantry closes, he’ll probably go to the Berkeley Food Network’s 9th Street warehouse, where they distribute food on Tuesdays and Thursdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be kind of a pain,” he said, adding that getting to the other spot means a bus transfer and likely longer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flyer posted at Berkeley Friends Church announces a Jan. 31, 2026, event marking the closure of the Berkeley Food Pantry after more than five decades in service. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the volunteers said they would also look elsewhere to continue their work, though many aren’t sure where yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next Monday, when I’m not going to be here, am I going to be happy? I’ll figure out a routine for myself; it’ll just be different. I’ll be losing contact with a lot of the people around here,” Franklin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Wednesday’s distribution was wrapping up around 4 p.m., many of the regulars were headed to Ash’s house to commemorate the final day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve vowed to try to stay in contact. But you know people have busy lives,” Franklin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s incredibly sad,” said Marice Ash, who has volunteered every Wednesday for three and a half years. “It just feels like a very mutual, self-help community coming together. I’m going to miss it … and people need this. That’s hard, too, knowing that we’re closing when there’s so much need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ash said that other food banks nearby will likely absorb the organization’s stock and customers, but the pantry has always felt different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a little anarchic,” she said, laughing. “It’s a creative place, and we’re not stuck in narrow jobs. If you see a job that needs to get done, you can jump in and do it. And the clients are jumping in all the time, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of people who’ve been here for years and years — in fact, some people … are still working here every day,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ash remembers when Franklin first volunteered: For years, she rummaged through the church’s garbage bins for cracked eggs and spoiled produce to feed her chickens. One day, she came by during a distribution and noticed that the crew was short-staffed, so she locked up her bike and offered to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never missed a day since,” Franklin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers Kris Starr’Witort (right) and Carter Mehl embrace outside the Berkeley Food Pantry on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. The pantry is set to close on Friday after 56 years in operation. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Becky Cooper mans the “milk area,” directing clients to the right food bags from behind a small plastic table on Wednesdays. She said she started volunteering about nine months ago, when she came to pick up groceries for a neighbor on a day that they didn’t have a lot of help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘[Do] you want me to put my groceries in the car and then I’ll come help?’ That’s how that happened,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a nice interaction with the people, and it makes me smile,” she said. “If you can smile on Wednesday, you can make it to Friday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pantry was founded by a Berkeley Friends Church member in 1969, and it still operates under the church’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071491 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prepped paper bags line the walls inside Berkeley Friends Church on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. The church has housed the Berkeley Food Pantry for years and will host its final distribution on Friday. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But last month, as the church and the Berkeley Food Network tried to negotiate the future of the pantry, it became clear that neither organization had the capacity to transition and keep the pantry running, “particularly in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064126/snap-benefits-hung-in-limbo-for-weeks-it-was-a-peek-at-life-under-long-term-cuts\">impacts of the government shutdown\u003c/a> and surging needs for food assistance,” they said in a joint statement. “This mutual conclusion reflects a commitment to responsible stewardship of community resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin said that when the partnership with Berkeley Food Network fell through, a group of volunteers had hoped to find another nonprofit that might take in their operation. They identified two in the fall; one didn’t have a physical space large enough, but the other, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, already runs a bi-weekly pantry on Saturdays, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the Berkeley Friends Church didn’t seem open to those options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Sims, the presiding clerk for Berkeley Friends Church, said that the church is aware that some volunteers are trying to relocate the operation elsewhere and plans to meet with them in February to share their knowledge and give input. He said the pantry has volunteer and donor lists it could share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_007-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marice Ashe, a longtime volunteer and public health advocate, pauses while preparing grocery bags inside Berkeley Friends Church on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. The church has housed the pantry for years and will host its final distribution on Friday. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to kind of take a fallow period to catch our breath, and then we’re going to do some discernment about what should be done with residual resources,” he said. The new operation wouldn’t operate under the same name, he said, but “if the new pantry is something that looks like it’s a viable operation and would be a responsible use of that money that still remains, we could contribute to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But running the pantry out of the church is no longer an option, after it grew rapidly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic while the congregation dwindled in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just didn’t have the capacity to run that big of an organization,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the community they built over several years, volunteers said the pantry’s closure also means losing longstanding relationships that people who’ve worked at the pantry for more than a decade have formed with local grocery stores and nonprofits. Most of that food will be redirected to other organizations, like Berkeley Food Network, but Franklin said some of these deals were unique, like one that a volunteer had struck up with the local Trader Joe’s for their damaged egg cartons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012826_THEBERKELEYFOODPANTRY_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A van marked with the Berkeley Food Pantry logo is parked as two people pass by on Jan. 28, 2026, in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She takes out the cracked ones and repackages the good eggs into new dozens — setting aside the broken ones for Franklin’s chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Target delivers diapers and toiletries, and Tim Tang, who travels more than two miles by bike and bus to reach the pantry from South Berkeley, said he can sometimes get a rare assortment of specialty foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can pick up stuff that they usually don’t give out at food banks, like fermented foods … kimchi or some kombucha, or a bread that’s not made from wheat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers can get four bags once a month — two of produce, along with one of grains and another with meat and eggs — and can come back a second time for two more, Cooper said. 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